All Sauvie Island Searches

[ThoughtFox]

June 11th: Search Expands to Sauvie Island
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_horman_search_enters_eig.html

(Same day as family press conference in which Terri Horman appeared to have strange body language while on stage with Desiree and Kaine)

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Earlier today, riders on horseback began searching Sauvie Island and a Blackhawk helicopter from the Oregon National Guard could also be seen above the island. By 10:30 a.m., the helicopter had made at least two passes, along a north-south line as the mounted riders began to head north along Sauvie Island Road.

Sauvie Island resident Mary Douglas said she saw the helicopter flying over the island on Thursday, but today was the first time she saw anyone searching the ground.

A crew on horseback asked to check her property this morning and went over her orchard by Multnomah Channel, Douglas said.

June 12th: Search Continues
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_horman_search_begins_nin.html

A National Guard helicopter flew low over the slough dividing Sauvie Island and the mainland today, hovering about 100 feet off the ground, headed slowly back and forth.

Search teams combed the steep grassy hillside along US 30 and the rail line beside it.

Though investigators have declined to provide much detail about the search parameters, a small crew on horseback went house to house on Sauvie Island Friday and appeared to be back today., a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was seen circling overheard for the third day in a row.

Search conditions also improved today with warm weather that is expected to improve through the weekend.

That’s good news to searchers, who spent much of the week dealing with heavy rains and muddy terrain.

Jeannine Kafoury, a Sauvie Island houseboat resident, has been watching the searchers today and wondering what brought them to the pastoral island.

“There had to be a tip for them to be here, don’t you think?” she said. She was putting a powerboat into the Multnomah Channel where a helicopter has been making slow passes overhead. “I can’t think they are doing this randomly.”

Search and rescue team members from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office searched railroad tracks along highway 30 between Cornelius Pass and Sauvie Island on June 12, 2010. Andrew Burton/The Oregonian

 

[ThoughtFox]

June 14th: Dive Teams Search Water Near Sauvie Island ~ Other Searches Scaled Back
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/search_for_kyron_horman_switch.html

Hours after a press conference where officials reiterated the scaled-back operation, a dive team searched parts of the Multnomah Channel near Sauvie Island -- where search and rescue units had been seen for days. Officials from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office confirmed the team was part of the search for Kyron.

June 15th: Last day of school at Skyline Elementary

Searchers out on horseback and in the water on Sauvie:
Source: KGN (with video)

Fourth Day of Search on Sauvie Island

Meanwhile, on the 11th day of the search for Kyron, investigators intensified their search in the area of Sauvie Island.From KGW's Sky 8 helicopter, searchers in wetsuits were seen moving through waist-high water while someone on shore provided directions.

A dive team searched swamps and ponds around the rural NW Portland area, and crews also searched around the Multnomah Channel. Investigators would not say what led them to this area, but it was the fourth consecutive day that crews scoured Sauvie Island.

June 18: Flier Released of Terri Horman and White Truck
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/police_issue_questionnaire_ask.html

Gates said Terri Horman and the rest of Kyron's family have cooperated with the investigation. The family said in a statement that it supports release of the flier in hopes that the additional photos of Terri Horman and the family's pick-up truck will spark more tips for the two-week-old investigation.

"We want Kyron home and we hope this will help do that," the family said.

Gates said he could not discuss any suspects or persons of interest in the case. He also said that while Kyron could have been abducted by a stranger, Gates does not think there is a need for alarm in the community.

Members of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Dive/Rescue Team check a pond on private property near Skyline School in northwestern Multnomah County.

 

[ThoughtFox]

August 8th: Searchers Return
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/searchers_return_to_hunt_for_k.html

Multnomah County Sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand said she believed search teams have wrapped up for the night after combing areas near Skyline School this weekend, more than two months after 7-year-old Kyron Horman first went missing.

There are no plans as of yet to continue the search tomorrow morning, Lindstrand said, but teams could return to specific areas if additional tips surface.

August 9th: Old Germantown Road Search
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/kyron_horman_investigators_and.html

Searchers and investigators resumed their ground search for Kyron Horman over the weekend, this time focusing on the 2.2 mile Old Germantown Road loop - not far from the home where DeDe Spicher, one of Terri Moulton Horman's friends - was gardening the day Kyron went missing.

