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Title: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MumInOhio on November 15, 2007, 09:20:34 AM
Hope Fades for Boy Missing in Upstate New York
Police Say Adopted Father of Jaliek Rainwalker, 12, Declined Polygraph Exam
Jaliek Rainwalker allegedly left a note before he disappeared 10 days ago saying that he was sorry and that he would no longer be a problem to anyone. (Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department) By DAVID SCHOETZ
Nov. 12, 2007

    The search for apparent runaway Jaliek Rainwalker in upstate New York has produced at least 150 leads, but no missing 12-year-old boy.

Rainwalker was last seen more than a week ago by his adopted father, Stephen Kerr, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell told ABC News.

Kerr reported the boy missing Nov. 2 after finding him gone from his bed at his adopted grandfather's house. Rainwalker, who suffers from mental illness, had stuffed clothes and pillows under the sheets and left behind a note, Kerr told police.

"He was sorry for all he did and he wouldn't be a problem anymore," Bell said, describing the contents of the note, which appeared to be written in Rainwalker's handwriting. "He said, 'Goodbye.'"

The note could be construed as a runaway or suicide note, Bell said, but more than 10 days after the boy's disappearance, the chief fears that Rainwalker has fallen victim to someone or something.

"In 30 years, a kid of 12 years old, and I don't care what his mindset is, he doesn't fall off the face of the world," Bell said. "We just don't have a runaway kid here."

Rainwalker had been in and out of foster care seven times before he was officially adopted by Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, when he was 5. He recently had gotten in trouble for threatening a student and was sent to a respite home in Altamont, N.Y. Witnesses have placed Rainwalker and Kerr at a restaurant the Thursday night before he was reported missing as the two drove back to Greenwich from Altamont.

The search has included dive teams, K-9 units and helicopters. The New York State police, local sheriff's office, forest rangers and search and rescue teams have all assisted the Cambridge-Greenwich police in the effort.

Bell said that both the grandfather's house, as well as the house where Kerr and McDonald live, were searched as potential crime scenes. Police are not calling anyone a suspect in the disappearance, but Bell added that, at this point, "I can't rule anything out."
 
He also said that police offered polygraph tests to both Kerr and McDonald -- an offer that only McDonald accepted. "We've offered to have both parents take the polygraphs and the mother has taken a polygraph," Bell said. "That's where I'll end it." The family, Bell added, conducted its own search for the boy.

A message left by ABC News with a woman who identified herself as Kerr's sister was not returned.
 
The search area is focused on a rugged wilderness area along the banks of the Batten Kill River. Authorities also questioned several religious groups in the area, including the Twelve Tribes in Cambridge, a religious farming community near Rainwalker's home.

Citizens have reported seeing Rainwalker as far away as Saratoga and Albany, N.Y. While each lead takes time to investigate, Bell said they will continue to follow up on what he described as "good intent calls."

Rainwalker is not currently taking any medications, but should not be considered a danger to approach, police said. He is described as a light-skinned black boy, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 105 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. He may be wearing blue jeans and a yellow fleece.







Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MumInOhio on November 15, 2007, 09:24:55 AM
Police Narrow Search for Jaliek Rainwalker
November 12, 2007 - 5:24PM
     Investigators will be back on the golf course at the Battenkill Country Club tomorrow, continuing their search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.

On Monday, rescue crews in Washington County drained a pond on the course after they say three different cadaver dogs showed an interest in that area. We’re told the dogs didn’t find anything tonight, but they’ll search a swampy area around the pond tomorrow.

Rainwalker has been missing since November 1. His family says he likely ran away from home because he was no longer welcome in the small schoolhouse where he and several other students were home-schooled.

Rainwalker's mother, Jocelyn McDonald, told CBS 6 News on Sunday police asked her to take a polygraph test, which she agreed to, but that her husband, Stephen Kerr decided against taking. McDonald says her husband was willing to take the test, but changed his mind because of a question on a form asking whether he was in good physical condition.

 



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MumInOhio on November 15, 2007, 09:27:45 AM
Search Continues for Missing Boy
Last Update: 11/14 6:40 pm 

   

for Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing Since Nov. 1st Police in Washington County expanded their search for Jaliek Rainwalker in the area around the Battenkill Country Club in Easton.

They scoured the area yesterday and today that search included property close by the country club.

After receiving a tip earlier this week officials drained a pond on the country club's golf course
but so far haven't found anything.

Rainwalker was last seen November 1st at his grandfather's house in nearby Greenwich.
            -----------------------------------------------------

I don't believe this youngster just ran awy!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 16, 2007, 03:43:42 PM
Search for missing boy continues for third day
 November 15, 2007
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:701899240&start=26

EASTON - Police and volunteers spent a third day searching near Battenkill Country Club for Jaliek Rainwalker, the 12-year-old who disappeared from his grandparents' Greenwich home on Nov. 1.

Wednesday's search focused on an area immediately to the southwest of the country club's golf course and adjacent woods. Police and volunteers used dogs trained in sniffing out bodies to aid in their search. Last week, dogs showed interest in a pond near the golf course's sixth hole, leading authorities to drain the pond on Monday. No clues were found.

Police will continue combing the same area today.

Meanwhile, a second prayer vigil for Rainwalker's safe return has been planned for 7 p.m. Friday at Mowry Park in Salem.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MumInOhio on November 19, 2007, 07:03:10 AM

Chief of police discusses search for missing boy
Updated: 11/15/2007 10:03 AM
By: Britt Godshalk

   
   
NORTH COUNTRY, N.Y. -- As officers continued searching for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker, the chief of the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department held firm that no stone would be left unturned, no person overlooked.

"We're looking at anybody and everybody," Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said.

That includes Jaliek's adoptive parents. Jaliek's mother has agreed to a polygraph test, but the chief would not release why the boy's father hasn't. Police said he did leave a note saying goodbye before he vanished, which could mean he ran away. But the chief believes if that were so, he would have been spotted leaving town. So the investigation is largely centered in the Washington County area.

The chief said a lead, which he would not elaborate on, brought troopers and their search dogs to the woods off Rexleigh Road in the town of Salem, near the area where Jaliek and his family used to live.

"It's was an area where Jaliek used to go swimming at one point, there is a large swimming hole there," Bell explained. "It's just an area we want to thoroughly search and eliminate."

The area of the Battenkill Country Club in Middle Falls continued to confuse officers Wednesday. Dogs picked up a scent - but after days of looking, police reported nothing found.

But there is hope that more eyes and ears in some of the local wooded areas this weekend will help put investigators on the right track.

"Friday the big gaming season opens up in Southern Washington County," Bell said. "We're asking the hunters that have camps on their property, have maybe a favorite deer stand or a favorite piece of woods that they hunt, to get in and look around, if they see anything out of shape there, or something wrong, or somebody may have broken into a camp, we need to know about it."

The smallest detail could lead to answers.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jaliek Rainwalker is asked to call 1-800-FIND-KID or any State Police barracks.


 
   
 
 
 
 
 

 
 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MumInOhio on November 19, 2007, 07:22:51 AM
State Police to subpoena TV Interviews

State police have said that they are going to subpoena all taped interviews with Jaliek Rainwalker’s parents according to reports coming out today. I know many want to believe in these parents, as do I, but common sense tells us that a little boy does not completely disappear off the face of this earth. Someone would have seen little Jaliek walking down the road. In two weeks since he has been missing there have been no sightings people.

Yet Friday in a candlelight vigil, Stephen Kerr, Jaliek’s adoptive father says he still believes Jaliek’s alive. You can see his plea here .

Now that we know Jaliek’s adoptive parents were about to return him to the state, the question lies: did Jaliek run away or did something more sinister happen.

Today Jaliek’s foster parents (who have cared for Jaliek off and on since he was seven when his adoptive parents needed a break) say they want answers. The Persons of Altamont told NEWS10 “I think they thought they could fix this child and there are some things that you can’t fix”. They said that Stephen Kerr told them that a threat made to another child was the last straw.

“In my discussions with Stephen, he said that they were going to disrupt the placement. But he gave me no indication that Jaliek knew that and I don’t think Jaliek knew.

Elaine Person stated that Jaliek was happy when she dropped him off with his father.

According to this article Jaliek threatened the family and once threatened to rape a 4-year old child at the small homeschool he attended. Some family members say Rainwalker was no longer welcome at the school after that last threat and that may have prompted him to run away. Rainwalker’s 14-year-old brother told CBS 6 Jaliek had threatened his family and began to throw tantrums about three months after he was adopted three years ago.




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MumInOhio on November 20, 2007, 09:36:01 AM
12-year-old still missing; police to review TV interviews 
 
By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer
Click byline for more stories by writer.
Last updated: 4:55 p.m., Monday, November 19, 2007
 
GREENWICH -- Warren County sheriff's divers found no sign today of Jaliek Rainwater, the 12-year-old missing since Oct. 31, during a search of Carter's Pond, located near County Route 49 in Greenwich, said Greenwich Police Chief George Bell.
Also, at least one local television station complied with law enforcement subpoenas asking for television news interviews with Rainwalker's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald.

Bell said Capital News 9 has delivered its tapes to the State Police. Officials want to review the tapes, Bell said, to observe "the reactions" of Kerr and McDonald, who recently had decided to undo the five-year-old adoption because of Rainwalker's troubled nature. The boy had been prone to violent outbursts during the five years he lived with them in Cossayuna, Washington County.

Capital News 9 General Manager Al Marlin did not return a call seeking comment.
 
 

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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 21, 2007, 08:54:20 PM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
November 21, 2007 Wednesday
1 EDITION 
 
CAPITAL REGION; Pg. D6 
 
140 words
 
 
No new leads in hunt for missing 12-year-old
 

GREENWICH - Police made no major discoveries Wednesday in their ongoing hunt for missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.

Rainwalker was last seen by his adoptive father on Nov. 1 as the two spent the night at a vacant house owned by a relative.

Police have grown increasingly frustrated by the behavior of Rainwalker's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. Chief George Bell said he has not heard from either of them for two weeks, but he has been in touch with two of Rainwalker's adoptive grandparents.

The search remains focused on wooded areas and ponds around the Battenkill Country Club in Greenwich. Rainwalker lived in Cossayuna, Washington County, for five years. Because of his frequent violent outbursts, Kerr and McDonald were attempting to undo their adoption of Rainwalker at the time of his disappearance.

- Dan Higgins 
 
November 21, 2007
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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 25, 2007, 07:02:55 PM
Reported by: Walt McClure
Email: waltmcclure@fox23news.com
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=4af8f7fc-0b57-4be9-8be6-a212c80ecf29

Last Update: 11/24 9:35 pm
Search crews were back out along the Battenkill River in Washington County Saturday looking for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.


The search via airboat covered about a 5 mile area from where the Battenkill enters the Hudson River to Greenwich.





Rainwalker has not been seen since November 1, and his foster father, who may have been the last to actually see him, has come under fire for not submitting to a polygraph test.





Crews have also looked in areas in Vermont -- and information about the case has appeared on the website of America's Most Wanted.








 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on November 25, 2007, 10:39:33 PM
The parents are looking pretty bad right now....


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 29, 2007, 08:23:25 AM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
November 28, 2007 Wednesday
2 EDITION 


Family outing sites key to search;
Police say interview with parents of missing boy focused on finding possible destinations
 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

GREENWICH - A day after they interviewed the parents of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker, police said they are still looking for clues that might point to his whereabouts.

On Tuesday, Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said his most recent conversation with the parents centered on brainstorming about areas where the family has camped and hiked, or places Rainwalker could have run to on the day he disappeared.

This week, police divers and forest rangers are searching the Hudson River where it meets the Batten Kill, and in the nearby wooded areas where Washington County meets Saratoga County.

Rainwalker disappeared Nov. 1 after spending the night alone with his father, Stephen Kerr, at a relative's unoccupied house.

Rainwalker was a difficult child prone to emotional and sometimes violent outbursts, family members have said, and Kerr and wife Jocelyn McDonald were in the process of undoing their adoption of him when he disappeared.

The morning Rainwalker was reported missing, Kerr produced a note in the boy's handwriting that said he no longer wanted to be a burden to his family.

When asked if he suspects foul play, Bell said only that the investigation is now focused on finding the child. 
 
November 28, 2007
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:707830100&start=11


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 01, 2007, 04:58:27 PM
Jaliek's family offers reward
Updated: 11/29/2007 7:36 AM
By: Jessica Mokhiber
GREENWICH, N.Y. -- "We just want to know where he is and that he's safe,” said Jocelyen McDonald, Jaliek's Mother.

It's been nearly four weeks since Jaliek Rainwalker was last seen. His adoptive mother hasn't talked much to reporters until she opened up to us.

"Right now I just want to get the word out about the reward going out,” said McDonald.

McDonald cautions that the reward will not go up. It will remain at $25,000 until December 31st. On January 1st, it drops to $20,000. That's why she said she hopes anyone with any information comes forward sooner rather than later.

"I fear that out on the street the longer he's there, he could be the victim of foul play,” said McDonald.

But McDonald said even though police haven't ruled out foul play, she's convinced he simply ran away. No one has been named as a suspect and she does not believe her husband, who has refused to take a take a lie detector test, had anything to do with Jaliek's disappearance.

"Many people have implicated my husband because he was the last person to see my son and the reason that he was the last person to see him was because he was protecting him and his siblings because Jaliek was having a mental break,” said McDonald.

And she said the support from the community is helping her get through these difficult weeks.

"Everybody has really cared strongly about Jaliek. At the heart of it, people just really want to find my son, which is all my goal is too,” said McDonald.

Meanwhile, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell who has been heading up the investigation said the FBI from New York City is in the area doing an aerial search using infrared cameras that can detect heat and human remains.

And while Jaliek's parents are holding out hope, police do not believe they'll find Jaliek alive, and they said they're running out of places to look for him.

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_news/north_country/?ArID=226078&SecID=5


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 06, 2007, 08:20:07 PM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
December 6, 2007 Thursday
Hope remains as search wanes;
Police chief says he has not given up on finding missing 12-year-old 

 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

GREENWICH - Police have scaled back their search for missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker. But Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said he has not given up hope of finding him.

"There is still a very active search for Jaliek. We're going to find him," Bell said.

But police believe they have exhausted most of their search options within several miles of Rainwalker's home in Cossayuna, Washington County.

"We've taken that town and turned it upside-down and shaken it, and we haven't found him," Bell said.

Two weeks ago, as many as 100 police, volunteers and forest rangers combed the woods around Cossayuna and nearby Greenwich looking for the youngster, who was last seen by his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, on Nov. 1. This week, there are about a dozen authorities involved in a daily search.

While authorities and family won't officially give up hope of finding him alive, the search has been run as a recovery operation, only during daylight hours and using dogs trained to sniff out cadavers. "If someone told me they had a good idea of a place where we should look and I felt there was a good possibility, I would put 100 people back to that spot without a doubt," Bell said.

There are six police investigators working on the case. Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, were in the process of undoing their adoption of Rainwalker at the time of his disappearance.

The child, they said, was prone to violent outbursts that frightened his parents and four siblings. The night before he disappeared, he stayed alone with his father at an unoccupied home in Greenwich. The next morning, Kerr awoke and produced a note he said Rainwalker wrote explaining that he no longer wanted to be a burden on his family. 
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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on December 07, 2007, 07:04:19 PM

Search for missing boy takes new tack


Friday, December 7, 2007
National experts and new search dogs will join the hunt for Jaliek Rainwalker, the 12-year-old boy from Washington County who has been missing for more than a month.

Investigators from the local police, the FBI, state troopers and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have followed leads throughout the Capital Region but found no sign of Rainwalker.


Speculation surfaced recently that Rainwalker might be in Albany with a gang, a lead police have followed to no avail.

On Thursday, searchers examined the screens inside a drained hydroelectric dam on the Batten Kill River near Middle Grove, downstream from where Rainwalker's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, last saw him.

Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said they looked at the dam because dogs trained to find dead bodies have repeatedly returned to the area. This weekend, a new set of dogs unfamiliar with the terrain will work the area that drew the attention of the previous dogs.

Bell would not comment on a news report in the Post-Star of Glens Falls newspaper that police are looking at Kerr's cellphone records, calling the issue "sensitive."

The search for Jaliek's body has put police at odds with Kerr and Rainwalker's adoptive mother, Jocelyn McDonald, who have said in published reports they believe the boy is alive.

"I know the parents aren't happy, and I don't want to get into a debate over what police believe vs. what they believe," Bell said.

"There's a $25,000 reward out there and no one has been able to claim it, what does that say in itself? If he's with someone in Albany, so be it I just want to know he's OK. But there's been no leads to indicate that's the case," he said.

Kerr was the last person to see Jaliek on Nov. 1 after he picked him up at a home in Altamont where Rainwalker stayed when McDonald and Kerr needed a break from his emotional problems. McDonald's mother, Barbara Reeley of Wynantskill, has said the couple were trying to undo Rainwalker's adoption.

Elaine Person, Rainwalker's respite care provider in Altamont, questions some of the statements McDonald and Kerr have made to the media. McDonald said she had dinner with Rainwalker on Oct. 27 but Person said that is not the case.

"He was with (my husband and me) Oct. 27. She wasn't speaking to him. She wouldn't let him in her house," Person said.

Person said Rainwalker was happy and well-behaved at her house days before he disappeared.

Elaine and Tom Person are planning a forum in two weeks to update the community on Rainwalker's case. She said she and her husband are haunted by regrets about what they might have done to prevent the boy's disappearance.

"Jaliek was a beautiful, sweet, intelligent, generous and loving child with some behavior problems," Person said.

Rainwalker's photograph is on the online home page for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He is described as biracial, 5-feet-6-inches tall, and 105 pounds. He has green eyes, brown hair and a slight speech impediment. He pronounces "r" as "w."

Anyone with information about Rainwalker or who may have seen him is asked to call 692-9332.

http://tinyurl.com/265nqn



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: longhaul on December 09, 2007, 05:12:38 PM
There's just too much here to me that points to the dad.  Alone with him in an abandoned "cabin" the night he disappeared.  I pray this child is alive somewhere.  I know parts of Northern NY well and in places, especially around the reservations and such,  its very wooded.  I actually know of a trucker who travels that way often and has been watching for the boy as he himself still has lots of family that live in that area.  And yes,  this man too is an American Indian, and he states that many are upset and that his birth mother was a "drinker" and when he was born he was labeled as a FAS baby. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on December 09, 2007, 06:49:06 PM
That poor little boy.
If the police think he's dead....he probably is. It sounds like they know something, but they just need to prove it.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 09, 2007, 07:04:55 PM
There's just too much here to me that points to the dad.  Alone with him in an abandoned "cabin" the night he disappeared.  I pray this child is alive somewhere.  I know parts of Northern NY well and in places, especially around the reservations and such,  its very wooded.  I actually know of a trucker who travels that way often and has been watching for the boy as he himself still has lots of family that live in that area.  And yes,  this man too is an American Indian, and he states that many are upset and that his birth mother was a "drinker" and when he was born he was labeled as a FAS baby. 


And it is so very cold now  :sad:


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 16, 2007, 02:16:05 PM
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=227198
Jaliek Rainwalker's grandmother speaks out about her missing grandson
Updated: 12/13/2007 8:25 AM
TROY, N.Y. - "I feel like in the future I can mend relationships with my daughter and my grandchildren but I could not live with myself if I did not try and find out the truth about where Jaliek has disappeared to," said Jaliek Rainwalker's maternal grandmother Barbara Reeley.

Reeley hasn't spoken publicly to the media in about a month. She and her daughter Jocelyn McDonald are no longer speaking. The strain of a missing child has torn the family apart.

Reeley said, "I believe that Stephen is the only one who knows what happened to Jaliek on November 1st and I do believe he harmed him."

Barbara is concerned that her son-in-law Stephen Kerr -- Jaliek's father -- had something to do with his disappearance. He has not been named a suspect by police but he was the last person to see Jaliek on the night of November 1st and Barbara says his behavior over the years leads her to believe he is capable of hurting a child.

"Stephen has anger issues. I think it was three years ago, Jaliek was doing some repetitive behavior and Stephen grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out the back door and dunked him in the creek and if my daughter had not been there, I don't know what else he would have done to him."

She also says Stephen had been in anger management classes but that his behavior this past spring was too much for his wife Jocelyn.

"This past May my daughter asked him to leave the house because of his anger towards his children. I'm very concerned about my daughter and my grandchildren."

Barbara also says it bothered her that both Stephen and Jocelyn were not involved in the search effort for Jaliek early on. She also says she knows what she's saying may make her already strained relationship with her daughter even worse, but that right now her top priority is finding Jaliek.






Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 16, 2007, 02:19:14 PM
No New Leads and Winter May Bring Jaliek Search to a Halt

http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?s=7470822
It may soon be the end of the road in the major police search for Jaliek Rainwalker.  After more than a month of probing land, water and woods with no results - organized searches are giving way to volunteer groups.  The 12-year-old disappeared November 1st after his adoptive father says the two got into a heated argument, and since that night there has been no trace of the boy.  As NEWS10's Alyssa Van Wie reports, without any new leads, the case might be losing steam.

Search Winds Down

With the arrival of another dog comes another chance to comb the Battenkill Golf Course in Greenwich.

"We brought some new dogs in today just to see what the dogs were interested in; more of a curiosity type thing at this point," Lt. John Solan, a New York State Forest Ranger, says.

The search is also a training exercise for this new dog, whose owners are volunteers.  No matter what the details are, though, it is another set of eyes on an already well-combed area.

"They've never been here before," Solan continues, "They're fresh dogs to this area,"

The "area" that Lt. Solan talks about is one that keeps drawing search crews to it, although no one really seems to be sure why.

"We haven't found anything at all to indicate there's anything here," He says.

Even though the golf course is cold and covered with snow right now, the weather might have extended the search for a little bit longer.  Had the storm come through will all the snow that was expected last week, it might have actually stopped there.

Solan confirms that the incoming winter will halt the search, saying, "Yeah, we're going to be pretty much done with any searching until spring at this point, I would say.  This is probably going to be it."

They went out again Saturday; a few forest rangers and some volunteers.  It is the volunteers who have kept the search going this long without any real leads.  As long as they still want to search, officials may continue to join them.

"There's a lot of unknowns in this case and the more you're out there, the better the chances of finding something are," Solan concludes.




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 21, 2007, 09:46:27 AM
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The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
December 20, 2007 Thursday
 
Adoptive father's actions raise eyebrows;
Police chief says angry residents have reported seeing Stephen Kerr removing posters for Sunday vigil 

 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

GREENWICH - Stephen Kerr, the last person to see Jaliek Rainwalker, his adopted son, before the boy disappeared Nov. 1, has been seen around Greenwich and Cambridge tearing down fliers advertising a vigil for the missing boy.

Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said he receives "several calls a day" from people who are angered and perplexed by Kerr's behavior.

Bell declined to characterize Kerr's actions, adding that police have not asked him to stop.

Meanwhile, a woman who cared for the 12-year-old Rainwalker said that a "goodbye" note Kerr said proves Rainwalker ran away from home was actually a homework assignment from his father.

Bell has not named any suspects in Rainwalker's disappearance, and said the lack of progress in the investigation is frustrating.

"We have not caught one break in this case," he said.

Elaine and Tom Person of Altamont, who provided respite care for Rainwalker, are among the co-organizers of Sunday's vigil at the Greenwich VFW.

Elaine Person said she is troubled by statements Kerr has made publicly about the note - in Rainwalker's handwriting - that Kerr said is proof the boy ran away.

Kerr has said the note read, "Dear everybody, I'm sorry for everything. I won't be a bother anymore. Goodbye, Jaliek."

"That wasn't a goodbye note, that was a homework assignment," Person said. Rainwalker and four other children are home-schooled by Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald. When Kerr dropped off Rainwalker at Person's home for respite care the week before he disappeared, he told Elaine his son's homework assignments included writing a letter of apology to people he had harmed.

Person said she saw Rainwalker write the note but did not read it, because she felt its contents were private. When she saw Kerr on television talking about the letter as a "goodbye" note several days later, she said she was stunned.

"I was yelling at the TV, `That's not a goodbye note!' "

Kerr and his wife have been invited to Sunday's vigil but have not responded, Person said. Neither Kerr nor McDonald returned phone messages left for them Wednesday.

Rainwalker's life with Kerr and McDonald in Cossayuna was fraught with emotional turmoil.

At the time of his disappearance, Rainwalker had lived with the couple and their children for five years, including three years as their adopted son. But Kerr and McDonald planned to send him back into the foster system, relatives and police said.

Police have spoken to Kerr and McDonald on numerous occasions, looking for clues as to where Rainwalker may be. Police said McDonald has taken a lie-detector test but Kerr has refused.

Police have searched wooded areas and streams and ponds around Greenwich and Cambridge. Family members offered a $25,000 reward for information.

Dan Higgins can be reached at 454-5523, or by e-mail at dhiggins@timesunion.com

VigilWhat: Light the Night for Jaliek Where: Greenwich VFW, Abeel Avenue When: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday Info: 861-6262 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 22, 2007, 02:42:51 PM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
December 21, 2007 Friday
 
FBI to retrace last trip of father, boy ;
Man believes missing adopted son is living with black family somewhere
 
GREENWICH - The father of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker will meet today with FBI agents who will retrace the pair's steps on the night the boy disappeared.

Washington County resident Stephen Kerr said Thursday he is "100 percent sure" that Rainwalker, his adopted son, is alive and living with an African American family in Albany or Troy. He said Rainwalker, who had one African- American parent and one white parent, has always wanted to live with a black family. Kerr is white.

Today, FBI agents and Kerr will meet in the parking lot of a Best Western hotel on Western Avenue in Albany. That's where Kerr picked up Rainwalker on Nov. 1, after a five-day stay at a respite home.

From the hotel, agents will retrace Kerr and Rainwalker's trip to the home of Kerr's father in Greenwich. Kerr and his son stayed the night in the house by themselves. The next morning, Rainwalker was gone and Kerr produced a note in the boy's handwriting suggesting he ran away.

FBI officials declined to comment Thursday.

Kerr said he's pleased to be dealing with the FBI because he wants to find his son. But he is convinced that Rainwalker is alive and living with a family who, for unknown reasons, is keeping him hidden.

"Every time we went through a predominantly African American neighborhood he was like a kid in a candy shop. `Can we stop there and go shopping?'... I'm 100 percent sure he's in an urban setting within an African American community," Kerr said.

Police don't think so. Since Rainwalker's disappearance on Nov. 1, police, forest rangers, and FBI agents have combed the woods and waterways around the Washington County towns of Greenwich and Cambridge.

There is no evidence to suggest Rainwalker is living in a nearby city, police said.

Kerr's remarks came in a phone call to the Times Union Thursday to dispute a newspaper article that said he was tearing down fliers advertising a Sunday evening vigil organized by other relatives and former caregivers of Rainwalker.

The "Light the Night for Jaliek" event at the Greenwich VFW will include lighting a dozen searchlights and signing a Christmas card for the boy.

Kerr denied tearing down posters, but did say he asked store owners to remove them. However, police sources and multiple eyewitnesses have said they saw Kerr removing the signs.

He said the event is being organized by people who have slandered him, and he therefore wants no part of it.

"They just want to say that I've killed him. They've done nothing except harass me and my family," said Kerr who has not been named a suspect. The event's organizers include Kerr's mother-in-law, Barbara Reeley, and Elaine and Tom Person, the Altamont couple who provided respite care for the emotionally troubled youth.

When asked if, in fact, he harmed Rainwalker in any way, or had anything to do with his disappearance, Kerr said, "No. I did not."

But he added, "I could understand how people picture me as a prime suspect. That is completely understandable." He said, though, that he's opened his credit card, banking and phone records to police and let them search two homes he had access to.

"I've done everything," he said.

"All they want to do is string me up and hang me but they don't have any evidence," he said.

Police dispute much of what Kerr told the Times Union, including Kerr's claim that he has placed 78 phone calls to Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell since Rainwalker disappeared.

On Thursday, Bell said Kerr's behavior has been unusual throughout the ordeal, and that Kerr hasn't been the constant presence at the police station one might expect the parent of a missing child to be.

"If it was your 12-year-old child, where would you be?" Bell said. "This is a public building. Don't you think you'd be camped out on the doorstep?"
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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: NYC_lover on December 22, 2007, 04:49:19 PM
Interesting facts in this case IMO.
Kerr said he's pleased to be dealing with the FBI because he wants to find his son.

Kerr says his family is not holding up well and some have questioned Kerr's cooperation in the search. To date, he has not taken a lie detector test. Still, he says he has not lost hope his son will be found.

Kerr believes Jaliek ran away after a fight between the two of them.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 25, 2007, 07:25:56 AM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
December 24, 2007 Monday
Keeping the flame for missing boy;
About 50 people gather in Greenwich to ``Light the Night for Jaliek'' 
GREENWICH - Jaliek Rainwalker's likeness was all around the room.

Dozens of photographs of the missing boy flashing his now-familiar smile in happier times hung in the Greenwich VFW to boost the spirits of the 50 people who congregated there Sunday to remember the 12-year-old who disappeared nearly two months ago.

"The idea is to keep this in the public eye and to let the public know we don't want Jaliek forgotten," said Elaine Person, the Altamont woman who watched Rainwalker when his adoptive parents needed a break. So at 6:45 p.m. - the exact time on Nov. 1 that Person says she saw Rainwalker for the last time - the somber and emotional "Light the Night for Jaliek" ceremony opened with inspirational and holiday music.

The event culminated with the lighting of seven large flashlights to symbolize the search for Rainwalker. Participants spoke words like "understanding," "family unity" and "peace" as they switched on the lights.

"We hold Jaliek deep in our heart and you are here to represent your feelings also," said the Rev. Peggy Were, who officiated the event.

People scrawled messages to the boy on a poster board.

Eleven-year-old Kylee Bentley and her grandparents Gail and Jeff Gillis of Argyle were among those who turned on one of the flashlights.

The girl said she and Rainwalker took karate classes together in Greenwich.

"Every time I saw him, he was always happy and smiling," said Bentley.

Neither Rainwalker's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, nor Kerr's wife, Jocelyn McDonald, attended the event. The boy's disappearance has strained relations between Kerr and Person.

Some people in Greenwich complained that Kerr had been seen around town removing signs touting Sunday's vigil. Police said they had received calls from people perplexed by the behavior, but Kerr insisted he did not tear down the posters. He did, however, say he asked some store owners to remove them.

He contends Person and her husband, Tom, have slandered him and he wants no part of the event.

Rainwalker disappeared on the day Kerr picked him up in a motel parking lot in Albany. Rainwalker, a troubled boy who relatives said could be unruly, had spent the previous five days in the care of the Persons, an Altamont couple who opened their home to children to allow their parents a break.

The night he picked up the boy, Kerr and Rainwalker stayed the night by themselves in the Greenwich home of Kerr's father. The next morning, Rainwalker was gone and Kerr produced a note in the boy's handwriting suggesting the boy had run away.

Police have not named any suspects in the disappearance, though they have said they fear for the child's safety. Police have searched wooded areas and streams around Greenwich and neighboring Cambridge.

On Thursday, Kerr met with the FBI to retrace his steps on the night Rainwalker disappeared.

Kerr told the Times Union last week that he believes Rainwalker is living with an African-American family in Troy or Albany. Rainwalker had one black biological parent and, Kerr said, always wanted to live with a black family. Kerr is white.

Elaine Person has questioned Kerr's statements about the note Rainwalker left, suggesting it was a letter of apology Kerr insisted he write for misbehavior rather than a "goodbye" note.
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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on December 26, 2007, 11:02:56 AM
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Search Scaled Back for Missing Boy

Greenwich, New York - December 26, 2007

Authorities in New York have scaled back their search for a missing boy.

12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker has not been seen since his father left him with a family member two months ago, at a home in Greenwich, New York.

Police suspect foul play and the boy's adoptive father is the prime focus of their investigation. Several areas in New York and Vermont have been searched, but there has been no sign of the little boy.

A $25,000 reward is being offered in the case

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7542595&nav=menu183_2_4


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on December 27, 2007, 12:43:35 PM
Vigil held for missing New York youngster

Wednesday, December 26
GREENWICH, N.Y. — Police have scaled back the search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker, but Elaine Person, who spent the six days with him before he disappeared, did not want to let the case become a cold one. On Sunday, Person held a vigil at the VFW post on Abeel Avenue to keep Rainwalker from being forgotten and announced that a book will be written about the missing boy.

"This is not a candlelight vigil. We are using spot lights, and we have 12 of them, one for each year of Jaliek's life, to light up the sky and search," said Person. "The purpose is to keep awareness of his disappearance in the public eye."

Person took care of Rainwalker multiple times including the six days prior to his disappearance at her Altamont respite home. She recently said that a goodbye note written by Rainwalker was a homework assignment given to him by his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr of Greenwich, but refused to comment about that during the vigil.

"In those six days, we came to love that child," said Person.

 All who attended the vigil were given a Christmas ornament with Rainwalker's picture on it. The ornaments, made by Mary Jane Protus of Greenwich and are magnetic, so
they can be used after the holiday on refrigerators, said Person.

 The case will be in the public eye as TV news cameras, photographers and reporters surrounded the spotlights and a large Christmas card, made for Jaliek by Jackie Killeen of Nassau and signed by over 50 people who attended the event.

 It was announced that a book titled, "An Inconvenient Child," is planned about Rainwalker's life. The book will be written by Alex S. DeFazio and Stephen Gnojewski from New Jersey.

