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All right, let's head over to Garrett to hear his 10 seconds for this week. Peyton and I started Walking Dead. We've kind of watched it before a little bit. Like I watched up until like where we're about now. Yeah. So we started way back when, like 2000. Yeah, yeah. Long time ago. So we're like, I don't know, we're season three-ish, almost four. Mm-hmm.
We'll see how far we get, but... I'm starting to remember why I stopped watching. The first couple seasons are really, really good. Gosh, it just gets annoying. And then it just gets frustrating. But we're going to try to pull through. We're going to try to push through because we really like the first seasons and we want to finish the whole entire series. So we're going to try to push through. But we have been fast forwarding a lot. Other than that, you know me, guys. Playing golf, pickleball, whatever.
I'm getting old I think. You're getting old? Garrett woke up at like 4 30 a.m this morning to go play pickleball. I know I feel like that's what an older person would do. And before we hop in um YouTube I guess doesn't like us again so. Yes we've been demonetized once again so if you just want to keep giving us the love and support anywhere else it seriously helps us out so much. But
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Okay, so our case this week actually involves minors, so I'm just giving a warning for that. If you do not want to listen to a case that involves children, go ahead and skip. But our case sources are a real-life nightmare episode, Season 1, Episode 3, and an ID Mystery documentary called Little Boy Lost.
and also www.coin.com. And all of those are always listed in our episode notes if you want to check them out. So this week, our case begins in Portland, Oregon in 2010. It's early summer and Portland is in full bloom. The school year is almost over and you know the excitement that that brings.
Gosh, like I loved when the weather started warming up and school was kind of winding down. That was always just such an exciting, fun time. You feel like summer's coming. The possibilities are endless. I just thought that time was so fun. But 16 miles northwest of downtown Portland was a school called Skyline School. It seemed pretty far from the big city. It was just a big red brick building tucked away in some pine trees in a quiet and quaint area.
So seven-year-old Kyron Horman is a student at Skyline School. Kyron was pretty shy. He had the cutest little glasses. He was just getting his adult teeth. Honestly, he's so, so cute. Just like your cute seven-year-old little boy.
Kyron's mother, Desiree Young, describes Kyron as incredibly smart, using big words for his age. He loved cars and Legos and spending time with his family. He also really loved forensics, which at such a young age, honestly, like a prodigy, superior child, in my opinion.
Kane Horman, who is Kyron's father, says Kyron is reserved but just wanted to do good. He was artsy but was also trying soccer for the first time and was enjoying it. He loved to be outdoors, but he was artistic all at the same time.
Everyone around Kyron says he had one of those infectious belly laughs and a full mouth smile that like immediately makes you want to join in. And you can actually tell this by his pictures. He kind of reminds me of the little boy on Stuart Little. Do you know which one I'm talking about? That's exactly what I was picturing while you were talking about this. Exactly what he looks like. Just so infectious and fun. So cute.
Kyron Horman could light up anybody's life. Kyron was living with his dad at the time of our story. Desiree and Kane were married in July of 2000. Desiree already had another baby with someone else before this marriage, and Kane was good with kids. You can actually just tell this through the footage I watched while researching. Kane seems like a really present and caring dad. Kane was a software engineer at Intel, and Desiree was an accountant and bookkeeper at the time.
But two years later, she and Cain were pregnant with Kyron after being married. And while pregnant with Kyron and newly married, Desiree claims to have found out that Cain was cheating on her. His best friend actually called her and broke the news to her.
Okay.
Kane had met Terry Moulton at a restaurant in June of 2002. She already had a son from one of her previous two husbands. And once Kyron was born and Desiree moved out of her and Kane's home that they had bought together, Terry moved right on in.
The divorce was not final yet, but Desiree moved out into a condo down the road. Desiree actually had custody of Kyron and this whole ordeal was a lot and pretty sad. Honestly, like I can't imagine seeing the girl that your husband cheated on you with just move into your old house down the road as you move out with your infant child like divorce on its way.
