KYRON HORMAN - 7 yo - Portland OR

well i was so hoping there would be news now - i don't know what to think about the criminal investigation now - i am just hoping they can find him so we know what actually happened

Im not one to really watch the news but I just happened to be watching it the first day the story aired. My first thought was that it was the step-mother. Every day now I have been looking at updates. I dont know if its just because Im a parent that I am so interested, or maybe I feel like I know the kid from watching it so much, or maybe I just want to know what really happened. Sorry if I sound crazy lol. I really hope he is found alive ( which I know chances are slim to none) or I at least hope he is found and they can put whoever did it away. I couldnt imagine being without my child and not knowing ANYTHING. I find it so weird that no one knows ANYTHING. And what about that "sub" teacher that Tanner said he talked to and the school later said there were no subs that day. They tried to say it was his mind making up things but what if it wasn't and there was someone there that wasnt supposed to be? It is really unsettling to me, this whole thing.

I just ran across this. Looks like they are finally questioning the family's involvement a little


"According to CBS affiliate KOIN, authorities are trying to stem the tide of online rumors surrounding the case, and his family's possible involvement. Police say Kyron's parents are doing all they can to help.


School officials and law enforcement are trying to keep a clamp on information they say could compromise the investigation.

What is known is that Kyron's stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, saw him in the hallway of rural Skyline Elementary School on the morning of June 4. It was minutes after Kyron had presented his second-grade science fair project, a diorama on red-eyed tree frogs.


When Kyron's school bus arrived at his home that afternoon, 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.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Kyron Horman is asked to call the Multnomah County Sheriff's tip line at 503-261-2847."

How can they say it is "known" that his stepmom saw him in the hallway heading to class?? There are no cameras and I haven't heard LE say that this information has been verified by anyone else besides stepmom. Am I missing something??

tammers1212 wrote:Im not one to really watch the news but I just happened to be watching it the first day the story aired. My first thought was that it was the step-mother. Every day now I have been looking at updates. I dont know if its just because Im a parent that I am so interested, or maybe I feel like I know the kid from watching it so much, or maybe I just want to know what really happened. Sorry if I sound crazy lol. I really hope he is found alive ( which I know chances are slim to none) or I at least hope he is found and they can put whoever did it away. I couldnt imagine being without my child and not knowing ANYTHING. I find it so weird that no one knows ANYTHING. And what about that "sub" teacher that Tanner said he talked to and the school later said there were no subs that day. They tried to say it was his mind making up things but what if it wasn't and there was someone there that wasnt supposed to be? It is really unsettling to me, this whole thing.

---Welcome to J4C Tammers! Now you know what makes me stay up until I am bleary eyed some nights updating these topics. I do get involved, as much as I can, and this young boy is just one of hundreds and hundreds on this blog.
Let me say that LE (Law Enforcement) knows great deal more than they are letting on. The move to a criminal investigation allows them a little more leeway in who they can call into the station and under what circumstances. Soon you will ( we all will ) find out exactly how much they knew. It was the same in the Sandra Cantu investigation in the early days. It was very frustrating to be waiting ang waiting but in the end, ESOTD 2.0 was
committed to life in prison without parole....and that's only because she plead guilty. I expect that much the same will happen here and you are, IMHO, correct in suspecting the step-mom. I'll be happy to eat crow if she's not suspect numero uno.

roseyg76 wrote:How can they say it is "known" that his stepmom saw him in the hallway heading to class?? There are no cameras and I haven't heard LE say that this information has been verified by anyone else besides stepmom. Am I missing something??

---The "known" you are referring to roseyg76 is what has been released to the media via an original statement made by the step-mom. That does not mean that LE has or has not corroborated this part of the timeline. They are being tight-lipped for a reason that will become very evident, very soon.

