Carolyn Teigen stood in a church parking lot in Princeton on Monday with a flyer in her hand.
"I'm here looking for my son, Clinton Nelson," she said in front of a small corral of media and television cameras -- not too far from where he was last seen.
She then paused for a moment to contain her emotions.
It's been 13 years since her son, then 21 years old, vanished from a friend's home in Princeton while attending a party.
His story has been shared vigorously throughout local news outlets, made appearances in national news publications and was even featured in its own episode of
Disappeared, an Investigation Discovery show.
But despite those efforts, his whereabouts remain unknown; so her search continues.
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On Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, Nelson was at a party with some friends at a small house in the 800 block of Ward Lane in Princeton.
The house is located in a small clearing that is surrounded by a wooded area, and just around the corner from Gillespie's Welding on Highway 79, where he worked and met at least one of his friends at the party.
People who were in attendance reportedly told police that Nelson had stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. Then, he was gone.
Nelson was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans, a black knit hat, red and white tennis shoes, and round framed glasses.
He has no transportation, credit cards or financial means other than an amount of money he may have had on hand, according to previous reports.
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At the time, he was recovering from a fractured collar cone, fractured ribs, and to top it off, his arm was in a sling, his mother said. Her son was injured while working at an oil rig about a week before the party, so the idea of him walking away seemed unlikely to her.
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The last activity on his cell phone is reportedly a brief conversation that Friday evening, in which he allegedly told his dad that he had seen police lights in the area and believed the police were chasing him.
However, investigators with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office said there is no indication that law enforcement was in the area that night.
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He previously had issues related to substance abuse but had been clean for more than two years at the time. There also appeared to be no signs of further drug use prior to his disappearance, his mother said in a previous report in The Times.
However, Nelson was arrested in early August 2006, about a month before his disappearance, and was charged with possession of schedule IV (Xanax), possession of schedule I (MDMA), possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Bossier Parish Court records.
His next court appearance was set for Nov. 17, 2006, but because he didn't show, warrants for his arrest were later issued, court documents read.
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By early 2008, three national groups teamed up to do a grid-by-grid ground search in the Princeton area, covering a five-mile radius from the house where he was last seen.
Friends, family and volunteers searched through yards, pastures, along creek beds and pond shores in a multi-day effort, but their mission to find Nelson ended empty-handed.
Other organized searches were done in the years after. Including a tip in July 2017 of possible human remains about 11 miles south of Coushatta -- but again, nothing was found.
'Let me bring my boy home': 13-year search continues for missing Haughton man
