MISSING: Jaliek Rainwalker
A child’s mysterious disappearance sparks tough questions about his adoptive family and the system that placed him there.
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Episode Source Material
- FBI Most Wanted: Kidnappings/Missing Persons List
- The Charley Project: Jaliek L Rainwalker
- Missing boy, 12, subject of search
- Police Step up missing child investigation
- Police look for leads in Greenwich boy’s disappearance
- Search Continues; no leads
- Worst feared for missing boy
- Search focuses on golf course
- Family holding on to hope
- Police utilizing subpoenas in search for Greenwich boy
- Ground Searches for missing N.Y. boy will conclude today
- Rainwalker search expands to Vermont
- Police search Vermont park for missing Greenwich 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker
- Team Adam on the case
- Jaliek’s parents offer reward
- Police analyzing cell phone of Jaliek’s father
- Search of hydroelectric plant yields no clues in the Jaliek Rainwalker case
- Event Planned to keep Attention on Jaliek case
- Vigil honors missing boy
- Foster parents work to find boy
- Group ups Jaliek reward
- Jaliek’s father asked to test
- Father refuses to allow search
- Anonymous letter: ‘Jaliek still alive’
- More Jaliek proof sought
- Group seeks Jaliek facts
- Police to search river for clues
- Home searched in Rainwalker case
- Prosecutor backs police in Jaliek case
- Texas Group to look for Jaliek
- Kerr’s route is now in question
- Relative seeking custody of Jaliek
- New Jaliek search scheduled
- Still searching for Rainwalker
- Remote-controlled plane aids in Jaliek search
- Jaliek search scaled back
- Rainwalker search in Vt. Turns up empty
- Custody case to go on
- Jaliek’s home broken into
- Charges filed in Jaliek burglary
- Rainwalker evidence found
- Person resembling Jaliek turns up in video footage
- Police: child in video not Jaliek
- Jaliek search nearing one year
- Group wants law for Jaliek
- Jaliek search will restart
- Jaliek search moves to mill
- Small skull found in Edinburg woods
- Found skull raises alarms
- Family hopes to find closure
- Police look into if skull belongs to Rainwalker
- Grandmother seeks closure
- Police: Skull is not that of teen
- 10-year search continues
- Behind the scenes, Jaliek investigation quietly continues
- Police, prosecutors meet to discuss Jaliek case
- Gone 5 years, still no answers
- Eight years later, Jaliek Rainwalker’s disappearance still a mystery
- Nine years later, police try to figure out next move in search for Jaliek
- WTEN footage of interview with Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald
- Clip of Stephen Kerr goofing around during interview and Jocelyn McDonald laughing in background, aired approx. 30 days after Jaliek goes missing
- Wayback Machine archive of the “Background” page on findjaliek.org
- CNN Find the Children via YouTube
- NBC13 Report 09/02/2010
- Find Our Missing Segment on Jaliek Rainwalker
- CBS6 Albany report
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