Okay, forgive me for being confused, but as usual, I am.
Could you please give the the date, aprrox. time and location that you thought you saw Kyron. The color and make of the vehicle, if you can remember of course. And the date you heard from the MCSO. This will just help squash rumors, etc. I am not doubting that you thought you saw him at all!
No, when someone is confused by something I say, it's usually my fault. I have an autoimmune disease, and sometimes I mix up words, calling a fan a phone, sound alikes and look alikes, and other transpositional errors. It's part of my "charm" (cough!).
I believe I saw Kyron with a man and woman in Estacada on June 5th, sometime before noon. I would actually put it closer to 11. But a lot of time has gone by. I know better when it wasn't than when it was. The man looked very much to me like Kaine. The woman was harder to tell, but as sure as I am that I saw Kyron (more so) and Kaine (only slightly less so) I'm positive the woman with them was neither DY or TH, though she looked to be a younger, thinner, taller version of TH with lighter hair, and a slightly shorter, thinner version of DY, with slightly lighter, strawberry hair. I only saw her profile, but some of her attitude was very.... distinctive, and the only two people I am sure I did NOT see with this little boy are TH and DY.
They were standing near my chair, not in a car. The little boy I believed to be Kyron was looking at my son's game system and talking to the adults about it. My son at first was not sure it was Kyron based on a picture. He is Kyron's age, and autistic. He has a hard time with facial recognition, because he does not look at people's faces, but their mouths, and would tend to recognize a face making only the same expression. However when he caught me watching video of Kyron, he asked me where I found the video of the little boy we saw at the event we were at (he did not connect the video as being Kyron, but as being the little boy we saw). It would fit with what I know of him that he would recognize video but not pictures, particularly since he was pretty engrossed in a game at the time (not sure what he would have noticed had I not told him to say hi to the little boy, but he is the one who picked up on the white inhaler).
It took quite a while for me to hear from MCSO the first time.
Beyond that.... I.... have been talking with people I trust about how much to say. And I am not sure I want to go too much further, yet. But feel free to ask direct questions. Just be prepared to hear... I'm not sure I should say yet. I will try and give as much information as I can without crossing the line and feeling I'm putting a child at risk (or risking getting a grieving mother's hopes up needlessly). The thing I can't escape, is if I'm right, MCSO is holding this close to the vest for a reason. I already feel guilty for the delay in my report, I don't want to feel further guilt relating to derailing their investigation in order to figure this out.
I will be the first to admit, there is a very good chance I'm wrong. Problem is, this is very emotional. I'm of two minds because every way my mind goes, it could be bad news for Kyron, and I just can't face that. I want to see the news footage of DY hugging her son, a happy reunion and beyond that... nothing else matters.