Recovering in hospital after being found ...' ... more than eight years ... turned up alive Saturday ... 25-year-old man for whom that time remained a mystery ... , has been "located safe" and is recovering in a hospital for reasons not mentioned.
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 to a motorcycle accident years before.
"He watched 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’s just gone through so much more than anyone his age ever should."
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Texas teen missing for more than 8 years is found alive
Rudy Farias, now 25, was last seen in 2015 walking two dogs who returned to his Houston home without him.www.nbcnews.com
\Was he found in Houston? I read several articles and it fails to say what city or state he was found.Recovering in hospital after being found ...
His disappearance was downplayed at the beginning with full disclosure info that he was depressed and experienced loss at the time he disappeared.
Trafficked, or did he choose to walk away from his life? That "time remains a mystery" ? To whom? Where did they find him? That gives a clue as to where he has been.
Geez, after all this can’t they put him in a more comfortable hospital bed? This guy needs some comfort. I hope he is eating, getting loving human touch if he can take it.KPRC 2′s Corley Peel spoke with Farias’ mother. She said good Samaritans spotted him at a church and then called 911. Authorities confirmed it was Rudy.
Rudy’s mother said he is in “bad shape,” physically and mentally. He reportedly had several bruises, burns and scrapes at the time he was found. She is grateful to have him back and is asking for prayers.
Tim Miller, who is the director for Texas EquuSearch, is one of several people who helped search high and low for Farias.
“How did this happen? We believe in miracles and this certainly was a miracle,”Miller said. “I can’t even tell you how many times we searched and how many leads and tips came in and they just kind of faded away and now all of a sudden, this.”
“In the beginning, we met with the family and detectives out there and we found a backpack. We talked to someone with a catering truck that said they saw him, then there were different possible sightings in different places,” said Miller.
“I think now there’s a lot of questions. There’s a lot to investigate to kind of see what happened, where it happened, how it happened,” said Miller.
In 2015, family members told NBC that Rudy had been suffering from depression for months. He lost his older brother to a motorcycle accident several years ago.
“He watched his best friend die right in front of him. His brother was his best friend in the world. He’s just gone through so much more than anyone his age ever should,” a private investigator working for the Farias family was quoted saying on Dateline in 2015.
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Rudy Farias update: Teen who went missing 8 years ago in north Houston found in ‘bad shape’
A teen who went missing nearly eight years ago from north Houston has been found safe, the Texas Center for the Missing announced Saturday.www.click2houston.com
Farias was spotted outside a church and was unresponsive.
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Houston man found alive 8 years after he vanished as a teenager
Authorities did not initially believe foul play was involved when he went missing.nypost.com
Looks like an emergency room. Maybe he was waiting on a bedGeez, after all this can’t they put him in a more comfortable hospital bed? This guy needs some comfort. I hope he is eating, getting loving human touch if he can take it.
That’s exactly it. That’s not a hospital bed that’s an overflow gurney usually found in the ERLooks like an emergency room. Maybe he was waiting on a bed