In 2004, when Kyron was two, he actually stayed in Portland with his dad because of Desiree's health problems that she was figuring out in Canada. So she got sick and
And dropped Kyron off with Kane and then went to Canada, but then ended up having to stay in Canada for these health problems. And so Kyron ended up spending a lot more time with Kane and Terry. Okay. When Desiree came back, she was in debt because of the medical bills. And so she went to live with her parents in Medford, which is like four hours away from where they're at. Okay.
And Cain was actually given custody of Kyren. So although Desiree loved her son, she was in a hard place in life. And so she decided, OK, Kyren's going to spend some time with his dad. And you can have him full custody.
So Desiree found a job and met a man named Tony Young in Medford and decided to stay there. Tony was a detective in Medford, and that was kind of primarily the reason that Kyron loved forensics so much was because his stepdad, his mom's boyfriend was a detective. So this particular day, June 4th, 2010, Skyline School was having its annual science fair. Did you do science fair? Mm-hmm.
Oh, actually, I went to the science fair. Oh, okay. Tell me what? Tell me what? I went to this nationals thing when I was... You made it to nationals? Yeah, I went to like, I forget, somewhere in California, and I set up this booth. What was your project? Well, it's kind of a long story. Okay. I don't want to take so much time. It was just about teeth. There's too much to explain.
Too much to explain. So Garrett went to nationals for his science project about teeth. My mom probably did 70% of it. As they always do. So Kyron was participating in Skyline School Science Fair that day too. And he did a research project about the red-eyed tree frog. Kyron was feeling a little nervous about the actual fair despite loving the project he did about the frog.
Having people walk around and talk to him, remember he was a little shy. It could be intimidating for anybody. I mean, let's be honest. But Kyron was definitely nervous about it. But the night before the fair, June 3rd, 2002, his mother Desiree talked to him on the phone about it. Remember, she doesn't have custody of him and she's living four hours away. She told him, you know what, Kyron, you're going to do great. All he had to do was talk about this project, which he was really interested in.
and he seemed to have some excitement towards tomorrow as well as nerves. And the next morning when Kyron woke up early, he spoke to his dad out front of their house before heading to school. Kane told him, listen, have a fun time, relax. The science fair is going to be awesome. And it would actually be taking place before school started that day. So all the kids would drive to school early, do their fair for a couple hours. All the parents would be there and then school would start.
Kyron then jumped into his dad's Ford truck, his stepmom, Terry Horman, who used to be Moulton, who was the woman that he had an affair with that he's now married. She would be driving him to school that morning as Kane needed to go to work. It was only a quick three mile drive up the road to Skyland school to drop Kyron off. I feel like this is just a buildup right now to, yeah, keep going. So everyone went about their day and it was around the time that school got over and
that Kane and Terry and their new infant daughter they just had a daughter together made their usual walk to the bus stop to pick up Kyron at around 3 30 p.m remember he didn't ride the bus to school that morning because he was going early for the science fair which is why they dropped him off but he would just as usual get on the bus and come home from school that day at the normal time
Cain and Terry were eager to hear how Kyron's presentation and science fair went. They stood around waiting for the bus to pull up. Finally, the bus drives up and stops in front of them. The bus driver opens the door and asks Cain and Terry what they are doing here.
They tell him, we're just picking Kyron up from the bus stop. We're here every day. This is pretty normal. The bus driver pauses and then says, well, Kyron isn't on the bus today. Oh, no. And, you know, just straight up confused now. Kane, Kyron's dad, tells the bus driver that Kyron should be on the bus today.
And so the bus driver radios up to the school to get some answers for the family. This is when the school officials radio back down after doing some checking and let the bus driver know that not only is Kyra not back at Skyline School right now, he actually hadn't shown up for school that day at all.
He was absent all day long. Okay. Really confused. Because so when Terry dropped him off in the morning. Yeah. Did she see him go into the school? Yes. She went into the school and helped him set up his project. That's right. But he never made it to his first class that way. Oh, so somewhere between the science project and school starting, he didn't show up. Got it. Something happened.
So according to Kane, immediate panic sets in. He asked the bus driver to ask them if, okay, maybe Kyron just rode home with another student. Maybe he got on the wrong bus and they reassure him. Hey, we're pretty sure that didn't happen. We just said he didn't come to school today. Like he didn't show up to class. So he didn't ride home with someone.
