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Cops Focus on Missing Oregon Boy's Stepmother
She Is Last Person Known to Have Seen Kyron Horman Alive; She Says She Left Him at School


Detectives investigating the disappearance of a 7-year-old Oregon boy put out a call Friday -- two weeks to the day from when he vanished - for information on the whereabouts that day of his stepmother - the last person known to have seen him alive.

Investigators refuse to say whether they have a suspect.

Police passed out fliers Friday in hopes of jogging the memory of anybody who might have information on Kyron Horman's case, said Capt. Jason Gates of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Department.

The fliers show photos of the stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, and the family's Ford F250 pickup.

A questionnaire that accompanies the flier has gone to everybody who was at Skyline School on June 4, he said. The boy was last seen there after a science fair he attended that morning with Terri Horman. Investigators say she told them she watched him walk toward his classroom before she left the school.

The stepmother, who has raised Kyron since he was an infant, contacted the school on the afternoon of the disappearance, when the boy didn't come home on his school bus. Kyron lived with his father and stepmother about 2 miles from the school.

The flier includes two questionnaires - a 10-question form directed at adults and an eight-question survey for children. Both ask if anyone saw Kyron or the stepmother at or near the elementary school, or if they witnessed a pickup truck matching the description of the family's Ford F250.

"The police going and putting flyers out with the stepmother's picture on it and her car speaks volumes that she is, absolutely, a person of interest," criminal profiler Pat Brown told "The Early Show on Saturday Morning" co-anchor Chris Wragge. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen this done hardly in any case before, so they are truly looking at her and wanting to know exactly -- something must have gone wrong. … They're also saying, by the way, it could be stranger-to stranger crime, but chances are very, very low. What does that say?"

Gates said he couldn't eliminate the possibility that Kyron was abducted by a stranger, but "the need for the public to be alarmed is very low."

The stepmother appeared at a news conference last week with the boy's father to appeal for help in finding the boy. "We fully support the release of this flier," said a family statement that Gates read Friday.

Searchers spent 10 days checking the area near the school and the family's home before the sheriff's office scaled back the search effort and reclassified the disappearance as a criminal investigation.

Searchers have been combing Sauvie Island, 10 miles northwest of downtown Portland, but police refuse to say why.

The Willamette Week newspaper, citing anonymous police sources, reported that cell phone records show Terri Horman was there June 4.

"I don't have control over what papers report," Gates said when asked about the Willamette Week article.

"There must be red flags up there somewhere," Brown observed. "Maybe the cell phone records aren't matching, her story isn't working. They must be really thinking this woman -- they either have to clear her, or they're gonna find out she was actually truly involved."

Terri Horman's Facebook activity has also been deemed suspicious by a bevy of armchair detectives - people leaving comments online - wondering why she was "hitting the gym" a few days after her stepson disappeared or why she failed to quickly change her profile picture from her biological daughter to Kyron.

"Everyone went, 'Wait a minute, you're going to the gym? Little boy's gone missing and you're going to the gym? How could you think of going to the gym?" ' Brown said. "I mean, that just really stunned everybody. And that's what started everything on Facebook, where people have started pointing fingers at the stepmother, thinking something's kind of wrong here."

The pickup was recently towed from the Horman home, but Gates said it was because of a mechanical problem, not the investigation.

Detectives have refused to answer most questions about the specifics of their investigation.

"Our primary goal is to not make any mistakes in this case, to be as perfect as we can be in investigating this case," Gates said.

[Denise Harrison]

http://www.seattlepi..._missing19.html

Friend: Stepmom of missing boy to take polygraph test

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Last updated 11:39 a.m. PT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The stepmother of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman is scheduled to take a second polygraph test Saturday.

That's according to Jaymie Finster, a longtime friend of Terri Moulton Horman.

Finster told The Oregonian newspaper that Terri Horman is "tired and frustrated" with the intensity of questioning she's been getting.

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office has declined to name Terri Horman as a person-of-interest in the investigation and won't say who has been given a lie-detector test.

The boy was last seen June 4 after a science fair he attended that morning at his school with his stepmother.

"Terri is the last known person to have seen Kyron alive before he disappeared," said Capt. Jason Gates of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Department.

Horman, who has raised Kyron since he was an infant, contacted the school on the afternoon of the disappearance, when the boy didn't come home on his school bus. Kyron lived with his father and stepmother about two miles from the school.

[Jenn]

http://www.king5.com...r-96797149.html

Kyron Horman's mom reaches out with emotional letter

by KGW.com Staff Posted on June 21, 2010 at 7:23 AM

PORTLAND -- The biological mother of missing seven-year-old Kyron Horman reached out with an emotional letter to her son, hoping and praying that he would return home and read it soon.

Desiree Young shared the letter with NBC's 'Today Show' as part of their ongoing coverage of the missing boy case.

Meantime, scores of questionnaires from the parents of Skyline children were turned in by Sunday afternoon, giving investigators new clues to study as they try to untangle the mystery of Kyron's disappearance.

The questionaires were distributed by the sheriff's office on Friday to parents, teachers and staff at Skyline and others in the community and contained several questions that were intended to help trigger people's memories about the day that the seven-year-old disappeared.

Among the questions were: "Did your child see Kyron's step-mom, Terri on 6/4/10, at or near the school?" and "Did your child see a white Ford F250 pickup truck on 6/4/10 at or near the school?" Terri Horman, Kyron's step-mother, was driving the white truck on the day he disappeared. The questionnaire also showed photos of Terri and the truck.

Capt. Jason Gates said during a press conference that the photos and questions were an effort to "jog people's memory" in the case, since Terri was the last person who saw Kyron alive.

Gates added that the family was in full support of the decision to circulate the new questionnaire Friday. He read a family statement that said, “Any parent would understand the grief that this causes our family… please know that we fully support the release of this flier and we want Kyron home and we hope that this will do that."

A close friend of Terri's told KGW she is a wonderful mother who's known Kyron since he was three days old. She said the extra scrutiny has taken an emotional toll on her.

Gates refused to comment about any possible suspects or "persons of interest" in the case.

The other questions on the form were more generic in nature, including “Did your child see Kyron on 6/4/10?” and “Where did your child see Kyron?”

TIP LINE: (503) 261-2847

[Denise Harrison]

http://www.komonews....l/96768939.html

Questionnaires are latest tactic in hunt for missing boy

By KATU News Staff
Story Published: Jun 20, 2010 at 6:38 PM PDT Story Updated: Jun 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. - Investigators in Oregon hope questionaires they collected Sunday will yield clues about Kyron Horman - the little boy who vanished more than two weeks ago.

