Her DUI also involved child endangerment. At the very least, that is probably why she was never able to get a teaching job.
Yes, but there is a huge difference between recklessness (driving drunk) and actual malice (kidnapping and murdering her own child). Doing one thing does not indicate propensity for the other. It's not a gauge that if you fill it up with enough Does Bad Things it crosses the line into Capable of Murder.
If (from before she became a suspect) there were accounts of her hurting children? Even torturing or killing small animals? That would be relevant.
What about the lurid affair with Kaine's old friend 3-weeks after Kyron's disappearance and providing him Kaine's strictly confidential address? Law enforcement called her sexual escapades part of her MO. Apparently, she had used a similar modus operandi with the landscaper. And there has been discussion of her involvement in another murder-for-hire plot when she wasn't even out of her teens, or just barely.
And yet none of these events either occurred or were "revealed" (that second murder-for-hire plot is even more dubious than the first) until after the kidnapping. Instead of saying three weeks after Kyron's disappearance, why don't we say shortly after she was confronted with a failed sting operation, and then Kaine abandoned her and took her child with him. I don't find it strange in the slightest that Terri unravelled at that point.
What about threatening to kidnap the baby from the gym? What about the California incidents since Kyron's disappearance that were newsworthy? Examples: stealing a vehicle, having a stolen gun in her possession, and holding a kitchen knife to her boyfriend's neck. I'm probably missing some.
It's her baby! Wasn't the idea that she didn't fight for her baby, and that showed she was guilty? Also, more events that postdate her life collapsing around her, with her unable to do anything about it. Was she even convicted of any of the California incidents?
It can't be denied that these all show disrespect for the rules of society and a predilection towards crimes of violence.
Or it shows a woman who has had her family destroyed, one child kidnapped, the other taken by the father. Being painted a villain in front of the whole world by law enforcement and media, and being unable to defend herself. LE dangling suspicion over her for a decade without actually charging her, while letting Kaine and Desiree slander her from here to tomorrow. Having all her dirty laundry aired for the world to see, and harassed at home and at work by Desiree, Desiree's husband's cop buddies and her disturbed social media followers.
But whatever issues she had when she uprooted to California hasn't seemed to continue. Perhaps she has found some measurement of peace.
Just to be clear, the second is "The fact that Terri places herself with Kyron shortly before he disappeared." She certainly did place herself with him. She took the now iconic photo of Kyron at 8:45 am inside his classroom. At 8:50 am, they were seen walking side by side through the school parking lot. The vehicle was not parked in the school parking lot where she had said it was but instead was parked on the gravel road on the west side of the school where the elevation drops, partially concealing the vehicle. And that is strange, IMO.
So the idea that the photo was taken at 8:45, and that several witnesses saw them walk out of the school together both come from Desiree, claims she only began to make years later. I have never seen anyone else confirm them, and the former is pretty obviously false. There has also never been confirmation that Terri's car was parked on the access road.
The ping does nothing to support her whereabouts. For one thing, we can't say for sure who had her cell phone that day. My understanding is that someone was trying to call her and the call went unanswered.
Who knows? But it's yet another aspect that fits her story but not the police's (remember, they thought the ping placed her on the island itself).
But the time of the ping does fall within the 90-minutes she can't account for. However, it is doubtful that the location of the tower places her in the area where she said she was. But she was driving, so maybe.
Why is it doubtful?
Also falling within those same 90-minutes is yet another of those pesky, unreliable eyewitnesses who told LE that the F250 was seen pulled over on a fire trail off Newberry Road. And this had enough weight to it that it caused Terri to add to her story that she may have stopped around there somewhere to change a diaper but she couldn't be sure. She had no idea what she might have done with the soiled diaper.
If that is true, it's just another point in her favor. She said she drove on rural roads and her truck was spotted on one of those rural roads.
Now this is a relatively young woman, hopefully not stricken with Alzheimer's disease. She surely would have to have some memory of where she drove and where she stopped during a 90-minute interval. She had her 18-month-old daughter with her. The word responsibility comes to my mind.
