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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2020 21:34:33 GMT
June 4, 2020 Kyron
On June 4, 2010, Kyron Horman was 7 years old. The second-grader arrived early to Portland’s Skyline Elementary School with his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, to tour a science fair set for that the afternoon. She took a picture of Kyron in front of his poster about tree frogs. It was the last known photograph taken of him.
Thursday marks 10 years since Kyron disappeared. Since he was last seen at Skyline, his family has mourned his loss and continued to search for him. Kyron’s mother, Desiree Young, has a vigil planned to mark the 10-year anniversary. People will gather to honor Kyron at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Brooks Hill Historic Church on Skyline Boulevard and they will release balloons.
Thursday, June 4, marks 10 years since the second-grader was last seen at Skyline School.This month, Kyron would be graduating from high school with the class of 2020. “All of the markers are really hard,” Desiree told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday. "The fact that I don’t get to be a part of that, it makes me angry. Someone took that away from us and it’s not right.”
Public interest in Kyron’s disappearance has waxed and waned over the years. No one has been charged or even named as a suspect in his case, though his stepmother has been a frequent target of speculation. The case is not closed.
“Ten years is hard,” Desiree Young said Wednesday. “I hope we aren’t here in a year.” “I want Terri to do the right thing and I want her to end this torture,” she added. “We just want to bring Kyron home.”
Authorities have called the search for Kryon the largest ever for a person in Oregon, but 10 years on, there is still no trace of the boy.
Here is a timeline of events in Kyron’s case, starting from the day he disappeared. This timeline is based on reporting done by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Friday, June 4, 2010 Skyline Elementary opened at 8 a.m. so students and parents could tour the science fair. Terri and Kyron Horman arrived shortly after the school opened. A billboard outside read: “June 4, I.B. Inquiry Expo, 8-10, Talent show, 1-2:45.” Kyron was supposed to take part in both the expo/science fair and the talent show.
At 8:15 a.m., Skyline PTA President Gina Zimmerman arrived at the school and saw Kyron with his stepmother in front of his exhibit.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years A photo posted on his stepmother's Facebook page shows Kyron Horman in front of his science fair project, wearing the "CSI" T-shirt he was last seen in.
Terri Horman left the school at 8:45 a.m. after watching Kyron walk towards hi classroom. At 9 a.m., another student reported seeing Kyron near the south entrance of Skyline.
According to Sheriff Dan Staton, that was the last time Kyron was seen, though Multnomah County authorities later backtracked on that statement.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. Kyron Horman's science fair project on the red-eyed tree frog in his second-grade classroom on June 5, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Class began at 10 a.m. and sometime after, his homeroom teacher Kristina Porter reported Kyron absent.
At 1:21 p.m., Terri Moulton Horman posted the picture of Kyron and his project to her Facebook page.
Terri and Kyron’s father, Kaine Horman, went to meet the school bus at 3:30 p.m. and discovered that Kyron had been absent from school all day.
At 3:46 p.m., the school secretary Susan Hall called 9-1-1 to report Kyron missing. About 45 minutes later, officers from the Portland Police Bureau and the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office arrived simultaneously at the school and Kyron’s home.
An hour later, at 5:30 p.m., a broadcast was sent to phones of parents in Portland Public Schools that read: “Kyron Horman did not arrive at home today.”
At 7 p.m. Multnomah County sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Lee Gosson alerted Sgt. Travis Gullberg, the county’s on-call coordinator for search-and-rescue efforts, of the need to begin a formal missing persons search for Kyron.
Between 7 and 7:15 p.m., the Multnomah County Public Information Officer began to return pages from members of the media and arranged to meet them at the school.
Sometime between 7 and 7:45 p.m., Sheriff Dan Staton personally called the FBI to alert them to Kyron’s disappearance.
The first search teams arrived at Skyline School at 8:09 p.m. and shortly after, at 8:15 p.m., Lt. Mary Lindstrand also arrived at the school and met with those present. She then began e-mailing a photo of Kyron to local media.
Deputy Mark Herron, the search-and-rescue coordinator, arrived at 8:25 p.m.
At 9:48 p.m., Mountain Wave, an emergency communications and search and rescue group based in Gresham also arrived at the school.
At 10:40 p.m., officers reported that they had completed a search of Skyline School, including all crawl spaces, storage areas, classrooms and outbuildings. They had also searched the Horman house.
At 10:44 p.m., a tipster called 9-1-1 to make sure officers checked the train tunnel in the area near the school. The caller said, “sometimes kids play in there, wants to make sure someone has checked that.”
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. The desk of Kyron Horman at Skyline School, on June 5, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Saturday, June 5 Another search group, Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue, was called by the sheriff’s office at 5 a.m. Saturday. When they arrive on-site, 60 to 70 people were already involved in the search.
At 9:08 a.m., the Associated Press received its first official notification that Kyron was missing, via an e-mail with the subject line: “SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONTINUES SEARCH FOR 7 YEAR OLD KYRON HORMAN”
That morning, helpfindmychild.net, a UK-based missing child site, created a page for Kyron and a tip line was created at 503-261-2847.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. Washington County Deputy Dave Thompson escorts members of the press inside Skyline school on June 5, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. Workers of the Multnomah County Sheriff's office search and rescue team look through a nearby field for Kyron Horman on June 5, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
At noon Saturday, a sheriff’s spokesman said during a press conference that the search for Kyron was still a missing-person case and not a criminal investigation.
