KYRON HORMAN - 7 yo - Portland OR

Emergency crews are searching around Skyline Elementary School after a
student didn't return home Friday afternoon.
A Portland Public Schools spokesman said Kyron Horman, 7, was dropped
off for a science fair at the school by his step-mother at 8:45 a.m.,
wasn't seen after that, and he never returned home Friday afternoon.



District officials were notified that the boy was missing at around 4
p.m. Crews with the FBI, Multnomah Co. Sheriff's Office, and Portland
Police Bureau are searching the area of the school, which is on
NW Skyline Blvd. just east of NW Cornelius Pass Rd., with officers,
deputies, and search dogs.
Anyone who has seen Kyron or knows of his whereabouts was asked to
call 503-261-2847. He was last seen wearing a science-themed t-shirt.
PPS sent an automated phone message to parents of students at Skyline
Elementary, but parents of students at other schools across the
district have also reported getting the message. PPS Spokesman Matt
Shelby said the message was only intended to go to Skyline parents, but
he said it's good that more people may be aware of the missing child.

Friday began as a special day for 7-year-old Kyron Horman. His school in Northwest Portland was having a science fair and he was keen to show off his project to his stepmother.

So, instead of taking the bus near his home off Cornelius Pass Road as usual, he hopped into the car with his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, who drove him to Skyline Elementary School.

They arrived sometime after the school opened about 8 a.m., went to his classroom, dropped off his coat and backpack and he showed his stepmother his exhibit, "The Red-Eyed Tree Frog."

Horman, who has raised Kyron since he was an infant, snapped a picture of him standing in front of it that she later posted on her Facebook page. It shows a bespectacled and beaming short-haired boy wearing a blue "CSI" T-shirt in front of an exhibit with photos of bug-eyed frogs, an anatomical drawing of the creature and other artwork.

"He was so excited about his scienceproject," said Carol Moulton, Horman's mother and Kyron's grandmother. "They had worked on it together. He was anxious to take it to school and show it off."

After that, the two looked at other projects set up on desks in classrooms. There are about 300 students at Skyline Elementary, and all
of them were invited to contribute to the fair.

Although the school usually opens at 8:35 a.m. and the final bell rings 10 minutes later, the school opened as early as 8 Friday for the science fair, said Matt Shelby, spokesman for Portland Public Schools.

Other students and parents showed up early as well to check out the fair, andTerri and Kyron saw people they knew while looking at the exhibits, Carol Moulton said.

Terri often volunteers at the school, working closely with Kyron's teacher, Kristina Porter. Shelby said that Porter saw Kyron in her classroom with his stepmom before 8:45 a.m. and another instructor reported seeing him in another classroom at some point.

At 8:45 a.m. when the bell rang, Terri walked her stepson down the hall close to his class.

"He told her, 'I'm going back to the classroom, Mom,' and she waves to him and left," Carol Moulton said. "She thought he was safely at school just like he is everyday."

What happened to the boy who went missing is unclear.

Carol Moulton said the kids were supposed to report to their classes and be divided into small groups of a few students each. Each group was supposed to tour the science fair with a chaperone. Afterward, when they returned to their classes for roll call, Kyron wasn't there, she said.

After leaving the school, Terri went about her day, running errands and taking care of household chores. She is a former elementary school teacher and has worked as a substitute teacher at various schools, but Moulton said that in recent years she has mainly been a stay-at-home mom.

Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, works at Intel's main administrative facility in Oregon, the Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, the company said.

Kyron's biological mother, Desiree Horman, and his father were officially divorced in February 2003, according to Washington County Circuit Court records.

Carol Moulton said that Kaine, 36, and Terri, 40, have been together for seven or eight years and that they have been married
for four or five years. The couple have an 18-month-old girl.

"Terri has raised Kyron," her mother said. "She's been with him since he was an infant. She's as much of a mom as the mom is because the parents had separated about the time that Kyron was born."

She said he visits his biological mother in Medford every couple of weeks and that Desiree, 38, came to Portland as soon as she heard about his disappearance.