 The book was described as "a tale of a beautiful, intelligent and loving child born to a drug-addicted mother on the flood of his grandmother's kitchen; shuttled through a series of seven foster and adoptive homes only to disappear at the young age of 12 in a mysterious case fraught with strange and inexplicable clues."

A Web site for the book is expected to be operational after Jan. 1, and a meet the author night is to be scheduled in the upcoming weeks. All proceeds will be used to provide post-adoptive services for the Capital Region, according to a release from Person.

The vigil began with a prayer by the Rev. Peggy Were at 6:45 p.m., the time Kerr picked up Rainwalker from Person's home. Were said that Rainwalker was a child who could light up a room and is worth remembering and looking for.

The crowd then moved outside, where friends and families, some of which had taken care of Rainwalker, lit up the spotlights.

"He was a sweet kid," said Colleen Mahar of Schodack, who worked in a haunted house that Rainwalker often visited, after lighting the seventh spotlight. "He said if he were old enough, he'd want to work there."

Rainwalker has been missing since Nov. 1. Police have investigated more than 200 leads, used infra-red cameras to search in the Hudson River, scoured the Greenwich area, areas near the Batten Kill Country Club in Greenwich, where two sets of police dogs showed interest in a pond near the 5th hole, and searched within a five-mile radius of Kerr's home on Hill Road.

Divers searched Carter's Pond in Cossayuna and in the Batten Kill River.

Cambridge/Greenwich Police Chief George Bell has said that he doubts that Rainwalker has gotten far.

A $25,000 reward, offered by Rainwalker's adoptive mother Joselyn McDonald, and a short piece on the show "America's Most Wanted," turned up no evidence of his whereabouts, said Bell.

There are six investigators, from the FBI, New York State Police and the Cambridge/Greenwich Police, working on the case, according to Bell, but there are no active searches.

"Jaliek is still an active investigation," said Bell.

Last week, the FBI followed the path Kerr took when bringing Rainwalker back to Greenwich after his stay with Person but did not find any clues.

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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on December 28, 2007, 05:02:28 PM
Former foster parents create task force to find missing Greenwich boy

 December 28, 2007
Editor's Note: A correction was made to the story at 1:10 p.m, changing the information related to the custody of Jaliek's foster siblings.

GREENWICH -- Five foster parents who cared for Jaliek Rainwalker during the years before he was placed at a home in Greenwich have started a task force dedicated to finding the missing 12-year-old.

Altamont resident Elaine Person will head the group — taking a leave of absence from her job as executive director of a "small non-profit agency" to guide it — leading activities that will include fundraisers, a toll-free hotline and at least one Web site. They also plan educational efforts about foster care and adoption.

The group will begin its effort with a press conference Tuesday morning in Greenwich, at which a new reward will be offered and another "exciting" announcement will be made, Person said.

Person and her husband run a "respite home" for foster children, where Jaliek spent six days before he disappeared.

Jaliek’s adopted father, Stephen Kerr, picked the boy up at that home the night of Nov. 1. Kerr reported him missing the next morning, prompting a massive manhunt that has not turned up any clues to the boy’s whereabouts.

Kerr’s mother-in-law and father-in-law also will be part of the task force, but Person said Kerr and his wife have not been asked to take part.

Person and the mother-in-law, Barbara Reeley of Poestenkill, have made it clear they believe Kerr has not told all he knows about the circumstances of Jaliek’s last known contact Nov. 1-2. They’ve criticized him for refusing to take a lie detector test in the first days of the inquiry.

"First of all, they wouldn’t (take part)," Person said. "Second of all, we don’t trust them."

Kerr said Friday that it was "wonderful" that the group was going to step up efforts to help find Jaliek.

"Anything anyone can do to help me find my son, I’m in favor of," he said.

But he bristled at accusations made by Person and the others who have publicly questioned whether he had a hand in Jaliek’s disappearance.

"All of these people had a chance to adopt Jaliek before us but didn’t," he said. "They let this boy down. We didn’t."

He said the public does not know the efforts he and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, went to to try to help the troubled boy, including an intense, two-week therapy session which Kerr, McDonald and his wife took part in with Jaliek.

Kerr has said he believes Jaliek -- who had a history of emotional problems -- ran away and is in hiding somewhere.

He has said he did not take the lie detector test because police violated his rights and threatened him.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said Person discussed the task force’s intentions with police Thursday, and he was "100 percent behind it."

"I think it’s a good idea," he said. "They want to put up their own reward and do whatever they can to help us."

Kerr and McDonald have offered a $25,0000 reward in the case, with the amount dropping by $5,000 for each month the case is not solved to try to entice those who know something to come forward earlier.

Person said she hopes to.

She said she believes there is a lack of oversight in the foster care system, and had there been oversight Jaliek might not have been allowed to stay in the Kerr home in East Greenwich, where there was no running water and limited electricity in recent years. She said Jaliek told her he was locked in his bedroom at times at Kerr’s former home in Salem.

They’ve also questioned why Kerr and McDonald continued to receive $1,500-a-month payments from Albany County to be foster parents for Jaliek after his disappearance.

The couple’s other children were out of their care temporarily, in part because the East Greenwich home where they were staying did not have a certificate of occupancy. Kerr and McDonald have been staying recently with the children at the Hill Street, Greenwich, home that is owned by Kerr’s father and where Jaliek was last seen Nov. 1.

Person said a Web site will be used to keep the public informed about the investigation.

Meanwhile, Bell said he plans to meet with the State Police in the coming days to go over the agencies’ next step in the investigation. The State Police, FBI, state Department of Environmental Conservation and Washington County Sheriff’s Office have worked with Cambridge-Greenwich Police.

The task force’s press conference is to be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Washington Square Deli in Greenwich. The Web site will be set up at www.findjaliek.org.

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2007/12/28/news/latest/doc477528af6445f952345167.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on January 08, 2008, 09:34:11 PM
Father of missing child offered second chance at lie detector

 January 8, 2008 6:15 PM EST
GREENWICH — The adopted father of Jaliek Rainwalker has been asked again to take a lie detector test, but five days later, police have not gotten an answer to that request.

Police on Friday asked Jeffrey McMorris, lawyer for Stephen Kerr, if Kerr would take a polygraph test administered by the FBI, but as of Tuesday afternoon, police had not heard back from either Kerr or his lawyer, a law enforcement source familiar with the matter said.

Barbara Reeley, Rainwalker’s adopted maternal grandmother, said she was aware of the fact police planned to make the request, but she said Tuesday that she had not heard whether an answer was given.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell would not discuss the matter Tuesday but said police planned to release more information on the investigation in the coming days. He would not elaborate.

A phone message left for Kerr on Tuesday was not returned. On Friday afternoon, Kerr said he was not aware of a new request that he take a polygraph test.

McMorris would not say whether he was asked to allow Kerr to take a lie detector test.

"I’m not going to discuss any of the discussions we’ve had relative to the FBI," McMorris said.

He added, though, "We’re not considering any kind of polygraph." McMorris has pointed out the tests are not admissible in court and said they are considered unreliable by many.

A spokesman for the FBI in Albany, who identified himself only as "Dave," said the office does have equipment to administer a polygraph test, but he said he was not familiar with the Rainwalker case or whether arrangements had been made for a possible test of Kerr.

Kerr turned down a request to take a State Police-administered polygraph test in early November, the first week of the investigation of Rainwalker’s Nov. 2 disappearance. Kerr has said he did so because investigators were violating his rights and mistreating him, and a lawyer he consulted at the time told him he should not take it.

Police floated the idea of the FBI test after McMorris publicly requested last month that the FBI take over the investigation, saying Cambridge-Greenwich Police and State Police were treating Kerr as a suspect with the belief Rainwalker is dead, instead of focusing on the possibility he ran away and is in hiding.

McMorris said that’s what Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, believe happened. Kerr has been posting fliers bearing Rainwalker’s picture around the Albany area.

"We believe we’re being fully cooperative with what we’re being asked to do that would lead to Jaliek returning home," McMorris said.

McMorris also addressed concerns raised by former foster parents of Rainwalker’s about Kerr and his wife continuing to receive a $1,500-a-month payment from Albany County’s Department of Social Services for caring for Rainwalker. He said the family continues to receive the money because they have expenses for Rainwalker’s care.

"They have a son, and they need to provide for him," McMorris said.

He said the broaching of the issue over the payment "is more indicative of the hostility" exhibited by the former foster parents toward Kerr.

That hostility between the two sides apparently manifested itself Tuesday afternoon, when police were called to the Kerr/McDonald home on Hill Street in Greenwich by McDonald, who was complaining that Reeley — her mother — wouldn’t leave. Bell said the complaint is under investigation and may result in a non-criminal trespass charge against Reeley.

"She (Reeley) said she brought her grandkids Christmas gifts, and it just went from there," Bell said.

Reeley has made it clear she does not believe Kerr has been completely forthcoming as to what he knows of Rainwalker’s disappearance.

The troubled boy was reported missing by Kerr on Nov. 2, after spending several days at a respite home in Albany County because of threats of violence he made to a 4-year-old. Kerr told police he awoke that morning to find Rainwalker gone, and a note in which Rainwalker wrote, "Goodbye."

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/01/08/news/latest/doc4784041575a02433474443.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 11, 2008, 03:13:06 PM
http://www.findjaliek.org/

Just look at this precious boy...he is so handsome!  I just do not have a good feeling at all about this tragic missing persons story  :cry: :smt009


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on January 12, 2008, 10:41:15 PM
What an adorable child! And it seems as though he had no one at his adopted home who really loved him. What a tragedy.
I also have a bad feeling about the outcome for this beautiful little boy.
The adopted Dad is guilty of harming Jaliek IMHO.
Does anyone care enough to keep this case alive? Are they still looking for him?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 13, 2008, 09:13:02 AM
He is listed on the AMW website now and I just noticed this blog has a rally update>>>
http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/rally-for-jaliek/


Rally for Jaliek
January 12, 2008 at 12:02 pm (Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing people, News)


I received an email that there will be a rally for Jaliek tomorrow, Sunday Jan 13th.  Here’s the information:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 1/11/08Elaine PersonFind Jaliek Task Force518-861-6262518-527-6868 celleperson@capital.net 

WHAT HAPPEN TO JALIEK RAINWALKER NEWS CONFERENCE



On December 30, 2007, Doreathea Brace, a slightly built African American woman came out of church and was met on the street by Stephen Kerr, the adopted father of Jaliek Rainwalker.  Jaliek is the 12 year-old who disappeared from Greenwich, NY over ten weeks ago on November 1st.  Stephen Kerr was the last person to see Jaliek alive and has stated that he believes his adopted son ran away and joined a gang in Albany or is living with an African American family in a rural area.

As Mr. Kerr attempted to hand her a reward flyer, she confronted him with angry allegations that it was he, who had harmed Jaliek.  It was all caught on tape and later shown on the news.  Doreathea has had many sleepless nights since that encounter and is driven to help find Jaliek.  She is also outraged at Mr. Kerr’s allegations about the Black community hiding this child.

She has organized a news conference/rally scheduled for Sunday, January 13th at the Albany Housing Authority at 200 South Pearl Street in Albany at 3:00pm.  Doreathea has spent many hours passing out her own flyers advertising the event.  It reads, “Women, Mothers, all females of all Races.  Please come out.  Tell the authorities this young man has become a victim of foul play.  Come one, come ALL!!  Let’s STOP THE KILLING OF OUR CHILDREN!”





Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 13, 2008, 09:30:01 AM
http://wordpress.com/tag/jaliek-rainwalker/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on January 13, 2008, 10:03:22 AM
I'm so glad Ms. Bruce hasn't let this case die. God Bless her. It's a relief to know that this child does have someone who cares enough to keep looking for answers.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on January 13, 2008, 10:04:01 AM
I meant to add.....thanks for the info! :2doh:


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on January 18, 2008, 06:27:27 PM
Parents of Missing Boy May Move to Vermont

 January 18, 2008
The parents of a missing boy, who are under a cloud of suspicion, may move to Vermont.

Jaliek Rainwalker, 12, disappeared from his home in Washington County, New York, on November first. Since then, police have searched in New York and parts of Vermont where the family used to camp.

The missing boy's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, is being investigated. He was the last person to see the boy alive and police have named him as a "person of interest" in the case. Police say Kerr is not cooperating with police and has refused to take a lie detector test. He has no alibi for the night Rainwalker went missing.

Kerr has denied any wrongdoing and police have not charged him with any crime. He says he believes the boy ran away.

Now Kerr, and his wife, are reportedly looking to buy property in West Rupert, Vermont.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=7743097&nav=4QcS


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 18, 2008, 06:57:39 PM
They know this boy is dead and isn't coming home. NO ONE WOULD MOVE in just a little over 2 months after a child goes missing!! Especially if they thought he ran away and there would be a chance he would come home. They know he won't be. MO


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on January 18, 2008, 07:12:57 PM
They know this boy is dead and isn't coming home. NO ONE WOULD MOVE in just a little over 2 months after a child goes missing!! Especially if they thought he ran away and there would be a chance he would come home. They know he won't be. MO

I completely agree Nut44x4 . I hope their move gets stopped by authorities but it isn't likely. Makes me suspicious they are trying to hide from something.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 19, 2008, 08:04:43 AM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
January 18, 2008 Friday
 
Psychics in search for boy;
``Intuitives'' fail to turn up new information in Jaliek Rainwalker case
 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

Three psychics joined the search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker last week, but information they offered officials about the missing boy failed to best anything offered by basic police science.

According to relatives, two of the psychics, or "intuitives" as they prefer to be called, had similar visions of where Rainwalker's body might be, which led to a meeting with police, relatives, a third psychic and searchers last Thursday.

The group visited wooded sites in Greenwich not far from the Cossayuna home Rainwalker shared with his adoptive parents and four siblings.

The search turned up nothing.

But it highlights the fact that 10 weeks since the boy was last seen, police still have virtually no clue as to where Rainwalker, missing since Nov. 1, might be.

"If someone contacts us and says they have a vision, and it fits in to where we believe (Rainwalker) might be, and we have someone who can go with them, yes, we'll do a search," said George Bell, chief of the Greenwich-Cambridge Police Department, who is in charge of the Rainwalker investigation. He readily admits his frustrations with the case.

Elaine Person, who has provided respite care for the emotionally troubled Rainwalker and saw him a day before he disappeared, said she appreciates any help she can find. She defended the use of psychics.

"I like to keep an open mind," she said. "When you have a child who is missing, you owe it to that child to use every resource at your disposal," she said. "And, who's to say that maybe people have access to a kind of information that the rest of us don't have?"

So many psychics have been contacting Rainwalker's relatives and police that the Web site about the search, www.findjaliek.org, includes a link inviting intuitives to contact them by e-mail.

Meanwhile, Rainwalker's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, is trying to move the family to West Rupert, Vt., about 10 miles east of their Washington County home. That information was reported by WNYT NewsChannel 13 and confirmed by Bell, who said he has been speaking with Kerr daily for the last several weeks.

Someone who answered Kerr's cellphone on Thursday said Kerr was not available to talk.

Rainwalker went missing after spending the night of Nov. 1 alone with Kerr at Kerr's father's home in Greenwich. Kerr's father, Graham, was out of the country at the time.

Rainwalker, who has a long history of emotional problems and outbursts, had just spent five days with Elaine and Tom Person of Altamont, who cared for Jaliek for several days at a time to provide respite to the family.

The relationship had grown so stressful, in fact, that Kerr and wife Jocelyn McDonald were planning to undo their adoption of Rainwalker at the time he disappeared. It's not clear how far along they were in that process the night of Nov. 1.

When Kerr awoke Nov. 2, he said he found a note in Rainwalker's handwriting, in which he apologized for hurting people. Kerr said the note is proof his son ran away from home. Elaine Person believes the note was a homework assignment Rainwalker completed while at her house. Rainwalker had to apologize for allegedly making a sexually explicit threat to a 4-year-old in the family's home-school group.

Kerr has said he believes that his son is living with an "African-American gang or family" in Albany, Schenectady or Troy. Rainwalker is biracial and has always been fascinated with black culture, said Kerr, who is white. Police said there is no evidence to support Kerr's theory.

On Monday, Bell and State Police investigators announced Kerr is a person of interest in the case, though there is not enough evidence to charge Kerr with a crime. Police said they have an image from a surveillance camera that captured the image of a van similar to one Kerr was driving on the night of Rainwalker's disappearance. Police want to re-examine the van but Kerr has denied their request.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:730815259&start=12


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 23, 2008, 05:51:19 PM
Jaliek’s family and friends work to keep his memory alive

GREENWICH, N.Y. - Jaliek Rainwalker’s grandmother Barbara Reeley said, “My heart breaks more and more. If Jaliek is not alive, I want some closure. I want to be able to put him to rest. It just eats at me day after day after day.”

Friends and family of Jaliek said they can’t rest until they find out what happened to him in early November when he disappeared. The Find Jaliek Task Force held a bake sale to raise money that will go toward the reward for any information leading to Jaliek’s whereabouts, but people here said, more importantly, they’re keeping his memory alive.

Jaliek’s Respite Home Caregiver Tom Person said, “We feel that it’s very important that it’s not forgotten and people know that we care about Jaliek and we want him found or whatever happened, we want to know.”

Kylee Bentley, 11, said, “He was always happy all the time and always smiling. He was always goofing around.”

Even though the goal of this group is to find Jaliek or find closure, they said the Find Jaliek Task Force will exist indefinitely.

“Until we know he is either safe and alive or until we find his body, it is very hard for us to have any peace of mind,” said Reeley.

Jaliek’s former foster mother Jodi Schoen said, “He loved to run, love to play soccer and play little jokes. He loved to read and he loved his dinosaurs. He was our son and you don’t stop loving someone just because he can’t live with you.”

Meanwhile, we’re told investigators continue to follow up on each lead they receive and are in constant contact with Jaliek’s family. Police named Jaliek’s adoptive father Stephen Kerr a person of interest last week, but no one has been charged with any crime in connection with his disappearance.

http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/jalieks-memory-will-not-fade/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on January 28, 2008, 03:31:21 PM
(http://www.fox23news.com/media/news/8/0/0/800feba8-282c-49f4-8e12-819b26b298cd/Story.jpg)
Elaine Person, the Altamont respite worker who cared for Jaliek Rainwalker, says his adoptive parents allow family members to run around their East Greenwich home naked.

Strange Accusations Against Adoptive Parents of Missing Boy

Last Update: 1/25 5:38 pm
There are strange new allegations against the adoptive parents of a Greenwich boy who's been missing since November 1st.

An Altamont respite worker who spent time caring for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker says there were a lot of bizarre things happening at the boy's primary home in East Greenwich.

Elaine Person has compiled a list of what she calls "factual statements" on her web site: www.findjaliek.org.

Person explains, "What we wanted to do was to put them all together in one place where people could go to see them."

Among the allegations, that Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald, Jaliek's adoptive parents, let family members run around naked.

Person says Kerr also punished his adopted son by dunking him in a creek.

She alleges that, on the morning of Jaliek's disappearance, Kerr took a shower and returned movies before calling police to notify them that his adopted son was gone.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell tells FOX23 News, "That was within his own admission to us early on which we thought was kind of weird in itself that he took care of all of this other stuff before he called police that morning."

Chief Bell confirms all of Person's accusations excepted the so-called "naked time."

Investigators say there's been nothing easy about this case.

Police tell us they've finally located Jaliek's biological mother.

Chief Bell tells us law enforcement officials in Clearwater, Florida obtained a DNA sample from her on Friday.

Investigators still can't get a DNA sample from Stephen Kerr.

Kerr also refuses to take a polygraph test.

Bell says he doesn't have enough information for a warrant or to name Kerr as a suspect.

Chief Bell defends his public crusade against Kerr, the last person to see Jaliek alive.

"It's not so much what the police have done to Stephen; it's how Stephen has portrayed himself through media and whatever and his lack of cooperation that has put him as a person of interest in this case," Bell tells us.

Investigators say their priority remains finding Jaliek.

Person is recruiting search volunteers.

She tells us, "We haven't lost hope of finding him; we just don't feel that he's going to be found alive."

FOX23 News reached both Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald on their cell phones on Friday.

Neither one would comment specifically about the new allegations.

Kerr tells us his main goal is still finding Jaliek.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d11781f8-edf8-4554-bd68-0cc195f010c2



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on February 03, 2008, 12:04:58 PM
Cops to Rainwalker letter writer: Send more information

 Saturday, February 02, 2008
GREENWICH -- Police asked Friday that whoever wrote the letter sent to area newsrooms that indicates Jaliek Rainwalker is alive send further correspondence to "provide further proof Jaliek is well."

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said an FBI forensic analysis of the letter had not been completed as of Friday afternoon.

Police are hoping the letter or the envelope it was sent in will yield some clues -- such as fingerprints or DNA -- as to who sent it and whether that person has any connection to the missing 12-year-old or whether he or she was simply perpetrating a hoax.

Copies of the letter were sent to newspapers and television stations around the region this week, and most media outlets that received them turned them over to police.

The letter reads:

"Jaliek still alive

Needed a foot soldier for this war on drugs

Picked him up Rt 40 Post 30

He's ok

No fake

He says ask his Mama and Papa

Who are the macaronni family?

My cat name diamond?

Why does Franti yell fire?

Don't try to look we are not there."

The letter did not have a return address, but the one received by

The Post-Star

was postmarked "Westchester, NY." There's a Westchester County downstate, but the only Westchester postmark appears to be in the north Bronx.

Jeffrey McMorris, a lawyer for Rainwalker's adoptive parents, said he was heartened to hear police were taking the letter seriously.

He said Thursday that the letter contains information only Rainwalker would have known, and his clients, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald were excited that it was a sign Rainwalker is still alive.

"I hope they're making some pleas in that area -- maybe putting up some fliers or posters," McMorris said.

McMorris and his clients have theorized since his Nov. 2 disappearance that Rainwalker ran away, and they have chastised police for concluding he is likely dead and focusing on Kerr as a "person of interest."

Neither Kerr, Rainwalker's adoptive father, nor McDonald, his adoptive mother, responded to calls for comment on the letter Thursday or Friday.

Bell said police are hoping to sit down with McMorris, Kerr and McDonald in the coming days to discuss the letter and the significance of the comments.

He said Rainwalker apparently had a cat named Diamond, but the significance of the other statements in the typed letter were not yet known.

Whether they begin searching the Westchester County area will depend at least in part on what Kerr and McDonald can tell police about the letter and whether police can draw any conclusions about its authenticity, the chief said.

"To say we're just going to pack up the whole show and move to Westchester County, based on this letter, I can't say that right now," Bell said. "We can't just go down and search a five-mile area around the post office in Westchester County."

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/02/02/news/local/13310307.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on February 06, 2008, 11:17:52 AM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
February 5, 2008 Tuesday
1 EDITION 
 
CAPITAL REGION; Pg. D5 
 
186 words
 
 
Group asks letter writer for help with missing boy;
Notes sent to several media outlets claim Jaliek Rainwalker is alive
 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

GREENWICH - Whoever wrote a letter saying that Jaliek Rainwalker is alive should come forward, members of the Find Jaliek Task Force said Monday.

The task force, made up of volunteers who are working to help find the missing 12-year-old boy, are hoping the letter's author can provide them with more information. The letter, which was postmarked Westchester County, included details about Rainwalker's family life, including the name of his cat, and was sent to local media. "It is our hope that this appeal will generate a response that will verify that the person who originated the notes is in communication with Jaliek Rainwalker," task force members wrote.

The Times Union and other media outlets, including newspapers and television stations, gave their copies of the anonymous letter to law enforcement officials. The FBI will check them for fingerprints and other forensic evidence.

Rainwalker has been missing since Nov. 1 and police have been treating the case as if the youth were dead. They have focused their search on the woods near Greenwich, where he was last seen with his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr. 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:739961184&start=11


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on February 07, 2008, 09:34:17 PM
No sign of Jaliek after river search
Unknown whether effort will continue Friday for missing boy


Last updated: 5:26 p.m., Thursday, February 7, 2008
TROY - Police searched the Hudson River near Troy today but came up with no clues to lead them to missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.

Investigators launched boats around 8 a.m. this morning and used a sonar device to hunt for Rainwalker's remains. Police divers also combed the waters but reported no success, according to Greenwich Cambridge Police Chief George Bell.

Bell said it wasn't yet clear late today whether police would try again Friday.

Several family members and former caregivers to Rainwalker came to watch police search. Tom Person, who provided foster care for Rainwalker with his wife, Elaine, said even though Rainwalker wasn't found, he has faith in the police.

"It's good there is always something going on," he said. "My biggest fear is that this (story) will die out and be forgotten."

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=661948&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=2/7/2008


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on February 08, 2008, 10:21:52 PM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
February 8, 2008 Friday
 
Focus falls on Jaliek's family; House of adoptive grandfather searched; divers find no clues
 
By DAN HIGGINS Staff Writer
 

GREENWICH - Police executed a search warrant Thursday at the home of Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive grandfather in the ongoing hunt for the missing 12-year-old.

The warrant was the first in the three-month investigation.

Several items were seized from the home at 11 Hill St. in Greenwich, the house where Rainwalker was staying with his adoptive father when he disappeared the night of Nov. 1.

Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell declined to say what evidence was confiscated.

Bell said Rainwalker's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Joceyln McDonald, were present when police arrived.

Also Thursday, State Police divers entered the Hudson River near the Troy Farmers Market looking for human remains or other clues, but found nothing, police said. Investigators launched boats at about 8 a.m. and used a sonar device in the search.

Bell said it wasn't clear late Thursday whether police would try again today. Police chose the Troy site because they doubted Kerr's version of events on the last night anyone was known to have seen Rainwalker. Kerr has said he picked his son up from a respite care stay with Elaine and Tom Person of Altamont, drove him to dinner at a Red Robin restaurant in Latham and then went to Kerr's father's empty home in Greenwich, where they stayed the night.

Police believe Kerr may have stopped in Troy before going to Greenwich. Kerr, McDonald and their five children, including Rainwalker, frequently sold eggs at the Troy Farmers Market and were familiar with the area, police said.

Several family members and former caregivers to Rainwalker watched police search. Tom Per son said he has faith in the police.

"It's good there is always something going on," Person said. "My biggest fear is that this (story) will die out and be forgotten."

Kerr and McDonald were trying to undo their adoption of Rainwalker at the time of his disappearance. The emotionally troubled youth apparently threatened a child in their home-school group in October, which was the last straw, family and police have said. 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:741748808&start=9


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on February 11, 2008, 09:44:35 AM
Police seize computer
Printer is also removed from grandfather's home as link to letter is sought


 Saturday, February 9, 2008
GREENWICH -- A computer and printer were seized by police when they executed a search warrant at the home of Jaliek Rainwalker's grandfather.

A person knowledgeable about Thursday's search confirmed that the equipment will be examined for any link with a recent anonymous letter sent to local media that said Rainwalker was still alive.

 Meanwhile, Rainwalker's extended family members and former caregivers said Friday they have gained comfort from dozens of tips from strangers, including a handful of self-proclaimed psychics and "intuitives" who feel a spiritual connection with the missing youth and believe their work will eventually lead to his discovery.

Thursday's search at 11 Hill St. in Greenwich, the home of Graham and Mary Agnes Kerr, was performed at the same time that State Police divers examined the Hudson River in Troy looking for human remains or other clues. The river search yielded nothing.

The investigation has focused on the whereabouts of Rainwalker on the night of Nov. 1. That night, his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, picked up Rainwalker from a respite care stay with Elaine and Tom Person of Altamont, took him to dinner in Latham, and then to the empty home in Greenwich. Graham Kerr works for the State Department and is posted in Romania. His son and daughter-in-law have access to the house while he is away.

The next morning, Rainwalker was missing, Kerr has told police. Kerr produced a letter in a child's handwriting that appears to suggest Rainwalker had run away because he no longer wanted to be an emotional burden to his family.

Kerr has maintained all along that Rainwalker is alive and perhaps living with a gang or an African-American family in Albany or Troy.

Police have ridiculed that theory, and said there is no evidence to suggest it. They have focused their search on finding Rainwalker's body.

No suspects have been named although police acknowledged that Stephen Kerr is a "person of interest" in the case.

Kerr, who used to speak to media frequently, no longer returns phone calls seeking comment. In the last 10 days, other relatives said, he moved his family from their Raven Way home in Cossayuna to West Rupert, Vt.

At the end of January, an anonymous letter was sent to news media around the Capital Region, including to the Times Union, that stated Rainwalker was alive. It was postmarked from Westchester County and was sprinkled with clues that appeared designed to show that the author of the letter knew Jaliek Rainwalker well.

Police at the time said they were treating the letter as potential evidence, and requested originals from the media outlets who received them.

The seizure of a computer and printer seems to suggest that police believe the letter may have been written by Kerr himself or another close family member, perhaps to throw police off the trail of the investigation.

>>>the complete article

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=662393&category=REGION&newsdate=2/9/2008


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: kissyface on February 11, 2008, 05:05:44 PM
Poor kid, I truly hope he is still alive and found and removed from the people who were supposed to be caring for him.  They obviously have no concern for him.  Though I can understand the family wanted to remove him from their home for threatening violence, there are things they could have done to ensure his safety as well as their families'.  When people open up their home for foster care, they have to realize that most of the children either have developmental, emotional or other problems, hence the need for care.  It makes me sick to think of how many children have been thrown to the wayside by families wanting that government paycheck, who really don't care about these kids.  Just my opinion.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on February 17, 2008, 09:29:18 AM
The Times Union (Albany, New York)
 
February 16, 2008 Saturday
 
Police face suit in Jaliek probe
 
GREENWICH - The adoptive parents of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker filed notice Friday that they will sue the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department, claiming officers have "crusaded" against them during their investigation and acted improperly when serving a search warrant on their home last week.

According to Tucker Stanclift, an attorney representing Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald, a notice of claim was filed by mail seeking civil damages from the village of Greenwich, its police department and Chief George Bell. The notice claims authorities trespassed on the Hill Street home of Kerr's father Graham while executing a search warrant there Feb. 7.

Kerr and McDonald were falsely imprisoned, and during that time officers "refused to allow Kerr and his wife to freely move about their own home, without a warrant," which arrived an hour after investigators arrived, Stanclift said.

The notice says that abuse of process constituted the "intentional infliction of emotional distress," Stanclift said. A specific amount of damages sought will not arise until the actual lawsuit is filed.

"Jaliek is missing, and the cowboy attitude of this investigation has led to a single, narrow-minded focus," the attorney said. "It's a crusade to try my clients in the press."

Rainwalker has been missing since Nov. 1, and was last seen with his adoptive father in the Hill Street home. Kerr, 37, was named a "person of interest" in the disappearance.

Kerr has said he believes Rainwalker, who is biracial, is alive and perhaps living with a gang or an African-American family in Albany or Troy.

Bell could not immediately be reached for comment on the lawsuit. Assistant Chief Harold Spiezio said "all of our protocols and all of our laws were followed in executing that search warrant."

During the Feb. 7 search, investigators seized a computer and printer, which they are examining for links to an anonymous note sent to several media outlets saying Rainwalker was alive. 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:745795544&start=14


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on February 20, 2008, 09:57:46 AM
PD, chief, village receive notice of claim from Jaliek's parents

02/19/2008 05:19 PM
GREENWICH, N.Y. - The Greenwich Police Department, Chief George Bell, and the village received a notice of claim Tuesday morning -- a precursor to a lawsuit -- after Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive parents Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald say police entered their home on February 7th without a search warrant.

Washington County DA Kevin Kortright said he does not want to discuss the case on camera, but he did say he does not believe the department acted unlawfully.


>>>>>the complete article
http://tinyurl.com/3dlebt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: klaasend on February 28, 2008, 07:37:03 PM
Texas EquuSearch helping in search for Jaliek
02/28/2008 03:16 PM
By: Web Staff

(http://images.capitalnews9.com/media/2008/2/28/images/01newjaliek2.jpg)

 TEXAS -- A Texas-based search and recovery team is stepping in to help in the search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker.

The Greenwich boy has been missing since Nov. 1, and at this point police haven't found any clues as to what happened to him.

Jaliek's grandparents contacted Texas EquuSearch, which provides horse mounted search and recovery for lost and missing persons.

The organization has been involved in other high profile missing person cases, such as the Natalee Holloway case. She disappeared on the final night of a high school graduation trip to Aruba in May 2005.

The group said it will do what it can do assist in the search for Jaliek

http://capitalnews9.com:80/content/headlines/111419/texas-equusearch-helping-in-search-for-jaliek/Default.aspx


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 21, 2008, 07:29:51 PM
Police Plan Release of Surveillance Footage in Rainwalker Case
Videographer: M. Jackson
Last Update: 5:24 pm
Cambridge-Greenwich Police have been looking for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker for nearly five months without any luck.

Now, investigators say they plan on releasing some surveillance footage to the public in the hope of generating new leads.

They believe the footage show's Rainwalker's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, driving around Greenwich on the night the boy vanished.

Chief George Bell says, "We have a piece of video from a Glens Falls National Bank here on Main Street in Greenwich that shows a van similar to what Stephen was using the night Jaliek went missing."

On Friday morning, Bell and other officers from his department met with members of the New York State Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New York Forest Rangers to discuss the Rainwalker case.

There's still pending legal action against Chief Bell and his department for their February 7th search of Stephen Kerr's parents' home at 11 Hill Street in Greenwich.

