PortlandMama
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Bumping this thread for those of you who expressed interest in hearing ideas about a stranger abduction theory.
One thing to think about is that TH (or any parent or stepparent with his or her own child) ran much less of a risk than a stranger or anyone else would. If she was seen or stopped, all she had to do is say, "Kyron isn't feeling well" or "He has a doctor's appointment" or "We left something in the car." Then abandon the plan for that day.
Anyone else seen with Kyron would have a big problem.
I like to imagine two detectives discussing this case. Both know, from experience, that anything is "possible"...the key word is what is more "probable."
What is more probable?
The first detective believes it is more probable out of all other scenarios that Terri Horman did this crime. The second detective feels a stranger abduction is more probable.
Not "possible"..."more probable."...more "likely."
When asked to defend his case that Terri is most "probable"..., Detective #1 states that she was the last person known to be seen with the child.
He continues that she cannot account for her time that morning except to say she was "driving around. "
He points out that in her sexting done with another man 4 days after her "loved" husband walks out, she uses the same "driving around" excuse in an attempt to lie to her attorneys.
He argues that she says she failed several lie detector tests.
This detective asserts as well that Terri has expressed "extreme hatred" for the missing child in emails.
He makes the case that she has also expressed a desire to hurt the missing child.
Additionally...a witness has been located that says Terri tried to hire him to kill her husband.
So Detective #1 thinks, with what we know now...it is "more probable" that Terri Horman perpetrated this crime.
Detective #2 now begins to state the reasons it is "more probable" that is a stranger abduction.
He will no doubt say with saying that all the above are coincidences. Terri is just a very unlucky woman.
But now he begins to make his case WHY it is "more probable" to be a stranger rather than Terri, the stepmother last seen with Kyron who hated and wanted to hurt him and cannot account for her time.
In an objective manner, he presents the specific things he sees in this case that underlie his position.
What are the reasons he will state?
That Terri has accounted adequately for her time and could not have pulled off the abduction, given what we know about her activities that day, without an accomplice. And since that is extremely unlikely and there is zero evidence pointing to an accomplice, we are back at square one.
That Terri has accounted adequately for her time and could not have pulled off the abduction, given what we know about her activities that day, without an accomplice. And since that is extremely unlikely and there is zero evidence pointing to an accomplice, we are back at square one.
About the same risk TMH ran, actually.
If a stranger were seen with Kyron, all they'd have to do would abandon their plans to abduct. If they were approached, just say something like "oh, I needed someone to help me bring something in from my car."
Give up, drive away, try again a different day.
Among many others, Ted Bundy used that basic plan. He managed to abduct Janice Ott and Denise Naslund within hours of each other from the same location, Lake Sammamish, on a very busy day. There were plenty of witnesses but very few of them actually remembered what they saw because what they saw seemed so normal: a young man with a cast on his arm talking to a young woman.
IF Kyron's disappearance is a stranger abduction (I think the chances are against it), I think something similar may have happened as with the Bundy crimes: lots of people saw something but didn't remember what they saw because it just seemed absolutely ordinary, with no particular significance. Whatever they saw just blended into the visual "white noise" of the day.
We're in no position to know right now whether Terri has or has not accounted adequately for her time. (LE is not saying either way)
So is there some other argument that 2nd detective might use?
Does anyone know when the last time LE stated that Terri is the last known person to see Kyron?
I remember hearing it on 6/18 but wonder if they have been re-stating it each of the (few) times they have spoken...
No, Terri didn't actually report Kyron missing. It was discovered Kyron was missing when she and Kaine went to the bus stop. Terri didn't even make a call to Desiree then to tell her Kyron was missing. The school called Desiree.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_hormans_blended_family_f.html
Terri was the last known person to see Kyron after she took him to school that day, and she was the first to report him missing when she discovered he wasn't on the school bus that afternoon. That day followed years of caring for him.
Could it be, because of Desiree's slip, of why was Kyron by the truck, when he was supposed to be in class.
That possibly, Terri just drove off and left him standing there and a lucky child abductor picked him and whisked him away.
Not my way of thinking, but maybe what 2nd detective might use.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_hormans_blended_family_f.html
Terri was the last known person to see Kyron after she took him to school that day, and she was the first to report him missing when she discovered he wasn't on the school bus that afternoon. That day followed years of caring for him.