Kyron Horman, 7 years old PORTLAND, OR #2 6/30/10

Kyron Horman: Timeline of events since boy's disappearance

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 3:22 PM
Updated: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 2:12 PM

Friday, June 4

8 a.m. Skyline Elementary, 11536 N.W. Skyline Blvd., opens early so students and parents can tour the science fair. A billboard outside 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.

Terri Moulton Horman arrives shortly afterward with her stepson, Kyron.

8:15 a.m. Gina Zimmerman, president of the school PTA, arrives and sees Kyron with his stepmother in front of his exhibit.

8:45 a.m. Terri Horman leaves after watching Kyron walk toward his classroom after touring the science fair.

9 a.m. Kyron is seen by a student near the south entrance of the school, according to Sheriff Dan Staton, who says that was the last time the boy was seen. Multnomah County authorities later backtrack on that statement.

10 a.m. Classes begin.

At some point, Kyron's homeroom teacher, Kristina Porter, reports him absent.

1:21 p.m. Terri Horman posts photos of Kyron at the science fair on her Facebook page.

3:30 p.m. Terri Horman goes to meet the school bus and discovers that Kyron has been absent all day. (Kaine Horman went with her to meet the bus, a fact that emerges during a television interview on June 25.)

3:46 p.m. Skyline School secretary Susan Hall places a call to 9-1-1 about Kyron being missing.

4:33 p.m. Officers from the Portland Police Bureau and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office arrive simultaneously at Skyline School and the Horman home.

5:30 p.m. Rapid broadcast message from Portland Public Schools goes out to alert families of a missing student. The message: "Kyron Horman did not arrive at home today." It was broadcast to the phones of parents across the school district.

7 p.m. Multnomah County sheriff's Detective Sergeant Lee Gosson alerts Sgt. Travis Gullberg, the county's on-call coordinator for search-and-rescue efforts, of the need to begin a formal missing persons search for Kyron.

Between 7 and 7:15 p.m. The Multnomah County Public Information Officer begins to return pages from members of the media and arranges to meet them at the school.

Between 7 and 7:45 p.m. Sheriff Dan Staton personally calls the FBI to alert them to the disappearance.

8:09 p.m. The first search teams arrive at Skyline School.

8:15 p.m. Lt. Mary Lindstrand, the PIO, arrives at the school, meets with those present, and then begins e-mailing a photo of Kyron to local television stations and The Oregonian.

8:25 p.m. The search-and-rescue coordinator, Deputy Mark Herron, arrives.

9:48 p.m. Mountain Wave, an emergency communications and search and rescue group based in Gresham arrives on the scene.

10:40 p.m. Officers at Skyline Elementary report that they have completed a search of Skyline School, including all crawl spaces, storage areas, classrooms and outbuildings. They have also searched the Horman house.

10:44 p.m. A caller to 9-1-1 wants to make sure officers have checked the train tunnel in the area near the school. She says "sometimes kids play in there, wants to make sure someone has checked that."

Saturday, June 5

3:23 a.m. Last transmission of the night about Kyron recorded on 9-1-1 run sheet.

5 a.m. Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue, another search group, is called by the sheriff's office and joins the search soon after. When they arrive on site, there are already about 60 to 70 people involved in the search.

9:08 a.m. The Associated Press receives its first official notification that Kyron Hormon is missing, via an e-mail with the subject line: SHERIFF'S OFFICE CONTINUES SEARCH FOR 7 YEAR OLD KYRON HORMAN

Helpfindmychild.net, a UK-based missing child site creates a page for Kyron.

A tip line is created: 503-261-2847.

Noon: During a news conference, a sheriff's spokesman says the search for Kyron is still a missing-person case and not a criminal investigation.

The Portland Public Schools district uses its rapid broadcast system to alert staff and parents of Skyline School students that were at the school Friday to come to the K-8 on Sunday for debriefings by police and federal agents. The oldest students are advised to arrive at 10 a.m.; kindergartners and first-graders are to arrive with parents later in the day.

4 and 8 p.m.: Authorities hold two news conferences and announce that the FBI and the National Guard have joined the effort. Search-and-rescue crews complete an "immediate grid search" around the school.

10:23 p.m. Facebook page created for supporters of Kyron and his family.

Sunday, June 6

8.58 a.m. Terri Moulton Horman posts on Facebook to say she has ordered missing-person fliers: "I ordered 1000 fliers, they will be coming to our house. I will let people know when they are here and we can go from there. Thank you everyone."