Kyron was supposed to take the bus home Friday, so Terri went to the bus stop at 3:30 p.m. to pick him up.

But the bus driver told her he wasn't there.

Panicked, she ran home and called the school to discover that he had been marked absent for the day.
She called 9-1-1, setting off a search that's drawn in a swarm of officers and several law enforcement agencies, including the
FBI.

Officers, working with sniffer dogs, have combed the hilly,wooded area around Skyline Elementary.

Moulton doubts Kyron wandered off on his own. It's just not in his character, she said.

"He's a little bit dreamy. He's a sweet kid. He gets distracted. He's your typical second-grader," she said. But he's no Huckleberry Finn. "He'snot real adventurous," she said. "He's a little timid. But if a friend wanted to go outside and look at something, he would follow the friend. He has a friend who he regularly gets in trouble with in the classroom because he talks too much."

Moulton said Kyron will not even venture far from his home in a wooded area. "He won't get out of sight of the house," she said. "He's pretty insecure about that. So I can't see him wandering off."

His disappearance is devastating for the close-knit family, which plays board games together, goes bowling and enjoys visits to the Oregon Zoo. A few years ago, the family took a trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
Terri also has a 16-year-old son from a former marriage who has lived with her mom and dad for the past few months in Roseburg. The teen's father also lives in the area and the two are on a Boy Scout camping trip this weekend. It will be difficult to give him the news, Moulton said.

"It's a total mystery," she said. "He just vanished. I just can't believe it."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/details_emerge_about_the_day_k.html

The search for 7-year-old
Kyron Horman continues this morning as 300 students and their
parents return to Skyline Elementary School to
review the details of the day the boy went missing.

Authorities
made no progress in the search for Kyron, which was suspended overnight
but is resuming today with a 2-square-mile grid search. The massive
effort to find the second-grader involves four county sheriff's
departments, the Portland Police Bureau and a large number of federal
agents with the FBI. So far, the search hasn't turned up any clues about
the child's whereabouts.

Families and students will be
interviewed at the school by a team of 50 detectives from agencies
across the region today, starting at 10 a.m. and continuing through the
afternoon.

Authorities plan to brief the public later this morning about the status
of the search.

The
boy's stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, took him to school Friday
morning and the two walked through a science fair. Kyron showed off
his project on the red-eyed tree frog and by 8:45 a.m. Kyron waved
goodbye to Horman outside of his classroom. At some point after that,
the boy's teacher, Kristina Porter, marked Kyron absent. It was not
until 3:30 p.m., when she realized her stepson was not on the school
bus, that Horman discovered he had been absent all day. She then called
9-1-1.

Hi Tom/Ovie This is a huge worry. What has happened to this little boy? Do you know if an amber alert has been issued? Very strange case.

kiwimom wrote:Hi Tom/Ovie This is a huge worry. What has happened to this little boy? Do you know if an amber alert has been issued? Very strange case.

--Latest story developments indicate that the FBI and a special National Guard unit have been added to the search effort.
I will check for any later updates in just a few minutes...stay tuned.
BTW...the Stepmother was the last to see him. I am sure, as in all of these cases, the last person to see the victim is usually investigated thoroughly.

The following is a news release issued June 5, 2010 at 9:06 a.m.
News
Release from: Multnomah Co. Sheriff's Office
Posted:
June 5th, 2010 9:06 AM