But as the days wear on, hopes of bringing the 7-year-old boy home safely are beginning to fade.

People who came in to fill out the questionnaire found an enlarged version of the form featuring Kyron, his stepmother Terri Horman and the pickup she was driving on the day he vanished.

The visual reminders were everywhere as drivers came into the Skyline School parking lot. There were pictures of Kyron's smiling face - showing him without glasses and with his usual bespectacled look.

For 10 hours deputies collected the questionnaires. And with each one that was dropped off - comes the hope that a new clue will lead to the little boy.

Unlike earlier interviews, these forms specifically asked adults and students whether they saw Kyron's stepmother Terri Horman or if they saw her white Ford F-250 truck.

The questionnaire included photos of Terri Horman and the truck she was driving the day Kyron disappeared. Terri also underwent a second polygraph test on Sunday, according to a close friend.

"I think it's just information they need to know, where she was at at the time," said one parent who asked not to be identified. "I believe what she's saying - anything they can do to find out where, what happened to him."

Some just came to show their support - like 15-year-old Shane Daly of Bethany and his father.

Well-wishers let the boy's family know that Kyron is in their hearts - as neighbors remember the words from Friday's family statement:

"This Sunday is Father's Day. For the first time in seven years we will not have Kyron around to hug and talk to. It hurts us deeply. Our heart is broken."

Outside the school on Sunday a message appeared - "Kyron Horman, We Love You" - as neighbors created a wall of hope.

[Jenn]

http://www.cnn.com/2...ion.boy.letter/

Mother to missing son: 'So sorry that I was not there to protect you'

From Gabriel Falcon, CNN June 21, 2010 5:14 p.m. EDT

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    * Kyron Horman, 7, missing since June 4
    * Biological mother writes open letter
    * "I am sorry that I was not there to protect you," she writes
    * Authorities continued to search, seek leads

(CNN) -- The biological mother of a missing 7-year-old Oregon boy has written an open letter to her son saying, "I am sorry that I was not there to protect you."

"I am so soooooo sorry that this has happened," Desiree Young wrote to Kyron Horman in a letter that was released Monday to NBC News.

"I will never be able to forgive myself for being so many hours away when you needed me the most. I pray that you come back to me because I am afraid that I can't live without you."

The letter comes more than two weeks after the boy disappeared on June 4.

The boy's stepmother, Terri Horman, said she last saw Kyron walking down the hallway towards his classroom at Skyline Elementary School, police said. Cell phone records indicate she may not have been at the school at that time, according to a report in People Magazine. Authorities refused to comment on the report.

In the emotional letter, Young speaks directly to her young son. "When you come home I will show you all of [the] things that everyone did for you, just to find you," she wrote. "There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that don't know you and yet they pray for you every night. They know how much I miss you and need you and they just want to bring you home to me. There are so many wonderful people working on this case and they are going to find you soon.

"I would give anything to run my fingers through your short hair again. I miss having you to hug anytime I want. Night time is always hard for me. I miss you so much and want you back here so that I can protect you from all of the horrible things in this world. I just can't believe that you aren't still with us," she writes.

"Your life has been really great and I know that it is [not] done yet. A long time ago you saved my life and now I am going to do the same for you. Our lives will never be the same after this. I love you very much!"

Authorities have labeled the case a criminal investigation, On Friday, they released a flier seeking information on Kyron's stepmother. The flier includes pictures of Terri Horman and a form to be filled out and returned by anyone who was at the school the day Kyron vanished.

"At any time did you see Terri Horman at or near the school?" was among the questions in the form.

Capt. Jason Gates of the Multnomah County sheriff's department issued the following statement Friday on the decision to request information on Kyron's stepmother:

"Detectives work in this case is exhaustive and they, along with Kyron's family, are asking for the community's assistance regarding anyone who saw not only Kyron, but also who may have seen Terri Horman and/or the truck she was driving that morning. Terri is the last person known to have seen him before he disappeared."

In a brief phone interview with CNN, sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said the focus of the investigation is not on Terri Horman.

"We're looking for every bit of information that we can," Lindstrand said. "We are not in a position to name anybody a person of interest."

Kyron was wearing dark cargo pants and a black T-shirt with the "CSI" logo on it at the time of his disappearance. He is 3-foot-8, weighs 50 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

[Jenn]

http://www.examiner....egon-boy-photos

Kyron Horman: Online speculation grows regarding last photo taken of missing Oregon boy

June 23, 1:41 AM Crime Examiner Cindy Adams

According to one Portland, Oregon publication, many followers of the Kyron Horman case have been wondering about the photo taken of the second-grander, showing him standing in front of a science project he created. His stepmother, Terri Horman reportedly took the photo when the two were at Skyline School for the science fair on June 4 -- the day Kyron vanished.

Willamette Weekly reports that the photo was posted on Horman’s Facebook page only hours after she reported the 7-year-old missing when he failed to come home on the school bus that day. She told authorities the last time she saw Kyron was at about 8:45 a.m. as he was walking to his classroom after the science fair.

Message board postings have contained speculation that Horman may have “doctored” or edited the photo to place Kyron at the fair that day.

According to WW, one reader discovered another photo from Horman’s Facebook page that shows Kyron’s exhibit, but without Kyron standing in front of it. There is a man seen in the background on the left of the image.

The publication forwarded the discovery to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and were told by Lt. Mary Lindstrand, a spokesperson for the department, that the office was following up on all information and tips.

[Jenn]

http://www.kgw.com/h...A-96973329.html

Kyron among 591 missing Oregon children

by Kyle Iboshi, KGW Staff
Posted on June 23, 2010 at 6:53 AM Updated yesterday at 3:15 PM

PORTLAND -- The disappearance of seven year-old Kyron Horman is attracting widespread publicity. But, there are many other missing children who don't draw the same headlines.

According to Oregon State Police, there are 591 missing children in the state. Washington reports 1,114 children are reported missing.

Investigators said that, in roughly 95-97% of the cases, the missing children were runaways. Two- to three-percent involved custody issues. But occasionally, there were a few cases like Kyron Horman where a child disappears due to unknown circumstances. The second grader was last seen inside Skyline School on June 4th.

Background: Kyron Horman case

Starr Lara said she understands the pain of not knowing. Her sister Jaime Grissim was last seen headed to Fort Vancouver High School in December of 1971. "You know it is just grief every day. It is very painful. And I think families can accept a lot of things but not knowing, that is really hard," she said.

