Jun 13, 2020

Body found during search for missing Kansas woman

Posted Jun 13, 2020 9:00 PM
Savanah Schneider photo courtesy Wichita Police
Savanah Schneider photo courtesy Wichita Police

HAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Volunteers have found a woman’s body alongside railroad tracks in a field south of Wichita while searching for a 23-year-old who went missing two weeks ago.

The discovery was made Saturday near Haysville as 75 to 100 volunteers looked for Savannah Schneider in an area where her cell phone last pinged off a tower.

The body hasn’t been identified. Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Brad Hoch said the discovery was made in the same area were the Wichita Police Department and Sheriff’s Office had searched with cadaver dogs on Tuesday. 

On June 5, the KBI issued a statewide endangered person advisory for Schneider.