Kerr and his attorney allege that that search was an improper one.

Chief Bell tells FOX23 News that there's a court hearing scheduled for May 1st and he's confident that a judge will throw the case out.

The items seized during that raid are still being analyzed and so are the seven letters that were mailed to the media in late January claiming that Rainwalker is still alive.

Bell says the United States Secret Service is working to try to lift fingerprints from the stamps.

The warming weather also means new hope in the search for Rainwalker.

Chief Bell tells us ground searches will start again in April.

The spring searches will rely most on volunteers.
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b409b776-e0af-4301-87c5-5ca8f3e8cdf5


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 26, 2008, 06:20:09 PM
Police: Phone records dispute Jaliek story
By DON LEHMAN
dlehman@poststar.com
Updated: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:48 PM EDT
GREENWICH — Cell phone records show that the adopted father of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker took a different route home on the night Jaliek disappeared than he told investigators, police said Tuesday.

The inconsistency between what Stephen Kerr told police and what phone records indicate has led police to conclude Kerr has not been truthful about where he went after picking Jaliek up at a respite home the night of Nov. 1, said Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell.

Kerr told police he received a call about 8:15 that night when he was on Route 40 in the hamlet of Melrose in the town of Schaghticoke, Bell said.

"He told us he was in front of Henry’s Garage in Melrose when he received that call, but we know for a fact he has lied to us about that because the cell phone records show the call was received in South Troy," Bell said. "He was nowhere near the route he told us he took home."

Engineers from Verizon Wireless analyzed the call data and determined where Kerr was based on which cell phone tower the call "hit," the chief said.

Bell would not say who called Kerr at that point, but he said cell phone records show it was the only call Kerr answered that night.

"The person who called him said he seemed quite agitated," Bell said.

Kerr has repeatedly given police a route of travel from the Albany area to Greenwich that night that does not include a detour through South Troy, at one point going with FBI agents to retrace his route and singling out the Melrose garage as the spot where he took the phone call, Bell said.

Kerr told police he arrived home with Jaliek the night of Nov. 1, and that he awoke the next morning to find the boy gone. No trace of him has been found since, despite extensive search efforts and a massive police investigation.

Kerr did not respond to a message left on his cell phone voicemail.

His lawyer, Jeffrey McMorris, said he was not familiar with the cell phone issue being raised by police and could not yet discuss it.

"I want to take a look at what they’ve got and then I’d comment on it," he said.

McMorris lashed out at police for being "goal-oriented," with the goal being a prosecution of Kerr instead of the discovery of Jaliek, who, his client believes, ran away.

"What are they doing to bring a live runaway home?" he asked. "Have they been visiting the bus stations and homeless shelters in New York City?"

Bell said a group of volunteers that has worked with police, known as Team Adam, sent thousands of fliers to homeless shelters and organizations that assist runaways and the homeless around the country.

"We’ve covered that," he said.

Bell on Tuesday also released a video of a van driving by the Glens Falls National Bank branch in Greenwich early in the morning of Nov. 2. Police believe the van is Kerr’s. The video, which can be found on The Post-Star’s Web site, shows a Chrysler minivan driving by the Main Street bank branch at 12:16 a.m. Nov. 2.

Bell said the gold van appears to be the one owned by Kerr’s father that Kerr was using at the time. The chief asked that anyone who might have driven by the bank that night or early morning in such a van call police at 692-9332.

If it was Kerr driving the van, the trip would not jibe with the version of events he gave police, Bell said. Kerr told police he stayed at the Hill Street home after arriving there in the middle of the evening, Nov. 1, with Jaliek.

McMorris has said it was not Kerr driving the van that was filmed passing the bank that night.

Meanwhile, police continue to await the results of forensic examinations of a computer and other items seized from the Hill Street home from which Kerr reported Jaliek disappeared, Bell said.

Bell added that the U.S. Secret Service has gotten involved in the case to help police trace the origins of several letters sent to the media in January in which it was indicated Jaliek was alive and living downstate. Police have said there is no evidence Jaliek is alive.

Bell said that analysis could include a check for DNA on the envelopes.

Barbara Reeley, Jaliek’s maternal grandmother, who is involved with the group that has dubbed itself the Find Jaliek Task Force, said the group has been working to put up two billboards on Route 40 in the coming week or so that picture Jaliek and list information about the case. One will be north of the village of Greenwich, the other south in Easton.

"They’re not fully designed yet, but they’re going to be a big plus," she said.

The owner of the billboards has offered to put them up at his cost, Bell said.

Reeley said a number of volunteer groups have resumed searching for Jaliek in recent weeks as snow melts. She said searches have taken place near Battenkill Country Club and in the Troy area.

Reeley said details are still being worked out on when Texas Equusearch, a nonprofit organization that assists in missing persons cases, will come to the region to help with the case.

Officers thought they might have gotten a break in the case over the weekend.

Bell and State Police investigators were called out Saturday after a body was found floating in the Hudson River in Troy, near where State Police divers had searched in Jaliek’s case earlier this year. But the badly decomposed body turned out to be that of a New York City man who disappeared from Troy last month, officials said.

Police have called Kerr a "person of interest" in their investigation, but he has said he did not harm Jaliek and he has not been charged.

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/25/news/latest/doc47e97274ea0cf154145401.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 26, 2008, 06:22:27 PM
Police release surveillance video taken the night Jaliek disappeared
Updated: 03/26/2008 05:59 AM
http://capitalnews9.com/Default.aspx?ArID=112930

GREENWICH, N.Y. - Video taken from the Glens Falls National Bank in Greenwich at 12:16 a.m. on the morning of November 2nd shows a gold van driving through. Police want to know if the gold Chrysler minivan that they see in the video belongs to Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr.

Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said, "If it's Stephen and his van, it certainly doesn't indicate that...you know, he says he was in bed."

Now police are asking for help again. They want to know if anyone was driving this van through this bank at that time in early November - the night Jaliek disappeared - so they can try to figure out if it was Kerr, or someone else. They also want to compare the van to the video, but Kerr and his attorney won't let them near it. The van is in the garage at Kerr's father's house on Hill Street.

Stephen Kerr's Attorney Jeffrey McMorris said, "I had a hard time somewhat even figuring out that it was a van. Every time they've asked for something, I ask, how is this going to lead to Jaliek coming home, and they can't answer that question and until they can, I see no relevance in letting them see the van or consenting to that."

McMorris said police had the van early when they first started investigating but that was before they had this surveillance video. Police also said Verizon has looked at Kerr's cell phone records because he said he was on the phone with a friend the night Jaliek disappeared. Where he said he made the call and the cell phone tower Verizon shows was used for that call was two different places.

Bell said, "He was definitely in South Troy. I can't tell you exactly where, but he was not on his route that he says he took."

McMorris said at this point, he will only give police what they ask for if it will help get Jaliek home.

He also said the reason his client has repeatedly refused to take a polygraph is that they don't prove anything in the courts and when asked if there are any circumstances under which they will give the van up to police, he said he could not think of any.

SEE VIDEO AT THE SITE ABOVE


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on March 27, 2008, 12:58:46 PM
I wonder why police haven't confiscated the van mentioned in the above article belonging to Jaliek's stepfather? If there is any question that it might have been used the night Jaliek disappeared, why does the father still have it in his possession? I continue to be amazed that law seems to be about the protection and preservation of the rights of the suspects and not about the victim. When will this change?

" The van is in the garage at Kerr's father's house on Hill Street."



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: kissyface on March 27, 2008, 01:49:30 PM
To me it shows that this man is definitely guilty of something.  Otherwise, why would he not be willing to give the van over to the police to collect whatever they could to help find this poor child?  I think their lawsuit is B.S. and is just an attempt to make themselves look like they are being falsely accused.  Here's my problem with it though, if this man is innocent then how are they finding "inconsistencies" (LIES) with his story?  Because he is not innocent.  He is involved and they are going to nail him and I can't wait for that day.  Jaliek may have had some emotional problems and maybe was not a peaceful part of the home but he was in their care and they had a responsibility to, at the very least, ensure his safety.  Kids don't go into foster care for no reason.   ::MonkeyNoNo:: What a shame.  This man is guilty of something IMO.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 28, 2008, 07:33:13 AM
Rainwalker probe focuses on call;
Police believe adoptive father misstated location on night youth vanished
 
GREENWICH - Investigators searching for Jaliek Rainwalker have reason to believe the missing boy's father lied about his whereabouts the day the 12-year-old disappeared.

Chief George Bell of the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department said Wednesday Stephen Kerr's cellphone records show he received a call in South Troy the night of Nov. 1. Kerr told police was in Melrose, a hamlet in Schaghticoke, at the time of the call.

Kerr adopted Jaliek five years ago with his wife, Jocelyn McDonald. Police describe him as "a person of interest" in the disappearance. Kerr was the last person to see Rainwalker when the two of them stayed at Kerr's father's house in Greenwich. Kerr has said Rainwalker ran away.

"Since day one we've been dealing with Verizon engineers and concentrating on Kerr's where abouts that night," said Bell. "We firmly believe based on what the engineers are telling us, he was in South Troy, and it was impossible for him to be where he said he was that night."

Kerr picked up Rainwalker at a respite home in Altamont and drove with him to Greenwich, Bell said. Kerr said he took Route 9 to alternate Route 7 and Hoosick Street where he turned onto Oakwood Avenue and then onto Route 40, which Kerr took north to Greenwich.

After Rainwalker's disappearance, Bell said Kerr retraced the route with police and said he took a phone call when he was near Hurley's Garage in Melrose on Route 40. But Bell said records show the cell tower that transmitted the call was in South Troy, a 20- to 25-minute drive away from Hurley's.

"Jaliek is still our number one priority; we're waiting on the Texas Equusearch (an equine search team) and the weather to break and we need the high water to recede," Bell said.

Several searches are planned in the next three weeks in South Troy, Greenwich and elsewhere. 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:766370226&start=5


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on March 28, 2008, 06:12:03 PM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9D813D28-A980-46CC-B4C0-A37A228B3BBE&gsa=true

Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive grandmother says she and her husband are seeking legal custody of the missing boy.

Barbara Reeley is the mother of Jocelyn McDonald - Rainwalker's adoptive mother.

Reeley tells FOX23 News that the search for the missing 12-year-old East Greenwich boy is being hampered by McDonald and her husband, Stephen Kerr, having official custody of Rainwalker.

Police have named Kerr a "person of interest" in the boy's disappearance.

Reeley says she's already in contact with social services.

She is planning a news conference for Friday afternoon to discuss the custody issue.

[Video at link]


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on April 04, 2008, 08:28:58 PM

Search continues for missing 12-year-old


 April 4, 2008
 GREENWICH -- The Find Jaliek Task Force will lead a search for the missing boy Saturday.

>>>the complete article
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=678172&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=4/4/2008


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on April 09, 2008, 08:56:46 AM
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Billboards go Up to Help Find Missing Boy

4/08
The friends and family of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker hope some new billboards will help bring him back.

Billboards with the picture Jaliek went up along Route 40 in Greenwich and Easton.

The billboards were put up by the “find Jaliek task force” and were financed by the donations they received during “find Jaliek day” over the weekend.

His adoptive grandmother hopes that by keeping jaliek’s name and face out there he will be found.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=dccfd65a-6a2b-41ea-8fb9-b7f5523bdd42


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: klaasend on April 14, 2008, 08:35:29 PM
http://timesunion.com:80/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=680697&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=4/14/2008

Texas search group joins hunt for Jaliek  
 
By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer
Click byline for more stories by writer.
Last updated: 5:33 p.m., Monday, April 14, 2008
 
GREENWICH -- A search group from Texas will bring new tools to the search for Jaliek Rainwalker Tuesday. Tim Miller, the director of Texas EquuSearch, arrived today and met with Greenich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell for two hours. Tuesday, Miller expects to begin underwater searches with sonar and may bring in a drone airplane equipped with a high-resolution camera. Searchers have found the remains of five people using the drone, Miller said. The searchers download images from the drone onto a laptop computer and study them for anything unusual.
Jaliek is a 12-year-old boy who went missing Nov. 1. His adopted father was the last one to see him.

EquuSearch, founded in 2000, is an outgrowth of a mounted search and recovery team Miller organized after his 16-year-old daughter was abducted and murdered in 1984 in North Galveston County, Texas. The group searched unsuccessfully for Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old from Alabama who disappeared on a trip to Aruba, but have found the remains of other missing people when previous efforts failed.

Barbara Reeley, whose daughter, Jocelyn McDonald, is Jaliek's adopted mother, asked Miller to search for Jaliek.

"I'm interested in their research and the drone planes, water sonar, horses and ATVs -- the whole list of resources they have," Reeley said. "It doesn't cost the state or the town any money, it all runs on donations."

Miller said the time that has gone by since Jaliek's disappearance makes the search harder but not impossible. He referred to a Mississippi case where EquuSearch found in 15 minutes the remains of a woman who had been missing for six months and an Illinois woman who was found on the second day of searching after she had been gone for five months.

"It's difficult but not impossible, but we'll need,and we always need, a little bit of luck," Miller said.

For more information about EquuSearch and to fill out an application to become a searcher, go to http://www.texasequusearch.org. More information about Jaliek is available at http://findjaliek.org.
 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on April 15, 2008, 10:22:14 AM
Thanks Klaas!
EXCELLENT!! GO TIM!!  ::MonkeyDance::

I would like to believe this boy is still alive, but I can't. I want him found and JUSTICE served!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on April 15, 2008, 01:38:58 PM
Thank you Tim and Texas Equusearch for once again being the generous, caring, skilled people you are. I too hope Jaliek is alive, but no one else has been able to locate him. Good luck to you all.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on April 15, 2008, 10:42:05 PM
God Bless Tim Miller.

This beautiful boy did not deserve the hard life he had. I hope he is found by TES, and can finally rest in peace.


As for that scumbucket Stephen Kerr....he did it. Fry him.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: klaasend on April 18, 2008, 07:49:55 PM
http://www.fox23news.com:80/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=fb37baae-c2d8-4f67-81a1-4259fb925dc6

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Flying Drone Aids Jaliek Rainwalker Search

Reported by: Paul Merrill
Last Update: 4:13 pm 


Gene Robinson of RP Search Services says these mechanical drones cost about $8,000 each. (Marc Jackson) Law enforcement officials are taking to the sky in their search for Jaliek Rainwalker.

A mechanical drone scoured southern Washington County on Friday, looking for any sign of the missing 12-year-old East Greenwich boy.

The technology is not much more complicated than a remote-controlled airplane with a digital camera in it.

"We've got some optimal conditions right now," says Gene Robinson of RP Search Services.  "There's not very many leaves on the trees and we've got bright sun so we'll be able to image and detail quite a bit of area very rapidly."

Robinson, a Texas pilot, developed the airborne technology.

Now, he travels the world, volunteering his time and expertise.

"We've gotten very good at detecting things in pictures that don't belong," he explains.

Robinson works with Texas EquuSearch - the national group that helped look for missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba and is now searching for Rainwalker who has been missing since November.

A ten megapixel camera mounted in Robinson's drone takes hundreds of images of the ground.

Investigators then compare those images with old pictures, looking for evidence of change.

Robinson tells FOX23 News that the technology has helped close five cases since 2000.

He says, "One of our finds was is we found a white speck and marked that out and it happened to be a tennis shoe."

Cambrige-Greenwich Police tell us Friday's search focused on wooded areas near the Batten Kill in southern Washington County.

Chief George Bell explains, "There's parts of the Batten Kill River that it's been too unsafe to get in."

On Friday morning, the drone first went up over the Batten Kill Country Club - one of the areas law enforcement officials first searched in the days after Rainwalker's disappearance.

Barabara Reeley, Jaliek's adoptive maternal grandmother, looked on as the drone flew.

She's letting Robinson stay with her while he's in the Capital Region.

Coincidentally, Graham Kerr, Rainwalker's adoptive paternal grandfather, was finishing up a game of golf as the search for his grandson began.

"I said, 'Hi Graham' and embraced him and he pushed me away," Reeley tells FOX23 News.

Kerr didn't want to discuss the search or his son, Stephen Kerr - the only "person of interest" named in Rainwalker's disappearance.

Before leaving the country club, Kerr loaded his golf clubs into the back of the gold Chrysler minivan that the family's attorney refuses to let police reanalyze.

"It's unconscionable not to look for a child," says Reeley.  "It's unconscionable."

Chief Bell tells FOX23 News that officials collected more than 200 images from Friday's search and will now begin to analyze them.

Robinson and his drone will help search for missing Latham man Joshua Szostak on Saturday before they return to Washington County on Sunday. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Red on April 19, 2008, 04:44:12 PM
Jaliek Rainwalker Missing Since November 1, 2007 in Greenwich, NY … Runaway, Suicide, Murder? Texas EquuSearch Joins Search

http://missingexploited.com/2008/04/17/jaliek-rainwalker-missing-since-november-1-2007-in-greenwich-ny-runaway-suicide-murder-texas-equusearch-joins-search/

Quote
The note allegedly left by Jaliek could be construed as a runaway or suicide note; however, Police Chief George Bell stated, more than 10 days after the boy’s disappearance, he fears that Rainwalker has fallen victim to someone or something.” 

“In 30 years, a kid of 12 years old, and I don’t care what his mindset is, he doesn’t fall off the face of the world,” Bell said. “We just don’t have a runaway kid here.”


Unfortunately this case is not looking like a runaway but something potentially much worse.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: dennisintn on May 22, 2008, 10:56:20 AM



From the hotel, agents will retrace Kerr and Rainwalker's trip to the home of Kerr's father in Greenwich. Kerr and his son stayed the night in the house by themselves. The next morning, Rainwalker was gone and Kerr produced a note in the boy's handwriting suggesting he ran away.

FBI officials declined to comment Thursday.

Kerr said he's pleased to be dealing with the FBI because he wants to find his son. But he is convinced that Rainwalker is alive and living with a family who, for unknown reasons, is keeping him hidden.

"Every time we went through a predominantly African American neighborhood he was like a kid in a candy shop. `Can we stop there and go shopping?'... I'm 100 percent sure he's in an urban setting within an African American community," Kerr said.

Police don't think so. Since Rainwalker's disappearance on Nov. 1, police, forest rangers, and FBI agents have combed the woods and waterways around the Washington County towns of Greenwich and Cambridge.

There is no evidence to suggest Rainwalker is living in a nearby city, police said.

Kerr's remarks came in a phone call to the Times Union Thursday to dispute a newspaper article that said he was tearing down fliers advertising a Sunday evening vigil organized by other relatives and former caregivers of Rainwalker.

The "Light the Night for Jaliek" event at the Greenwich VFW will include lighting a dozen searchlights and signing a Christmas card for the boy.

Kerr denied tearing down posters, but did say he asked store owners to remove them. However, police sources and multiple eyewitnesses have said they saw Kerr removing the signs.

He said the event is being organized by people who have slandered him, and he therefore wants no part of it.

"They just want to say that I've killed him. They've done nothing except harass me and my family," said Kerr who has not been named a suspect. The event's organizers include Kerr's mother-in-law, Barbara Reeley, and Elaine and Tom Person, the Altamont couple who provided respite care for the emotionally troubled youth.

When asked if, in fact, he harmed Rainwalker in any way, or had anything to do with his disappearance, Kerr said, "No. I did not."

But he added, "I could understand how people picture me as a prime suspect. That is completely understandable." He said, though, that he's opened his credit card, banking and phone records to police and let them search two homes he had access to.

"I've done everything," he said.

"All they want to do is string me up and hang me but they don't have any evidence," he said.

Police dispute much of what Kerr told the Times Union, including Kerr's claim that he has placed 78 phone calls to Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell since Rainwalker disappeared.

On Thursday, Bell said Kerr's behavior has been unusual throughout the ordeal, and that Kerr hasn't been the constant presence at the police station one might expect the parent of a missing child to be.

"If it was your 12-year-old child, where would you be?" Bell said. "This is a public building. Don't you think you'd be camped out on the doorstep?"
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:719841377&start=14
[/quote]

kerr is beginning to sound like aruba.  how could he be stupid enough to take down posters just because he didn't like the attitude of the people who were looking for his adopted son?  what difference would it make who found the child? 
dennisintn


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on May 25, 2008, 03:02:21 AM



From the hotel, agents will retrace Kerr and Rainwalker's trip to the home of Kerr's father in Greenwich. Kerr and his son stayed the night in the house by themselves. The next morning, Rainwalker was gone and Kerr produced a note in the boy's handwriting suggesting he ran away.

FBI officials declined to comment Thursday.

Kerr said he's pleased to be dealing with the FBI because he wants to find his son. But he is convinced that Rainwalker is alive and living with a family who, for unknown reasons, is keeping him hidden.

"Every time we went through a predominantly African American neighborhood he was like a kid in a candy shop. `Can we stop there and go shopping?'... I'm 100 percent sure he's in an urban setting within an African American community," Kerr said.

Police don't think so. Since Rainwalker's disappearance on Nov. 1, police, forest rangers, and FBI agents have combed the woods and waterways around the Washington County towns of Greenwich and Cambridge.

There is no evidence to suggest Rainwalker is living in a nearby city, police said.

Kerr's remarks came in a phone call to the Times Union Thursday to dispute a newspaper article that said he was tearing down fliers advertising a Sunday evening vigil organized by other relatives and former caregivers of Rainwalker.

The "Light the Night for Jaliek" event at the Greenwich VFW will include lighting a dozen searchlights and signing a Christmas card for the boy.

Kerr denied tearing down posters, but did say he asked store owners to remove them. However, police sources and multiple eyewitnesses have said they saw Kerr removing the signs.

He said the event is being organized by people who have slandered him, and he therefore wants no part of it.

"They just want to say that I've killed him. They've done nothing except harass me and my family," said Kerr who has not been named a suspect. The event's organizers include Kerr's mother-in-law, Barbara Reeley, and Elaine and Tom Person, the Altamont couple who provided respite care for the emotionally troubled youth.

When asked if, in fact, he harmed Rainwalker in any way, or had anything to do with his disappearance, Kerr said, "No. I did not."

But he added, "I could understand how people picture me as a prime suspect. That is completely understandable." He said, though, that he's opened his credit card, banking and phone records to police and let them search two homes he had access to.

"I've done everything," he said.

"All they want to do is string me up and hang me but they don't have any evidence," he said.
Police dispute much of what Kerr told the Times Union, including Kerr's claim that he has placed 78 phone calls to Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell since Rainwalker disappeared.

On Thursday, Bell said Kerr's behavior has been unusual throughout the ordeal, and that Kerr hasn't been the constant presence at the police station one might expect the parent of a missing child to be.

"If it was your 12-year-old child, where would you be?" Bell said. "This is a public building. Don't you think you'd be camped out on the doorstep?"
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:719841377&start=14

kerr is beginning to sound like aruba.  how could he be stupid enough to take down posters just because he didn't like the attitude of the people who were looking for his adopted son?  what difference would it make who found the child? 
dennisintn
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I just think that's an odd way to say you didn't do it.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on May 31, 2008, 11:40:19 AM
What is making Jaliek's Grandmother feel now is the time to seek custody of this child? Media attention which might mean money in the form of donations? or does she know what really happened to him and her conscience has gotten the better of her? Probably option #1 or the custody battle would likely have taken place before this child went missing.

++++++++++++++++++++

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Custody Fight for Jaliek Rainwalker

5/29 10:32 am
The grandmother of missing boy, Jaliek Rainwalker wants to become his legal guardian.

Fox23 News has been told a custody hearing will he held today at Warren County court.

Barbara Reeley is the mother of Jocelyn McDonald, Jaliek's adoptive mother.

In the past, Reeley has accused McDdonald and her husband, Stephen Kerr of not doing enough to look for the boy.

Jaliek was last seen in November with Kerr.

Kerr has been named a person of interest in the case but he has not charged with anything.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=eee7de1d-cd6e-4058-9a16-5a6a22dc2269


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on May 31, 2008, 09:12:48 PM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9D813D28-A980-46CC-B4C0-A37A228B3BBE&gsa=true

Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive grandmother says she and her husband are seeking legal custody of the missing boy.

Barbara Reeley is the mother of Jocelyn McDonald - Rainwalker's adoptive mother.

Reeley tells FOX23 News that the search for the missing 12-year-old East Greenwich boy is being hampered by McDonald and her husband, Stephen Kerr, having official custody of Rainwalker.

Police have named Kerr a "person of interest" in the boy's disappearance.

Reeley says she's already in contact with social services.

She is planning a news conference for Friday afternoon to discuss the custody issue.

[Video at link]


It looks like they changed this website for anyone who became frustrated trying to read at this link.  Here is another one I found that works.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=EEE7DE1D-CD6E-4058-9A16-5A6A22DC2269&gsa=true


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 01, 2008, 08:23:15 AM
http://www.findjaliek.org/

Check out this site for updates and history of this case.  Check out the house this child lived in in spite of $1500/month his adoptive parents received for him (even after he was missing).  The house had no plumbing or electricity and 2 outhouses without doors.  He was also punished in cruel ways.

God take care of Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 01, 2008, 08:35:16 AM
http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/115034/-unusual--images-picked-up-during-search-for-jaliek/Default.aspx
(video at site)
Sunday, June 1, 2008

"Unusual" images picked up during search for Jaliek
Updated: 04/29/2008 06:18 AM
By: Web Staff

CAPITAL REGION -- The search party for Jaliek Rainwalker is taking the week off after finding two unusual images over the weekend.

The 12-year-old has been missing for nearly six months now.

The search for the Greenwich boy shifted downstream this weekend, with volunteers combing the Hudson from Troy to Albany.

Texas EquuSearch volunteers from Ohio brought in a side-scan sonar to search parts of the river that haven't been combed over yet.

Jaliek's former care taker Elaine Person -- who is part of the search -- said that two "unusual" images were picked up by the side-scan sonar during Sunday's search.

A copy of the sonar reading has been sent to Greenwich police, but Chief George Bell said he's not an expert so he has passed it along to State Police.

Police will then determine if they will send divers to check the bottom of the river based on those images.

One sonar reading was taken behind Jaliek's grandfather's place of business., near Troy behind Mooradians. The second sonar reading was taken right under the Hoosick Street Bridge.

No more searching is scheduled for this week. Friends and family are holding a bake sale Thursday on South Pearl Street to raise money for the search.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on June 01, 2008, 12:03:36 PM
Wow this is really interesting. I wonder if finally they have found Jaliek?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on June 02, 2008, 10:15:54 PM
Weekend search for missing boy comes up empty

June 2, 2008
RUPERT — Volunteers are vowing to try again after a weekend search for a missing 12-year-old boy from Greenwich, N.Y. failed to produce results.

Jaliek Rainwalker often went camping and hiking with his parents in southwestern Vermont’s Merck National Forest, and that’s where searchers focused their efforts to find the boy, who was last seen Nov. 1.

Nearly two dozen volunteers searched for two hours on Saturday, but found no evidence.

Police have made several searches in the Greenwich, Albany and Troy, N.Y., areas but also have turned up nothing.

Two more searches are scheduled June 7 and 21, and volunteer leaders say they plan to resume where this weekend’s search left off.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080602/NEWS/80602006/1001/NEWS


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 07, 2008, 11:05:02 AM
Voice Analysis

Posted: June 3, 2008 04:33 PM EDT
 
A group searching for missing Washington County boy Jaliek Rainwalker says his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, is not telling the whole truth. The 12-year-old disappeared last November from his Greenwich home. Shortly after that, Kerr, a man police call a person of interest in the case, gave a 28 minute interview to NEWS10's Anya Tucker.

The group, Texas EquuSearch, brought in two leading voice analysis experts to determine the truthfulness and/or evasiveness of the statements made by Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, in that interview.

Now they want police to name Kerr, the last person to see Jaliek, a suspect in the case. NEWS10's Anya Tucker Reports.

"I have dealt with family members, and this is not the way family members react to someone missing. Not at all," said voice analysis expert and private investigator T.J. Ward.

Ward and his partner, Tom Winscher, have worked on high profile cases like the search for Natalee Halloway. In the case of Jaliek, they are hoping that technology called "Layered Voice Analysis" will help police here find out what happened to the boy. "Layered Voice Analysis" is basically a high-tech version of a lie detector test, which measures changes in voice frequency to detect truthfulness.

"When you are deceptive there are changes in frequencies in your voice, no matter who the person is," Tom Winscher told NEWS10.

Each word Kerr spoke in the interview was entered into a special computer program; the same kind of program that is used by Israeli's to ferret out terrorists. Ordinary stresses in the voice are disregarded, but the experts say any change in frequency will show if someone is lying or telling the truth.

"So we sometimes can find things that people subconsciously have hanging out there, and that is what we are looking for," Winscher said.

When studying the interview, Winscher says that Kerr's voice shows he was mostly truthful with NEWS10 when it came to cooperating with police early in the investigation.

Most disturbing to Ward though, is Kerr's behavior and his apparent quickness to anger. A statement by Anya Tucker, "I know you are very passionate about Martin Luther King," prompted a heated response in which he said, "No, I'm very passionate about my son. And you know what? If you can't rely on the people you call your heroes when times are tough - then who do you rely on?"

This came just minutes after a strangely playful moment when we readjusted the microphone NEWS10 affixed to him. With all of this on the same day we were talking about Kerr's missing son.

"It's sort of like he thinks it's funny and he doesn't care," Ward said, "and he is just not reacting like someone who has a loved one missing,"

Ward and Winscher have now recommended to police that Kerr become a suspect in the case. But there is a hitch to all of this. Layered Voice Analysis, just like lie detector tests, are not admissible in court. This is why it's unlikely it will be used against Kerr anytime soon.

NEWS10 spoke to Kerr's attorney today, who called the technology "voodoo".

http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?s=8419429


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 07, 2008, 11:31:18 AM
Please take some time to light a candle for Jaliek.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 12, 2008, 06:29:32 AM
A reminder that the next search is coming up soon.  They need more people for this search.  If you are in the area, please help.

Additional searches are scheduled for Saturday June 7th and Saturday June 21st, also at Merck Forest.  Volunteers who would like to participate in these searches must first register on the website to be notified of details.

The first area to be grid-searched is accessed thru the rear entrance to the park.  To get to the back gate of Merck Forest you drive to Salem (north on route 22) at the stop light turn right (east), route 153.  Go 6.6 miles (you will cross into Vermont) and make a right on East road.  East road is just one house away from the house Jocelyn & Stephen live in.  It is almost across the street from Sherman's Store.  Turn right on East Road and go 2.2 miles (the road will turn into a dirt road) to Hidden Valley Road.  Go Left on Hidden Valley Road and go to the end of the road which will be the back gate of Merck Forest.

Merck Forest is being searched because Jocelyn McDonald and Stephen Kerr, Jaliek’s adoptive parents and their children frequently hiked and camped there. The search will be lead by Jaliek’s maternal grandmother, Barbara Reeley who attended the New York State Forest Service’s Search and Rescue Training in April.  The search will be conducted by some of the 70 volunteer searchers that have registered with the Task Force via their website: www.findjaliek.org/search.htm


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on June 27, 2008, 06:23:33 AM
Please light a candle for Jaliek.  Saturday was the last planned search.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on July 15, 2008, 07:41:53 PM
Grandmother charged with burglary at home of missing boy

July 15, 2008
GREENWICH -- The adoptive grandmother of missing 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker pleaded not guilty this afternoon to charges she broke into the boy's home last week

 Barbara Reeley entered the plea during a court appearance where authorities accused her of entering the home where the boy once lived with his adoptive parents Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. The couple has since moved to Rupert, Vt.

Town and Village Justice John Pemrick said Reeley was accused of entering the house in an effort to obtain evidence in an ongoing custody battle.

In recent months, Reeley, who has been relentless in her pursuit to learn what happened to the boy who disappeared on Nov. 1, has tried to win custody of the boy.

 Reeley did not speak to reporters when she left court. Her attorney, Gregory Cholakis, noted that the affidavit said Reeley entered the home through an unlocked door.

Kerr and McDonald still own the property. Police have labeled Kerr a ``person of interest'' in the boy's disappearance, but he faces no criminal charges.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=703708


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on July 15, 2008, 07:43:55 PM
Hmmmm now how strange is that? I wonder if the Grandmother entered the house to get evidence pertaining to a custody battle or the disappearance of one missing Jaliek Rainwalker?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on July 15, 2008, 09:07:40 PM
VERY INTERESTING...indeed! mmmmmmmm, is right!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 16, 2008, 05:53:55 AM
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=701021

Missing youth's grandmother fails in custody bid 
 
By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer
Last updated: 12:50 p.m., Thursday, July 3, 2008
 
QUEENSBURY - The grandmother of Jaliek Rainwalker, a Washington County boy who has been missing since November, has failed in her attempt to win custody of him.

Barbara Reeley sought custody because she wanted legal standing as the missing persons search goes on, and because she wanted to send a message to him if he is still alive that he could return and live with her.

Family Court Judge Timothy Breen in Warren County dismissed the custody case Monday.

"The parents did nothing wrong," said Jeff McMorris, a lawyer for Jaliek's parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. "There was no evidence of neglect, maltreatment, abuse or abandonment. Her whole petition was a waste of time and money, there was nothing in it to substantiate a custody transfer."

Reeley suspects Kerr of harming Jaliek, 12, after upheaval in their home. Reeley has said Kerr and her daughter wanted to undo their adoption of him. She has since become estranged from her daughter. The police have described Kerr as "a person of interest," but have not charged him with any crime.

