Kyron Horman "Missing" in Oregon. Revisited.

Yes, I used quotation marks around that word: missing. Its often referred to the Elephant in the room situation. We all know that sometimes abducted children are kept as prisoners but we all know that in most situations they are killed and that often they are killed quite promptly.

So do we even know for certain that it was actually an abduction? No. We do know, however, that he was unlikely to have left the school on his own and become lost. We know there was an intensive search in the nearby rugged terrain and that the search was conducted by experienced SAR volunteers who were well trained and well briefed on the mission.

Do we know it was a parental involvement situation? It would seem that the answer to that question would be an emphatic yes if the question was addressed to any newspaper or television editor in the area. We only have rumors, innuendo, and accusations but no facts that establish parental involvement.

Do we know a friend of the step mother provided some sort of logistical support to the endeavor? No. We have no facts that would establish a friend knowingly aided in an abduction and murder, but once again it seems that news editors do not really need facts they only need to know how to type "sources close to the investigation". Once those magic words have been typed it seems that we live in a world where friends help friends commit child abductions and child murders in an open and notorious manner in the middle of the day while using their own vehicles after having communicated over cell phones that will clearly prove linkages.

We know where the cops are clearly focused, but we don't know why the cops are so certain they are looking in the right direction. Perhaps its based largely on sexually explicit emails. I guess in Oregon women only send sexually explicit emails if they are guilty of murder.

Much has been made in the press of a discrepancy between where the step-mother claims to have been and where the cell phone signals indicate she may have been. Perhaps that five-mile distant cell tower often picks up pings from the claimed area. I do not know and apparently no tests have been performed or atleast none have been disclosed. Cell phones do handshake with multiple towers and in a rural area the lack of closer towers and the lack of any terrain obstruction may allow for a five mile distant tower to pick up signals. Also there are some indications that the signals were picked up only briefly which might indicate proximity but a lack of approach or withdrawal, thus emphasizing that it was probably a spurious signal.

Well, maybe it was a parental abduction. I'd sure like to see the evidence though. Evidence. Not innuendo, not conclusions drawn from risque email content, ... evidence!