Okay. You got lawyers flinging Terms of Art and Innuendo at each other.
You got Biological Parents doing the TV circuit and saying Give Money, Plant Flowers and Wear Bracelets, but above all else Give Money. (The public seems to view this as admirable).
You got StepMother and Friend saying Go Talk To My Lawyer And Leave Me Alone. (The public seems to view this as evil, vile and proof of guilt).
So what's new?
There are rumors of cell phone PINGS that are in conflict with StepMother's oral statements as to her whereabouts but all we have are rumors, no data as to how likely any such pings might be technologically plausible and still have the StepMother's oral statements as to here whereabouts be essentially truthful.
There are rumors of hit men but such hit men seemed rather reticent to report the overtures to the police.
The StepMother's friend is condemned for escorting her to a lawyer's office since apparently friends are not supposed to think anything about innocent until proven guilty. At least it seems that paparazzi prefer only such fair weather friends.
Divorce proceeding are initiated but such proceedings and paper blizzards from motion-happy lawyers are really just one side which is tapped into the police information pipeline trying to wear down the other side that has not benefited from the investigatory pipeline. As in any war, truth is the first casualty.
From time to time there are modest call-outs of mounted search parties, from time to time budget notices are submitted. Hot air is generated. Media crews run up bar tabs all over town, microphones get stuck in people's faces, nobody says anything worthwhile though.
The fact remains: the police seem obsessed with the step-mother, Terri Horman. She left the school at what appears to have been a time when other parents would be in the area and might have taken particular notice of her. She drove a road that while not exactly heavily trafficked is by no means certain to be deserted. She could not be sure that there would not be people observing her such as hikers, campers, or passersby in other vehicles that might suddenly appear on the road. She arrived at a Fred Meyer store within a reasonable time and did not appear to be nervous or distraught such as might be expected if she had just killed her step-son or just handed him over to a trusted friend who was to kill him. Later travel to Sauvie Island is thought by some to be for corpse disposal purposes but the island is by no means deserted since hikers, cyclists and berry pickers abound. There is really no evidence which indicates the police are the least bit justified in their obsessive focus on the step mother.
On-Edit: It now appears that certain email text can be considered to reflect an attitude of depression or despair and an externally placed blame for her decisions to allow her family life to have depleted her savings. This is not necessarily sufficient motive for killing the kid but it at least provides some understanding of the emotions that were at work. I've no idea if her prior body building involved the use of drugs such as might induce "roid rage" and I've certainly no information as to how long ago she took drugs of any sort. Its always been unlikely that a stranger wandered into the school at such a busy time and snatched a kid. However, that is by no means impossible.
On-Edit: As is always the case, the local law enforcement agency may be inexperienced but it is difficult to get a case taken away from them. The sheriff is in control of this missing persons case and the county sheriff mainly does prisoner custody work with very little patrol and very little investigative work.
Showing posts with label Kyron Horman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kyron Horman. Show all posts
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Kyron Horman update from Seattle University
>It was the biggest news story from the Pacific Northwest all year:
Yes, once a media frenzy begins it just snowballs. Doesn't make it all that much different from similar cases getting less media scrutiny.
>He is still listed as missing and endangered.
Judge Crater is still listed as missing. In a tourist area a swimmer is often listed as missing so as to keep crime statistics low and shark attack statistics out of the newspapers. Crime statistics are often misleading.
>detectives have received more than 4,000 leads,
Most of them probably from people who have had "visions of a body being found near water". Well, most people rarely get pretty far from water so that information just isn't helpful and in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest its real hard to get far from water.
>He emphasized repeatedly that they were “not scaling back,”
Which of course is proof positive that they were scaling back!
>Public outrage at the disappearance focused first on the school district,
Why? People disappear from stores, malls, sidewalks. Do reporters encourage anger at malls if some disappears in a parking lot?
>not a single security camera was present at the rural school.
Security cameras often provide no assistance whatsoever and are of little deterrent value. A rural school with no history of crime would be unlikely to have cameras as such funds would be more wisely spent in urban area schools with high crime problems and high population density.
>many became frustrated that the police weren’t releasing enough information.
That is universally the situation. Reporters were claiming that cell phone signals were received at a different tower than would have been likely had her description of her travels been truthful but we don't have details as to times, signal strength or local terrain that might make such spurious signals not at all suspicious.
>Terri Horman, the last person to see Kyron,
Oh!!! The last person to see Kyron??? Well, each and every school day mothers drop their kids off at school and therefore may become the last person to see them. Should we ban this practice?
