Jaliek Rainwalker 12, msg 11/1/07 Cambridge-Greenwich, NY

[Lovinlife]

THIS JUST IN:

http://www.fox23news.com/content/newsalert/story/Investigators-Idientify-Skull-Found-in-Greenfield/hyQvtBPjvUKORsMSgt6KFQ.cspx

Investigators Idientify Skull Found in Greenfield

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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. 

[Lovinlife]

Skull Identified as Missing Teen from Colorado

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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

[Lovinlife]

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?    I'm sorry, just frustrated.

Rest in peace Jennifer 

[Nut44x4]

  wtf?? The girl in that photo certainly isn't 18 ......
??

[Lovinlife]

wtf?? The girl in that photo certainly isn't 18 ......
??

http://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=186.0;topicseen

[MuffyBee]

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

[Leroy]

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

Please, light a candle to light Jaliek's way home.

Thank you.

 

Prayers for Jaliek    

[Nut44x4]

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." 
http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_2af5d034-c760-11de-9bdc-001cc4c002e0.html?print=1

[Lovinlife]

  Prayers for Jaliek

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 



 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.
 

[linds1980]

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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.

[Lovinlife]

Praying for Jaliek

Praying for answers

[MuffyBee]

Praying for Jaliek

Praying for answers

   

[texasmom]

Praying for Jaliek

Praying for answers

   

 

[Lovinlife]

~ Jaliek Rainwalker ~ Still Missing ~

[MuffyBee]

~ Jaliek Rainwalker ~ Still Missing ~

  

[Nut44x4]

 

[Leroy]

So sad!  Praying for you Jaliek    

[Lovinlife]

Jaliek, family & friends.  I pray that 2010 is the year that you will be reunited.

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

[Sister]

Jaliek, family & friends.  I pray that 2010 is the year that you will be reunited.

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

Lovin, amen and amen.

[SuzieQ]

Prayers for Jaliek