I missed this article from the 9th. Also, I would like to let people know that there will be a “Light the Night for Jaliek” on Sunday December 23rd from 6:30-7:30 in Greenwich.
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.
