He disappeared as a teenager from Texas more than eight years ago and turned up alive Saturday as a 25-year-old man for whom that time remains a mystery.
The Texas Center for the Missing said Saturday that Houston’s Rudy Farias, the subject of national concern, has been “safely located” and is recovering in a hospital for undisclosed reasons.
He was last seen walking his two dogs on March 6, 2015, near his home, according to authorities. One dog and the other came home off leash, and Farias, who was 18 at the time, was in the wind, they said.
Family members said he suffered from depression, especially after losing an older brother in a motorcycle accident years earlier.
“He saw his best friend die right in front of him,” Brenda Paradise, a private investigator hired by the Farias family, said in April 2015. “His brother was his best friend in the world. He just went through much more than anyone his age should.”
Houston police did not suspect foul play, but friends and family were concerned, especially as time went on.
“This family has been through a lot,” Paradise said in 2015. “No matter what happens, a mother needs answers about her child.”
It is not clear where he has been or why he left.
