More from the Times Union - 'Rainwalker: The Lost Boy'

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spk_0 12-year-old Jelique Rainwalker vanished without a trace from a small upstate New York village

spk_0 on a cool November night in 2007.

spk_0 His adoptive parents say he ran away.

spk_0 Police believe he was murdered, but a body has never been found.

spk_0 And a suspect has never been named.

spk_0 Thank you for giving me the opportunity.

spk_0 Yeah, okay.

spk_0 All right, but you don't want to talk.

spk_0 Then when I learned they were trying to undo the adoption, that's when I learned that

spk_0 this story was very complicated.

spk_0 It was a lot more complicated than I even thought.

spk_0 Almost two decades later, the case remains unsolved.

spk_0 I'm Jessica Marshall.

spk_0 And I'm Wendy Lepertor.

spk_0 In this podcast from the Times Union, we take a deep dive into the mystery of this missing

spk_0 child.

spk_0 And try to find some answers.

spk_0 So have you come to terms that Jelique is probably dead?

spk_0 Yes, yes.

spk_0 I feel that he was killed on November 1st, 2007.

spk_0 Available now wherever you listen to podcasts.

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