Kyron Horman, 7 years old PORTLAND, OR #1 6/5/10 - 6/30/10

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FBI brings in profiler for Skyline search

By Adam Ghassemi, KATU News and KATU.com Staff

 
The FBI is bringing in members of its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team as searchers move into the third day without a sign of a 7-year-old boy last seen at a Skyline Elementary science fair.

Story Published: Jun 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM PDT

Story Updated: Jun 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is bringing in members of its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team as searchers move into the third day without a sign of a 7-year-old boy last seen at a Skyline Elementary science fair Friday morning.

The team includes a profiler from the FBI's national office.

The missing boy, Kyron Horman, was seen Friday morning by Kyron's step mom, who reportedly says she took him through a science fair at school and sent him off to class. His teachers say he never checked in, and no one has said they have seen him since.

FBI Spokesperson Beth Anne Steele, in Portland, said the CARD team members are experts on finding missing children. A description on the FBI website says "CARD Teams are primarily involved in non-family child abductions, ransom child abductions, and mysterious disappearances of children."

Meanwhile, parents and students are slowly arriving at Skyline Elementary School – at 11536 N.W. Skyline Blvd. – to meet with officials looking for any information into the disappearance of a second grader from there Friday. Appointments are staggered between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., with the last one wrapping up around 6 p.m.

Search and rescue crews continue to comb the 2-mile radius around the school Sunday. However, officials believe the rain weather could make searching tougher. They also worry the rain could keep parents and kids scheduled to meet at the school from showing up for their interviews. Investigators are asking that interviewees come no matter what, because any small insight could help.
Counselors are at the school if they're needed.

Classes should resume Monday as planned.

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is expected to hold a press conference at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. We will bring you any updates from that conference.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/95725809.html

[melisb]

Just cautious of everyone and I think stepmom needs to be looked at more.

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Day 3: FBI calls in criminal profiler in search for missing Skyline boy; interviews with students and parents begin

By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian
June 06, 2010, 2:14PM

The OregonianParents arrive at Skyline Elementary School to be interviewed by detectives.
The FBI has brought a vast array of resources to help the search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman today including launching its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. It's a regional team although they have flown in members from across the country, including a Quantico-based profiler who is on-site to help develop a complete profile of the boy.

2 p.m. -- Heavy rains have turned to lighter showers as a Yamhil County search and rescue team prepared to give reporters on a glimpse of the grid searching going on within a 2-mile radius of Skyline Elementary School.

1:50 p.m. -- The Oregonian's Stuart Tomlinson produced a video of today's developments outside the school.



1:29 p.m. -- Neighbors stop by Brooks Hill Historic church, across the street from the school, to mull over the investigation. "This kind of thing is unheard of," says Jim Kelley, 50.

Kelley, who lives about a mile and a half down hill, at the end of a winding, secluded country lane off Cornelius Pass, said police, federal agents, K-9 teams and helicopters scoured the area Saturday.

"We had two odd sightings of a vehicle on our road Friday," Kelley said. Around 3 p.m., he and a neighbor reported seeing a white pick-up truck with a female driver pull to the end of the long road, idle and then turn around. Then again at 2 a.m. Saturday morning, a similar white pickup truck appeared, idled and when a neighbor loosed her dogs, eased away.

"A, it was strange to have a car there, any car there, that we didn't know, and B, it was strange to have a vehicle come down our dead-end road twice in the same day, hours after a little boy goes missing," said Kelley. "That's beyond rare."

Kelley said authorities have twice searched the deep ravine, creek and railroad tracks located near the end of his street by air and on foot.

12:10 p.m. -- Relatives have begun distributing missing person fliers with a photo of Kyron and this description: "3' 8" tall, 50 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair. Last seen wearing black cargo pants, white socks, and worn black Skecher Tennis shoes with orange trim." In the accompanying photograph, taken at the science fair on the morning he disappeared, Kyron is wearing a dark-colored t-shirt with the "CSI" show logo.

The same information was also posted yesterday to helpfindmychild.net, a UK-based missing child site.

If it sounds familiar, contact the Multnomah County Sheriff's Tip Line at 503-261-2847, or call 9-1-1.

