The disappearance of Kyron Horman remains the most disturbing – and notorious – ongoing mystery in Oregon.
The then-7-year-old boy went missing on June 4, 2010, after being dropped off at Skyline School in Portland, prompting one of the largest searches in the state’s history.
Detectives continue to work the case, and the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced that it had digitized the voluminous case file, meaning it is now “leveraging new technology tools to advance the investigation,” the office said in a statement. “This will allow detectives to process and analyze more than 5,300 written documents and more than half a terabyte of data associated with this investigation in a new and meaningful way.”
Hundreds of tips poured in after Kyron disappeared, and detectives from various law enforcement agencies pursued numerous leads.
On the morning Kyron went missing, his stepmother Terri Moulton Horman drove the boy to school for a science fair. She told detectives she watched him walk down a hallway toward his classroom about 8:45 a.m., and she then drove away. She was the last person known to have seen him.
A landscaper who worked for her and her husband, Kaine Horman, Kyron’s father, soon told authorities that Terri Horman had tried to recruit him months earlier to kill Kaine. But Terri Horman was never charged over the landscaper’s allegation, and no one has ever been charged in Kyron’s disappearance.
Terri Horman denied any involvement in Kyron’s disappearance.
Kaine and Terri Horman divorced, and Terri, now known as Terri Vazquez, moved to California.
Kaine Horman and Kyron’s mother, Desiree Young, have continued to press law enforcement for action and results.
Authorities on Thursday said they haven’t given up and in fact remain as committed to solving the case as ever.
“I want Kyron’s family and the community to know that a lack of news on the case does not mean a lack of progress,” Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said in the statement. “We are working on this behind the scenes, following every possible clue.”
The sheriff’s office said it continues to work on the case with the district attorney’s office as well as with the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies.
Last year, Vasquez told The Oregonian/OregonLive that his office had launched a “thorough and methodical review” of the investigation “with fresh eyes.”
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