Reeley's lawyer, Greg Cholakis, said she is disappointed, but may seek other ways to establish legal standing in the case. McMorris called the case a publicity stunt, but Cholakis said that was "off-base."

"I don't question for one second that she cares for her grandson and wants to know what happened to him," Cholakis said.

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This may explain the Grandmother's recent actions a little better.




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on July 18, 2008, 12:12:14 AM
Police Raid Missing Boy's Adoptive Father's Home

July 17, 2008
Authorities in New York say they have recovered an item of interest in the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The 12-year-old has been missing since last November when his father left him with a family member at a home in Greenwich. Police suspect foul play and the boy's adoptive father Stephen Kerr is the prime focus of their investigation.

Yesterday police raided the adoptive father's former home. They seized just one piece of evidence, an article of clothing.

Police say may it may be a key part to their investigation. It has ben sent to a forensic lab for testing.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8690102&nav=4QcS


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 18, 2008, 04:42:02 AM
Police Raid Missing Boy's Adoptive Father's Home

July 17, 2008
Authorities in New York say they have recovered an item of interest in the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The 12-year-old has been missing since last November when his father left him with a family member at a home in Greenwich. Police suspect foul play and the boy's adoptive father Stephen Kerr is the prime focus of their investigation.

Yesterday police raided the adoptive father's former home. They seized just one piece of evidence, an article of clothing.

Police say may it may be a key part to their investigation. It has ben sent to a forensic lab for testing.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8690102&nav=4QcS

Praying for Jaliek.

Please don't forget about him.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 24, 2008, 02:31:05 AM
 :smt090


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on July 24, 2008, 02:37:20 PM
Thanks for reposting the candle link.  I have lit another.  I hope many others will as well.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on July 26, 2008, 07:35:40 PM
Police Raid Missing Boy's Adoptive Father's Home

July 17, 2008
Authorities in New York say they have recovered an item of interest in the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The 12-year-old has been missing since last November when his father left him with a family member at a home in Greenwich. Police suspect foul play and the boy's adoptive father Stephen Kerr is the prime focus of their investigation.

Yesterday police raided the adoptive father's former home. They seized just one piece of evidence, an article of clothing.

Police say may it may be a key part to their investigation. It has ben sent to a forensic lab for testing.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8690102&nav=4QcS

Praying for Jaliek.

Please don't forget about him.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal




I think about this child all the time.  It seems as though he was always lost, in some respects. No one ever really gave him the stable, loving home every child needs.
Someday, I hope he, at least, gets the justice he deserves.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 27, 2008, 03:14:18 AM
This is not new, but some of the information here was new to me.

Jaliek's grandmother charged; police probe possible new evidence
By: James V. Franco, The Record 07/16/2008

GREENWICH - Jaliek Rainwalker's grandmother stands charged with burglary, but her alleged actions may have lead police to new evidence in the investigation of the 12-year-old boy's disappearance.

Police allege Barbara Reeley went into the home of Rainwalker's adoptive parents to get evidence in her ongoing battle to get custody of the boy. A neighbor saw her in or near the 54 Ravens Way home, where Rainwalker once lived with his adoptive parents Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald.

The neighbor called the two, who have moved to Vermont and have not cooperated with police. Kerr, the last person to see Rainwalker alive, is labeled a "person of interest."

Kerr and McDonald called police but at the station, Reeley told them what she saw and signed an affidavit which prompted Greenwich police to execute a search warrant at the home. Sources said what Reeley saw and what police found was the yellow fleece jacket that Rainwalker was supposed to have been wearing when he disappeared on Nov. 1.

Police will now conduct tests on the garment to see if it will provide any useful information to the investigation.

Reeley, who is McDonald's estranged mother, is not accused of stealing anything, said her attorney Greg Cholakis. However, she is facing a felony for the alleged burglary on July 10. The case is adjourned until Aug. 5.

"Between now and then the DA will take a good hard look at the case and hopefully come to a just conclusion," Cholakis said. "My heart breaks for her every day. She is just a sweet person who wants to know what happened to her grandchild no more or less than anyone else whose loved one goes missing."

In February Greenwich Police searched Kerr's Hill Street residence and confiscated a computer and printer after several media outlets were sent a cryptic letter saying the boy was alive.

Even though the boy is missing, Reeley tried unsuccessfully to get custody of him, with her husband Dennis Smith, because a custodial parent can take a more integral role in the investigation and has rights to more information like medical records or information from agencies like social services.

Reeley, of Poestenkill, has accused her daughter and son-in-law of failing to do enough to find the boy who had been living with them since July 2002. He was officially adopted in 2004.

"Their lack of cooperation astonishes me," she said previously. "It would only benefit them if he were found, unless they harmed him."


Police quickly shot down a theory presented by Kerr that Rainwalker, who is bi-racial, ran away to join a street gang.

While appealing the custody decision was a possibility, Cholakis said the two have not talked about it in the last 72 hours. "She has to deal with a serious charge here," he said, adding that Reeley was very close to her grandson.

The case has riveted the Capital District and has stretched to the Hudson River where divers were following up on inconsistencies in Kerr's story about his route back to Greenwich where he picked up Rainwalker in Latham on Nov. 1.

It has also drawn the attention of high-profile search teams from as far away as Texas.

James V. Franco can be reached at 270-1277 or by email at jfranco@troyrecord.com

©The Record 2008


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pdh3 on July 27, 2008, 03:36:05 PM
Thanks for that article. It was very interesting. This poor woman, the grandmother, seems to be the only one in the family who ever cared for that child.

The adoptive Dad killed Jaliek, IMHO. It seems like the police are trying to find some good evidence to hang on him, because they know he did it. I hope this is it.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on July 28, 2008, 01:42:49 PM
I lit another candle for Jaliek today.  I wish someone would find out what happened to him and where he is.  If by some miracle he is still alive I hope he ends up with a loving family.  If he is no longer alive...I know he is in a loving environment.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 28, 2008, 06:35:12 PM
I lit another candle for Jaliek today.  I wish someone would find out what happened to him and where he is.  If by some miracle he is still alive I hope he ends up with a loving family.  If he is no longer alive...I know he is in a loving environment.

Amen to that.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 31, 2008, 07:34:04 AM
Did we miss your birthday, Jaliek?

Happy Birthday!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on July 31, 2008, 08:48:34 AM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on August 03, 2008, 07:31:14 PM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/

I lit another candle for Jaliek today.  I wish he could be found.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on August 03, 2008, 08:04:39 PM
I came by to light a candle for Jaliek, and to say a prayer for him, that he may be found soon.  Bless his grandmother for trying to find him, (and the truth) despite the adversity she has faced. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on August 04, 2008, 09:49:14 PM

   
Jaliek Rainwalker turns 13
Updated: 08/03/2008 08:40 AM
By: Curtis Schick

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Jaliek Rainwalker turns 13.  See the video and article at this location:  http://tinyurl.com/5lg376 
 
                             (http://images.capitalnews9.com/media/2008/8/3/images/02rainwalkerbday.jpg)                (http://images.capitalnews9.com/media/2008/8/3/images/01rainwalkerphoto.jpg)
You'll see his cake and a room full of friends and family. It's a party for Jaliek Rainwalker’s 13th birthday. But, as Curtis Schick reports, the day is bittersweet as no one has seen the Greenwich teen in a little more than nine months
****************************************************************************************
WYNANTSKILL, N.Y. -- If you drove by the house, you'd think it's someone's birthday. Inside, the table is set. Plates of ribs for dinner are ready. The guitar shaped cake is for desert. It's Jaliek Rainwalker's 13th birthday. But this celebration's main guest sadly won't get to blow out his candles. No one has seen the Greenwich teen in a little more than nine months.

"We miss him. We love him. We are distraught that he is not here with us to have his birthday with us he deserves to have," said Rainwalker's grandfather Dennis Smith.

"Every day that goes by makes it tougher, but we are not going to give up," said Tom Person, Rainwalker's former foster parent.

"Yesterday, buying balloons was very hard. It's hard to celebrate someone's birthday and they can't be here with us," said Barbara Reeley, Rainwalker's grandmother.

Reeley said people continue to report tips and last month Greenwich Police searched and removed what they think is Jaliek's clothing last month from the former home of his adoptive parents, Steven Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. Kerr remains a person of interest in the case. Still, no one has been charged with any crimes regarding his disappearance.

"He deserves to be here. Whatever happened to him he did not deserve," said Smith.

"I am a pretty impatient person, but I need to be patient. We just need to wait until we get that phone call and saying someone has found him," said Reeley.

The house that police searched is also the house Washington County Sheriff’s said Reeley broke into in early July. Reeley said she couldn't talk about the case, but said she's is due back in Greenwich Town Court Tuesday night.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on August 05, 2008, 08:51:10 AM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a4ad3c89-7dec-4fe2-b6f3-2abec92541cf

Jaliek's 13th Birthday
Last Update: 8/02 9:53 pm

                                  (http://www.fox23news.com/media/news/3/4/8/3482d4a1-aa80-4da9-a47a-bf0d50f0bbd3/Story.jpg)
He's been missing since last November but on Saturday the grandparents of Jaliek Rainwalker celebrate his 13th birthday.

About a dozen people gathered at the home of Barbara Reeley.

They want to keep Jaliek's name alive and recall the positives during this trying time.

Jaliek's grandparents asked people to bring a new book that he would have liked reading.

Those books will be donated to the library.

Jaliek was last seen November 1st.

His adoptive father Steven Kerr has been named a person of interest in his disappearance.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: NM on August 05, 2008, 09:02:06 AM
Happy Birthday Jaliek and prayers for you to return home!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on August 14, 2008, 06:22:05 AM
My thoughts and prayers go out for Jaliek and those who care about him.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on August 14, 2008, 11:33:12 AM
New Lead in Search for Jaliek Rainwalker

Last Update: 8/13 9:12 am
There's a new lead in the search for Jaliek Rainwalker.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell tells FOX23 News that a Colonie man reported seeing the missing boy at a screening of "Dark Knight" - the latest Batman movie.

The reported sighting happened on July 22nd at the movie theater in Colonie Center.

Bell says he doesn't believe the boy is Rainwalker but he says his department is still thoroughly investigating this latest lead

Rainwalker was last seen in November 2007; he would have turned 13 years old this month.

Police have named Steven Kerr, Rainwalker's adoptive father, as a person of interest in the boy's disappearance.

There is surveillance footage from Colonie Center that shows the boy in question.

Right now, the only copy of that footage is with the Glens Falls attorneys who represent Kerr.

One of those attorneys has promised to show the video to FOX23 News on Wednesday morning.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=fc1893ee-ae97-415a-b1a3-6902e7f66214


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on August 14, 2008, 08:02:11 PM
Thank you for the update, BB.  Wouldn't it be great if this was Jaliek Rainwalker at the theatre?    I'm glad the police dept.   is going ahead and are investigating the lead, even if the chief thinks it may not be Jaliek.  It makes me wonder if there is something the police know but haven't made public in this case, and if so, what that might be?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on August 14, 2008, 08:54:37 PM
Does anyone know if they did show the video to the TV station?  I would be great if it is Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on August 14, 2008, 09:31:44 PM
Boy In Surveillance Tape Not Jaliek Rainwalker 
By 810 WGY NEWS
Thursday, August 14, 2008

CONFIRMATION THURSDAY THAT THE BOY IN A SURVEILLANCE TAPE FROM OUTSIDE A COLONIE CENTER MOVIE THEATER IS NOT JALIEK RAINWALKER. THAT ENDS THE INVESTIGATION BY CAMBRIDGE-GREENWICH POLICE INTO A CLAIM BY A COLONIE MAN WHO SAYS HE SAW THE TEEN OUTSIDE THE THEATER JULY 22ND. THE BOY ON THE TAPE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A 13-YEAR-OLD FROM ALBANY. RAINWALKER'S BEEN MISSING SINCE NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR. HIS ADOPTIVE FATHER, STEVEN KERR, IS A PERSON OF INTEREST IN THE CASE.

http://www.wgy.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=121957&article=4101006


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on August 14, 2008, 10:37:10 PM
Thanks for the update.  How sad that this young man cannot be found.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on August 15, 2008, 09:03:35 AM
He is just a boy of 12 years (if he is alive, he is 13) and this case continues to haunt me. As much as I sooooo wanted this boy to be safe, I still believe he is dead. I want justice for Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on August 15, 2008, 09:20:25 AM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on August 15, 2008, 11:04:19 AM
Thank you for the links to the candles and to Jaliek's website, Bearly.  Like Nut44x4, I too fear he is dead. Of course, we hope he would be found alive and well , but if he isn't, I hope there will be justice for Jaliek and consequences for those that may have harmed him. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: truthseeker2 on August 20, 2008, 01:45:39 PM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/

Just lit another candle for Jaliek.  They had all gone out.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on August 22, 2008, 08:49:26 PM
Find Jaliek Task Force sets up booth at fair
Updated: 08/21/2008 02:53 PM

GREENWICH, N.Y. -- The name Jaliek Rainwalker has become very familiar over the past nine-and-a-half months, in part because friends and family of the missing boy continue to keep his name in the news.

His grandmother Barbara Reeley said, "It's hard. It's long hours. There have been a lot of tears, but we just want to keep his name and face out there so if anyone has any information they come forward."

This booth at the Washington County Fair is decorated with dozens of pictures of Jaliek through the years and Reeley and some of Jaliek's former foster parents are stationed there talking to people and recruiting some for future searches.

"Most of the people signing up for the searches don't know Jaliek. Some are EMTs or firefighters or just people who want to be out there helping," said Reeley.

A couple from Greenwich actually got involved in a search team earlier this year because of the Jaliek case.

Searcher Dari Norman said, "It's very much in the forefront of life in Southern Washington County and likely beyond."

For Reeley and her husband who believe Jaliek is no longer alive, the ultimate goal is to find him and give him a proper burial.

She added, "Everybody deserves that. Every life is precious."

Reeley and other members of the Find Jaliek Task Force will be at the booth through the end of the fair, which is Sunday.

http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/122446/find-jaliek-task-force-sets-up-booth-at-fair/Default.aspx


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on August 24, 2008, 11:27:22 AM
Boy seen on tape wasn't Jaliek

Saturday, August 23, 2008
GREENWICH -- The search for Jaliek Rainwalker continues this week when a child caught on a Colonie Center surveillance tape turned out not to be the missing 12-year-old.

 Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said the mother of the boy on the tape came forward to tell police it was her son, not Rainwalker, who was walking through the mall July 22.

Police studied the footage after someone who went to the mall to see "Batman: the Dark Knight" said he thought he saw Rainwalker in the movie theater. When the image was aired on local TV stations, a teacher at an Albany middle school thought the teen was one of her students and called police, who then contacted the boy's mother, Bell said.

"The State Police Major Crimes unit photographed him, verified his Social Security number, but you can tell just from looking at the photos it's not Jaliek," Bell said.

Police have not released the boy's name.

Rainwalker disappeared in November and there has been no sign of him. He weighed 105 pounds and was 5-foot-6 when he went missing in Greenwich. His adoptive father, Steven Kerr, was the last person to see the boy.

Bell said the police are pursuing other leads and possible sightings.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=714541


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on August 29, 2008, 05:31:08 AM
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/

We have not forgotten you, Jaliek.  God bless you and send us on the right path to find you.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on September 09, 2008, 07:32:04 AM
http://tinyurl.com/5rs6q5

8/26  Divers in Hudson River.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on September 09, 2008, 07:39:05 AM
8/29/08 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 8/29/08

Find Jaliek Task Force
Elaine Person
518-861-6262
518-527-6868 cell
eperson@capital.net

FIND JALIEK TASK FORCE MAKES SPECIAL PRESENTATION
ON 10-MONTH ANNIVERSARY

The Find Jaliek Task Force will observe the 10-month anniversary of Jaliek Rainwalker’s disappearance at a special presentation at the Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Avenue, Guilderland, NY  on Tuesday, September 2nd at 10:30am in the Helderberg Room.

At that time, the Task Force will present over 40 new books to Barbara Nichols Randall, director of the Guilderland Public Library and a representative of the Westmere Elementary School in honor of Jaliek’s 13th birthday which was August 2nd.  The books were donated by the Task Force, family members, friends and supporters.  These books include a book written by his former foster grandmother, one by an author he met in elementary school, books about adoption and foster care and books that Jaliek liked to read.

Jaliek lived in Guilderland and attended Westmere Elementary School for several years while living with a foster family prior to moving to his adopted family.

http://www.findjaliek.org/pr082908.htm


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on September 11, 2008, 01:01:31 PM
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on September 23, 2008, 08:02:53 AM
Please light a candle for Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on October 05, 2008, 05:35:44 AM
Nothing new.  How can this be?

Prayers for Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: bleachedblack on October 23, 2008, 11:09:49 AM
Jaliek search nearing one year
Despite lengthy investigation, police still at loss over missing Jaliek Rainwalker

By Don Lehman
dlehman@poststar.com
Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:51 AM EDT



Saturday, Nov. 1, will mark the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Greenwich youth Jaliek Rainwalker.

But to those who have closely followed the boy's plight, Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the events that some believe ultimately led to Rainwalker's disappearance.

It was Oct. 22, 2007, that the 12-year-old threatened to hurt a child in a home-school program with him, prompting his adoptive parents to place him in a "respite home" in the Albany area for several days.

It was the night of Nov. 1 that his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, picked up Rainwalker in Latham, had dinner with him at a restaurant and, according to what Kerr told police, drove back to Greenwich with the boy to stay the night in a Hill Street, Greenwich, home owned by Kerr's father.

The next morning, he reported Rainwalker missing, telling police he awoke and Rainwalker was gone.

There has been no trace of the boy since.

Nearly one year later, police are fairly confident that Rainwalker is no longer alive, and they believe they know who was responsible for his disappearance.

They have labeled Kerr a "person of interest" and publicly questioned his version of events from the night Rainwalker was last seen.

They have said they don't believe he has told them all he knows about what happened to the boy. Police have also said there are inconsistencies in his story and pointed to his refusal to take a lie detector test.

But despite thousands of hours of searching and investigation, police still don't know where Rainwalker is or what happened to him.

They have dramatically scaled back their investigation over the months, but police continue to handle leads as they come in and get together at least every few weeks to discuss the case and try to come up with new ideas.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell, whose agency has headed the inquiry, still meets and speaks frequently with members of the Find Jaliek Task Force, a group of volunteers working to help police.

The task force has been led by Barbara Reeley, Rainwalker's adoptive maternal grandmother, and Elaine Person, a former foster parent of the boy.

Searches continuing

Despite the fact that police and state forest rangers broke off formal ground and river search efforts over the spring, members of the task force and volunteer searchers have continued to search virtually every weekend, Reeley said.

They plan a search this Saturday, with as many as 60 people involved. She would not say where they will search, but said the group has been checking around the region, in western Vermont, and in the Troy area.

"The searches have been going on all summer. Most of the time we haven't made it known where we were going," Reeley said.

Vigils, billboards planned

The following Saturday, on Nov. 1, members of the task force will lead a vigil that will retrace the route Kerr said he took on Nov. 1, 2007, from Latham to Greenwich, and end with a candelelight vigil in Greenwich's Mowry Park shortly after 9 p.m. It will start at Latham Farms at 7 p.m., and Reeley said a group will also hold a vigil at the missing person's monument at the New York State Museum in Albany.

"We don't want it to be cookies and punch because it is a very sad event," Reeley said.

A billboard bearing Jaliek's face remains up on Route 40, and one was to be put up on Route 7 in Hoosick in the coming weeks. One that was up on Route 40 in Greenwich had been taken down, but will be put up again for the one-year mark.

Bell said tips continue to come in to police frequently, many of them about boys being spotted who look like Rainwalker.

Just last week, a tip came in that a boy who resembled Rainwalker had been seen at a video rental store in the Glens Falls area. State Police checked it out, located the boy, and found it was not Rainwalker but a look-alike who has been scrutinized several times, Bell said.

Police are at a point where there's little they can do other than investigate leads as they develop and wait for a break in the case, Bell said. They meet at least once a month to discuss the case, more frequently as issues arise, he said.

"They continue to investigate it as they get leads. They'll continue to investigate it until there is a resolution," Washington County District Attorney Kevin Kortright said.

Costly investigation

The investigation has involved dozens of officers. Between the agencies involved -- Cambridge-Greenwich Police, State Police, FBI, Washington County Sheriff's Office and state Department of Environmental Conservation -- a "fortune" was spent, Bell said.

He said he could not provide a cost estimate, but recounted the number of times helicopters and planes were used for aerial searches and boats for checks of the Hudson River and Batten Kill.

"If you think of the personnel, the support, the gas that was spent, it was a lot of money," the chief said.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police went over budget last year because of costs associated with the investigation, though Bell said he could not estimate by how much.

In part because of the exhaustive police efforts that have turned up no evidence that Rainwalker was still alive, the state Division of Criminal Justice Services recently changed the missing persons flier that was prepared for the case.

Since he disappeared, the flier had indicated he was believed to have run away, based on Kerr's statement that he believed the boy ran away and information provided by Kerr that he left a note behind. Now, it has been changed to indicate he disappeared under "unknown circumstances."

The note Kerr turned over to police, which included a "goodbye," has been a bone of contention as well. Person, the former foster parent of Rainwalker, has said the note was prepared by the boy as a homework assignment before he left her home Nov. 1.

Police are still awaiting a final FBI analysis of computer equipment that was confiscated from the Hill Street, Greenwich, home in February, after anonymous letters were received by members of the media indicating Rainwalker was still alive and had been picked up on Route 40 by someone.

Police believe the letters, sent from a Westchester County post office branch, were a hoax. Forensic analysis of them did not turn up any significant clues, Bell said.

A phone message left on Kerr's cell phone voice mail was not returned Wednesday. Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, have been at odds with police since shortly after the investigation began, filing a notice of claim (the precursor of a lawsuit) against the village of Greenwich over police actions when their Hill Street home was searched in February

Kerr's lawyer in that case, Tucker Stanclift, said no settlement was offered by the village, and it hadn't been decided whether a lawsuit would be filed.

'He's out there somewhere'

Jeffrey McMorris, the lawyer representing Kerr and McDonald for the criminal investigation, said his clients frequently look for the boy, and are preparing a new flier to be distributed in the coming weeks.

They believe Rainwalker ran away, and they're optimistic he's still alive, McMorris said.

"He's out there somewhere, is what they believe, what they want to believe," McMorris said. "They believe he's a survivor type of kid."

After a reporter called Kerr's cell phone on Wednesday, Kerr and McDonald issued a statement through their lawyer in which they wrote that they "pray that he is safe and will return home soon."

They went on to thank a number of agencies involved in the search, though the police were not mentioned among them.

McMorris and his clients have been critical of the police investigation, saying they believe police arrived at a theory as to what happened to Rainwalker and have not deviated from it.

Reeley, meanwhile, was charged with second-degree burglary, a felony, in July based on a complaint from Kerr that she went in the family's former home in East Greenwich without permission. She told police she went into the vacant home because she saw a yellow fleece jacket there, similar to what Kerr has told police Rainwalker was wearing the night he was last seen.

That charge is still pending.

Reeley said she has had high praise for Bell and the rest of the police for their diligence in pursuing the case, and said she knows they won't drop it.

She said she plans to meet in the coming weeks with leaders of the Division of Criminal Justice Services, which oversees police agencies in New York, to let the agency know her feelings about those involved with the inquiry and try to brainstorm new ideas for the investigation.

"Chief Bell, (State Police) Senior Investigator Tom Aiken, the State Police and FBI, the forest rangers, they've all been phenomenal," she said. "I know they're not going to give up on this."

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/10/23/news/local/14022987.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 31, 2008, 09:40:40 PM
First Anniversary of Jaliek Rainwalker Disappearance
Reported by: Paul Merrill 
Last Update: 6:30 pm
Jaliek Rainwalker's adoptive grandmother Barbara Reeley spent Friday morning like she spends many others:  searching for the missing boy.

Reeley's determination and the bizarre nature of her grandson's disappearance have kept his name in the headlines for nearly one full year now.

The then-12-year-old Washington County boy was last seen on November 1st, 2007.

As the first anniversary of Rainwalker's disappearance approaches, the Find Jaliek Task Force unveiled a new billboard featuring his face on Friday.

The billboard is on the side of Route 7 in Hoosick.

It's the second one in the area.

Investigators say they expect that behavior from people who are searching for a missing loved one; the same investigators are puzzled by how Rainwalker's adoptive parents have acted over the past year.

Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald did not speak to the media as the anniversary of their adoptive son's disappearance approached.

An e-mailed message from McDonald to her missing son reads, in part, "Jaybird, you are always in our thoughts and prayers.  We love you and miss you.  Wherever you are we want to come and bring you home."

Jeffrey McMorris is the attorney for Kerr and McDonald.

McMorris says the couple is still searching for Rainwalker every day.

"I can't give you a laundry list of everything," he said when asked about specifics.  "I'm not looking over their shoulders.  I know they're on the internet.  They're sending out notices and releases, talking to people."

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell says one thing Kerr and McDonald are not doing is cooperating with police.

"Anything they do is going to help find Jaliek," he says.  "Their total lack of cooperation just shows, I think, a lack of concern."

One year later, hope is fading that Rainwalker is alive.

Reeley, who says she will keep searching, tells us, "Until I know 100%, I won't give up complete hope but I don't think he's alive."

There will be a vigil on Saturday, November 1st.

The vigil will follow the path Rainwalker and Kerr took one year earlier.

It will begin in Latham Farms and continue to Greenwich, ending in Mowry Park.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b2782c4f-0d17-4657-843e-040328188efe


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on November 01, 2008, 06:43:37 AM
God bless Jaliek and those who have his best interests in their hearts.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

http://www.findjaliek.org/



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on December 16, 2008, 01:25:26 AM
http://www.findjaliek.org/pr120108.htm

ONE YEAR, ONE MONTH MISSING

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st

PRESS   RELEASE

Date:  November 26, 2008

Re:   Jaliek One Year, One Month Missing                           

For Release:  Immediately

The Find Jaliek Task Force has planned a day of handing out posters and answering

questions at Crossgates Mall for the One Year, One Month mark of Jaliek’s disappearance.

We will be inside the mall at J.C. Penney’s from 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.  The manager of J.C. Penney’s, Richard Hardy, has generously said we may have a table at his store all day Monday, December 1st.

We would like to thank all who support Jaliek in our efforts to keep his name and poster in the public eye.  We remain strong, resolute, focused and work hard in our search for Jaliek.  Law enforcement continues to follow-up on tips and leads and is working to find answers in Jaliek’s disappearance.

The new Missing Child/Unknown Circumstances poster that was issued on October 17th by New York State Division of Criminal Justice is one of the posters we will be handing out.

For more information please e-mail or call Barbara Reeley at 283-1082

For tips and leads contact the Greenwich Police at 692-9332.


Just didn't want anyone to forget.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on December 16, 2008, 01:30:49 AM
http://www.findjaliek.org/events.htm

Date                                 Event                                      Details
12-7-08                       EVERLASTING LIGHTS           Town Commons, Greenwich, NY
 
                                                                         There will be a Tree Lighting Memorial at 5:00 p.m.
 
                                                                         A tree will be decorated and lit for Jaliek.  Please come and see all
                                                                         the trees.
                                                                         
                                                                         Free Admission
1-1-09                      One Year, Two Months Missing
 
A table will be set up inside the Wilton Mall, Saratoga Springs, by J.C. Penney's on Thursday, January 1, 2009.  Barbara Reeley and Joy Purdy will be at the table handing out posters and will be available to talk with people from 11:00 a.m. until 7:00


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on December 24, 2008, 11:49:44 PM
It's Christmas eve, and Jaliek Rainwater is still missing.  God bless you where ever you are, Jaliek.

(http://bestsmileys.com/christmas6/2.gif)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on December 31, 2008, 04:09:27 PM
I am drawn to this case because Jaliek looks almost exactly like my son.  I hope 2009 brings some answers, as there have been none for too long.  Peace and love to all those suffering...Lovinlife.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on January 09, 2009, 02:32:32 PM
Eerie Similarities in Pasts: Internationally Acclaimed Psychic Medium Joins Find Jaliek Task Force

Granville, New York  January 6, 2009

A product of the system himself, Internationally Acclaimed Psychic Medium William Constantine, has joined the Find Jaliek Rainwalker Task Force. The eerie similarities in both Rainwalker and Constantine’s upbringing seem to fuse a unique bond and connection between the two.

Both our a product of the New York State Foster Care System – abandoned by their drug using and prostitute mothers --  Jaliek and William’s past seem to mirror one another. The physical and verbal abuse, neglect and mistreatment, the age at which the adoption process occurred, and the list of similarities go on and on.

It’s this bond between them that Constantine is hoping will bring Jaliek to him in order to find a new lead in the case. “I intend on visiting key points in the case and speaking with those who are connected to the case. I will not abandon Jaliek ! I am not doing this for fame nor fortune, but rather, to help a child who was charming, intelligent, and big hearted and the family and friends who cared about him find closure. I cannot help but feel like my situation could have ended like this.”

William has already spoken with Barbara Reeley, Jaliek’s maternal grandmother, and stated “I want you to know that I’m not charging you. I’m doing this to help find Jaliek and bring closure to interested parties.”

http://www.findjaliek.org/pr010609.htm


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on January 09, 2009, 10:31:11 PM
Saying a prayer for Jaliek and bringing his candles forward:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Pebbles on January 16, 2009, 09:31:41 PM
I lit a candle for Jaliek and have him in my prayers. What a tragedy that this poor child ended up in a home like that.  IMO Steven Kerr killed him and I hope the police can find some evidence to prove it.  I'm praying that Jaliek can be found soon to give his grandparents closure. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on January 22, 2009, 04:03:08 AM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on January 24, 2009, 11:52:50 AM
http://www.findjaliek.org/pr011009.htm

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 10, 2009
Contact: Joy Cook or William Constantine
Phone: (518) 321-0412
Email
 
A PSYCHIC’S QUEST FOR TRUTH
GRANVILLE, NY

On January 8th, Psychic Medium William Constantine met with Find Jaliek Task Force members Barbara Reeley, Joy Purdy, and Police Chief Bell. Yet, on his website on the 9th he posted that he would remain unaligned and could understand the position of Stephen and Jocelyn regarding the case. Constantine told Reeley during their meeting, “I am going on that Jaliek is ALIVE until I’m proven otherwise.” He goes on to say “So whose side am I on? My answer is simple and to the point; that of Jaliek Rainwalker.”
 
Is Constantine searching for a living, breathing, Jaliek? Constantine actually issued this statement in reference to the task force, "Personally, I believe that far too many people joined the Task Force with the assumption that Jaliek was deceased. The problem with this is that you have a lot of man power searching for a corpse rather than a living boy."
 
Constantine’s January 9th blog is a powerful statement as to this
Psychic’s stance regarding Jaliek Rainwalker.
 
To Read the blog visit http://www.williamconstantine.com/blog/

William is available for Interviews. Please contact Joy or William 518-321-0412.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on February 04, 2009, 09:20:05 PM
 JALIEK RAINWALKER

S T I L L     M I S S I N G
Barbara Reeley
Find Jaliek Task Force
283-1082/669-5296
claywomn@aol.com

PRESS RELEASE

Date:  January 30, 2009

Re:  Fifteen Months Missing ~ Task Force At Wilton Mall

Members of the Find Jaliek Task Force will be at Wilton Mall near J.C. Penney’s on Sunday, February 1st.  We will be handing out the latest Division of Criminal Justice poster of Jaliek Rainwalker, talking to people and giving free bumper stickers.

Please call or e-mail with any questions.  We will be at Wilton Mall from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on February 04, 2009, 09:24:15 PM
I stopped by to see if there is any news of Jaliek, to offer a prayer and light a candle for this lost boy.  Fifteen months is a long, long time.   ::MonkeyNoNo::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on February 09, 2009, 08:14:06 PM
JALIEK RAINWALKER
STILL MISSING


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on February 24, 2009, 07:21:50 PM
William Constantine has not updated his blog since January 12th, what's up with that?

Jaliek, I hope you are at peace...where ever you are...Lovinlife


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on March 09, 2009, 02:24:41 PM
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/02/27/dcl.paul.find.the.children.cnn?iref=videosearch

Jaliek recieved a spot on the "find the children" feature on CNN.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on March 29, 2009, 02:27:43 PM


Nothing new.  It is so very frustrating.


Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 03, 2009, 10:40:50 AM
NYS Mandatory Post-Adoption Oversight for Hard-to-Place Children "Jaliek's Law"

http://www.petitiononline.com/jaliek/petition.html

We have not forgotten you, Jaliek...


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 03, 2009, 10:48:33 AM
More on Jaliek's Law:

Jaliek’s Law is intended to provide oversight to post-adoption care for hard to place children. These adoptive parents receive money for the care of these children (ie: therapy). It is only fair to the children and to the tax payers that someone ensures that they receive the care they need. It can be easily argued that Jaliek did not receive the care he needed.

Those who argue may say it’s not right to discriminate against the way a child is brought into a family.  I don’t see this as discrimination and perhaps foster families should have more stringent oversight.  While there are many foster parents who’s main concern is the child, there are also those who look to profit from the situation.  And the system itself has problems, letting kids go back to parents just because they are the biological parents.  In my opinion, the whole system needs an overhaul before any more children are harmed.

