William Farris Goodmon, 56, vanished from Polk City, Florida, on June 27, 1988, after leaving home on his routine drive to work at Day’s Lawn Mower in Lakeland. He was last seen at 9:00 a.m. buying beer and cigarettes at a convenience store on State Road 33 and never arrived at his shop where family and employees were waiting.

Goodmon was described wearing a red and white checkered button-down shirt, navy blue work pants and light brown western-style boots. He had suffered a stroke about a year earlier and had recent nose trauma that needed treatment. He was known to carry a Ruger .357 magnum that has never been recovered. His 1974 Ford Thunderbird, brown with a dark brown vinyl top and a wine-colored hood, Florida plate 746-AZJ, was found abandoned and partially stripped in a remote part of Manatee County on August 13, 1988; searches turned up no physical evidence linked to him.

Goodmon was declared legally dead in 1993, but his family says he would not have voluntarily disappeared, noting his close relationship with an eight-year-old grandson. Does anyone have information about Goodmon’s movements in late June 1988 or recall seeing that Thunderbird in Manatee County then?