A court record released on Friday details what happened last month in room 141 of a west Wichita motel hours before a 39-year-old Wichita man was found stuffed in the trunk of his vehicle.
The Eagle has previously reported that two people had been charged in the killing of Kyce A. Barnes : one with intentional and premeditated first-degree murder and the other with interference with law enforcement.
A third person, who was arrested Thursday, has also been charged with interference with law enforcement, records show.
All three remained jailed Friday afternoon, records show.
Around 7:25 a.m. on Aug. 21, a worker at Delux Inn at 8401 W. Kellogg reported to police about finding a body in the trunk of a white Mercedes Benz E-class car about a quarter-mile away from the motel in a grassy field.
The car, which had a temporary plate, belonged to Barnes.
The “trunk was taped shut with black electrical tape,” a detective wrote in an arrest affidavit released in one of the suspect’s cases. There was also dried blood on the trunk and “what appeared to be a human foot wearing a sock stuck between the top of the right side of the trunk and the rear corner panel.”