Kyron Horman -- Missing 6/4/10 #1

My heart breaks for this little guy...I hope for some reason he ran off and is lost....it doesn't seem a family member would have done this.

Search expands in missing Portland boy's case
The FBI has joined the search for a 7-year-old boy who vanished after his stepmother left him at his Northwest Portland elementary school on Friday morning.

By ANNE M. PETERSON
The Associated Press
Originally published June 6, 2010 at 6:06 PM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)-- The FBI has joined the search for a 7-year-old boy who vanished after his stepmother left him at his Northwest Portland elementary school on Friday morning.

Detectives on Sunday interviewed parents and students at Skyline Elementary School to glean any possible clues into the whereabouts of Kyron Horman.

The boy and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a science fair at the school early Friday. She last saw him walking down a hallway toward his classroom about 8:45 a.m.

Police say Kyron did not return home on the bus as scheduled and the family called the school. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office was contacted about 4 p.m.

Authorities have been searching the school and the surrounding area since then. The FBI has dispatched its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team.

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton said he was "not prepared" to call the boy's disappearance a kidnapping and there were no suspects at this time.

In addition to Multnomah County deputies, Portland, Gresham, and Fairview police, as well as the Oregon State Patrol and Multnomah County Search and Rescue were taking part in the search.

A search of the two miles between the school and Kyron's home did not turn up any clues, police said.

"The mission is the same as last night; that being to locate Kyron Horman," police spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said.

The FBI also dispatched a profiler from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said in an e-mail that this type of team is often dispatched when a young child disappears, and its presence does not mean that law enforcement has determined the child has been abducted.

Kyron is described as 3-foot-8 and 50 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and dark cargo pants.

Kyron father's Kaine Horman, works at Intel. The boy's mother, Desiree Horman, lives in Medford and came to Portland following Kyron's disappearance.

Relatives were distributing flyers with the boy's picture on Sunday. Authorities also began interviewing students and their families individually at the school.

At a news conference on Sunday afternoon at Brooks Hill Historical Church, Staton said the investigators were working to determine a detailed timeline as to the boy's movements on Friday morning.

In addition to interviews with students and families, authorities were reviewing photos and videos taken at the school that morning at the science fair.

The last photo of Kyron shows the boy smiling in front of his project on the red-eyed tree frog.

Asked if there were any persons of interest, Staton replied: "In this type of situation I think everyone is of interest to us."

Superintendent of Portland Public Schools Carole Smith would not comment on the details of the district's policy for reporting school absences.

"The reported disappearance of a child from one of our schools is unprecedented and deeply troubling," she said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012048758_portlandboy07m.html

It seems to me that the investigation is going in the same direction as the Croslin case....

I realize their reporting and updates have to be truthful but with statements like ....

"everyone is a supect" ..... and

"Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton said he was "not prepared" to call the boy's disappearance a kidnapping and there were no suspects at this time."

Statements like this make me cringe because many ppl in the general population will form opinions and look for dirt on the step mom...

I am not sure why they arent prepared to call it an abduction yet? Hopefully they have very good reason and not just because they have no other answers to give to the public...

If it is anything like the Croslin case we will see next to no docs or discovery or evidence. All we will see is what will be written about her past. All allegations and speculation about a family member...hopefully there is no dysfunction in the family...

I pray for his safe return...

I wonder why they aren't calling his disappearence a kidnapping. Do they think he walked out of school and got lost somewhere? It's possible but I doubt it.

Clipped from:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10843655

Sheriff Dan Staton said late Sunday night that he was "not prepared" to call the boy's disappearance a kidnapping. He described Kyron as a "missing endangered child" because more than two days had elapsed since he disappeared and because search efforts were hampered by rainy weather.

"We have developed a lot of information which has to be processed thoroughly, and I am not in a position to divulge any specifics of our investigative plan at this time," Staton said in a statement.

It doesn't make any sense unless they know what happened, which apparently they don't. I hope he comes home safely.

I pray for his safe return too...

Watching the presser reminded me of Haleigh's, Jessica's Lunsford, and Elizabeth Smart case to name a few...

It didnt surprise me to hear LE say that they arent looking at this case as a kidnapping..

I understand that they dont want the community to panic, but it is irresponsible of them to say this.. Why???? Well becasue it implies someone who they are in contact with is involved in the disappearance...

Just like diff LE agencies have done in other cases..some solved, some not...

So far, many different sites are looking at the step mom..

There are many questions being asked of allegations/accounts that havent even been confirmed...

like about an alleged conversation between a teacher and step mom about an apptment... why is the mom on FB during this time...and noting how LE have said they arent calling it a kidnapping.. also, comments elsewhere are being made about the number of pics she has of each child and which child is least...