Kyron did not return home on his school bus as scheduled at
330 PM Friday June 4. Family called Skyline Elementary School to report
that he had not returned home. Multnomah County Sherriff's Office was
contacted at approximately 4 PM.Kyron's stepmother reports she
last saw him at approximately 845 AM Friday, walking down the hallway
towards his classroom. School staff report not seeing him after 845 AM
and that he did not make it to his classroom. Multnomah County called in
their Search and Rescue team to begin their search of the area
surrounding the school. As the evening progressed, SearchOne Canine Inc.
and Portland Police also joined in the search.A decision was
made to upgrade the search to a Major Crimes Team investigation. This
allows for more resources to be deployed, which included resources from
Portland Police Bureau, Gresham Police Department, Fairview Police
Department, Oregon State Patrol and the FBI.Search and Rescue
resources also expanded to include SearchOne Canine Inc., Mountain
Rescue, Yamhill County Canine, along with additional members of the
Multnomah County Search and Rescue team. Members continued their
searching throughout the night, encompassing over 20 miles of road and 2
square miles. Portland Police Bureau's air unit was another resource
called in.This morning, at approximately 7 AM, Multnomah County
Sheriff's Office readied for their second operational period.
The mission is the same as last night; that being to locate Kyron
Horman. Also, ordering more resources, which include Search and Rescue
resources from Washington County Sheriff's Office, Yamhill County
Sheriff's Office, Clark County Washington, Pacific NW Search and
Rescue, and a National Guard helicopter.Anyone with information
regarding Kyron Horman whereabouts is asked to call the Multnomah County
Sheriff's Office tip line 503 261-2847, or to dial 911 with emergency
information.
Contact Info: Lt. Mary Lindstrand
Public
Information Officer
Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

The FBI has joined the search for a 7-year-old boy who vanished after
his stepmother left him at his Northwest Portland elementary school on
Friday morning.
Detectives on Sunday interviewed parents and students at Skyline
Elementary School to glean any possible clues into the whereabouts of
Kyron Horman.
The boy and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a
science fair at the school early Friday. She last saw him walking down a
hallway toward his classroom about 8:45 a.m.
Police say Kyron did not return home on the bus as scheduled and
the family called the school. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office was
contacted about 4 p.m.
Authorities have been searching the school and the surrounding
area since then. The FBI has dispatched its Child Abduction Rapid
Deployment Team.
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton said he was "not prepared" to
call the boy's disappearance a kidnapping and there were no suspects at
this time.
In addition to Multnomah County deputies, Portland, Gresham, and
Fairview police, as well as the Oregon State Patrol and Multnomah County
Search and Rescue were taking part in the search.
A search of the two miles between the school and Kyron's home did
not turn up any clues, police said.
"The mission is the same as last night; that being to locate
Kyron Horman," police spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said.
The FBI also dispatched a profiler from the FBI's Behavioral
Analysis Unit. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said in an e-mail that
this type of team is often dispatched when a young child disappears, and
its presence does not mean that law enforcement has determined the
child has been abducted.
Kyron is described as 3-foot-8 and 50 pounds with brown hair and
blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and dark cargo
pants.
Kyron father's Kaine Horman, works at Intel. The boy's mother,
Desiree Horman, lives in Medford and came to Portland following Kyron's
disappearance.Relatives were distributing flyers with the boy's picture on Sunday.
Authorities also began interviewing students and their families
individually at the school.
At a news conference on Sunday afternoon at Brooks Hill
Historical Church, Staton said the investigators were working to
determine a detailed timeline as to the boy's movements on Friday
morning.
In addition to interviews with students and families, authorities
were reviewing photos and videos taken at the school that morning at the
science fair.
The last photo of Kyron shows the boy smiling in front of his
project on the red-eyed tree frog.
Asked if there were any persons of interest, Staton replied: "In
this type of situation I think everyone is of interest to us."
Superintendent of Portland Public Schools Carole Smith would not
comment on the details of the district's policy for reporting school
absences.
"The reported disappearance of a child from one of our schools is
unprecedented and deeply troubling," she said.

The following is a statement released Sunday, June 6, 2010, by Portland
Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith:

To the PPS community:

