It might be that she suspected Terri of being able to hurt Kyron even before nothing happened but I don't think this reaction is evidence of it. I imagine that a person might think so as a knee-jerk reaction even if they haven't had any particular suspicions but do have some negative feelings.
Also, we don't know what Terri said and in what kind of tone and some of that may have caused a reaction in Desiree, and she may also have thought that it was odd that Terri or Kaine didn't call her themselves, even though it's clear that Terri had her phone with her since Desiree said that the school secretary said she had been asked to call her and she called Terri immediately after hanging up the conversation with the secretary. So, Terri and Kaine could just as easily have called her themselves and it may have already struck her as odd that they didn't, even before talking to Terri.
I find it interesting that she says she called Terri, not Kaine.
I don't think Desiree thought Terri could hurt Kyron. Baby K was 7 months old at the end of
last school year. They could have transitioned Kyron then if there was major concerns. I
definitely do not think that she tried to have Kyron come live with her in the 18 months because she had concerns and Kaine wouldn't let him.
Desiree is being very classy and restrained, but her feelings are written all over her face. Her feelings for Terri are crystal clear. She does not have that type of anger towards Kaine that she does towards Terri. If she had tried to take Kyron back and Kaine said no, she would be almost as angry at him as she is at Terri.
I think it's possible her instincts kicked in immediately upon hearing he was missing. If the step mother OR baby sitter of my child asked the
school secretary to call and tell me my child was missing, THAT would raise some huge red flags for me.
I think it probably contributed to Desiree's immediately thinking "She better not have done anything to my son." It immediately struck me as "wow, she couldn't even call and tell her that herself? What was she afraid of if the school lost him?" Even Ron Cummings called Crystal! He didn't ask the cops to do it for him. I would immediately pick up the phone and call her, right after making sure the cops were on their way.
I don't find it at all odd that Desiree called Terri and not Kaine. The school secretary told her that
Terri asked her to call and tell her. There was no mention of Kaine. Of course she would call Terri because Terri is obviously the person who would know something since they are there.
I can also see how what Terri told her would bother her. Quite a bit of detail if it's not asked for. I would be franitc "They are saying Kyron wasn't here all day!!! He was here this morning but they are saying he hasn't been here all day!! Why didn't they call me!! This can't be right!"
Terri gives all the detail about the Science fair, walking towards the classroom but not into it, says that was the last
she saw him. It just seems odd if Desiree did not question her further to give so much detail. So I can also see that raising red flags too.
Then when you add in the hindsight... I can understand how they are so sure of her involvement regardless of any previous red flags.
http://www.kptv.com/news/24197226/detail.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6661870n&tag=related;photovideo
"Desiree Young, Kyron's mother, said she was at work June 4 in southern Oregon when
she received a phone call from the Skyline School secretary. The secretary told Young that Terri Horman, Kyron's stepmother, asked her to call and inform her that Kyron was missing.
Young said she immediately
called Terri Horman, who was the last person to see Kyron, according to investigators.
"I said, 'What in the hell is going on?' She informed me that she had gone to the science fair that morning and she did not walk into his classroom, but saw him walk toward his classroom and that was the last she saw him," Young told CNN. "He was marked absent at 10."