Around that time, the Portland Public Schools district used its rapid broadcast system to alert staff and parents of Skyline School students who were at the school Friday to come to the K-8 on Sunday for debriefings by police and federal agents. The oldest students were advised to arrive at 10 a.m.; kindergartners and first-graders were to arrive with parents later in the day.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. A sign for Kyron Horman hangs inside the Plainview Grocery and Autoparts store on June 5, 2010. (Andrew Burto/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Two news conferences were held that day, one at 4 p.m. and one at 8 p.m. Authorities announced that the FBI and the National Guard had joined the effort.
Search-and-rescue crews completed an “immediate grid search” around the school.
That night, at 10:23 p.m., a Facebook page was created for supporters of Kyron and his family. The page remains active today.
Missing child A steady stream of parents and students exit the Skyline Elementary School the Sunday after Kyron disappeared. (Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian)LC- LC- The Oregonian
Sunday, June 6 Terri Moulton Horman posted on Facebook at 8:58 a.m., saying she had ordered missing-person fliers.
“I ordered 1000 fliers, they will be coming to our house," she wrote. "I will let people know when they are here and we can go from there. Thank you everyone.”
That morning, the FBI announced that they had brought in a Quantico, Va.-based profiler to create a profile of the boy.
At 9:48 a.m., the first of 300 students and their parents returned to Skyline School to be interviewed by detectives. Fifty detectives were on-hand for interviews that continued until 4 p.m.
Missing child Law enforcement set up a check point at the entrance to Skyline Elementary School Sunday morning. (Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
That afternoon, around 12:10 p.m., Kyron’s relatives began distributing missing person flyers with a photo of Kyron and this description: “3-feet, 8-inches tall, 50 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair. Last seen wearing black cargo pants, white socks and worn black Skechers tennis shoes with orange trim.”
At 3:30 p.m., Portland Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith, appeared at a news conference and outlined a series of immediate steps the district was taking to address security concerns in the wake of Kyron’s disappearance.
Missing child Carol Smith, Portland School superintendent during a briefing for search for the Skyline Elementary School student, Kyron Horman. (Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
The Multnomah County sheriff escalated Kyron’s disappearance to a missing endangered child case at 9 p.m., but did not call it a kidnapping.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. Mike Allen, of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team, rests after searching a private property on Cornelius Pass, in northwest Portland on June 6, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Monday, June 7 In the early morning, 18 certified search-and-rescue volunteers resumed sweeping the area near the school as deputies canvassed the neighborhood, handing out flyers and jotting down license plate numbers of passing vehicles along Northwest Skyline Boulevard.
The school district began staffing a counseling hotline, and at 8:45 a.m., classes resumed at Skyline with counselors on hand.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Other parents decided to walk their children to school. Andrew Burton / Staff Photographer LC- The OregonianLC- The Oregonian
That evening, Kelly Ramirez, the sister of Desiree Young, issued a statement thanking the community on behalf of the family for their concern and support.
Tuesday, June 8 Search and rescue crews resumed their search and a reward fund was created and announced on Facebook.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline Elementary, which sits at the edge of hundreds of acres of thick rain forest. (Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Wednesday, June 9 Search and rescue crews resumed their search for Kyron in the morning, and Terri Moulton Horman made her Facebook wall private.
At 11 a.m., FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said the Hormon family “is not speaking to the media because they do not believe it’s in the best interest of finding Kyron.”
At noon during a news briefing, Multnomah County sheriff’s Capt. Mike Shults read a statement from Kyron Horman’s immediate family: “Kyron’s family would like to thank people for support and interest in finding their son. The outpouring of support and continued effort strengthens their hope. We need for folks to continue to assist us in our goal. Please search your properties -- cars, out buildings, sheds, etc. Also check with neighbors and friends who may be on vacation or may need in assistance in searching. There are a lot of resources here to help you search, so please don’t stop. It is obviously a difficult time and they want to speak to the public so you can hear it from Kyron’s family as they come together to share their message. Their objective is to keep the focus on Kyron and not about anything else.”
Portland Mountain Rescue received a call from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office to join the search at 9:45 p.m.
Thursday, June 10 Search and rescue crews continued their search.
Friday, June 11 The search resumed and at 10 a.m. was expanded to Sauvie Island
Kyron’s family appeared at a news conference for the first time at 1 p.m. Tony Young, Kyron’s stepfather, said: “We miss you, we love you and we need you home now.”
He then thanked all the volunteers and the community for its outpouring of support. He was followed by Kaine Horman, Kyron’s father, who also spoke about how grateful the family was to the community and searchers.
Saturday, June 12 The search resumed Saturday morning and the sheriff’s office asked the public to hold back on further donations of food, water and other supplies for searchers because of the “sheer volume of supplies received at this point.”
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Maps of the school and Horman property showing where searchers have looked were presented during a June 13 press conference. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Sunday, June 13 The search resumed early in the day but at noon, the sheriff’s office announced at a news briefing that the massive search for Kyron has ended and the case was shifting to a criminal investigation.
The search was one of the largest in state history, with more than 1,300 people from Oregon, Washington and Northern California looking for the boy. A two-mile radius around Skyline School and parts of Sauvie Island, which is about six miles from the school, were also searched.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Desiree Young, Kyron Horman's mother; her husband, Tony Young; stepmother Terri Horman and Kyron's father, Kaine Horman at a June 13 press conference. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
The sheriff’s office also announced it was looking for any video footage of traffic on several Portland-area roads near the school.
Finally, about 100 T-shirts with an image of Kyron’s “missing” poster were distributed for free.
Monday, June 14 The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office sent divers to Sauvie Island, where they could be seen wading in waist-high water off the banks of the Multnomah Channel north of the Sauvie Island Bridge.
Tuesday, June 15 Early on the final day of Skyline classes for the 2009-2010 year, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office released a photo of a pair of glasses like the ones Kyron wore when he was last seen.