11:45 a.m. -- Counselors and support staff plan to gather at Skyline's K-8th grade school northwest of Portland first thing Monday morning, said Portland Public School District spokesman Matt Shelby. Overwhelmed students will have access to a "safe room" for additional counseling support.

"It's been hard for the students, hard for the parents, hard for the staff," Shelby said. "We're going to try and have as normal a day as we can tomorrow."

The school year is scheduled to end in 10 days.

11:35 a.m. -- Schools spokesman Shelby says parents were notified of the all-day Sunday debriefing with police and federal agents via a robocall Saturday. The oldest students at the school began to arrive at 10 a.m.; kindergarteners and first grade students are set to arrive with parents later in the afternoon.

11:10 a.m. -- Vickie Coghill, a 35-year resident of Portland's Skyline area, pointed to the billboard outside the school, which reads "June 4, I.B. Inquiry Expo, 8-10, Talent show, 1-2:45." Kyron was to take part in both the expo/science fair and the talent show, Coghill said.

"Something like this ripples through everyone," she said. "It's very frustrating. You want to help, but how?"
 
10:35: a.m. -- Today's search by 58 trained volunteers with sheriff's departments in Washington, Multnomah, Clark and Yamhill counties, coupled with additional searchers from Portland Mountain Rescue, Silver City, and Portland Northwest Search and Rescue, was expected to continue into the night, said Sgt. Diana Olsen, incident commander for Multnomah County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue.

10:25 a.m. -- Saturday's search of the school, its immediate grounds, and the two mile-route between Kyron's home and the school yielded no clues, said Multnomah County incident commander Olsen.

"I'm hoping we will have completed a two-mile radius today of homes and fields, outbuildings, barns, tunnels, railroad tracks," Olsen said.

10:11 a.m. -- A Portland Public School District spokesman is enroute to the school, where counselors will be on hand Monday to help the children and teachers cope with the disappearance. The Multnomah County Search and Rescue coordinator arrives to speak with reporters.

9:48 a.m. -- The search for Kyron continues this morning as the first of 300 students and their parents return to Skyline Elementary to review details of the day the boy went missing.

Fifty detectives are on-hand to begin interviews at 10 a.m. continuing until 4 p.m.

Kyron horman.jpgPhoto courtesy of the Multnomah County Sheriff's OfficeKyron Horman9:33 a.m. -- Lt. Mary Lindstrand, public information officer for the Multnomah County Sheriff's office, implored the public to come forward with any information  they have about Kyron.  She urged people not to let weather keep them from coming forward.
 
"Our basis mission is to bring Kyron home," she said.
 
Authorities made no progress in the search for Kyron, which was suspended overnight but is resuming today with a 2-square-mile grid search. The massive effort to find the second-grader involves four county sheriff's departments, the Portland Police Bureau and a large number of federal agents with the FBI. So far, the search hasn't turned up any clues about the child's whereabouts.

Kyron Horman
The Oregonian's continuing coverage of missing second-grader Kyron Horman.
The boy's stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, took him to school Friday morning and the two walked through a science fair. Kyron showed off his project on the red-eyed tree frog and by 8:45 a.m. Kyron waved goodbye to Horman outside of his classroom. At some point after that, the boy's teacher, Kristina Porter, marked Kyron absent. It was not until 3:30 p.m., when she realized her stepson was not on the school bus, that Horman discovered he had been absent all day. She then called 9-1-1.

-- Noelle Crombie and Kimberly A.C. Wilson

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/day_three_search_continues_hun.html 

[Wyks]

Timeline

Friday, June 4, 2010:

8:45 a.m. Kyron Horman's stepmother drops him off at Skyline Elementary School, where a school science fair is being held that day. He is seen walking down a hallway toward a classroom, but school staff said they never saw him after this point.

3:30 p.m. Kyron fails to return home on his school bus as scheduled. His family calls the school.

4 p.m. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is first contacted about Kyron's disappearance. They begin to prepare for a search of the area.

5:45 p.m. Search and rescue teams begin to scour the area. They cover 20 miles of roads around Skyline Boulevard.


Saturday, June 5, 2010:

Noon: The sheriff's office holds a news conference. A sheriff's spokesman says the search for Kyron is still a missing person case and not a criminal investigation. He asks that civilian volunteers stay away from the search area to allow for the police agencies to conduct an efficient search.

