CURRENT NEWS from 2011.01.01 thru (in progress) ***No discussions please***

[Kimster]

Current news from the mainstream media - NO DISCUSSIONS

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[Kimster]

http://kdrv.com/news/local/200590

In June, another Oregon child disappeared. However, this time, a happy ending wasn't written in 2010.

Kyron Horman vanished from his school in the Portland area in June. That same month, his mother, Desiree Young of Medford, spoke publicly.

"I think focusing on just the hope that he's going to come home every day is what gets me through," Young said.

Six months later, the investigation continues.<snipped>

[PDXMom]

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...1/post_53.html

Scheduled hearing in pending Horman divorce case is postponed, court staff say
Published: Monday, January 03, 2011, 7:59 PM Updated: Monday, January 03, 2011, 8:16 PM

A hearing that had been scheduled for this week in the pending divorce case between Kaine Horman and Terri Moulton Horman has been postponed. A new date has not been set. (more at link)

[freefallzzzz]

Text No More Sends Pictures Of Missing Boy To Cell Phones
POSTED: 8:57 pm PST January 4, 2011
UPDATED: 10:34 pm PST January 4, 2011

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A local company is helping in the search for Kyron Horman by sending the missing boy’s picture to cell phones around the world.

Text No More is an Android application created in Portland. Its creators say the goal of the app is to stop drivers from texting behind the wheel.

The app also sends coupons to subscribers and on Monday, it began sending pictures of Kyron.




http://www.kptv.com/technology/26371893/detail.html

[LMax]

http://www.kptv.com/news/26579619/detail.html
There will be five cross-country trucks with Kyron’s photo on each side, along with information about where to call if someone sees him.

[Billylee]

Image of Kyron displayed on trucks that travel nationwide
(January 26, 2011)

http://www.koinlocal6.com/mostpopula...mLgCbUELg.cspx

[freefallzzzz]

PORTLAND – A new TV channel designed to help find missing children will feature Kyron Horman as one of its first cases.
Comcast Cable is hosting the new channel called Missing Kids on Demand.
Kyron will be one of 20 profiles on the channel’s initial 12-week run.
The profile can be found under the “Get Local” tab on Comcast’s on-demand service.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Missing-kids...114798244.html

[Etilema]

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...an_resume.html

The seven-month search for missing Kyron Horman turns its focus today on two rural locations north and west of Portland as investigators run down specific intelligence they've developed and warmer weather conditions now provide a window of opportunity.

[nursebeeme]

today when crews search near two rural Portland roads.
At least 40 rescue workers and a handful of search dogs will take part in the effort, says Multnomah County sheriff's spokeswoman Mary Lindstrand.
They're focusing on Northwest Skyline Road near Rocky Point Road, plus a gravel road in the Dixie Mountain area.

http://www.kptv.com/news/26667764/detail.html

[Kimster]

A police spokesperson echoed Young's statements, telling KATU that the search today, the first in several weeks, were initiated in the hopes of bringing "closure" to the case.

The decision to search the two locations today was reportedly based on investigative leads developed by the Kyron Horman Task Force. <snipped>

http://abcnews.go.com/US/kyron-horma...ry?id=12798435

[froginTtown]

At least one neighbor now says he wonders if what he saw the day Kyron disappeared is important.

Fred Hall, a rancher, said on Monday he saw a white pickup on the Friday that Kyron disappeared about a mile down the road.

“It was a white truck and it had a gal sitting in it,” he said.

Hall said he called in the tip to investigators and told them where he saw the unfamiliar truck on Skyline Boulevard.

“It was parked at one of the gates,” he said.

Investigators said they are specifically searching the land around turnouts that have gates where a car or truck could easily park. Many of the gates aren’t locked and a car or truck could drive in and disappear down a gravel road.

More here:

http://www.katu.com/news/local/114935669.html

[PDXMom]

http://portlandtribune.com/news/stor...68527240311000

Sources Say • Kyron’s case takes grim turn
The Portland Tribune, Feb 3, 2011
This grim truth is finally official: Investigators don’t believe the Kyron Horman case will have a happy ending.
(a bit more at link)

[nursebeeme]

Dorsey retired from the FBI at the end of 2010, after an extraordinary career that took him across the globe and into some the darkest places of the human psyche.

Dorsey, 57, was one of a just a handful of profilers with vast knowledge of child abduction, child murder and serial killer investigations.

