The Oregonian
Kyron Horman's father recalls when marriage to Terri Horman began to sour
Updated: Friday, July 09, 2010, 1:00 AM
Kaine Horman added that he was upset about Terri occupying the family home, keeping him and his daughter out of it.
"Displacing a child for the comfort of an adult. I think we all have our opinions on how appropriate that is," he said.
Article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/kyron_hormans_father_recalls_w.html
Note: There are two videos on this page. The first video on this page has an additional interview from the presser, with more questions and answers. For example, Kaine is asked where the baby was the morning Kyron disappeared, and he says the baby was with Terri at the school.
Direct link to video with transcription below:
http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2010/07/kyron_hormans_parents_share_de.html
I just paraphrased the reporter, but I transcribed Kaine and Desiree word for word.
Reporter asks where was the baby on the morning Kyron went missing.
Kaine: She was with Terri.
Reporter: Was she with Terri at the school.
Kaine: Yes.
Reporter asks was working at home normal routine.
Kaine: I have the ability to work from home periodically, so on days like that day where Kyron has something special going on I can't always make it to the events, but I can usually get home early and work from home and that way I can meet him at the bus and we can talk about his day. So that's not abnormal at all.
Reporter asks what was that day like and what was night before was like, was it routine?
Kaine: Yeah. Everything just seemed normal. It was normal until he didn't get off the bus, and it went from normal to horrific in, you know, five seconds.
Reporter asks his reaction.
Kaine: I thought he would still be up at school potentially because we had talked about going for a special treat after school because of the fair and his project and everything, so I, my first reaction was well he's probably just waiting up there for us, he didn't take the bus home. Then the bus driver called up to the school, and they confirmed that he hadn't been there all day, and it was just panic after that.
Video is edited. No question from reporter, but Desiree says:
Desiree: At 4:25 I got a call from Susan Hall at the school and um... she told me that I was listed as the emergency notification for Kyron Horman and I said, "yes, he's my son", and she told me that I need to notify you he's missing, and I said, "what?", and she said, "he's missing", and I said, "I don't understand what you mean, he's missing, how can he be missing?", and she said, "I'm sorry, they asked for me to call you", and I said, "okay", and I asked if Terri was there, and she said, "yes", and so I immediately hung up the phone and called Terri and asked her what was going on, I mean...
Reporter asks what did Terri tell you.
Desiree: She said that she had gone to the school for the science fair, that she had um, stayed for a little while, and then she waved at him as he was walking toward his classroom, and she didn't walk him to his classroom, and then she left.
Reporter asks what was your reaction hearing that.
Desiree: um, honestly, my motherly instinct kicked in and um, I said that she better not have done anything to my son because I just didn't feel right about the conversation. It didn't strike me right.
Video is edited. No question from reporter, but Desiree says:
Desiree: At first um, sadness and confusion and (pause) depression, just overwhelming fear, um, and I think now, we've gotten to that point where now we're just angry and determined and we're gonna bring him home. We're running on adrenaline and, and we just want to get it done right now.
Reporter asks Kaine if there were ever any red flags from Terri before he was briefed by LE on the info he now knows.
Kaine: I'd say most of the time since it, since that day.
Desiree: Yeah. Yeah. Each and every day it was something else that I (stumbles on words)
Reporter asks can you elaborate on what that something else was.
Kaine: Just her be..., it's just her behavior.
Desiree: Behavior. Behavior. Things that were said.
Kaine: Things that we would be doing. We would be working with investigators. We would be doing everything that we could and just in the natural course of our actions she'd just was separating herself, I don't think purposely but it was just apparent that the three of us were driving to find him and she was not.
Reporter asks when they first found out Terri failed the polygraph tests.
Kaine: The day that it happened.
Kaine: She was very vocal around family and friends about her results of the test, her apprehensions, her emotional state, everything. So the all the disclosure that we did at the press conference today, that was all straight from her.
Reporter asks if Terri gave reason why she failed the test.
Kaine: Oh lots of reasons.
Desiree: Yeah but we can't talk about them.
Video is edited. No question from reporter, but Desiree says:
At first it started out with something doesn't feel right. I don't feel right about this. And then each time, something would come up, something was said, a feeling I got, you know, it just reinforced it and I would discuss that with them, and this and this and this and this, and before I realized it and, you know, once, I would say once we found out the second polygraph was failed, we both I think kinda turned to the other side more than we were previous and, and I gotta tell you never in a million years could have imagined the horrible truth of what we know now. I mean just... this is the stuff you write in novels. It's not our life. I mean, it's just a little boy, you know. I just don't understand it. (cries)
(Note on above. Desiree stumbles on her words, chokes up, on verge of tears, several times during above. I did not note all that. She's emotional, having a hard time, and in pain. I'm declining to document 'ums' and stumbles, out of respect, and to capture instead, what she is trying to tell us, her words.)
Reporter asks about being at pressers with Terri.
Desiree: Extremely frustrating. It's hard for me because I'm not really a fake person, what you see is, I wear my emotions, and I don't have a face that I put on for other people and it's extremely difficult to stand next to somebody you know is lying about your son and where he is and to not have some emotion about that.
Reporter asks Kaine what it was like to have suspicions and hear the new info. What is reaction.
Kaine: Just reinforces that we're on the right track. Reinforces where we need to look for him as far as who and the path to go down.
Reporter asks do you think Terri could have hired someone to kidnap Kyron.
Kaine: I think there's a lot of scenarios of things that she could have done, you know, how do we, how do we... our speculation on it or our opinion is that we hope that that's the case I think but that's about as, I don't know, I don't know what else do you want to say about it (looking at Desiree), but that's what we're hoping at this point is that she did hire someone and that someone is taking care of him right now.
Reporter asks how do you know Kyron is still alive.
Desiree: I just... We haven't gotten any information that would tell us that he's not, and we just keep holding onto that, and I, I don't know, I just feel like he's still out there and he's just waiting for us and he's scared.
Reporter asks do you think he's here in Multnomah county or elsewhere.
Desiree: You know we were talking about the fact that they were kinda behind the eight ball on this, I mean having six and a half hours, you know, behind before we started searching for him before anything happened. That puts us in a precarious situation cause he could be out of state by that point. I honestly don't know, I mean he could be anywhere but I'm leaning toward somewhere in Oregon but I really truly don't know where.
Reporter asks how do you get through next 24 hours.
Kaine: He's not home. That's enough.
Desiree: Yeah. You just fight to make that happen. Whatever you gotta do.
Kaine: We're slowly integrating in with work and other activities a little bit here, a little bit there, just to make sure that we have things ready for him when he comes home. He needs to come home to a house. He needs to come home to a family, and there's certain things we have to do in order to get those things kind of back to a more normal state, but as far as day to day, you wake up, he's not home. First thing we do is talk to law enforcement and see what we have to do that day and then everything else just kinda falls into place around it.
