Connerjack Oswalt was 17 years old when he disappeared from his family home in Clearlake on September 28, 2019. He was found by police on Saturday sleeping outside a store in Utah Summit. The teenager, now 19, was shivering and cold when he was found and Sheriff Justin Martinez said he appeared to have been living on the streets for about two weeks. The Connerjack family has been searching for him since he disappeared, returning to his hometown of Idaho Falls. “Any hints of something very similar to him, we would watch,” said his father, Gerald Flint. “It was a real nightmare.” His mother, Suzanne Flint, said: “I never stopped looking for him. There was not a day that I did not look for him, in any form or way.” After police found Conerjak, they asked him to sit in their patrol car as they took his fingerprints. A pending warrant has been found since February in Nevada, but Mr. Martinez said police felt there was “more than just a criminal warrant.” “There was a humanitarian effort that needed to be further investigated,” he added. Police searched for missing child documents and found the 2019 report on Conerjac, which matched the person they had found. The Flints were initially worried that their son had been found dead when officers called them. Mrs. Flint confirmed her identity through a birthmark. “Everyone in the room cried. They went up and down, they worked long hours,” Flint said. “They could have rejected it, but they did not, and that made a difference in the world.”
