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And I have believed, and I will always believe, that people lie to either hide or cover things up.

People adults tend to walk away quite often and just disappear off the face of the earth.

And a lot of them have middle illnesses. I've read that people with middle illnesses disappear for years.

Sometimes they're never seen again. Sometimes it's several years down the road and it's somebody's season.

26-year-old Jonathan Hamilton left his home in Houston, Texas on May 2, 2015.

Two days later, he made contact with the Bastrop Police after the vehicle he was driving ran out of gas in a Best Buy parking lot.

He somehow made it to a property a little over a mile away where he made contact with several people.

One of these people supposedly gave Jonathan a ride back into the town of Bastrop. And after that, Jonathan vanished and has never been seen again.

I spend so much time trying to make sense of these stories so that they're easy for you to follow along with, but this one, none of it adds up.

Who can you believe when stories are conflicting and constantly changing? Has time clouded people's memories, or is there a reason for them to be hiding the truth?

The most important question here is, where is Jonathan? I'm Marissa and this is episode 96 of The Vanished, part two of Jonathan Hamilton's story.

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I would like to briefly recap the timeline since I know that it may have been a few days since you've heard part one.

In the week leading up to Jonathan's disappearance, he was taken to the hospital twice by EMS due to complications of his diabetes.

Then, on the second, he left home and went to the store where he got a coke for his dad and a Starbucks coffee for his little sister.

When he returned from the store, he took off. He had the family dog in the car, but he let the dog out and yelled to his dad that he better get the dog before it got run over.

This is the last time that his family ever saw him. Then, on the fourth, he popped up a couple hours away in Bastrop, Texas.

He pulled into a parking spot in front of a bus by parking crooked in a handicapped spot.

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