Police will investigate Texas man Rudy Farias found alive after 8 years over claims he never disappeared

Houston Police have stepped in to investigate the case of Rudy Farias — who miraculously appeared this weekend, eight years after disappearing from his family home — after neighbors claimed they had regularly spotted him in the area.

Houston’s police chief said investigators planned to interview Farias and his family Wednesday.

“We understand why the public is asking questions; we get it,” Chief Troy Finner told the local ABC station.

“Just like anything, HPD will get to the bottom of it. The truth is going to come out, and I don’t want to get ahead of that.”

Farias, now 23, was found last week outside a church with cuts and bruises, eight years after his mother first reported him missing when he was just 17.

She said he had gone to walk his dogs but never returned.

When he found last week, he had been beaten up so badly he was recovering in hospital and had been left “non-verbal,” according to his mom.

Days after the story of a miraculous return home made national headlines, people who live near Farias’ mother started to poke holes in the story.

“That boy has never been missing,” neighbor Kisha Ross, who knew the individual as ‘Dolph’ told the TV station.

“He used to come in my garage, chill with my cousin, son and daughter.”

Residents stated they were confused when they heard local news reports proclaiming he had been found.

“I was just shocked someone over here was missing, and we see him,” explained a neighbor who wanted to remain anonymous.

“It’s shocking to everyone.”

Janie Santana, Farias’ mother, confirmed she was meeting with investigators from the Houston Police Department Wednesday, according to local station KPRC.

A person who claimed to be Farias’ aunt online responded to allegations Farias’ relatives had lied about his disappearance.

“I am asking for anyone and everyone to please take all the screenshots of everything you see slandering my sister and Rudy please,” Lupita Ortiz, who uses the screen name Bella Ninos, posted online.

“We have retained an attorney to press charges for slander and defamation to anyone posting false information about our family!”

Ortiz — who The Post could not independently verify is a relative of the Farias family — also said a GoFundMe account which posed as Janie was not set up by the family and warned people not to donate.

“Who the fu%k set this fu%king Go Fund Me account showing that is was my sister [sic],” she blasted online.

“You POS’s! Don’t forget that this Go Fund Me can be traced back to the POS who created it …The authorities will find your fu%king a–! You fu%ks are evil!!! [sic]”