Identified! KS - Wichita, Body in bread store dumpster, Dec'16 - Rickey Farris

[creepedout]

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article122944339.html
http://www.kake.com/story/34129538/body-found-in-bread-store-dumpster

People dumpster diving for food at a bakery outlet in an industrial area of west Wichita came across a body in the dumpster around 4 PM on Christmas and called police. There is not much information yet but the death is being considered suspicious. The decedent has not been identified.

Location:

https://goo.gl/maps/u8DWQRpkQXK2

 

[creepedout]

This article says they haven't revealed the gender, but later says they're not sure what lead to the man's death.

http://ksn.com/2016/12/25/police-find-body-in-dumpster/

Not sure if that's a typo, or an accidental reveal.

 

[Inthedetails]

Could it be someone who died of natural causes? It sounds like the bin was full of boxes - maybe someone living on the street crawled into the dumpster for a warm place to sleep?

 

[perfectingpink]

Could it be someone who died of natural causes? It sounds like the bin was full of boxes - maybe someone living on the street crawled into the dumpster for a warm place to sleep?

It could have been. I didn't think there were homeless in that area, but someone commented on one of the news articles they are seeing an increase in homeless near there. I think WPD is supposed to update tomorrow in their morning news conference.

 

[creepedout]

Looking at the map, it is relatively close to a rail yard, if any transients rode their way into there.

 

[Inthedetails]

Any updates? Locals, any news in your area about this?

 

[Rayemonde]

The poor people dumpster diving on Christmas day were probably homeless... What a way to spend Christmas day

 

[meanmaryjean]

The poor people dumpster diving on Christmas day were probably homeless... What a way to spend Christmas day

My exact thought

 

[perfectingpink]

The poor people dumpster diving on Christmas day were probably homeless... What a way to spend Christmas day

A lot of underprivileged dumpster dive there. I believe the bread store packages the bread so it can be retrieved without being contaminated.

 

[creepedout]

A lot of underprivileged dumpster dive there. I believe the bread store packages the bread so it can be retrieved without being contaminated.

That's incredible, honestly. Better that letting it just go to waste, I guess.

 

[perfectingpink]

Man found in dumpster died of natural causes, Wichita police say

http://www.kake.com/story/34129538/body-found-in-bread-store-dumpster

 

[Inthedetails]

Man found in dumpster died of natural causes, Wichita police say

http://www.kake.com/story/34129538/body-found-in-bread-store-dumpster

Thank you for the update. I'm glad there wasn't violence at this death, but it is a sad place to die.

RIP.

 

[creepedout]

Well, I guess that's the best that could have come out of this.

 

[creepedout]

Eight days before Christmas, one of Rickey Farris’ brothers bailed him out of the Sedgwick County Jail so he could spend the holidays with his teenage son and daughter.

Just days later, at around 4 p.m. on Christmas Day, someone found Farris dead in a dumpster in southwest Wichita. He was 47.

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article125006009.html

 

[bflocket]

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article125006009.html

Could one of the mods change the title to include his name? (Rickey Leotis Farris)

Despite them not suspecting foul play, the story Creepedout does raise some important questions about how/why he ended up dead in a dumpster on Xmas day...

Why his body was in a dumpster is only one of the questions family has
The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS)
1/6/2017

Questions about Rickey being found in the dumpster persist.

It’s unlikely that he was seeking shelter in the trash bin. It was warmer than normal, a high of 58 on Christmas Eve and a record high of 67 on Christmas Day.

At his funeral Monday afternoon, people told Mickey they were puzzled that his brother had been found in the dumpster.

“Rick would never do that,” they told Mickey. If Rickey frequented trash bins, his family didn’t know it, Mickey said. “He kept it from us.”

Rickey had at least $49 on Christmas Eve. Mickey knows that because a receipt found with his brother showed that he got that much back after buying Christmas presents for his teenage kids at the Walmart on South Broadway.

That was around 4 p.m. Christmas Eve. “What he did from there, nobody will know,” Mickey said. His body was found 24 hours later.

The receipt also showed that he bought electronics for his kids. Where the gifts ended up is unknown, the brothers say. The kids didn’t receive them.

Mickey raises another question: “Did he use the $49 for something else, then need food later?

 

[Rayemonde]

One thing the surviving Farris brothers know and believe: Rickey was loved. Rickey was flawed by addiction. He also was a father, a builder and a carefree soul who was not a one-dimensional addict...

The brothers had initially wondered whether they should talk about Rickey for this story. They fear that some people will see only one side of Rickey – his substance abuse...

Mickey said detectives told him the autopsy showed his twin had extensive heart disease. Mickey expects that the final autopsy report might say a heart attack killed his brother.
Rickey told another brother, Travis – the one who got him out of jail – that he was dying. Mickey doesn’t think his twin had health insurance and doesn’t think Rickey knew he had heart disease.

It will take weeks before a toxicology report will be available. It would show whether Rickey had drugs or alcohol in his system.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article125006009.html#storylink=cpy

So sad Rest in peace, Rickey.

 

[creepedout]

These circumstances are definitely interesting. What I believe to be the Walmart where they suggest he bought electronics is shown to be over three miles away...

https://goo.gl/maps/i1h2wEm5HyS2

...and Broadway is notorious for crime in Wichita:

http://www.kake.com/story/33786533/officers-working-to-take-control-of-crime-on-broadway

Wonder if there's more to this story to come...

 

[bflocket]

Wonder if there's more to this story to come...

There has to be... Unless those Xmas presents were left in an alley or something and somebody snatched them up.

With him having problems with substance abuse, I could see why someone could dismiss "buying those presents" as him saying something about that to justify him using the money in an illicit way. That isn't right for people to think that, but it's just the way things go nowadays.

This makes me feel like an octogenarian, but I'm just in my 30's. When I was in HS or college or even later, you never really heard about heroin in my area (central KY). The worst (yet commonplace) things you'd come across were booze/bud/blow. Pain pills weren't even popular. Now, that kind of thing is everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I think a girl in my algebra class just died from an OD of that BS this week. And the people doing that kind of thing now are the furthest from who you'd expect to die due to drugs.

But it sounds like they're sure that he indeed did buy the presents via checking with the store or looking at receipts or what have you.