Community response will always be an important factor, according to police. If neighbors pull together by printing posters and getting the word out, a case will likely receive a lot more attention and potentially more clues.

[Jenn]

http://www.oregonliv...s_petition.html

Portland woman starts petition for 'Kyron's Law' to put surveillance cameras in schools nationwide

Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 5:55 PM    Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 7:55 PM
Kate Mather, The Oregonian

Portland resident Emmilie Caterham  has started an online petition to bring security cameras to schools across the country.

Caterham said the idea for "Kyron's Law" -- which she hopes will require schools to install surveillance systems -- came after following the story of the missing Kyron Horman and talking to people on Facebook.

She also plans to speak to a financial adviser about setting up a fund for donations to help pay for the surveillance systems.

Portland Public Schools spokesman Matt Shelby  said officials would like to see security cameras in every school, but it's a difficult goal to meet, given the cash-strapped district's current level of funding.

That doesn't mean, Shelby said, that the district hasn't recognized a need for improvement.

"It's something that we were already looking at, but when a situation like the Skyline situation happens, it elevates the conversation," he said. "It really shines a spotlight on it and gets everyone talking."

Caterham, 26, doesn't know Kyron or his family and has no children of her own, but that doesn't matter, she said. "Kids come up missing every day -- they shouldn't come up missing at school," she said. "They should never have to fear or worry about their own safety while being there."

[Jenn]

http://www.people.co...0397070,00.html

Family Releases Home Movies of Missing Oregon Boy

By Eunice Oh Update Friday June 25, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Originally posted Thursday June 24, 2010 07:15 PM EDT

he official search for Kyron Horman may have ended last week but his family is still reaching out to the public for help.

Hoping someone will recognize the bespectacled 7-year-old, who disappeared from school June 4, the Horman family has released three home videos, including one showing the second-grader singing and whistling with classmates during a school play in May.

In another clip from April 2009, a soft-spoken Kyron is seen in his Portland, Ore., classroom giving an oral report on bridges.

The release of the videos comes almost a week after investigators turned their attention to the boy's stepmom, Terri Moulton Horman, releasing a questionnaire asking if anyone had seen her or her Ford pickup truck since she was the last person believed to have seen Kyron.

[Jenn]

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11010421

Kyron Horman's Parents' Plea: 'Come Home'
Boy's Biological Parents Have No Theories On Disappearance, But Hold Out Hope

By LEE FERRAN, KRISTEN FRASIER and JUSTIN WEAVER June 25, 2010

The parents of missing Kyron Horman appeared on national television for the first time today to issue an emotional plea for the 7-year-old Oregon boy to "come home."
Desire Young and Caine Hormon say they're living a "parent's worst nightmare."

"Honestly it's a parent's worst nightmare," Kyron's mother, Desiree Young, told "Good Morning America." "We've racked our brains trying to think of reasons why. We cannot come up with anything... It's like a portal opened up in the school and Kyron just vanished into it. It's a mystery."

Young choked up when she tried to give her missing son the message that she and Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, "love you and we need you to come home."

Young described her boy as very timid and not prone to adventure.

"He also can't see very well so he tends to stick very close to home. He doesn't go outside a certain parameter... He doesn't wander off. It's not his personality type," Young said.

Police called off major search operations last week and seemed to focus their attention on Kyron's stepmother, Terri Horman, who was reportedly the last person to see Kyron alive when she dropped him off at school. Terri Horman has not been named a suspect or person of interest in the disappearance.

Kyron's biological parents were told by authorities not to discuss details of the investigation and are in constant contact with police and are doing everything they can -- including their appearance on "GMA" -- to help find the boy.

"It's important to keep Kyron's face out there so everybody sees him so hopefully someone will see him and recognize him and report that tip that we're waiting for to bring him home," Young said.

Police Interested in Kyron's Stepmother, Terri Horman

Last week investigators asked some very specific questions about Terri Horman's movements on the day the boy went missing -- and one of her friends told ABC News that Terri Horman was given a polygraph test.

Police began describing the case as a criminal investigation earlier this month. They have but since said they do not believe anyone else in the Oregon community is in danger, causing some to speculate that police may have had a suspect in mind, likely someone who knew Kyron.

"They've already said, 'Relax, we don't think there's someone out there that's going to snatch your kid. We think this is an isolated incident,'" C.W. Jensen, a retired police captain and former homicide investigator, told "GMA" last week. "They've already told us volumes."

Police collected a questionnaire they sent out to the community in which they asked if anyone saw Terri Horman or the white truck she was driving on the day Kyron disappeared.

"Clearly, they need more information about what she did that day, where she was that day, and that's why they put this out," Jensen said.

Multnomah County Sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates said last week Terri Horman is "being cooperative with investigators. The whole family is being cooperative with investigators."

Through the ordeal, the family has remained mostly out of view, rarely appearing in public and only once appearing together to read a statement.

"You mean everything to us," said Tony Young, Kyron's stepfather, that day. "And until you come home, this family's not complete. Please, Kyron, keep up the hope."

[Jenn]

http://www.google.co...eYzk3AD9GII6T00

Parents of missing Ore. boy voice fading hope

By TERRENCE PETTY (AP) – 19 hours ago

PORTLAND, Ore. — The parents of a 7-year-old Portland boy who disappeared from his school three weeks ago voiced what sounded like fading hope Friday that one of the most intense investigations in Oregon history will find him alive.

Kaine Horman and his former wife, Desiree Young, were interviewed by national TV morning shows and by local affiliates. It was the first interviews the birth parents of Kyron Horman have granted.

"Honestly, I'm a little scared at this point," Young said. "Three weeks is a long time. We need to bring him home."

The TV stations also showed video of Kyron provided by his family that included footage of him at school reading a report on bridges and singing with classmates.

"It's important to keep Kyron's face out there, so that everybody sees him," Young said, expressing hope for a tip that brings him home.

The TV appearances didn't yield any information about whether police are making any progress in the case — the couple said they had been told not to discuss details of the investigation.

During the early days of the search, police called Kyron a "missing endangered child." After failing to find the boy during intense searches in woods and fields around the school, the search was reclassified as a criminal investigation.

Young, at times tearful, described Kyron as a timid boy who doesn't like going without his glasses because he doesn't see well.

"He always stays very close to his house in the front because he's afraid of not being able to find his house," she said.

Last week, police distributed fliers showing photos of the boy's stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, and asking the public for any information about her movements on the day the boy disappeared. A friend of Terri Horman has said the stepmother has taken a polygraph test twice.

