Disappearance of Donald Izzett

Personal life Izzett was born on November 5, 1975, to Debra Skelley and Donald Izzett Sr. in Kentucky, before relocating to Western Maryland with his mother. After graduating near the top of his class from Fort Hill High School, Izzett enlisted in the U.S. Army in July 1993. After moving to Florida for basic training, Izzett wished to be discharged due to being far from family. Izzett reenlisted with the United States Air Force in February 1994.

Disappearance In May 1995, Skelley contacted the Maryland State Police after receiving a distressing phone call from her son while he was in Santa Monica, California. State Police claimed Izzett left on his own free will and was not missing from Allegany County, Maryland. Research into the citation led Skelley to contact Guenther's mother, Sue Guenther, who witnessed Izzett and Guenther having an argument at the family's farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi, about 100 miles north of New Orleans.

Guenther's college roommate, Kyle Barnes, came forward claiming Guenther killed Izzett by shooting him three times and burning the body on the McComb property. After sponsoring numerous unsuccessful archaeological digs at the McComb property in the 1990s, 2016, and 2018, a team was successful in discovering human-like remains at the burn site in 2019, but require lab testing to prove their origin.

Media Beginning in May 2020, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast Someone Knows Something focused on the case in its sixth season.