Found Deceased KS - Randy Potter, 53, Lenexa, 17 Jan 2017

[lymom3]

How sad. RIP.

 

[katydid23]

Awww....feel so sad for his children. I wish he could have sought help instead of something so drastic and final. :rose:

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

RIP Randy.

 

[flute4peace]

Holy cow. I assume he was probably in the KCI economy lot. I park there all the time. It boggles the mind to imagine a truck there for 8 months.

I'm right there with you. Especially if he was it in - that means nobody even checked on it.

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[Elley Mae]

Holy cow. I assume he was probably in the KCI economy lot. I park there all the time. It boggles the mind to imagine a truck there for 8 months.

Carolina Potter said the truck was in the parking lot in front of KCI’s Terminal B, which offers both short and long-term parking. Potter’s truck was parked on the surface level.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article173844011.html

 

[Laughing]

Carolina Potter said the truck was in the parking lot in front of KCI’s Terminal B, which offers both short and long-term parking. Potter’s truck was parked on the surface level.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article173844011.html

Wow, just wow!

Gee TSA decided at the end of my beach trip that my sunscreen bottle was too big to fly back to Ozarkstan in the airplane -- yet no one notices a stolen truck with a missing human for 8 months???

Horrifying on soooo many levels. IIRC, this is rather close to one of the air-traffic control towers at KCI. Abandoned vehicle, maybe TSA should become aware of those....

Wonder if the family & the truck-owning employer will receive settlements?

 

[Sweetnspicy]

I have to read thread to catch up on all but I saw article this morning and my gut is screaming at me so loud that this is not adding up or article is not saying all... something is amiss here [emoji19] so decided to come on to see what others think.


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[Vedder]

8 months. How does this happen? In an airport parking lot no less, where they're supposedly so security-conscious.

 

[MsFacetious]

That is insane. I thought they checked for abandoned vehicles. Especially in short term parking.
Just WOW. He may have thought he'd be found that way, but not found by his family.
He may have been trying to spare them that. That is horrendous.
8 months of suffering that didn't need to happen.

 

[Kaydence]

That's horrible. MCI is a small and accessible airport...There is no reason for this.

 

[Vail]

This is a perfect example of why suggesting things in a case here like "check the parking lots?" is worthwhile. I am so disgusted that they overlooked that and very sad for Randy's family.

 

[perfectingpink]

I am still perplexed Randy's truck went unnoticed for so long especially because Toni Anderson went missing 2 days prior and I if I remember right, her car was looked for in the airport parking lot.

 

[MzOpinion8d]

Carolina Potter said the truck was in the parking lot in front of KCI’s Terminal B, which offers both short and long-term parking. Potter’s truck was parked on the surface level.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article173844011.html

This is so ridiculous. Those lots are not huge. The cars are very close together. How do people park next to a vehicle with a decomposing body in it, in the blazing heat of summer, in a surface lot with no shade, and not notice any odor at all? This really doesn't make sense at all.

 

[Gardener1850]

‘I am beyond mad,’ widow says before memorial for man whose body was found at KCI

His wife on Saturday revealed the sad and disturbing irony behind the story of the Lenexa man whose decomposed body was found at a Kansas City International Airport parking lot eight months after he was reported missing.
Carolina Potter believes her husband, Randy Potter, might have chosen to end his life at the airport because he knew his family would most likely look for him there.
She is a flight attendant. So whenever she flew out for work, he would drop her off. And he would pick her up when she got back from tending to passengers up and down the East Coast.
That’s why the Potter family was so insistent that authorities check the airport parking lots when he went missing Jan. 17. And it’s why Carolina Potter cannot understand why authorities did not find her husband’s body in his work truck in Economy Lot B at Kansas City International Airport until a few weeks ago.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article176362561.html#storylink=cpy

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[perfectingpink]

‘I am beyond mad,’ widow says before memorial for man whose body was found at KCI

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article176362561.html#storylink=cpy

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I feel so bad for Randy's wife and I hope she finds answers as to why the parking lots were not checked.

 

[cybervampira]

Family files lawsuit after missing man’s body is found 8 months later in KCI parking lot

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Randy Potter’s body was discovered in his truck in a lot at the airport in September of last year after he took his own life.

[...]

The lawsuit claims the family was told a license plate reader would be used to identify the vehicle.

Potter’s vehicle wasn’t discovered until 8 months later after a patron parked nearby and smelled a foul order and saw a pool of blood on the ground.

A few of the seven counts in the lawsuit include negligence, emotional distress, and breach of contract.

Failed settlement talks between Standard Parking, the operator of the parking lot, and the Potter family is what led to the petition being filed in Platte County by attorneys for the family.

“I think for a company the size of SP Plus it needs to be a significant amount of money and that’s well over seven figures and that’s just because that’s how you get the attention of a corporation, because that’s their bottom line,” said Chris Gahagan, the Potter family’s attorney. “They are not doing this because they are good people. They are doing this because they make money off it.”

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Article (video at link): http://www.kctv5.com/story/38008123...dy-is-found-8-months-later-in-kci-parking-lot
More: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article209409874.html

 

[Laughing]

Interested folks can follow on CaseNet:

18AE-CC00143 - CAROLINA POTTER ET AL V SP PLUS CORPORATION ET AL (E-CASE)

https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/nameSearch.do

IDK how to link to the case, but entering SP Plus as the litigant name returns plenty o'cases!

JMHO YMMV