Searchers were looking more deeply through the area, while investigators were canvassing and questioning residents along the stretch to see if they recalled seeing a white truck or anything unusual on June 4, the day Kyron disappeared.

Jeff Clemes, also a resident along Old Germantown Road, estimated there were about 30 searchers, including some with dogs, this weekend, combing through the remote wooded neighborhood. He was also asked if he had seen Spicher or Kyron's stepmom on June 4.

"They asked if I had seen those people or seen that truck in this area?" Clemes said.

Searchers and canvassers are expected back during the week.

August 11th: Press conference about white truck in front of School.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/kyron_horman_case_investigator.html

"The question is, 'Who else is in the truck still? Gee, we know the truck was here. Did anyone see somebody in the truck?" Van Zandt said.

Authorities urged the public to recall whether they saw the Horman truck from about 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on either Northwest Springville Road, on Skyline Boulevard between Springville and Newberry Road, or along Old Germantown or Germantown Road. If so, they're asked to call investigators.

In addition, the investigative team wants anyone who parked in the school's south parking lot, between the school's south entrance and Northwest Skyline Boulevard, before 8:45 a.m. to provide their name, license plate number, make, model, year and color of their vehicle.

While O'Donnell acknowledged that investigators worked to identify everyone who was at the school the morning of June 4 after Kyron went missing, he said that as the inquiry continued detectives developed leads that have them looking at information "through a different lens."

October 2nd-3rd: Crews Return to Sauvie Island
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/10/searchers_will_return_to_sauvi.html

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A total of 113 search personnel from numerous Washington and Oregon agencies, and including ground crews and searchers using horses and all-terrain vehicles combed the fields and densely forested areas of Sauvie Island on Sunday. The effort was scaled back from Saturday’s search, which included 160 searchers.

. . . A crew of six from the Washington-based Silver Star and Wind River search and rescue teams, two private organizations, suited up in yellow clothes and helmets before beginning to search their assigned area.

. . . Soon after, the group split in half and headed in different directions. One group of three spread on a field near the intersection of N.W. Reeder Rd. and Rentenaar Rd. and walked with eyes aimed at the ground. One of them, like many ground searchers on the island, carried a long stick-like instrument used to search through bushes and brush.

"They’re searching through vegetation so they’re taking implements with them to get through those areas," Lindstrand said. "Some of it is fields, some of it is briar bushes and blackberry bushes, that’s why they have horses and ATVs also."

October 9th: 100 personnel search Sauvie for second weekend in a row:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/10/searchers_return_to_sauvie_isl.html

Saturday's team includes about 60 ground searchers, said Lt. Mary Lindstrand, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office. The rest are on ATVs, horses, with canine units or support groups, she said.

October 10th: 60 personnel search Sauvie for second day
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/10/searchers_continue_to_comb_sau.html

Today's search was scaled back slightly from Saturday's effort which included 100 searchers. Leading the search this weekend are Sgt. Travis Gullberg and Deputy Mark Herron. The county's regular search and rescue coordinator, Sgt. Diana Olsen, was injured in a traffic accident earlier this week.

November 14th-15th: Dive Teams Return to Sauvie Island
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/dive_teams_search_for_kyron.html

“It’s part of the ongoing investigation,” said Lt. Mary Lindstrand of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. “It’s not based on new information. They are just following up on leads.”

November 13th-14th: Dive Teams Continue Search on Sauvie
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/dive_teams_return_to_sauvie_is.html

http://www.katu.com/news/107834189.html

A spokesperson for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office says about 50 people are part of the search, including paid workers and volunteers.

Multnomah County Sheriff Public Information Officer Mary Lindstrand tells us the search is only in the water. Inch by inch, foot by foot, in 50-degree water only a few feet deep, dive teams combed Sauvie Island's canals, ponds and lakes – looking for any trace of Kyron Horman.

. . . "Water temperature is fine – depths are shallow – but the visibility's tough," said volunteer diver Jason Cottle from Skamania County.

