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Mother of Sky Metalwala Reportedly Exchanges Emails with ABC Reporter

Neal Karlinsky of ABC News reported on Good Morning America today that he had received emails from an address belonging to Julia Biryukova.

ABC News reporter Neal Karlinsky reported on Good Morning America today that he has received emails from an address belonging to Julia Biryukova, the mother of missing toddler Sky Metalwala.

Watch the Good Morning America clip here.

Biryukova on Nov. 6, telling investigators that her Acura Integra ran out of gas in Bellevue while she was driving from her Redmond home to Overlake Hospital. She said she left the sleeping toddler in the car while she and her daughter walked about a mile to get fuel. When she and a friend returned to the car, the toddler was gone.

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Over the weekend, police searched the Kirkland's Watershed Park and found items to analyze, according to KOMO News.

Bellevue police have said that , including the car trouble that she reported. Furthermore, police say that .

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According to ABC News' Karlinsky, the messages from the email address belonging Biryukova says that her husband, Solomon Metalwala, knows something about the child's disappearance.

"My former husband is a sadistic Muslim Pakistani," the emails stated, according to Karlinsky.

"I’m praying on my hands and knees every day for my Sky," she wrote, in response to Karlinsky asking her via email what would help bring Sky home.

Solomon Metalwala, who has submitted to Bellevue Police department lie detector tests and has organized searches for his son, is not a Muslim and belongs to .

Biryukova has not been interviewed directly by investigators since her son's disappearance, according to the Bellevue Police Department. The  that could spark new tips of any sightings of the family in the weeks leading up to the boy's disappearance.

To read other stories from Patch's coverage of Sky Metalwala's disappearance, click here.

Sky Elijah Metalwala

  • Age 2, 2’10” tall, 39 pounds, black hair, brown eyes.
  • Sky was last seen on Nov. 6, 2011, in the 2600 block of 112th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, Wash.
  • He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black and aqua blue sweatpants and white socks.
  • Sky was in a silver 1998 Acura Integra three door coupe when he disappeared.
  • Police ask anyone who was traveling Sunday morning along 112th Avenue Northeast, between State Route 520 and Northeast 24th Street, to please call the Bellevue Police tip line at 425-452-2564 or by email at pdtipline@bellevue.wa.gov


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