Michael Scott Toups was 39 when he lost contact with his family; they first began searching for him in 1998 and officially reported him missing in 2011. The last potential sighting occurred in 2005 in Cameron, Louisiana, where he may have been seeking work in the fishing industry, but his trail goes cold after that.

He is described as a white male, brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 6 inches, 140–150 pounds, with a mustache or beard, a scar below his bottom lip, and a chipped upper right incisor. The Sulphur Police Department is handling the missing person inquiry, and the long gaps in the timeline — last family contact in 1998, possible sighting in 2005, report filed in 2011 — leave key questions about where he was and what happened during those years.

Does anyone have information about Michael’s whereabouts between 1998 and 2005, or recall seeing him in the Cameron, Louisiana, area?