KYRON HORMAN - 7 yo - Portland OR

I hadn't thought about that.....you are right ovie-it's a bit late to be requesting video. I was really hoping he would have been found by now!

The search for a missing 7-year-old Portland boy grew larger on
Saturday as teams spent another day combing the hills and deep woods
near a rural elementary school.
Second-grader Kyron Horman disappeared on June 4 sometime after a
science fair at Skyline Elementary School. Saturday was the ninth day
searchers spent looking for him.
"The search continues, and it expands to previously unsearched
areas," Capt. Monte Reiser of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said
at a news conference.
He declined to say whether the expanded areas are contiguous with the
two-mile radius around the school on which search teams have focused.
Men and women in fluorescent-colored vests and T-shirts were seen on
the roads and in the hills near the school on Saturday.
Investigators are asking for anyone with photos or videos created on
June 3 and 4 of roads around Skyline school to contact police.
Video of these specific locations is being sought:
NW Cornelius Pass, Germantown, Logie Trail, Rocky Point, Skyline,
West Union, Springville, Newberry, McNamee, Kaizer Thompson and Laidlaw
roads and Bethany Boulevard.
The request includes a stretch of Oregon 30 from NW Rocky Point Road
to Germantown Road, which does not pass by the school at all. It does
however, parallel Sauvie Island, where searchers have spent the last
several days.
Search coordinator Sgt. Diana Olsen of the Multnomah County Sheriff's
Office declined to comment on any specific aspect of the search
Saturday, including a direct question about the Sauvie Island search.
Anyone with video of these locations is asked to contact the tip line
at (503) 261-2847 and leave your name, contact information and the
location of the footage. Please preserve the recording.
The family of Kyron Horman answered personal questions about the
7-year-old via Multnomah County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Shults during a
Saturday media briefing and also explained some of their outings in the
last week - to stores and a health club.
Shults said that the family was extremely stressed by their Friday
appearance, but understood that the public might have wanted to learn
more about Kyron. To that end, they answered a set of prepared
questions.
Kyron's favorite color is red.
Kyron is a quiet and loving child who likes fishing, art, flying in
airplanes. Bootsy his cat would follow him to the school bus stop every
day. He loves his dog Ernie in Medford. Kyron has a belly laugh that
endears him to friends.
When he grows up, Kyron wants to be a police investigator.
This summer, he planned on going on a jetboat trip in July, to Lake
Shasta in August and Seaside for his birthday.
Capt. Shults also said two companies volunteered to help them print
the t-shirts they wore that reproduced the missing flier. Several of the
t-shirts were provided to the media. He offered no other details on the
shirts.
The morning he disappeared, Kyron was in good spririts, excited about
the tree frog diorama he had created for the science fair, Shults said.
The captain said he had two questions of his own that he knew the
media wanted answered.
On the night he disappeared, the family looked in earnest for Kyron.
When police arrived, the searchers needed the parents to stay put and
provide information. From a tactical standpoint, the parents had already
exhausted what they could do personally by moving around and searching,
he said.
Why did family continue to use their social network connections, go
out to the store and to a health club the past few days?
Shults said they were asked to by police experts, who wanted them to
continue their normal routine to the degree possible. The parents told
police their normal routine was to have Kryon join them and it was
painful and awkward to try and continue normal routines, which have been
very abnormal for them in the last week.
The parents have started a rotation of friends come visit them and
provide supports, Shults said.
On the search end, efforts continue to find Kyron alive, said Sgt.
Diana Olsen of the sheriff's office.
"We know where he's not, so we feel we're getting closer to where he
is," she said. She declined to say why searchers were on Sauvie Island, a
considerable distance from Skyline School.
Cash donations to defray search expenses can still be made at any
Bank of America Branch under the Kyron Horman Fund. Searchers no longer
need food donations and the sheriff's office asked people to stop giving
for now.
On Friday, the family appeared for the first since since Kyron
disappeared June 4 made an emotional plea for help for the 7-year-old.
"Please help us bring Kyron home," Kaine Horman, the boy's father
said.
"The community as a whole have shown how much impact one little boy’s
smile can have on a community,” said Kyron’s step-father, Tony Young.
Then, he spoke directly to Kyron: “You mean everything to us and until
you come home, this family is not complete. We believe in you and know
you will be back with us soon.”

Snipped....

Meanwhile, Sergeant Olsen said she feels progress is being made: "We
know where he's not," she said, "and we feel we're getting closer to
where he is."

A sheriff's spokesman denied this has turned into a criminal
investigation.

roseyg76 wrote: I hadn't thought about that.....you are right ovie-it's a bit late to be requesting video. I was really hoping he would have been found by now!

i am wondering if they have checked alibi's and now they are in the verification process - the june 3 date bothers me though - they must have a reason for requesting video the day BEFORE he went missing?