Friends of Kyron Horman's
family said they are holding a vigil for the 7-year-old boy in northwest
Portland on Tuesday night.The public is invited to Sunset
Presbyterian Church, located at 14986 NW Cornell Road, at 7 p.m. for the
event.Becky Owens is a friend of Kyron's father, Kaine Horman,
and said the vigil is not only for Kyron's family and friends, but for
anyone affected by the child's disappearance."I think it impacts
everyone the same way. As a parent with young children, you know it's
unimaginable," she said.Owens said she and a small group of
family friends have been making buttons, fliers and banners to spread
the message about Kyron."Basically, our focus is continuing to
put Kyron out in front of the community so he won’t be forgotten because
he's out there and we need help bringing him home," she said.Owens
said people need to keep looking for the missing second-grader."We
need to be vigilant. We need to keep out eyes open to anything. I fully
believe that this little boy will be found," Owens said.Sheriff's
deputies said Kyron's disappearance became a criminal investigation
Sunday and search crews were pulled from the field. He was last seen at
his northwest Portland grade school June 4th.

TomTerrific0420 wrote:
---The "known" you are referring to roseyg76 is what has been released to the media via an original statement made by the step-mom. That does not mean that LE has or has not corroborated this part of the timeline. They are being tight-lipped for a reason that will become very evident, very soon.

I hope we do hear something soon, Tom....I was so hoping he would be found safe and sound by now

roseyg76 wrote:

TomTerrific0420 wrote:
---The "known" you are referring to roseyg76 is what has been released to the media via an original statement made by the step-mom. That does not mean that LE has or has not corroborated this part of the timeline. They are being tight-lipped for a reason that will become very evident, very soon.

I hope we do hear something soon, Tom....I was so hoping he would be found safe and sound by now

---Unfortunately Rosey ( I had an aunt and a great-aunt with that name ) the change to "criminal investigation" means they know a crime has been committed. Could it be just his kidnapping/disappearance? I think not. They have hard evidence that a "crime" has been committed far and above his disappearance.

TomTerrific0420 wrote:

roseyg76 wrote:

TomTerrific0420 wrote:
---The "known" you are referring to roseyg76 is what has been released to the media via an original statement made by the step-mom. That does not mean that LE has or has not corroborated this part of the timeline. They are being tight-lipped for a reason that will become very evident, very soon.

I hope we do hear something soon, Tom....I was so hoping he would be found safe and sound by now

---Unfortunately Rosey ( I had an aunt and a great-aunt with that name ) the change to "criminal investigation" means they know a crime has been committed. Could it be just his kidnapping/disappearance? I think not. They have hard evidence that a "crime" has been committed far and above his disappearance.

They KNEW a crime had been committed from the get go, guess they just had to wait for evidence to start showing up. Keeping Kyron in my prayers, whatever his fate-I pray he's found soon.

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Kyron Horman investigators release replica photos of boy's eyeglasses, and photo of Horman without glasses

Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 3:45 PM Updated: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 3:47 PM








View full sizeMultnomah County Sheriff's OfficeKyron Horman, with his glasses removed using a photo
editing program.
Investigators have released pictures of a replica of Kyron Horman's
glasses in hopes that it may lead to information about his
disappearance, as well as a picture of him without glasses.

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Multnomah County sheriff's officials earlier displayed items of
clothing that matched what the second-grader was wearing when he
vanished June 4 from Skyline School after a morning science fair: black T-shirt
with a logo from "CSI," dark gray cargo pants, Hanes brand white socks
and child's size 11 Skechers sneakers.


The eyeglass photos show an exact match of the model, brand and color of Kyron's frames.

Later
in the day, officials released a photo of Kyron Horman that was altered
"only to the extent to remove the eye glasses. This has been done to
provide a photo to the public to show what Kyron would look like
without eye glasses."
View full sizeMultnomah County sheriffThe
front of a replica pair of glasses worn by Kyron Horman.



The
family has released many photos of the 7-year-old wearing the glasses.
His stepmother snapped a photo of him the morning he disappeared posing
in front of his science project with a wide grin and bright eyes behind
the frames.