At work, Kyron's mom, Desiree, cell phone rings. She answers it and it's Skyline School's secretary. She tells Desiree that law enforcement is with her at the school and they asked her to notify Desiree that her son, Kyron, is missing.
Desiree is confused. What does this mean? How does this happen? So Kane gets a hold of Desiree and tells her that he too doesn't know what's going on. He and Terry had rushed to the school after Kyron wasn't on the bus that afternoon. Apparently Kyron never made it to class that morning. They don't know where he is and that she needed to get up here immediately.
Desiree lived in Medford, which is about four hours away from Portland, but she and her husband, Tony, immediately left to figure out what was going on. They hop in their car and start making the four-hour drive. A little ways through the drive, Terry calls Desiree. Terry is the other woman married to, yeah. She tells her that back at the school, they found Kyron's coat and backpack inside, but Kyron is still missing.
So they know he made it inside his class, like to his class that day, but he just didn't attend class that day. So weird. Like he was somehow in the classroom at one point, but then when like school started, the bell rang, he wasn't in class anymore. Okay.
Okay. So something that really stood out to me was how the heck did Kyron go all day, not at school and not one parent was notified. Like I couldn't even skip one class without my mom getting a call. Well, I'm guessing like they said, they assume that he never attended school. Yeah. But even if you're absent from school, like if I don't show up to first period, your parent would get a call saying, Hey,
just letting you know, like Garrett's absent today. Is there a reason? And your mom says, Oh yeah, Dennis appointed me a doctor's appointment. Like nor, at least for me growing up in my schools, that was the case for me. And that's probably not the case everywhere, but in an,
Such a young age, seven years old, you're not going to notify the parents that he was missing? I don't know. It just seems so weird to me. But this is actually where it gets interesting because my question got answered. The school says the teacher obviously marked Kyron absent that morning, but they never contacted either of his parents because according to that teacher, Terry, his stepmom, had told her that Kyron had a doctor's appointment that day.
So he wasn't there and no one was alarmed by it. That's suspicious. So police go to Terry and are like, so did he have a doctor's appointment today? And she's like, no, no, no, no, no. The doctor's appointment is for next week. Oh, okay. And the teacher must have just assumed when Kyron didn't show up that this was the day of the doctor's appointment. So it was actual confusion? Well, I mean, she says the teacher got the dates wrong and the teacher's like, no, she told me it was this day. So we'll see. So we'll see.
Police are heavily responding to the disappearance of Kyron and the school is searched and then the search is moved outside. But you have to keep in mind the landscape outside of this school is heavily wooded. According to Real Life Nightmare, lots of winding roads and it's basically a portrait of rural Oregon. And I don't know if you've ever been to Oregon, but it is.
tall trees, dense forest, like right on the side of the road. And this is where we're at right now. There isn't much traffic or cameras. The search seems very overwhelming. It's not just like open fields that you can just like look at. There's terrain. It's up. It's down. Horses and canine dogs are brought in to navigate the difficult terrain. Police go to the media as the sun is setting. It's getting dark and there is still no sign of him.
They ask anyone within five miles of the school to search their property, search their farms, think of places that a small child might hide or go to. And this part broke my little heart. Police made the announcement that Kyron was actually last seen in a black CSI t-shirt.
Like my favorite TV show, like the TV show CSI. He's wearing their merch at school. That's what he was dropped in. That's what he was last wearing. Oh, at school. He was last seen. Was it just another student that saw him? Was it another teacher? No, that's what Terry says. She dressed him in that day when she dropped him off at the science fair while he was presenting. He was wearing a CSI black T-shirt.
And then he also had on some black cargo pants. Got it. I thought you meant that someone had changed them into a black CSI. No, no, no. That's what he was last seen wearing. Okay.
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She stumbles upon quite a scene. Outside the school are lights, trucks, search teams, police. It's huge. Like they're taking this very seriously. And this is scary but comforting at the same time. Like this many people care and are looking for her son. But also this just made it very real for her. He's gone and this many people are needed to look for him.