She and Kaine Horman live in a house about two miles from Kyron's school, located in the hilly countryside west of downtown Portland. Desiree Young lives in Medford, about six hours from Portland.

Police say Terri Horman was the last person known to have seen Kyron. She told police she took him to school on the morning of June 4. The school was having a science fair before classes began. She took a photo of Kyron at the school with his own project.

During the Friday interviews, Kaine Horman said he and Terri Horman had gone to the school bus stop together to pick up Kyron on the afternoon of June 4. When the bus driver told them Kyron wasn't on the bus, he thought the boy may have stayed at the school and expected them to pick him up there. Police were alerted after the discovery that Kyron had been absent from class.

Police are not calling Terri Horman a suspect. They have said they distributed the fliers bearing her photo in the hopes of "jogging" people's memories.

Kaine Horman and Young wouldn't discuss law officials' interest in the stepmother. Kaine Horman said his wife is "as committed as the rest of the family to finding Kyron" and she is cooperating with investigators.

Kaine Horman said the last time he saw his son was before his wife took Kyron to school that morning. The boy was in the yard feeding the cat.

Harmon said he gave the boy a hug and told him to "have a great day with his science project," on the red-eyed tree frog, and that "I was proud of him for all the effort" he put into it.

[Denise Harrison]

http://www.seattlepi..._missing28.html

Missing boy's father files for divorce, gets restraining order

KATU-TV STAFF via KOMO/4
Monday, June 28, 2010
Last updated 9:54 p.m. PT

PORTLAND -- The father of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman has filed for divorce from his wife, Terri Moulton Horman, and was granted a restraining order against her, a source confirmed Monday night.

The source also said Kaine Horman has moved out of the family's house.

Terri Horman is Kyron's stepmother and was the last known person to see him when he disappeared Friday, June 4.

In a statement released Monday afternoon through the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Kyron's biological mother, Desiree Young, his stepfather, Tony Young, and Kaine Horman said they don't want to say too much to the media to keep the integrity of the investigation sound.

"We are in complete support of that investigation," the statement said. "Any actions taken by the investigation, or by us, are based on the best interests of Kyron and Kiara and comply with the law. Beyond this, we have no comment on the matter."

The statement was not signed by Terri Horman.

Kyron Horman, a 7-year-old Portland boy, vanished June 4. His stepmother has figured prominently in the investigation because authorities say she was the last known person to see him alive. Investigators, however, have not called her a suspect or a person-of-interest.

Investigators said Horman, 40, told them she last saw Kyron at 8:45 a.m. June 4 as he walked to his classroom after the two had toured the Skyline School science fair. Kyron was later marked absent.

The stepmother, who has raised Kyron since he was an infant, contacted the school on the afternoon of the disappearance, when the boy didn't come home on his school bus. Kyron lived with his father and stepmother about 2 miles from the school.

Earlier this month, searchers spent 10 days checking the area near the school and the family's home before the sheriff's office scaled back the search effort and reclassified the disappearance as a criminal investigation. Capt. Jason Gates said he couldn't eliminate the possibility that Kyron was abducted by a stranger, but "the need for the public to be alarmed is very low."

Searchers have been combing Sauvie Island, 10 miles northwest of downtown Portland, but police refuse to say why.

The Willamette Week newspaper, citing anonymous police sources, reported that cell phone records show Terri Horman was there June 4.

Jaymie Finster, who has known Terri Horman since junior high, said earlier this month Horman was scheduled to take a second polygraph test. Horman, who already took one polygraph, was "not very happy about it," she said.

Finster told The Oregonian that Horman alerted Kyron's teacher the day before that she was taking the boy to the doctor on Friday, June 11. Finster said that when Kyron didn't show up at the bus the afternoon of June 4, Horman talked to the teacher who said she thought that Horman had taken Kyron to the doctor that day.

[Jenn]

http://www.msnbc.msn...ime_and_courts/

Stepmom of missing Oregon boy barred from kids, firearms
Kyron Horman's father filed for divorce from her Monday

by Tim Fought updated 2 hours 54 minutes ago

PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge has barred the stepmother of a missing 7-year-old Portland boy from contact with her children and from access to firearms, further isolating her from the investigation into Kyron Horman's disappearance.

The boy's father, Kaine Horman, filed for divorce Monday from Terri Moulton Horman, citing "irreconcilable differences," and requested a restraining order, which was granted shortly after by a judge in Portland.

The couple were married in April 2007.

According to court documents made available Tuesday, the father had a new, undisclosed address as of three days earlier.

The restraining order was requested under terms of Oregon's Family Abuse Prevention Act. That document remained sealed Tuesday, but such petitions are required to cite instances of abuse, or attempted abuse, "with particularity," including dates, according to a guide compiled for the state's court system.

Terri Moulton Horman and her estranged husband have a 19-month-old daughter, and she also has a teenage son from a previous marriage.

Investigators have not named Terri Horman as a suspect in the Kyron's disappearance. They have said she's the last person known to have seen him before he vanished June 4.

[Jenn]

http://mystateline.c.../?nxd_id=175175

Judge Seals Restraining Order Filed Against Missing Boy's Stepmother


(Portland, OR)  --  A judge has sealed a restraining order filed against the stepmother of a missing Oregon boy.

Seven-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared from his Portland-area school on June 4th and a massive search has turned up no clues.
The boy's stepmother, Terri Horman, is the last person known to have seen him.
On Monday, the boy's father, Kaine Horman, filed the request for the restraining order after serving his wife with a surprise petition for a dissolution of marriage.

Kaine is asking for child support from Terri, as well as sole custody of the couple's daughter, Kiara.

A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge sealed the restraining order to make sure it would not compromise the investigation into little Kyron's disappearance.

The sheriff's office has not commented on speculation that Terri Horman is a suspect in the case.

[Lori Davis]

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11071147

Kyron Horman's Mother: 'Kyron Is Still Alive'
Boy's Parents Plead With Step-Mom Terri Horman to Cooperate With Police
By NEAL KARLINSKY and SARAH NETTER
PORTLAND, Ore. July 2, 2010

Her voice shaking and her face overcome with despair, the mother of 7-year-old Kyron Horman said she knows there is still time to save her son.

"Kyron is still alive," Desiree Young said at an emotional news conference Thursday in which she and her ex-husband pleaded with the boy's stepmother to cooperate with the police investigation and help "bring Kyron home."

The stepmother, Terri Horman, has been at the center of growing suspicion that exploded in the past week when her husband, Kaine Horman, filed for divorce and was granted an emergency restraining order that bars her from seeing him and her children.