My
heart, and the hearts of everyone who is a part of Portland Public
Schools, goes out to Kyron Horman and his family.We are all
wishing for Kyron’s safe return as quickly as possible and we are
grateful for the efforts of all the law enforcement agencies who have
worked so tirelessly over the past 48 hours to determine the cause of
Kyron’s disappearance, locate him and return him safely home.The
reported disappearance of a student from one of our schools is
unprecedented and deeply troubling. Portland Public Schools is doing
everything we can to assist the authorities in their effort to find
Kyron.I appreciate the many parents, students and school staff
who have been providing information about Friday’s events – especially
everyone who came to Skyline today to talk to investigators – and I
encourage anyone who may have seen Kyron on Friday to come forward, if
they have not yet done so. (If you think you may have information that
could be helpful, you can contact authorities at: 503-261-2847
Support
to Skyline and all schools
In the wake of this event, we are
taking several immediate steps to provide support to Skyline and its
families, as well as families across our school district. In addition,
we are also reviewing school district policies and protocols to
strengthen and speed communication between our schools and our families.Here
is what we will put in place at Skyline elementary tomorrow:Our
Crisis Response Team will be available to provide counseling support to
Skyline students, staff and families all day on Monday and Tuesday. The
school psychologist assigned to Skyline and Roosevelt High School will
also be on site all day. Up to five professional counseling staff will
be available in room 203 at Skyline.Two school resource officers
will be in place to provide enhanced security at Skyline School.Here
are additional steps we are taking at Skyline and at all schools across
the district:As of Monday, June 7, 2010, we are mandating the
use of our automated attendance call system at every K-8 and K-5 school,
so that families will be notified of any unexcused absence during the
day the absence is recorded. (Because this policy is not currently in
place at all schools, it may take a day or two to fully implement the
automated system. Until the system is implemented, we are requiring
schools that do not use the automated attendance system to call families
directly when there is an unexcused absence.)We are
re-emphasizing our existing policy requiring all school staff,
contractors and volunteers to display their I.D. badges and for visitors
to sign-in and wear name tags at every school, during school hours. Any
visitors who refuse to sign-in and wear a name tag will be asked to
leave.We have put in place a counseling hotline that is available
to anyone who needs advice or support, in particular how to help
children address the safety and emotional issues raised by this
situation. That number will be staffed starting at 8:30 a.m. Monday
morning. The phone number is: 503-916-3931.We are convening a
team of school district leaders, including deputy superintendents,
principals and school security services, as well as leaders of the
Portland Association of Teachers, to review arrival and dismissal
practices and identify ways we can ensure a smooth, well-coordinated
transition of student supervision between families and teachers at the
beginning and end of the school day.As part of this effort, we
will review our visitor sign-in practices for school events that invite
large numbers of family members and community members into our schools.We
will continue to hope for Kyron Horman’s safe and speedy return to his
family. In the meantime, Portland Public Schools will continue to do
everything we can to aid law enforcement in this investigation and make
every effort possible to ensure that students are closely supervised and
monitored throughout the day at all our schools.Carole Smith

Investigators trying to find a vanished 7-year-old Oregon boy
interviewed nearly 200 of his classmates and their parents as the FBI
sent a team to take part in the expanding search.Kyron Horman
disappeared sometime after his stepmother left him at his Portland
elementary school on Friday morning.Sheriff Dan Staton said late
Sunday night that he was "not prepared" to call the boy's disappearance a
kidnapping. He described Kyron as a "missing endangered child" because
more than two days had elapsed since he disappeared and because search
efforts were hampered by rainy weather."We have developed a lot
of information which has to be processed thoroughly, and I am not in a
position to divulge any specifics of our investigative plan at this
time," Staton said in a statement.The boy and his stepmother,
Terri Moulton Horman, attended a science fair at the school early
Friday, and she last saw him walking down a hallway toward his second
grade classroom at about 8:45 a.m. He was wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and
dark cargo pants.Police said Kyron did not return home on the bus
as scheduled. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office was contacted at
about 4 p.m., and authorities have been searching the school and the
surrounding area since then.Stanton said investigators have also
been working to determine a detailed timeline of the boy's movements on
Friday morning.Investigators asked Kyron's fellow students and
their parents to come to the school Sunday and said they spoke with some
200 of them in an effort to glean clues into his disappearance.
Relatives also distributed flyers with the boy's picture.Authorities
were reviewing photos and videos taken at the school's science fair.
The last photo of Kyron shows the boy smiling Friday in front of his
project on the red-eyed tree frog.Asked if there were any persons
of interest, Staton replied: "In this type of situation I think
everyone is of interest to us."The FBI has dispatched its Child
Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, as well as its Behavioral Analysis
Unit, which often takes part when a young child disappears. Its presence
doesn't mean law enforcement has determined the child has been
abducted, FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said in an e-mail.The
boy's parents were not ready to speak, Lt. Mary Lindstrand said Sunday.Multnomah
County sheriff's deputies, the county's search and rescue team, the
Oregon State Patrol and police officers from Portland, Gresham and
Fairview were taking part in the search, which focused on the area
surrounding the school and the two miles to Kyron's house.Superintendent
of Portland Public Schools Carole Smith would not comment on the
details of the district's policy for reporting school absences. Details
about whether Kyron was reported as absent were not known."The
reported disappearance of a child from one of our schools is
unprecedented and deeply troubling," she said.She said crisis
counselors would be at the school on Monday.