Police were running into the issue that that specific morning at Skyline School, it was a busy one. Not only were the usual kids there, but parents and spectators alike were there to support kids for the science fair. People who were typically not there were that morning. It's not like they could just spot someone who stood out or was lurking around like someone who doesn't belong at a school. Everybody was there.
There was no surveillance cameras at the school, and that morning they actually vetoed the sign-in sheets that you would normally use as a visitor because so many visitors would be there that day. Police believe they have two options. One, someone who was not supposed to be there blended in with the chaotic impact crowd and took Kyron. Two, Kyron wandered off getting lost and not watched in the packed crowd.
This situation, as we know, is the perfect ripe opportunity for an abduction. What about three? Someone that was supposed to be there took him. Yes. Like someone from the school or someone that was caring for him did it. Yeah. So police aren't thinking that currently.
But it was a good option. They're like, who would have noticed? Who would have noticed that something bad happened this morning? This place was a chaotic mess. So police decide to send over 50 detectives to the school around the morning. Yeah, in the morning hours. So Kyron has now been missing through the night. They haven't found him. They've searched. No one's come forward. And it's now the morning.
And they send over the detectives to ask everybody if they saw anything. They would be interviewing teachers, parents, students. All of them are interviewed. And after a full day of interviews, police tell the public that they are no closer to figuring out what happened. Just like they feared, hundreds of people were there and no one saw anything. Obviously, based on statistics, the family was the first suspects until more evidence was gathered online.
So until the timeline could become more concrete, they just were like, we got to get rid of the family. We got to make sure none of them are involved in this.
That timeline right now seems to be a six-hour gap. Where was Kyron from the science fair until the bus showed up empty-handed at drop-off? Kane's alibi was solid because he had been at work that day. Desiree and Tony's were solid because they were four hours away in Medford. Terry is the first person questioned. She was the last person at this point to have seen Kyron when she dropped him off at school that morning.
Terry tells police, okay, me and Kyron arrived at Skyline School at 8 a.m. that morning. We went inside. They set up his science fair project. She even took some pictures of him in front of it, which she provides to police. Look, here's proof. I got him in the school. I sat around while he did this. So we have proof that Kyron is inside the school that day. And at 8.15 a.m., the PTA president sees Kyron and Terry at the school with his science project. Okay.
Terry says she left the school at 8.45 a.m. to run errands. And at 10 a.m. that morning, Kyron Horman was marked absent as normal classes began. So what happened from the time that Terry supposedly left him at 8.45 a.m.
And then on his way to class, he doesn't show up at 10 a.m. Terry claims she ran errands until 10 a.m. She went to two different Fred Meyers. She was looking for ear medicine for her infant who she said had a really bad earache. And unlike Menards, I actually know what Fred Meyers is. I used to have one in my hometown. It's kind of like a Walmart, okay? Just if anyone's curious. She is seen on surveillance cameras at these two Fred Meyers and she has receipts from the trip. So police are like, okay, this is pretty concrete.
Terry says that after this she drove around northwest Portland for an hour and a half to try and calm her 18 month old down in the back seat. Remember she had an earache. She says that after this drive she then went and worked out at a 24-hour fitness and then returned home around 12 45 p.m. So were they like confirming this all on surveillance cameras? As much as they can. They saw her at the
Fred Myers. Oh, so she was really there. She was really there. Yeah. So Terry says that when she got home, she posted the photos of Kyron that she had taken that morning. And you can see him in his little CSI t-shirt. She posted those around 1 21 PM, which obviously they have proof of that. And then she also tells police, okay, that's like where my alibi ends. Kane gets home. We go to the bus stop. He's not there.
She says, but I do need to tell you something. The day before on June 3rd, she says she was going about her day when a man in a white Ford pickup truck, keep in mind, Kane also has a white Ford pickup truck. And that's the truck that Terry drove Kyron to school in that day. She says the day before she saw another white Ford pickup truck that was parked outside of a 7-Eleven and
And people said that this guy in this truck had been pacing back and forth for an hour or so outside of the 7-Eleven. So an employee went out and asked him,
What are you doing? Can I help you? And Terry says that this man asked the employee where the nearest school was. And the employee said Skyline School. Like over this way, that's where the nearest school is. So Terry's like, this seems weird to me that there was this random sketchy guy asking about the school the day before. And now my stepson is missing. This whole thing's suspicious. He had a white Ford pickup truck.
