He disappeared as a Texas teenager more than eight years ago and turned up alive Saturday as a 25-year-old man to whom that time period remained a mystery.
He Texas Center for the Missing said Saturday that Rudy Farias of Houston, a national concern, has been “safely located” and is recovering at a hospital for unnamed reasons.
He was last seen walking his two dogs on March 6, 2015, near his home, according to authorities. One dog, then the other, returned home without their leashes, and Farias, then 18, was in the wind, they said.
Family members said he suffered from depression, particularly after he lost an older brother in a motorcycle accident years earlier.
“He watched his best friend die in front of him,” said Brenda Paradise, a private investigator hired by the Farias family, in April 2015. “His brother was his best friend in the world. He’s been through a lot more than any of his age should.”
Houston police did not suspect a crime, but friends and family were concerned, particularly as time wore on.
“This family has been through a lot,” Paradise said in 2015. “No matter what, a mother needs answers about her son.”
It is unclear where he has been or why he left.