4 and 8 p.m: Authorities hold additional news conferences and said the FBI and the National Guard have joined the effort. Search and rescue crews completed an "immediate grid search" around the school, sheriff's deputies said, but plan to work night and day to find Kyron.

Investigators also announced they plan to interview Skyline students, their parents and school staff members on Sunday.

http://www.kptv.com/kyron-horman/index.html

[MuffyBee]

http://www.katu.com/news/local/95734359.html
School security will be tightened after 7 year old's disappearance
June 6, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. – Interviews with those who were at Friday's science fair at Skyline Elementary School – where a 7-year-old student is believed to have disappeared – may have turned up at least one new piece of information.

In a press conference Sunday afternoon, a Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokesman now says Kyron Horman was last seen at "a late hour in the morning." This raises questions about the 8:45 a.m. time released by the Sheriff's Office in its press release about this case.

The press release reported the boy's stepmother walked through a number of classrooms with Kyron and last saw him around 8:45 a.m. Friday, walking down the hallway toward his Skyline second-grade classroom. The investigation has turned up that Kyron's teacher marked him absent when he never showed up.

School Superintendent Carol Smith spoke publicly for the first time since Kyron's disappearance at the scheduled 3:30 press conference Sunday. (The conference started just after 3:40 p.m., after about a 10-minute delay in the hopes the F.B.I. spokesperson would arrive.)

"We're hoping for his safe return," said Superintendent Smith. She went on to say that "the reported disappearance from one of our schools is unprecedented and deeply troubling."

As such, changes are being made in how the school treats visitors.

Beginning Monday, everyone entering Skyline Elementary School will be asked to sign in. A team composed of school security services, members of the teacher's association and other related parties also will look into safety procedures for releasing children as they leave school.

As for Kyron's case, "we're hoping for his safe return," Superintendent Smith said Sunday.

Even in Sunday’s rain students came by the car load to answer questions from authorities. Andrew Delzell was one of the students interviewed; he and Kyron are in the same math class.

“He doesn’t seem like the person that would want to run away," Delzell told KATU Reporter Adam Ghassemi. "He’s a nice kid. He plays with his friends a lot. I’m not sure if he’d ever run away."

Delzell’s mother, Kris Delzell, also was at Friday’s crowded science fair.

"It's horrifying. It’s absolutely horrifying," she said. "...The dogs and the rescue people are coming through my yard, because we live close to where they’re searching. FBI people are interviewing us and [there are] police cars. We’re very shaken up."

Investigators are hoping to paint a very accurate picture of what happened Friday, knowing Monday this campus will be full of people struggling to come to terms with Kyron's disappearance. Classes at Skyline Elementary School are scheduled as normal for Monday.

“We’re asking them to really save their energy and focus on Monday," said Portland Public Schools spokesman Mark Shelby, "because when those students come back tomorrow we’re going to need ... their full energy to support those students.”

Those at this rural Northeast Portland school are ready for any clue as to what happened to a kid everyone says is “nice” and “always smiling.”

A school has set up a "Special Education Hot Line" to answer calls for those who need insight. That number is 503-916-3931.

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I hope that this little boy is ok! I am really worried..

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This is heart breaking with another day gone and no sign of little Kyron. This makes no sense at all. I am completely baffled. From comments in the news stories I see some people are suspicious of the step-mom. I really don't see her doing this by all I have read and seen. She just doesn't set my hinky meter off yet.

He either wandered away to the woods or someone somehow had an opportunity to take him from school between 8:45 and 10 AM.

Kyron where are you sweetie? Praying for your safe return.

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News conference held today (on the right side of the link)

http://www.kptv.com/kyron-horman/index.html

[Tracygirl]

Very strange story. With an open school concept where people are free to come and go, it just opens the door for something like this. He could have gone to the bathroom and someone was there. Or someone could have lured him away. Do they not even have campus security camera's?

I don't feel the step mom has anything to do with this but wonder about the mom. Why did he not live with her? Does she have some kind of issue?

