I was working with the theory offered here that Terri lied about making an appointment.
If she made an appointment out of a narcissistic need to get the parenting recognition, then it doesn't make one lick of sense to keep that information from Desiree and Kaine. In fact, it would provide her with at least two weeks of narcissistic feed to keep bringing it up as often as possible to prove she's the parent who saw something was wrong with Kyron and by gosh and golly she's gonna get him in to the doctor as soon as she can to make sure he's taken care of the way only she can do.
Keeping it a secret on the Thursday she says she made the appointment and only mentioning it after Kyron disappeared doesn't give her any time at all to get her narcissist on. She defies her plan completely by taking the air out of her own tires by disappearing Kyron. The story doesn't add up at the school because when the chaperone stated she was short one child, the excuse given wasn't that he was at the Dr, don't worry.....it was that he was probably in the bathroom, don't worry.
I heard it again on Dateline. The confusion about this Dr appointment is the parent's confusion.......they didn't know about it, they say. I simply can't understand how a narcissist would be able to keep it a secret when she's got something as hot to feed her narcissism as being the one who discovered something may be wrong with Kyron.
Okay, let's look at this rationally. Number one, the appointment wasn't the entire plan. It was only a piece of a plan to prove Terri's innocence. Think about it this way - she needed to get him out of that school. She also needed the school to not panic and immediately call her or Kaine when it's discovered that Kyron is not there. She needs that time to do what she did to Kyron and then hide what she's done.
She can't just take him and risk that luck is going to be on her side and the school won't call her or God forbid Kaine, wondering where he is. So she had to make up the appointment. But it can't be a real appointment because she knows she's getting symptoms from WebMD (which I showed in a previous post in a previous thread on this subject that she practically took their symptoms verbatim and put them in an email to her friend). She never intends to take him to an appointment because he's not going anywhere after she's done on that Friday.
Instead, she uses that fake appointment to trick the school. If they think he's out at an appointment and coming back later, they won't call her or Kaine, and that gives her time to do what she needs to do - in fact, the school never even raised an alarm about it. It was only the teacher that got confused about it and never reported Kyron missing to the front office because Terri confused her about that appointment. She volunteered at that school. She knew the inner workings of it and what she had to do to get Kyron out and not make any alarm of it. The appointment was the piece to help her do that and it worked.
She even fills out a sheet for it, so if anyone did look, oh, he's just at a doctor's appointment. I believe it was discussed that she didn't have to write down the date of the appointment, just that he had an appointment. Then when she's asked about that, all she had to say is that it was for the following Friday, not Friday June 4th. The poor teacher who doesn't hear well was just mistaken. And if Kaine and Desiree ask her about it, that's where supermom comes in, filling them in on what she saw before he went missing and why she made an appointment.
In this scenario, no one calls the doctor's office. No one gets suspicious because she's this caring mom who was so worried about her stepson that she made an appointment. And she'd tell Kaine and Desiree that she wasn't sure if it was seizures or not, so she didn't want to worry them before knowing for sure what is wrong with Kyron. She was thinking about them, afterall, and not wanting to worry them unless she absolutely had to. How selfless and courageous of her to take the initiative to do something like that (that's what she thought they would think).
This is how easy it was supposed to be. No police looking into her, no polygraphs tests, no one suspicious of her, only people thinking she was a selfless, loving mom that was looking out for Kyron, who would never ever want to hurt him.
But instead, it flew right back in her face and brought her nothing but trouble. I'm going to offer the below scenario as speculative proof only:
1. The questions she stumbled on the polygraph tests were about the appointment, something that wasn't supposed to have anything to do with what happened to Kyron.
2. The teacher's story about the appointment and Terri's story did not add up. There's also a document in the office about the appointment, so the police aren't sure what to believe, but something is very hinky here.
3. Suspicious because of the above two points, the police looked into the appointment to verify it and verify Terri's story over the teacher's, and find out it was a fake.
4. The police bring this fact to Kaine and Desiree's attention to see their reaction to it, and find out that they knew nothing about Kyron having seizures or the appointment.
5. Then it's back to looking into Terri because she's also the last adult to have seen Kyron at the school. Add a fake appointment to that, and you've got BIG suspicion hanging over her head from then on.
If you take the appointment away, all you have is that Terri was the last person to see Kyron in school, a real Riley Fox case. More people would think she was innocent because of other cases like Riley Fox's. Kaine and Desiree would even think she might be innocent. Even if the police looked into her, they wouldn't find enough to be really suspicious of her. Terri would have gotten away with it.
But instead, she went too far in bringing in the fake appointment. It had a domino effect, raising suspicion exponentially on her instead of helping to clear her as a supermom who loved her stepson. She thought too much about how to make herself look to everyone else instead of blending into the background more and looking more innocent. That's why I'm saying she's a narcissist. She thinks too much about how she looks to everyone else. She tries too hard to fit in and be the supermom she believes in her head that she is.
That is her top priority, that everyone believe she is a supermom who loved Kyron and couldn't possibly hurt him. How to accomplish that? Make a fake appointment for fake seizures and surely no one will think for a second that she had anything to do with what happened to Kyron. That's what she was banking on, her selfless, loving supermom persona to free her of suspicion. She brought more attention on herself thinking it would exonerate her, and instead, it's only going to help convict her at some point. If only she hadn't worried so much about how she looked to everyone else, she might have eluded suspicion in this case.
It reminds me of the case of the man who drowned his wife in a hotel bathtub. All he had to do was let it go, but he was greedy and couldn't help but sue the hotel for his wife's death. The subsequent investigation revealed the her accidental death was a murder instead. Had he not taken the step to sue the hotel to satisfy his selfish and greedy needs, he probably would have gotten away with it, scarily enough. He and Terri Horman worried too much about themselves. They worried too much about things they thought would bring positive attention on to them, not realizing all they were doing was the exact opposite and making themselves all the more suspicious. They shouldn't have thought about wanting more attention if they wanted to get away with murder. That's the problem with Naricissists. They think they can spin any kind of attention in a way that makes them look better. They think attention on them is exactly what they need when in fact, it's the last thing they need if they want to get away with murder.
This is why there's that adage about the watching the quiet ones - it's the ones that don't bring attention to themselves that get away with crime the most. Terri Horman, fortunately for justice for Kyron, is definitely NOT one of the quiet ones even though she won't open her mouth and defend herself. She already put too much out there to draw attention to herself. She doesn't have to say anything because the damage has already been done thanks to her selfish, narcisstic need to be mother of the century to her stepson.