‘Missing’ Rudy Farias Accuses His Mom of ‘Brainwashing’ Him
A Texas man who was reported missing eight years ago—only for investigators this month to discover he returned home the next day and had been living at home—spoke out for the first time on Tuesday to insist he was “brainwashed” by his mother the whole time.
“She never locked me in or handcuffed me or anything like that,” Rudy Farias told ABC13 about his mother, Janie Santana. “I had free will to leave, it just felt like brainwashing, honestly.”
Farias was reported missing on March 6, 2015, when the 17-year-old reportedly disappeared on a dog walk. But earlier this month, the Houston Police Department announced that he was “located safe” at a local church, miles from where he lived. In a statement issued through the Texas Center for the Missing, Santana said her son was found “unresponsive.”