Around noon, the sheriff’s Dive Team was spotted on a property near the Horman home. According to a sheriff’s spokeswoman, the search of a pond on the property is routine.
At 3:36 p.m., the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office released a new version of the photo of Kyron at his school science fair. This version, created using photo editing software, showed what Kyron would look like without glasses.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Kyron Horman without glasses
That Tuesday, 30 billboards with Kyron’s picture and information went up throughout the metro area -- 10 in English, 10 in Spanish and 10 in Russian. The billboards were donated by Clear Channel.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. 30 billboards for Kyron Horman, who went missing on June 4, have been placed around the Portland metro area. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
That evening, a vigil for Kyron was held at Sunset Presbyterian Church.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. Candles at a vigil for Kyron Horman on June 15, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Thursday, June 17 Thursday rumors lit up social media claiming Kyron’s body had been found.
Friday, June 18 Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office released a flyer, asking parents and kids about the day Kyron disappeared. The flyer included photos of Kyron, Terri Moulton Horman and a pickup similar to the one she was driving that day.
That afternoon at 2 p.m., Capt. Jason Gates said at a new conference that the family approved the flyer and he dispelled rumors that Kyron’s body had been found.
At 8:30 p.m. a friend of Terri Moulton Horman told The Oregonian that she would undergo a second polygraph the next day.
Sunday, June 20 Multnomah County authorities collected flyers from parents at Skyline.
Monday, June 21 Kyron’s mother, Desiree Young, writes an open letter to her son.
Search for Kyron Horman near Skyline Elementary School. A "Wall of Hope" for Kyron Horman has been set up along the fence outside Skyline School. The collection of balloons, cards and gifts had grown, as of June 23, 2010. Andrew Burton / Staff Photographer LC- The OregonianLC- The Oregonian
Tuesday, June 22 A Wall of Hope was created outside Skyline as a tribute to Kyron.
Kyron Horman Kyron Horman. These photos were handed out by the family.LC-
Thursday, June 24 Kyron’s family released three home movies and 200 new photos of the missing Portland second-grader.
Friday, June 25 Desiree Young and her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, appeared on four network morning shows to keep their son’s story in the public eye. The two announced new details about the day Kyron disappeared from school -- his father was working at home that afternoon and also met the boy’s bus -- but they shed little light on the mystery of what happened to Kyron.
“It’s like a portal opened up in the school and Kyron just vanished into it,” Kyron’s mother said.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Desiree Young and Kaine Horman, Kyron Horman's biological parents, prepare to be interviewed live on national television in the early morning hours of June 25, 2010. Andrew Burton / The Oregonian LC- LC- The OregonianLC- LC- The Oregonian
Saturday, June 26 The first of two 9-1-1 calls made from the Horman residence off Northwest Sheltered Nook Road came at 5:17 p.m. The first came in as a “threat” call and a sheriff’s deputy responded.
At 11:39 p.m., the second call was made from the Horman residence. This call had been classified a “custody” issue.
At some point Saturday, Kaine moved out of the family home, taking his 19-month old daughter, Kyron’s sister, with him.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Kyron Horman on the cover of People Magazine.LC-
Monday, June 28 The July 5 edition of People magazine hit newsstands, the second issue to feature Kyron’s story. Larry Moulton, Terri Horman’s father, told the magazine that she’d been subjected to repeated interviews of up to six hours each and that the truck she was driving the day Kyron disappeared had been inspected twice by police.
When People asked him whether he thought his daughter would be arrested, he replied with tears in his eyes: "It's 50-50."
That afternoon, Fox 12 reported that Kaine Horman had moved out of the family’s Northwest Portland home and had taken his and Terri’s 19-month-old daughter with him.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years The Horman household on June 30, 2010. (Andrew Burton/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Later that afternoon, approached at her home in Northwest Portland by The Oregonian, Terri Moulton Horman denied that her husband and daughter had moved out.
“Everything’s good,” she said, giving a thumbs up. “We heard that rumor. It’s just a rumor that needs to be squelched. Everything’s fine.”
At 5:52 p.m., Kaine Horman, Desiree and Tony Young asked the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office to release a statement stating they were cooperating with the investigation. Terri Horman’s name was absent from the statement.
Shortly after, media outlets in Portland were tipped off that Terri Horman had been served with a restraining order and a petition for dissolution of marriage at the family’s home.
Tuesday, June 29 A Multnomah County judge sealed the restraining order against Terri Moulton Horman.
Wednesday, June 30 Terri Moulton Horman slipped past the crowd of reporters at the foot of her driveway and returned home about 5:30 p.m., with prominent Portland criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze in tow.
Houze stayed at the home for about an hour and later confirmed he was representing Terri Horman.
Thursday, July 2 Helen Jung of The Oregonian revealed that the search and investigation into Kyron’s disappearance had cost Multnomah County about $300,000 to date.
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton said all but one of his seven detectives were working on the case with another 14 investigators from other agencies. But as Kyron’s disappearance hit the four-week anniversary and costs mounted for the cash-strapped county, Staton could not say whether an arrest or resolution was coming any time soon -- nor how long the office could afford to sustain the effort.
“Ultimately, if we are unable to find Kyron, this could turn into a cold case,” Staton acknowledged in an exclusive interview with The Oregonian.
Sunday, July 4 Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian reporteded that a landscaper who worked for Kyron’s family at the family’s rural Northwest Portland home told authorities that the missing boy’s stepmother offered to pay him to kill her husband.
He said Terri Moulton Horman approached him with the murder-for-hire plot six to seven months before Kyron disappeared. She reportedly offered the landscaper, who advertises his expertise in lawn care, a large sum of money to carry out the scheme.
