David Wayne Briley was 42 when he vanished from Lake Charles, Louisiana, in the late summer of 2007. Reports give varying last-seen dates of August 8, August 16, or August 20. On the day he disappeared he left the trailer he shared with his girlfriend off Highway 397, walked to a nearby convenience store, made a purchase, and was never definitively seen or heard from again.

At the time he went missing he was wearing a white t-shirt with a parachute or skydiving emblem, blue jeans and steel-toed work boots with resin stains, and possibly a black and white Nascar baseball cap. He wore a gold chain with a crucifix, a watch with a silver band, an earring in his left ear and silver metal-rimmed eyeglasses. He was 5 feet 10 inches and about 150 pounds, with brown, receding hair and brown eyes, a birthmark above his right eye, pierced left ear, pierced nipples and tattoos including a castle on his right arm, a moon on his upper arm and parachute and dragon designs on his chest.

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office investigated but later exhausted leads and the case went cold. Family members believe he is no longer alive; his brother suspects people David was with around the disappearance know more.

Did anyone in Lake Charles around those August 2007 dates see David or recall the people he was with?