At this point there has been nothing but allegations and very little from LE except they are imo planting the seed to be suspicious of the closest ppl to him (namely the family) and if they dont find him, I suspect they will be help accountable.. Hopefully, if they are truly innocent, they will have no dysfuntion or they will be wrecked...

Also, I noticed in the presser there was no talk of checking RSO in the area.. unless I missed an article somewhere.. I havent seen mention of this....

Kyron is described as 3 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 50 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with the logo of the “CSI” television show, black cargo pants, white socks and black Sketcher tennis shoes with orange trim. He wears glasses.

I'm not liking that part about the Crime Scene Investigation Teeshirt....too close to Caylee wearing her Big Trouble comes Small - which I think was a subtle hint.

Sheriff in Kyron Horman Search Vows, 'We're Going to Bring You Home Buddy'

Portland Second-Grader Disappeared From School Last Week

By SARAH NETTER and DEAN SCHABNER
June 7, 2010



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

"Kyron, we're going to bring you home buddy," Multnomah County Sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates said today, struggling to hold back tears. "Nothing is more important to your family and friends."

Gates said authorities have received 1,200 tips, but are continuing to seek out anyone who was anywhere near Skyline Elementary School in Portland Friday morning.

The captain said he is relying on those tips.

"One of these is going to lead us to finding Kyron," he said.

There has been no trace of the 7-year-old boy who proudly showed off his project on frogs at a school science fair before vanishing Friday morning. He was last seen by his step-mother walking toward his classroom, 150 feet away. He never made it.

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

"The kids are doing pretty well," Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby said today. "It's a pretty somber mood among the adults today."

Though there is understandable concern among parents that one of their own vanished in what is typically considered to be a safe environment, Shelby said parents and the students have been cooperative with authorities.

More than two-thirds of the school's population, about 300 children in grades K-8, showed up voluntarily Sunday to be interviewed by police.

Among their questions were about Kyron's likes and dislikes, his hobbies and his friends. His parents have so far declined to speak publicly about their son's disappearance.

Gates said today that parents and students who didn't come Sunday were being interviewed today. Investigators also stood in the street near the school today around the same time Kyron disappeared Friday, questioning drivers who may pass the school as part of their normal routes.

FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said today that there's not even enough evidence to classify the disappearance as an abduction.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Media/kyron-horman-school-crisis-mode-search-continues/story?id=10847733

This little guy has been on my mind, wondering how this could happen. His stepmother watched him walk towards his classroom 150 feet away, but apparently didn't see him enter the room. Has there been any pictures or sketches of the area between where she left him and his classroom?

It's hard to tell what kind of weirdo may have sneaked in to that Science Fair and taken Kyron....but I'm not ruling out stepmother just yet.

From what I have read about this science fair day in various news media, the children were to return to their classrooms at 10:00am. If this is the case, why did the stepmother just leave this child without a "parent-guide."

I hate to be negative, but this little boy did not just leave the school on his own. There are no cameras at the school. I assume that there was no visitors list, and thus the required name tag to be visible on all non-school personnel. My grandchildren are in schools where one cannot just walk around the school grounds without being stopped. Doesn't matter how innocent and harmless one appears nowadays.
Small school, rural setting, and a recipe for disaster. I viewed one sex offender database for Portland, it listed 176 registered sex offenders. I take registered to mean those who were caught. How many more can be roaming the streets of any city, anywhere, anytime.
I hope that little Kyron is safe and will be found. Hope is all we can do, besides pray.

Wow... that is so alarming.. I havent heard LE talk about RSO's? Cud have missed it though..

Still no Kyron...
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Relatives Of Kyron Horman Plead For Help
Portland Second-Grader Missing Since Friday Morning

POSTED: 7:17 am PDT June 8, 2010
UPDATED: 7:39 am PDT June 8, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Relatives of a Portland boy who has not been seen in four days urged people in the Portland area to keep submitting tips to the sheriff's office.

Kyron Horman, a second-grader at Skyline School, disappeared Friday morning. An exhaustive search began that night and, so far, 22 agencies have helped the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office cover ground in the area.

While more than 1,200 tips have come in, deputies said there's still no sign of Kyron and they have not said whether there are any suspects in his disappearance.

Kelly Ramirez, who is Kyron's aunt, said the family has received an outpouring of support since Kyron vanished from school grounds. In a statement Monday night, she thanked the police agencies involved in the search and asked for the help of citizens in the area.

"The most important thing is to get his picture out there. We encourage everyone, if you would like to help, this is what you can do," Ramirez said. "Print out his flier, put it on the counter of every business you go into. Kyron needs to be seen."

Despite numerous news conferences since Kyron's disappearance, deputies have released very little information about what they have learned since Friday evening.