She says she saw a white Ford pickup truck. I don't know. Okay. So police were never able to confirm this, that this story that Terry's telling them about the day before, they were never able to confirm it.
So when Kyron went missing that day, Kane was actually managing a volatile relationship between his wife, Terry, and Kyron's mom, Desiree, his ex-wife. Terry was a former bodybuilder and had once been a substitute teacher, but she was now a stay-at-home mom to Kyron and her and Kane's 18-month-old daughter. Remember that this is the other woman who is now raising Desiree's son, and
And also has a son. So Desiree initially obviously doesn't like Terry. Like she's like, I don't like this woman. She broke up my marriage. I mean, Kane obviously did too. We're not going to get into that. But so there's like already some rifts and now they're trying to come together to look for the missing stepson and the missing son.
But Desiree does say initially that she doesn't feel like Terry or Kane had anything to do with the disappearance. Like after getting there, she's like, this is something else entirely. And despite the tension between the three of them, they like all stood together and were like, we just need to find Kyron. It took a couple days for the families to speak to the media. Up until this point, only police were. And that was because...
They were still being looked into as suspects, and until they were cleared, they couldn't go to the media. They didn't know any more details than anyone else. But finally, on June 11th, a week after Kyron went missing, Desiree, her husband Tony, Terry, and Kane all stood together to address the public.
They asked for help to spread awareness and they also expressed their love for Kyren. Despite the searchers efforts, hours turn into days that turn into weeks with no clues or sight of Kyren.
But police finally organize a press conference with information regarding the disappearance of Kyron Horman and everyone tunes in. It's been weeks. Like police haven't come forward saying that anything's happened. So everyone tunes in to like hear what this new discovery is. It would be so hard to even find evidence.
Like, I don't even know where detectives even start. Like, they started with the family. So hard. Right? Like, it's just, if this is a random thing and nobody saw anything, they've interviewed everyone. You just have to talk to just... You just search outside and all of the search efforts have not been fruitful. So it's just devastating. But at this press conference, police release a flyer with a picture of Kyron.
a picture of Terry, his stepmom, and a picture of Kane's white Ford truck.
And they release it and they ask people, if you have any information about any of these three things on the day of Kyron's disappearance, please contact us. So, but Terry's not missing. Well, no, Terry's like, Terry's the stepmom. She's there. So obviously they think she had something to do with it. Obviously. They announced that Terry is the last known person to have seen Kyron before he disappeared. No one saw him after she left the school.
Police also released that Terry had failed two polygraph tests when they had interviewed her after the disappearance. And this was huge. Police were unofficially announcing that they had a suspect and that that suspect was Kyron's own stepmom in his disappearance. But we do know polygraph tests. No.
Not exactly. Exactly, Garrett. Polygraph tests are not reliable, so I'm not taking that as like, oh, this is a big deal. I think it's a bigger deal that police are suspecting her. It is still suspicious, I guess, that she felled both of them, though. I agree. But also we know that innocent people fell them all the time. Correct.
Desiree and Tony had begun to suspect that Terry was involved just weeks after Kyron went missing. That's Desiree. Tony is Kyron's new stepdad. They weren't really surprised that day to hear that police also suspected her.
When Terry was focusing more on what was being said online rather than searching for Kyron, it rubbed Desiree and Tony the wrong way. They felt like they would have done anything at that point to find Kyron in those initial days. Was Tony in on the investigation or because he was close to them, he wasn't allowed to be? He wasn't allowed. He was four hours away. He wasn't allowed to be. But obviously, like, he's still a detective. Yeah.
Like he's still saying, hey, Terry's acting suspicious or whatever. And they were like, they... Well, I was going to say that's good that they kept things separate. Yes, yes. They felt like Terry wasn't sacrificing the same amount as they were in the initial days during the investigation. And that's kind of what made them suspicious of her. Okay. Even though police were like, hey, we kind of...
need information about these three things. No one came forward with any information and there were no signs of blood or like body in Kane's white pickup truck, which is where she would have carried him that day if she had had him. So that's why they searched it and they found nothing.
