Family, friends continue search for missing Rutgers student Morty Wortman in Jackson

If I see him right now, I would jump on him. I would hug him, kiss him, tell him I love him. It is a mother's wish to have her son back home. Joanna Reyes has been waiting for that moment since Morty Warman disappeared nearly a year ago. On Sunday, family, friends, and volunteers returned to Jackson searching new areas for any sign of Morty. We have four different search groups out right now. We are sweeping key locations just looking for anything that we can find. What we're hoping for is at least some type of answers and even if we don't get any answers, it's not more of what we're trying to get from it. We're just letting them know that we're just not stopping. We're not going to stop. If we can find a pencil, a notebook, Facebook, iPad, Beanie. Um... Any articles of clothing, any sign that could at least tell us that he was in these woods. Morty went missing November 21st, 2025. He was last seen with Adam Zalouk. Zalouk was in court earlier this year in a separate case involving damage to Morty's car. He admitted to threatening him and slashing the car with a knife. Morty's family says they think Zalouk knows more about his disappearance. At this point, it's not a matter of if he did, it's he did. it's just a matter of what he did. Sunday's search brought dozens together including people who never even knew Morty. I just felt like this was something important because Somebody just doesn't go missing. And nearly a year later, the pain is still just as fresh. Like to me, this is still day one. It's been a year of just waking up every single day, just feeling a ginormous absence. A $10,000 reward is being offered for anyone with information that can lead to answers in Morty's disappearance. In Jackson, Jennifer Portoreal, News 12, New Jersey.