Thursday, July 8 Kaine Horman asked a judge to order Terri Moulton Horman to move out of his house.
A Multnomah County judge released the petition in support of Kaine Horman’s restraining order against his wife.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Kaine Horman waits on a playground slide outside the Skyline School for a candlelight vigil for his missing son, Kyron Horman, to begin. (Arkasha Stevenson/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Monday, July 12 Criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze notified the court that Terri Moulton Horman would not contest her husband’s restraining order or his push to force her out of their Portland home.
In a court document, Kaine Horman asked that his estranged wife be held in contempt, saying she violated a restraining order against her by starting a sexual relationship with one of his high school friends, sharing sealed legal information and trying to kidnap their daughter.
Friday, July 16 In an out of court settlement, Terri Horman agreed to vacate the house on Northwest Sheltered Nook Road. She immediately left for Roseburg, where her parents have a home.
Saturday, July 17 Kaine Horman and his daughter Kiara returned to their home.
Sunday, July 18 The Sunday Oregonian published a story by reporter Lynne Terry in which she spoke to experts around the country about why the Kyron Horman case seemed to have taken on a life of its own.
“Thousands of children vanish every year. But there are many reasons the saga of this 7-year-old boy has fueled seemingly insatiable curiosity coast-to-coast,” she wrote.
Wednesday, July 21 Reporter Maxine Bernstein wrote that law enforcement officials have been putting pressure on a small circle of friends of Terri Moulton Horman, including 43-year-old DeDe Spicher of Tualatin.
Investigators searched Spicher’s condominium in Tualatin the previous week, and had interviewed people who saw Spicher on June 4, the day Kyron disappeared. Spicher was a presence at the Horman house after Kaine, moved out and filed for divorce and a restraining order against Terri Horman in late June.
She also was seen driving Terri Moulton Horman to and from her attorney’s office in downtown Portland. Spicher is not the first person who has assisted Terri Horman in recent weeks to have been drawn into the investigation.
Police also said Michael Cook, who was also seen at the Horman home after Kaine moved out, has been interviewed by authorities. Cook was a high school friend of Kaine Horman who showed up at the couple’s home after Kyron disappeared.
Thursday, July 22 Multnomah County commissioners approved a much pared-down $196,034 request for additional funding to help prosecutors continue their criminal investigation into the disappearance of Kyron.
Sheriff Dan Staton tabled his request for $242,609 to hire a one-year investigative technician and to cover four months of overtime, from July through October.
Friday, July 23 The Oregonian reported that detectives investigating the disappearance of Kyron have searched DeDe Spicher’s condominium in Tualatin and have interviewed people who saw Spicher the day Kyron disappeared.
Spicher was doing gardening work for a Northwest Portland homeowner June 4. She abruptly left the house about 11:30 a.m. and didn’t return until an hour to 90 minutes later. Another person working at the home called Spicher to come in for lunch, and the homeowner called Spicher on her cell phone, but she wasn’t reachable.
Detectives have questioned both the homeowner and the other person who was working at the home that day.
Monday, July 26 Kaine filed a motion in court, asking a judge to order Terri Moulton Horman to disclose the source of the reported $350,000 she has paid to retain criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze.
“If Respondent has provided funds to her attorneys for her legal representation and considers them to be marital liability, these funds are marital property and Respondent should be required to pay one-half of these funds to Petitioner to use for his attorney fees and costs,” wrote Laura Rackner, Kaine’s attorney.
On the same day, DeDe Spicher, a close friend of Terri Horman’s, appeared before a Multnomah County grand jury at 11:20 a.m. in response to a subpoena.
Later in the day, “Dateline NBC” cast another national spotlight on the search for the missing second-grader.
The centerpiece of the hour-long program, titled “Little Boy Lost,” was an emotional tour of the Medford home of Kyron’s mother and stepfather, Desiree and Tony Young. Desiree Young showed an NBC reporter Kyron’s bed, with Batman sheets and pillowcase still rumpled from the last time the 7-year-old visited them.
Tuesday, July 27 Multnomah County sheriff’s officials announced they were increasing the reward for information about the disappearance of Kyron from $25,000 to $50,000.
The announcement comes at a news conference at which Desiree and Tony Young and Kaine Horman stand behind sheriff’s officials.
Wednesday, July 28 Citing intense media and police scrutiny, a lawyer representing Terri Horman filed a motion to delay the Horman divorce proceedings.
Week of Aug. 2 - 6 Witnesses appeared in Multnomah County Circuit Court facing subpoenas to answer questions before a grand jury regarding the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman.
On Aug. 2, Kyron’s parents, Kaine Horman and Desiree Young, and stepfather Tony Young, testified. Later in the week, several friends of Terri Moulton Horman, as well as the principal of Skyline Elementary were also called.
Weekend of Aug. 7 - 8 Searchers and investigators resumed a ground search for Kyron Horman. The search focused on the 2.2-mile Old Germantown Road loop -- not far from the home where DeDe Spicher, one of Terri Moulton Horman’s friends -- was gardening the day Kyron went missing.
Monday, Aug. 9 Investigators continued the concentrated search along the 2.2-mile Northwest Old Germantown Road loop.
Meanwhile, a Multnomah County grand jury heard more testimony from witnesses. Called to appear were women and men who had worked out at the same gym as Kyron’s stepmother.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Multnomah County Sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates, answers questions at a press conference where the investigative team solicited the public's help in the ongoing case of the June 4 disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman, which is now in its 10th week. "There is no evidence that Kyron is not alive," said Gates. LC- The OregonianLC- The Oregonian
Tuesday, Aug. 10 Personal emails sent by Terri Moulton Horman detailing the day of Kyron’s disappearance were obtained by various media organizations.