Terry says, hey, I felt these polygraphs because I'm deaf in one ear. I didn't hear the questions very well. And also I hadn't slept for days at the time of taking these. I was too worried about Kyron. Desiree and Kane also took polygraphs and passed them.
So his mom and his dad took him and passed him. We know this doesn't mean much. We just discussed that. Okay, but here is some of the evidence. I don't really know if you can call it evidence, but here's the things that police had gathered that led them into looking into Terry. Besides the obvious, she was the last one to see him and she felt the polygraphs.
Police have cell phone tracing evidence that while driving her daughter around for an hour and a half that day, Terry, she had made her way out to a place called Savi Island, which is a very remote place. Police are like,
Like it's weird she drove out there. What was she doing out there? Police searched the area by helicopter, horseback, and even send in divers to search the water. They find nothing. Police also discovered that five years before Kyren's disappearance, Terri had been arrested for drunk driving with her first son in the back seat. They feel like this is weird. Like I said, I don't know if we can really call this evidence. That's why I gave like a warning here.
Also, they uncover emails that Terry had sent to a friend right before Kyron's disappearance. This wasn't shared with the public, but this was shared with Desiree and Tony. The emails addressed some marital problems between Terry and Kane, maybe some cheating allegations against Kane. And the emails from Terry were alluding that Kyron was to blame for most of their marital issues. Right.
Okay, because he was the stepson and- Yes, Terry says that she had some resentment for raising Desiree's child. Desiree says, keep in mind, we don't have these emails. This is all coming from the mouths of Desiree and Tony. Desiree says that in the emails, Terry basically says, and I quote-
She just hates Kyron and wishes he would die. Okay. So this is what Desiree says. Kyron's stepmom said in these emails, but no one else besides police has seen these emails. This is hard because I don't know. Things happen in marriage. It's like you said, it's not exactly. Is it really evidence? Right. Everything's suspicious, obviously, but again, I don't know if these words are verbatim. I don't know if they're exaggerating or if this is actually what was said in the emails, but this is what comes out.
So this is certainly circumstantial evidence. Like we're getting a motive, we're getting reasoning, but this is definitely not enough to arrest someone for the disappearance or murder of somebody. There's no proof that Kyron is dead at this point. He's still missing. And Terry did this. There's no proof of that.
Desiree and Cain try their best to hold their united front as Kyron's birth parents with the media. They do interviews together to keep awareness alive. But on June 28th, 2002, just 24 days after Kyron went missing, media notices a stream of cars headed to Cain and Terry's home.
Uh-oh. He's been missing more a month, and now all these cars are going there. Okay. It takes a while to figure out, but Kane had actually served divorce papers and a restraining order against his current wife and Kyron's stepmom, Terry, just 24 days after he went missing. Wait, against both? No, no, no. Just against...
Terry. Oh, okay. But his current wife. Correct. Okay. But they were divorce papers and a restraining order. Okay. This was shocking. What was going on behind closed doors? Like this kid has been missing for 24 days and now, now they're getting divorced after like holding a United front. Yeah.
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So Kane actually moved out of their house with their 18th month old daughter. And in his divorce filing paperwork, he listed that he believes Terry was involved in his son Kyron's disappearance. This is a bombshell that keeps on giving.
During police questioning. I wonder if he has any evidence or what is going on. Well, so I'm about to tell you. Okay. During police questioning a couple weeks after the disappearance, an associate of Terry's was interviewed named Rudy Sanchez. He's a guy. His name's Rudy Sanchez. Rudy had done some landscaping work for Terry and allegedly five months before Kyron went missing, Terry had tried to hire him to kill her husband, Kane. Nice.
No way. Terry told me. What did he do? Just walk over? What did she do? Just walk over and say, hey, can you come kill my husband for me? So Terry told Rudy she would pay him $10,000 to find someone to get rid of her husband or for him to get rid of her husband. She doesn't care. She says she's in an abusive relationship and she couldn't do it anymore. That is so like, it's an awkward question. Right. Such a weird question, but like awkward. Like if someone came up and asked me that, I'd be like, okay.
