The 66yearold Adamsons body was discovered Wednesday in Indio, about 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Indio police said Monday.Investigators were searching for a contractor who was living and working at Adamsons home, said police Lt. Bruce Bower. Police have not yet established a motive.A brother of the Bmovie maker contacted police after Adamson was missing for five weeks, Bower said. After interviewing witnesses and examining recent construction work at his home, police and forensic specialists took up the flooring in an unspecified room and unearthed the buried body.The cause of death was not determined pending a Wednesday autopsy.Police have a homicide arrest warrant for independent contractor Fred Fulford, 46.Bower said Fulford was living in Adamsons Avenue 49 house while remodeling it. Fulford traveled to Florida about a week before Adamson was reported missing, Bower said, and is considered a fugitive.The son of a filmmaker, Adamson made his reputation making drivein movies in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of his titles featured horror or sciencefiction themes, and he became a modernday Ed Wood, the fabled schlock director of the 1950s.

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