Randy Potter, 56, went missing from his Kansas home back on January 17 and authorities believe he committed suicide soon after he disappeared
The widow of a man whose decomposing body sat in his truck for eight months in a parking lot at Kansas City airport is outraged he wasn’t found sooner.
Randy Potter, 56, went missing from his Kansas home back on January 17 and authorities believe he committed suicide soon after he disappeared.
Despite a widespread police search and the family bringing in private detectives, Potter’s body was not discovered until last week.
His truck was parked outside terminal B at Kansas City International Airport in a long and short term parking lot.
‘It is the worst pain I have ever experienced,’ his distraught wife Carolina Potter told the Kansas City Star.
‘He was there all this time but nobody bothered to look.’
Potter’s remains were found on Tuesday after airport police reported an odor coming from his white Dodge Ram truck.
Soon after Potter went missing, his family say they went to the airport to search for signs of him.
His wife said airport officials told her that if Potter’s truck was in the parking lot that security would find it.
Potter’s remains were found last week in his truck parked at Kansas City International Airport. His wife Carolina is outraged his body wasn’t found sooner despite a widespread search
‘How is it possible, in America?’ Mrs Potter said.
‘A truck sitting there for eight months? He could have been found a lot sooner if everybody had done their job.’
Potter’s niece Melissa Alderman was the one who initially thought her uncle could have left via the airport.
Alderman said they gave out her uncle’s license plate to parking authorities. They repeatedly assured her that if Potter’s truck was at the airport it would be found.
‘Losing a loved one is hard. Losing a loved one to suicide is 10 times harder. Knowing that they sat there and baked for eight months – I can’t breathe,’ Alderman told the Kansas City Star.
Potter’s remains were found on Tuesday after airport police reported an odor coming from his white Dodge Ram truck
‘How many thousands of people drove by the vehicle? How many people walked by?. It’s disgusting. And it’s infuriating. It’s a total disregard for human life.’
The Potter family have fired a lawyer to look into how the father-of-two’s body could have gone unnoticed for so long.
They are looking back at the original missing person’s report and the role airport security should have played in identifying the car.
‘These family members feel that they’re responsible because they didn’t check it because they felt the responsibility was on the police department and the officials there at the airport,’ Lester Underhill, their private investigator, told KCTV5.
‘It didn’t happen and it’s ridiculous.’