Jason Landry, a freshman student at Texas State University, has been missing for 3 ½ years after authorities found his car wrecked and abandoned about a mile from where he was last seen – abandoned in the opposite direction of where he was heading.

His family is still waiting for answers – praying someone comes forward with information or that police can crack what has become a cold case.

“They don’t even know if he’s missing in the sense of a crime – or missing, and he hasn’t been found,” his father, Kent Landry, told Fox News Digital.

His son was last seen leaving his apartment in San Marcos on the evening of Dec. 13, 2020. He was headed home to Missouri City for Christmas break after his first semester, according to his family. 

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He never made it.

A volunteer firefighter found his abandoned car in Luling, Texas, after midnight on Dec. 14. The vehicle was about a mile off course from Landry’s route home, in the wrong direction. 

Kent Landry, a former lawyer turned pastor, has been counting days since his son was last seen – 1,266 had passed when he spoke with Fox News Digital.

The Landry family is one of several from around the country who converged on Nashville, Tennessee last month to attend CrimeCon in the hope they could raise awareness of their loved one’s case and maybe gin up leads.

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Jason Landry in an undated photo. (Texas EquuSearch)

“We pray and hope that law enforcement will find someone, or if there’s any person who knows something, they come forward,” he said. “They can do it anonymously or they can contact law enforcement to help give us answers in closure.”

The elder Landry says he understands investigators’ frustration in the case – they are dealing with tens of thousands of missing persons a year with limited resources.

As a result, his family and many others are sitting by, hoping and waiting for answers, he added.

A point of frustration in his son’s case is that while evidence was recovered, it didn’t lead to those answers, just more questions.

Police found his wallet, some of his clothes and his phone. But follow-up searches turned up nothing else.

A man with no ID found unconscious and unresponsive in New York City shared an uncanny resemblance with missing Jason Landry. However, the NYPD later identified him as a resident of nearby Yonkers, and Landry’s whereabouts remain unknown. (Texas Attorney General, NYPD)

“They’ve investigated everything that they have to hand,” he said of the Texas Attorney General’s Cold Case unit. “They’re still willing to investigate more, do more, if it comes to light. But that’s about where they stand…kind of in a holding pattern.”

In July 2022, the family got a glimmer of hope after a man with a striking resemblance to Landry was discovered unconscious on the other side of the country. However, the NYPD eventually identified the man as a missing resident of the neighboring city of Yonkers and reunited him with family there.

There is a $20,000 reward offered for Landry’s whereabouts.

He is described as 6 feet, 1 inch tall with brown eyes and light brown hair. He weighs around 170 pounds and sometimes wears a goatee. He has scars on his right ankle and the right side of his neck, according to authorities. 

Anyone with information can call the Texas Attorney General’s Office at 512-936-0742 or the anonymous tip line at 726-777-1359.

As the Landry family continues to hope for answers, his father is encouraging supporters to not only share his son’s missing person flyer, but also to share flyers for people who have vanished in their own communities.

He also shared a note of advice for parents along with a photo of him dropping his son off at school as a child.

“Make sure that you take time this summer to enjoy the little things with your kids,” he wrote.

Special interest groups are trying to keep a ban on books in Oklahoma, but not the ones you’re probably thinking of. These books are thousands of years old, were taught in American schools from the earliest days of our republic, helped guide our founders and greatest statesmen at critical points in our history and helped forge Western civilization. I’m referring to the books contained in the Bible.  

I just announced that Oklahoma schools would incorporate the Bible into their educational curriculum for grades 5-12 in the 2024-2025 school year. The backlash has been as venomous as it has been completely predictable. Let me be clear: we will teach the Bible. 

The simple fact of the matter is that the Bible is the most consequential piece of literature in the history of Western civilization. Whether or not one chooses to accept it as the inspired word of God, there is simply no way to fully understand the history of this country, the world in which it was founded, or the millennia of human events that led up to the making of America without being at least somewhat conversant in what it contains.  

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While I have previously written at length about the Judeo-Christian tradition’s unquestionable importance in our founding, the Bible’s significance at the most critical moments of our history cannot be denied. Empirical analysis of the writings of our founding generation found that they referenced the Bible far more than any other philosophical work.  

Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that our rights are endowed by our creator in the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln’s most eloquent arguments against the evil of slavery — in addition to hearkening to the Biblical truths articulated in the Declaration of Independence — were also based on scripture.  

Most notable among these was his “House Divided” speech, which drew its key imagery from Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Matthew. His now-famous fragment on the Constitution and Union borrows from the Psalms in calling the Declaration the “apple of gold” in a “picture of silver” framed around it. Martin Luther King Jr. pointed to these same Biblical truths, when making the case to the American people during the civil rights movement.  

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American students deserve to know the role that the Bible played in American history and its role in shaping the very American idea. We owe it to them to teach them. Furthermore, we owe it to the generations before us who founded this country and preserved this experiment in liberty in self-government for us.  

We should not forget that we are inheritors and stewards of this country, and we cannot preserve something that we do not properly understand — neither can our children. It is academic malpractice not to include the Bible in our curricula and it is cultural malpractice to deny its role and importance to history and our way of life.  

Yet, we have seen the Bible driven out of public discussion, out of common knowledge and out of American schools through the left’s militant anti-theistic march through our culture and our institutions. The Supreme Court has completely ignored the role of faith in our founding for the past several decades in many of its cases driving scripture and prayer from our classrooms and schools writ large.  

To call this unconstitutional is simply absurd. Some will claim that this should be prevented by a so-called “separation of church and state.” As I have already explained elsewhere, that canard is an anti-religious myth masquerading as legal theory.  

Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that our rights are endowed by our creator in the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln’s most eloquent arguments against the evil of slavery — in addition to hearkening to the Biblical truths articulated in the Declaration of Independence — were also based on scripture.  

Never mind that the Bible was an expected part of the curriculum in American schools up until about the last 60 years or so. One way to square this would be the laughable idea that our founders simply misunderstood the Constitution they wrote, which is absurd on its face.  

 
Some will say that a “living Constitution” now requires that we scrub religion from schools. But written constitutions are not “living,” they are made of words with concrete meanings printed with ink onto pulverized, dead trees. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean today what they meant when they were written. Teaching the Bible is constitutional. 

Put simply, the Bible was key to making America great and to making America at all, for that matter. Today, it is critical to keeping America great. We are going to teach it in Oklahoma. I welcome all challenges to this action — political and legal — and I look forward to defending this necessary, commonsense policy out in the open. Our children deserve it, and our country needs it. 

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