He last contacted his mother, Debra Mulligan, of Glen Burnie, on May 14, 1995, from Santa Monica, Calif. She told police he was crying, hysterical and said he wanted to come home when she reported him missing in July 1995. During the call, he told her he would call her back with information on where she could send extra funds for him. But she never heard from him.

Izzett, born on Nov. 5, 1975, would now be 35. A 6-foot-2, 165-pound white male with brown hair and brown eyes, Izzett was an honor student who did a lot of relocating in the summer of 1995, moving around to Baltimore, Key West, Fla., the District of Columbia, New Orleans and Mississippi.

But the only evidence of Izzett’s travels is a driving ticket he received in Buckeye, Ariz., on May 22, 1995. He was ordered to appear in court June 27 but never showed up. He was driving a friend’s car at the time.

An unidentified friend heard from him in San Francisco in July 1995, and Mulligan reported her son missing to Maryland authorities that same month.

In the years since Izzett disappeared, Mulligan has looked at hundreds of pictures of missing children on Internet sites. And in November 2001, she thought she had found her son’s body.

Police took Mulligan’s DNA for testing on a young man — with a striking resemblance to Izzett — who had died in Georgia a year before. But he was not her son.

She told police she wished to find him alive, but hoped if he were found dead that she could bury him next to his grandmother in Cumberland.

Police ask anyone with information or leads to call Maryland State Police Cumberland Barracks at 201-729-2101.