Go to police immediately. So police are obviously stunned. Like they pull this guy in for an interview to kind of see who Terry is. And then he drops this bomb on them. They are stunned. But is it true? Like, can they prove it? Did this actually happen? So they send Rudy to Terry's house with a wire and an undercover officer next to him, next to him, who he's claiming to be his partner. That's going to help him. Yes. Yes. And they tell her like she answers the door and they tell her that
that they are going to tell the cops about her plan to try to kill her husband if she doesn't pay them up front right now, which I feel like is a weird tactic going in. Just trying to force her hand. So Terry looks at them and goes, get off my property and goes and calls the cops. Okay. So that didn't work. And it's like, why would she call the cops if she had really hired someone?
someone to kill her husband and they came forward and said, we're going to, we're going to call the cops and tell them about it. And she goes, no, I'm just going to call the cops and get you off my property. Why would she involve the cops? To me, it's weird. To me, it's weird.
I don't know what this means. I don't know if he was lying about the whole thing. I don't know if Rudy just made up that or if Terry was smart enough to know that something was going on and so she just shouldn't say anything. I don't know what happened there. But police tell Kane anyways about the potential hit that his wife might have taken out on him. So despite like the failed mission they went on, they pull Kane in and say, hey, this Rudy guy came forward and said that she tried to hire him to kill you. Kane believes them.
and is sequestered with his daughter in a safe location. He feared for his and his daughter's life and safety. He files for the divorce and gets the restraining order.
So I don't know. This turned so fast. I don't know. Like, I think it's weird, but at the same time, why would the husband believe? I don't know. It, I don't know. It's hard. All right, keep going. There's just, there's not enough like concrete evidence. I don't know what exactly, but either way we now have a missing kid, a messy divorce, a possible failed murder for hire. This story has completely turned into something from the movies, right?
But the public has hope for the first time. Okay, well, all of this is coming out. The divorce is coming out. Maybe we're going to get some answers and find out where Kyron is. Police now continue their investigation into Terry, and they discover that she has a best friend named Dee Dee, who she met at the gym. Dee Dee works at a lavender farm near Terry and Kane's home. When Kane moved out with their daughter after finding out about the murder for hire plot, supposed murder for hire plot, Dee
Dee Dee moved in to Kane's home with Terry. That's like how good of friends they are. Police decide that if Terry did do this, if she did kidnap Kyron and she needed help, Dee Dee, her friend, was probably the person she would have called. They go to Dee Dee's work and they ask her coworkers about the day of Kyron's disappearance.
And her coworkers say on the farm, they say, well, funny you ask, because that specific day, Dee Dee left around lunchtime without telling anybody and nobody can find her. And they say, we tried calling her several times. It's like she went off grid. She wouldn't answer. And this was around the same time that Terry was supposedly driving around for an hour and a half trying to calm down her screaming baby on June 4th, the day that Kyron went missing.
And they also discovered that Dee Dee had bought an untraceable burner phone a couple days after Kyron's disappearance. That's really weird. It's weird. Okay. So police like confront Dee Dee with all of this. And she says, I was actually on the farm that day. It's a large farm. I was working in the fields and they just couldn't find me.
Like I was there working, no one just could find me. And then she says, I bought the burner phone actually for Terry so that she could talk to her attorney without the police listening. Because once we knew she was like possibly being looked into and had failed her polygraphs, we knew that like they were probably going to tap her phones. But Terry's innocent. She says, Terry's innocent. Like I just was trying to protect her attorney client privilege here.
Despite the flyers, despite this new evidence of the possible murder for higher plot, the possible DD involvement and everyone blaming Terry, time goes by and police never officially named Terry or anybody as a suspect or person of interest in the disappearance of still missing Kyron. It's now been a couple months since Kyron went missing and
Desiree reluctantly and heartbreakingly has to make the move back to Medford to try and pick up the pieces of her life. Like she can't stay in Portland forever looking for her son. The case wasn't cold. Like effort was still there, but progress wasn't being made and it wouldn't be made for a long time. Two years after the disappearance of
Billboards are still up. T-shirts are still being worn, but nothing comes of it. On June 1st, 2012, two years after the disappearance, Desiree decides to hold a press conference. It's kind of out of the blue. It's been two years. She states that she fears Kyron is dead at this point, and she has decided to file a civil lawsuit against Terry.
