Another Twist in Jaliek’s Case?

Group may assist Rainwalker search

Texas-based organization offers help

GREENWICH — The search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker, who has been missing since Nov. 1, is still on the back burner as New York State Police and FBI forensic work has yet to be completed, but police will have some help from a Texas group that specializes in finding missing persons.

According to Greenwich/Cambridge Police Chief George Bell, the founder of Texas Equusearch, a non-profit group that provides equipment and tools to find missing persons, is expected to meet with Greenwich police to discuss the case soon. “At some point they are going to come up here. They have a ton of nationalmedia contacts,”said Bell.

The search for Rainwalker stalled during the winter and investigation of Rainwalker’s adoptivefather, StephenKerr, ensued.Police named Kerr a person of interest after finding fallacies in his story and last month searched his Hill Street home, taking a computer and other evidence. That evidence was taken by the FBI and New York State Police for analysis.

“I talked to state police lab today and I guess they have had their fair share of homicides,” said Bell.

Police are waiting for that information before determining the next step.  To keep them busy, Greenwich police are now engaged in another manhunt, this time for 42-year-old Russell Wagner, of Hill Road in Greenwich, who allegedly went on the run after he heard police were investigating him for sexual abuse.

According to Bell, Wagner was providing alcohol and gifts to his daughter and her friends and the daughter reported it because she suspected more was going on.

Once Wagner found out that police were investigating him, he allegedly left town and on Saturday his vehicle was found in an industrial park in Baltimore with a suicide note in it.

Police had an arrest warrant and a notice of his vehicle, which Baltimore County Police noticed and contacted Greenwich police, according to Bell.

After searching the area on Saturday, Bell said Wagner’s cell phone was tracked being used in Virginia.

“It appears he faked his death,” said Bell.

Though both Wagner and Rainwalker lived on the same street, Bell believes the two never had any contact with each other.

“I can’t find anybody lately,” said Bell.

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**I don’t even know what to think right now.  If there was a sexual predator living on the same street as Jaliek then this case could take a turn to another direction.  I know Chief Bell said that although they lived on the same street that he believes that they never had contact with one another.  God, I hope this is the case.  Now I would like to know when did the search for Russell Wagner begin?  When were these accusations charged against him?