The Terri Horman seen only briefly since Kyron's June 4 disappearance appears in stark contrast to the tanned and toned woman who boasted rippling muscles as a body builder in 2005. By then she was already a mother to an older son from a previous relationship and was raising Kyron, then a toddler, with Kaine Horman.

But it was also during these years that she pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and to "reckless endangerment of another" for driving drunk with her then-11-year-old son in the car.

Now, she has been all but isolated from the family. The emergency restraining order a judge granted Monday is indicative, under Oregon law, that there is some kind of immediate danger to Kaine and the children, experts say.

ABC News has learned that not one, but two 911 calls were placed from the Horman's home last Saturday, the day Kaine Horman left the family's home with the couple's 18-month-old daughter.

The first call was made Saturday evening and lasted 13 minutes, the caller reporting threats of some kind. The second came in just after 11:30 p.m. and was written up only as a "child custody call."

The exact reason for the first call has not been released, and police said the call is now part of their case into Kyron's disappearance.

Kaine Horman filed for divorce and the restraining order two days later, on Monday.

Terri Horman this week hired prominent Portland criminal defense lawyer Stephen Houze and was seen in his company as she returned home Wednesday night.

Young and Kaine Horman were intent, however, on keeping the public interested in the search for their boy.

"We lean on each other. We use Kyron as our strength. We pray each day for resolution and for Kyron," Young said.

"Not knowing where he is is the most difficult."

Kaine Horman said, "We miss his toothless smile... that every day happy noise in the house when he's playing."

His mother added, "I want everyone in world to know who Kyron is and what he looks like."

"We are optimistic that Kyron will be found... All of us feel fully confident in investigation," she said.

Police have not named Horman or anyone else as a suspect or person of interest in the case.

Story continues at http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11071147

[Denise Harrison]

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Sheriff: Missing Ore. Boy's Stepmother Cooperated

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton says the stepmother of a missing 7-year-old Portland boy has been cooperating with investigators.

Reporter: Associated Press
Saturday, July 3, 2010



Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton says the stepmother of a missing 7-year-old Portland boy has been cooperating with investigators.

That assessment came yesterday and is at variance with what the biological parents of Kyron Horman said the day before when they pleaded with Terri Horman to, as they put it, "fully cooperate" with investigators.

Investigators say Terri Horman was the last person known to have seen Kyron before he disappeared June 4.

Staton told reporters the investigation is proceeding on the assumption the boy is alive because there's no evidence to the contrary.

Staton says the search and investigation have cost about $300,000.

[Lori Davis]

http://www.oregonliv...lice_terri.html

Landscaper tells detectives Terri Moulton Horman offered him money to kill her husband
Published: Sunday, July 04, 2010, 4:00 AM
Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian

A landscaper who worked for Kyron Horman's family at their rural Northwest Portland home told authorities that the missing boy's stepmom offered to pay him to kill her husband.

The landscaper told authorities that Terri Moulton Horman approached him with the murder-for-hire plot six to seven months before Kyron disappeared, The Oregonian has learned.

She reportedly offered the landscaper, who advertises his expertise in lawn care, a large sum of money to carry out the scheme, sources say.

Detectives with the Multnomah County Major Crimes Team shared the landscaper's account with Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, last weekend, prompting him to leave the house June 26 with the couple's 19-month-old daughter.

Within two days, he obtained a family law attorney and filed divorce papers and a petition for a restraining order under the Family Abuse Prevention Act.

Investigators also recorded a conversation June 26 among the cooperating landscaper, Terri Horman and an undercover law enforcement officer, but Horman shut down the conversation fairly quickly, sources said.

Detectives later confronted Terri Horman directly with the murder-for-hire allegation, which she denied, sources say. She has not been charged with a crime, as a criminal investigation proceeds.

Terri Horman retained prominent criminal defense lawyer Stephen Houze on Wednesday.  Repeated attempts to reach Houze, who was on the East Coast, were unsuccessful. A woman who answered the door at Terri Horman's house Saturday referred questions to her attorney.

Laura Rackner, Kaine Horman's attorney, declined to comment Saturday night other than to say: "I just want to do whatever is going to help law enforcement right now."

After Kyron disappeared June 4, investigators with the county's Major Crimes Team tracked down the landscaper in the course of trying to interview everyone who had contact with the boy's family. They also found it odd that Terri Horman had hired a landscaper without her husband's knowledge.

The landscaper, contacted by The Oregonian last week, confirmed that he was hired to do lawn work at the Horman home off Northwest Sheltered Nook Road. He said he's talked with detectives and could not comment further. His name is being withheld to protect his identity as a cooperating witness in an ongoing criminal investigation.

Detectives last weekend also shared the information they developed about the alleged murder-for-hire scheme with Kyron's mother and stepdad, Desiree and Tony Young -- providing a clearer indication of why the two banded together with Kaine Horman and the three suddenly and publicly distanced themselves from Terri Horman.

On Thursday, Desiree Young, with Kyron's dad and her husband standing behind her, made an emotional plea to Terri Horman before television cameras -- the family's first public statements directed at Kyron's stepmom since the boy disappeared a month ago.

"We implore Terri Horman to fully cooperate with investigators to bring Kyron home," a shaken Young told the media.

Investigators said Terri Horman was the last known person to see Kyron, when she told authorities she left him about 8:45 a.m. June 4 at Skyline School. She snapped a photo of the second-grader wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and beaming a smile beside his science fair exhibit earlier and posted it that day on her Facebook page. She and her husband waited for Kyron at the school bus stop not far from their home that afternoon, and when he didn't get off the bus, they went to the school. The school hadn't contacted the family when Kyron didn't return to his classroom after the science fair.

A large-scale search ensued, with law enforcement and search-and-rescue agencies from across the state, California and Washington combing the expansive hills around Kyron's home and school for days.

Though the sheriff's office has consistently declined to say whether Terri Horman is a suspect or even a person of interest in the case, investigators have intently focused on her the past several weeks.

She was grilled for hours through two polygraph exams, friends and family said. Sources said there were indications of deception during her first polygraph and gaps in the timeline she gave investigators the day Kyron disappeared. Authorities released a flier and questionnaire June 18 featuring photos of Terri Horman and a white truck similar to the one she was driving when she took Kyron to school, asking whether anyone had seen either on June 4.

Last weekend, at 5:17 p.m. June 26, Terri Horman placed a 9-1-1 call, classified as a "threats" call, to Multnomah County dispatchers, and a sheriff's deputy responded. By 11:39 p.m., when her husband and her 19-month-old daughter hadn't returned home, Terri Horman placed another 9-1-1 call, one classified by dispatchers as a "custody" matter. Kaine Horman wasn't at the home when either call was placed, sources said. The sheriff's office has declined to allow the release of the 9-1-1 tapes.