by KGW.com Staff
Posted on June 4, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Updated yesterday at 11:12 PM



PORTLAND, Ore. -- There was no sign yet Sunday of a Skyline Elementary School
student who didn't return home from classes on Friday afternoon.
Searchers from a dozen Oregon police agencies, in addition to the
FBI, were involved in the case.
Kyron Horman, 7, was last seen early in the day at the school at
11536 NW Skyline Blvd., during a science fair.Parents and students voluntarily came to the school on Sunday on a
staggered basis to interview with detectives to glean more information
about Kyron's interests and school activities.
He is 3 foot 8 and 50 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was
wearing black cargo pants, white socks, worn black Skecher tennis shoes
with orange trim and a dark-colored t-shirt with the "CSI" show logo.
PHOTOS:
Kyron Horman missing
Portland school officials said two school resource officers would be
put in place to provide enhanced security at Skyline School, and
counselors would be on hand Monday and Tuesday to assist students and staff.
The district was also mandating the use of an automated attendance
call system to notify families of any unexcused absences.
Officials were also reviewing arrival and dismissal practices.
In addition to police, the Oregon National Guard and search and
rescue units were involved in the effort. In all, over 150 officers were
working the case, said Captain Jason Gates of the Multnomah County sheriff's office.
Gates said Saturday that police received a 9-1-1 call at 3:45 Friday afternoon.
In most cases, missing children are often at the homes of a friend or
a favorite hangout, he said, but those leads were quickly eliminated
and police realized a major search needed to be launched.
As many as 15 Portland police officers were the first responders,
Gates said. They searched the school grounds and immediate area without
finding the child. The scope of the search and investigation was then
quickly widened.That first search included police bureau dogs who sniffed areas of
the building where the boy might have been hidden from view. The roof
was also searched, he said.
The Horman family has been very cooperative, he said, and are doing
the best they can under traumatic circumstances. The birth mother came
to Portland after her son was reported missing. All parents were in
constant contact with detectives, he said.
Gates asked all neighbors to thoroughly search their properties,
including outbuildings, a "no stone left unturned" search. He also asked
neighbors to cooperate with detectives who ask to come on to their property.
While many civilians may want to help with the search, he said to
please stay away and let the professional searchers, of which there are
now a considerable number, do their jobs.
Gates said no Amber Alert was issued. That tool works only when
citizens can be offered descriptions of specific suspects or vehicles.
That's not the case here, he said.
Gates gamely fielded a barrage of questions but declined to answer
most. The strategy of the investigation Saturday, he said, was to
collect strong tips. Passing out information could taint a person's
memory, or prompt false tips, he said.
Parent Gina Zimmerman was at the school for the science fair, which
she described as major academic and social event for the school where
the day's events included an afternoon talent show.
She said Kyron is not the type of child to wander off. "He knows
'stranger danger," she said. "He's a really good kid."
Parents are shocked at the disappearance, she said, and have been
calling to share concerns at "our little school where everyone knows everybody."
She last saw Kyron in the morning, when he posed in a classroom in
front of his "red-eyed tree frog" science project. He was posing for a
picture taken by his mother, whom he loves, Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman's daughter Madi is one of Kyron's best friends.
The 8-year-old said she and Kyron would play Dragons and Knights and
sway together on the tire swings. "I'm very worried and I hope he's okay," she said.
She also said Kyron would not have gone off with a stranger, only with his mother, whom he loves.
Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby said two teachers saw
Kyron with his stepmother and thought the two left school together. He
said it was common for parents to pick up kids this way, so no suspicions were raised.
District officials were notified that the boy was missing at around 4p.m.
Police upgraded the case Saturday night to a Major Crime Teams
investigation to allow more police resources to be tapped, said
Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand.
Staff of the FBI, the Oregon State Police, the Multnomah County
Sheriff's Office, Portland Gresham and Fairview police were searching
area of the school, which is on NW Skyline Blvd. just east of
NW Cornelius Pass Road. Canine units and search and rescue organizations
have also been called out, she said.
Capt. Gates said the number of agencies would continue to grow.
Lindstrand said about 20 miles of roadway and two square miles of
land were part of the search area.
Anyone who has seen Kyron or knows of his whereabouts was asked to call (503) 261-2847.
PPS sent an automated phone message to parents of students at Skyline
Elementary, but parents of students at other schools across the
district have also reported getting the message.
Shelby said the message was only intended to go to Skyline parents,
but he said it's good that more people may be aware of the missing child.

