Body found in North Edgemoor house may be that of Augusta man

Trina Fisher, 38, stood outside the house she and her parents lived in from the 1970s to about 2003 on North Edgemoor on Thursday afternoon.

Her mother, who still owns the house, buried her face in her hands and just shook her head.

Just an hour earlier, neighbors say, Wichita police removed a body from the house, which has been vacant for the 12 years since Fisher and her parents moved out.

“It’s like we’re on a TV show or something,” Fisher said. “It’s shocking and still hasn’t even hit. It’s unreal when you come up to your house and see CSI and police at your house, not knowing, just telling you, ‘You need to come.’”

Fisher said she and her mother got a call from police summoning them to the property, but they didn’t know what had happened until a while later.

A crime-scene investigation unit and a Sedgwick County coroner’s van were on the scene Thursday afternoon.

The body was found as a result of an investigation into a missing Augusta man, Augusta Department of Public Safety Chief Tyler Brewer said in an e-mailed statement.

Adam Lee Moore, 40, was reported missing on Sunday.

“Acting on a tip, investigators located Adam’s vehicle in the 600 block of North Edgemoor in Wichita,” Brewer said in the statement.

Augusta police then asked Wichita officers to check at a residence in the area, and officers located the body in a crawl space at the rear of the house.

Ernie Cortie, who lives next door to the house, said he saw a car being towed away from the Life Care Center of Wichita across the street earlier in the afternoon.

Police had been coming by the house for four days because “they’ve been smelling something over there,” Cortie said.

“Finally one of the officers realized that was the odor of a body,” he said.

Cortie said of his seven years living on Edgemoor that he knew of no past trouble with the house, other than that it had been broken into two years ago.

Fisher, the daughter of the owner, described it as a “pretty peaceful neighborhood.”

Police are expected to release more information later.

This story was originally published June 25, 2015 at 3:45 PM with the headline "Body found in North Edgemoor house may be that of Augusta man."