Two nights later, about 6 p.m. Monday, Terri Horman was served the restraining order and divorce papers at her home. About 45 minutes earlier, she had denied to an Oregonian reporter who came to her door that her husband had moved out. She gave a thumbs up, saying, "Everything's good."

A judge grants a restraining order if the petitioner can show that the petitioner or child is in "imminent danger of further abuse" by the respondent, and the respondent represents a "credible threat to the physical safety of petitioner or petitioner's child."

[Jenn]

http://www.cnn.com/2...on.missing.boy/

Focus is on missing boy, not stepmother, family says

By the CNN Wire Staff July 6, 2010 6:25 a.m. EDT



STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    * NEW: Family members of missing boy talk to reporters
    * 7-year-old Kyron Horman has been missing since June 4
    * Stepmother, Terri Horman, was the last to see Kyron

(CNN) -- The family of a missing Oregon boy said they are trying to keep the focus on finding the boy, and not suspicions about the boy's stepmother.

Kyron Horman, 7, vanished on June 4. And since the boy's disappearance there has been intense scrutiny on Kyron's stepmother, Terri Horman.

The boy's father, biological mother and stepfather spoke to the media late Monday about the stepmother and why they believe that Kyron is still alive.

"We remain hopeful because we haven't been given any information by law enforcement to indicate he isn't still alive, and therefore we will always expect that he will come home to us," the family said in an e-mailed response to reporters covering the case.

Kyron went missing after Terri Horman dropped him off at school on June 4. The stepmother said she last saw Kyron walking down a hallway toward his second-grade classroom at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, according to the police.

Police have not called her a suspect in the case but suspicions about her have dominated headlines in recent weeks.

In the e-mail response, Kyron's family members said they hoped people would focus more on the missing boy.

"Our main goal is to keep Kyron in the front of everyone's mind because we have a better chance of finding him. So we are constantly working to keep him the focus of the story and not Terri," the family members said.

Terri Horman was again in the headlines Monday when CNN affiliates KGW and KATU reported that she had attempted to hire a landscaper to kill her husband several months ago.

KGW reported that sources believe Terri Horman, approached the landscaper, who had been working on the family's property in northwest Portland, Oregon, and offered the man "a large sum of money" to kill her husband, Kaine Horman.

Kaine Horman and the other two family members who e-mailed reporters did not want to comment on that report.

But they did say that they continue to feel that Holman is not completely cooperating with police running the search for Kyron.

"We continue to issue our plea of her FULLY cooperating with law enforcement and the investigation to help bring Kyron home as quickly as possible," the family members said.

[Jenn]

http://www.people.co...0399902,00.html

Mother of Missing Boy to Stepmother: 'Do the Right Thing'

By Blane Bachelor Wednesday July 07, 2010 09:30 AM EDT

As suspicion continues to mount against the stepmother of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman, the second grader's biological mother issued another public plea to the woman, the last person known to see Kyron before his June 4 disappearance.

Reading from a statement on Tuesday, Desiree Young urged Terri Horman to "do the right thing" and cooperate with police, if for no other reason than for the boy's half-sister, toddler Kiara, "who loves him and misses him," reports Portland station KPTV.

Young and her husband, Medford police detective Tony Young, and the boy's father, Kaine Horman, said in an e-mail to news organizations late Monday that they still believe Terri Horman is withholding information.

Young also revealed that the day her son disappeared, Terri Horman was supposed to drive him to Eugene, Ore., where she was to turn him over to his mother and stepfather for a weekend in Medford. Tony Young said he planned to take Kyron on a long-delayed fishing trip with the rod his stepfather had given him for Christmas, KPTV reported.

Horman, 40, the last person known to see Kyron alive before he went missing, has taken two polygraph tests but has not been named a suspect or person of interest in Kyron's disappearance. However, the former elementary school teacher has hired a prominent defense attorney.

In addition, investigators have said a break in the case may be coming soon, after there emerged reports of an alleged murder-for-hire plot instigated by Terri Horman against Kaine Horman, her former husband and Kyron's biological father.

[Jenn]

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11114051

Search for Kyron Horman Complicated by Botched Sting on Terri Horman
Retired Police Captain Says Terri Horman 'Seems to Have Anti-Freeze in Her Veins'

By MIKE von FREMD and SARAH NETTER

A potential opportunity to arrest the stepmother of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman was thwarted by an ill-executed sting operation at the family's home last month.

ABC's Portland affiliate KATU is reporting that the landscaper police say Terri Horman allegedly contacted to kill her husband and Kyron's father, Kaine Horman, was in on the sting, but then raised the woman's suspicions enough that she called 911.

The landscaper showed up at Horman's door June 26 wearing a hidden microphone to demand hush money. Undercover agents were nearby. But the plan backfired when Horman called police to report an emergency, according to KATU, telling the dispatcher a man at her door wanted $10,000.

KATU cited sources as saying that was the second call of the day. The first came minutes earlier to report that someone in a truck was threatening her.

Responding officers found themselves face to face with the undercover agents and Horman was not taken into custody.

Police have been circling Horman in the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron, who vanished from his elementary school science fair more than a month ago. But she has not been named a suspect or a person of interest.

"This gal seems to have anti-freeze in her veins. I mean she's under a lot of pressure," retired Portland police captain C.W. Jensen told ABC News. "I mean the investigation, the family turning against her, the community turning against her, a divorce a separation from her child -- all these that's a lot of pressure but it seems that she has the hubris so far to push herself through."

Kaine Horman moved out of the house, taking the couple's toddler daughter with him, apparently after learning of his wife's murder-for-hire plot "Hopefully I think the goal was to get her to talk about the case," former FBI special agent Brad Garrett told "Good Morning America." "Arrest her and that additional pressure would get her to talk."

Terri Horman has since hired a prominent defense attorney. href="http://abcnews.go.co...ry?id=11061509" target="external">She denied the allegation when confronted by detectives, The Oregonian reported, and she has not been charged, though the investigation is proceeding, the sources told the newspaper.

Garrett said the attempted police sting leads him to believe police think she has either direct or indirect knowledge of where Kyron is.

But, he noted, there is the chance that she's been telling the truth -- that she has no idea where her stepson may be.

"That's entirely posible," he said. "We've never heard anything from an evidence stand point that Terri knows where Kyron is."

