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The adoptive dad did this. What sane program would allow him to even live with those people?
On the night of November 1, 2007, 12 year old Jaliek Rainwalker went to dinner at a Red Robin with his adoptive father.
It was supposed to be a fresh start, or maybe a goodbye.
Jaliek had a hard childhood. He'd bounced through the foster system before being adopted at 7 by a couple in rural Washington County, New York, near the Vermont border. The family lived a very different kind of life. Their house had no running water. They used outhouses. Their only electricity came from a generator that ran a few hours a day. Everyone slept in one room.
By 2007, things at home had gotten bad. His parents said Jaliek was out of control. Just over a week before he vanished, his father called a crisis hotline and said his son was unmanageable. Jaliek was sent to stay with another family for a while. His parents were looking into undoing the adoption.
On November 1, his father picked him up. After dinner, the two of them spent the night alone together at the father's parents' house, on Hill Street in the village of Greenwich.
The next morning, his father said he woke up around 7:30 and Jaliek was gone.
He said Jaliek had run away. Police were told a note was left behind.
He called police around 9 a.m.
Officers, state police, the FBI, and forest rangers searched the woods, golf courses, and riverbanks around Greenwich. They found no sign of Jaliek. No footprints. No sightings. A 12 year old boy in a bright yellow fleece had vanished from a small village.
Then investigators said they found something.
Surveillance video showed his father's van driving around Greenwich after midnight that night. During the hours his father said he was asleep.
Police named him a person of interest. He has never been charged with anything. His family has said they believe Jaliek ran away and could still come home.
In 2012, police reclassified the case as a presumed homicide.
Over the years, remains turned up in the region more than once. Each time, families held their breath. Each time, it wasn't Jaliek.
His biological family and former foster parents have never stopped searching.
Last week marked 19 years. Jaliek would be 31 years old.
A 12 year old spent his last night alone in a house with one other person.
Where is Jaliek Rainwalker?
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Nah I love Delaware park, iont know shyt after Dover 馃槀, i think the bad joints be in the cut, like Newark or Middletown type shyt lol
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