Suspicions grew as other victims were found quickly and Detrez wasnt. The boys parents, Kevian Green and Adijah Rainey, made statements that didnt mesh with those of witnesses, and they couldnt provide a picture of their toddler, according to Dougherty County police.
Lica Coley, Raineys aunt, whod been sending authorities to the couples home for years because she feared what was going on inside, was eager to help the police. She told them she and other relatives worried something whether intentional or accidental had happened to the child before the storm.
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Green and Rainey havent been charged with any crime related to their sons disappearance. But to fully consider what mightve happened to Detrez, police and some family members say, its worth looking at the couples history.
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In 2010, calls started coming in about Green. He was 22 at the time, a stoic trucker in a crumbling marriage.
His wife said he beat her repeatedly, including at least once in front of her children, ages 2 and 3, according to a sheriffs office report. Green denied it, and no charges stuck. But Coley remembered his name two years later when Rainey revealed him as her boyfriend.
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On Sept. 8, 2013, the 911 center got another call about Green.
Rainey, who was pregnant, said she had been frying chicken when Green came in talking about Facebook. They started to argue over a friend, and he punched her in the head, according to her statement to deputies.
I balled up in the kitchen floor hollering, then he hit my head against the wooden pole, constantly, non-stop, she wrote, then he picked me up by the neck choking me, feet dangling.
Green was arrested and charged with battery in the case, which is still pending. He wrote a statement maintaining his innocence: She lied and put marks on herself.
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On the babys fifth day, Raineys father told Coley his daughter had called him and said, If my baby daddy dont stop beating me, Im going to shoot him, according to a police report.
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Coleys sister, Whitney Rainey, said she confronted their niece about Detrez. They were having a video chat and the niece wouldnt look her in the eye while telling about those last moments in the trailer.
Dont lie, the aunt said she told her.
Then Adijah Rainey started to cry.