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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/still_no_trace_of_kyron_horman.html 


Still no trace of Kyron Horman as police, FBI conclude third day of search
By The Oregonian
June 06, 2010, 10:00PM

BY NOELLE CROMBIE, KIMBERLY A.C. WILSON and STUART TOMLINSON

The investigation into the disappearance of Kyron Horman, the bespectacled 7-year-old last seen inside Skyline School on Friday morning, stretches into a fourth day today with the boy's whereabouts still a mystery.

Sunday, as Kyron's family ordered fliers carrying the boy's description and smiling face, authorities continued investigating his disappearance, calling in more than 65 detectives from various police agencies and nearly 60 trained searchers.

"Our basic mission is to bring Kyron home," said Lt. Mary Lindstrand,  a spokeswoman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

Late Sunday, Multnomah County Sheriff Daniel Staton issued a status report and raised the case level to increase public interest and focus. He said additional searches and interviews are planned, but he declined to discuss strategy or specifics of the investigation.

“Given the passage of time and the weather, we are characterizing this case as a missing endangered child,” he said.

Hundreds of Skyline students and their parents streamed into the school throughout the day for interviews with investigators, who wanted to know whether students spotted anything unusual at school Friday.

Police remain stymied as to what happened to the second-grader, described by his grandmother as dreamy, sweet and a bit timid. His stepmother said she last saw him at 8:45 a.m. Friday. She watched him walk toward his classroom after the pair toured the school's science fair.

During police interviews Sunday, a student said he last saw Kyron later that morning near the south entrance to the school. That was the last time the boy was seen, Staton said.

At some point that morning, Kyron's teacher, Kristina Porter, marked the boy as absent. But it wasn't until 3:30 p.m. -- when his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman,  met the school bus -- that she discovered Kyron had been absent from school.

Nora Schreiber,  a Skyline parent and volunteer, said the school has three main entrances and one secure exit. Two of the doorways are near the main office and are monitored, while a third on the north side of the school is not. Kyron's classroom is adjacent to that door, which opens onto a rear parking lot.

Schreiber said she and her son, Jacob, 9, were interviewed Sunday by a federal agent. She said she told the agent that Friday was an especially hectic day at Skyline.

"On a normal day, seeing a stranger will make you go, 'Hmm. I wonder who that is?' On such a hectic day as Friday, there was such a lot going on. To tell you the truth, I was focused on looking at the (science) project and helping Jacob fill out his (evaluation) form and not on the faces around me."

Schreiber said Kyron was supposed to perform in the school's talent show at 1 p.m. but she didn't see him there.



Kris Delzell was among those who brought their children to the school for an interview with detectives.

"It's horrific," said Delzell, whose son Andrew, 9, attends the school.

"I hope they find him and that he's OK," her son said.

Counselors will be at Skyline today, said district spokesman Matt Shelby.  Overwhelmed students will have access to a "safe room" for additional counseling.

"It's been hard for the students, hard for the parents, hard for the staff," Shelby said. "We're going to try and have as normal a day as we can."

Kyron's family made no public comment Sunday. Terri Horman was on Facebook throughout the day, receiving prayers and well-wishes from dozens of friends and relatives. A Facebook page dedicated to Kyron also was launched.

Investigators said Sunday they haven't turned up signs of foul play. Still, the FBI, which has assigned a sizable, though undisclosed, number of agents to the case, launched its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, a group of agents and analysts that specializes in organizing large-scale investigations of child disappearances.

The team's involvement is standard when a child goes missing, said Beth Anne Steele,  a spokeswoman for the FBI's Portland field office.

The FBI also called in a Quantico, Va.-based profiler to develop a more complete portrait of Kyron.

"You want to find out what his ... strengths and weaknesses are," said former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt,  now a Virginia-based security consultant. "Where would they go? Do they have a tendency to wander off? Do they have a tendency to cry? Have you ever talked to them about what to do if they get lost?

"You are trying to find out everything you can," he said, adding that the FBI's profile will go far beyond a physical description. He said the profiler wants to "find out what might make (the child) vulnerable to a predator."

Van Zandt said authorities tend to deploy lots of police resources in those crucial, early hours after a child goes missing.

"Everybody knows the clock is ticking," he said. "You don't want to hold back any resources. You don't want to refuse to go down any path right now."

The search, which at one point included a National Guard helicopter, will continue today.

