Missing Man Found Death And Decomposed After 8months In His Car In Airport.

The decomposing body of a missing Kansas man, Randy Potter, sat in his work vehicle for eight months in an airport parking lot 45 minutes from his home, while his family, police and friends searched relentlessly for him. After his body was found, his family asked why no one found it sooner.

Potter had been dead by suicide the entire time his family and police were searching for him.

The body of Potter, age 53 when he was last seen alive on the morning of Jan. 17, was so decomposed in the vehicle parked at Kansas City International Airport that his gender and race were not immediately clear to investigators who later identified it.

According to Lenexa Police spokesman, Danny Chavez, when Randy Potter was reported missing:


“There was not at the time of the report any indication that he was endangered or suicidal”. “He just had not shown up to work and family had not heard from him. There were no suspicious circumstances or foul place suspected.”

“What kills me the most was I was there … he could’ve been found the first week,” said his wife Carolina, a flight attendant who said she searched the same parking lot where her husband’s body was located.

Potter’s family held a news conference last Friday to demand accountability. to why he wasnt found at the airport sooner.

“I want whatever changes to come about from all of this to be permanent,” said Potter’s daughter, Nichole. “I don’t want for someone to have to sit there for as long as my dad did.”


Lenexa, Kansas, police said Potter left his home there, about 45 minutes from the airport that is located across the state line and north of Kansas City, Missouri, around 7 a.m. on Jan. 17 and did not report to his job as a project engineer for T-Mobile. A missing-persons flier said he was known to drive a white 2014 Dodge Ram and gave the license number — information that Carolina Potter says she shared with airport authorities, who assured her that if the vehicle was in one of their lots, it would turn up during a regular security sweep.
The airport’s public parking lots fall under the watch of the Kansas City Aviation Department’s Airport Police Division.

“The City of Kansas City and its Aviation Department express our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Randy Potter,” the city said in a statement. “We wish them peace during this difficult time. We are working with all parties to determine the facts involved, including SP Plus, which manages the 25,000 parking spaces at Kansas City International Airport.”

Source: The Kansas City Star