She claims that Terry is responsible for Kyron's disappearance and murder and had lied to investigators multiple times. All of this despite the fact that police never actually announced Terry as a suspect. The case was still open though. And so nobody besides police and courts had access to the police files. Nobody knew exactly what evidence they had or didn't have against anybody.
After a while, Desiree decides to drop the civil case because police tell her, listen, this is still an open investigation. You could interfere here and it could like cause do more harm than good for your son's disappearance. There was a reason they keep certain pieces of evidence and information sealed. There is obviously a reason that they haven't arrested Terry. And no one knows if that is lack of evidence or evidence showing that it wasn't her. Nobody knows. So she's like, I'll drop the civil suit.
And I hate to do this to you guys, but it's 2021 and nothing of major value has come out of this case. You're kidding me. This case is still open. Kyron Horman is still missing. I thought you were going to say something. I thought Desiree found something. No, they never find his body. They never find anything else. This is the last update we have about the disappearance of him. I can't believe people can just...
I mean, I can believe it. Well, something happens. But like they can just go missing like that. I know. Oh, that breaks my heart. Like his backpack and his coat was in his classroom. Terry dropped him off at school. We have pictures. We have people who saw them. Terry leaves. He's gone. He's gone. He's in the wind. No one sees him after that. And no one still has seen them. They have searched everywhere.
the grounds of that school over and over again. If he wandered off, why wasn't he found? And was he really taken? And by who? Who came into the school that day and snatched up a little kid? Without anyone screaming, right? Seeing anything, right? I mean, it was a very crowded area. It was the perfect opportunity to, but like hundreds of people were there. Yeah, I don't know. And I can't blame anyone out of the people you mentioned because there's no evidence. So I-
I'm not going to point my finger at someone because that it's so Terry went on Dr. Phil in 2016. This is kind of the first time she's talked publicly about this. She revealed her theory about the guy from 7-Eleven. She still thinks that he has something to do with this.
She also does a People Magazine article denying the murder for hire allegations. She says, that gardener, Rudy, had tried to actually hit on me and I said no. And so he got mad and he made up this story that I had tried to hire him to kill my husband. She also goes on ABC News where she says that she has no involvement in the disappearance of her stepson, who she helped raise and love. Terry says she came forward because she loves Kyron and has nothing to do with it and never has and still wants people to search for him.
Despite the complications and the blame game, many people claim to be hurting and still looking for Kyron. Somebody knows what happened to Kyron. Like there are theories and rumors, but we are covering this case so that nobody gives up because Kyron still needs to be found or confession needs to be spilled. Like we need closure. He deserves closure and the family deserves closure.
In 2017, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children featured Kyron, and they also did an aged progressed photo, which we will have up on all of our social media and on the YouTube. On the 10th anniversary of the disappearance, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office ran a story for him saying, we're still looking. It's still an open investigation. We haven't forgotten about him. If you have any information or have seen anything
Kyron based on his you know age progressed photos or saw him that day Please call the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office at 503-988-0560 And that is the disappearance of Kyron Horman man those missing cases are hard well because it's just so confusing it's also just so eerie how people can just they just disappear people can really just disappear and
And like in most of these cases, the moms say he wouldn't have run off. He wouldn't have run off. But then that leaves the evil possibility that someone came in and took him. Yeah. And that like just it's like, I don't know, both both options are just awful. Or if someone from the family was involved, we have no concrete physical evidence of that. People still do heavily believe that Terry was involved. Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know what happened to Kyron. How can someone just disappear from school? How can we have pictures of him that morning at school happily presenting his project and then he go missing and nothing ever be found? Nothing else ever be found. It is...
It is bizarre and take a minute today to think of Kyron and to keep the, you know, I just ask for peace and for some answers for him and his family. And we will see you guys next week with another episode. Don't forget about our Patreon exclusive episode dropping this week. I love it. And I hate it. Goodbye.
