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OR KYRON HORMAN: Missing from Portland, OR - 4 June 2010 - Age 7

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Kyron's photo is shown age-progressed to 14 years. He was last seen at school on June 4, 2010. Kyron was last seen wearing a black t-shirt with "CSI" in green letters and a handprint graphic. He was also wearing black cargo pants, white socks, and black Sketchers sneakers with orange trim. Kyron may wear glasses.
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Kyron was last seen in Portland, Oregon on June 4, 2010. He usually rode the bus to Skyline Elementary School, where he was a second-grader. The school is in the 11500 block of Skyline Boulevard in a rural area in northwest Portland, about two miles from Kyron's home in the 15700 block of Sheltered Nook Road.

His stepmother, Terri Lynn Moulton Horman, stated she drove him to school because there was a science fair that day and Kyron wanted to set up his exhibit, a display about the Red-Eyed Tree Frog. They arrived shortly after 8:00 a.m. and dropped Kyron's coat and backpack off at his classroom.

A witness saw Terri and Kyron together at 8:15 p.m., in front of Kyron's exhibit. The bell rang at 8:45 a.m. and Terri says she left then. She said Kyron told her he was going to his classroom. He has never been heard from again.

Terri reported Kyron missing at 3:45 p.m., after he failed to arrive home at 3:30 p.m. as scheduled. No one reported having seen Kyron at the school after the 8:45 bell. His teacher marked him absent after classes began at 10:00 a.m.; she thought he was at a doctor's appointment.

Because so many hours had passed since he was last seen, police launched an extensive search immediately. Over the next few days they interviewed all the students and staff at Skyline Elementary School and searched the school, school grounds and the surrounding area. It was one of the largest searches in Oregon history.

Kyron's loved ones described him as timid and stated he would be unlikely to leave the school and go off on his own.


Less than two weeks after Kyron's disappearance, police stopped the search and announced they had upgraded his case from a simple missing child to a criminal investigation.

At the same time, they stated they didn't think Kyron had been abducted by a stranger. They focused on Terri, stating cellular phone records indicated she wasn't where she said she was on the day of her stepson's disappearance.


Investigators questioned Terri's friend, DeDe Spicher, about her possible knowledge of Kyron's disappearance. They searched her home and asked the public if they had seen Terri, her white pickup truck or Spicher on June 4 between 9:45 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Spicher stated knew nothing about Kyron's disappearance and she believed Terri was innocent of any wrongdoing.


Authorities have yet to name a suspect in Kyron's disappearance, in spite of their focus on his stepmother. Kaine speculated Terri caused the child's disappearance in an effort to hurt him, and suggested she may have had help from other individual. Both of Kyron's parents continue to hope that he is alive. His case remains unsolved.

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16 years later, new tech to aid investigation into Kyron Horman’s disappearance​

Sixteen years to the day since a young boy disappeared from outside a Portland elementary school, local law enforcement has announced they are utilizing new technology to further the investigation.


What began as a missing persons case eventually expanded into one of the largest investigations in Oregon history. To this day, there have been no signs of Horman and no arrests made in the case.

But back in May 2025, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said that, along with Gresham police, they had been working to digitize the case files for the past year. Officials said this involved scanning and documenting thousands of pages of reports, photos and other evidence.

With the digitization complete, MCSO says they can now use new technology tools to aid investigators in processing and analyzing over 5,300 written documents and more than half a terabyte of data.

Officials hope these advancements in software, digital forensics and technology will help them better examine new and existing leads.

MCSO added they will continue to collaborate with the FBI, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, the East County Major Crimes Team, as well as the Portland Police Bureau throughout the investigation.

“Sixteen years have passed since Kyron Horman disappeared. His family has lived through birthdays, holidays, and moments that mark the passage of time,” Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell said. “I want Kyron’s family and our community to know that he has never been forgotten. Our commitment to Kyron’s case remains as strong today as it was when he was first reported missing. We will keep doing everything we can to provide Kyron’s family the resolution they deserve.”
 
They don't really specify what these "new technology tools" are.
My guess is they're just having AI scour the files and look for connections or things they may have missed.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Also being able to search key words easily through all those files, such as names, places, etc that might have gotten overlooked such as a tip that came in multiple times that wasn't realized.
 
They don't really specify what these "new technology tools" are.
My guess is they're just having AI scour the files and look for connections or things they may have missed.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Yesterday we did AI on my boss’s family trust. We couldn’t believe the information that popped up! Probably is AI related, I agree.
 

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