Wednesday, Aug. 11 During a morning press conference, investigators said they sought details about several possible sightings of the Horman family truck including two at different locations around Skyline school as well as at two westside Fred Meyer stores.
Investigators appealed to the public for “investigative assistance” and released staged photos of the truck at approximate locations.
That afternoon, Kaine Horman’s lawyer, Laura Rackner, filed court documents objecting to his estranged wife’s request to delay divorce proceedings.
Rackner also submitted a copy of a June 30 text message exchange between Terri Horman and Michael Cook in which Terri Horman reportedly cited that her attorney is costing $350,000.
Tuesday, Aug. 17 Terri’s friend, DeDe Spicher, told People Magazine she did not leave the 38-acre nursery where she was working the day Kyron vanished.
Friday, Aug. 20 In an exclusive story by Lynne Terry in The Oregonian, Kaine Horman and Desiree Young described changes in Terri Horman’s behavior starting in 2005.
Terri Horman was depicted by former in-laws and a former roommate as a mix of contradictions, someone who’s caring and controlling, self-centered and giving, demanding and short-tempered.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Terri Moulton Horman, right, and her attorney Stephen Houze. (Abigail Marble/Court artist)LC-
Wednesday, Aug. 25 In the afternoon, Terri Moulton Horman appeared in court accompanied by her lawyers. Her divorce lawyer, Peter Bunch, filed a legal memo, arguing that she couldn’t proceed at the time to protect her rights to property, custody and parenting time because she is a “de facto suspect” in the disappearance of Kyron and at the center of a police investigation.
Kaine Horman helped workers assemble the Wall of Hope near the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue fire station on Northwest Skyline Boulevard near Skyline School.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Portland, Oregon--8/29/10--Kaine Horman (right) gets a hug from Carol Knowlton (center), of Mt. Angel, and Judy Maher, of Wilsonville, after the move of the "Wall of Hope" for Kyron Horman Sunday morning from in front of Skyline Elementary School to the nearby Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue station. Photo by Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian LC- THE OREGONIANLC- THE OREGONIAN
Tuesday, Sept. 7 Kaine joined with volunteers and friends to re-erect the Wall of Hope in honor of Kyron. The chainlink wall with cards, messages, and rubber frogs for Kyron was moved from Skyline School to avoid disturbing returning students. It now stood on a field in front of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Fire Station 368 on Northwest Skyline Boulevard near the school.
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Kaine Horman agreed to drop his motion to find his estranged wife, Terri Moulton Horman, in contempt of court stemming from the alleged sharing of a sealed restraining order.
Thursday, Sept. 9 Kyron’s parents honored his 8th birthday with chocolate cake, music and heartfelt cards.
Wednesday, Sept. 15 The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office announced a shift in staffing the case. With costs topping $1 million, Sheriff Dan Staton said it’s time to scale down the investigation to a task force of eight to 10 detectives, compared with as many as 25 on any one day previously.
Tuesday, Sept. 21 Clear Channel began to gradually take down the Kyron Horman billboards.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Desiree Young, mother of Kyron Horman, missing for over four months, appeals to the public for money to raise the reward for finding him to $350,000. (Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Searchers Ann Taylor (left) and Caitlynn Ralston from Clark Mounted Search and Rescue from Clark County WA join with several jurisdictions in a large scale search effort on Sauvie Island Sunday in the ongoing investigation of the disappearance of Kyron Horman. (Brent Wojahn/The Oregonian)LC- LC- The Oregonian
Weekend of Oct. 2-3 Search and rescue personnel from multiple jurisdictions returned to Sauvie Island looking for any clues in the disappearance of Kyron Horman.
Multnomah County Sherriff’s Office spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand did not comment on what searchers were looking for or if anything was found during the large ground search.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Terri Horman arrives at the Multnomah County Courthouse for another day of proceedings in divorce proceedings with her husband Kaine Horman. (Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Thursday, Oct. 7 At 9 a.m.,Terri Moulton Horman, Kaine Horman and their attorneys arrived in downtown Portland for a court hearing to decide whether to delay their divorce proceedings during the ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of Kyron Horman.
About 1:30 p.m., Judge Keith Meisenheimer ruled to delay the divorce case until January 2011. The judge cited Terri Horman’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying in a manner that might implicate her in a crime.
Weekend of Oct. 9-10 Approximately 180 searchers returned to Sauvie Island to look for Kyron Horman for the second consecutive weekend.
Wednesday, Oct. 13 Terri Moulton Horman petitioned the court to give her visitation rights to see daughter Kiara.
Thursday, Oct. 14 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners granted Sheriff Dan Staton $209,65 to cover overtime and the salary of a temporary investigative technician for the Kyron Horman investigation.
Thursday, Oct. 21 Kaine Horman filed an objection to his estranged wife’s motion for visitation rights with daughter Kiara.
Kaine wanted a mental health evaluation of Terri Moulton Horman before allowing her parenting time with their young daughter.
Monday, Oct. 25 Kaine Horman submited an affidavit and exhibits to support his counterclaim.
He argued in court files that his estranged wife, Terri Moulton Horman, is an “emotionally disturbed individual focused on her own needs rather than the needs of Kiara or my missing Kyron.”
Friday, Oct. 29 Terri Moulton Horman’s attorneys responded to the court affidavit filed by Kaine Horman four days before.
In the motion, Terri Horman’s attorneys said Kaine Horman is focused on his wife’s destruction rather than their daughter’s best interests.