From Google maps you can see Sauvie Island, northwest of downtown Portland, stretched out between the Columbia River and the Multnomah Channel. The north end of the island is mostly water, with huge shallow lakes criss-crossed by drainage canals. All of these waterways make up the 12,000-acre Sauvie Island wildlife area.

This is just one more step in a massive process of elimination.

"Hopefully, when we get this done, they'll know areas where we know we don't have to go back," Lindstrand told us. "But again, we may not finish with what we need to do because, as you know, this island is just covered with water."

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/newkyronsearch-107821564.html

Officials told KGW that the operation had been planned for several weeks but that they had had to wait for resources to become available from other agencies.

Searchers used sophisticated sonar mapping equpment over the weekend. Why sonar?

Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Mary Lindstrand chose words carefully.

"They're looking for items, I can't give the specifics and have to be careful in what I say here," she said. "They are using the sonar to see if there's something they need to check."

Divers went into the water if the sonar picked up a signal worthy of investigation.

"The visibility in the canal is at best three feet today," Cottle said. "And as soon as you make a pass, your next next pass is silted up and even worse."

 

[txsvicki]

Has there ever been any talk of the area all around the home being thoroughly searched and searched again?

 

[ThoughtFox]

Has there ever been any talk of the area all around the home being thoroughly searched and searched again?

Scroll back a page and read some of those early links. The school is near the Horman home, and the place where DeDe was working was near the Horman home, too. They really beat the bushes all around there last summer.

Often in those articles, they wouldn't say exactly where they were searching, but obviously they had to search the home and surroundings at some point.

 

[Ms Suzanne]

Has there ever been any talk of the area all around the home being thoroughly searched and searched again?

I feel they should go back and check again.

 

[freefallzzzz]

((((hugs))))) to ThoughtFox =)

Awesome!!
Exactly Exactly what I was looking for!!! =)

Thank you!!! =)

 

[Chili Fries]

Scroll back a page and read some of those early links. The school is near the Horman home, and the place where DeDe was working was near the Horman home, too. They really beat the bushes all around there last summer.

Often in those articles, they wouldn't say exactly where they were searching, but obviously they had to search the home and surroundings at some point.

The school and the Old Germantown Road farm aren't really that close to the Horman home.

But we do know the area around the Horman home has been searched. I'm not sure I can provide a link but I am absolutely sure that we have seen pictures of a search around the home some time in the weeks after Kyron went missing.

 

[cluciano63]

I think LE needs to show Kyron's clothing samples on TV again...it has been almost 6 months since they did that. People will be in the woods, cross-country skiing, etc... I e-mailed J. Gates with the suggestion, anyway.

 

[Billylee]

I think LE needs to show Kyron's clothing samples on TV again...it has been almost 6 months since they did that. People will be in the woods, cross-country skiing, etc... I e-mailed J. Gates with the suggestion, anyway.

Yes, there are still certain elk hunts that will be going through Feb, I think? I know my hubby goes on on one in January. Problem is snow is starting to fall at the upper elevations already, a little earlier and heavier than normal. It's still never a bad idea to give out the info again, thank you Cluciano.

 

[ThoughtFox]

((((hugs))))) to ThoughtFox =)

Awesome!!
Exactly Exactly what I was looking for!!! =)

Thank you!!! =)

You're welcome! :dance:

I figure you could take those links and add the links to your own search pictures and make a really good search timeline.

And doing that research really helped me to understand what happened from the beginning. Originally they were searching all around the school and concentrating on the parents and personnel, and that went on for a couple of weeks. Then the search began to widen and moved to surrounding roads and then out to Sauvie Island.

 

[Billylee]

Dec. 4 http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/12/multnomah_county_sheriff_dan_s_2.html


As the criminal investigation proceeds, so does a search-and-rescue operation. Its braincenter is located in a small room down the hall from the "War Room." Marked-up maps of the West Hills and Sauvie Island cover a conference table; maps of Sauvie Island are taped to the walls, a map plotting cell phone towers around the school and Sauvie Island is affixed to an easel, and maps from the earliest searches for the missing boy are inventoried in cylindrical bins.

