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Case No. DHF-084 | Subject: Robert Fox, 47, last seen on the evening of Thursday 19 March 2026 in the Lick Creek Road area of South Point, Ohio; his gray Jeep Compass was later found unlocked at Lawrence Village Apartments, and his phone and car keys were found in separate places on the property; he has not been seen or heard from since | Date: Thursday 19 March 2026 (last seen); Monday 10 November 2026 (Dateline NBC feature) | Location: Lick Creek Road area and Lawrence Village Apartments, South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, USA | Status: MISSING
Posted: 12 November 2026
Status stamp: MISSING
Why this file is stamped MISSING: The stamp records only the position as it stands on 12 November 2026. Robert Fox, 47, was last seen on the evening of Thursday 19 March 2026 in the Lick Creek Road area of South Point, Ohio. His gray Jeep Compass was later found unlocked at Lawrence Village Apartments, and his phone and car keys were recovered in separate places on the property. He has not been seen or heard from since. The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office says its investigation is active, and it has said there have been no new leads made public. No suspect has been named, no one has been charged, and no finding about what happened to Fox has been announced. The stamp is not a verdict. If he is found, or if an arrest, a charge, or any further official statement changes the position, this file will be updated, dated, and re-stamped if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten.
Image note for readers: All images in this file are original illustrations created for Dark History Files. They are atmospheric artwork, not photographs and not real evidence. No image in this file depicts Robert Fox, any member of his family, any investigator, any official, or any real person, and no image depicts any act of violence, any death, any arrest, or any vehicle connected to this case. No photograph of Fox has been used in this file.
Caption: Case card for DHF-084 — Robert Fox case, South Point, Ohio. Status: MISSING.
| Case File No. | DHF-084 |
| Subject | Robert Fox, 47, of South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, last seen on the evening of Thursday 19 March 2026 in the Lick Creek Road area. His gray Jeep Compass was later found unlocked at Lawrence Village Apartments, and his phone and car keys were recovered in separate places on the property. He has not been seen or heard from since. |
| Date | Thursday 19 March 2026 (last seen); Tuesday 7 April 2026 (candlelight vigil); September 2026 (fishing tournament fundraiser); Monday 10 November 2026 (Dateline NBC feature) |
| Location | Lick Creek Road area and Lawrence Village Apartments, South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, USA |
| Status | MISSING |
| Investigating authorities | Lawrence County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff Jeff Lawless and Det. Sgt. Brad Layman (as named in WSAZ reporting) |
| Sheriff's case number | 26-01445, as printed on the family's missing-person notices |
| Description (family notices and Dateline) | 47 years old; 5 feet 5 inches tall; about 220–230 pounds; brown hair; blue eyes; last seen wearing a blue KDMC shirt, khaki pants and white tennis shoes |
| Tip contact | Lawrence County Sheriff's Office at 740-532-3525 (sheriff's investigations line, extension 8, as given in the Dateline appeal); family numbers 304-962-6655 and 740-302-5357 as printed on the family's notices |
| One-line summary | Robert Fox, 47, was last seen on the evening of Thursday 19 March 2026 in the Lick Creek Road area of South Point, Ohio, after dropping his wife off after work and going to visit a friend; his gray Jeep Compass was later found unlocked at Lawrence Village Apartments, his phone and car keys were found in separate places on the property, and he has not been seen or heard from since, despite extensive searches and, eight months on, a national Dateline feature. |
On Thursday 19 March 2026, Robert Fox, 47, of South Point, Ohio, spent his last accounted-for evening on an ordinary round. According to the family's missing-person notices, he dropped his wife off after work and went to visit a friend on Lick Creek Road, in the South Point area of Lawrence County. That is the last confirmed account of his movements, and he has not been seen or heard from since.
South Point is a village in Lawrence County, in the far south of Ohio, where the state meets West Virginia and Kentucky across the Ohio River. Lick Creek Road runs through quiet, wooded country outside the village — the kind of road where a man visiting a friend on a Thursday evening would expect to be home within the hour. He was not, and that is the whole of this case in its simplest form.
His family reported him missing, and the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office opened a missing-person case, numbered 26-01445 as printed on the family's notices. Those notices are the spine of this file's description of Fox: 47 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall, about 220 pounds, brown hair and blue eyes, last seen wearing a blue KDMC shirt, khaki pants and white tennis shoes. Dateline's appeal lists his weight as 230 pounds rather than 220; this file gives the range rather than choosing between the two. It changes nothing about the search.