The FBI announces that they have brought in a Quantico, Va.-based profiler to create a profile of the boy.

9:48 a.m. The first of 300 students and their parents return to Skyline School to be interviewed by detectives. Fifty detectives are on-hand for interviews that continue until 4 p.m.

12:10 p.m. Relatives begin distributing missing person fliers with a photo of Kyron and this description: 3-feet, 8-inches tall, 50 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair. Last seen wearing black cargo pants, white socks and worn black Skechers tennis shoes with orange trim.

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.

3:30 p.m. Carole Smith, superintendent of Portland Public Schools, appears at a news conference and outlines a series of immediate steps the district is taking to address security concerns in the wake of the second-grader's disappearance.

9 p.m. The Multnomah County sheriff escalates Kyron's disappearance to a missing endangered child case, but does not call it a kidnapping.

Monday, June 7

Early a.m. Eighteen certified search-and-rescue volunteers resume sweeping the area near the school as deputies canvass the neighborhood, handing out fliers and jotting down license plate numbers of passing vehicles along Northwest Skyline Boulevard.

8:30 a.m. The school district staffs a counseling hot line at 503-916-3931 to answer questions or offer help districtwide.

8:45 a.m. Classes resume at Skyline School. Counselors are on hand.

Evening: Kelly Ramirez, the sister of Kyron's birth mother, Desiree Young, issues a statement thanking the community on behalf of the family for their concern and support.

Tuesday, June 8

Early a.m. Search and rescue crews resume looking, checking locations identified by phone tips and investigative leads.

Noon: Authorities offer briefing. They do not accept questions.

9:25 p.m. A Facebook support group for Kyron, Missing Kyron Horman, announces the creation of a reward fund.

"We are now working on a Paypal acct which will directly take your donations to the "Kyron Horman Fund" at Chase Bank. It will take Paypal a day or so to verify the acct and become active. If you prefer to wait until that time we will then place a donation button on the main homepage we have provided. We will keep you informed as to when that will be. It is our hope that this reward fund will prompt someone with the information police need to return Kyron home. I am sure the outpouring of well wishes, prayers and love sent by all of you is helping Kyron's family through this very difficult time."

Wednesday, June 9

Early a.m. Search and rescue crews resume looking.

Morning Terri Moulton Horman makes her Facebook wall private.

11 a.m. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele says the Hormon family "is not speaking to the media because they do not believe it's in the best interest of finding Kyron."

Noon At a news briefing, Multnomah County sheriff's Capt. Mike Shults reads a statement from Kyron Horman's immediate family: "Kyron's family would like to thank people for support and interest in finding their son. The outpouring of support and continued effort strengthens their hope. We need for folks to continue to assist us in our goal. Please search your properties -- cars, out buildings, sheds, etc. Also check with neighbors and friends who may be on vacation or may need in assistance in searching. There are a lot of resources here to help you search, so please don't stop. It is obviously a difficult time and they want to speak to the public so you can hear it from Kyron's family as they come together to share their message. Their objective is to keep the focus on Kyron and not about anything else."

9:45 p.m. Portland Mountain Rescue receives a call from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office to join the search.

Thursday, June 10

Early a.m. Search and rescue crews resume looking.

11:30 a.m. A Facebook support group for Kyron, Missing Kyron Horman, announces an update to the creation of a reward fund. You may now make a secure donation to the Kyron Horman Fund via PayPal. To do so visit his ChildSeek Network homepage.

Friday, June 11

Early a.m. The search resumes

10 a.m. The search expands to Sauvie Island

1 p.m. For the first time, Kyron's family appears at a news conference. Tony Young, Kyron's stepfather, says "We miss you, we love you and we need you home now." He then thanks all the volunteers and the community for its outpouring of support. He is followed by Kane Horman, Kyron's father, who also talked about how grateful the family is to the community and searchers.

Saturday, June 12

Early a.m. The search resumes.

The sheriff's office asks the public to hold back on further donations of food, water and other supplies for searchers because of the "sheer volume of supplies received at this point."

Sunday, June 13

Early a.m. The search resumes.

Noon The sheriff's office announces at a news briefing that the massive search for Kyron has ended and the case has been shifted to a criminal investigation. The search, which went on over 10 days, was one of the largest in state history, with more than 1,300 people from Oregon, Washington and Northern California looking for the boy. They checked a two-mile radius around Skyline School and also parts of Sauvie Island, which is about six miles from the school.