On the morning Kyron Horman was last seen, he was Skyline School's
resident expert on red-eyed tree frogs at the school science fair. Then
the second-grader vanished and was gone nearly seven hours before anyone noticed.
Kyron's stepmother met the school bus about 3:30 p.m.,
but the 7-year-old wasn't aboard. She called Skyline, and
the school secretary called 9-1-1. During the next 4 1/2 hours,
authorities mobilized a full-scale search effort involving federal
agents who specialize in child-abduction cases.
But by then it was almost nightfall. Time had long become the enemy.
"This investigation really got going eight to 12 hours after it should
have," said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI profiler and Virginia-based
security consultant. "Whatever happened to this little boy, by the time
authorities really geared up, they were 12 hours behind the power curve.
"That is a long time to be behind in a case like this."
A confluence of factors meant searchers lost key hours:
Officials at Skyline School didn't notify the boy's parents after realizing he
was absent. The initial report was given the "lowest priority" rating by
emergency dispatchers. Rush-hour traffic Friday evening delayed arrival
of trained searchers, who gathered first at the Multnomah County
sheriff's patrol office in outer Northeast Portland, then traveled to
the site. Getting to the school and Kyron's neighborhood, in the rural
northwestern corner of Multnomah County, took more than a half-hour.
And though news organizations reported late Friday that Kyron was missing,
authorities didn't issue a full news release until the following morning.
Once notified, Multnomah County authorities responded
swiftly, but crucial hours already had been lost, Sheriff Dan Staton said.
"This is what is hugely disturbing to me," he told The
Oregonian on Saturday. "The fact that you had a child in school and the
last time the child was seen is at 9 in the morning -- there are
concerns about that lag time. If the child had walked away from the
school, the likelihood of finding him under those circumstances would
have been extremely high.
"After five hours," the sheriff said,
"you know as well as I do how far a child could walk on a roadway."
Across the country each year, 115 children on average are abducted by
strangers or an acquaintance, according to a 2008 report by the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Most are found within hours.
But a quarter of abducted children are killed. The center's statistics
showed that 76 percent of those children die within three hours of being kidnapped.
Though rare, all missing children investigations
share an essential element: time.
"Valuable hours were lost because, frankly, no one knew where (Kyron) was," said Bob Lowery, a
former homicide commander in the Midwest and executive director of the
missing children division of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Added Van Zandt: "As time goes on, it
becomes more critical and the potential for some harm to come to this
child is greater."
Skyline School officials first realized
there was a problem after the school day had ended. Kyron's stepmother,
Terri Moulton Horman, said the boy wasn't on the school bus.
School secretary Susan Hall called 9-1-1 at 3:56 p.m. That triggered a page to
Portland Public Schools security.
At some point that day, Kyron's teacher had marked the boy absent -- district officials refuse
to say when -- but that didn't prompt a call home because Skyline School
lacked an automatic notification policy. That has since changed.
Staton said dispatchers at the Bureau of Emergency Communications classified
the call from Skyline as "lowest priority." Dispatchers generally
classify calls based on who's calling, what information is provided and
whether there is an indication of danger or a medical issue.
Within minutes, Portland police and Multnomah County sheriff's deputies were
dispatched. About a half-hour passed before they pulled up to the school
and the Horman home, about 2 1/2 miles from the school.
The official search for Kyron began at 4:33 p.m.
Among those responding were a sergeant, a police dog and about eight Portland
officers. They searched around the school, hoping the shy boy had gone
home with someone he knew. Staton said that even before certified
searchers arrived, police had searched the school, many of the main
roads and the boy's home.
On any given day, kids don't ride the
bus when they should, prompting parents to call their school, said Matt
Shelby, spokesman for the school district.
"Nine times out of 10 they're found within the hour or so," he said.
But police found no trace of Kyron.
Shortly after 5:30 p.m., school authorities
alerted parents through an automated phone message.
"Kyron Horman did not arrive at home today," the message said.
The alert was intended for Skyline parents, but it went out to other
parents, too. Anyone who'd seen Kyron was asked to call police.
"The only thing we knew is that he was missing," Shelby said.
The sheriff's office began calling trained searchers at 5:30 p.m. The first
search teams arrived at 8:09 p.m. The search-and-rescue coordinator,
Deputy Mark Herron, arrived at 8:25 p.m.
Among those who got a call that night was sheriff's Sgt. Travis Gullberg, another
search-and-rescue coordinator.
"We've got a scenario developing," Detective Sgt. Lee Gosson told him.
Sometime between 7 and 7:45 p.m., Staton personally called the FBI. He said the
circumstances -- Kyron disappeared from school on a busy morning --
prompted him to ask for help from the feds.
"I wanted them involved because the last time this child was seen was inside a school,"
he said. "This was not a child walking away from their home or getting
lost in the woods. This is a child who got lost inside a school with
faculty there. That was the last time the child was seen."
The bureau pulled in agents from across the country. Two who would help with
the technical aspect arrived that night. Another set of agents with
expertise in missing-child cases landed at midnight. More joined Saturday morning.
By then, Kyron had been gone for 24 hours.
Though news organizations heard reports about a possible missing child over
their police scanners and began trying to sort out what was going on,
official public notification of the media was slow and sketchy.
Portland school officials didn't issue a news release that afternoon, and the
public information officer for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
only learned of the investigation some time that night between 7 and 7:15.
About an hour later, a sheriff's official met some
reporters at Skyline School and released a photo of the boy, but the
agency issued its first official news release on the investigation about
9 a.m. the next day.
Staton said his agency responded quickly to Kyron's disappearance.
"For the location of the school,"
Staton said, "this is a really good response time, especially when you
are talking about a Friday, the time of day, rushing through traffic to
get out here."
The FBI often volunteers personnel when children
vanish. But the bureau does not consider itself a first responder in
such emergencies, FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said.
"Relatively speaking," she said, "we were notified very early in the process."
It's been more than a week since Kyron's stepmother saw him walk toward his
classroom in Skyline School after the pair toured the school science
fair and admired Kyron's tree frog project. Investigators now
characterize Kyron as a missing and endangered child.
The investigation, in its 10th day today, is one of the largest ever
overseen by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and has included more
than 500 searchers.
But Van Zandt said the likelihood that Kyron
wandered out of the school, got hurt and is awaiting rescue is fading.
"The chances are getting slimmer and slimmer that that is what happened to
him and that he could ... survive," Van Zandt said.
The moment an adult took note that Kyron wasn't at school Friday, an effort to find
him should have been set in motion, Van Zandt said.
"And within an hour instead of 12 hours," he said, "this case would have been moving."