Searchers from three states, including planes, search dogs, all-terrain vehicles, horse and walking teams, have combed heavily-wooded ravines, thick grass fields and hilly rough terrain around Skyline School, the Horman home and Sauvie Island, the largest river island in the country. In recent months, searches at the island resulted from cell phone tower pings analyzed, viable leads or statistical probabilities from studies of other missing child cases, officials said.

So this confirms it's not JUST cell phone pings that are causing them to search SI.

 

[LMax]

http://www.kgw.com/news/Soaking-rain--111638269.html
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Soaking rain pounded the Metro area Thursday, and the National Weather Service issued an Urban Flood Advisory through 10:45 p.m. cautioning about possible flooding on local roadways.
(Did Sauvie Island flood?)

 

[pdx]

http://www.kgw.com/news/Soaking-rain--111638269.html
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Soaking rain pounded the Metro area Thursday, and the National Weather Service issued an Urban Flood Advisory through 10:45 p.m. cautioning about possible flooding on local roadways.
(Did Sauvie Island flood?)

I don't think so.. the whole place is usually soggy anyway.
Not "flooded" as in, came in houses.
The road flooding on last night's news was roadways in town.. blocked catchbasins and that sort of thing.

It was really epic rain though!

 

[freefallzzzz]

I don't think so.. the whole place is usually soggy anyway.
Not "flooded" as in, came in houses.
The road flooding on last night's news was roadways in town.. blocked catchbasins and that sort of thing.

It was really epic rain though!

Latest news for local possible flooding

Prepare for a deluge, possible flooding this weekend

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Up to 3 inches of rain could fall in Willamette Valley locales over the next three days, with coastal and mountain regions getting even more.

Flood alerts issued for Oregon and Washington

http://www.katu.com/news/local/111683149.html

Usually you see a lot of basement flooding, and the small creeks flood over the roadways in the area..
Sauvie's has dikes but some areas such as ponds, canals, ect, I'm sure will rise above the banks

 

[Frigga]

Latest news for local possible flooding

Prepare for a deluge, possible flooding this weekend

snip
Up to 3 inches of rain could fall in Willamette Valley locales over the next three days, with coastal and mountain regions getting even more.

Flood alerts issued for Oregon and Washington

http://www.katu.com/news/local/111683149.html

Usually you see a lot of basement flooding, and the small creeks flood over the roadways in the area..
Sauvie's has dikes but some areas such as ponds, canals, ect, I'm sure will rise above the banks

Just a thought but maybe the flooding will bring Kyron up/out from wherever he is, especially (sorry in advance to those who believe he is still alive- I don't) if he is buried somewhere on that island in a shallow grave?! Gosh I hated typing that!

Please let us find him and soon...

 

[freefallzzzz]

Just a thought but maybe the flooding will bring Kyron up/out from wherever he is, especially (sorry in advance to those who believe he is still alive- I don't) if he is buried somewhere on that island in a shallow grave?! Gosh I hated typing that!

Please let us find him and soon...

I will be honest and say I that is the first thing that came to mind for me also..

 

[Michael25]

What is the general consensus about a downpour hurting or helping potential future searches on Sauvie Island?

 

[freefallzzzz]

What is the general consensus about a downpour hurting or helping potential future searches on Sauvie Island?

Good question!

I had to ask the DBF.

If remains were in a body of water ON the island they could possibly be covered up with the increase of sediment from runoff.

If remains were in a body of water with a moving current they could possibly have more chance of washing away down with the current and/or up on the bank..

If remain were buried on the island, we think it would cause them to settle
into the ground further along with making it harder to detect any signs
of the ground being disturbed previously.

He is an avid hunter and said rain is the worst thing for "tracking" (noticing disturbances in areas)

This is just pure speculation.
I would like to know others opinions as well..

I just read this and IMO this does not seem like the rain would help
any further searches as I previously had thought..

Anyone else??

Any SAR's??

 

[grandmaj]

If you remember the CO case of Kayleah Wilson it is believed that she was caught in a culvert or another place and that the heavy rain washed her body to the open where it could be found.

So I think it could work both ways good and bad.