The motion called Kaine Horman’s filing “vicious in its tone and content” intended to “vilify” the mother with “incendiary tactics” to “completely destroy and sabotage the mother/child relationship” to the “utter detriment” of his daughter.
Tuesday, Nov. 2 Terri Moulton Horman withdrew her motion seeking parenting time with daughter Kiara.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Kaine Horman speaks to the media at Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue Station. (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Weekend of Nov. 13-14 Dive teams from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office returned to Sauvie Island to search for signs of Kyron Horman.
Monday, Nov. 15 For the first time since Kyron Horman disappeared June 4, the united front that had been presented by his birth parents shows fractures.
Desiree Young appeared on NBC’s Today Show and accused Terri Moulton Horman of having a “severe hatred” of Kyron. She also said she thinks Kaine Horman, her ex-husband and Kyron’s father, had made some bad choices: “I just can’t stand by and support the choices that he’s making.”
Hours later, Kaine Horman stood at the Wall of Hope to talk to reporters about court filings in his divorce case against Terri Moulton Horman.
He responded to Dersiree Young’s comments, saying he had never withheld information and never felt that his estranged wife posed a threat to Kyron.
Friday, Dec. 10 At the request of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, the Skyline School principal emailed a flyer to its parents and staff.
Sheriff Dan Staton said the flyer was to double-check that law enforcement had interviewed everyone who was at the school when Kyron was last seen.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Multnoman County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Herron on Skyline Dr. Saturday near one of the areas where officials renewed their search Sunday for Kyron Horman. (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011 Authorities resumed the search for Kyron but shifted it to an area in the forested hills west of Sauvie Island, saying they had new and “very specific reasons.”
About 50 searchers and seven cadaver-detecting dogs were employed. Searchers set a goal of scouring the rural areas north and west of Portland -- crossing from Multnomah County into corners of Washington and Columbia counties. The search focused on several parcels of private property, mostly logging land, along Northwest Skyline Boulevard -- between Rocky Point Road and Logie Trail Road -- and around the Dixie Mountain area.
Nothing was found.
February Following a review of the local task force’s nearly nine-month investigation the FBI dedicated up to six agents to help with the criminal investigation into the disappearance of Kyron Horman.
Saturday, Feb. 13 Desiree Young sent out a press release that included a valentine to Kyron. She said the holiday would be a tough one, just as the others have since her son went missing. The valentine read: “There’s a hole in my heart that will not be fixed until you come home.”
Weekend of March 26 - 27 Searchers returned to a stretch of Northwest Skyline Road, south of Rocky Point Road and a gravel road further north in the Dixie Mountain area to continue looking for Kyron, as they couldn’t cover the full area in January.
Wednesday, March 30 The Horman divorce hearing was delayed until June 30.
Thursday, June 2 Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton said the formal Kyron task force will disband as of July 1, 2011, but that a lead detective from the office would continue to work full-time investigating the now yearlong disappearance of Kyron Horman with help from the FBI, state Department of Justice and county prosecutors.
Friday, Aug. 26 Desiree Young withdrew her civil suit against Terri Moulton Horman. She had filed the lawsuit accusing Terri Moulton Horman of kidnapping the boy and demanded that the court compel her to return him or reveal where his body is.
It sought $10 million in damages. A judge had previously delayed the lawsuit, saying it could affect an ongoing criminal investigation. Young and her lawyer said they didn’t want to impede the case.
Tuesday, Sept. 17 The long-divorced parents of missing Kyron Horman, Desiree Young and Kaine Horman air their differences on the Dr. Phil show.
Tuesday, Dec. 31 A Multnomah County judge finalized the divorce of Kaine Horman and Terri Moulton Horman, days before the two were set to go to trial. The couple married in April 2007. Kaine Horman filed for divorce on June 28, 2010 — 24 days after Kyron was last seen.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years PORTLAND, OREGON -- June 1, 2012 -- Desiree Young, on the front steps of the Multnomah County Justice Center, announces her intention to file a civil lawsuit against Terri Horman, as the two year anniversary of Kyron Horman’s disappearance approaches. Kraig Scattarella/The Oregonian LC- The OregonianLC- The Oregonian
Friday, June 1, 2012 Desiree Young filed a civil lawsuit against Terri Moulton Horman, contending custodial interference.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 Desiree Young drooped the lawsuit against Terri Moulton Horman, but said, “I cannot tolerate the continued silence.”
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Kaine Horman was awarded the custody of his daughter, Kiara. Terri Moulton Horman was allowed strictly supervised visits with the girl under a detailed "reintegration plan,'' according to a settlement.
Monday, Aug. 4 A judge denied Terri Moulton Horman’s request for a name change.
Horman had filed a petition in Douglas County on June 30 to change her name to Claire Stella Sullivan. She said she wanted to avoid what she called the “stigma” of the Horman name, but the judge cited the ongoing criminal investigation in denying her.
Thursday, Aug. 14 It was reported that Terri Moulton Horman spoke publicly about Kyron for the first time since shortly after he vanished more than four years before. In comments to the judge during her name-change hearing, she said, “He needs to be found. I love my son. I want him home more than anything.”
Wednesday, Nov. 26 Four months after being denied a name change in Douglas County, Terri Moulton Horman filed another petition to change her name, this time in Lane County Circuit Court, and this time to Claire Kisiel.