As to the oversight …if an adoptive parent wants to be treated as any other parent the maybe they shouldn’t take money from the State for the care of the adopted child.  If you want the money then you should be willing to provide proof that you’re doing your part and using that money for the care of the child …not rent …not food …not clothes but for the therapy and/or medical care that deems these children “hard to place”.

Please support what is right for the children of NYS.

http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 15, 2009, 10:13:08 AM
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=784687

Search for Jaliek Rainwalker resumes 
 

Last updated: 8:24 p.m., Saturday, March 28, 2009
 
GREENWICH — Police plan to resume the search for Jaliek Rainwalker, the 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 2007, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said.
   
Police will be re-examining areas to see if anything was overlooked. Bell said there were no tips and no new information has surfaced.

"We just want to make sure everything is covered. It's just when you're brainstorming and someone says, 'Well maybe we should check again,'" Bell said. He hopes the search will continue within a couple of weeks.

Since Rainwalker vanished, local police investigators, the FBI, state troopers and dozens of volunteers have followed leads throughout the Capital Region, including the Washington County woods and Hudson River near Troy. In January, a fourth psychic joined the search with the Find Jaliek Rainwalker Task Force, led by the boy's grandmother, Barbara Reeley.

Rainwalker went missing from his Greenwich home two years ago on Oct. 31, where he lived with his adoptive parents Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. Police characterized Kerr as a "person of interest" and have described Rainwalker's disappearance as suspicious. No one has been charged in the case.

— Sharon Hong
 
*****************************

WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU, JALIEK!!!!!!!!!

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 19, 2009, 03:06:23 PM
Dear Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell:

I read the article in the Times Union of the resumation of the search for Jaliek Rainwalker.  However a "couple of weeks" have come and gone and there is no mention of it anywhere.  I cannot explain to you the frustration I am feeling at this moment.  This boy had been trown away a long time ago by the state of NY and I can't help but notice that mentality is continuing. 

Lovinlife


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on April 21, 2009, 02:48:39 AM

Still here on your side, Jaliek.  Monkeys have longer memories than elephants, we never, never forget.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 22, 2009, 08:10:15 PM

Still here on your side, Jaliek.  Monkeys have longer memories than elephants, we never, never forget.



I'm still here too.  And you are not forgotten, Jaliek.  God bless.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 29, 2009, 08:28:59 PM


Nothing new.  It is so very frustrating.


Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/




I pray you will be found soon, Jaliek.  You are not forgotten.  God bless


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 05, 2009, 09:49:30 AM
I pray that with the melting of the snow and the coming of springtime will bring new leads to find you Jaliek.  Peace be with you, you are not forgotten.  Lovinlife

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on May 05, 2009, 10:02:27 AM
 :cry: me too ... I'll never forget this beautiful child....


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on May 10, 2009, 09:49:58 PM
God bless you Jaliek, wherever you are.  You are not forgotten.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 11, 2009, 12:54:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/1N7YYsI36aY&hl=en&fs=1

I can't believe I actually posted this youtube video!  This one's for you Jaliek!  You have made me do things that I never, ever thought I was able to do.  You are in my daily thoughts and prayers.  Many, many people are standing by you.  We will never give up.

 ::MonkeyAngel::

Lovinlife


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on May 14, 2009, 06:09:23 AM
Search for Jaliek Rainwalker resumes

Posted: May 13, 2009 08:52 PM EDT

A year-and-a-half after his disappearance, searchers went back out in Washington County to look for Jaliek Rainwalker.

It has been more than eighteen months since police have conducted an active search for the boy, but on Wednesday they were back out on the Batten Kill in Greenwich, looking for any clues on his disappearance.

From morning into late afternoon, New York State forest rangers combed the Batten Kill shoreline while investigators plucked waterlogged debris from the underbelly of a huge mill.

Inside sources tell NEWS10 that this most recent search comes after a visit two weeks ago by a nationally recognized handler and her cadaver dogs.

At one point on the Batten Kill is a swirling bulge in the water; a spot that locals have dubbed "the hellhole". Police say Rainwalker and his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, were very familiar with this location.

"Stephen (Kerr) had mentioned early on that this is, was an area that they came to, and that's why our focus here coupled with the dog alerts in the area," Greenwich Police Chief George Bell told NEWS10.

After hours of sifting thru muck and debris, however, police seemed to come up empty handed.

"We continue to get tips and we are going to continue to keep doing it," Chief Bell said, "The interest has not died off, we still want to find Jaliek."

The media attention around the investigation has also kept the spotlight on the case, which has seen teams from as far away as Texas come to Greenwich to aid in the search.

Rainwalker's maternal grandmother Barbara Reeley raced to Greenwich after hearing of the renewed interest in the case.

"I don't want anyone to get hurt, I don't want anyone to be harmed, but if Jaliek's there, I want Jaliek to be found," she said.

Noticeably absent from the Wednesday search were Jaliek's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. NEWS10 spoke to their attorney. He said over the phone that the couple still believes their son ran away and they are doing their own searches for Jaliek on the internet.

Rainwalker was reported missing by his adoptive parents on November 2nd, 2007. A couple of months later, in January, his adoptive father Kerr was named a person of interest in the disappearance.

Police did search his house, but he has never been arrested.

It was back in March that police announced they were continuing the search, despite a lack of new evidence.

Police say they will be out searching again Thursday.

http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=10358763


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 14, 2009, 02:45:45 PM
Latest Jaliek search turns up empty
 
MIDDLE FALLS - Police combed the grounds near an old mill Wednesday, hoping to find Jaliek Rainwalker, the boy who went missing in Washington County in November 2007.

Investigators returned to a spot along the Battenkill River after getting a new lead. The area is a part of Washington County police working this case are familiar with. In fact they've searched close to this spot before, but never focusing this much attention.

The latest development came after cadaver dogs picked up a scent along the river.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell says they're focusing their search at the old Stephen and Thompson Paper Mill in Middle Falls.

Bell says two weekends ago, a national search team brought in two cadaver dogs that were getting hits at a number of places near the old mill. He says the dogs have expertise in picking up the scent of human remains, adding these dogs worked during Hurricane Katrina and after 9/11.

Wednesday state police dive members, investigators and those with the forensic unit searched the Battenkill. They also sifted through the debris underneath and around the mill.

While Wednesday's search turned up empty, this was the first new development in the case in quite a while.

Jaliek disappeared a year and a half ago. He was last scene in Greenwich with his father, Stephen Kerr.

"Stephen had mentioned early on in his interview this was a place, an area he and Jaliek had come to before and that's why our focus is here, couple with the fact we had the dog alerts going on in this area," Bell said.

The police chief says as long as the tips and leads keep coming in, they'll keep searching.
 
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S929327.shtml?cat=300


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 15, 2009, 05:46:03 PM
No clues in latest Jaliek search
Published: Friday, May 15, 2009


By ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN, The Saratogian

MIDDLE FALLS —Two days of searching around an abandoned mill yielded no clues in the case of a boy missing from Greenwich since 2007.

Jaliek Rainwalker, who would be 13 and was last seen with his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, in Latham on Nov. 1, 2007, has been the subject of an ongoing search throughout the Capital District and surrounding areas.

On Wednesday and Thursday the New York State Police, in conjunction with the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department, searched areas of the Battenkill River, around the abandoned Stephens & Thompson mill in Middle Falls, in the town of Easton.

The mill is off of Washington County Route 53 in Easton.

Tom Aiken, a senior investigator with the New York State Police in Greenwich, said searchers had used dogs trained to sniff out bodies in the search, but had yielded no results, and the search of that area had concluded by noon today.

"We’ve never stopped searching," said Aiken.

During a previous search, dogs had alerted to this area.

Although no criminal charges have been filed, in early 2008, police named Kerr as a "person of interest" in the case.
http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2009/05/15/news/doc4a0ccb0c98d7c925013722.txt


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on May 28, 2009, 11:58:55 AM
From Lovinlife's sig line:


Lighting a candle for a boy who needs a lot of love:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please light a candle and say a prayer for Jaliek.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 01, 2009, 08:03:56 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/rDSC06639.JPG)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on June 01, 2009, 08:11:45 PM
What a beautiful young man!  Thank you for posting the picture of Jaliek, lovin'. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 01, 2009, 08:16:05 PM
What a beautiful young man!  Thank you for posting the picture of Jaliek, lovin'. 
You're welcome Muffy.  Just searching for something new in the news regarding Jaliek and saw that pic and found it beautiful.  Those eyes get me every time.  It's summer now and children should be enjoying an icecream.  We have not forgotten you, Jaliek!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on June 09, 2009, 03:53:33 PM
From lovinlife's sig line:

Lighting a candle for a boy who needs a lot of love:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on June 18, 2009, 09:10:42 AM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/rDSC06639.JPG)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 19, 2009, 11:51:14 PM
To show your concern, email your request for a free bumper sticker to mailto:Claywomn@aol.com?subject=Free Bumper Sticker

(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/bumper_sticker.jpg)

Date Event Details
June 19, 20 & 21 Whipple City Festival
Downtown Greenwich, NY Information booth about the new tip line that has been set up by the Washington County DA and bumper stickers will be given out at no cost. 

http://www.findjaliek.org/events.htm



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 19, 2009, 11:56:46 PM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Washington-County-launches-anonymous-crime-tip/myU3phYNwEur47Dn4wl_HQ.cspx

Washington County launches anonymous crime tip line

Washington County law enforcement gets a new tool to help fight crime, and it involves you, your eyes and ears, and your telephone.
It may be a relatively quiet place but crime does happen in Washington County, and now law enforcement has a new tool to help fight it.

It's called WeTip -- a tip line that accepts anonymous information about crimes and then passes it onto law enforcement -- and police agencies in Washington County are the first in New York to make use of it.

Susan Aguilar/WeTip CEO: “It's a safe and secure way for people to get involved, to take action, to be an active part of the safety in their communities.”

Here's how it works.

A person calls into WeTip's toll free number, answered by an operator who tells them not to say their name or ID themselves in any way.

The operator then asks several dozen questions about the crime and passes the information on to the law enforcement agency that would investigate it.

WeTip works where people want it to work, and so when people want to get involved and they want to give information but they don't want to testify in court, they don't want the police coming to their day, they don't want to be taped or traced or Caller ID'd.  WeTip doesn't do any of that.”

Chief George Bell/Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department: “They can call in.  They can be anybody just calls in and remains anonymous and hopefully that will make, spur some activity.”

The case law enforcement hopes will benefit most from the tip line - the Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance - under investigation for more than a year and a half with no answers.

Chief George Bell: “Just one call from somebody will help us bring some closure to this case, find Jaliek, and bring the person responsible for this to justice.

WeTip can also used to take information about bullying in schools or harassment and other issues for businesses.

The company, which is a non-profit organization, says the program is already being used by schools on Long Island and in New Jersey.

It is on-line now, and will cost 6 cents per person in Washington County, or about $3750 a year, paid for with drug forfeiture money.

To call in a tip, call 1-800-78-crime or post a tip online at www.wetip.com

You can get additional information about all of WeTip’s programs there as well.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on June 20, 2009, 12:01:44 AM
To show your concern, email your request for a free bumper sticker to mailto:Claywomn@aol.com?subject=Free Bumper Sticker

(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/bumper_sticker.jpg)

Date Event Details
June 19, 20 & 21 Whipple City Festival
Downtown Greenwich, NY Information booth about the new tip line that has been set up by the Washington County DA and bumper stickers will be given out at no cost. 

http://www.findjaliek.org/events.htm



Thank you for bringing more information lovinlife.  You're a good and caring advocate for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::  I missed seeing you for a bit.  I hope all is well with you.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 22, 2009, 05:21:20 PM
http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/

June 13, 2009
590 days …
Filed under: Awareness, Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing people — Kim @ 7:42 am

… that’s how long Jaliek Rainwalker has been missing.  If you ask me, that’s 590 day too long.  I know I haven’t been present much on the blogs, including my own, but not one day goes by when I do not think about Jaliek.  Actually, I see him every day, several times a day, as I’m getting in and out of my car.  His missing poster is in my car window, spreading awareness of a child who is still missing.  People take a second look as they pass by.  I smile when I see someone pointing as they drive by, one more person has seen Jaliek’s face.

Jaliek will not be forgotten but it’s time to bring him home.  I’ve been sitting here thinking that there has to be a better way.  There are so many missing people in the Capital District and the surrounding areas, why haven’t they been found?  Yes, the cases go cold, leads stop coming in but the one constant is that these people are still missing.  They aren’t just a face on a poster.  They are someone’s child, mother, father, sister, brother.

(http://accordingtokim.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/jaliek_hat11.jpg?w=316&h=384)

AMEN KIM!!!!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on June 22, 2009, 07:13:10 PM
The candle is lit and daily prayers said.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 25, 2009, 12:50:09 PM
(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/66/l_e20668bcba04c6dd60f7e705c346d421.jpg)
http://www.myspace.com/joyjuice


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 25, 2009, 12:57:38 PM
(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/67/l_a67da0c8cc3004dad8d84aba0241871b.jpg)
Jaliek as a tot, what a cutie!
http://www.myspace.com/joyjuice


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on June 29, 2009, 01:11:23 AM
Thank you for sharing these pictures.  Every day a candle and a prayer.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: pink angel on June 29, 2009, 03:47:32 AM
(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/67/l_a67da0c8cc3004dad8d84aba0241871b.jpg)
Jaliek as a tot, what a cutie!
http://www.myspace.com/joyjuice

Such a cutie! Thank you for sharing his pictures.
Saying a prayer for Jaliek and his family.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 29, 2009, 06:05:49 PM
We went to a lake boating this weekend and thought of Jaliek and these pictures.  I hope Jaliek was able to have some fun when he went to the lake. 

For anyone who would like to read more about Jaliek, please visit http://www.findjaliek.org this site is run by Jaliek's one time foster mother and Jaliek's adoptive mother's mom (who, by the way thinks her son-in-law had something to do with Jaliek's disappearance ::MonkeyEek:: ).


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on June 29, 2009, 07:17:44 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 29, 2009, 07:24:05 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on June 30, 2009, 06:15:46 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!

It is the least I can do, and the best I can do.
oc


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 02, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!

It is the least I can do, and the best I can do.
oc


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 03, 2009, 02:45:40 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!

It is the least I can do, and the best I can do.
oc


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 04, 2009, 08:37:01 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!

It is the least I can do, and the best I can do.
oc


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on July 05, 2009, 10:40:56 AM
(http://www.fox23news.com/media/news/b/c/2/bc271973-1cd6-4cb9-afd7-7dab5720b9e0/Story.jpg)
Jaliek poster

Washington County has launched an anonymous tipline called WeTip to take tips about crimes from citizens, and they're hoping this might lead to solving the Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance case.

http://www.wetip.com


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 08, 2009, 08:24:55 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Every day a candle and a prayer.
And thank you for continuing to keep hope alive for Jaliek!

It is the least I can do, and the best I can do.
oc


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on July 09, 2009, 10:45:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/0CjyVjQhNsk&hl=en&fs=1&


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 09, 2009, 06:38:29 PM


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 10, 2009, 07:54:54 PM


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on July 12, 2009, 01:39:00 PM
Another day, another prayer -- may we find rejoicing here soon.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on July 15, 2009, 10:07:27 AM
Jaliek's 14th birthday is coming up August 2nd.  Please pray, as I will surely be, that there will be answers. 




Edit: Correct birth date


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on July 15, 2009, 10:40:47 AM
Jaliek's 14th birthday is coming up August 2nd.  Please pray, as I will surely be, that there will be answers. 
Edit:  Correct birth date

Lovinlife, I really do wish there were answers.  He was twelve years old when he was reported missing.  Too long. I pray he will be found. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on July 20, 2009, 09:56:01 AM
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=821343&category=ALBANY&TextPage=1

Cases out of sight, never out of mind
Less-well-known among the missing often overshadowed 
 
By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer
First published in print: Sunday, July 19, 2009 

**snipped from above**

George Bell is the chief of police in two small Washington County towns, Greenwich and Cambridge. He is an outspoken, playful guy and admits his way of doing things sometimes differs from the State Police playbook. That way of doing things has kept the case in the headlines. When Jaliek Rainwalker, a 12-year-old from Greenwich, disappeared in November 2007, he said felt "the media and the taxpayers deserved to know what was going on" with the search for the boy. Bell and the State Police held news conferences and Bell spoke willingly to reporters.

"We've had leads we might not otherwise have had without media attention," Bell said.

Of course, despite the best efforts of police, not every case is solved. Author Stacy Horn studied nearly 9,000 cold cases in New York City between 1985 and 2003 for her book, "The Restless Sleep." She says she "found out how easy it is to get away with murder." Police want to solve crimes and "be heroes to the public and the department," she said, but there are times when that isn't possible.






Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Mommy Joy on July 20, 2009, 08:12:13 PM
Jaliek's 14th birthday is August 2nd, 2009

Not sure if this article ever made it here. Below is the interview of Jaliek's adoptive mother, Jocelyn McDonald, and adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, with a small newspaper in Cambridge, NY that doesn't post on the internet:

Searching for Jaliek Rainwalker:
Rainwalker’s Parents Speak With Main Street News, Cambride, NY
By Linda Anderson

On November 2, 2007, 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker of Greenwich, NY, disappeared. What  happened to him remains a mystery.

Did he run away? Did he commit suicide? Was he the victim of found play?

For many months the story of Rainwalker’s disappearance has unfolded as a drama. Media coverage and the missing boy has dominated local TV news and newspapers. We’ve heard various points of view from parties of interest to the missing boy--the police, the Find Jaliek Task Force, and relatives. Who we haven’t’ heard from are the boy’s parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald.

On January 22, both Kerr and McDonald were invited into the office of Main Street to talk about their concerns and issues regarding their missing son.

The parents feel that their overall experience with the media has not been a good one. While they welcomed the opportunity to share their side of the story with Main Street they were very guarded about the process. I proposed that I would taped the interview, transcribe it, and print it exactly as it occurred. I said I would begin by asking them questions and also afford them the opportunity to share what ever was on their mind. I explained that my article would include a brief summer of events and information regarding Rainwalker’s disappearance.

They agreed.

However, when the couple arrived at the Main Street office they declined to answer any questions. Instead they wanted to talk just about their intent of finding their son who they believe is alive. I turned on the tape recorder and here is what was said:

Jocelyn McDonald:  We would like to talk abut the public and private things which we do, to bring Jaliek home as well as the tremendous outpouring of local support, which we have received. That is, basically, what we would like to talk about, which is about finding our son.

So we have done all different sorts of things. I wish I had brought posters. We’ve created new posters on a regular basis to bring in new awareness. We feel like people get tired of the old posters. They need the new posters. They need to see a different side of him a different, you know, a different perspective, whole body or whoever, and so we are constantly creating new posters and putting out the new posters with new pictures so that people have a different perspective.

And we’ve distributed thousands of those  posters to individuals, businesses, and other areas. In the beginning we put out a lot of pleas to the press for Jaliek to come home. We really were hoping that he could hear us and come home. But now we have just spoken to the press a lot about him being missing and putting out the word and about people continuing to see his picture an, um, it’s really important to me that one in six children come home because their picture was seen by somebody and somebody called. And so, for me, it’s really important that his picture continue to get out there. That’s been, to me, one of the top things for us to do, is the just continue to get his picture out there.

We planned seven vigils and working on some fund-raisers right now. We’re connected with organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children where he has information on their website and the New York State Clearing house…

Stephen Kerr: We have a social worker…working with us.

McDonald:  Yeah, Missing and Exploited Children, we also have a social worker through her. We also have an individual support person from a family whose child ran away, through them…[phone call interrupts, the Jocelyn continues]…and Team Adam and the runaway hotline, which is something that we really tried to publicize is that the runaway hotline is available for young people. They will come pick kids up and take them to shelters or homes wherever they are, which I think is an amazing thing. It’s national. They will also take messages from me and if he calls in they will give him my messages and he can get messages to me through them if he’s not ready to call me directly. Um, and we keep his Face Book page current and we are working on creating a My Space page. We distribute media kits on regular basis with new photos or Jaliek to keep up the interest and, ah, we’ve arranged a reward based on ht info given to us from Team Adam National Center and the FBI. Which is that people sometimes wait for rewards to go up and so by publicly saying that this reward will go down, ah, our hope is that people will come forward on the sooner side rather than the later side.

Um, that is most of what we have done publicly at this point. We have other p0lans in the works and there are a lot of things we’ve done I can’t tell you about yet because thing that we do sometimes get sabotaged when they get put out there before they are ready. It’s happened several times.

And then on the private side, we do a lot of research on runaway shelters, and blogs. We have called a lot of shelters all over. We leave messages at 1-800-run-away and update them occasionally. We have a focus group that meets to brainstorm ideas about finding Jaliek, many of those ideas are [unclear] that they are in the works and as they come closer we will talk more.

We look up information about gangs in the Albany area. And pass that on to Chief Bell. The FBI has informed us that there are over 20 gangs in Albany alone. Nobody seems to know that. And that we have found two name of people who work with gangs, John Cutro (sp?) and Cook Barrett, which we passed on their names and information to Bell as well so he could talk to them. And there was just a conference on foster care youth in Albany and their attractions to gangs in Albany and so that is also something else that we passed on to the police. We contact the police at least once daily sometimes four, five, six times. We connect with psychics pass along their information. We collect photos form different people and edit them to take out primarily people who are not involved and deserve their privacy.

We spend a lot of time working on appropriate arrangements for Jaliek when he comes home. We continue to be prepared. When researching runaways one of the big things they talked about is that nobody is ready for when the come home. And so you need to think about when he comes h9ome, what kinds of things need to be set in place. So we are forming a [unclear] committee, which is a single point of access. Which is a group of people who know Jaliek---therapists and social workers and just, you know, you get everybody together who…

Kerr: Educational.

McDonald: Education, to, make the best decision about what can be done for Jaliek and that can take up to a year to get one of those together and actually functioning, so, we have been working on that one. And with that we have meetings with lots of people.

We continually send out new e-mails to our list asking them to pass them onto their list and print them and put them up. Let’s see the, like Friday or Saturday…

Kerr: Sunday or Monday.

McDonald: Oh, the Sunday or Monday after Jaliek left which would be like November 5, Stephen’s sister Yinka emailed one of our posters to a DEA agent on her list. All of our friends are sending them out to all of their other friends. And he [DEA agent] sent them out to 5,700 DEA agents on his list.

Kerr: Monday morning.

McDonald: Monday morning, yeah. And so wheat we are doing, is I got a phone call from the adoptive support group leader who had a family move to Indonesia. Which was interesting. Not from us but from through Yinka, actually who has contacts in Indonesia. And Stephen’s parents have a lot of contacts all over the world. So, and Stephen’s sister has sent it out all over the world and then those people, she has contacts in Zimbabwe who have friends in New York City who, you know, and so it’s just gone, it’s gone and gone and gone and gone and gone.

Let’s see, oh, different people have suggested that we do different things. People like, groups like Team Adam and other [unclear] people. We make time lines and biographies and possibility maps of all the different things that could have possibly have happened. And lists of interests and things like that where we are doing biographies of Jaliek and all the things that he could potentially be interested in. It’s useful for the police to know that he likes basketball and they can look for him at basketball courts. That they can look for him in a library because he loves libraries. I mean the source of places that he might go to hang out or get warm or be with other people.

We have learned a lot of computer and research skills. And we have connected a lot with our local school and about what he needs when he comes back. We meet with a lot of agencies like the FBI, the DSS that’s about [unclear], state and local police, the missing persons experts, psychics, Team Adam, clergy. We have nightly meetings to discuss our plans for the next day. With whoever has come to support us including family that have come from Atlanta and Romania, friends from Massachusetts, China, and Tennessee, as well as local people. We keep a daily log, that’s here (show me), and Stephen has take two months off of work to focus on this crisis and he is currently not at work.

McDonald: Are you going to say anything (speaking to Stephen)? Huh, OK, good, that leaves me.

Um, primarily, to me, the best support we are getting at the moment is this focus group which creates new ideas, brainstorms, bounces off each other, plans, delegates things. 

Since Jaliek disappeared the community has made dinner for us every night, which is incredible. It’s been months. Many people have offered and done child care so we can attend meetings. People research a lot of information for us. They, the community, has copied and distributed posters far and wide. I’ve seen of black and white copes that we did not put out. And I see them everywhere. Many people have come forward with their own stories and their children running away or them running away when they were kids. Really kind of humorous to see an elderly person at the church who comes to me and says, “Well, I ran away when I was a little girl” and you are (chuckle) looking at this very proper old woman. Um, and then these people were saying that these kids returned to lead healthy lives. You know, “my son was gone for a year. Don’t worry don’t give up hope.” It’s been incredible and I’ve been really surprised how many people come forward with those stories. It’s very reassuring.

Parent with children who have similar issues as Jaliek have come forward wit their stories and talked to the police about them. Lots of professionals have donated their expertise from massage and meals and acupuncture, advice about the press and missing children therapy, other therapies, cranial sacro, lot of people have donated their time.

Ah, local people have spoken out in our behalf and written letters to the editor. Lots of local businesses keep our son’s picture up in their windows. Many people have taped Jaliek’s picture to their cars. Um, we have received many cards, hugs, and supportive words (shows me a card). This is the latest one that we got from a friend of ours, which was very sweet. And it came with quite a substantial financial gift, which helps us a lot at this point. Our community has reached out to their bigger communities, creating a larger web of people who are caring and supporting us. We have been kind of amazed a the young people who have come forward, many, many young people, teenagers or even younger have felt very moved to write letters, letters to the editor. One young lady put up the Face Book page. We were in the process of trying to put up a Face Book page and found out there already was one up. Which we keep updated. Younger kids draw pictures, other kids come over and play games with our kids who are, you know, struggling in this crisis.

Lots and lots and lots, countless people have walked the streets and the fields and volunteered their time to peek inside each “hoody” at the face and people inside there. I have lot of people say, “I ran and ran and ran and caught up with this kid and looked inside and it was not Jaliek, you know.” And ah, that is pretty amazing. Groups of people have gathered and organized food shopping, laundry, pharmacy pickup, animal care, and people come with lists, “What can I do for you? Do you need laundry done, do you need like let me take this, let me do this.” That’s been pretty amazing.

People I don’t even know on the streets have been overwhelmingly supportive. Stephen and I have both had people walk down the road, come up to us and give us hugs and say, “I am so sorry. We have be through something similar or we haven’t,” or whatever.

[Phone interruption]

McDonald: Let’s see, like I said, overwhelmingly people have just, walking down the street, I have become a celebrity that I didn’t want to ever be and people will just walk up and say, “I am so sorry I hear about it on the news. I pray for you.” Check-out people at Hannaford’s, “oh, I am so sorry. I see your things on the news and I know it’s not true, and I pray for your family.” That has been incredible the number of people, you are walking through your day kind of like, this, and people have been great.

Lots of people came forward at the holiday season to try and help our kids to have as good a time as they could. [Including Rainwalker, the couple have five children--two adopted and three natural---between the ages of 7-15.] It was a hard holiday and I don’t mean with gifts, I mean with caring and…

Kerr: Time.

McDonald: Time. Especially at the time very few people have extra time, but lots of cookies! (chuckle).

And then we’ve had lots of other, more private, gifts of love and support that, you know, that people don’t want us to talk about. Um, but I do want to acknowledge that lots other things have happened and it’s been, I will say that I grew up moving constantly, I was a military brat, and I went to 18 schools before I graduated from high school and I never had a home base, and when we moved here, what Stephen and I like about the community was that it’s very much a community. It’s very much settled and yet it has taken me a long time to feel a part of the community but this has been the thing that makes me realize that I am a part of the community. That people really care and see us and one of the things that Stephen and I realize is that this has woven us into the web of community. This whole story in a way that you know never got had this not happened. So anyhow…

Kerr: Our minister wrote a letter on our behalf at one point and she said that there’s been a number of families, people, she has heard over the years who knew our family and knew we adopted two children, kids and adults who have outwardly said I wish they would adopt me. She had never heard that from anyone before in her entire life.

McDonald: I will tell you honestly I have had a lot of adults say that to me, “I wish you would adopt me.” One just called me the other day and was crying and said, “Jocelyn, remember that thing I said to you two years ago about I wish you would adopt me? I think I need to adopt you!” (chuckle) that was so sweet. You know with what you are going through and how hard things are. She has gone out of her way to invite us to meals and reach out to us.

The talk continued, but in the end the couple asked that what followed not be printed--in part because of their intent to provide their other four children with privacy. The talk ended with Kerr reiterating the couple’s intent with talking to Main Street…

Kerr: Our interview here is about finding my son…My goal is not to respond to what other people have said, my goal here is to give information about what I have done, what my family has done, and how I am moving forward because we believe our son is alive, and he is somewhere. There is absolutely not one, single, single, tiny, microscopic…

McDonald: Shred of evidence that he’s not alive.

Kerr: Shred of evidence that he’s dead.

Linda Anderson: Where do you think he is?

McDonald: I think that he could be in many, many, many, different places and my original ideas are not broad enough to the possibilities and that is part of what our focus group is working on. Is absolutely how broad are the possibilities or where he could be.     




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on July 20, 2009, 08:32:28 PM
Hello Mommy Joy and welcome to Scared Monkeys.  Thank you for bringing the newspaper interview. 



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on July 20, 2009, 09:36:25 PM
Muffy ~ Mommy Joy's correct & Jaliek's Birthday is August 2nd!   ::MonkeyWaa:: I'm so sorry!!!! Can you change date in post: http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=2348.msg878358#msg878358 TY Okay, fixed birth date.

 ::MonkeyDance:: ::MonkeyDance:: ::MonkeyDance:: Welcome to Scared Monkeys, Mommy Joy!!!!!   ::MonkeyDance:: ::MonkeyDance:: ::MonkeyDance::

We are glad that you are here and thanks for the article.  ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Mommy Joy on July 20, 2009, 10:19:32 PM
Thanks to all of you who have diligently kept Jaliek's disappearance fresh and at the forefront.

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
                           
               Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on July 21, 2009, 08:41:59 AM
WELCOME! And thanks!!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: can on July 21, 2009, 08:51:30 AM
Welcome Mommy Joy.

It sounds as though Jaliek is thought to be alive.  A runaway? or an abduction? ...

Do you know if there has been any forward movement, tangible tips since this article was written in January?

With hope that Jaliek will be found and returned to his family.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on July 26, 2009, 06:10:58 PM
http://www.examiner.com/x-16350-Albany-Crime-Examiner~y2009m7d7-Washington-County-first-in-NY-State-to-implement-crime-reporting-line
Washington County first in NY to implement crime reporting line
July 7, 5:58 AM
As of June, Washington County is the first in New York State to activate the Wetip, Inc. national anonymous hotline to fight crime. Wetip, Inc., out of California, is completely anonymous, confidential, and is designed for people who are apprehensive, fear repercussions, and don’t want to be subpoenaed. Pending an arrest, tipsters can expect to receive up to a $1,000 reward for their tip via an assigned pin number that secures their information and insures their reward.

After almost a half million tips, and 15,000 arrests, none of Wetip’s tipsters have been revealed. Everyday, all day (24/7), Washington County citizens can dial into Wetip’s live operators toll free at 1-800-78-CRIME where they are instructed not to give their name or information that may reveal their identity. Any and all crime information is taken seriously varying from school bullying, arson, drug trafficking, or homicide, and is passed on to law enforcement.

Spurred by the disappearance of Greenwich, NY boy, Jaliek Rainwalker, Washington County is hoping the Wetip, Inc. program will aid in the Jaliek Rainwalker case, and will be funded by drug forfeiture money, so it won’t cost tax payers a dime. To call in a tip, call 1-800-78-crime or post a tip online at www.wetip.com



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 11:57:04 AM
Happy 14th Birthday Jaliek!  You are on my mind every day, and especially today.  We will never give up on searching for you and finding answers for those who care about you.  People who love you last saw you when you were 12 years old. 

(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/smileys/11.gif)


Lovinlife


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 11:58:32 AM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/m_a67da0c8cc3004dad8d84aba0241871b.jpg)  (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/m_98119246ed1805d3ad088d821f4c13f5.jpg)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 12:00:44 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/rainwalker_jaliek9.jpg) (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek1.jpg) (http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/recentjaliek2.jpg)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 12:02:00 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/rainwalker-150x150.jpg)

Jaliek's Grandparents during April 12th search  ::MonkeyWaa::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 12:02:36 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 12:04:03 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/rDSC06639.JPG)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 02, 2009, 12:05:55 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/bumper_sticker.jpg)
www.findjaliek.org


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 10, 2009, 10:11:42 AM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/wwwfindjaliek.jpg)

Jaliek Rainwalker~STILL MISSING

You are not forgotten!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Leroy on August 11, 2009, 04:48:39 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

This one is my favorite...he looks so happy and carefree.

Thank you Lovin.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 12, 2009, 11:46:14 AM
Thanks to all of you who have diligently kept Jaliek's disappearance fresh and at the forefront.

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
                           
               Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
Mommy Joy, would love to have you post again...if you are able to do so. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 12, 2009, 11:47:48 AM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

This one is my favorite...he looks so happy and carefree.

Thank you Lovin.
I love that one too Leroy, since the picture is cropped I always imagine that maybe he's holding a fishing rod with a great big fish on the line. 

