Did Kyron have a backpack?
Where is his backpack? Was it left at the school? Do we know what it looked like?
In the photo of the classroom with the janitor walking by, there was a table with a laundry basket on it with a backpack in it. May be his.
Wouldn't that be a strange place for a backpack?
And when was that photo taken? I would think that the backpack would have been booked into evidence at some point.
IMO: As far as the LE is concerned Kyron does not have his backpack...they posted photos (replicas) of what he was wearing... and his backpack was not listed
Wouldn't that be a strange place for a backpack?
And when was that photo taken? I would think that the backpack would have been booked into evidence at some point.
It would be interesting to know if there was a lunch packed in his backpack.
OregonLive notes he dropped his coat and backpack off at the classroom before heading to the science fair, so they must still have been there after he disappeared.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/details_emerge_about_the_day_k.html
ETA @ Didion: Sorry - didn't mean to duplicate your link. You raise an excellent point - wonder how his coat and backpack went unnoticed by the teacher all day...? Do they have a cloak room? I would actually expect a small boy excited about his science project to just dump these things on his desk so he could get back to his stepmom.
IMO, the backpack has probably been accounted for. Most likely it was found @ the school (either in the classroom or somewhere on the school grounds).
If it had been unaccounted for, it would be likely that LE would have released some sort of description of it, as they did with the clothing & the eyeglasses.
Which leads me to believe that Kyron didn't have it with him when he "disappeared". MOO
ETA: Wanted to add that the same goes for the coat, IMO. LE hasn't released any description of his coat (as far as I know), which leads me to believe it was also left @ the school (if he even wore a coat to school that day).
If Kyron's backpack and jacket were still in the room after school let out, I'm going with the notion that Kyron himself thought he'd be back soon enough, so didn't grab it.
IMO, the backpack has probably been accounted for. Most likely it was found @ the school (either in the classroom or somewhere on the school grounds).
If it had been unaccounted for, it would be likely that LE would have released some sort of description of it, as they did with the clothing & the eyeglasses.
Which leads me to believe that Kyron didn't have it with him when he "disappeared". MOO
ETA: Wanted to add that the same goes for the coat, IMO. LE hasn't released any description of his coat (as far as I know), which leads me to believe it was also left @ the school (if he even wore a coat to school that day).
Or they found it in their searches.
ITA.
And I believe the report that he had a jacket - this year being the second wettest June in Oregon's recorded history, I can believe he had a jacket that early in the morning to fight the damp.