KYRON HORMAN MISSING: Day 9 Portland Search Update

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Kyron Horman Day 10: Searchers persist, but still no sign


Published: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 8:00 AM Updated: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 8:45 AM



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You know what I find strange, I dont find one picture of Kyron and his stepmom.....just weird...

I can't figure this case out at all, why weren't LE requesting all videos from the surrounding area before now? That should have been one of the very first things done. I do think there are areas where LE has dropped the ball. Praying Kyron is somewhere safe but, it's looking like that won't be the case.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_horman_search_day_10_sea.html

I'm so flippin' mad over this case, I can barely formulate my thoughts into sentences.

TERRI, WHERE IS KYRON?

Search for Missing Boy Kyron Horman Now a Criminal Investigation

After Searching for Missing 7-Year-Old for 10 Days, Police Say Status of Case Has Changed

By DEAN SCHABNER and RUSSELL GOLDMAN

June 13, 2010

Police leading the search for a 7-year-old Oregon boy who disappeared from his school 10 days ago announced today that their effort is now focused on a criminal investigation

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/kyron-horman-search-now-criminal-investigation/story?id=10903721

I don't think the way they held off calling this a criminal investigation until today is the right thing to do. I think when a child is missing they should assume the worst right from the start. How many things were not done that need to be done in a criminal investigation because of the other classification? It's very hard to start investigating it as a criminal case after 10 days have been lost. I assume that until now they have not been able to haul people down to the police station to be interviewed etc.
I haven'tbeen able to keep up with eveything the media have put out in this case and I see peeps that have are leaning towards believing Terri is the culprit. Because of lots of our other cases involving a step parent I wondered that from the beginning but I'm doubtful as she doesn't seem to fit the profile. Terri is an ex school teacher herself so must be into kids and has been a decent mother to Kyron for a long time. One thing I've read here is that she told |Kyrons teacher he had an appointment. Is that fact or rumor? If that's fact and she said that to explain his absence it doesn't make sense.

The search for a missing Portland boy was reclassified as a criminal
investigation Sunday, 10 days after he disappeared, but authorities
wouldn't say why."As of today, the search and rescue crews will
have completed the mission we set out for them," Multnomah County
Sheriff's Capt. Monte Reiser said at a news conference. Their mission
was to follow up on tips and comb the area within a two-mile radius of
Skyline Elementary School for 7-year-old Kyron Horman, he said.Kyron
disappeared June 4 after a morning science fair at the rural school.
His absence was reported that afternoon, when he failed to return home
on a school bus and his stepmother contacted the school, which called
911.Also Sunday, Sheriff Dan Staton announced that his department
is offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to Kyron.He
wouldn't say why the investigation was reclassified as criminal. Until
Sunday, Kyron was considered a "missing endangered child," a designation
that spans a range of possibilities, including a criminal
investigation.Staton said local search teams will continue to
check the area near the school, but the statewide search teams will
return home.Reiser stressed that although search efforts are
being scaled back, the investigation will retain its urgency."Our
commitment and resources are unwavering," Reiser said.Kyron's
mother, father, stepmother and stepfather attended the news conference
but did not speak or take questions. It was their second public
appearance since Kyron disappeared, and their first since issuing a
tearful plea for his return Friday.The sheriff's office has led
the investigation, which has included search and rescue teams from
across the state, as well as logistical support from the FBI. It has
remained tight-lipped about the progress of the search and was reticent
to release details Sunday."We'll address those types of issues
once we've located Kyron," Staton said in response to a question about
the day of the boy's disappearance.

