Rico Harris

The Unsolved Disappearance of Rico Harris: What Happened At Cache Creek?

After a turbulent life dotted with drug use, alcoholism and incarcerations, 37-
year-old former professional basketball player, Rico Omarr Harris, was on the
verge of turning things around. By 2014 he’d been with his girlfriend, Jennifer
Song, for two years and he decided to move into her Seattle townhouse.
Unfortunately, that same year Rico relapsed into drug and alcohol abuse but
was determined to overcome the addiction yet again.

On October 8, 2014, Rico told Jennifer he wanted to do a bit of sightseeing

around Seattle while she spent some time at the gym. By 8:00pm he hadn’t
returned home and when Jennifer texted him, he replied that he was driving
through Oregon, on his way to Alhambra where he had lived before moving to
Seattle.

Rico arrived at his mother’s house at 2:00am on October 9 and she

immediately saw that something was wrong. It seemed like Rico had been
drinking and hadn’t slept for a long time. At around 10:30pm that night, Rico
started driving back to Seattle without taking the time to sleep or even take a
nap. He phoned Jennifer just after 1:00am and stayed on the line with her for
around 4 hours and she soon became worried as she realized Rico hadn’t
slept in 40 hours. Jennifer fell asleep briefly and when she awoke at 8:00 she
phoned Rico again who told her he was near Sacramento. When she tried to
call him later that morning, he didn’t pick up, but he sent a text apologizing for
missing her call. After 10:44am all Jennifer’s phonecalls went unanswered
and, by all accounts, Rico never made it to Seattle.

On October 13, a sheriff’s deputy in Yolo County ran the plates of an

abandoned black Nissan Maxima parked in a rest area at a regional state
park. The car belonged to Rico. It also appeared to have been ransacked and
was out of gas. As soon as Rico’s mother and Jennifer were informed, they
filed a missing person’s report and police began to search for him.

Police were given Rico’s backpack which had been found by a man who was
walking along the road. The backpack contained a cellphone, bottles of
alcohol and a set of jumper cables. A video on the phone showed Rico tearing
papers and other items apart and tossing CD’s around inside his car.
But despite this and more leads, Rico remained missing. Eye witnesses came
forward with sightings of Rico, but nothing panned out. To date, it is still
unknown whether Rico is alive and what had happened to him.