Where is Jaliek?!?!?!?!?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Ariana on August 16, 2009, 01:09:06 PM
http://www.examiner.com/x-16350-Albany-Crime-Examiner~y2009m7d7-Washington-County-first-in-NY-State-to-implement-crime-reporting-line
Washington County first in NY to implement crime reporting line
July 7, 5:58 AM
As of June, Washington County is the first in New York State to activate the Wetip, Inc. national anonymous hotline to fight crime. Wetip, Inc., out of California, is completely anonymous, confidential, and is designed for people who are apprehensive, fear repercussions, and don’t want to be subpoenaed. Pending an arrest, tipsters can expect to receive up to a $1,000 reward for their tip via an assigned pin number that secures their information and insures their reward.

After almost a half million tips, and 15,000 arrests, none of Wetip’s tipsters have been revealed. Everyday, all day (24/7), Washington County citizens can dial into Wetip’s live operators toll free at 1-800-78-CRIME where they are instructed not to give their name or information that may reveal their identity. Any and all crime information is taken seriously varying from school bullying, arson, drug trafficking, or homicide, and is passed on to law enforcement.

Spurred by the disappearance of Greenwich, NY boy, Jaliek Rainwalker, Washington County is hoping the Wetip, Inc. program will aid in the Jaliek Rainwalker case, and will be funded by drug forfeiture money, so it won’t cost tax payers a dime. To call in a tip, call 1-800-78-crime or posta tip online at www.wetip.com



I like this idea.  I wish they would implement it in other places.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 18, 2009, 10:37:08 AM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/new_sticker.jpg)
www.findjaliek.org


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on August 26, 2009, 05:57:24 PM
Summer's almost over...Where are you Jaliek?  You are not forgotten  :smt049 :smt049 :smt049


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on August 27, 2009, 12:13:13 AM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

Thanks for this pix again, it is one of my favorites -- continued prayers for his return.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on September 04, 2009, 12:39:53 AM
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:r15LKQx-mXtwcM:http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg404/HFMCMissing/Thread%2520Pictures/hope/51XF6AHPXFL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Praying for you Jaliek


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on September 21, 2009, 07:39:29 PM
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:r15LKQx-mXtwcM:http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg404/HFMCMissing/Thread%2520Pictures/hope/51XF6AHPXFL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Praying for you Jaliek
Date     Event     Details
Saturday, Sept 26, 2009    
Greenwich Harvest Festival
Greenwich, NY
   
We will have a booth at Greenwich Harvest Festival all day Saturday, September 26th.  The festival is an annual event, free admission.  Call 692-7979 for information about the festival.
 
The booth for Jaliek will be near Washington Square Deli (5 Salem Street, just off Main St.) and we will have WeTip Line posters with Jaliek's photo and information, key chains & ID tags with Jaliek's name and the bumper sticker (see above).   We will have used books for sale.
 
Please come out and support the search for Jaliek.



http://www.findjaliek.org/events.htm


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on October 05, 2009, 07:29:35 AM


Jaliek, you are so dear to my heart.  Please come home to the ones who love you.

 ::MonkeyTears:: ::MonkeyTears::



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Bearlyhere on October 05, 2009, 07:50:24 AM


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 ::MonkeyAngel::



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: can on October 05, 2009, 08:39:09 AM

Prayers for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 06, 2009, 08:22:55 PM
I wonder how infamous William Constantine is doing on Jaliek's case? ::MonkeyRoll::

You are not forgotten Jaliek!  Monkeys never give up! ::MonkeyHeart::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 21, 2009, 12:17:51 PM


Music & Candlelight Vigil

in honor of Missing

Jaliek Rainwalker

Sunday, November 1, 2009

7 – 9 pm

~~~~~

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

145 Main Street

Greenwich, New York

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:17rZQG-b9JyU_M:http://accordingtokim.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/jaliek_hat11.jpg)