Wednesday, Dec. 10 A hearing on the name change was canceled after Terri Horman withdrew the petition. On Facebook, opponents had circulate a petition to challenge the name change, gaining more than 3,000 signatures.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years As the fifth anniversary of his son's disappearance approached, Kaine Horman appealed to teachers, babysitter, friends and friends of friends to step forward to talk to police again. One lead could bring his son, Kyron Horman, home, he said. (Lynne Terry/The Oregonian)LC-
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 According to reports, Terri Horman landed a job as a caregiver in Eugene with the Shangri-La Corp., which provides residential care for adults suffering from mental illness. The company said Horman applied for a Mental Health Support Specialist position in November under the alias of Terri Moulton, the last name of her adoptive parents.
The company said she was “forthright with Shangri-La about her alternate names in her application, and her state-approved criminal history check was processed using all reported aliases.” After that review, plus an interview, a Department of Motor Vehicle check, reference review and drug test, “she was determined to be a technically-qualified applicant and was hired for the position.”
Friday, Feb. 20 The Shangri-La Corp. reported that Horman has left her job as a caregiver for nonprofit. A statement said she quit her job because she “recognized the impact her employment had” on the nonprofit since it had been made public. An official said Horman performed her job to their expectations and “showed compassion to people with special needs.”
Thursday, May 28 As the fifth anniversary of Kyron’s disappearance approaches, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office publicized its ongoing $50,000 reward for information that leads to his discovery.
Saturday, May 30 As he prepared for the fifth anniversary of his son’s disappearance, Kaine Horman told The Oregonian/OregonLive, “We don’t want people to forget."
“We want resolution,” he added.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Desiree Young, mother of Kyron Horman, the seven-yr-old who disappeared from his school five years ago, before a vigil in Beaverton on June 5, 2015. (Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian)LC- The Oregonian
August 2015 According to Yuba County Sheriff’s Office crime analyst, Leslie Carbah, Terri Moulton Horman’s roommate reported in August 2015 that he believed she had stolen a gun from his gun safe.
“She did indeed have the firearm,” Carbah told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 Terri Moulton Horman told Dr. Phil McGraw on his talk show that she believes Kyron was kidnapped by a man in a white pickup truck.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years A new age progression photo of Kyron Horman. He would be 14 today. (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)LC-
Thursday, May 25, 2017 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released an age-progressed photo of Kyron, who would be 14 years old.
Saturday, March 17, 2018 Terri Horman married Jose De Jesus Vazquez Martinez in Clark County, Nevada.
Kyron Horman, missing 10 years Desiree Young speaks during a news conference in Northwest Portland on June 4, 2019 on the nine-year anniversary of the disappearance of her son, Kyron Horman. (Everton Bailey Jr./The Oregonian.)
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 On the ninth anniversary of her son’s disappearance, Desiree Young announced that authorities have narrowed the search for Kyron to less than 100 acres and still sought answers on what caused him to vanish.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 True-crime writer Rebecca Morris released a book on the Kyron investigation called, “Boy Missing: The Search for Kyron Horman.”
Friday, May 29 “Little Boy Lost: An ID Mystery,” aired on the Investigation Discovery channel, telling the story of Kyron and the investigation that followed his disappearance.
Thursday, June 4 For the 10th anniversary of the case, Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese released this statement: “Kyron Horman’s disappearance continues to have a profound impact on our community. We remain just as dedicated to this investigation as we did ten years ago. In collaboration with our Major Crimes Team partners, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and the FBI, we are pursuing all investigative leads and will continue to do so until Kyron is located. This case remains open and active. You can help us by sharing information pertaining to Kyron’s disappearance by calling the MCSO TipLine at 503-988-0560.”
This month, Kyron would be graduating from high school with the class of 2020.
“All of the markers are really hard,” Desiree told The Oregonian/OregonLive the day before the 10 year anniversary of his disappearance.
“The fact that I don’t get to be a part of that, it makes me angry,” she said. “Someone took that away from us and it’s not right.”
-- Lizzy Acker
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2020 22:00:08 GMT
6/19/20 Vanessa Guillen
The family of a Fort Hood soldier who has been missing since April is growing desperate for answers about her mysterious disappearance. The soldier, Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, has been missing from her unit since April 22, according to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.
Private Guillen was last seen in a black T-shirt and purple fitness-type pants in the parking lot of her Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on April 22. Her car keys, barracks room key, ID and wallet were found in the armory room where she had been at work repairing small arms and artillery. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 126 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes.
“I will not rest until my daughter is found, and until she is found alive,” Private Guillen’s mother, Gloria Guillen, 42, who is from Mexico and lives in Houston, said in an interview on Thursday in Spanish.
Officials said that more than 500 soldiers had searched for Private Guillen in buildings, barracks, fields, training areas, lakes and trails at Fort Hood. An aircraft from the 1st Cavalry Division flew more than 100 hours to search for her, and more than 150 people have been interviewed.
Family members, disheartened by what they say has been a lack of information from the authorities, have rallied outside the base demanding answers. The disappearance has also drawn the attention of some celebrities, including the actress Salma Hayek, who has posted about Private Guillen on Instagram.
Officials at Fort Hood said Thursday that they had appointed an investigating team to look into allegations from Private Guillen’s family that she had been sexually harassed before she disappeared. The officials did not disclose details of those allegations. “I opened an investigation concerning the information provided by the Guillen family that Pfc. Vanessa Guillen was harassed prior to her disappearance,” said Col. Ralph Overland, commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. “I take allegations of sexual harassment very seriously and we are conducting a thorough investigation.”
Investigators are also looking into a widely circulated social media post claiming that Private Guillen’s body was found on one of the base’s installation training ranges. “Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command have no credible information that this post is true,” said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the command. “The individual who posted this no longer resides or is stationed at Fort Hood and is no longer in the Army. However, out of an abundance of caution, we are contacting the individual.”