Authorities ask anyone with information to call their tip line: 503-261-2847.

Later today, friends of the boy's family are holding a candlelight
vigil at 7 p.m. at the Sunset Presbyterian Church Sanctuary at 14986
N.W. Cornell Road.

-- The Oregonian

Classes ended at Skyline School
in Northwest Portland today on a bittersweet note without Kyron Horman,
the 7-year-old who vanished from the school 11 days ago.
"I'm disappointed the year is over already because I think the kids need each
other right now," said Beth Smith, walking onto school grounds to pick
up her 12-year-old daughter, who was Kyron's reading buddy.
"She's still scared," Smith said. "Her whole security has been taken away from her."
Smith said her daughter, a sixth-grader, is worried that
the person who snatched Kyron could return to the school.
"She said from the get-go he didn't just walk off," Smith said. "He's a quiet
boy. He follows the rules. He listens. He loves his family."
His disappearance has cast a pall over the elementary school like the
shroud of gray clouds that hammered it today with hail. Still, teachers,
staff and parent volunteers tried to end the school year on an
optimistic note with a mid-day school assembly planned long before Kyron
went missing the morning of June 4.
"The overall message was to
celebrate the entire school year while recognizing it had been a
difficult last week and a half," said Matt Shelby, spokesman for
Portland Public Schools, who was on hand for the last day of classes.
With reporters kept off school grounds, everyone gathered for the
assembly, which was opened by Principal Benjamin Keefer, who said
everyone was wishing for Kyron's safe return. Nate McMillan, coach for
the Portland Trail Blazers,
talked about the importance of taking responsibility and staying safe
over the summer, and Brandon Roy, an All-Star guard for the Blazers,
gave his own motivational talk.
The assembly also included a speech by the recently signed goalkeeper for the Portland Timbers soccer team,
Adin Brown, and a performance by pianist Michael Allen Harrison, an artist-in-residence for Portland Public Schools.
The mood was generally upbeat both before and after, with kids playing and
laughing on school grounds, Shelby said.
"It was good to see the students being kids," he said.
But Kyron's disappearance
continues to haunt the K-8 school on a day when law enforcement plumbed
leads and divers were sighted suiting up on private property in Northwest Portland.
Smith said she has no plans to pluck her
daughter from the school that she and her two brothers graduated from.
She still lives in the house nearby where she grew up.
"We trust the school," Smith said. "I know Mr. Keefer is devastated and
heartbroken. He knows each of these kids and their interests. We need to
let him know we're behind him 100 percent."

Instead of mourning the loss of someone, about 250 people came together
Tuesday evening to rekindle their hope that Kyron Horman will be found
safe and soon.
With somber music creating an atmosphere of tranquility, the
congregation at Sunset Presbyterian Church was bound not necessarily by
faith but in their belief Kyron will be found alive.
“I don’t allow anything else to enter my mind. Would you, if it was your
kid?” said Michelle Preble who organized the Facebook pages devoted to
the missing 7-year-old boy. “Just as a mom I couldn’t sit by and not do
anything.”
Many came to the vigil not out of grief.
“Crisis, like the one we’re facing here with the disappearance of Kyron,
pushes us to pray and to turn to God,” said Ron Kincaid, Pastor of the
church. “So that’s what we’re doing tonight.”
Kincaid, who is also a Skyline School parent, encouraged participants to
break into small groups to offer prayers and to ask for a miracle for
Kyron, comfort for his family and healing for his school where he
vanished over a week ago.
“We’re all incredibly heartbroken, yet have hope at the same time Kyron
will be returned to family safe and sound, and that’s what’s helping us
through,” said Skyline Principal Benjamin Keefer.
Kyron’s parents and stepparents watched the vigil from a private room.
Baskets that were passed around overflowed with messages to the family
from those who attended the vigil.
In a separate effort to raise public awareness about Kyron’s
disappearance, Clear Channel Outdoor in Oregon and Southwest Washington
donated the material and the space for 30 billboards that will feature
Kyron’s name and face. Ten of the billboards will be in Russian, 10 in
Spanish, and 10 will be in English.