~~~~~
As we approach the two year mark
since Jaliek disappeared we invite
everyone to  come together for Jaliek.

~~~~~
http://www.findjaliek.org/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 21, 2009, 12:19:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/rRkoUDPu1ME&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 27, 2009, 05:02:49 PM
I need a hattip on this to go to Faith @ HFTM

Updated at: 10/27/2009 2:54 PM
Human bones found in Edinburg

EDINBURG -- The discovery of what appeared to be human bones Monday in woods off Fox Hill Road has State Police searching for other human remains today.

Police are trying to determine from whom the bones came, and whether the remains can be linked to any area missing persons cases, such as the 2007 disappearance of Greenwich boy Jaliek Rainwalker.

Part of the bone appears to be from a human skull, officials said.

Neither State Police investigators nor Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell would comment on the matter Tuesday afternoon.

Trooper Maureen Tuffey acknowledged that "bone fragments" were discovered, and it was being investigated whether they were human.

Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy said the State Police forensic identification unit is involved in the matter as well.

He said investigators are trying to determine how old the portion of a skull is, how long it's been in the woods and to whom it belonged. DNA tests will be done to try to match it with people who have been reported missing.

"We do have a number of missing persons cases in the area," he said. "It's still too early to say. There are lots of questions. It's going to take some significant time."

More details will be posted as they become available.

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1215377.shtml?cat=300


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 27, 2009, 05:38:23 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/greenwichtoEdinburgh.jpg)

Greenwich to Edinburg

(I hope this turns out...)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 27, 2009, 05:41:17 PM
As much as I do not want this to be Jaliek, I would like to have answers for those who love him.  ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 27, 2009, 09:04:27 PM
NY troopers say skull bones found in woods

Associated Press - October 27, 2009 6:55 PM ET

GREENFIELD, N.Y. (AP) - State police say fragments of a human skull found in woods in northern Saratoga County appear to be from a child 10 to 12 years old.  ::MonkeyTears::

State Police Maj. William Sprague declined to say who found the bones on Tuesday. He said technicians will try to get DNA from the bones as part of attempts to identify the person.

Sprague declined to speculate whether the bones could be linked to a specific missing person case. He said the age of the bones is unknown, but they don't appear to be from an ancient burial ground.

He said lab testing will likely take four to six weeks.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11395273


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 27, 2009, 09:13:50 PM
GREENFIELD - What's believed to be human bones have been found in a wooded area off of Lake Desolation Road in Greenfield.

State troopers and investigators were in the area in the northwest corner of Greenfield, near the Edinburg and Providence town lines, searching all day after the bones were discovered Monday.
The heavily wooded area is about three miles northwest of Lake Desolation.

Parts of a human skull, perhaps that of a child, were found there.

About two dozen state troopers, plus forest rangers and volunteers where involved in the search about a mile into the woods off Lake Desolation Road.

State police wouldn't say what, if anything, they found.

The bones will be tested to see if they can be linked to any area missing persons or unsolved homicides.

Because the skull may be a child's, investigators immediately thought of a Jaliek Rainwalker, the 12-year-old Greenwich boy who went missing two years ago under mysterious circumstances.

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1215377.shtml?cat=300


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 27, 2009, 11:13:29 PM
I wonder how they got to this area?  Was there a search, a tip, or did a hunter stumble across them?  Will just have to wait I guess.  Seems ironic that it is almost the 2 year anniversary.  Prayers for Jaliek. ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 28, 2009, 12:27:16 AM
Please say a prayer and light a candle for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on October 28, 2009, 06:20:55 AM
http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2009/10/28/news/doc4ae7a1f04e299891708410.txt

Skull found in area woods

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
GREENFIELD — Investigators with the New York State Police Forensic Identification Unit were searching the scene Tuesday where a human skull was found on Monday in a remote section of woods off Fox Hill Road, North of Lake Desolation just before the Edinburg town line in Greenfield.

Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said the skull is believed to be that of a child, possibly between the ages of 10 and 12.

Police were scouring the scene late into the afternoon Tuesday, searching for more remains, as the skull was being prepared for transport to the New York State Crime Lab in Albany where DNA tests were expected to be performed. The results of these tests will be compared against the Missing Persons database to see if the remains can be matched with DNA samples of people who have been reported missing.

"We have several missing persons cases in our area," Murphy said, including that of Jaliek Rainwalker, the boy who went missing in 2007. "It is too early in the investigation for any speculation on who the remains belong to," he said.

The search at the site resumes this morning and Murphy’s office is expecting to be briefed by police.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 28, 2009, 08:12:56 AM
Please say a prayer and light a candle for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal
::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Fanny Mae on October 28, 2009, 09:55:04 AM
Please say a prayer and light a candle for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal
::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on October 28, 2009, 02:51:55 PM
http://www.uticaod.com/news/x23528140/Childs-bones-found-in-Adirondacks

Child's bones found in Adirondacks
Local officials speak about Sarah Anne Wood case
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By CASSAUNDRA BABER
*******-Dispatch
Posted Oct 28, 2009 @ 02:33 PM
GREENFIELD —

State police say fragments of a human skull found in woods in northern Saratoga County appear to be from a child 10 to 12 years old.

State Police Maj. William Sprague declined to say who found the bones on Tuesday. He said technicians will try to get DNA from the bones as part of attempts to identify the person, but that could take four to six weeks.

State Supreme Court Justice Michael Daley, a previous Herkimer County District Attorney, said he is hopeful that the remains could help put closure to the case of Sara Anne Wood.

In 1993, Sara was abducted near her Frankfort home while walking her bicycle on Hacadam Road in the town of Litchfield. Lewis Lent later admitted to killing her in 1996, and was sentenced in 1997. He told authorities that he buried her near Raquette Lake. Several excavations were done, but none were successful.

“I think it's really premature to speculate to any significance it may have on our case,” Daley said Wednesday. “I would think that not only we would be hopeful, but I know there are other kids out there that are missing, but no one wants to get their hopes up.”

One of those children is Jaliek Rainwalker of Washington County, who disappeared two years ago Nov. 1. He was 12.
Troop D public information officer Jim Simpson said no local investigators will be headed to the scene.

“We know they're looking into that, but it's going to be awhile before we know anything,” Simpson said. “It's six weeks away if anything. I'm sure (Loudinville state police will) bring us up to speed, but as of yet we're waiting to get that information.”

Contributing: The Associated Press


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 28, 2009, 05:45:08 PM
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=858574

More skull fragments, teeth of child found in Saratoga County case
  By DENNIS YUSKO, Staff writer
Last updated: 5:11 p.m., Wednesday, October 28, 2009

GREENFIELD -- The case of a child's skull found in Saratoga County took a step forward Wednesday when law enforcement officials said they also had located a lower jaw bone with teeth that could help identify the remains.

   
A hunter walking in the woods northwest of Fox Hill Road near Lake Desolation found skull fragments and other remains on the ground Tuesday, Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said. The hunter contacted State Police, who went to the site and found skull fragments, jaw and orbital bones, Murphy said.

"I'm treating it as a crime scene," said Murphy, who added that the bones appear to be relatively recent in age.

Police believe the bone parts belonged to a prepubescent boy or girl no older than 12, but are awaiting tests for a final determination.

The teeth discovered at the scene are important because forensic experts have a good chance of extracting DNA from their roots over the next 2 to 3 weeks. The results will be compared against missing children cases, Murphy said.

Rain on Wednesday caused State Police to postpone a search for additional human remains at the site where the skull was discovered.

Police will revisit the wooded area near Edinburg today or Friday, State Police Maj. William Sprague said.

"It's rare to find bones like this," he said. "We don't have an explanation."

Neither Sprague nor Murphy would speculate on who the bones might belong to.

There are about six missing person cases in the area involving people of that age, law enforcement officials said.

Saratoga Springs police have one case from April 1986 that could match, Sgt. John Catone said Wednesday. That's when city resident Tammie McCormick, 14, left for junior high school on West Circular Street, and was never seen again, Catone said. "Some acquaintances she had were familiar with the area where the bones were found, but I'm very cautious," Catone said.

In Glens Falls, 13-year-old Mary Wesolowski disappeared in 1971 on her way to go swimming with friends, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

More recently, Sara Anne Wood, 12, disappeared in 1993 while riding her bike in Herkimer County. Lewis Lent Jr. admitted to kidnapping and killing her, but her body was never recovered.

Another 12-year-old, Jaliek Rainwalker of Greenwich, went missing almost two years ago, on Oct. 31, 2007.



Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=858574#ixzz0VGktvOGB


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Six children missing from that area matching that description? I think they have a problem, JMO


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 28, 2009, 06:57:52 PM

"Six children missing from that area matching that description? I think they have a problem, JMO"

ITA


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 29, 2009, 02:08:39 PM
I will wait until DNA confirmation, JMO

http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2009/10/29/news/doc4ae914b7175ef701008399.txt

Unlikely bones belong to Rainwalker
Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009

By Paul Post
Special to The Record

GREENFIELD — Authorities say skull fragments found Monday in a remote section of Greenfield are likely not those of Jaliek Rainwalker, who went missing two years ago Sunday.

However, the partial remains could point to at least a half-dozen other unsolved cases involving missing capital region children.

Fragments discovered Monday afternoon by a hunter on the north side of Fox Hill Road, near the Edinburg town line, have been sent to the state police crime lab in Albany for DNA testing and analysis. Results are expected in four to six weeks.

“I’ve been informed by state police that based on preliminary evidence, it doesn’t look like Jaliek,” Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said Wednesday.

Rainwalker was 12 when he was last seen on Nov. 1, 2007 with his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, formerly of Greenwich. Skull fragments found Monday are believed to be those of a pre-pubescent child, aged 10 to 12. However, the discovery does not appear to match Rainwalker’s description, although he won’t be ruled out until test results are complete, Bell said.

Age is determined by skull size and development.

Led by state police in Wilton, the entire area was scoured Monday and Tuesday, and authorities are expected back at the scene today, weather permitting. Wednesday’s search was postponed by steady rains.

The site is just past Lake Desolation off an unpaved section of highway between Greenfield and Edinburg.

“We have a half-dozen cases of missing children that might potentially fit the circumstances of recovery of these skull fragments,” said state police Major William Sprague of Troop F headquarters in Loudonville.

In March 1990, for example, then 11-year-old Monique Santiago went missing and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. In 1993, Sara Anne Wood disappeared near her Herkimer County home.

“We don’t know how long the skull was there, although probably a decade or less,” Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy III said. Fragments were found in three parts — a skull section, part of the jaw bone including some teeth, and a portion of orbital bone.

“All of them were relatively nearby,” Murphy said. “No other sections of the body were found.”

Possibly, the body was decapitated or animals may have dragged the skull some distance from the body.

“Those are two theories,” Murphy said. “I’m sure there are others. We’re hopeful we’ll be able to determine the identity of a person and close the file on an unresolved case. On the other hand, positive identification ends someone’s hope that their loved one is still alive. These are always very delicate cases.”

Doug and Mary Lyall of Ballston Spa haven’t seen their daughter, Suzanne, since she went missing in March 1998. A sophomore at SUNY Albany, she was last seen exiting a CDTA bus at the school’s uptown campus and her case has never been solved.

“It’s a double-edge sword,” Doug Lyall said of locating a missing loved one. “You want it desperately on one hand, to get that answer. But some people don’t. If they don’t find out what happened there’s always that hope that the person is out there safe. If a discovery is made, it opens so many other questions. Were they a victim? Who did it? It can sometimes lead from one search to another one, for justice. You’re looking for someone to pay for it.”

Monday’s discovery has left some people shaken in this normally quiet part of western Saratoga County.

“It’s upsetting more than anything,” said Crystal May, a waitress at the Four Corners Diner in Edinburg.

Owner Carol Bowers said, “I’ve been here all my life. I’ve never heard of anything like this. I just pray that they can use DNA to find somebody they’ve been looking for. Maybe it was meant to be, so it can give some family closure on the death of their child.”

Jackie Nichols, also an employee, said, “I just hope whoever it is, that they can let the family have peace — peace of mind.”


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 29, 2009, 02:12:25 PM
THIS JUST IN:

http://www.fox23news.com/content/newsalert/story/Investigators-Idientify-Skull-Found-in-Greenfield/hyQvtBPjvUKORsMSgt6KFQ.cspx

Investigators Idientify Skull Found in Greenfield

Last Update: 2:03 pm 

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From the Saratoga County DA's office:

A press conference will be held at 4:00 pm sharp, today at the Saratoga County District Attorney's Office  in the Grand Jury room to inform the public about an important identification of the skull found in the Town of Greenfield.

Saratoga County DA Jim Murphy, Sheriff James Bowen and NYSP Troop G Major Bill Sprague will be present to make short remarks and answer questions.

We have a crew on the way now and will have live coverage tonight on FOX23 News at 5. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 29, 2009, 03:42:23 PM
Skull Identified as Missing Teen from Colorado

Last Update: 3:06 pm 

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(http://www.fox23news.com/media/lib/7/8/e/5/8e5c54ff-b10e-432b-97b7-2f042111c46c/Story.jpg)
Breaking news in the case of a child's skull that's been found in Saratoga County.
Investigators now telling FOX23 news they have now identified who that skull belongs to.
They says it's an 18-year-old from Colorado, Jennifer Hammond, who went missing in August of 2003 from Ballston Spa, where she was selling magazines.
A press conference is being held at the Saratoga County District Attorney's office at 4 p.m., we will bring that to you live, on FOX23, and have a full report on FOX23 News at 5. 

http://www.fox23news.com/content/newsalert/story/Skull-Identified-as-Missing-Teen-from-Colorado/yCsjTU_lQEudKVHbQiY0yg.cspx


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 29, 2009, 03:45:58 PM
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11395273

"State police say fragments of a human skull found in woods in northern Saratoga County appear to be from a child 10 to 12 years old"

How can they first say 10-12 years old and then ID as an 18yr old?   :gaah: I'm sorry, just frustrated.

Rest in peace Jennifer  ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 29, 2009, 03:48:57 PM
 ::MonkeyEek:: wtf?? The girl in that photo certainly isn't 18 ......
??


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 29, 2009, 03:57:54 PM
::MonkeyEek:: wtf?? The girl in that photo certainly isn't 18 ......
??
http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=186.0;topicseen


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 29, 2009, 04:56:31 PM
::MonkeyEek:: wtf?? The girl in that photo certainly isn't 18 ......
??
http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=186.0;topicseen

The link to Jennifer Marie Hammond's thread in Missing Person's Found Deceased Forum is: http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=6384.new#new


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Leroy on October 31, 2009, 08:48:34 AM


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 ::MonkeyAngel::



Prayers for Jaliek   ::MonkeyAngel:: 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 02, 2009, 07:39:29 AM
Missing boy's family hopeful for closure
By DAYELIN ROMAN droman@poststar.com | Posted: Sunday, November 1, 2009 10:30 pm

GREENWICH -- Two years after Jaliek Rainwalker went missing, his adoptive grandmother said the recent discovery of a woman's remains six years after she disappeared has renewed her hope for closure in her grandson's case.

"We just have to keep searching," Barbara Reeley said.

Reeley and her husband, Dennis Smith, organized a candlelight vigil on Sunday night at St. Paul's Episcopal Church to commemorate the second anniversary of the then-12-year-old's disappearance. Family, friends and supporters filled the pews and listened to music by the Capital Pride Singers, a group that includes one of the boy's former foster mothers.

Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald, Jaliek's adoptive parents, were not among those in the church Sunday night.

Kerr reported the boy missing in the village of Greenwich on Nov. 1, 2007, and was the last person known to have seen Jaliek.

Kerr and McDonald - Reeley's daughter - have since moved to Rupert, Vt.

Sunday night, Reeley stood on a podium next to a photograph of Jaliek as she asked for a moment of silence for Jennifer Hammond, the 19-year-old woman whose remains were found in the woods off of Fox Hill Road in Greenfield last week.

"Jennifer had been missing for six years," Smith said. "She was found in the absolute middle of nowhere."

Smith said Reeley was in town planning Sunday night's vigil last week when she stopped into Greenwich and Cambridge Police Chief George Bell's office, and was told human remains had been found, with a possibility they could be Jaliek's.

"I was totally stunned," Reeley said. "My brain was in neutral. I couldn't process the thought."

But when it turned out the remains weren't the boy's, Reeley said she wasn't sure whether to be disappointed or glad.

"I just wanted to curl up under a blanket and hide," she said. "My heart and my head just battled."

Sunday night, Reeley told stories of trips she took with Jaliek, and laughed at memories they created together. In the back of the church, a large poster collage showed photos of the green-eyed boy.

"He was so patient and so loving," she said.

Being able to share those memories, the couple said, keeps their hope alive.

"Jaliek has been deprived of growing up, of being a teenager," Smith said. "I missed watching the World Series with him."  ::MonkeyTears::
http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_2af5d034-c760-11de-9bdc-001cc4c002e0.html?print=1


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on November 02, 2009, 10:13:21 AM
 ::MonkeyAngel:: Prayers for Jaliek ::MonkeyAngel::

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Jaliek-Rainwalker-2-Year-Vigil/H81_4eyLgUmvXPAo6qibcQ.cspx

Jaliek Rainwalker: 2 Year Vigil
  Reported by: Torie Wells
Email: toriewells@fox23news.com
Videographer: Z. Radick
Last Update: 8:47 am 

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 It has been two years since Greenwich teen Jaliek Rainwalker was last seen. To those who know him, his smile never fades, neither does the pain.

"It's called ambiguous grief, it's grief, but we still don't know. I guess my message is we're still searching, looking, hoping," said Barbara Reeley, Jaliek's grandmother.

Tonight's candlelight vigil was a peaceful end to an emotional week.  It was held just days after a hunter found human remains in the woods of Greenfield.  Jaliek's grandparents were among the many who thought the remains may have been his.

"In one way I wanted it to be Jaliek so he would have been found, and in another way when I saw Jennifer Hammond's photo, I felt relief for her family," said Reeley.

They said they also felt hope that two years without answers isn't too long.  Jennifer Hammond went missing back in 2003. Tonight, there was a moment of silence for her and her family.  There was also music, prayers, stories, candles and hugs, as they honored a boy they said they'll never stop searching for.


"It's the very least we can do to keep plugging that we will find the truth," said Dennis Smith, Jaliek's grandfather.

"I have to keep hope someone will come forward and say they heard something, saw something, knew something," said Reeley.

Reeley said that they will continue to search for Jaliek and hold vigils and events in his honor. She continues to ask anyone with any information to please come forward.
 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: linds1980 on November 10, 2009, 03:53:50 AM
http://**/ci_13725349?source=rss_viewed

Rainwalker case reaches second year
KEITH WHITCOMB JR.
Posted: 11/06/2009 09:19:38 AM EST

GREENWICH, N.Y. -- Sunday marked the second anniversary of the day Jaliek Rainwalker, then 12, was reported missing.

Greenwich/Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said Thursday that, while the search was scaled back some time ago, leads still come in and are followed up on. "Things like the two-year anniversary, we get a little activity," he said.

Bell said the most recent lead was a report of bones found in the Batten Kill on Oct. 31. Bell said that the remains belonged to a deer.

He said that a human skull found near Edinburg, in Saratoga County, was another recent lead. The skull first appearedas though it might have belonged to Rainwalker,but Bellsaidthe remains belonged to a missing college student who disappeared while delivering magazines.

Discoveries of bones and sightings of children bearing a resemblance to Rainwalker are not uncommon, he said, but none have proven to be substantive. Bell said he has received little in the way of cooperation from Rainwalker's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald.

"They put up a wall early on in this investigation," Bell said, adding that the boy had a chaotic life, being born addicted to substances and spending his years traveling between foster homes. "We know that they had issues with this kid, but you just don't throw him away."

Barbara Reeley, Rainwalker's grandmother, and Dennis Smith, are the only lines of communication police have with the family, Bell said. He said that
Smith and Reeley have held vigils for the boy since his disappearance and have been searching on their own and keeping in touch with police.
Attempts to contact Reeley and Smith Thursday were unsuccessful.

"Somebody out there in the woods, unfortunately, is how we are going to find Jaliek," Bell said.

Bell said that nearly 400 leads have been followed up on to date, and while no one person has been assigned to the case, Bell said he is prepared to launch the investigation in full should a lead with substance surface.

"Finding Jaliek is a priority of ours, and that's what we hope to accomplish," he said.

In November 2007, police said that Rainwalker went to bed after being spoken to by Kerr. Police found pillows stuffed under the boy's blanket as well as a note. Multipleorganizationswere involved with the initial search, which included dogs and helicopters.

Early in 2008, former foster families that housed Rainwalker announced that they were creating a task force to search for the boy and raise money to offer a reward for information that leads to Rainwalker's location.

A non-profit group from Texas was enlisted in April 2008 to search the Hudson River and Batten Kill with a high-tech aerial drone equipped with high-resolution cameras. The search turned up little in the way of leads. Since then, scores of volunteers and organizations have conducted periodic searches, without results.

The Find Jaliek Task Force has a Web site at www.findjaliek.org with information about the boy, search efforts, and upcoming events.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on December 08, 2009, 10:19:00 PM
Praying for Jaliek ::MonkeyAngel::

Praying for answers ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on December 08, 2009, 10:39:55 PM
Praying for Jaliek ::MonkeyAngel::

Praying for answers ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: texasmom on December 08, 2009, 11:12:28 PM
Praying for Jaliek ::MonkeyAngel::

Praying for answers ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: 

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on December 21, 2009, 07:55:46 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

:smt049 :smt049 :smt049 ~ Jaliek Rainwalker ~ Still Missing  ~ :smt049 :smt049 :smt049


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on December 21, 2009, 07:59:42 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

:smt049 :smt049 :smt049 ~ Jaliek Rainwalker ~ Still Missing  ~ :smt049 :smt049 :smt049


 ::MonkeyAngel:: 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 21, 2009, 08:17:46 PM
 ::MonkeyWaa:: :smt059 ::MonkeyTears::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Leroy on December 21, 2009, 08:51:46 PM
So sad!  Praying for you Jaliek   ::MonkeyAngel:: 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on January 09, 2010, 12:18:22 PM
Jaliek, family & friends.  I pray that 2010 is the year that you will be reunited. ::MonkeyAngel::

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on January 09, 2010, 01:03:37 PM
Jaliek, family & friends.  I pray that 2010 is the year that you will be reunited. ::MonkeyAngel::

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Lovin, amen and amen.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: SuzieQ on January 16, 2010, 11:50:09 PM
Prayers for Jaliek


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on February 19, 2010, 05:56:33 PM
(http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss241/Lovin-life2008/Jaliek%20Rainwalker/jaliek_hat4.jpg)

:smt049 :smt049 :smt049 ~ Jaliek Rainwalker ~ Still Missing  ~ :smt049 :smt049 :smt049

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::
We have not forgotten about you, Jaliek!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on February 19, 2010, 06:38:35 PM
http://www.findjaliek.org/

Just look at this precious boy...he is so handsome!  I just do not have a good feeling at all about this tragic missing persons story  :cry: :smt009

I need to bump my fav photo of him. I just love this boy!  ::MonkeyWaa:: :smt089

(http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2348.0;attach=737;image)

check out all the pix!
http://www.findjaliek.org/gallery.htm


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on February 19, 2010, 07:19:46 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/rDSC06639.JPG)



Bumpin' up my favorite pic of Jaliek that was posted by Lovinlife. 
(Both my sons love chocolate dip cones...)

I'm still hoping and praying for you Jaliek. 
   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on March 05, 2010, 07:46:12 AM
http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/

March 4, 2010
Jaliek Rainwalker …Still Missing!
Filed under: Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing people — Kim @ 10:20 pm

It’s been just over 2 years and 4 months since Jaliek Rainwalker was last seen with his adoptive father Stephen Kerr.  This post is to serve as a reminder that we haven’t forgotten about you Jaliek and we haven’t forgotten about you either Stephen.  Stephen, you were the last person with Jaliek and as a result you are the primary focus.  You remain the primary focus because you have failed to, refused to, cooperate with LE.  If you have nothing to hide then why not let your property on Raven’s Way be searched?  Why did you move to VT, what if Jaliek tried to come home only to find it empty?  Why aren’t you plastering Jaliek’s missing posters from one end of the state to the other?  Where are your pleas for Jaliek to come home?  You might not be a suspect but your actions or lack thereof point in that direction.  Stephen, I want to hear what you have to say.

This is the third cold and snowy winter that Jaliek has been missing.  Spring is right around the corner though and the searches will ramp up.  In the meantime, we plan, we spread the word, there’s other work to be done.  Jaliek, we will never stop searching for you!  We will find you and then we will find justice!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on March 10, 2010, 07:58:58 PM
http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=12120075
Age-enhanced photo of missing boy to be released

Posted: March 10, 2010 07:09 PM EST

Updated: March 10, 2010 07:09 PM EST

 
GREENWICH, N.Y. -- Police are expected to release Thursday an age-enhanced photo of Jaliek Rainwalker, the boy who went missing in Greenwich.

He disappeared more than two years ago, and his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, has been a person of interest in the case.

Kerr claims Jaliek ran away.

Check back wten.com Thursday to view the photograph when it is released.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on March 10, 2010, 09:09:48 PM
Thank you for bringing the article, Lovin.  Prayers for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on March 11, 2010, 12:30:39 PM
http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/

March 4, 2010
Jaliek Rainwalker …Still Missing!
Filed under: Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing people — Kim @ 10:20 pm

It’s been just over 2 years and 4 months since Jaliek Rainwalker was last seen with his adoptive father Stephen Kerr.  This post is to serve as a reminder that we haven’t forgotten about you Jaliek and we haven’t forgotten about you either Stephen.  Stephen, you were the last person with Jaliek and as a result you are the primary focus.  You remain the primary focus because you have failed to, refused to, cooperate with LE.  If you have nothing to hide then why not let your property on Raven’s Way be searched?  Why did you move to VT, what if Jaliek tried to come home only to find it empty?  Why aren’t you plastering Jaliek’s missing posters from one end of the state to the other?  Where are your pleas for Jaliek to come home?  You might not be a suspect but your actions or lack thereof point in that direction.  Stephen, I want to hear what you have to say.

This is the third cold and snowy winter that Jaliek has been missing.  Spring is right around the corner though and the searches will ramp up.  In the meantime, we plan, we spread the word, there’s other work to be done.  Jaliek, we will never stop searching for you!  We will find you and then we will find justice!


Daily prayers for this precious young man.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on March 11, 2010, 01:13:11 PM
http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_1933cb74-2d33-11df-b5a8-001cc4c03286.html

Police release enhanced photo of Jaliek Rainwalker

DON LEHMAN - dlehman@poststar.com
Posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:12 pm | (0) Comments

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GREENWICH - Police on Thursday released a picture of missing Greenwich boy Jaliek Rainwalker that was enhanced to show how he would likely look 2-1/2 years after he disappeared.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said a picture of Rainwalker was enhanced by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as part of the ongoing police investigation into the boy's Nov. 1, 2007 disappearance.

Police held a press conference to distribute the photo to the media, and used the opportunity to call on the boy's adopted parents to work with police to figure out what happened to him. He called their actions since shortly after Rainwalker disappeared "bizarre."

"I'm hoping this might spark some interest in the parents to come forward," he said. "It's 2-1/2 years later and they act like this never happened. They need to reach out and be cooperative with law enforcement."

Rainwalker's adopted father, Stephen Kerr, was the last person known to have been with him in the hours before he disappeared. Police have named Kerr a "person of interest" in the case because they do not believe he has been honest with investigators about his actions the night before Rainwalker was reported missing.

Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, have said they believe Rainwalker ran away.

There has not been a trace of him since he was reported missing, however.

Bell said the National center for Missing and Exploited Children will only do an age enhancement in a case if a child has been missing for more than two years.

Rainwalker disappeared at age 12 and would be 14 years old.

Bell said further searches of a deep gorge in the Batten Kill known as the "Hell Hole" are planned for the spring or summer, depending on water conditions. Kerr and his family frequently hiked and fished in the area.



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on March 11, 2010, 02:20:38 PM
What a handsome young man.  Thank you for bringing it to us, Lovin.  I'm glad to see more searches in the near future are in the plans.   I find it mighty suspicious Jaliek's adoptive parents aren't cooperating with the police.  Why aren't they? 
http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_1933cb74-2d33-11df-b5a8-001cc4c03286.html
<snip>
Police held a press conference to distribute the photo to the media, and used the opportunity to call on the boy's adopted parents to work with police to figure out what happened to him. He called their actions since shortly after Rainwalker disappeared "bizarre."

"I'm hoping this might spark some interest in the parents to come forward," he said. "It's 2-1/2 years later and they act like this never happened. They need to reach out and be cooperative with law enforcement."

Rainwalker's adopted father, Stephen Kerr, was the last person known to have been with him in the hours before he disappeared. Police have named Kerr a "person of interest" in the case because they do not believe he has been honest with investigators about his actions the night before Rainwalker was reported missing.
<snip>
************************************
This isn't going to go away.  I'm praying somehow Jaliek is somewhere safe and alive.  But with the behavior of Jaliek's adoptive parents, I hope the searches get under way as soon.  The Kerr's may try to "act like this never happened", but there are those that care and will not forget. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 03, 2010, 05:40:30 PM

http://www.findjaliek.org/gallery.htm

You are not forgotten, Jaliek. 

(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/rDSC07455.JPG)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 06, 2010, 09:43:30 AM
9th Annual Missing Persons Day
April 11, 2010• Albany, New York
   
The Center for HOPE would like to invite you to attend the commemoration of
New York State 9th Annual Missing Persons Day. 

WHEN:
Sunday, April 11, 2010

WHERE:
The New York State Museum on Madison Avenue, Albany, NY. Free Parking is available.
 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

  • Families and friends affected by the mysterious disappearance of a loved one.
  • Organizations assisting affected families

PROGRAM:
What will the day include?

The morning session is by invitation for families/friends and missing person organizations and law enforcement agencies. Pre registration is required.. The schedule will include an inspirational presentation by Sayeh Rivazifar, who will speak about recovering her life after being abducted. There will also be a panel discussion on missing person issues. At noon you are invited to join us for an informal luncheon buffet on the museum’s 4th floor.

The afternoon begins at 1pm and is open to the general public. The program will include the presentation of the annual “HOPE” award and the keynote presentation by Ed Smart* a nationally recognized advocate for missing persons. *Ed is the father of Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted on June 5th, 2002, and miraculously rescued nine months later. Through the loss and return of his daughter, he passionately sought the passage of the “Amber Alert,” for the protection and rescue of other children For the benefit of all children; he lobbied Congress to prevent further abductions and to rescue missing children.

The day will conclude with a ceremony to recognize our missing loved ones at the NYS Missing Persons Monument.

Who Should Attend: Families and friends affected by the unexplained and unresolved disappearance of a loved one. Law Enforcement Agencies and organizations assisting affected families.

What to Bring: Please feel free to bring posters, literature, or a T-shirt to display.

What to Expect: Stimulating speakers, informational displays/exhibits and an opportunity to join together with others affected by this unique loss to reflect, remember, and to provide mutual support. Despite the seriousness of the occasion, our goal is to provide an uplifting experience.
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Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 06, 2010, 09:45:03 AM
March 29, 2010
Question …
Filed under: Jaliek Rainwalker, Missing people — Kim @ 9:23 pm

Why is seeking the truth considered a bad thing?  Oh wait, it’s only bad to those who don’t want the truth revealed.  Now I got it ;-)

STILL SEARCHING!
(http://accordingtokim.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/jaliekrainwalker.jpg?w=147&h=145)
http://accordingtokim.wordpress.com/


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on April 06, 2010, 10:17:15 AM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/Jaliek%20book.jpg)    ::MonkeyAngel::  I noticed in several photos he had something to read.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 06, 2010, 12:29:27 PM
Great pic of Jaliek.  Thank you for sharing it, trimm  ::rhino:: 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Tracygirl on April 06, 2010, 03:12:40 PM
He is such a handsome kid. His eyes are gorgeous. I hope they find him soon
I don't know this story really, just hat he is missing. The adoptive parents act as though nothing has happened? They don't morn for this boy or help search for him? hmmm I suppose the answer to that is simple. What was he and his dad doing that day?


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Tracygirl on April 06, 2010, 04:35:54 PM
So I was curious and I read on the website that was posted for pics. What a sad story for this kid. In reading about his last years with his family, the adopted parents sound really off. They lived as if they were in a 3rd world country somewhere all the while taking in $3000 per month for 2 of the adoptived kids. I read that the oldest attended a school which costs 17,000 per year so I suppose they paid using the payment they received. This poor boy was treated like dirt, certainly not like a member of the family. When you decide to adopt you become a parent, they certainly do not seem as though they loved him or needed him, as a true parent does. I suppose he was just a way to make an extra $1500 buck? Slim...
I didn't like that on the last night with him Kerr treated him differently, giving him his favorite food, letting him ride in the front seat of the car when that was only allowed as a place of honor..This reminded me of someone's last meal or something.
I get the impression he premeditated whatever he did. He had a plan. He didn't report him missing until the next day, right? They say that morning a note was found and then they realized pillows and not Jaliek was under the blankets, I think it would be pretty difficult to leave a room that the entire family shared! Seems like at least one of the many people would have awoken, kwim? Obviously, I think that was a lie. This is sickening. One day though the truth will come out, it always does.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 06, 2010, 06:19:06 PM

Thank you for taking the time to read up on Jaliek's case.  Yes, you are reading correctly that his "adoptive family" wanted to un-adopt him, that they lived in a one room shack without indoor plumbing, etc. while raking in their $1500/month.  And shortly after Jaliek went missing they moved to Vermont from NY. They offered up a $25,000 reward for the safe return of Jaliek (a pretty safe move if you already know that this will never be claimed, imo).

One fact that I would like to point out to you that I think you maybe confused on is the night that Jaliek was last seen alive, he was staying with a respite family for the prior six days to give the Kerr's a break.  When Kerr picked up Jaliek at their house that night, the two of them did not return to the family home, they stayed in an empty home belonging to Graham Kerr (S. Kerr's father) who was out of the country at the time.  His last confirmed sighting by someone other than Kerr was in Latham, I believe. 

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=662393&category=REGION&newsdate=2/9/2008

When I look into Jaliek's eyes, I see the eyes of my son.  Sometimes it is too painful to come here and see that this young man has been pushed around all of his life, just a few glimpses of what love is all about.  My heart breaks, I think Jaliek is in heaven and all of his pain is gone.  It is time for his earthly body to be found so that the people who truely did love him can put him to rest properly and end some of their pain.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Tracygirl on April 06, 2010, 07:01:01 PM
Thank you Lovinlife, If he is no longer alive I too wish they find him and can lay him to rest with the respect he deserved.

I was commenting on what I read about when the Kerr picked him up he allowed him to sit in the front seat of the car. It was said that was something which is not normaly done and something which was considered an "honor" by the family. Then it said they went to red robin and he ate wings, his favorite dish. Was this not the case?
I didn't read about where they were said to have gone that night, I was wondering about that. So when he told the police he moved the blanket and found pillows and a note, that was at the grandfathers home and not his own home? Oh that is right, he couldn't go back because the mom said he could not come home, right?

Do you think that the father could have sold him? 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 13, 2010, 07:32:09 PM
http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2010/04/12/news/doc4bc277ddd22ce268281929.txt
VIDEO Ed Smart speaks in Albany for Missing Persons Day
Monday, April 12, 2010
(snip)
A slideshow of the missing Sunday bore many faces familiar to those in the Capital Region, like Jaliek Rainwalker and Joshua Szostak. Rainwalker’s whereabouts remain unknown; Szostak was found dead in the Hudson River with few answers determined. (snip)

**************************

It's important that Jaliek's name gets out in public.  He is not forgotten. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on April 24, 2010, 08:55:57 AM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Crime-Victims-Rights-Week/mnjIWFuXQEa1HbaW8Qb0ig.cspx
Crime Victims' Rights Week
Reported by: Cait McVey
Email: CaitlinMcVey@fox23news.com
Videographer: G. Finley
Last Update: 4/23 9:06 am
Holding up a photo, Tiffanie Tucker remembers her daughter's father Nathan Walcott, shot and killed back in the summer of 2008 at a party on Judson Street in Albany.

"No family should have to go through this. It's just sad tragedy," Tucker says.

Tucker wasn't alone today. Many came out to honor victims of crime. Some of their faces were on display at today's ceremony. Survivor Katie Merrick told those gathered of her struggle to stop domestic violence in her own home. Almost beaten to death, she calls upon the community to not ignore the signs.

"If my story can raise awareness about domestic abuse, and ignite a fire to end abuse, then my pain and the pain of millions of others will not have been in vain," Merrick says.
One by one, loved ones carried flags up to the stone memorial. Thomas Person gave his in honor of Greenwhich boy Jaliek Rainwalker, missing since the fall of 2007.

"It was nice to be able to place a flag in Jaliek's name," Person says. "The issue is three years old now but it will always be open until we can resolve what really happened."


Others know what happened. But it doesn't make the pain any easier. Martha Warner's daughter Liza was shot to death by her husband in 2004.

"She never liked being the center of attention," Warner says. "But she would be humbled and proud of what's being carried out in her name and in others names."

(http://www.fox23news.com/media/lib/7/3/a/8/3a85de78-9844-4bec-a0cf-173eda2c4cf7/Story.jpg)
Video at link    http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Crime-Victims-Rights-Week/mnjIWFuXQEa1HbaW8Qb0ig.cspx


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on April 24, 2010, 09:02:25 AM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/Jay%20cowboy%20hat.jpg)    ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on April 24, 2010, 11:03:36 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/Jay%20cowboy%20hat.jpg)    ::MonkeyAngel::

Thank you for posting the great pic of Jaliek, trimmy.  I hope he can be found soon.   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on April 30, 2010, 10:38:22 AM

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:r15LKQx-mXtwcM:http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg404/HFMCMissing/Thread%2520Pictures/hope/51XF6AHPXFL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Praying for you Jaliek


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: can on April 30, 2010, 12:57:24 PM
Prayers for this beautiful boy.
 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on June 01, 2010, 01:35:39 PM
Candles for Jaliek:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Website for Jaliek:

http://www.findjaliek.org/

Date: 
June 18-20, 2010
Event: Whipple City Festival Greenwich, NY
Details: We'll have an information booth all three days of the event.  Please come out and see what's new and show your support for Jaliek.

For event information visit Whipple City Festival http://www.greenwichchamber.org/featured_events.asp
 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on June 26, 2010, 01:35:59 PM
http://www.usamissing.com/This-Week-TV.shtml
Featured cases
Click on names for photos and descriptions
Note: dates given are Mondays; "Missing" airs the following weekend in most areas.
Week of June 21, 2010, Episode M-604

Angelo Leo, Santino Leo, Selena Leo, Walter Leo, Maria Valdez, Erica Bradley, Dean Worsley, Juan Avalos, Jaliek Rainwalker, Daniel Cantrell, Melvin Turcios Cedillo, Angelica Livingston, Mark Jackson, Phillip Pinnock, Adrianna Garcia, Karen Mitchell, Sami Onofre-Sanchez, Trenton Duckett, Linda Carlton, Stephanie Farhoumand, Mikael Lissouck, Alexis Williams, Garnell Moore, Tabitha Brewer, Roxanne Paltauf

Station Finder  http://www.usamissing.com/find-us.shtml


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on August 24, 2010, 09:46:28 AM
http://www.cbs6albany.com/video/?videoId=507111788001&lineupId=&play=now
Possible new lead --


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on September 01, 2010, 10:31:02 AM
http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=13031196
Missing person cases brought back to the public eye
August 23, 2010

(snip)
Another unresolved case brought to the forefront Monday, 12 year old Jaliek Rainwalker, the Washington County boy who went missing in November of 2007.

"There's a need for all of these cases, but Jaliek has touched a lot of hearts," says Kim Peters, who has helped search for Jaliek in the past. "He's just a child who has disappeared off the face of the earth. That doesn't just happen."

"For a missing person, you can't stop, you've got to keep it in the media, you've got to keep it in the papers," adds Kilcullen. "You've got to keep going, you can't give up."

Sending a simple, yet important message, no matter what the case, or how much time has gone by, keeping missing person cases in the limelight could be the key to finding much needed answers.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on September 01, 2010, 10:33:54 AM
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/river-1277902-police-jaliek.html
(Video)
State Police plan search for missing boy
August 31, 2010



GREENWICH -- Nearly three years after Jaliek Rainwalker disappeared, a special New York State Police dive team is planning to search for the 12 year old Greenwich boy.

On Thursday, divers will descend into a section of the Battenkill River in Middle Falls.

Divers have previously searched other portions of the river but Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell says water levels have been too high in the past to search the Middle Falls section of the river.

Chief Bell says the river became a place of interest early in the investigation following discussions with Jaliek's adoptive father Stephen Kerr.

Bell says Jaliek's adoptive parents are no longer participating in the police investigation.

Jaliek Rainwalker was reported missing Nov. 2, 2007.

*******************************
I hope Jaliek can be found soon.    ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on September 02, 2010, 01:38:50 PM
Me 2 Muffy....

The Times-Union (Albany, NY) 
September 1, 2010 Wednesday
 
JALIEK RAINWALKER SEARCH SHIFTS 

EASTON -- State Police divers on Thursday will search for the remains of Jaliek Rainwalker in an area of the Battenkill known as the Hell Hole.

Jaliek was 12 when he disappeared from Greenwich in November 2007. Police have searched the area in which he was last seen, but the water level of the Battenkill previously made it unsafe for divers, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said Tuesday.

The location is behind the Battenkill Country Club.

"It's a dangerous place to dive. There is metal and rebar and other stuff down there," Bell said.

The chief described the site as a gorge at the bottom of a hydroelectric dam that leads to a whirlpool.

Despite numerous tips in the nearly three years since Jaliek was reported missing, police have no evidence to show whether he is alive or dead and no suspects have been named in his disappearance.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:1254420979&start=4


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on September 02, 2010, 06:55:07 PM
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=227198
Jaliek Rainwalker's grandmother speaks out about her missing grandson
Updated: 12/13/2007 8:25 AM
TROY, N.Y. - "I feel like in the future I can mend relationships with my daughter and my grandchildren but I could not live with myself if I did not try and find out the truth about where Jaliek has disappeared to," said Jaliek Rainwalker's maternal grandmother Barbara Reeley.

Reeley hasn't spoken publicly to the media in about a month. She and her daughter Jocelyn McDonald are no longer speaking. The strain of a missing child has torn the family apart.

Reeley said, "I believe that Stephen is the only one who knows what happened to Jaliek on November 1st and I do believe he harmed him."

Barbara is concerned that her son-in-law Stephen Kerr -- Jaliek's father -- had something to do with his disappearance. He has not been named a suspect by police but he was the last person to see Jaliek on the night of November 1st and Barbara says his behavior over the years leads her to believe he is capable of hurting a child.

"Stephen has anger issues. I think it was three years ago, Jaliek was doing some repetitive behavior and Stephen grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out the back door and dunked him in the creek and if my daughter had not been there, I don't know what else he would have done to him."

She also says Stephen had been in anger management classes but that his behavior this past spring was too much for his wife Jocelyn.

"This past May my daughter asked him to leave the house because of his anger towards his children. I'm very concerned about my daughter and my grandchildren."

Barbara also says it bothered her that both Stephen and Jocelyn were not involved in the search effort for Jaliek early on. She also says she knows what she's saying may make her already strained relationship with her daughter even worse, but that right now her top priority is finding Jaliek.



I still believe Kerr knows what happened.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on September 02, 2010, 07:00:19 PM
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=227198
Jaliek Rainwalker's grandmother speaks out about her missing grandson
Updated: 12/13/2007 8:25 AM
TROY, N.Y. - "I feel like in the future I can mend relationships with my daughter and my grandchildren but I could not live with myself if I did not try and find out the truth about where Jaliek has disappeared to," said Jaliek Rainwalker's maternal grandmother Barbara Reeley.

Reeley hasn't spoken publicly to the media in about a month. She and her daughter Jocelyn McDonald are no longer speaking. The strain of a missing child has torn the family apart.

Reeley said, "I believe that Stephen is the only one who knows what happened to Jaliek on November 1st and I do believe he harmed him."

Barbara is concerned that her son-in-law Stephen Kerr -- Jaliek's father -- had something to do with his disappearance. He has not been named a suspect by police but he was the last person to see Jaliek on the night of November 1st and Barbara says his behavior over the years leads her to believe he is capable of hurting a child.

"Stephen has anger issues. I think it was three years ago, Jaliek was doing some repetitive behavior and Stephen grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out the back door and dunked him in the creek and if my daughter had not been there, I don't know what else he would have done to him."

She also says Stephen had been in anger management classes but that his behavior this past spring was too much for his wife Jocelyn.

"This past May my daughter asked him to leave the house because of his anger towards his children. I'm very concerned about my daughter and my grandchildren."

Barbara also says it bothered her that both Stephen and Jocelyn were not involved in the search effort for Jaliek early on. She also says she knows what she's saying may make her already strained relationship with her daughter even worse, but that right now her top priority is finding Jaliek.



I still believe Kerr knows what happened.

I agree with you Sister.  I too believe Kerr knows what happened. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on September 03, 2010, 04:59:59 PM
http://saratogian.com/articles/2010/09/03/news/doc4c8064d056118181917776.txt
Underwater search for signs of Jaliek Rainwalker finds nothing
Published: Friday, September 03, 2010

GREENWICH — A team of New York State Police divers scoured the Devil’s Hole area of the Battenkill Thursday, searching for signs of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The search was fruitless — New York State Police spokesperson Maureen Tuffy said the team only found rusted metal — and the latest chapter in a frustrating, nearly three-year search for the boy who went missing from Latham on Nov. 1, 2007, when he was 12 years old.

Police have periodically searched areas in and around the Battenkill, including an abandoned mill and acres of woodlands.

Rainwalker was last seen with his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, and had been living in a respite home in Latham.

Tuffey said the dive team searched that specific area because of its proximity to a hydroelectric dam. Because of the water pressure created by the dam, anything in the water there is pushed down into a very small area.

“Because of the hydro dam, you can only dive during certain weather and water conditions,” Tuffey added. She said there are no dates set for future dives in search of Rainwalker, but said the state police dive teams often plan to hold training exercises in areas where they believe they might find Rainwalker’s body.
By Emily Donohue


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on September 04, 2010, 12:02:37 AM
http://saratogian.com/articles/2010/09/03/news/doc4c8064d056118181917776.txt
Underwater search for signs of Jaliek Rainwalker finds nothing
Published: Friday, September 03, 2010

GREENWICH — A team of New York State Police divers scoured the Devil’s Hole area of the Battenkill Thursday, searching for signs of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The search was fruitless — New York State Police spokesperson Maureen Tuffy said the team only found rusted metal — and the latest chapter in a frustrating, nearly three-year search for the boy who went missing from Latham on Nov. 1, 2007, when he was 12 years old.

Police have periodically searched areas in and around the Battenkill, including an abandoned mill and acres of woodlands.

Rainwalker was last seen with his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, and had been living in a respite home in Latham.

Tuffey said the dive team searched that specific area because of its proximity to a hydroelectric dam. Because of the water pressure created by the dam, anything in the water there is pushed down into a very small area.

“Because of the hydro dam, you can only dive during certain weather and water conditions,” Tuffey added. She said there are no dates set for future dives in search of Rainwalker, but said the state police dive teams often plan to hold training exercises in areas where they believe they might find Rainwalker’s body.
By Emily Donohue

Thanks for the post Trimm.  I don't know what I was really hoping for . . .


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Nut44x4 on October 28, 2010, 10:54:47 AM
