PIs claim Rudy Farias’ mom had lied for years about ‘disappearance’

Private investigators who were involved in the case of Rudy Farias said they were not surprised by the “missing” Houston man’s supposedly miraculous reappearance – and claim his mother has been lying for the past eight years.

​Brenda Paradise, who was hired by the family after they reported Farias missing in 2015, told Insider that “something doesn’t add up.”

“There’s something dark and dirty here,” she told Insider.

She questioned the sensational allegations made by local activist Quanell X who said the 25-year-old told him that he was trapped at home with his mom, Janie Santana, who allegedly sexually abused him.

Paradise said there were rumors had circulated for years that the young man had been seen in the neighborhood and in the homes of relatives, but she wondered how he could have remained missing so long.

“There were freakin’ billboards in Houston,” announcing Farias was missing, said Paradise.

​Police have not confirmed the abuse claims and said the matter remains under investigation.

Still, Paradise acknowledged that she noticed red flags from the earliest days of the investigation when Santana provided the wrong year of her son’s birth.

​”He was 18 when he went missing,” she told Insider on Wednesday. “Tonight I found the original intake form. It shows that mom wrote the wrong date. She said he was 17.”

The private gumshoe also said Santana refused to provide more recent photos of Farias, who was seen in the “missing-persons” flyers when he was 14 years old.

​”She told me that she thought if he looked younger, there would be more empathy,” Paradise told Insider.

When searchers found an asthma inhaler and a backpack at the scene of Farias’ alleged disappearance, his family said they belonged to him – but that proved to have been false, according to the outlet.

​”Rudy never even had asthma. The backpack had some elementary-school kid’s homework inside it, and that wasn’t Rudy’s either,” Paradise said. “But the mom had swore up and down that it was his.”

She also cast doubts of grainy photos provided by the family that ostensibly showed Farias in a hospital bed with his face obscured — saying, “It doesn’t look like any Houston hospital I’ve ever seen.”

Paradise added: “I would love to hear that he’s truly been missing all these years, and has finally been found. I mean, God, I’d love to hear that he was found and is getting help, but I just don’t trust anything that comes from that family.”

Another PI who worked on the case is Ryan Grayson, who told Insider that Farias’ mother “claimed that there was a woman that was holding him in Mexico” — but he said Santana did not appear to be worried.

​“She showed up late for the fundraiser and she didn’t go around and say hello to any of the people who were donating money or at the fundraiser,” Grayson told the outlet.

He said he tracked the alleged trafficker down and called her.

“She said that Rudy’s mom had talked to her. She said, ‘I told Janie I didn’t want to be involved in her scam,’” Grayson told Insider.

He said Santana also ​shared with him communications from her son’s purported traffickers in Tijuana but that they were in a dialect foreign to that area of Mexico.

​”It was like Chicano, Tex-Mex Spanish, like what Janie was speaking,” he told the outlet, adding that he then “washed my hands of the case. I’ve got a strong feeling he was a victim. I know he was special needs. It’s a pretty sad situation.”

Also involved from the inception of the sordid case was the ​husband-and-wife team of Barbara and Martin Renteria.

​”There is much, much more to this case. And the Houston PD, when we worked it, was just not very interested. It’s true,” Barbara told the outlet.

​”She had us searching from Mexico to Louisiana. All of it was a lie,” she added.

On Thursday, local activist Quanell X blasted Houston cops for denying that Farias’ disturbing accounts of alleged sex abuse by his mom were reported to them.

The activist said he had “proof” that Farias detailed being treated as a sex slave and even made to “play daddy” during the many years he was supposedly missing.

He accused Police Chief Troy Finner of having “revictimized” Farias by denying that he’d reported he abuse to cops.

“My problem with that chief is — your detective sat right there with me for an hour and 15 minutes and heard every word come out of Rudy’s mouth about what took place in that home with his mother,” the activist said.

Santana’s current whereabouts are unknown and Houston police did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.