{"id":424479,"date":"2026-09-03T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424479\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:18:07","slug":"fort-worth-police-say-missing-air-force-veteran-found-in-pipe-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424479\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police say missing Air Force veteran found in pipe \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said two teens were wandering around an old energy plant property on North Main Street in Fort Worth last month when they came across the body of 39-year-old Adam McClure White.<\/p>\n<p>White was an Air Force veteran, son, father and friend, according to his family. <\/p>\n<p>Lorelle Podchalski told NBC 5 she was friends with White. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the best friend anyone could have,&#8221; Podchalski said. &#8220;A good man lost his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Podchalski said she was shocked to hear that after he went missing in early June, his body was found in a pipe several months later on August 19. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How could such a good guy end up in a pipe?&#8221; Poldchalski questioned.<\/p>\n<p>There are questions that don&#8217;t have clear answers yet. White&#8217;s family says he was at the courthouse in Fort Worth trying to get custody of his 5-year-old son. They were waiting for him to return home, and he never showed, his mother told NBC 5. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of death,&#8221; the Fort Worth Police Department said. &#8220;At this time, Homicide detectives do not suspect foul play. The investigation remains ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Now, White is remembered as a talented engineer who loved everyone around him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He brought smiles to everyone&#8217;s faces all the time,&#8221; Podchalski said. <\/p>\n<p>White&#8217;s family is now working to get his body back home to where they live, in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said two teens were wandering around an old energy plant property on North Main Street in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-424479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}