EAST DUBLIN, Ga. — On Nov. 4, 2014, Diane Fields went missing from her home in East Dublin.
Her boyfriend at the time reported a burglary at her home, but East Dublin Police said it seemed like a staged burglary, and nothing about the crime scene made sense.
"The backdoor appeared to be broke, like someone had broke in, but from what I observed, it was broken out," East Dublin Police Chief William Leucke told 13 WMAZ in 2018.
According to Fields' son, Telvin McCloud, the sun was shining the day his mom went missing from her home on Celia Drive. 10 years later, and he hasn't cared about the weather, or anything else since.
"And I just stopped caring about life and everything. Because me and my mom - we were close," McCloud said.
He was just 23 years old when his mom became a missing persons case. He's 33 years old now, but said a part of him will always be stuck in the past.
"Like Sundays, I - don't know what I'm about to do," McCloud said. "Sunday, I might just go get in the shower and just cry. I still cry myself to sleep at night sometimes, about it."
He's not the only one haunted by the case. GBI Special Agent Lindsay Wilkes was one of the original investigators on the case.
"She's still - she was so young when she went missing," Wilkes said. "I'm 44 years old, it's hard to imagine. It's just real personal to me."
She said Fields' case is far from cold. Wilkes said over the years they've had about five investigators on the case, and followed 145 leads.
"Her house was what you would think," Wilkes said. "I will say as a crime scene it was not ram-shackled or gone through."
McCloud said her disappearance never made sense, because Fields would always tell people where she was going. He said the hardest part of the past 10 years is not knowing what happened to her that day.
"She didn't bother nobody," McCloud said. "She was one of the sweetest and kind-hearted women that I know. If you need anything, she'll give you the shirt off his back."
He doesn't think Fields just walked away, and doesn't believe it was a random burglary.
The GBI agrees. They think foul play was involved, but after chasing leads and taking calls each year since 2014, nothing's panned out.
"To have someone not found over 10 years is very rare," Wilkes said. "And it was just not characteristic of her."
In a small town where everybody knows everybody, McCloud can't get over how it seems that nobody knows what happened to his mom.
"I don't know where my mom at," he said. "The only way I can talk to my momma when I go outside and look up, and talk to the sky."
He believes his mom is gone, but he's holding onto hope that somebody can come forward to help the family find closure.
Lorenzo Nelson was dating Fields at the time and when she went missing. He told investigators that he found her door kicked in, and a knife on the kitchen floor.
Nelson has not been charged in connection with the case. East Dublin Police Chief Bill Luecke said he is the only person of interest in the case.
Since 2021, he's been serving a five-year sentence on charges of theft by taking, and for failing to register as a sex offender.
Wilkes said any piece of information, no matter how small, can be valuable and help investigators crack the case. You can reach out to East Dublin Police, or the GBI by calling 478-374-6988. You can also submit tips through the GBI's app.
Fields' brother is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone that has information that leads to a conviction in the case.