>a person many now call ‘Stepmonster‘.
A sobriquet invented by some reporter, no doubt.
>Within a few days she posted about going to the gym,
Guilty! String her up on the spot!! No one ever goes to a gym to work off frustration or because the walls are closing in on them and the police are not helpful to them.
>Kyron’s father shockingly divorced Terri, filing a restraining order.
I wonder how many divorces were filed in Oregon that year? And I don't know why the reporter described the husband's actions as shocking.
>Terri Horman had allegedly hired her landscaper to kill Kaine Horman,
Allegedly. I believe he did not report the plot promptly to police and wonder therefore what his thoughts and intentions might have been.
>A string of public appearances made Kyron’s biological parents national news
Well is it better to appear on Good Morning America than to go to your local gym?
>identifying her as the mastermind behind their son’s disappearance
Identifying does not mean they provided supporting evidence.
>Terri is not a suspect in the case,
Look Jack, if the cops are repeatedly calling you, having you take polygraphs, putting your image and your vehicle description onto flyers, trying to find people who saw you and reporters are following you wherever you go, you are indeed a suspect!
>spreading Kyron’s picture around the country,
They think perhaps he might be in Palm Beach?
>and each of them held a birthday party for Kyron in early September
I would think it less strange if they had simply gone to the gym!
>Students have left a desk vacant for their classmate Kyron,
Yep, those schools generally are not known for sensible actions or turning out kids who are realistic.
Yes, once a media frenzy begins it just snowballs. Doesn't make it all that much different from similar cases getting less media scrutiny.
>He is still listed as missing and endangered.
Judge Crater is still listed as missing. In a tourist area a swimmer is often listed as missing so as to keep crime statistics low and shark attack statistics out of the newspapers. Crime statistics are often misleading.
>detectives have received more than 4,000 leads,
Most of them probably from people who have had "visions of a body being found near water". Well, most people rarely get pretty far from water so that information just isn't helpful and in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest its real hard to get far from water.
>He emphasized repeatedly that they were “not scaling back,”
Which of course is proof positive that they were scaling back!
>Public outrage at the disappearance focused first on the school district,
Why? People disappear from stores, malls, sidewalks. Do reporters encourage anger at malls if some disappears in a parking lot?
>not a single security camera was present at the rural school.
Security cameras often provide no assistance whatsoever and are of little deterrent value. A rural school with no history of crime would be unlikely to have cameras as such funds would be more wisely spent in urban area schools with high crime problems and high population density.
>many became frustrated that the police weren’t releasing enough information.
That is universally the situation. Reporters were claiming that cell phone signals were received at a different tower than would have been likely had her description of her travels been truthful but we don't have details as to times, signal strength or local terrain that might make such spurious signals not at all suspicious.
>Terri Horman, the last person to see Kyron,
Oh!!! The last person to see Kyron??? Well, each and every school day mothers drop their kids off at school and therefore may become the last person to see them. Should we ban this practice?
>a person many now call ‘Stepmonster‘.
A sobriquet invented by some reporter, no doubt.
>Within a few days she posted about going to the gym,
Guilty! String her up on the spot!! No one ever goes to a gym to work off frustration or because the walls are closing in on them and the police are not helpful to them.
>Kyron’s father shockingly divorced Terri, filing a restraining order.
I wonder how many divorces were filed in Oregon that year? And I don't know why the reporter described the husband's actions as shocking.
>Terri Horman had allegedly hired her landscaper to kill Kaine Horman,
Allegedly. I believe he did not report the plot promptly to police and wonder therefore what his thoughts and intentions might have been.
>A string of public appearances made Kyron’s biological parents national news
Well is it better to appear on Good Morning America than to go to your local gym?
>identifying her as the mastermind behind their son’s disappearance
Identifying does not mean they provided supporting evidence.
>Terri is not a suspect in the case,
Look Jack, if the cops are repeatedly calling you, having you take polygraphs, putting your image and your vehicle description onto flyers, trying to find people who saw you and reporters are following you wherever you go, you are indeed a suspect!
>spreading Kyron’s picture around the country,
They think perhaps he might be in Palm Beach?
>and each of them held a birthday party for Kyron in early September
I would think it less strange if they had simply gone to the gym!
>Students have left a desk vacant for their classmate Kyron,
Yep, those schools generally are not known for sensible actions or turning out kids who are realistic.
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