The words "I wonder if something was going on at the time that might distract her from perfectly remembering every single detail that she no doubt had not seen any reason to memorize" come to my mind. Still, astonishingly, every provable detail she provided to the police was proved.
Law enforcement twice took her back to the area where she said she was in hopes of jogging her memory, but, nope, it didn't help.
It would be a very good thing for her to be able to prove where she was during those 90-missing-minutes on the day her stepson would seemingly vanish. (After he was seen leaving the school with her). So why can't she? Why won't she?
I honestly don't know how to make it more clear. Unless there are witnesses that come forward, driving on rural roads where there are no CCTV cameras or stores that can provide receipts, means she can't do anything to prove exactly where she was. It's not as if she had a destination in mind either; her focus was on calming her daughter. It didn't matter if it was Old Germantown Road or Skyline Boulevard or Newberry Road.
Witnesses can come forward and say they saw her. She can't control that. She can't ensure every single place she visited that morning was surveilled.
It's not a matter of "won't".
Not at all. There is that strange matter of the partially concealed vehicle. What was going on there?
No reason to believe it was concealed, partially or not.
How much time existed between when she exited the field of the witness's vision and when she pulled out onto the highway driving the F250? She would only need a few minutes. To harm him? To pass him off? She is just as guilty if she passed Kyron off to someone.
The half-mile between the school and the highway? That goes through an open landscape with farms and houses fully in view? That's where she did her clandestine deed?
Could another adult have been waiting in the vehicle? After all, if she parked in the school parking lot, how did the vehicle get to the partially concealed area of the gravel road?
It didn't. It wasn't on the access road.
Are the 90-missing-minutes she won't explain because she had to meet the "someone" she had passed Kyron off to, but first she had to set up her "tight" alibi? Her early emails to friends show that she wanted everyone to believe Kyron went missing between 9 am and 10 am. The big hole in her timeline starts at approximately 10 minutes past 10 o'clock on the morning of June 4, 2010.
It's not a matter of wanting everyone to believe. She left the school just before nine. At ten Kyron was marked as absent by his teacher. Whatever happened, had to have happened in that time.
What about the strange parking positions at both Fred Meyers? It would have been to her advantage to show that Kyron's booster seat was empty and that she was alone (with the exception of having her baby with her).
How do you know they were strange? Has the police released the CCTV images? Even if the lots were empty, parking further from the store is hardly strange if you're driving a larger vehicle than usual.
I don't believe for a moment she was trying to conceal the presence of an alive and well Kyron sitting up alertly in his booster seat. If he was in that vehicle at that time he was under a tarp or in a recycling bin of some sort.
She would have had no time or opportunity to do that.
Yes, her car never left the flower farm on Old Germantown Road and her known cell phone inexplicably was locked inside it. But both the ping area and the witness sighting of the F250 on NW Newberry Road are within a driving time range for Terri to have picked DeDe up and reached the gym by 11:39 am. IIRC, wasn't she working near an old hot house on the back end of the property that day? A pretty easy location from which to slip away unseen and then return, equally unseen.
The gym is more than 10 minutes driving distance from the farm and 11:39 is the sign in time, not the arrival time. I wouldn't call that within time range.
It does, indeed, leave us with the evidence. Which none of us are privy to. IMO, based on what we know which is what you are also doing, Terri, or someone else acting on her behalf, could certainly have killed Kyron before 10:10 am.
I really don't see how.
8:45 am, she leaves the school with the baby.
9-10 minutes drive down to Hillsboro on highway 27, through mostly open landscapes with no time or place to hurt Kyron.
9:12 am, she gets a receipt at the first Fred Meyer. She's had ca 10-15 minutes in the store.
10 minutes drive to second Fred Meyer, within an urban area.
9:30-10:00 am, CCTV and eyewitnesses place her at second Fred Meyer and dry cleaner.
6 minutes drive to Michael's craft store, within an urban area.
10:10 am, she's at Michael's, last time given by LE.
Those margins are razor thin, and she's moving entirely through habitated areas, first open farmland with plenty of houses, then the urban areas of Hillsboro and Beaverton. There simply isn't any time or place that she could have performed the deed.