But the second-grader's family appears to think otherwise.

Kyron's biological mother recently pleaded with Terri Horman to start talking and help the family find their little boy.

"To Terri, you need to do what is right," Desiree Young said. "Please cooperate with investigators and the attorneys to help bring Kyron home."

Kryon's Family Clings to Hope That Little Boy Will Come Home

Even as the family struggles with Kyron's disappearance and allegations against Terri Horman, experts say unwavering hope that he'll be found alive is a powerful motivator.

Ernie Allen, president of the Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said statistics show most missing children are eventually found.

"We know from the Justice Department data, even in the most serious cases most of the children come home," he said. "You always look at those closest to the child. You rule things out. You rule suspects out."

Kryon's family said they are clinging to hope that he will come home to the room that has remained untouched since June 4.

In a statement this week, the family said they haven't even made Kyron's bed so that it looks like he slept there the night before.

"We remain hopeful because we haven't been given any information by law enforcement to indicate he isn't still alive," the statement read, "and therefore we will always expect that he will come home to us."

Allen said that's exactly the right attitude to have. He pointed out that even children missing for months or years come home, citing the Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard cases. And, he noted, both of those cases were broken by "average citizens" who reported seeing something out of the ordinary.

He urged anyone near the Portland area to stay vigilant and do the same for Kyron.

"We hope that people out there will think what they have seen, what they know… might be a key break to bring Kyron home," he said.

Terri Horman said she last saw him walking to his classroom after the two of them had attended a pre-school science fair together.

The school said he never made it to class, but he was not reported missing until the end of the day, when he did not get off the school bus that was supposed to bring him home.

Kyron's disappearance has triggered the biggest search in Oregon history.

[Lori Davis]

http://www.cnn.com/2...on.missing.boy/
Court filing: Missing Oregon boy's dad believes stepmom involved

By Gabriel Falcon, CNN
July 8, 2010 7:16 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- The father of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman believes the child's stepmother is involved in his disappearance, according to court records released Thursday.

The revelation was made public after a restraining order against Terri Horman was unsealed by Multnomah County court authorities in Portland.

Kaine Horman alleges his wife knows what happened to Kyron, 7, who was last seen at school more than one month ago.

"I believe respondent is involved in the disappearance of my son Kyron who has been missing since June 4," Horman wrote in his request for the restraining order. "I also recently learned that respondent attempted to hire someone to murder me. The police have provided me with probable cause to believe the above two statements to be true."

A judge signed the restraining order, which bars Terri Horman from having any contact with Kaine Horman or the couple's 20-month-old daughter.

Terri Horman's lawyer could not be reached for comment later Thursday.

Lt. Mary Lindstrand said the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office had no comment on the allegations made by Kaine Horman.

Authorities have not named any suspect or person of interest in connection with Kyron's disappearance.

Asked if the department believes Kyron is alive, Lindstrand said, "We are going with the premise that, yes, Kyron is alive and we are going to bring him home."

Relatives of Kyron have said they are trying to keep the focus on finding the boy and not on suspicions about the boy's stepmother.

There has been intense scrutiny of Terri Horman. Police had asked her to take a second polygraph test in relation to the case, and other family members have said that she has not been forthcoming about what happened, based on briefings they have had from law enforcement officials.

It is unclear why a second polygraph was requested.

The boy's father, biological mother and stepfather spoke to the media late Monday about the stepmother and why they believe that Kyron is still alive.

"We remain hopeful because we haven't been given any information by law enforcement to indicate he isn't still alive and therefore we will always expect that he will come home to us," the family said in an e-mailed response to reporters covering the case.

Kyron went missing after Terri Horman dropped him off at school on June 4. The stepmother said she last saw Kyron walking down a hallway toward his second-grade classroom at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, according to the police.

Sources told CNN affiliates that investigators believe that Terri Horman has lied to them, and cell phone records could show she wasn't where she claimed to be.

Kyron's family members said they hope people will focus more on the missing boy.

"Our main goal is to keep Kyron in the front of everyone's mind because we have a better chance of finding him. So we are constantly working to keep him the focus of the story and not Terri," the family members said in an e-mail.

Terri Horman was in the headlines Monday when CNN affiliates KGW and KATU reported that she had attempted to hire a landscaper to kill her husband several months ago.

KGW reported that sources believe Terri Horman approached the landscaper, who had been working on the family's property in northwest Portland, and offered the man "a large sum of money" to kill Kaine Horman.

Repeated efforts by CNN to reach Terri Horman have been unsuccessful.

[Jenn]

http://www.kpic.com/...l/98241599.html

Missing boy's stepmom ignores reporter’s questions

By Dan Tilkin, KATU News Story Published: Jul 12, 2010 at 8:11 AM PDT

KATU News reporter Dan Tilkin approached the stepmother of missing boy Kyron Horman on Friday about her polygraph tests and if she knows where Kyron is. Terri Horman refused to answer questions.

Her husband, Kaine, has accused her in a murder-for-hire plot. He and Kyron's biological mother, Desiree Young, revealed on Thursday that Terri failed two lie detector tests.

They both said they believe Terri Horman knows something about Kyron's disappearance, and they say she's not cooperating with investigators.
   
KATU News has tried phone calls and e-mails with no success and on Friday, Tilkin attempted to speak to Terri Horman in a parking garage to get her side of the story. But she rebuffed his attempts and ignored his questions.

Desiree Young, the boy's biological mother, said Thursday at a news conference that she suspected Terri Horman's involvement soon after the boy was reported missing.

"I've known her a long time," Young said. "I know she's lying."

Investigators have not named Terri Horman as a suspect or a person of interest, but in recent weeks they have focused their investigation on her. They distributed fliers asking for information on her whereabouts the day the boy vanished.

A call to Terri Horman's lawyer was not immediately returned Thursday.

Police have said she was the last known person to see the boy. She told police she left him at his school, about two miles away from their home, after an early morning science fair.

A former teacher and ex-bodybuilder, Terri Horman had become increasingly isolated from family members.

[Jenn]

http://www.kptv.com/...044/detail.html

W. Va. Police Follow Up On Kyron Horman Tip

POSTED: 6:31 am PDT July 12, 2010  UPDATED: 8:39 am PDT July 12, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A sighting of a boy who looked like missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman in West Virginia turned out to be a false alarm.

FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said someone in Charleston, W.Va., reported the sighting Saturday. She said the FBI alerted local police agencies to follow up on the tip.