What the sources relied on here say about Robert Fox himself is short, and it is all family. WSAZ, the Huntington station that has covered the case since the spring, describes him as a husband, a dad, a son and a brother. His wife is Letitia Fox — his wife of 25 years, as Dateline puts it. His mother is Renee Fox, his brother Damien Fox, his cousin Stacie Yancey. They are the people who have carried this case in public for eight months.
One thing about him is recorded because his family made it the centre of their September fundraiser: he loved fishing. A photograph on the family's notices shows him kneeling beside water, holding a large catfish. This file does not reproduce that photograph — no real-person imagery is used here — but the fact stands: a man who fished, with a wife and children, a mother and a brother, and a home in South Point.
Letitia Fox's words to WSAZ at the September fundraiser are the plainest statement in this file of what eight months without an answer does to a family. "It's hard to explain actually… lost, half your heart missing, and you just don't know where it's at," she said. "It's miserable actually. I don't wish it on anybody."
The second half of the public record is a vehicle, and it is where the case stops being a simple disappearance and becomes a puzzle.
Fox's gray Jeep Compass was later found unlocked at Lawrence Village Apartments, in South Point. His phone and his car keys were recovered in separate places on the property — not together, not in the vehicle, and not in the same spot as each other. That is Dateline's November account, and it matches the family's notices.
Three things about the Jeep are not in the public record. No source relied on here gives the date it was found, says who drove it to the apartments, or says how the phone and the keys came to be in separate places. Those are the three questions at the centre of this case, and they have been unanswered for eight months.
What the police have said about the vehicle is practical. In May, Det. Sgt. Brad Layman told WSAZ that investigators needed the public's help checking cameras where the vehicle was located — a request that means the police believed someone's camera might hold the answer to one of those three questions, and did not yet have it. The request stands: anyone in South Point with footage from that night, from Lick Creek Road or around Lawrence Village Apartments, is still being asked to come forward.
The searches began in the Lick Creek area, where Fox was last seen, and they were extensive — the word Sheriff Jeff Lawless and Det. Sgt. Layman used when WSAZ reported on the case in May. Extensive searches had been conducted in the Lick Creek area with no results. The sheriff's office was still seeking information, and the family was still waiting.
Layman gave the investigation's position in the same reporting, and his wording is the fullest official statement of how the sheriff's office views this case: investigators were treating it as both a live missing-person case and a worst-case scenario. That is not a finding that a crime occurred, and this file does not present it as one. It is a statement that the police were keeping two possibilities open at once. Eight months on, both are still open, and neither has been resolved.
By September, six months after the disappearance, the sheriff's office's public position had not changed in substance. Deputies, WSAZ reported, continued to actively investigate, but there had been no new leads made public. A quiet public record is not the same as a quiet investigation — missing-person cases with no body and no camera footage do not generate the announcements that keep a case in the news. But it is the reason the family's own efforts have mattered so much: when the official record goes quiet, the family has kept the case visible instead.
The family has kept Robert Fox's name in public for eight months, and the record of how they did it is the most human part of this file.
On Tuesday 7 April 2026, less than three weeks after he vanished, the family held a candlelight vigil. Footage of it, shown in WSAZ's May reporting, shows people holding lit candles and handmade signs reading "Let's bring him home" and "We Won't STOP Looking". Photographs from a second gathering in May show the same signs and candles, and a roadside billboard carrying Fox's photograph, the date he was last seen, and the family's contact numbers — still the case's most visible marker.
In September, the family turned to something Robert loved most. Community members gathered for a fishing tournament and fundraiser at a lake, to rally behind the Fox family and keep his name in the public eye. Local businesses fed the family, donated fishing rods for a raffle, and helped raise a donation to support them. Nancy Eldridge, a longtime family friend, told WSAZ she had known the family for over half her life and could not just sit by anymore knowing that he was out there and his family needed answers.
The words spoken that day are worth recording exactly, because they are the family's own account of what they are asking for. Damien Fox, Robert's brother, said: "That's my brother, the only brother I got, and I want my mom to have answers."
