Body found under mattress in motel room

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Workers at a motel found a dead man under a mattress Sunday while cleaning a room where a guest had spent three nights, complaining repeatedly about a foul odor, police said.

Police were called around 11 a.m. Sunday after cleaning staff lifted the mattress and found the body of a man. The remains were not immediately identified. Wood panels around the underside of the bed hid the body from view.

Police Capt. Rich Lockhart said detectives believe the body had been in the room for several days because it was in an advanced stage of decomposition.