The sheriff's office also announces it is looking for any video footage of traffic on several different Portland-area roads in the general area near the school.

Finally, about 100 T-shirts with an image of Kyron's "missing" poster are distributed for free

Monday, June 14

While the large-scale search has ended, Multnomah County Sheriff's Office sends divers to Sauvie Island, where they can be seen wading in waist-high water off the banks of the Multnomah Channel north of the Sauvie Island Bridge.

Tuesday, June 15

Early a.m. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office releases a photo of a pair of glasses that are just like the type Kyron was wearing when he was last seen.

8:45 a.m. The final day of classes for the 2009-2010 school year begins at Skyline Elementary.

Noon As a hail storm passes through the area, sheriff's Dive Team is spotted on a property near the Horman home. A sheriff's spokeswoman says the search of a pond on the property is routine, however.

3 p.m. At the school, parents begin to pick up their children. Among them is Beth Smith.

"I'm disappointed the year is over already because I think the kids need each other right now," said Smith, walking onto school grounds to pick up her 12-year-old daughter, who was Kyron's reading buddy.

"She's still scared," Smith said. "Her whole security has been taken away from her."

3:36 p.m. Multnomah County Sheriff's Office releases a new version of the photo of Kyron at his school science fair. This version, created using photo editing software, shows what Kyron would look like without his glasses.

Throughout the day Thirty billboards with Kyron's picture and information begin to dot the metro area -- 10 in English, 10 in Spanish and 10 in Russian. The billboards were donated by Clear Channel.

Evening A vigil for Kyron is scheduled at Sunset Presbyterian Church.

Thursday, June 17

All day Rumors fire up social media sites with posters claiming Kyron's body has been found.

Friday, June 18

Noon Multnomah County Sheriff's Office releases a flier, asking parents and kids about June 4. The flier has photos of Kyron, Terri Moulton Horman and a picture of a pickup similar to the one she was driving that day.

2 p.m. Capt. Jason Gates says at a new conference that family approves the flier. He dispels rumors that Kyron's body has been found.

8:30 p.m. A friend of Terri Horman tells The Oregonian that she will go through a second polygraph on Saturday.

Sunday, June 20

9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Multnomah County authorities collect fliers from parents at Skyline

Monday, June 21

Kyron Horman's mother Desiree Young writes open letter to son.

Tuesday, June 22

A Wall of Hope at Skyline was created as a tribute to Kyron Horman.
School.

Thursday, June 24

Kyron Horman's family released three home movies and 200 new photos of the missing Portland second-grader.

Friday, June 25

Early morning Young and her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, appeared on four network morning shows to keep their son's story in the public eye. The two announced new details about the day 7-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared from school -- his father was working at home that afternoon and also met the boy's bus -- but they shed little light on the mystery of what happened to Kyron.

"It's like a portal opened up in the school and Kyron just vanished into it," said his mother, Desiree Young.

Saturday, June 26

Kaine Horman moves out of the family home taking his 19-month old daughter with him.

Monday, June 28

Early morning The July 5th edition of People magazine begins to hit newsstands. The issue is the second to feature Kryon’s story. Larry Moulton, Terri Horman’s father, told the magazine that she’s been subjected to repeated interviews of up to six hours each and that the truck she was driving the day Kyron disappeared has been inspected twice by police.
When People asked him whether he thought his daughter would be arrested, he replied with tears in his eyes: “It’s 50-50.”

Afternoon Fox 12 reports that Kaine Horman had moved out of the family’s Northwest Portland home and had taken his and Terri’s 19-month-old daughter with him.

Later that afternoon Approached at her home in Northwest Portland by The Oregonian, Terri Horman denied a report by KPTV 12/Fox TV news that her husband and daughter had moved out. "Everything's good," she said, giving a thumbs up. "We heard that rumor. It's just a rumor that needs to be squelched. Everything's fine."

5:52 p.m. Kaine Horman, Desiree & Tony Young ask the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office to release a statement stating they were cooperating with the investigation. Step-mom Terri Horman’s name was absent from the statement.

Shortly afterward, media outlets in Portland get tipped off that Terri Horman had been served with a restraining order and a petition for dissolution of marriage at the family’s home.

Tuesday, June 29

A Multnomah County judge seals the restraining order against Terri Moulton Horman.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Terri Moulton Horman retains Portland criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze

Terri Moulton Horman has retained prominent Portland criminal defense attorney Stephen Houze as investigators continue to focus on her in the nearly month-long disappearance of her step son, Kyron.

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