Kenneth Dale King, 30, was last seen after a night at work on January 13, 1988. He drove his father home in Aurora, visited briefly, then left for his own residence in Wayne at about 2 a.m.; family members never saw him again. Two days later his truck was found abandoned in a St. Charles parking lot with no sign of Kenneth.

A search of his Wayne home turned up $200 in cash and all of his personal belongings, and his horses had been left unattended — actions described as out of character for the responsible owner. Investigators questioned a man linked to a woman Kenneth had recently dated; that man denied involvement and was later convicted in an unrelated plot to hire a hitman to kill the woman’s husband. In 1999 authorities searched the man’s former Batavia property, once a roadside zoo, but found no evidence related to Kenneth.

No charges have been filed and the case remains open. Kenneth was legally presumed dead in 1995, seven years after his disappearance. Does anyone have memories or information about Kenneth’s movements in January 1988 or about his truck being seen in St. Charles?