A counseling hotline was to start Monday morning, the phone number is (503) 916-3931.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Second-grade-student-missing-from-Skyline-Elementary-95670454.html

Crews search for missing child in Oregon

By Gabriel Falcon,
CNN
June 7, 2010 9:55 a.m. EDT


(CNN) -- The search for a second-grade student who
disappeared last week after he arrived at his Portland, Oregon
elementary school intensified Monday Kyron Horman, 7, did not
return home on Friday from Skyline Elementary School, police said. According
to investigators, the boy's stepmother said she last saw Kyron Friday
morning while he was walking down the hallway towards his classroom.
In a statement, the Multhnomah County sheriff's office reported that
no one at the school saw him after 8:45 a.m. Friday and that Kyron
never made it to his classroom. Searches in the school area were
conducted Friday and over the weekend by several agencies, including the
Portland Police Bureau, Gresham Police Department, Fairview Police
Department, Oregon State Patrol, and the FBI. Authorities have
also utilized Portland Police Bureau's air unit in an attempt to locate
the child. Additional
coverage from CNN affiliate KPTV "My heart, and the hearts
of everyone who is a part of Portland Public Schools, goes out to Kyron
Horman and his family," said Portland Schools Superintendent Carole
Smith in a statement. "We are all wishing for Kyron's safe return
as quickly as possible and we are grateful for the efforts of all the
law enforcement agencies who have worked so tirelessly over the past 48
hours to determine the cause of Kyron's disappearance, locate him and
return him safely home. "The reported disappearance of a student
from one of our schools is unprecedented and deeply troubling. Portland
Public Schools is doing everything we can to assist the authorities in
their effort to find Kyron."
Anyone with
information on Kyron Horman's whereabouts is asked to call the Mutnomah
County Sheriff's Office at 503-261-2847.http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/07/oregon.missing.boy/index.html?npt=NP1

What happened to his backpack and jacket that were dropped off to his class BEFORE the science fair????

They arrived sometime after the school opened about 8 a.m., went to his
classroom, dropped off his coat and backpack and he showed his
stepmother his exhibit, "The Red-Eyed Tree Frog."
snipped
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/details_emerge_about_the_day_k.html

they haven't reported if it was still in the classroom - and apparently the stepmom said he had an appt and that is why the teacher wasn't worried but the appt was for next week.

not sure the source of this - will try to find it

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/still_no_trace_of_kyron_horman.html
from the stepmom?
Posted by RDSQRL
June 06, 2010, 11:19PM



Please note that my being on Facebook was to reach numerous people at
once with instructions who wanted to help.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122583171114534#!/terri.horman?v=wall&ref=search

stepmom's fb page

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/ground_search_resumes_this_mor.html
Eighteen certified search and rescue volunteers are heading back into
the area near Skyline School this morning to look for signs of missing
Kyron Horman.

