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Podcast: True Crime Society
Episode: Rudy Farias | Alive after "vanishing" for 8 years
Description: Rudy Farias was 17 when he vanished in Houston in 2015. He was last seen walking his two dogs – the animals returned home and he did not.
Over the years, Rudy’s family gave multiple media interviews and conducted fundraising in an effort to find him. Rudy’s mother Janie even flew to California to visit a John Doe in a hospital at one point, who authorities thought may have been Rudy. When she found the male was not her son, she collapsed and had to be hospitalized herself.
On June 29, 2023, a man resembling Rudy was found injured and unabl...