Ghost Lines from Homestead: The Unresolved Disappearance of Kenneth Earl Fox

A Snapshot of a Life, Frozen in 1989

Kenneth Earl Fox’s story is the story of a man who slipped out of sight at the edges of South Dade, his last certain footprint set in Homestead, Florida. Public case records describe him as an African-American male born on February 17, 1948, standing between 6'3" and 6'5" and weighing about 156 pounds—tall and lean, with a distinctive chipped front tooth. He was originally from Lexington, Kentucky, but by the late 1980s his world had narrowed to the Homestead area, where he was living transiently. Those basic facts—age, stature, a chipped tooth—form the bones of a case that has defied closure for decades.

The Last Known Contact: A Payphone Call and a Vanishing Point

The last clear family contact came on April 1, 1989, when Kenneth called his mother from a payphone near a McDonald’s by East Palm Drive and Southeast 12th Avenue in Homestead. During that call, tensions reportedly rose after his mother explained she couldn’t continue sending money. That conversation is the last time relatives are known to have heard his voice, and it fixed a small square on the map—an intersection by a fast-food restaurant—as the emotional and geographic fulcrum of his disappearance....Read More

Share

Comments (0)

Leave A Comment