Seven-year-old Kyron was last seen inside Skyline
Friday morning. An intensive search and investigation into his
disappearance were launched that day and extended through the weekend.

Authorities canvassed motorists on Northwest Skyline Boulevard this morning as
school resumed. Students played in the playground during recess, while
the national media descended on the normally quiet neighborhood.

On Sunday, searchers worked into the night. They faced challenging terrain
and steady rain, which complicated the effort and quickly wore out
searchers, said Sgt. Diana Olsen, coordinator of the Multnomah County
Sheriff’s Office search and rescue operation.

“We lost searchers real quickly yesterday," she said. "They got cold and wet and went homeearly.”

Kyron
Horman

The Oregonian's continuing coverage of missing second-grader Kyron Horman.Olsen
said searchers on Sunday were not able to complete the 2-mile area from
Skyline to Kyron’s home and hope to do that today.

She said searchers today will focus on an area known as wood mill by Cornelius Pass and Northwest Sheltered Nook Road.
“Yesterday they were in the thick blackberries,” Olsen said. “They spent seven hours in there and only did a third of it.”
She said so far searchers have focused on what’s considered “high probability” areas – areas that search tables show a 7-year-old is likely to go if he or she has wandered off on his or her own.

After today, searchers hope to have covered all of those areas, Olsen said.

She said in addition to those areas, searchers also have responded to requests from Kyron’s father, Kaine, about areas where the boy may be, including a horse pasture in Banks, which was searched Sunday.

Olsen said ground search efforts will be reassessed later today after the FBI looksat a map of the region.

-- Noelle Crombie

oviedo45 wrote:https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122583171114534#!/terri.horman?v=wall&ref=search

stepmom's fb page

You know first thing a notice is his science project was a lot of work with parent involvement. Did you notice the diarama?So that gives you a good feeling. But, then when you look at the Fb page he dissapeared Fri and at 5:30 pm the stepmom is getting some game thingy, I do not know how this works, maybe she played in the morning and it does not post till later in the day, or maybe someone helping, manning her computer, played the game. I just don't think I would be able to focus on a game, but maybe it was a nice moments escape?

https://www.facebook.com/terri.horman?v=wall&ref=search#!/pages/Missing-Kyron-Horman/125336750831264

http://salem-news.com/articles/june042010/missing_boy.php

definitely some frustrations going on here - check out the comments and the editor! yikes

Something does not make sense here. Children don't just disappear from school.

What time did class start? Did any teacher or school personnel see him in the hallway? Did teachers or personnel see him at the science fair? Did they see him leave with the step-mom? Did anyone see the step-mom leave alone? Are there any personnel who normally work at the school M-F absent today? Anyone call in "sick"?

This is beyond scary to think your children could just disappear from school. And most schools these days have cameras everywhere. At Jack's elementary school, not only are there cameras, you have to be buzzed in just to enter the property, and that's a public school.

Something isn't right here.

so far this is the timeline i have gleaned from news articles -
she and kyron arrived at school around 8am (school apparently has no check in/visitor tag policy)
she says she took him around to look at the science fair projects and then waived goodbye in the hallway around 8:45am
one site mentioned she told the teacher she had an appt - however, that appt was for the following week.
we don't know if she had the 18mon old with her. we don't know if anyone else saw the two of them at school that morning.
the school does not call home when a child is absent (because they don't have an attendance problem).

there are no cameras that we are aware of. someone called 911 around 3:45pm - not confirmed who. step mom and dad called school when he didn't get off the bus - just an overall odd set of circumstances, IMO

http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1149070&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

also, he was supposed to be in a talent show at 1pm that same day - how could they not have wondered where he was? i read another account where the kids pointed out the missing child (his backpack was still in the classroom apparently) and the teacher shrugged it off.

An investigator in Oregon vowed
to bring home a missing second grader, choking up as he tried to send a
message to 7-year-old Kyron Horman.


