Murry Foust
24 May 2026
Wilder, Kentucky (USA)
Possible suicide
Murry's body was found just under a month after he had gone missing from his apartment, leaving his phone behind.
An art scholarship is being established in his name.
Friends, loved ones, and community members are mourning after the body of Murry Foust, a 22-year-old trans man and student at Northern Kentucky University, was found on Sunday night.
“While our hearts are broken and this is not the outcome we were hoping for, we can only pray that finding them provides closure and comfort to everyone who is hurting,” Foust’s family wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday.
Foust was last seen alive on April 27, captured on security footage in Covington, Kentucky’s Latonia neighborhood. Friends told local ABC affiliate WCPO that he was heading to class but left his phone at his apartment in the same neighborhood. After nearly a month, an independent search party found his body on May 24 near 1 Steel Plant Road, an industrial area in Wilder, Kentucky, across the Licking River from Latonia. The Covington Police Department said that they did not currently suspect foul play, but a coroner’s report has yet to be released.
Foust, who used he/they pronouns according to friends, was a senior majoring in fine arts at NKU. He would have graduated May 8. His art is scheduled to be shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s “Art After Dark” series on May 29. In the post from his family, which often uses his deadname with “Murry” in quotation marks, they state that an art scholarship will also be established in Foust’s memory. There will also be a pottery fundraiser held at NKU in the future, the family said.
In the comments of the post, friends of Foust have begun posting their favorite memories of him, honoring how he showed up as a friend, artist, and student.
“Murry was one of my first friends I made in college, and helped me feel so much comfortable about myself, especially where I had came up to northern Kentucky knowing zero people,” Serenity Newell wrote. “I saw them a day or two before they had went missing and they were so sweet. I had dressed extra nice that day and they went and complimented me in detail for about 5 minutes straight […] I was going through our messages between each other today and was in disbelief that any of this was real. They were a big inspiration in my art and I strived to be more like them and try to poor more of my soul into each of my creations as they did.”
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