Sgt. John Garten, of the Charleston Police Department, said officers were able to determine that the child wasn't Kyron. He said the person who made the call had watched a story about the boy on the news and then saw a boy with a similar physical description at Auto Zone in west Charleston.

Garten said the boy did in fact look similar to Kyron.

Kyron Horman has been missing since June 4. He vanished from Skyline School in northwest Portland and deputies have said the boy's stepmother was the last person to see him.

Kyron's biological parents have suggested that stepmother Terri Horman is involved in the child's disappearance.

[Jenn]

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11149983

Kyron Horman's Stepmother Accused of Attempted Abduction of Daughter
Kaine Horman Has Filed Court Documents Alleging Affair, Violation of Restraining Order

By MIKE von FREMD and SARAH NETTER  PORTLAND, Ore., July 13, 2010

The Oregon stepmother embroiled in an increasingly nasty battle with her missing stepson's family allegedly attempted to "abduct" her own daughter all the while carrying on an affair with her estranged husband's high school classmate, according to new, damning court documents.

7-year-old's mom and dad believe his stepmom is involved in disappearance.

Terri Horman could face charges for violating an emergency restraining order keeping her away from her husband, Kaine Horman, and the couple's 20-month-daughter.

According to court documents filed Monday by Kaine Horman in an attempt to have his wife held in contempt for violating the restraining order, Terri Horman tried to "abduct" her 20-month-old daughter from a gym day care June 28, two days after the emergency restraining order was granted, following a revelation from police that she tried to hire the family's landscaper to kill her husband.

And while the rest of the family was consumed by the desperate search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman, Terri Horman was carrying on an affair with a 37-year-old Michael Cook, a former classmate of Kaine Horman's, according to the documents. The affair purportedly began four days after Kaine Horman moved out and investigators, according to the court papers, say they've "obtained hundreds of text messages as well as several photographs of respondent [Terri] in various stages of undress and graphic sexual activity."

The court documents accused Terri Horman of sharing sensitive information with her new boyfriend about the police investigation into Kyron's disappearance.

The new allegations came hours after Terri Horman's attorney, Stephen Houze, sent a letter to the judge stating that she would not contest the restraining order keeping her away from her daughter or her husband's request to move out of the family's Portland home.

Cook told a local television station that he was planning to hire an attorney, but while there was "inappropriate communication" with Terri Horman, he never had sex with her.

Terri Horman was the last person known to see Kyron before he vanished June 4 from his elementary school science fair. She has not been charged or even named a person of interest in the boy's disappearance or the alleged murder-for-hire plot against her husband.

Kaine Horman and Kyron's biological mother, Desiree Young, have said they had little doubt that Terri Horman is somehow involved with their son's disappearance. Young has pleaded with Terri Horman to "do the right thing."

Terri Horman and her attorney have declined to comment on the allegations made by Kyron's parents.

Former FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett said investigators' decision to release the damaging court documents was one more sign they were trying to force Terri Horman into cooperating with their efforts to find Kyron.

"What they're trying to do is continue trying to tighten the vice," Garrett said. "When you become more desperate you tend to make more mistakes."

The affair with Cook , Garrett said, has the potential to provide new leads in the boy's disappearance.

"The key, I think, in this case is a new strain of information possibly through Mr. Cook," he said, "or things Mr. Cook could bring into the case."

Kyron Horman's Father Feels Betrayed by Estranged Wife's Actions

Kaine Horman, told "Good Morning America" last week that Terri Horman seemed to change after the birth of their 19-month-old daughter, Kiara.

"She went through some post-partum depression after the birth and her emotional state was more erratic," Horman said.

He has since filed for divorce.

Though Kaine Horman, Desiree Young and Young's husband initially presented a united front with Terri Horman in the days after Kyron vanished last month, the family has now turned on Kryon's stepmother.

"I believe respondent is involved in the disappearance of my son Kyron who has been missing since June 4, 2010," Kaine Horman wrote in his application for the restraining order.

He added, "I also recently learned that respondent attempted to hire someone to murder me. The police have provided me with probable cause to believe the above two statements are true."

Young said she didn't believe Terri Horman from the beginning when she called to tell her that Kyron went missing from his elementary school.

"There was just certain details that just didn't make any sense that gave me that sick to my stomach feeling," Young said.

At a recent press conference, she implored Terri to tell the family where he is.

"Unfortunately I am kind of at that point where I am so angry I just don't even have words," she said. "I just really want her to do the right thing ... Kyron is still out there and he needs to be home."

Kaine Horman said he feels betrayed.

"I think we all do," Young added.

Young said she would hope Terri Horman would decide to give in and start talking.

"I would like to think not, because my son is involved. But I have the feeling that she will never ever give in," she said.

" I don't think she is going to tell the truth," Kaine Horman said.

"She hasn't told the truth for seven and a half years that I have known her," Young said.

[Jenn]

http://www.komonews....l/98374269.html

Missing Ore. boy's stepmother seeks payout from husband

By KATU Staff Story Published: Jul 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM PDT  Story Updated: Jul 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. - In the ongoing saga surrounding the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman, the boy's stepmother is now seeking money from her estranged husband, Kaine Horman.

Terri Horman made the request on Tuesday afternoon as attorneys for both parties appeared before a judge. She has not specified an amount, but said she wants the payout before she agrees to move out of the family home.

Kaine Horman's attorney, Laura Rackner, said her client is not willing to hand over money to his wife.

"He would like some cooperation from her first," she said. "He would like to know where his son is."

Terri Horman's attorney, Stephen Houze, did not give any information to the media on Tuesday, adding it would be unethical to comment on any aspects of his client's case.

The two sides will return to court next week for a hearing on the eviction and custody case filed by Kaine Horman.

Kyron Horman disappeared June 4 after attending a science fair. Investigators said Terri Horman was the last known person to have seen him. The search for the Skyline School second-grader is now a criminal investigation; however, no suspects have been named and no arrests have been made.

Terri Horman has fallen under severe scrutiny in recent weeks. On Monday, Kaine Horman said his wife violated a restraining order against her by carrying on a sexual relationship with one of his childhood friends, sharing sealed legal information and trying to kidnap their daughter.

According to the court documents, Terri Horman's alleged affair began after Kyron Horman disappeared, and that she'd not met the man until then.

The missing boy's biological mother, Desiree Young, has pleaded on camera with Terri Horman to "do the right thing," and has publicly said that she believes Terri Horman is lying. During a recent news conference, Kaine Horman said his wife had failed two polygraphs.

Investigators have remained tight-lipped about the case. Family members said they are confident that law enforcement is doing everything they can to help bring Kyron Horman home.