Searchers have yet to find a trace of 7-year-old Kyron
Horman, who proudly showed off his project on frogs before vanishing
Friday morning. He was last seen by his step-mother walking toward his
classroom, 150 feet away. He never made it.

"Kyron, we're going to bring you home buddy," Multnomah County Sheriff's
Capt. Jason Gates said today, struggling to hold back tears. "Nothing
is more important to your family and friends."
Gates said authorities have received 1,200 tips, but are continuing to
seek out anyone who was anywhere near Skyline Elementary School in
Portland Friday morning.
The captain said he is relying on those tips.
"One of these is going to lead us to finding Kyron," he said.
There has been no trace of the 7-year-old boy who proudly showed off his
project on frogs at a school science fair before vanishing Friday
morning. He was last seen by his step-mother walking toward his
classroom, 150 feet away. He never made it.

Gates said a source at the school saw him around 9 a.m. Friday, but
declined to provide details. The school does not have video cameras. The
FBI and the National Guard joined the search over the weekend.

"The kids are doing pretty well," Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt
Shelby said today. "It's a pretty somber mood among the adults today."
Though there is understandable concern among parents that one of their
own vanished in what is typically considered to be a safe environment,
Shelby said parents and the students have been cooperative with authorities.
More than two-thirds of the school's population, about 300 children in
grades K-8, showed up voluntarily Sunday to be interviewed by police.
Among their questions were about Kyron's likes and dislikes, his hobbies
and his friends. His parents have so far declined to speak publicly
about their son's disappearance.
Gates said today that parents and students who didn't come Sunday were
being interviewed today. Investigators also stood in the street near the
school today around the same time Kyron disappeared Friday, questioning
drivers who may pass the school as part of their normal routes.
FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said today that there's not even enough
evidence to classify the disappearance as an abduction."They're keeping all options open," she said. "They have no specific
evidence at this point that he was kidnapped."
Shelby said the school has focused on keeping routines as normal for the
children as possible. They have all been told their classmate is missing.
"We're trying not to jump to conclusions or speculate too much," he said.
A "safe room" has been set up for parents and students seeking
counseling and extra substitute teachers have been called in to relieve
teachers who need a break in dealing with Kyron's disapperarance.
Shelby said that visitors to the school are normally required to check
in and receive a badge. But since the science fair was held before
school hours, most did not go through that process, Shelby said, calling
the fair a "semi-public" event.
"It was a full building," he said. "People were going from classroom to classroom."
Kyron's step-mother, Terri Moulton Horman, last saw him around 8:45 a.m.
as he walked down the hallway. The last school official to see the boy
put him in the classroom earlier that morning showing off his project.
No school official saw him after that.
When Kyron did not return home on his school bus as
scheduled at 3:30 p.m. Friday, his family called to report that he had not returned home.
The Multnomah County Sherriff's Office was contacted at approximately 4 p.m.
"We definitely got a late start here," sheriff's office spokeswoman Lt.
Mary Lindstrand said Saturday. "The family didn't know that he wasn't at
school, his teacher didn't see him so we are feeling like we are behind
the eight-ball here."
The search has been made difficult by the high grasses on the property
surrounding the school.
"This is devastating for the family or anyone who knows him," Lindstrand
said. "We just want to find him and get him home safe."
Gina Zimmerman, president of the school PTA, told the Portland Oregonian that her 8-year-old
daughter Madi has been a classmate of Kyron's for three years.
"He's not the type of child who would just go out of school and go
searching or wandering around," Zimmerman said. "He's just a timid, sweet boy.
"Everybody's just worried and in shock that this could happen in our
little school where everybody knows everybody," she said.
Zimmerman told the newspaper that most of the parents and students
arrived at the school shortly after 8 a.m. Friday for the end-of-year science fair.
She said Terri Horman took a photograph of Kyron in front of his
project, which her daughter Madi said was on the red-eye tree frog.
"We always play on the swings together," Madi told the Oregonian. "I'm
thinking my thoughts for him. I'm very worried."
Anyone with information regarding Kyron Horman's whereabouts is asked to
call the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office tip line at 503 261-2847.