The air search, having turned up nothing, ended Saturday. The ground search, which included a detailed grid search of the two miles between Skyline and Kyron's home, relies on volunteers, most of whom need to return to work today, said Sgt. Diana Olsen,  coordinator of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office search and rescue operations.

"We won't even get a quarter of the numbers (of volunteers) we have today," she said Sunday.

She said searchers Sunday made a major push in soggy conditions and hilly terrain to complete their search.

So far, overnight weather conditions have been favorable for surviving if Kyron wandered off.

"It's warm even at night," Olsen said. "If he fell and injured himself, the expectation is he would still be alive."

Skyline is something of a rural island, where residents place tomato starts at the end of driveways with a sign asking $1 per pot on the honor system.

"It's a more urban version of Mayberry, RFD," said Cindy Banks, who owns a former church across the street from Skyline School on the winding Northwest Skyline Boulevard. "We know our neighbors. We're all asking ourselves how something like this could happen here."

At the Plainview Grocery, just downhill from the school, a flier about the missing boy remains propped against the cash register.

A lunchtime visitor asked owner Dave Linden, "Is this the boy that went missing?"

Linden nodded solemnly. The shopper, a woman wearing a soggy blue fleece jacket, stooped to peer at the boy wearing a proud smile, a photo taken on the day Kyron Harmon went missing:

"Let me take a close look so I know who to look for," she said, before heading to her truck.

-- Noelle Crombie, Kimberly A.C. Wilson, and Stuart Tomlinson
 

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snipped from the above article post by me

"Nora Schreiber,  a Skyline parent and volunteer, said the school has three main entrances and one secure exit. Two of the doorways are near the main office and are monitored, while a third on the north side of the school is not. Kyron's classroom is adjacent to that door, which opens onto a rear parking lot."

I am just kind of thinking out loud but what if Kyron could have exited the "third" door into the parking lot and posssibly he was struck by a car and the driver panicked, picked him up and placed him in their vehicle. Stranger things have happened....again just thinking out loud.

Praying you will be found my morning Kyron.

[Wyks]

The following info gathered from the news articles posted upthread.  Words in italics below are my comments added and in my opinion, some of which can change, of course, when we get further factual info.

regular school schedule
8:35a - school opens
8:45a - final bell rings

friday was science fair day
8:00a - school opens early

The kids were to report to their classes and be divided into small groups of a few students each. Each group was supposed to tour the science fair with a chaperone, then return to their classes for roll call.

((( Altho this hasn't been reported yet, my guess is that even on science fair day, the final bell would ring as usual, at 8:45a.  The kids were likely supposed to all be back from the exhibits by then, and in their seats for roll call. JMO tho. )))

On Friday morning:
  -- Terri gives Kyron a ride to school, rather than him taking the bus as usual.
  -- They arrive at school about 8:00a, go to his classroom and drop off his coat and backpack.
  -- Kyron then shows Terri his exhibit, and she takes a pic of him standing in front of it.

((( None of the reports mention Kyron getting into a small group of his classmates before heading off (with Terri tagging along) to see the exhibits. According to the PTA pres, the class divided into small groups to make the tour, led by a parent chaperone. She seems to have expected that Kyron was in a group, (even knowing that Terri was there), but she didn't know which one. Terri must not have been considered a chaperone of a group that day, or the PTA pres would have known he was in her group. Which leaves us to wonder if Kyron got in a group at all, even tho he it seems he was supposed to.

For the PTA pres to share with the media that there were small groups led by parent chaperones, proves that the school feels a measure of responsibility for all the students from when they leave class until they return to class.  Whether or not those kids have their parent/s tagging along.

So if Kyron was not in a group yet others were, why wasn't he made to be?  Did someone drop the ball?  Might seem like a little thing... yet it could turn out to be huge. From the time he left his classroom til the time he returned to his classroom, who is responsible for the safety of Kyron? School doors open, school event at the school, school staff and parent chaperones..... My vote is the school.. Whether or not a parent/caregiver is tagging along.

On the other hand, I do feel that if a parent takes the child away from the school event, (even into the hallway), s/he must not then leave that child alone to wander the property unsupervised. And if s/he does, then they've compromised what the school has tried to do to ensure the child's safety.  And yet, had staff/chaperone been alert, that wouldn't have happened either.  So, I think both sides dropped the ball.

