Kyron Horman was born sept 9th 2002 in Portland Oregon to his mum Desiree Young and dad Kaine Horman, they divorced before Kyron was born, but they both shared custody and seemingly co-parented well. Until 2004 when Desiree became very ill suffering with kidney failure with many hospital visits and treatments the pair thought it would be best for Kyron to stay with Kaine as primary parent to give him some stability of course visiting and communicating plenty with Desiree.
Three years later (2007) Kaine married Terri Moulton, the two met and got together in 2001, she worked as a substitute teacher and had a son from a previous marriage and in 2008 they saw the birth of their daughter Kiara. According to friends and family the Horman's were a tight knit, loving family they enjoyed spending time together playing board games, bowling with friends and taking trips. Terri volunteered at Skyline Elementary School which is where Kyron attended, she also earned a bachelor's degree in 2000 and mostly worked as a substitute teacher but slowed and then stopped subbing so that she could be home with Kyron during his toddler and preschool years. She continued to learn going on to earn her Master's in education in 2004 and in 2003 she placed 4th in a bodybuilding competition though the same year she was caught drink driving with her 11-year-old son in the car.
On June 4th, 2010, at 8am Skyline school opens up early for the science fair so parents and students can have a look around and see all the exhibits, Gina Zimmerman the school president sees Kyron and Terri around 8:15 and Terri says she watched Kyron walk towards his classroom as she heads out around 8:45 an unnamed student said they saw him near the south entrance a bit later (although the sheriff later backtracks on this statement).
At 10am Kyron's Teacher marks him absent, she didn’t think anything of it as she and Terri had discussed Kyron having a doctor's appointment coming up and she just presumed that was why he was not here.
Later that day around 1pm Terri uploads pictures of Kyron and the science fair on her Facebook and then at 3:30 Terri and Kaine head to the bus stop to get Kyron and they discover he is not on the bus and had been marked absent.
This causes the Skyline secretary to call 9-1-1 and soon after officers begin to arrive at the school and the Horman house. There are texts from the school sent out to all parents to alert them of a missing child and at 7pm the sheriff alerts SAR that they need to start a formal search for Kyron. Many search teams and news outlets arrive at the school and photos and information are given out to everyone and news starts to inform the public that Kyron is missing.
Over the weekend more SAR teams are called in and associated press start to spread the story, a facebook page is created and also a helpfindmychild.net page is made for Kyron. FBI and National Guard are brought in to help. Parents and students are called into the school to answer questions and bring as much info to light as possible. The next week sees Skyline open up for classes and offers a counselling service to all students, SAR continues, mid-week Terri makes her Facebook page private, and an FBI spokesperson announces that the family are not speaking to the media as they don’t believe it's in the best interest of finding Kyron. More SAR teams are called in and the search expands to Sauvie Island but by Sunday June 13th the Sheriff announces that the search has ended, and the case has shifted to a criminal case.
On Saturday June 26th two 911 calls were made from the Horman household and were classified as a threat and a custody issue, but no other details have been released after this Kaine and his daughter move out of the house and serves Terri with a petition for divorce and a restraining order. A while later the News reveals that the landscaper that worked for the Horman's told police that Terri approached him and offered to pay him to kill Kaine 6/7 months before Kyron’s disappearance.
It's announced to the court that Terri will not contest the restraining order or the request to move out of the home and Kaine asks Terri to be held in contempt claiming that she violated the RO by starting a sexual relationship with an old school friend of his, shared sealed legal info and trying to kidnap their daughter. News reveals that the police have been putting a lot of pressure on a small circle of Terri's friends including DeDe Spicher and search her property.
Many searches take place on Sauvie Island and a forested area west of it as police say they have new and specific reasons, but nothing is found. The family continue to post and speak out hoping for information there Facebook page is very active to this day.
Online there are many theories about what happened that day split between Kyron wandering off in the chaos of the science fair and those who think Terri had something to do with his disappearance. It’s a case I return to many times and there is a lot to say about it, where do you fall what theory do you believe or do you have any different ideas.
I hope one day the truth will be found and the family can get some closure.
I do think that its unlikely she did it, i think most people under a microscope would look bad and there are a few iffy parts, i didnt know the landscaper recanted tho cheers for that