The family of a missing man described as “the life of the party” is seeking answers after his body was found in a creek in Kaufman County not far from the jail where he was last seen.
When Rigoberto Badillo, 49, was booked into the Kaufman County Detention Center on Jan. 13 for a probation violation on a 2023 DWI charge, his family said they expected to see him at the end of his seven-day sentence. What they didn’t expect was for him to be released just after midnight on Jan. 19, when temperatures were in the 20s.
After his release from jail, Badillo went missing. He wasn’t found until Sunday afternoon, when his own family discovered his body near the 1900 block of East Hwy 175, between the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office and Numo Manufacturing…