Am sure folks could go back and forth on this, cuz I am just while writing it!  Still and all tho, IMO, the school has the higher responsibility during the school event, no matter who is with the student, until that student is back in class. And then it goes back to the teacher. )))

Stuff in italics is all IMO.

[Wyks]

Again, the following info gathered from the news articles posted upthread.  Words in italics below are my comments added and in my opinion, some of which can change, of course, when we get further factual info.

At some point between 8:00a and 8:45a, Kyron and Terri were seen by:
  -- Kyron's teacher in Kyron's classroom
  -- PTA president in Kyron's class at 8:15a
  -- A teacher in another classroom
  -- Other students and parents
 
At an unknown time:
  -- Matt Shelby, (school district spokesperson) said that two teachers saw Kyron with Terri and thought the two left school together. He said it was not uncommon for parents to pick up kids this way, so no suspicions were raised.

((( Why didn't Shelby also say 'what time' and 'where' those two teachers saw Kyron with Terri? What made BOTH of them think he was leaving with her?  Parents pick up kids anytime of the day for appts, sure. But rarely before class even begins.  Did Kyron and Terri walk outside and say goodbye, either near the door (inside or outside) or toward the cars - rather than what Terri says, in the hallway? Could have been inside the hallway near the door, and neither of the two teachers saw Kyron then walk away from Terri toward his class? I dunno. Just seems that something gave those two teachers the impression that Terri/Kyron were leaving, rather than arriving. IMO )))

[Nut44x4]

FBI joins search for missing Oregon boy
7-year-old vanished after attending school's science fair

updated 2 hours, 30 minutes ago

PORTLAND, Ore. - Detectives hunting for clues in the disappearance of a 7-year-old Oregon boy interviewed some 200 of his classmates and their parents Sunday as the FBI joined an expanding search.

Kyron Horman vanished sometime after after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning.

The boy and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a science
updated 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Ore. - Detectives hunting for clues in the disappearance of a 7-year-old Oregon boy interviewed some 200 of his classmates and their parents Sunday as the FBI joined an expanding search.

Kyron Horman vanished sometime after after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning.

The boy and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a science
updated 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Ore. - Detectives hunting for clues in the disappearance of a 7-year-old Oregon boy interviewed some 200 of his classmates and their parents Sunday as the FBI joined an expanding search.

Kyron Horman vanished sometime after after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning.

The boy and his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman, attended a science
fair at the school early Friday, and she last saw him walking down a hallway toward his 2nd grade classroom at about 8:45 a.m. He was wearing a "CSI" T-shirt and dark cargo pants.

Police said Kyron did not return home on the bus as scheduled. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office was contacted at about 4 p.m., and authorities have been searching the school and the surrounding area since then.

'Missing endangered child'
Sheriff Dan Staton said late Sunday night that he was "not prepared" to call the boy's disappearance a kidnapping and there were no suspects at this time.

But he said Kyron was 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.

Investigators have been working to determine a detailed timeline of the boy's movements on Friday morning, Staton said.

Investigators asked Kyron's fellow students and their parents to come to the school Sunday and said they spoke with some 200 of them in an effort to glean clues into his disappearance. Relatives also distributed flyers with the boy's picture.

Authorities were reviewing photos and videos taken at the school's science fair. The last photo of Kyron shows the boy smiling Friday 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."

The FBI has dispatched its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, as well as its Behavioral Analysis Unit, which is often dispatched when a young child disappears. Its presence doesn't mean law enforcement has determined the child has been abducted, FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said in an e-mail.

The boy's parents were not ready to speak, Lt. Mary Lindstrand said Sunday.

Multnomah County sheriff's deputies, the county's search and rescue team, the Oregon State Patrol and police officers from Portland, Gresham and Fairview were taking part in the search, which focused on the area surrounding the school and the two miles to Kyron's house.

Superintendent of Portland Public Schools Carole Smith would not comment on the details of the district's policy for reporting school absences. Details about whether Kyron was reported as absent were not known.