The Times-Union (Albany, NY) 
October 27, 2010 Wednesday
 
NEW SEARCH FOR MISSING BOY YIELDS NO CLUES
 
GREENWICH -- A search of property formerly owned by Jaliek Rainwalker's parents turned up nothing, Easton-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said Tuesday.

The latest search for the Washington County boy took place less than a week before the three-year anniversary of the day Jaliek, then 12, was reported missing by his father, Stephen Kerr.

Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, owned a house and more than 20 acres of land at 54 Raven Way until they moved to Vermont with their other children after Jaliek disappeared. Kerr was the last person to see his son after picking him up Nov. 1, 2007, from a respite home where Jaliek stayed for six days. Kerr said the two went to sleep at a relative's unoccupied home and when he woke up, Jaliek was gone.

Kerr did not cooperate with police, but he has never been arrested or charged in connection with Jaliek's disappearance. Bell said he didn't expect to find anything on the former Kerr property, but he wanted to cross it off a list of places Jaliek's remains could be. Bell said he believes the boy is dead.

Bell said investigators searched the house two years ago and gave the property a "cursory look" when police still thought of Jaliek as a runaway. Kerr later blocked attempts for police to further examine the land, and Bell said he didn't have probable cause for a search warrant.

Tuesday, after the new owner gave the OK, Bell returned with five dogs, the FBI and state forest rangers. They searched about four hours and do not plan to return, Bell said. Bell described the land as a mix of open fields and woods.
 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:1291174724&start=6


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 28, 2010, 01:27:45 PM
Thank you for the update/article Nut.   I hope Jaliek will be found soon.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on November 01, 2010, 03:23:18 PM
::MonkeyAngel:: 3 Years too long, you are not forgotten ::MonkeyAngel::

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:r15LKQx-mXtwcM:http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg404/HFMCMissing/Thread%2520Pictures/hope/51XF6AHPXFL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Praying for you Jaliek



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on November 01, 2010, 06:24:29 PM
::MonkeyAngel:: 3 Years too long, you are not forgotten ::MonkeyAngel::

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:r15LKQx-mXtwcM:http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg404/HFMCMissing/Thread%2520Pictures/hope/51XF6AHPXFL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Praying for you Jaliek



Amen.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on February 08, 2011, 09:58:49 AM
 ::MonkeyAngel:: Every day, my thoughts and prayers are with Jaliek and those that love him. ::MonkeyAngel::

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1962277.shtml?cat=300

Posted at: 02/07/2011 5:51 PM
Updated at: 02/07/2011 9:17 PM
By: Abigail Bleck

Jaliek Rainwalker's case receives national exposure

ALBANY--Dennis Smith makes his plea with the New York State Missing Persons Memorial as his backdrop. 

"We're continuing to hope there's a break and maybe somebody's seen something.  We want everyone to know we still care deeply about our grandson," explains Smith, Jaliek's grandfather by adoption.

And Monday night, that cry for help is going prime time.  Jaliek Rainwalker's case will be highlighted on Nancy Grace: America's Missing on Headline News.

"It's important and it's wonderful that people care.  It's a a show that's gotten results in the past and has helped find missing children," says Smith.

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on February 08, 2011, 01:28:01 PM
Thank you lovinlife. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on February 09, 2011, 12:26:14 PM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/National-TV-exposure-generates-new-leads/LG5tyAai30SndsMvxriImg.cspx

National TV exposure generates new Jaliek Rainwalker leads
Reported by: Walt McClure Email: waltmcclure@fox23news.com
Videographer: B. Sanders     
Published: 2/08 4:03 pm
Updated: 2/08 5:20 pm

Thirty seconds of national television exposure provides police with new leads in the more than three year investigation of the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker.

The case of the 12-year-old who apparently disappeared from a Greenwich home on Nov. 1, 2007 is back in the news again, and that exposure is having an impact on the still open investigation.

The case was given about 30 seconds of time Monday night on the HLN cable network program “Nancy Grace.” It's not a long time, but long enough to generate some new directions for investigators, and Jaliek's adoptive family, to follow in their search for him.
 ::snipping2::

After 30 seconds on the Nancy Grace show, the couple has gotten at least 15 emails from people interested in offering them some help.

“We don't want it to go away,” says Smith. “We want to know what happened to Jaliek. We love our grandson. We need to know what happened to him.”

Smith says deep down, they believe Jaliek met with some kind of harm, but they are hopeful that they are wrong, and grateful to Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell and the investigators who continue to follow up leads, including six new ones.

 ::snipping2::

Video: http://clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/18795/2199187?wpid=9616


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on February 09, 2011, 12:31:19 PM
Bless the Smith's and all others who haven't given up on Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 23, 2011, 04:55:10 PM
http://poststar.com/news/local/article_fd9aa348-8023-11e0-9f8a-001cc4c002e0.html

 ::snipping2::

Other news

* Police Chief George Bell announced the resignation of officer Michael Bechard, who served five years with the department. The board approved a resolution authorizing the hire of a replacement. Chief Bell added that a search for Jaliek Rainwalker was conducted by a handful of law enforcement officials in Newcomb on Friday. Rainwalker went missing in late 2007 at the age of 12. The search yielded no results.

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 23, 2011, 04:58:04 PM
http://poststar.com/news/local/article_d66b73a2-80a9-11e0-9a84-001cc4c03286.html

Search for missing Greenwich boy unsuccessful
Story Discussion Search for missing Greenwich boy unsuccessful
DON LEHMAN -- dlehman@poststar.com The Post-Star | Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:18 pm | (1) Comments


Police officers and search dogs took to the woods of Newcomb on Friday to continue the search for missing Greenwich boy Jaliek Rainwalker.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police and state forest rangers worked with search dogs that specialize in finding human remains to search an area in the Goodnow Flow where Rainwalker's adopted father, Stephen Kerr, was known to hike and camp. A friend of Kerr's has a camp in the area, police said.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said he and Forest Ranger John Solan had been to the area previously during the investigation and believed it merited a more thorough search when so-called "cadaver dogs" were available.

The dogs did not locate any potential clues or remains, as the search was hindered by snow that remained in parts of the area, Bell said.
::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on May 23, 2011, 05:00:06 PM


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 ::MonkeyAngel::



Prayers for Jaliek   ::MonkeyAngel:: 

BUMP ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on May 23, 2011, 05:40:31 PM


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 ::MonkeyAngel::



Prayers for Jaliek   ::MonkeyAngel:: 

BUMP ::MonkeyAngel::
::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on May 23, 2011, 05:43:56 PM


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 ::MonkeyAngel::



Prayers for Jaliek   ::MonkeyAngel:: 

BUMP ::MonkeyAngel::
::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Lovinlife on October 30, 2011, 07:34:49 PM
::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQMA6PD_WewShcUrPByztVdtFyoAVnyV_QZi6PhWYWFxh1ndaz0J3LabM)

Missing since November 1, 2007

(http://media.amw.com/multimedia/fileRepository/db/460/507/rainwalker_lg1.jpg)

Four years too long...

::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on October 30, 2011, 07:35:56 PM
::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQMA6PD_WewShcUrPByztVdtFyoAVnyV_QZi6PhWYWFxh1ndaz0J3LabM)

Missing since November 1, 2007

(http://media.amw.com/multimedia/fileRepository/db/460/507/rainwalker_lg1.jpg)

Four years too long...

::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: KittyMom on October 30, 2011, 09:59:02 PM
Cases like this make me want to beat the snot out of perps like Kerr until they tell what they did to these poor kids.  I'd like to shake McDonald until her teeth rattle.  She knows Kerr did something. 

 ::MonkeyMad::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on December 21, 2011, 10:51:27 PM
http://www.findjaliek.org/events.htm
(Please go to the link above to request a free bumper sticker.  The image  in this post is only a screen cap and not clickable.)

(http://i.imgur.com/V9Qb4.png)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: trimmonthelake on January 21, 2012, 09:53:46 AM
https://twitter.com/#!/CaseSignal (https://twitter.com/#!/CaseSignal)
CaseSignal Case Signal (BeanE)
Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance on TV - #JaliekRainwater #Missing #Greenwich #NY - Bennington Banner > bit.ly/wochwe (http://bit.ly/wochwe)
3 minutes ago

Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance on TV
Posted: 01/20/2012 10:41:15 PM EST
 ::snipping2::
Reeley will discuss the disappearance her adoptive grandson, Jaliek Rainwalker, who was last seen with his adoptive father on Nov. 1, 2007.

Reeley’s appearance on "The View" can be seen Wednesday at 11 a.m. on ABC, channel 10.

Rainwalker’s case will also be featured on a new program called "Find Our Missing" on TV One. The show airs at 10 p.m. Feb. 1.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: MuffyBee on January 21, 2012, 02:36:34 PM
https://twitter.com/#!/CaseSignal (https://twitter.com/#!/CaseSignal)
CaseSignal Case Signal (BeanE)
Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance on TV - #JaliekRainwater #Missing #Greenwich #NY - Bennington Banner > bit.ly/wochwe (http://bit.ly/wochwe)
3 minutes ago

Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance on TV
Posted: 01/20/2012 10:41:15 PM EST
 ::snipping2::
Reeley will discuss the disappearance her adoptive grandson, Jaliek Rainwalker, who was last seen with his adoptive father on Nov. 1, 2007.

Reeley’s appearance on "The View" can be seen Wednesday at 11 a.m. on ABC, channel 10.

Rainwalker’s case will also be featured on a new program called "Find Our Missing" on TV One. The show airs at 10 p.m. Feb. 1.

Thank you trimm.  I think of this case often, and I hope Jaliek can be found soon. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker missing 12 year old
Post by: Sister on January 21, 2012, 05:00:55 PM
(http://www.findjaliek.org/Images/Jay%20cowboy%20hat.jpg)    ::MonkeyAngel::
bumped


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on January 31, 2012, 05:45:31 PM
I will never forget this beautiful child  ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on January 31, 2012, 11:32:49 PM
I will never forget this beautiful child  ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Sister on February 01, 2012, 11:32:13 AM
I will never forget this beautiful child  ::MonkeyAngel::

 ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::
::MonkeyAngel::   ::MonkeyAngel::   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on February 02, 2012, 08:13:47 PM
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S2477170.shtml?cat=300
National attention brings optimism to Jaliek Rainwalker case
By Jessica Layton
Posted January 31, 2012, Updated February 1, 2012

A local couple is hoping fresh eyes and a nationwide audience will generate new leads in the mystery of their missing grandson.

Jaliek Rainwalker's story was featured on “America's Missing with Nancy Grace” about a year ago, and it's been a big local story for years.

Now, the boy's adoptive grandparents are going to bed optimistic a program airing Wednesday night will spark new information they so desperately need.

As they plaster new posters of their missing grandson on a building in Troy, Barbara Reeley and Dennis Smith are holding onto a renewed sense of hope.

“Wherever he is he would be 16,” says Reeley.

No longer that little boy who went missing in November 2007, Jaliek would be growing up.

“We’ve never rested,” Reeley added.

Now, the case that's so close to their hearts and to the Capital Region community is getting new exposure, a breakthrough in this couples' quest to tell Jaliek's story.

TV One Network's show, “Find Our Missing”, is a program that focuses on children of color.

“It’s a new audience, a nationwide audience,” says Reeley.
 ::snipping2::
Jaliek's story will air Wednesday night on the TV One program "Find Our Missing" at 10pm.

That's Time Warner Cable Channel 440 and 1845.

It should also be noted, Stephen Kerr, Jaliek's adoptive father, was labeled a person of interest in this case.

But he was never arrested. Throughout the years, he's repeatedly turned down our request to talk about his adopted son.

Video at Link


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: grace-land on February 02, 2012, 10:44:42 PM
A short Video at link

http://173.203.22.131/solve-the-case/episode-103

Jaliek Rainwalker

On TV ONE:  "Find Our Missing"
Ep3: Monica/ Jaliek
#RUWatching: Episode 103

Did Jaliek Rainwalker leave for Albany, New York to join a gang?

After finding a regretful note, his adoptive father says Jaliek ran away, last seen wearing his yellow jacket. Oddly his jacket was found months later. What happened to this young boy?

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Sister on February 06, 2012, 10:34:40 AM
A short Video at link

http://173.203.22.131/solve-the-case/episode-103

Jaliek Rainwalker

On TV ONE:  "Find Our Missing"
Ep3: Monica/ Jaliek
#RUWatching: Episode 103

Did Jaliek Rainwalker leave for Albany, New York to join a gang?

After finding a regretful note, his adoptive father says Jaliek ran away, last seen wearing his yellow jacket. Oddly his jacket was found months later. What happened to this young boy?

 ::snipping2::

I simply do not believe the "adoptive father."


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on February 07, 2012, 08:15:26 PM
A short Video at link

http://173.203.22.131/solve-the-case/episode-103

Jaliek Rainwalker

On TV ONE:  "Find Our Missing"
Ep3: Monica/ Jaliek
#RUWatching: Episode 103

Did Jaliek Rainwalker leave for Albany, New York to join a gang?

After finding a regretful note, his adoptive father says Jaliek ran away, last seen wearing his yellow jacket. Oddly his jacket was found months later. What happened to this young boy?

 ::snipping2::

I simply do not believe the "adoptive father."

I don't believe him either. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on May 06, 2012, 05:17:00 PM
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S2603862.shtml?cat=300
Police to search for Saratoga girl missing since '86
May 2, 2012

 ::snipping2::
Police told NewsChannel 13 that they hope to use dogs that are specially-trained to locate cadavers.

Saratoga Springs police are hoping to coordinate their use of the dogs with police in Washington County who are continuing to search for the body of Jaliek Rainwalker.  
 ::snipping2::

Link to Tammie McCormick's Current Discussion Thread in Missing Persons:
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=13063.msg1522063#msg1522063
Police Searching for Tammie McCormick Missing Since 1986, Saratoga Springs, NY


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on May 27, 2012, 11:15:19 PM
http://www.uticaod.com/news/x1898604735/Riding-for-a-reason-Almost-500-pedal-to-help-missing-kids
The Ride for Missing Children 16th annual event
By Angelica A. Morrison
Posted May 18, 2012, Updated May 19, 2012


Cyclists with The Ride for Missing Children were greeted like rock stars at the schools and various stops along the 100-mile route Friday.

The 16th annual event, which is a fundraiser for the New York/Mohawk Valley Office of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, attracted 488 cyclists, according to Katie Ullman Media Coordinator with the ride.

“It’s the biggest we’ve ever had,” she said. “This is a wonderful event and a huge ordeal to get them all in and out of the school stop safely.”
For rider Leslie Coughlin, of Sauquoit, she said the opening ceremony in Oneida was emotional.

“I have a daughter who is 14; I couldn’t imagine losing her or not knowing where she is,” Coughlin said.

Rochester mother Dawn Drexel knows exactly how it feels. Her daughter Brittanee Drexel, 17, went missing while on spring break at Myrtle Beach.

“It’s hard. You take it day by day. Everyday there’s hope,” she said. “It’s really difficult. You never expect your child to go missing, and it’s a nightmare you never wake up out of.”

Grandmother Barbara Reeley, of Troy, is living a similar nightmare.

Her grandson Jaliek Rainwalker, of Greenwich, went missing Nov. 1, 2007, when he was 12.

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on May 27, 2012, 11:17:29 PM
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/may/missingkids_052512/missingkids_052512
Looking for Our Children
‘National Missing Children’s Day 2012’

May 25, 2012

Photos at link

Link to "Crimes Against Children" Webpage:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/cac/crimes_against_children


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on May 28, 2012, 12:19:27 PM
Jaliek  ::MonkeyWaa::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on June 25, 2012, 10:55:08 PM
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/jaliek-l.-rainwalker/view
JALIEK L. RAINWALKER


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Northern Rose on November 02, 2012, 11:51:12 AM

Gone 5 years, still no answers
Searches, tips, reward offers fail to lead to youth's whereabouts
 
Updated 9:25 a.m., Thursday, November 1, 2012


http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Gone-5-years-still-no-answers-3998658.php


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on November 03, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
5 years....unreal


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Northern Rose on December 06, 2012, 03:09:03 PM
Police to speak about Jaliek Rainwalker case
Dec 6 2012

 ::snipping2::

We're told the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department will be holding a press conference next Thursday to update the public on the investigation.

Rainwalker's grandparents, Barbara Reeley and Dennis Smith, will also be in attendance.

FOX23 News will bring you the latest as it comes into our newsroom.

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Police-to-speak-about-Jaliek-Rainwalker-case/kiwUy0v-yUuH4zXpxx64-g.cspx


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 06, 2012, 04:34:18 PM
Thank you for the update Northern Rose.  I'm looking forward to the press conference. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on December 09, 2012, 02:59:57 AM
As am I---I love this boy


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Sister on December 12, 2012, 10:02:29 PM
As am I---I love this boy
I know.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 17, 2012, 10:18:48 AM
http://**/news/ci_22189350/missing-cambridge-n-y-boys-case-labeled-probable
Missing Greenwich, N.Y. boy's case labeled probable homicide
December 14, 2012

 ::snipping2::

At a news conference Thursday, police reclassified the investigation from that of a missing persons to a "probable homicide." Gloria Coppola, a state police major crimes investigator, asked media outlets to stop using an "age enhanced" photo of Rainwalker simulating how he might look today.

Police Chief George Bell said the hope was the change in classification would lead to new leads in the case. Now a presumed homicide, "this may show the public that this is now something worthwhile to bring forward," Bell said. "There may be someone who has key information and does not even realize it.
"
While most individuals who rose to the level of suspicion have been investigated and cleared, Bell said authorities were still interested in sitting down with Rainwalker's adoptive parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald, who have not been fully cooperative. The couple moved to West Rupert, Vt., about four months after the boy's disappearance. Bell said they may still hold on to information "crucial" to the case.

Twelve years old at the time of his disappearance, Rainwalker had been considered by police to have possibly run away from the Greenwich residence where he was staying with Kerr the night of Nov. 1, 2007.

McDonald's parents, Dennis Smith and Barbara Reeley, have cast doubt on that theory all along. "From the beginning we never really felt he ran away," said Smith on Thursday. "We just don't feel like that's what happened."
 ::snipping2::
Authorities denied the case had gone cold, and state police Senior Investigator Thomas Aiken said each department still believed there would be a resolution. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is currently in the midst of reviewing the case.

"The investigation remains very active and has never been considered a ‘cold case,'" Bell said, adding investigators had combed through nearly 500 leads, including a search this past Tuesday in Troy; none of which resulted in a positive identification or indication Rainwalker was still alive.

"Basically we've exhausted every lead," said Coppola. Most runaways surface shortly after disappearing because of lack of funds or planning, Bell said. He said the yellow fleece jacket Rainwalker was last seen wearing had been recovered.

Investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York State Forest Rangers also attended Thursday's press conference at the Cambridge police station.

Smith said he didn't understand why Rainwalker's parents weren't more cooperative with authorities. "We firmly believe the truth will come to the surface and eventually we will find out what happened to our grandson. And that's what we need to know," he said.

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 17, 2012, 10:24:20 AM
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Police-Jaliek-Rainwalker-case-probable-homicide/68GlAOQ2CUOeUk0ic91yjQ.cspx
Police: Jaliek Rainwalker case "probable homicide"
December 13, 2012

What could be a major new development in the Jaliek Rainwalker cas, investigators are now saying they suspect the 12-year-old was met with foul play, and they are reclassifying the case as a probable child homicide.
It has been since November 1, 2007, more than five years, that anyone can credibly say that they have seen Jaliek Rainwalker, and investigators say the leads they have received and followed up on in that time have brought them to the conclusion that the boy is most likely dead.

“The investigation remains very active and has never been considered a cold case,” said Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell, as he announced that the focus of the case has now changed.

“The investigators are confident that this case will be successfully resolved and they remain dedicated to finding the persons responsible for Jaliek's disappearance and bringing them to justice, said Bell, who added that the yellow fleece jacket Jaliek was supposed to have last been seen wearing has been found, and that they have continued to search for evidence, most recently just Tuesday somewhere in Troy utilizing cadaver dogs.
 ::snipping2::

“It's a hard day,” said grandfather Dennis Smith. “It's a sad day. We have always held out hope that Jaliek is alive and would be coming home.”

“It's very hard when you have a missing child,” said grandmother Barbara Reeley. “We've…our real property has been searched. I've taken a polygraph.  We have done everything to help find our grandchild.”

Barbara Reeley and Dennis Smith are among those that Chief Bell says have been investigated and cleared in this case.

Not among that group at this point is Jaliek's adopted father Stephen Kerr, the last person believed to have seen him. Kerr stopped cooperating with investigators soon after the disappearance.

Bell says he has reached out to Kerr and his wife Jocelyn McDonald through their attorney Jeffrey McMorris, who told FOX23 News, “My initial reaction is that I find it somewhat cruel that they would say this, particularly if there is no basis for it.  Until Jaliek comes home or is found, I think his parents are the only people that have the right to make this official conclusion, and they firmly believe that he will come home someday.”

Investigators say an age-enhanced photo of Jaliek that generated dozens of leads that all proved false is no longer relevant and have asked the media not to show it any more.
More...



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 17, 2012, 10:31:15 AM
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Cops-Jaliek-Rainwalker-a-probable-child-4114960.php
Jaliek focus turns to killing
Police say child missing since 2007 most likely is a victim of foul play

December 14, 2012

CAMBRIDGE — After more than five years in which police investigated nearly 500 leads, authorities announced Thursday they had elevated the Jaliek Rainwalker case to a homicide investigation from a missing person search.

At a news conference in the Cambridge police station, state and local police said they had exhausted all substantive leads in the disappearance of the 12-year-old from Washington County, and asked the public's help in finding Jaliek's killer.

"It is not a runaway," State Police Major Crimes Unit Investigator Gloria Coppola said Thursday. "It is a presumed homicide."

The words spelled out what many had long suspected, but only a few have said publicly since Jaliek vanished on Nov. 1, 2007.

While police on Thursday refused to identify specific suspects, Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell recently stated police have received zero cooperation in the case from Jaliek's parents, Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald, who moved to West Rupert, Vt., four months after Jaliek disappeared.

Jaliek was last seen before spending the night with Kerr at a relative's unoccupied home in Greenwich. Kerr said that when he woke up, Jaliek was gone. Jaliek's grandparents sat with police at Thursday's announcement. The boy's grandfather, Dennis Smith, suspects Kerr harmed Jaliek.
 ::snipping2::
Bell updated reporters on the change in the case's status. He was joined by State Police investigators and a representative from the FBI. Bell said law enforcement officials were working with members of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Two investigators with the center studied the case during recent visits to the Capital Region.

Jaliek was the victim of a "probable child homicide," Bell said. He confirmed police had recovered a yellow fleece jacket Jaliek was thought to be wearing the night he was last seen. He said that police, acting on a tip, used cadaver dogs to search for Jaliek's body at a Troy property on Tuesday, but found nothing.

"The investigators are confident that the case will be successfully resolved, and they remain dedicated to identifying the persons responsible for Jaliek's disappearance and bringing them to justice," Bell said. Police have eliminated "most" of the people they have considered suspects in the case, he said.

Smith and Barbara Reeley, Jaliek's grandmother, sat near pictures of the boy on Thursday. Smith said he agreed with the police's reclassification of the case, and believed the truth about what happened will eventually come out.
 ::snipping2::
The emotionally troubled Rainwalker lived in six foster homes before Kerr and McDonald adopted him in 2003. Jaliek lived with the couple's four other children, first in Salem and then in a house in Cossayuna that had no indoor plumbing or TV and limited electricity.

The couple have not spoken to police or the media since the initial weeks after Jaliek's disappearance, Bell said. Their attorney, Jeffrey McMorris of Glens Falls, said Thursday he had not yet spoken with his clients about the day's developments.

"They firmly believe their son is out there — safe, alive and will come home some day," McMorris said. "I don't know what would have prompted police to make this change."

McMorris added that he hoped police would still investigate "sightings" of Jaliek.

But Coppola asked the news media to stop publishing a computer age-enhanced image of Jaliek, who stood 5 feet 6 and weighed 105 pounds in 2007 and would be 17 today. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children agreed to the image off its website because Jaliek is no longer considered a runaway, Coppola said.

Changing the focus of the investigation from a missing person to murder could shake witnesses from their reluctance to speak with police and encourage law enforcement agencies to throw more resources at finding Jaliek, said Albany attorney Paul DerOhannesian, who lectures on child homicide and abuse cases.

"There's a big difference in how a missing person may be viewed as opposed to a homicide victim in terms of law enforcement attention," DerOhannesian said in a phone interview Thursday. "Highlighting it as a possible murder case goes a long way in reigniting people's interest. The goal is to crack their memories."

Bell asks that anyone with information about Jaliek call police at 518-692-9332.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 17, 2012, 10:36:42 AM
http://hudsonvalley.ynn.com/content/top_stories/621462/jaliek-rainwalker-case-now-considered--probable-child-homicide-/
Jaliek Rainwalker case now considered "probable child homicide"
December 13, 2012

Police now consider Jaliek Rainwalker's disappearance a probable child homicide case. Cambridge-Greenwich police held a news conference Thursday morning with the new information. Lori Chung has more.

(Link in article:  Watch the full press conference. )


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 17, 2012, 10:39:17 AM
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Jaliek-s-parents-say-youth-will-return-4120087.php
Jaliek's parents say youth will return
Couple dispute change by police who made case a presumed homicide

December 14, 2012

GLENS FALLS — The parents of missing child Jaliek Rainwalker released a statement Friday through their attorney saying they were "dismayed and discouraged" that police upgraded the case to a homicide investigation.

Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald responded to a press conference held Thursday in Cambridge, where police announced they now view Jaliek, who was last seen when he was 12, a presumed homicide victim, not a runaway. The change came 5 years and 43 days after Jaliek disappeared during an overnight stay with Kerr at a home in Greenwich.

In their statement released through attorney Jeffrey McMorris at 4 p.m. Friday, Kerr and McDonald insisted that Jaliek will return to them. The couple and their four other children moved from Cossayuna, Washington County, to West Rupert, Vt., months after Jaliek disappeared on Nov. 1, 2007.

"Despite everything that law enforcement has had to say, we know that he is out there and will return to us some day," said the statement from Kerr and McDonald, who adopted Jaliek in 2003. "We pray that the reclassification will not result in a lessening of the efforts to bring Jaliek home to his family."

Of greater concern, the family said, was law enforcement's decision to discourage the media from using a computer age-enhanced depiction of Jaliek. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children agreed to remove the image from its website because it created so many false leads and police no longer considered Jaliek missing, according to State Police investigators.

"This remains the best tool to use in bringing him home," Jaliek's parents said about the image. A separate photo that is widely used by media shows Jaliek at the age of eight before his face thinned and his hair grew darker, they said.
 ::snipping2::
After hearing about Friday's statement from Jaliek's parents, Bell said that the couple knows there are multiple law enforcement officials waiting to speak with them. He challenged them to produce evidence that Jaliek was still alive.

Bell said Friday that while several persons in the case were eliminated as suspects, Kerr was not among them. "He's not one of the persons I've written off. He has not cooperated," the chief said.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on December 18, 2012, 07:47:12 AM
::MonkeyAngel::

Link to Jaliek's candles:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on January 05, 2013, 08:44:53 PM

http://poststar.com/news/opinion/columns/ps/column-police-review-jaliek-page-on-facebook/article_c3606ddc-5517-11e2-bca4-0019bb2963f4.html
COLUMN: Police review 'Jaliek' page on Facebook
January 2, 2013

Jaliek Rainwalker is alive and well and attending high school in Pennsylvania, according to his page on the social networking website Facebook.

Someone has started a Facebook page under the name “Jaliek RainWalker,” with a capital “w,” apparently pretending to be the missing Greenwich resident.

The page has a picture of Rainwalker and indicates he attends “Northeastern Senior High School” in Pennsylvania and is planning to graduate this year.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said he had been made aware of the Web page and investigators were looking into it but found no reason to believe Rainwalker himself created it, particularly since his name was misspelled.

A supporter of Rainwalker’s had started a Facebook “community” page in his name last year to keep people updated on the case.

 ::snipping2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on January 05, 2013, 08:47:07 PM
http://hudsonvalley.ynn.com/content/top_stories/626865/police-investigating-facebook-page-claiming-to-be-by-jaliek-rainwalker/
Police investigating Facebook page claiming to be by Jaliek Rainwalker
By: YNN Staff

Updated January 3, 2013

A well-known case in the Capital Region is getting some new attention-on the social networking site Facebook. But it's not a Facebook page created by a group hoping to find Jaliek Rainwalker; it's a page claiming to be created by the missing boy.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said, "I think, whoever it is, whatever their intentions are, whether it's to throw us off, or to upset the family, I don't know, but I'd like to find out who is behind it."

Chief Bell said he's working with State Police to see if there's any credibility to the page. The page says Jaliek is living in Pennsylvania, but there's no other info on the page other than a picture.

Bell said he's found no reason to believe it was actually Jaliek who created the page.

He said, "I believe Jaliek is the victim of a child homicide, at this point, there's not any bearing to this Facebook page."

Jaliek was last seen at his adoptive parents' home in Washington County more than five years ago. Jaliek's grandparents, Barbara Reeley and Dennis Smith, have been active both publicly and online in searching for their grandson. They think the page wasn't created with malicious intentions by someone, but instead, by someone trying to help.

Smith said, "My gut feeling is it's someone trying to be helpful but maybe a little confused about what they are doing."
 ::snipping2::
There is another page created for Jaliek on Facebook, run by his grandmother, Barbara Reeley. She uses it to post updates about the investigation into her grandson's disappearance. Reeley said she checks sites online everyday looking for tips.

Image of FB Page at above link.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on July 02, 2013, 09:02:57 PM
The jacket Jaliek was reported to be wearing the day he disappeared has been found, but LE won't say when or where they located it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAR2ulBYjFc
Jaliek Rainwalker case reclassified as homicide, no longer missing
Published on Jan 20, 2013

CAMBRIDGE - Probable Child Homicide--that's how police are now classifying the investigation into the disappearance of 12-year old Jaliek Rainwalker. The boy was reported missing five years ago from Greenwich and Police say they no longer believe in the possibility that he just ran away, they say they are convinced foul play was involved.

It's a hard day, it's a sad day, we have always held out hope that Jaliek is alive and would be coming home to his family, says Dennis Smith, Jaliek's adoptive Grandfather. This is really hard, we want closure, we need closure, it's been 5 years and it's another holiday season and it makes it really hard, adds Barbra Reeley, Jaliek's adoptive grandmother.


Jaliek Rainwalker was last seen with his father, Steven Kerr on November 1, 2007, the next day he was reported missing. In the days following Jaliek's disappearance, Kerr spoke at a vigil held for the boy saying, I believe deep in my soul that my son is alive and safe, somewhere. A few weeks later, Kerr, his wife and their other adopted children moved to Vermont and stopped cooperating with police investigating Jaliek's case.

Investigators say there is no indication or evidence that Jaliek ran-away, they now believe he was killed. Cambridge-Greenwich Police stopped short of calling Kerr an official suspect but did say that they have reached out to the attorney hired to represent him to try and set up an interview. I'm hoping, that after 5 years, that they'll be able to come in and answer some questions, Chief George Bell says. Investigators have found the jacket that Jaliek was reported to have been wearing the day he disappeared but won't say when or where they located it. CBS6 has also learned that cadaver dogs were brought in to search a building in Troy on Tuesday. This is not a cold case, the leads have been coming in, we're at 500-someodd leads in this case, this is just something that came up recently that we felt needed to be further investigated, Bell says.

Smith and Reeley have been suspicious of their son-in-law since the day Jaliek was reported missing. If you did nothing wrong, if you have nothing to hide, why don't you cooperate with law enforcement to help find your son? Smith says. While the questions continue about what happened to Jaliek, his grandparents, who no longer have contact with their daughter, son-in-law, or other grandchildren, are hoping that someone will come forward with new information in the case. We drive by cemeteries and my heart breaks because there are markers for people, there's no marker for our grandson, we just want a marker we want to know where he is and what happened to him, Reeley says.

Anyone with any information they think might be helpful relating to Jaliek are asked to call the Cambridge-Greenwich Police Department at 518-692-9332.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on July 02, 2013, 09:06:02 PM
http://poststar.com/news/local/police-new-report-sheds-light-on-jaliek-rainwalker-case/article_c054d8c0-8c1d-11e2-ac08-0019bb2963f4.html
Police: New report sheds light on Jaliek Rainwalker case
March 13, 2013

Police have gleaned leads from a new, 80-page report on the disappearance of Greenwich youth Jaliek Rainwalker as they work toward building a case against the person they believe is responsible for what they believe was the boy’s killing.

The report was compiled by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which sent a pair of investigators to Washington County last fall to review the investigation and evidence in the case compiled by Cambridge-Greenwich Police, State Police, the state Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers and the FBI.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said the report -- which he said will not be released publicly -- was compiled by retired police officers who work with the non-profit organization NCMEC to assist police

“It does shed some light on the case and they do draw some conclusions,” Bell said.

He said he could not elaborate as the investigation continued.

Rainwalker was 12 when he disappeared from a family home in the village of Greenwich on Nov. 1, 2007. No trace of him has been found since, and police late last year classified the case as a homicide.

Police have labeled Rainwalker’s adopted father, Stephen Kerr, as a “person of interest” in his son’s disappearance. Rainwalker was alone with his father at a home in the village of Greenwich owned by Kerr’s family before he was reported missing, and police have said there are a number of inconsistencies in Kerr’s version of events from that night and the hours that followed.

Kerr has denied involvement in the boy’s disappearance, and his lawyers have said they believe Rainwalker -- who had a history of behavioral problems and mental problems -- ran away.

Bell said in mid-December that Kerr’s lawyer had indicated he would sit down with police to be re-interviewed -- his first interview since he refused a polygraph test in 2007 -- but Bell said that interview has not happened. He said State Police plan to contact Kerr’s lawyer in the coming weeks.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on July 02, 2013, 09:09:54 PM
http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/top_stories/654968/state-police-divers-search-hudson-for-jaliek-rainwalker/
State Police divers search Hudson for Jaliek Rainwalker
By: Matt Hunter
Four months after investigators say they received a lead, State Police divers search the Hudson River for a missing Washington County boy who disappeared more than five years ago. YNN's Matt Hunter reports on continued efforts to find Jaliek Rainwalker.
April 9, 2013

 ::snipping3::
More than five years has passed since she last saw him, but Barbara Reeley still clings to hope that one day her grandson, Jaliek Rainwalker, will be found.
 ::snipping3::
On Tuesday morning, Reeley looked on as State Police divers searched the eastern bank of the Hudson River in Troy. Investigators received a tip following a December news conference at which the investigation was reclassified as a homicide.

"This woman reported it just after our news conference, but it's something that went to back to the year Jaliek went missing, so that's why we chose to do that area," said Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell, whose department heads the search for Rainwalker.

Alternating shifts, divers spent more than two hours in the Hudson, but found no signs of the boy who was last seen outside his Washington County home in the fall of 2007. Bell says similar leads will be followed up on in the weeks ahead.

"We have to bring closure to it and it's our job to do that,” Bell said. “So we'll keep going one way or the other until there's some kind of closure, whether it's me or the next guy that takes my spot."

With no suspect ever officially named, investigators appear no closer to finding the boy's remains than they were five years ago, but Reeley remains hopeful her family will one day find an answer.

"It may not be in my lifetime, but I feel that everybody deserves to be put to rest,” Reeley said. “My grandson deserves to be found, as do all missing people deserve to be found."


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on July 02, 2013, 09:11:34 PM
http://www.findjaliek.org/
Find Jaliek Rainwalker


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Sister on July 03, 2013, 10:29:47 AM
Thanks for the updates Muffy  ::bee::
I believe the father knows so much, much more than he has ever told.
 ::justice2nj2::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on July 07, 2013, 03:23:37 PM
Thanks for the updates Muffy  ::bee::
I believe the father knows so much, much more than he has ever told.
 ::justice2nj2::

ITA Sister.   ::rhino::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on July 07, 2013, 03:34:54 PM
Indeed!


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on August 07, 2013, 12:35:31 AM
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/rainwalker_jaliek.html
Jaliek L. Rainwalker

Last updated July 29, 2013; details of disappearance updated.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on August 07, 2013, 08:29:47 AM
wow..ty muffy


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on August 07, 2013, 08:37:50 AM
wow..ty muffy

Thank you Nut.  I'm glad to know Jaliek's case is still being investigated.  It's going slowly, but it's still going. 


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Sister on August 07, 2013, 08:46:39 AM
what a horrid life this little man had.

Hope he is found.

 ::MonkeyTears::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Bearlyhere on November 09, 2014, 04:57:41 AM
::MonkeyAngel::

Link to Jaliek's candles:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=jal




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Bearlyhere on November 09, 2014, 05:35:07 AM


November 1st marks 7 years Jaliek has been missing.  We have not forgotten.

      ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel:: ::MonkeyAngel::



Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on November 09, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
http://poststar.com/news/local/police-search-greenwich-home-again-in-attempt-to-solve-jaliek/article_bb39795a-4a7f-11e4-9aad-272fa988ec6c.html
Police search Greenwich home again in attempt to solve Jaliek Rainwalker case
October 2, 2014

Police recently searched the former home of Jaliek Rainwalker as the police investigation into his disappearances heads into an eighth year.

Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said officers from his department and the State Police last month searched the property on Raven Way in the town of Greenwich where Rainwalker lived with his adopted parents and siblings before he disappeared.

Police dogs trained to find cadavers were used to search the property, which has a new owner who Bell said consented to the search.

“It was something we had done before, but we just wanted to check again,” he said.


Rainwalker, then 12, disappeared Nov. 1, 2007, from a home owned by his adopted father’s family in the village of Greenwich.

Stephen Kerr, the adopted father, was the last person known to be with him. Kerr reported that he awoke that morning and the boy was gone. Rainwalker had been having behavioral problems in the weeks before his disappearance, and had been in a respite home in the days before Kerr brought him back to Greenwich.

Police have labeled Kerr a “person of interest,” saying he was not forthcoming abut his activities and there were inconsistencies in his versions of events.

Because of the circumstances, police in 2012 changed the classification of the case from a missing person case to homicide. No charges have been filed, however.

Police also continue to receive tips about potential sightings of Rainwalker, Bell said.

A Kingsbury resident who was in Kingston in Ulster County reported seeing a young man she believed to be him in recent weeks, but State Police investigated the tip and determined it was not Rainwalker.

Jaliek’s adopted grandmother, Barbara Reeley, said she was contacted earlier this year by a young man from Rochester who had been communicating with a person he thought could be Rainwalker through an online video gaming system, but the FBI looked into it and concluded the person was not him.

She said she was present for the Raven Way searches, and was gratified that police continue to follow up on leads that come in.

 ::snipping3::

Bell said he hopes to meet with Washington County District Attorney Tony Jordan in the coming weeks to discuss the case.

Jordan took office Jan. 1 and his predecessor, Kevin Kortright, last year said the seven-year anniversary of the disappearance could mark a threshold where a homicide prosecution could be pursued.

 ::snipping3::

Kerr initially cooperated with police. But within days of Rainwalker’s disappearance, he refused to take a polygraph test, retained a lawyer and has not consented to further questioning. He and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, moved to West Rupert, Vt., months after Rainwalker disappeared.

Kerr’s lawyer, Jeff McMorris, said his client has not reported any new developments in the search.

McMorris pointed to a number of cases across the country in recent years where children disappeared and were believed dead but eventually re-appeared.

“Their (Kerr and his wife’s) opinion hasn’t changed. He is going to show up someday,” McMorris said.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 08, 2017, 02:53:02 PM
COULD IT BE???? Skull found by hiker in Coxsackie belongs to boy between 10 and 13 years old
http://news10.com/2017/03/06/dec-skull-found-by-hiker-in-coxsackie-belongs-to-boy-between-10-and-13-years-old/

posted March 6, 2017, 4:31 pm
COXSACKIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The New York DEC says a skull found in the Vosburgh Swamp Wildlife Management area off Four Mile Point Road belongs to a male between the ages of 10 to 13.

More definitive testing is needed to provide a more accurate estimate of the person’s age.

The DEC says an anthropologist looked at the photo of the skull and made that assessment.

On February 26 at around 6:30 p.m., police were alerted by a hiker of a skull partially buried in a wooded area.

On Monday, February 27, 12 State Troopers, two State Police K-9 units, four Greene County Sheriff Deputies, five DEC Environmental Conservation Officers, and two Forest Rangers grid searched the area around the location of the skull to look for additional bones and/or evidence related to the skull.

Following the search, the DEC says an assortment of items was tested, including pieces of clothing that accumulated in the tidal area around the skull.

*****COXSACKIE, N.Y. is apx. 76 miles South of Greenwich/Cambridge area in NY apx. 1+1/2 hour highway drive.


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: texasmom on March 08, 2017, 05:41:46 PM
Thanks Nut44x4!   ::HelloKitty::

Good thinking!   ::MonkeyCool::
I'd read about this find earlier, but hadn't thought about this possible connection.




Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: texasmom on March 09, 2017, 06:21:35 AM
http://www.timesunion.com/7dayarchive/article/Jaliek-Rainwater-s-DNA-probed-in-human-skull-10982715.php

Chief: Skull's discovery stirs hope for break in Jaliek Rainwalker disappearance
12-year-old's DNA probed in human skull discovery in Coxsackie
Emily Masters Updated 3:03 pm, Tuesday, March 7, 2017
 
George Bell has gotten countless phone calls over the last decade about the disappearance of 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker but, until last week, no caller had reported the discovery of a young boy's remains.

When a hiker spotted a skull, partially buried in state wetlands along the Hudson River in Greene County, on Feb. 26, State Police investigators immediately called Bell, the Greenwich-Cambridge police chief, with the news. On Monday, state conservation officials said an examination revealed the skull likely came from a boy between the age 10 and 13.

"I have mixed emotions. If you look outside the box, it all fits," Bell said Tuesday. "But I don't want to draw false conclusions or give false hope."
Bell said investigators told him the remains washed up 5 to 10 years ago into the Vosburgh Swamp in Coxsackie.

Rainwalker vanished from his adoptive parents' Washington County home in November 2007. Police believe foul play was involved and have scrutinized his adoptive father but no one was ever charged in his disappearance.

Bell, who leads the 10-year-old homicide investigation, said Tuesday that there is no evidence so far that indicates the skull is Rainwalker's.

"We don't know a lot," Bell said, adding he was surprised by the Department of Environmental Conservation's disclosure of the age range of the skull. "I don't have that information."

A forensic anthropologist examined a photograph of the skull before making the age and gender determination, the DEC said Monday. Additional definitive testing will provide a more precise estimation on when the person died.

 ::snipping3::
Next, forensic examiners will grind the bone and extract whatever marrow is left, Bell said. DNA results could take two weeks, the chief said.

Bell said he hopes the evidence matches Rainwalker's DNA and finally provides closure but he admitted it would be a long shot.

"We're not holding out hope in terms of DNA at this point," Bell said. He also noted the skull could belong to any of a number of missing people.

"There are so many possibilities," he said.

Bell elevated the Rainwalker investigation from a missing person search to a homicide case in 2012. The chief has long complained that the boy's adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, won't cooperate with investigators.

Rainwalker was last seen Nov. 1, 2007, before spending the night with Kerr at a relative's unoccupied home in Greenwich. Kerr said that when he woke up, Jaliek was gone.

In 2012, State Police cadaver dogs searched a Troy property, while divers probed the Hudson River between Troy and Watervliet. Both teams found nothing, although investigators have theorized Rainwalker's body was dropped in the Hudson.

On Feb. 27, one day after a hiker found the unidentified skull in Coxsackie, State Police, Greene County sheriff's deputies and DEC personnel searched the Wildlife Management Area off Four Mile Point Road for clues.

The skull was partially buried in a wooded area, not fully intact and had signs of extreme exposure to the elements, the DEC said. Various items, including clothing, had accumulated in the tidal area around the skull and will be tested, the state agency said.

At the time, sheriff's Lt. Adam Brainard said the remains of people who jumped off Albany and Troy bridges into the Hudson have washed up on shore in this Greene County wetland area before. Police have not yet determined if this is the case in the latest discovery, Brainard said.

 ::snipping3::

The wetland path where the unidentified young person's skull was found, part of the state Department of Environmental Conservation network of protected areas, is at the end of Four Mile Point Road and runs along the Hudson River.

Vosburgh Swamp is about 35 miles south of Troy.

Anyone with information is asked to call the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations in Catskill at 622-8600.

(http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/02/12/23/566523/3/920x920.jpg)
Jaliek Rainwalker (Kerr family photo)
IMAGE 1 OF 8 Jaliek Rainwalker (Kerr family photo)


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: texasmom on March 09, 2017, 06:38:14 AM
http://poststar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/jaliek-s-grandmother-visits-recovery-location-hopes-for-closure/article_a1d5cdbd-0e69-5bea-8e25-ea44013b0251.html

Jaliek's grandmother visits recovery location, hopes for closure
DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com  Mar 7, 2017 

For 9 1/2 years, Barbara Reeley has yearned to know what happened to her adopted grandson, Jaliek Rainwalker.

She has had her suspicions, but like the police investigators who have worked for nearly a decade to determine the boy’s fate, Reeley has waited for a break that would lead to some conclusions as to what became of the boy from Greenwich who was 12 when he disappeared.

Reeley said she hopes that break came in recent days with the recovery of part of a human skull near the Hudson River south of Albany. Reeley visited the area on Tuesday, reaching out to police and prosecutors there to see if she can be of assistance with details such as identifying clothes that were found.

“I just wanted to touch base with them,” she said. “I’m hoping. I just want the investigators to know I’m available if they need information.”

As police looked into what seemed to be their best lead in years to potentially solve Jaliek’s disappearance, Reeley felt that she had to drive from her home in Troy to the remote part of eastern Greene County where part of a young boy’s skull was found last week.

A hiker found the piece of bone Feb. 26 on state land in Coxsackie known as Vosburgh Swamp, near the Hudson River. A search of the area for other bones or evidence did not yield anything that was definitively linked, but clothes were recovered in the area.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation told police Monday that a recent anthropological analysis of the piece of skull led to the conclusion that it was that of a boy between the ages of 10 and 13, and had been in the elements for five to 10 years. State Police were still reviewing the evidence that was recovered as well.

Jaliek disappeared in November 2007. His home was blocks from the Batten Kill, which feeds the Hudson River. Evidence that police developed during the case led them to search the Hudson River in Washington and Rensselaer counties dozens of times, to no avail.

Police are analyzing the bone to see if any DNA can be recovered to compare to a sample of Jaliek’s they have held onto since 2007.

 ::snipping3::

Washington County District Attorney Tony Jordan said he has been monitoring the developments in recent days, and Bell has been keeping him apprised.

Police have concluded Jaliek was likely killed and have labeled his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, as a “person of interest.” He was the last person known to be with the boy in his parents’ then-home on Hill Street in Greenwich in the hours before he was reported missing.

Kerr has maintained he did not hurt Jaliek.

Reeley is the mother of Jocelyn McDonald, Kerr’s wife. She has not had any communication with her daughter or son-in-law since the weeks after Jaliek disappeared.

 ::snipping3::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: texasmom on March 09, 2017, 06:44:21 AM
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/capital-region/news/2017/03/7/as-discovered-skull-investigated-local-woman-hopes-for-answers.html

As Discovered Skull Investigated, Local Woman Hopes for Answers
By Katie Eastman
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 05:13 PM EST

 ::snipping3::

"This is probably as hopeful as I've been in nine years," said Barbara Reeley.

Each time Reeley hears about a missing person, she wonders if it's her 12-year-old grandson who went missing more than nine years ago. Jaliek Rainwalker disappeared from his Washington County home in 2007. The case was investigated first as a missing person and then as a homicide, although his body was never found. His stepfather was looked at as a person of interest, but never arrested.

On February 26, a hiker came across a partially buried skull in Coxsackie. Investigators have not been able to find an exact identity, but Reeley is willing to hope once again.

"Dread, fear and also hope," she said. "As strange as it sounds, it's better to know than not know, and for 9 years, 4 months, and 6 days, I haven't known."

 ::snipping3::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on March 10, 2017, 12:31:08 PM
Thanks Nut44x4!   ::HelloKitty::

Good thinking!   ::MonkeyCool::
I'd read about this find earlier, but hadn't thought about this possible connection.




 ::rhino::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: MuffyBee on April 20, 2017, 09:11:24 AM
It's been so long; over nine years since Jaliek has been missing.  I remain very suspicious of his step-father's account and never believed he ran away from home.  I hope his grandmother will get the answers she needs in her lifetime.  May there be justice for Jaliek.   ::MonkeyAngel::


Title: Re: Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY
Post by: Nut44x4 on April 20, 2017, 12:55:33 PM
I AGREE!!!!!