From FB:

Out of the thousands of people on this page there must be someone who
works for or owns a trucking company..If you do and would like to help
please consider placing a banner on your long haul trucks for Kyron. If
you contact me I believe I know where I can get them donated from..Also,
truckers, if you can print up a bunch of his fliers and pass them on
your road trips it would help get his information out there even more.
Leave them at truck stops, pass them to fellow truckers..there really is
so much more we can do to help.

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http://blinkoncrime.com/2010/06/15/kyron-horman-missing-and-endangered-john-walsh-on-today-show-media-will-solve-this-case/

"Continuing today, divers have been spotted along Sauvie Island being
instructed by a Geospatial analyst. A source inside the investigation
speaking to blinkoncrime.com on the condition of anonymity has confirmed
the team is being guided by the aerial images taken from the National
Guards Black Hawk Helicopter this past weekend.

The team has been advised they are looking for a large container,
possibly a suitcase or duffle bag, within the shore line."

oh no, didn't they find sandra cantu in a suitcase - i can't imagine how terrible this is for the family -

Me either ovie, when I read that my heart dropped.....

mom_in_il wrote:http://blinkoncrime.com/2010/06/15/kyron-horman-missing-and-endangered-john-walsh-on-today-show-media-will-solve-this-case/

"Continuing today, divers have been spotted along Sauvie Island being
instructed by a Geospatial analyst. A source inside the investigation
speaking to blinkoncrime.com on the condition of anonymity has confirmed
the team is being guided by the aerial images taken from the National
Guards Black Hawk Helicopter this past weekend.

The team has been advised they are looking for a large container,
possibly a suitcase or duffle bag, within the shore line."

Does this mean that they KNOW something. I cant see why they would search for something like that if they had hopes he was alive. They must know something. Hopefully LE can follow thru and find him whether dead or alive, at least he could have a proper burial and the family would have closure

Investigators renewed their call for the public's help in their search
for missing boy Kyron Horman, the 7-year-old who disappeared from his elementary school
on June 4.


A billboard showing information on missing child Kyron
Horman.

Thirty large billboards with Kyron's smiling, bespectacled face, the
words "Endangered Missing," and a phone number to call have started
popping up throughout the region, written in English, Spanish and Russian.
The billboards were donated by Clear Channel "to help get the message
out to bring Kyron home," according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
"We're still waiting for that one tip. That one tip that will bring
Kyron home," Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said.
Lindstrand characterized the investigation as "moving forward" but
declined to provide further details. Tips from the public continue to
come in on "a consistent basis" she said, but didn't provide an exact number.
One tip arrived in the mail written on a postcard, Lindstrand said.
Police said dive teams continued searching bodies of water near where
Kyron disappeared. Investigators including members of the sheriff's
major crimes team and the FBI are canvassing a four mile radius around
Kyron's school and re-interviewing parents, students and school employees.
Lindstrand said sheriff's officials are in regular contact with Kyron's parents, who have declined interviews.
"They said, 'We don't want our faces out there. We want Kyron's face out there,'" she said.
Police declared the case a criminal investigation Sunday
and since Monday have refused to grant any interviews or provide regular updates.
Lindstrand held a brief press conference today outside a sheriff's
building because she said investigators want to keep the public
interested in the case.
Lindstrand also said the television show "America's Most Wanted" is
currently preparing a story on Kyron's case.
Kyron disappeared on the morning of June 4, after he and his stepmother
Terri Horman attended a school science fair where Kyron had displayed a
project on red tree frogs. His stepmother said she last saw Kyron walking
down a hallway toward his classroom.
When Kyron didn't come home on the bus that Friday afternoon, his
parents called the school, which in turn called 911, launching what
Gates said could be the largest search operation in Oregon history.
Approximately 1,300 searchers in the field were joined by 213 additional
investigators from 42 different agencies from California, Oregon and Washington.
A National Guard helicopter also joined in the search.
Many of the search teams have packed up and headed home, although a
small number of local teams will be on call in case there are any new
leads or developments.
Kyron's family has only appeared twice in public
since he disappeared. On Friday, his stepfather made an emotional plea
for his return.
"You mean everything to us," said his stepfather Tony Young. "And until
you come home this family's not complete. Please Kyron, keep up the hope."
For many people here, the distinction between a missing persons case and
a criminal one is irrelevant since Kyron is still nowhere to be found.
"It has not changed our focus," family friend Becky Owens said. "Our
focus has been and will continue to be finding Kyron. So it doesn't
change what we're doing, getting his face out to as many people as
possible."

