The body of a missing 27-year-old Fond du Lac woman was found on the shores of Lake Winnebago Monday evening.
Lindsey Klima was found around 6:30 p.m. near Garden Drive on the south shore in Fond du Lac, according to deputies.
Klima was at a gathering on the ice with about a dozen friends and family when she left the ice shanty to smoke a cigarette around 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Day, investigators said.
She made it to the south shore, but deputies said she might have suffered an injury climbing up rocks that prevented her from going any further.
She died of cold exposure, deputies said.
"The ice wasn't the issue this time around for people's safety out there, it was the frigid temperatures and...your body can't handles these temps for any length of time if you're not appropriately covered and clothed," said Capt. Ryan Waldschmidt with the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office. "It's just an unfortunate tragedy."
Investigators found Klima's body almost 15 hours after she left the ice shanty. Friends told deputies they thought she went to a friend's house to go to sleep and that's why they didn't contact them sooner.
