A California teenager with autism was found sleeping in a Utah gas station parking lot three years after disappearing from his family home.
Connerjack Oswalt, who walked out of his Clearlake, California home in September 2019 at the age of 17 and has not been seen since, was found by sheriff’s deputies shivering from the cold as he slept at a Summit County, Utah gas station this week.
Oswalt appeared to be homeless and had been reportedly living on the streets there for about two weeks.
His family had searched for him for years, handing out fliers, scanning social media and desperately chasing down fruitless leads. They even moved back to the town of his birth, Idaho Falls, hoping he would eventually make it back there.
“Any hints at something that remotely resembled him, we would follow up on it,” said his stepfather, Gerald Flint. “It’s been a real nightmare.”
Oswalt, who has been diagnosed with autism and other mental health conditions, was 17 when he left the family’s home from Clearlake, California. His mother, Suzanne Flint, remembered making quesadillas, but when it was time for lunch he was gone.
“I never stopped looking for him. There wasn’t a day I wasn’t searching for him, in some form or fashion,” she said. The exact circumstances of his disappearance and whereabouts over the last two years are under investigation, police said.
I had a Connerjack Oswalt growing up, damn thing burned oil like crazy and had to replace the magneto three times…
Connerjack….. fucking REALLY!
Reminds me of Shirley Jackson’s, “Louisa, Please Come Home”.
Thank you God for looking after this young man and returning him to his family for this Easter.
We all need this kind of hope that things end well,our only hope at this time is that God is watching over us as he always is and has mercy on us to deliver from the evil that we are living under.
Pray, it is our only hope.
A little penicillin will clear that Connerjack Oswalt right up.
The desperation and heart pain this family felt for way too long can not even be imagined.
Thank GOD for a happy ending.
Yo, Bumperjack, your quesadillas are getting cold.
I once caught an Amberjack using a Ballyhoo…
Connerjack?
I guess Lee Harvey was already taken
When I was an underage teen we used to make Amberjack to get drunk.
Clearlake isn’t too far from where I live. Runaways is a common everyday thing. The daily wondering what happene3d to your kid is a nightmare. Here’s another one that’s not too far from me who is going to get her come uppins. “Sheriff calls Sherri Papini a ‘deceitful selfish narcissist’ for faking her own kidnap”
https://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-calls-sherri-papini-deceitful-165010697.html
There’s all kinds of shady stuff that goes on every where. I’m glad they found the kid, but he’ll turn around and do it again. The cycle starts all over again. Oh, they found a body yesterday down by the river…..maybe a runaway. It’s a bad world out there.
Probably just didn’t want to go back to live with dickheads that named him Connorjack.
God bless those UT cops for following up on him to find out who he was – I have 4 kids with autism (None named Billyjack, mind you), & if they ever disappeared I’d pray that would be the case with anyone who came across them.