Howard Fox
by Carolinetoday at the Rockford Unitarian Universalist booksale I bought a copy of In Cold Blood and started to read it whilst working at the wright museum from two to four.
when Capote describes the list of relatives who are contacted after the clutter murders, he includes Mrs. Clutter’s (maiden name Bonnie Fox’s) brother, “Howard, of Oregon, Illinois.” I did a double take and had to call my parents for confirmation. We know Howard Fox. he was friends with my grandfather. he’s a local artist. just a normal neighborly person in my small-town childhood.
“yeah, that’s him,” my dad told me on the phone. “mom went to school with his daughter. I saw him today when I was going to the dentist and he was leaving the chiropractor.”
“he’s getting small and stooped like grandpa did,” my mom told me. “when that book came out it was such a big deal and we all read it and just hid it from debbie fox because we knew it was her family. we were terrible.”
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I knew Debbie Fox in college at ISU. We were good firends for a few years and then went our own ways. Back then, I visited her and her family for a weekend at the house by the forest(Sinissippi?) where they lived. If you still have contact with her, send her my email address. I’m happily married and hope she is too. I live in Somonauk, right by the creek bank with lots of woods. This is kinda strange but I’ll just say it, I had a vivid image of her in a dream about two months ago. I hadn’t thought of her for years before that night. It seemed she said something to me but I couldn’t hear. I hope she is fine, she was a terrific artist and a kindred soul.
Thank you,
Andy Krause
15399 Creek Rd
Somonauk,IL 60548