This is so puzzling...a child can't just disappear without a trace.....

roseyg76 wrote:This is so puzzling...a child can't just disappear without a trace.....

---It is, sadly, quite possible...check the Long Term Cases section. I am not saying it's right, just possible

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I'm so flippin' mad over this case, I can barely formulate my thoughts into sentences.

TERRI, WHERE IS KYRON?

Has LE asked her to take a polygraph yet?

TomTerrific0420 wrote:
---It is, sadly, quite possible...check the Long Term Cases section. I am not saying it's right, just possible

Well, I hope this doesn't end up being one of those cases....

I am getting ready to have a baby and the idea that something like this can happen (a child disappearing without ever finding the answers) scares me to death!!

Bear aka GA wrote:

Admin wrote:http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_horman_search_day_10_sea.html

I'm so flippin' mad over this case, I can barely formulate my thoughts into sentences.

TERRI, WHERE IS KYRON?

Has LE asked her to take a polygraph yet?

---Yes, and there are unsubstantiated reports that her results were not good.

Ten days after a 7-year-old Portland boy disappeared, Multnomah County
Sheriff Dan Staton fought back tears while announcing the search has
been reclassified as a criminal investigation.
Until now, Kyron Horman has been considered a
"missing endangered child," a designation that spans a range of
possibilities, including that a minor is danger after getting lost.
Staton announced the reclassification — along
with a $25,000 reward for information that leads to Kyron — at a crowded
news conference Sunday. But he offered no explanation for the change.
"(The investigation) is not going to stop,"
Staton said. "I will address those types of issues once we've located Kyron."
It's not the only detail about Kyron's
disappearance that remains a mystery, as school officials and law
enforcement try to keep a clamp on information they say could compromise
the investigation.
What is known is that Kyron saw his stepmother,
Terri Moulton Horman, in the hallway of rural Skyline Elementary School
on the morning of June 4. It was minutes after he had presented his
second-grade science fair project, a diorama on red-eyed tree frogs.
Hours passed. Kyron's school bus arrived at his
home that afternoon, but he wasn't on it. His stepmother called the
school, and the school called 911.
Investigators have refused to release a more
detailed timeline of the day Kyron went missing — or say whether they've
found any clues, or have any suspects or theories about what happened.
And it's the unknown that has consumed the
attention of the people in this area, to say nothing of the camera crews
and TV trucks that descended seemingly overnight.
"There's a terrible cloud over everything," said
Elinor Markgraf, who has lived in the Skyline area for decades.
At a high school graduation party last week, Markgraf said the mood was tense.
"Nobody was talking about it," Markgraf said. "But it was so close to the surface."
One other detail is clear: Search and rescue
teams have been combing a two-mile radius around Kyron's school. Skyline
Elementary sits 725 feet above sea level, perched on the crest of a
hill that takes a 300-foot drop to the east into the basin near a fork
of the Columbia River some 5 miles away.
Teams spent hours drawing and redrawing on maps,
splitting up the methodical work of walking the area with dogs, on
horseback and sometimes in "grid teams," men and women walking nearly
shoulder-to-shoulder, searching for evidence that Kyron had been there.
The elements worked against the teams that
searched the area's dense forests. The rain that fell nearly every day
made embankments near roadways slick and footholds undependable. At
least one searcher had to be taken from the area by ambulance. But no
details on the searcher's injuries were released.
"It is difficult terrain and, at times, difficult
circumstances," said Sheriff's Capt. Monte Reiser.
Staton said Sunday the search for Kyron will be
scaled back, with teams that came from across the state returning to
their homes. But he said local teams will keep looking.
"Our commitment and resources are unwavering," Reiser added.

I really believe LE and FBI know what has happened, just waiting till they have enough evidence to prove it.. IMO

ok, why haven't the parents been on tv begging for the return of their baby! Where the hell is dad? Bio-Mom? what is this crap about the principal speaking for the family? If step-mom is involved then Dad knows. You can't lie in beg next to a person capable of this and be unaware.

yvette67 wrote:ok, why haven't the parents been on tv begging for the return of their baby! Where the hell is dad? Bio-Mom? what is this crap about the principal speaking for the family? If step-mom is involved then Dad knows. You can't lie in beg next to a person capable of this and be unaware.

Frustrating as hell isn' it?

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