IL IL - Donald Farris, Jr., adult, Collinsville, 3 Jul 2022

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Nov 22, 2023 article

'People don't just disappear': Collinsville family still searching for missing loved one 18 months later

"At this point I don't even care what happened," said Amanda Wells. "We want closure. We need closure and our children do too."

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Initially, people placed Farris at a Collinsville gas station the night of his disappearance.

"They had already deleted all of the camera footage to see who he was with,” Aaron Wells said.

"They pinged his phone and it pinged over on Chapel Drive, which is strange,” Amanda Wells said.

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I live in this town. He has still not been found, the family is searching and there was a search with Cadaver dogs just recently. We need someone to say something. Homeless camps were searched and questioned pretty quickly after it happened. Someone has to know something. I do not believe he is in the area anymore.

 

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Published: 5:27 PM CDT September 15, 2022
Updated: 5:27 PM CDT September 15, 2022

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — More than two months after he disappeared the family of 40-year-old Donald Farris Jr. reached out to 5 On Your Side making an emotional plea for help finding him.
Aaron and Amanda Wells dropped off Donald Farris Jr. at a Collinsville senior center so he could visit his grandfather on July 3.
“That’s the last we’ve seen or heard from Donnie,” Farris' sister Amanda said.
“I started to know there was something wrong once he wasn’t answering his phone,” Aaron Wells, who is the brother-in-law of Farris, said.
While Farris has had his fair share of run-ins with the law in the past Wells said it’s unusual for more than a few days to pass without hearing from her brother.
“He’s my only living relative, so anytime he’s had any problems he’s always contacted us immediately,” Amanda said. “We were his next of kin.”
After filing a missing persons report the Wells say a woman told them she and Farris walked to a nearby MotoMart before making their way to a house along North Morrison and eventually to a second home on North Church Street.
“She went inside the house she says and whenever she came back out, he was gone,” Aaron said. “That’s the last we have heard.”
“There’s no activity on his bank account,” Amanda said. “All of his belongings are still at home, and his cell phone is not active.”
The Wells family has spent the past two months following up on leads on both sides of the river, but continue to come up empty.
“I’ve even found myself driving down the road by myself looking in fields at this point because you just never know if he’s going to turn up,” Amanda said.
“My biggest concern is that he’s OK,” Aaron said. “We just want him back or at least to know that he’s okay … Somebody knows something … Speak up!”
“At this point we don’t have any more answers,” Amanda said. “It’s a lost cause at this point if nobody puts a helping hand in...we just want him home!”
5 On Your Side reporter Holden Kurwicki spoke with the lead investigator at the Madison County Sheriff’s department who said his team is looking into a number of leads regarding Farris' disappearance.
Anyone with any information on Farris' whereabouts is being asked to contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Department at 618-692-6087.

 

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Missing Person / NamUs #MP120994

View NamUs missing persons case MP120994, for Donald Eugene Farris, missing from Collinsville, Illinois. Date of last contact: Jul 03, 2022. NCMEC case number: --.

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This is Donnie Farris jr, NamUs Missing person case link. I am trying to get a description of what he was last wearing when his sister last saw him. There are new skeletal remains in our area of Camoflaugue Shorts and shoes on a white male that fits the age and height range on NamUs.

 

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The last person that saw him has changed stories according to Facebook comments on the Facebook page set up to find him. They say she changed her story multiple times/ I have redacted names from the comment.

Post says
"she lied to us then she went and told the police a totally different story on two different occasions. The second time we met up with her was at MotoMart by coincidence she walked in behind Amanda and Amanda’s went off on her, telling her she knows she knows something and she better come the out with it. Amanda was about to beat her in MotoMart. I had to go inside and get her out. She was hysterically, crying and about to hurt Barb Smith.  and Amanda’s has been through enough I’m not gonna allow her to have more problems and she’s better than that. The good Lord will punish who’s wrong in the end if she has something to do with Donnie ‘s disappearance.  eventually someone is going to say something and I’m about 90% sure she had part in it. Eventually the truth will come out and we will find our brother.