"We're eliminating those spots where Kyron is not and we're continuing to move forward and find where Kyron is so we can bring him home," said sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates.

Deputies have asked citizen volunteers to stay away from the search area around the school, but Madeline and Maria Sontagg, who live nearby, felt compelled to help.

"I think it's a very sad situation, and I thought, why not go help search for the missing boy?" Maria Sonntag said.

They were ultimately turned away, but their sentiment was shared by others in the community. Deann Graham, whose daughter attends Skyline School, distributed fliers in the Bethany neighborhood of northwest Portland.

"My daughter was scared. She didn't want to go to school," Graham said. "She's afraid that somebody is up there watching them and she's very frightened."

More than 40 students were absent from class at Skyline on Monday, which is nearly double the typical amount of absences.

School officials deflected most questions about the case and said details about the day Kyron disappeared were part of the sheriff's investigation, but they did say that Skyline does not have surveillance video cameras.

A spokesman for Portland Public Schools also said every employee and some volunteers must pass a criminal background check that includes being fingerprinted before they're allowed to be with students.

Deputies Still Tight-Lipped About Details

So far, the sheriff's office has released the following account of events in Kyron's disappearance:

Kyron and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a school science fair Friday morning at Skyline School. She last saw him at 8:45 a.m.

Gates said the last confirmed sighting of Kyron was at 9 a.m.

Several hours passed before Kyron was reported missing. He was supposed to be dropped off at the school bus stop near his house at about 3:45 p.m. When he didn't show up, Moulton Horman called the school, deputies said.

School administrators conducted a quick search of the school, deputies said, and they called the non-emergency dispatch line to report Kyron as missing. The school district also used its phone notification system to contact other parents and inform them of Kyron's disappearance.

Deputies started their search at 5:45 p.m. Since then, deputies said, an exhaustive search has been conducted of the school -- even the roof -- and the woods surrounding the school grounds.

Sheriff Dan Staton said Kyron is being considered a missing endangered child, but he has not called the case a kidnapping.

http://www.kptv.com/news/23829461/detail.html

I am confused how people think the mother could be considered responsible when she last saw him at 8:45 walking back to his class - he made it there and had a picture taken at 9:00 after his mother had left, and then he went missing after 9:00.
I am amazed that there are still schools out there who do not have surveillance cameras and secured campuses, and I'm thankful that my children's school has these procedures in place...
My heart goes out to the stepmother - I personally don't think she did this, but I have been surprised before...I do hope that LE doesn't look at this with blinders on and zone in on her unless ALL of the evidence points directly towards her. Seeing as how she is so involved at the school I just don't see why she would pick the school to do this when all she could have done was keep him home sick from school since she's a stay at home mom - doesn't make sense that she would take him to school to stage an abduction...
It is more plausible to believe that there is a predator among them. It's also not uncommon that a child does wander off - even when they might not have the personality to do so - there was that child recently that wandered off (can't remember name or place) but she was much younger from what I recall, and was later found safely - I do wish that LE would allow more ppl to help aid in the searches... As a parent, I am pretty sure I would furious at LE for turning away people to help search for my missing child. I'm not sure what the weather conditions are, but I hope that any rate he is found alive, and safe...

I hope they find Kyron soon. It's weird how he just disappeared from school without anybody seeing anything. It looks like he was abducted, but to cover all the bases, I hope the school has checked every room and closet, especially those with doors that lock automatically and can't be opened from the inside.

I agree with you Tish...

The sad part is that LE and the meida have a way of doing this... By LE saying that they are not declaring this an abduction is the start of it... Then the media reprting it, and asking questions like for eg. "Is it true that the step mother told a teacher he had an appointment that day.... If this family has any dusfuntion it cud be game over for the investigation...and Kyrons safe return..

These things shud be taken with a grain of salt, but instead many ppl look at it with vengence....Then the wannabees show up to do a smear campaign on the family.. And then the case begins to be a money maker for some media outlets..It is just sickening..

Im starting to wonder if these pressers and statements do more harm than good.. I wud still expect to be updated as to whether he has been found, and if there are suspects but only in terms of protecting...

I notice the parents havent spoken out or at least I am not aware of any pleas/media....

If this is the case, I cant say I blame them.. If i was apart of ther community i wud strongly advise against it..

Look at what we have seen happen in the Cummings case for one.. Words have been twisted and made to be used against possible victims..and made them out to be the perps.. It is a shame a family shudnt feel comfort in going in front of cameras...

It makes me sad as this sems to be a mind set that isnt going to go away.. I see what ends up happening is that the victim is the one hurt the most as LE gets the permission from the public to sit bak and wait for the person they feel holds a key... in the meantime a perp may be walking aways scott free..

I pray that Kyron is found alive and returned home...