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

She said crisis counselors would be at the school on Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37547980/ns/us_news-life/

[trimmonthelake]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/
Good Morning America 06/07/10
Second-Grader Vanishes After Science Fair video
Kyron Horman went missing as he walked back to his classroom.

[MuffyBee]

I'm snipping and bumping this back up, because it looks to me like there are questions about the initial timeline, and it looks like most articles/news aren't picking up on the possible change.  This may just throw the 8:45 a.m. as the last sighting of Kyron out the window.  The sighting of Kyron at a later time came from interviews, and from what I understand, the interviews aren't finished yet, so there may be another person that saw Kyron or saw someone/something and the timeline may change.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/95734359.html
School security will be tightened after 7 year old's disappearance
June 6, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. – Interviews with those who were at Friday's science fair at Skyline Elementary School – where a 7-year-old student is believed to have disappeared – may have turned up at least one new piece of information.

In a press conference Sunday afternoon, a Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokesman now says Kyron Horman was last seen at "a late hour in the morning." This raises questions about the 8:45 a.m. time released by the Sheriff's Office in its press release about this case.
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[Blink34]

My apologies, I have nothing useful to add except my deep concern.

I find these 2 things very odd.
1. The timeline has changed by hours, if we are to assume late morning encompasses up to 11:45am. Who and where was he seen?

2. If his teacher is saying his backpack was there, but he was not, why wouldn't that have alerted someone?

Any relative picking up our kids besides Dad or I, in an emergency only, has to have a valid drivers license, and it is on file at the beginning of the school year.   If they are not on file, the kids would not be released to them.

I think it was worse in elementary school, actually, I don't think anyone but Dad or I could pick them up, and one of us had to be in attendance at the bus stop.

I do not like how I am feeling about this case at all.

[Tracygirl]

Snipped http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/still_no_trace_of_kyron_horman.html 


During police interviews Sunday, a student said he last saw Kyron later that morning near the south entrance to the school. That was the last time the boy was seen, Staton said.

At some point that morning, Kyron's teacher, Kristina Porter, marked the boy as absent. But it wasn't until 3:30 p.m. -- when his stepmother, Terri Moulton Horman,  met the school bus -- that she discovered Kyron had been absent from school.

Nora Schreiber,  a Skyline parent and volunteer, said the school has three main entrances and one secure exit. Two of the doorways are near the main office and are monitored, while a third on the north side of the school is not. Kyron's classroom is adjacent to that door, which opens onto a rear parking lot.

Schreiber said she and her son, Jacob, 9, were interviewed Sunday by a federal agent. She said she told the agent that Friday was an especially hectic day at Skyline.

"On a normal day, seeing a stranger will make you go, 'Hmm. I wonder who that is?' On such a hectic day as Friday, there was such a lot going on. To tell you the truth, I was focused on looking at the (science) project and helping Jacob fill out his (evaluation) form and not on the faces around me."

Schreiber said Kyron was supposed to perform in the school's talent show at 1 p.m. but she didn't see him there.

Ok so I have some questions. So he was supposedly seen later that morning near the south enterence but that would be a monitored area so he wouldn't have been able to leave, I would guess. He was also supposed to be in a talent show later that day? Were the parents planning on going? If not, ok not every parent does, but if they had planned on going, why didn't they? Was he excited about this talent show? Could he have gone into the woods to avoid the show but somehow got lost?

[Tracygirl]

I wonder if there are any empty classrooms in the school he could have gone into to hide or perhaps was taken into? Are there any kids at the school that picked on him? Could they have locked him in something to be "funny" and are now afraid to say something?

The person that says he saw him is a child, he could have easily mistaken him for someone else, depending on how well he knew him or how far he was when seeing the child.
I can't believe they don't have camera's at the school. 

[Blink34]

I also wondered if perhaps he was NOT looking forward to being in the talent show.

I am getting the feeling the school was open all day with various activities to include parents?

Are there security cams? Has the data from the traffic cams closest been pulled, any convenience stores?

Do they have cameras in the parking lots, do they corroborate witness accounts?

Who else was "absent" that day, or called out sick at the school? Landscapers on site?

This is such a Bold move, I think if it were a crime of opportunity, they would have a suspect by now.

I suspect that is a planned abduction, and probable pedophile. He knew him.

Who showed more interest in him than other kids?