Residents of a Houston neighborhood are questioning whether a 25-year-old man found alive after he was reported missing eight years ago was really ever missing.
Kisha Ross and her family were shocked this week when they heard Rudolph "Rudy" Farias was found, saying they never knew he was reported missing."He used to come in my garage, chill with my cousin, son, and daughter," Ross said. "That boy has never been missing.""Laughing ... good times," Conley said.They know him as Dolph, short for his given name Rudolph. They said he goes to their home often, but they hadn't seen him in the last few weeks.
Police identified the man as Farias, who was first reported missing in 2015 when he was 17. His mother reported him missing after she said he never returned from a walk with his dogs. The chief of the Houston Fire Department said Farias refused to be transported by ambulance, which his mother signed off on, and he was left in his family's care.
"I was just shocked someone over here was missing, and we see him," he said. "It's shocking to everyone." On Tuesday, ABC13 attempted to speak with Farias' mother, who did not want to do an on-camera interview but said the man her neighbors have spent time with and seen living with her is her nephew.
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