She had a lot of friends in Ogden, usually drinking buddies who shared her alcohol problem. Not much more than that has been found out about her since she was discovered dead in a 25th Street gutter April 8. Brown lost her footing in a gravelly area a half-block below Monroe Boulevard. Heavily intoxicated, she fell, striking her head. We think then she just laid down there on the cement.
Alcohol depresses the body's metabolic system and the wet, cold weather that night added to that.
The rain later turned to snow. The body shuts down when its temperature drops too much. They've ruled out foul play, with hypothermia the preliminary cause of death. The medical examiner's office is still waiting on toxicology test results to see if her system held anything suspect besides her .40 percent blood alcohol content. The Utah legal limit is .08 percent.