Landrys come together momentarily for International Day of the Disappeared

In a rare public appearance made to promote International Day of the Disappeared, observed Tuesday, Aug. 30, Mrs. Landry poses with her husband, Kent Landry, and a portrait of their youngest son, Jason, a Texas State University music producing major who mysteriously vanished almost two years ago while headed to their house for the holidays in Missouri City.

Authorities can reportedly track the young man all the way from his San Marcos apartment to roughly the Luling city limits, investigators say, at which point all cellular records just up and vanish. The trail goes cold. 

Jason, just 21 at the time of his disappearance, hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

His damaged car was later found in a roadside ditch by passersby along a remote and rural backroad, a few miles beyond Luling. A Samaritan stopped to try and render aid when they spotted the vehicle abandoned, with its lights still on. 

That man contacted the authorities when he found no one around. the vehicle. A backpack filled with video game gear and other personal items were later found, several hundred feet away from the abandoned car, as were several loose garments, appearing almost as if they’d been shed and discarded individually.

That was it, however. None of it ever led searchers to Jason or his remains. The family has since employed a private detective to examine the case. They offered a sizable award for any information anyone may have.

Countless searches of the area where his car was found have since been conducted, with everything from men on the ground to trained search dogs, planes and even drones. 

Although Mrs. Landry has been present at each of those searches alongside other family members, Kent Landry, a former attorney turned preacher in the Houston area, had always served as family spokesman. 

She has repeatedly shied from any commentary, and has thus far managed to keep her face off camera, for the most part. That’s been the case here in the Luling area, anyway. 

Last week, the Landrys aked that people lift their concerns for Jason in prayer, alongside any others they may have for the tens of thousands who go missing each year. 

According to the Texas Center for the Missing, there were 46,581 missing persons reports from Texas alone that very same year Jason vanished.

“Nothing can describe the feeling of not knowing where your loved one is,” Kent Landry said. “Today, we mark the International Day of the Disappeared and stand with all the families of missing relatives.”