Investigators also believe that Private Guillen’s case is not connected to the disappearance last year of another soldier at Fort Hood: PV2 Gregory Morales. Private Morales was last seen Aug. 19, 2019, while driving a car in Killeen, Texas, where the base is. The Criminal Investigation Command is offering a $25,000 reward for credible information leading to the whereabouts of Privates Morales and Guillen.
Domingo Garcia, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has contributed an additional $25,000 reward for credible information regarding Private Guillen’s whereabouts, said Roman Palomares, a spokesman for the Hispanic advocacy organization.
The rapper Baby Bash also wrote on Facebook that he would add $5,000 to the reward.
Representative Sylvia Garcia of Texas said that Private Guillen’s family had reached out to her office asking for help to get answers about her disappearance. Ms. Garcia, a Democrat who represents the 29th Congressional District, said she had helped set up a virtual meeting on June 8 between Ms. Guillen and military officials and investigators. In addition to the virtual meeting, investigators said they had weekly phone calls with Private Guillen’s family and also held a meeting in person with her sister on May 23.
An in-person meeting at which the authorities will review the case’s timeline for Private Guillen’s mother has been set up. “We need to get answers,” Ms. Garcia said. “We need to find Vanessa. We need to find relief for this family and get to the bottom of this.”
Private Guillen’s interest in the military stems from childhood, her mother said. A decade ago, she used to play with her brother’s toy pistol and told her mother that she would eventually join the military. She always said that she wanted to defend her homeland, despite her mother’s hesitations.
Gloria Guillen misses the hugs she used to get from her daughter when she came home for dinner or went with her to church. “My daughter was special to everyone,” Ms. Guillen said, “but more for me because I’m her mother.”
Anyone with information on Private Guillen’s disappearance can contact Army Criminal Investigation Command special agents at (254) 495-7767 or the Military Police at (254) 288-1170. Anonymous claims can be made on the command’s website.
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2020 18:52:53 GMT
6/24/20 Katelyn Markham
BUTLER COUNTY — In 2011 and 2012, three young Fairfield residents either disappeared or were killed and found in nearby creek. All remain unsolved homicides.
A recent Discovery ID channel show, “Still a Mystery,” featured the disappearance and death of Fairfield’s Katelyn Markham. The 22-year-old art student went missing from her Dorshire Drive residence during the early-morning hours of Aug. 14, 2011. add pic here
Katelyn Markham, Joey Oakley and Chelsea Johnson are victims of unsolved homicides in Fairfield.
Police and volunteers searched for months. She left behind her purse, keys that were tossed in the middle of her bed and a dog that was locked in an upstairs bedroom. Then on April 7, 2013, skeletal remains were found in a remote wooded area in Cedar Grove, Indiana. Within days, confirmation came that the remains were Markham’s, and the Franklin County Coroner ruled her death a homicide. However, her exact cause of death could not be determined.
In the two years between Markham’s disappearance and her remains being discovered, Chelsea Johnson, 15, and Joey Oakley, 19, both Fairfield Options Academy students, were found dead near creek beds in the city. Johnson was found April 16, 2012 stabbed to death near a creek close to the intersection of Pleasant Avenue and Nilles Road.
George D. Davis II, of Cincinnati, who was sent to prison for drug trafficking, importuning, and having weapons under disability for attempting to exchange heroin for sex with Johnson, was released from prison in 2017, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Davis was arrested in May in Hamilton County on a felony charge of promoting prostitution. His case is awaiting presentation to a grand jury where more charges could be filed. Authorities have said a grand jury did not return an indictment against a suspect in the case, despite a year-long investigation in which the Butler County Sheriff’s Office took a fresh look at the case. Fairfield Detective Doug Day said the department investigates all leads in the three cases. “We are aware of the recent arrest of George Davis II in Hamilton County. How Davis’ arrest will affect our investigation into the death of Chelsea Johnson is still being determined,” Day said. Vicky Fible, Johnson’s mother, expressed frustration about the lack of progress in her daughter’s case and said she hasn’t communicated with Fairfield police in years. Fible said she believes the case was botched from the beginning because detectives placed blame on her. After further investigation, including her passing lie detector tests, “I cleared my name,” she said.
Oakley was found dead near a creek in Fairfield on Aug. 30, 2012. He was shot several times with a small-caliber weapon in the chest, but early in the investigation police said they believed he had fallen and hit his head on a rock and his body was found leaning against a tree. His body was found a few hundred feet from where Johnson’s body was found.
The most recent television segment recapping the Markham case pointed to multiple persons of interest, including Michael Strouse, a man convicted last year in the death of 23-year-old Ellen “Ellie” Weik at his Liberty Twp. home. Within hours after Strouse’s arrest, Fairfield police confirmed a meeting with West Chester Police Department, who investigated the Weik case. Det. Vance Patton of the Indiana State Police said ISP led the investigation after her body was found in their state. But he said she went missing from Fairfield, and it’s doubtful her death happened where the remains were found. “I don’t know what to make of Fairfield PD,” said Markham’s father, Dave. “That infuriates me. I think everyone is pretty much convinced she wasn’t murdered in Indiana. They just don’t want to do anything.”
The reward of information leading information about Markham’s death has grown to $100,000. Patton believes that points to one person being involved. “(The) $100,000 is no good to (the person who did it), but if someone else was involved and maybe just saw something or helped move the body, you would think they might come forward,” Patton said.
Dave Markham said last week he had not yet seen the latest show about the case and doesn’t know if it will turn up new evidence. “I always have hope, but I learned a long time ago to take each one of these with a grain of salt because I might get my hopes up, then they got dashed,” he said. “The highs got higher and the lows got lower. I have learned to just put it aside and hope and pray. But I don’t get my hopes up anymore.
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