Kyron Richard Horman, a seven-year-old American boy, went missing from Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2010, right after a science fair.
Despite extensive searches and investigations by local police, state authorities, and the FBI, no substantial clues about his whereabouts have been found.
His disappearance led to the biggest criminal investigation ever conducted in Oregon, but he has still not been found.
Kyron Richard Horman was born on September 9, 2002, in Portland, Oregon, to Desiree Young and Kaine Horman, an Intel engineer.
The couple divorced before Kyron was born, with Young citing irreconcilable differences.
Initially, they shared custody of Kyron, but in 2004, due to his mother's serious kidney issues, his father took over full custody.
Despite this, his mother remained actively involved in Kyron's life.
In 2007, his father married Terri Moulton, a substitute teacher from Roseburg.
The couple welcomed a daughter, Kiara, in December 2008.
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| Desiree Young and Kyron Horman |
The Day of Disappearance
Kyron attended Skyline Elementary School near Forest Park, where he was known for his curiosity and love of science
On June 4, 2010, Kyron was taken to school by his stepmother, Terri Horman, who stayed with him for a science fair.
Terri said she left the school at about 8:45 a.m. and saw Kyron walking toward his classroom.
However, Kyron never made it to class and was marked absent.
Terri told the police that after leaving the school at 8:45 a.m., she went to two different grocery stores to run errands until about 10:10 a.m.
Between 10:10 a.m. and 11:39 a.m., she mentioned that she drove her daughter around town to help ease the toddler's earache using the movement of the car.
After that, Terri went to a local gym and exercised until around 12:40 p.m.
She got back home by 1:21 p.m. and then posted pictures of Kyron at the science fair on Facebook.
Initial Search and Investigation
When Kyron didn't come home on the bus, his family called the school and found out he had been marked absent all day, meaning he hadn't been to school at all.
The school secretary called 9-1-1 at 3:30 p.m. to report him missing, which started a massive search operation.
The search focused on a 2-mile radius around Skyline Elementary and Sauvie Island, 6 miles away.
By June 12, over 1,300 searchers from Oregon, Washington, and California were involved in the largest search effort in Oregon history.
A reward for information leading to Kyron's discovery increased from $25,000 to $50,000 by late July 2010.
In late June 2010, investigators told Kaine Horman that his wife Terri allegedly tried to pay their landscaper, Rodolfo Sanchez, to kill him.
Sanchez said that Terri asked him to assist in killing her husband in January 2010, five months before Kyron disappeared.
Terri denied the accusation.
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| Terri Horman |
Investigators persuaded Sanchez to confront Terri while wearing a recording device, but they were unable to get any evidence for an arrest.
On June 28, Kaine filed for divorce and got a restraining order against Terri.
During this period, Terri took two polygraph tests about Kyron's disappearance but didn't pass any.
In August 2010, authorities announced they were searching for a person of interest who was seen with Terri on the day Kyron disappeared.
Two witnesses reported seeing this person sitting in Terri's truck outside Skyline Elementary on the day.
Bruce McCain, a former sheriff, told CBS News that identifying this second person, if they indeed existed, could be crucial in figuring out what happened to Kyron after 9 a.m. on June 4.
In July 2010, a grand jury in Multnomah County requested testimony from several of Terri's friends, including DeDe Spicher.
According to Young and Kaine, they believed Spicher had been in frequent contact with Terri and was giving her advice that they felt was not in their son's best interests.
According to police, Spicher was very cooperative.
She allowed them search her property and car, and she answered questions from detectives for three hours.
On the day Kyron disappeared, Spicher left her gardening job around 11:30 a.m. and returned about ninety minutes later.
She also assisted Terri in buying a phone that couldn't be traced.
During this period, Spicher told reporters: "There's this horror that my friend is going through. If I thought for a second that she was capable of [foul play], I would not have been there. She would not have been my friend in the first place."
Legal Proceedings and Suspicions
On June 1, 2012, Kyrons mother sued Terri accusing her of her son's disappearance.
She claimed that Terri had abducted Kyron on the day he went missing and she asked for $10 million in damages.
On August 15, 2012, a federal judge rejected Terri's request to postpone the lawsuit.
In early October 2012, Terri's friend Spicher who was initially cooperative, chose not to answer any of the 142 questions asked during a deposition about Young's lawsuit.
Some of these questions included where she was on June 4, 2010, and her interactions with Terri that day.
She also refused to identify a picture of Kyron, or confirm whether she had met him or knew his father, Kaine.
Terri Horman appeared on Dr. Phil in 2016, denying involvement in Kyron's disappearance.
She said, "I was advised from the beginning by law enforcement, by my husband at the time, by attorneys in the beginning, not to say anything. I've always wanted to. I've asked multiple times to speak out and have not been allowed."
She suggested that he was kidnapped saying, "There was a man in a white pickup truck, Ford, parked on Highway 30 at the 7-Eleven, which is not near the school. He was acting very strangely and he was addressed by one of the employees because he had been pacing back and forth in front of the 7-Eleven for about an hour"
Continued Investigation and Recent Developments
On July 30, 2013, Young announced she was dropping the lawsuit against Terri.
She did this to avoid any interference with the ongoing police investigation.
The case remained active, with a secret grand jury panel continuing to hear evidence as recently as 2017.
In July 2017, police also searched more areas along Skyline Boulevard, but they didn't find anything.
No one has been able to figure out what happened to Kyron Horman, and it's very sad.
Despite extensive searches and the case being all over the news, we still don't know where he is.
The police are still working on this case, hoping that someday we'll learn the truth.
This would finally give Kyron's family and everyone else who cares about him some closure.
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