Kenneth Lawrence Welch, 38, vanished from Phoenix, Arizona after a final contact on April 3, 1980. That day he called his mother from a payphone on Washington Street saying he was being pursued by a gang and that he intended to go to a hotel for safety. That phone call was the last known communication with him.

His mother did not file a missing person report until 1989. The Flagstaff Police Department later took the case, which remains open. Welch is described as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes and a red mark, possibly a birthmark, on the nape of his neck. No confirmed sightings or significant leads have been reported.

Does anyone remember Kenneth Welch, the April 3, 1980 payphone call, or have information about where he might have gone after leaving Washington Street?