On Monday 10 November 2026, the case reached a national audience: Dateline NBC featured Robert Fox in its "Missing in America" series, on Facebook and Instagram. The feature carried the same facts this file carries — last seen on the night of 19 March 2026, car later found unlocked, phone and keys in different spots — plus the sheriff's tip number, 740-532-3525, and a statement from his wife of 25 years, who told Dateline she is committed to finding him.
The next day, Tuesday 11 November, Letitia Fox posted a public plea of her own on Facebook, thanking Dateline for spreading awareness and supporters who have shared information and kept watch, and saying she is determined to keep searching until he is found. She appealed directly to whoever knows his location to speak up, so the family can be reunited.
The Dateline feature is the reason this file opens now. For eight months, this case was carried by a family, a county, a billboard and a fishing tournament. Now it has been put before the largest true-crime audience in the United States. Dateline has not, in the material relied on here, announced a broadcast date for a full episode, and this file states none. What the feature has already done is simpler: it has made a local disappearance national, eight months after the night it happened.
It is worth listing, plainly, what is not in the public record, because the gaps are the story of this file as much as the facts are. The authorities have not said when the Jeep was found, or who drove it there; or how the phone and keys came to be in separate places; or whether any camera footage from the night of 19 March has been recovered. They have not named a suspect, and no one has been charged. They have not said what happened to Fox after he went to visit a friend on Lick Creek Road, or whether they believe he is alive or dead.
There are also claims circulating about this case that this file has deliberately left out. In comment threads under Dateline's posts and local reporting, people name a man they believe was involved and recount alleged explanations for how the Jeep was moved. None of those claims appears in any police statement or reputable reporting relied on here. No source relied on here names any suspect, and no one has been charged. The names in the comments are unverified, and they are not repeated in this file. A comment thread is not evidence, and naming a living person as a suspect on the strength of one would be exactly what the fairness locks on this blog exist to prevent. If the police ever name a suspect or file a charge, this file will report it, attributed, and no sooner.
Other details in circulation have also been left out, because they come from a single creator's video and could not be verified against any second source: a claim about a hooded figure on surveillance video near the Jeep at a specific time, a claim about bank cards found with the phone and keys, a claim about who last drove the Jeep, and a claim about the exact searches used. Dateline's appeal, the most recent authoritative account, mentions none of them. They are noted here only so no reader mistakes their absence for an oversight.
The next steps are the ones the Dateline feature is designed to produce. Someone who was in South Point on the night of Thursday 19 March 2026 — on Lick Creek Road, or near Lawrence Village Apartments — remembers something, or checks a camera, and contacts the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office at 740-532-3525. A memory becomes a lead. A lead becomes a location, or a name, or a piece of footage. Any of those steps could change this file. None has happened yet in any source relied on here, and none is predicted here.
Until then, the file stands as it is: a man who went to visit a friend on a Thursday evening in March and never came home; a Jeep found unlocked, with a phone and keys in separate places; extensive searches with no results; a family that has kept his name on a billboard, at vigils, and at a fishing tournament for eight months; and now a national feature asking the same question the family has asked all along. That is a thin file, and it is an honest one.
Caption: Illustration of a quiet rural road at dusk — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of Lick Creek Road, and not evidence.
What would change this file: if Fox is found; if the sheriff's office names a suspect or files a charge; if the date the Jeep was found, or who drove it there, is stated on the record; if camera footage from 19 March 2026 is recovered and described; or if any further official statement is issued, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten. Until then, the stamp stays MISSING.
Information — a note on this file: Robert Fox, 47, has been missing since the evening of Thursday 19 March 2026. Anyone with information about his whereabouts, about his movements on Lick Creek Road that evening, or about camera footage from that night near Lick Creek Road or Lawrence Village Apartments in South Point, Ohio, should contact the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office at 740-532-3525 (sheriff's case 26-01445). Do not send money to anyone claiming to hold information about this case, and do not share rumours about anyone who has not been charged.
No companion video yet. If Dark History Files' sister channel Curiozoid publishes a video on this case, it will be linked here.
Caption: Illustration of a wide river at dawn — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of the Ohio River at South Point, and not evidence.
Reader question: Robert Fox has been missing for almost eight months, and his family has kept his name in public with vigils, a billboard and a fishing tournament. What do you think keeps a missing-person case visible when months pass without news?
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