Community rallies as search for Caleb Harris intensifies

The timeline since Texas college student Caleb Harris vanished during the early morning hours near the campus at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas, is reaching its two-month mark. 

Since his disappearance, multiple search efforts, prayer vigils and hiked rewards have been active in the South Texas community.

“The city’s public transportation system continues to post flyers at bus stops and transfer stations, on social media, and on the buses with digital signage to increase the awareness of Caleb Harris,” said Rita Patrick with the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority in an email. 

The last update from the Corpus Christi Police Department to the public on new information on Caleb Harris's disappearance was on March 28. The update expressed the ongoing search efforts and issued a more accurate investigative timeline leading up to his disappearance. 

While there’s been no shortage of TikTok rumors from wannabe true crime investigators, time has marched on with no clues about what happened to Harris, now two months later. 

Harris is approximately 5’11 and weighs 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. The family is offering the $50,000, and a phone line has been set up to monitor tips. That number is 361-826-2950. In addition, the Corpus Christi Police Department is urging anyone with information to help investigators find Harris to call (361) 886-2840 or (361) 886-2600.

The last update from CCPD describes the timeline leading to Harris’s disappearance:

Harris spent the evening of Sunday, March 3, inside his off-campus apartment with his two roommates and a mutual friend.

Harris and his friend played video games online for over an hour with another former high school classmate in Colorado. At around 12:56 a.m. on Monday, March 4, a doorbell camera at a nearby apartment captured Harris, his friend and one of Harris’s roommates in the parking lot playing with a puppy belonging to the girlfriend of one of Harris’s roommates and then returning to the apartment.

Shortly after, the mutual friend departed, and Harris’s roommate said he was going to bed. Harris replied that he would stay up to order snacks via Uber Eats for his school lunch later that day.

At around 2:44 a.m., Harris shared a Snapchat video with his younger sister that depicts Harris walking the puppy through what appears to be the apartment complex parking lot. At around 3:03 a.m., Harris sent another Snapchat photo to a high school friend in San Antonio. The image depicts a small bridge over a drainage ditch within a few hundred feet of the entrance to his apartment complex.

At around 3:12 a.m., his cell phone last shared location data with the nearest cell phone tower. At around 3:20 a.m., the UberEats driver delivered his order to his apartment, leaving it outside near the front door per the order request.

The following day, the roommate discovered the UberEats order outside the front door and Harris’ truck parked in front of the apartment. His wallet and keys were left behind in the apartment, and all that appeared missing were Harris and his cell phone. 

The roommates described Harris as a homebody and a creature of habit, investigators said. The initial search of the apartment complex and the immediate area surrounding it revealed no signs of a struggle or violence nor any indication of a hit-and-run accident on the roads nearby.