He worked many of the high-profile abduction cases whose names are familiar to people across the country — JonBenét Ramsey, Elizabeth Smart, Jessica Lunsford, Samantha Runnion, Jacob Wetterling. He worked on the case of Heaven LaShae Ross, who disappeared while walking to her bus stop in Northport in 2003. He was deployed to 202 on-site investigations in 44 states, most recently to Portland, Ore. to investigate the case of Kyron Horman, a 7-year-old who disappeared from his elementary school in June.



http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/articl...es-with-bureau

[froginTtown]

http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/cc/Wee...20Briefing.pdf

2. Please provide sufficient background information for the Board and the public to understand this issue. Please note which Program Offer this action affects and how it impacts the results.
This is a follow up to the October 14, 2010 Board briefing regarding the Kyron Horman investigation

[daisy7]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton will brief commissioners on the search for missing Portland boy Kyron Horman and the state of the investigation next week.

The 7-year-old Skyline Elementary student disappeared from the school on Friday, June 4, 2010.

Staton and Lieutenant Ned Walls will brief officials next Thursday and will not ask for any increase in funding for the investigation.

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http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Sherif...116491183.html

[freefallzzzz]

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Saturday Kyron's mother, Desiree Young, was in Roseburg, Oregon, where Moulton-Horman has lived with her parents since her husband filed for divorce weeks after Kyron's disappearance.

“We are putting the pressure on Terri,” Young told KGW. “We are bringing it to her. She needs to know we will not rest until Kyron is brought home.”

Young, her husband Tony and members of their family were handing out new fliers highlighting Kyron.

Young urged people who see Moulton-Horman to ask her about Kyron.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Kyron-Horman...116540373.html

[Counting on Justice]

This is the entire press conference held in Roseburg on Saturday, with Desiree Young, Kyron Horman's biological mother.

http://www.kpic.com/news/local/11667...?video=pop&t=a

[pinktoes]

MCSO has published a Flash Alert announcing the meeting with the Commissioners on Feb 24. It says, in part, "...will not include specific investigative details as this remains an open and ongoing investigation."

AT: http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1276

[pinktoes]

Multnomah County Commissioners have apparently redesigned their website, resulting in confusion! Here is the link I just found to today's Board meeting, showing Staton on the revised schedule. Perhaps others can find other links they need there related to this meeting:

http://multnomah.granicus.com/Genera...d=3&event_id=2

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Jeez! Here's the video link:

http://multnomah.granicus.com/ViewPu....php?view_id=2

[nursebeeme]

The team of investigators assigned to the case includes an expert in information technology and a communications technology expert hired out of California to look over cell phone and cell tower data. There is also a behavioral psychologist helping in the case, Staton said.
Multnomah County Chief Deputy Jason Gates says the FBI has been a partner in the investigation "since day one."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/25...#ixzz1EzKDcpHz

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/25...ets-boost-fbi/

[nursebeeme]

Two Multnomah County commissioners Thursday morning said they were surprised to learn through The Oregonian of the added involvement by the FBI in the ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of Kyron Horman.

"As a mother, I can only imagine the horror this family is feeling at this point," Commissioner Loretta Smith said. "But as a commissioner -- and this is directed to the DA's office -- are we on the right track?"

"The short answer is yes," responded Rod Underhill, a chief deputy district attorney, who addressed the county board Thursday with Sheriff Dan Staton.

Underhill said any case must be proven "beyond a reasonable doubt."

"As such, it requires a tremendous amount of work to bring to justice an individual, or individuals, responsible," Underhill said. The role of the district attorney's office is to advise and provide investigative support to the ongoing investigation, he said.

"It's a duty that we will work and work and work until this matter is resolved," Underhill said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i..._surprise.html

[nursebeeme]

In response to a query on whether the investigation was still on track, Multnomah County deputy district attorney Rod Underhill said yes.

The goal, he said was "to create a case that is provable in a court of law to a standard of reasonable doubt. It is the highest standard available, relative to prosecution."

http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story...KU1O1ohtw.cspx

[pinktoes]

"...Capt. Jason Gates, told reporters Thursday that investigators hope to bring things to an end "either by solving the case or coming to a semi-conclusion by having done all that we can do."

http://www.adn.com/2011/02/24/172009...earch-for.html

[PDXMom]

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Kyron-...118338914.html

Kyron Horman's dad continues to raise awareness
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Updated today at 5:45 PM

PORTLAND -- The search for missing Portland boy Kyron Horman continued over the weekend, as his family reached out for the public's help at the Portland Roadster Show.

[Ladybulldog]

Horman divorce hearing scheduled for Thursday cancelled, set over for another three months

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...g_schedul.html

The Multnomah County judge handling the pending divorce case between Kaine Horman and Terri Moulton Horman has cancelled a scheduled Thursday hearing and will delay it for another three months.


Multnomah County Judge Keith Meisenheimer ruled in October that there's "substantial overlap of evidence" between the divorce case and the criminal inquiry and parallel proceedings could create a discovery nightmare. But he said he also had to balance Terri Horman's constitutional rights with Kaine Horman's right to a prompt resolution of custody, parenting, property and financial matters.