08/14/2024
Kyron Richard Horman disappeared from Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2010 after attending a science fair by his stepmother Terri Horman. FBI, Local and State police conducted a search and launched a criminal investigation, but have not uncovered any significant information regarding the child's whereabouts.
-Terri Horman stated that she left the school at around 8:45 a.m. and that she last remembered seeing Kyron walking down the hall to his class. However, Kyron was never seen in his first class and was instead marked as absent that day. But Kyron’s mother, Desiree Young, said witnesses saw Terri and Kyron leaving the school together that morning. “They were seen out in front of the school by one of Kyron’s friends, his grandma and sister, as well as his bus driver,” Young said. “They were walking out to the main road, which was where the truck was parked.”
-Terri's statements to the police indicate that, after leaving the school at 8:45 a.m., she ran errands at two different Fred Meyer grocery stores until about 10:10 a.m.
-Between then and 11:39 a.m., she stated that she was driving her daughter around town in an attempt to use the motion of the vehicle to soothe the toddler's earache.
-Terri said that she then went to a local gym and exercised until about 12:40 p.m. By 1:21 p.m., she had arrived home and posted photos of Kyron at the science fair on Facebook.
- At 3:30 p.m., Terri and her husband, Kaine, walked with their daughter, Kiara, to the bus stop to meet Kyron. The bus driver told them that the boy had not boarded the bus, and to call the school to ask his whereabouts. Terri did so, only to be informed by the school secretary that, as far as anyone there knew, Kyron had not been at school since early that day and that he had accordingly been marked absent. Realizing then that the boy was missing, the secretary called 9-1-1.
Police investigating the case found Terri’s phone pinged around Highway 30, an area known in Oregon as a road less traveled.
While investigating Kyron’s disappearance, police discovered Terri allegedly tried to hire a landscaper to kill her husband, Kyron’s father, several months before Kyron vanished.
When police told Kaine about the story, he left his home with their infant daughter and filed for divorce.
After 14 years, no suspects or persons of interest in the case have been named or charged, but When Terri spoke privately with police, they told her she failed two polygraph tests. Although a judge and a lawyer for Terri have called her a suspect in court papers, she has never officially been named a suspect or person of interest by police.