From AOL News and Contributor David Lohr....

It has been nearly three weeks since 7-year-old Kyron Horman
mysteriously disappeared from his elementary school in Portland, Ore.
In that time, local authorities have
put in hundreds of hours and launched a number of searches for the
missing youngster, all to no avail.
Now, as the search efforts begin to wind down, some are starting to question
the way in which the investigation is being handled.
In contrast to most missing-child cases -- in which police and family members
attempt to draw as much media attention as possible -- there has been an
unusual silence around Kyron's disappearance. Police
have refused to release a detailed timeline or comment on possible
theories. In addition, the boy's family has made just two public appearances:
at a Friday police press conference, where they briefly pleaded for his return but did not take
questions, and a Sunday police press conference, at which they were
present but did not speak.
But are the tight-lipped tactics being used in the Kyron Horman case counterproductive? Not necessarily, says Harold
Copus, a former FBI agent who has worked dozens of missing-person cases.
"The
police might think that this is an abduction and, because of that,
don't want to feed information to the suspect," Copus, now head of Copus
Security Consultants in Atlanta, told AOL News. "They may also want the
family to remain silent so they don't inadvertently say something they
shouldn't to reporters."
Kyron was last seen by his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, walking to his classroom at
Skyline Elementary School on June 4. When the boy failed to return home
later that day, his family called the school and discovered he was missing.
Search-and-rescue teams have scoured an area spanning
several miles, but no sign of Kyron has been found.
Earlier this week, authorities announced they had reclassified the case as a criminal investigation;
up to that point, Kyron was considered a "missing endangered child." In
addition, Multnomah County Sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates told The Associated Press that local parents had
been told that Kyron's disappearance was an isolated incident. "There is
no reason to believe that the kids are in any danger here," Gates said.
Gates' statement has caused some to surmise there must be specific information
that is leading the authorities to believe no other children are in
danger. After all, if a child predator were on the loose, why would the
police tell parents they don't need to take extra precautions?
According to Copus, it could be an assumption based on past experiences.
"If you're a child sexual predator, you only need one victim at a time. You
don't need one victim a day," Copus said. "You have to put yourself in
their mind-set. Once they've done this evil deed, they know there's
going to be a tremendous amount of publicity, so they'll immediately go
underground and disappear.
"It would be unusual for a second child to be abducted in such a close period of time."
With the investigation now in its third week, investigators have had plenty of time
to narrow down the list of potential suspects, Copus said.
"When you first start the case, you assume the child has wandered away and may
have become lost or got himself hurt," Copus explained. "From a law
enforcement standpoint, quietly, the second track is the child was
abducted, and the third is that he has been killed.
"While you get the search parties and do all the work on track one, you start
quickly narrowing down suspects," Copus continued. "You don't publicize
what's going on, but you look at registered sex offenders, and also the
possibility that a member of the child's household has done something to the child."
Regardless of what may have happened to Kyron, Copus
said the important thing is to keep his photo out there, along with the
hope that he could still be alive.
"Odds are small that he is alive, but then, there are cases out there where [missing children] are found
alive later," Copus said. "You can always use that to give hope to a parent."