Still no trace of Kyron Horman as police, FBI conclude third day of search
By The Oregonian
June 06, 2010, 10:00PM
View full sizeMike Allen of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team looks over a private property Sunday in the Cornelius Pass area northwest of Portland as part of the search for Kyron Horman, 7, a second-grader at Skyline School.BY NOELLE CROMBIE, KIMBERLY A.C. WILSON and STUART TOMLINSON
The investigation into the disappearance of Kyron Horman, the bespectacled 7-year-old last seen inside Skyline School on Friday morning, stretches into a fourth day today with the boy's whereabouts still a mystery.
Sunday, as Kyron's family ordered fliers carrying the boy's description and smiling face, authorities continued investigating his disappearance, calling in more than 65 detectives from various police agencies and nearly 60 trained searchers.
"Our basic mission is to bring Kyron home," said Lt. Mary Lindstrand, a spokeswoman for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
Late Sunday, Multnomah County Sheriff Daniel Staton issued a status report and raised the case level to increase public interest and focus. He said additional searches and interviews are planned, but he declined to discuss strategy or specifics of the investigation.
“Given the passage of time and the weather, we are characterizing this case as a missing endangered child,” he said.
Hundreds of Skyline students and their parents streamed into the school throughout the day for interviews with investigators, who wanted to know whether students spotted anything unusual at school Friday.
Police remain stymied as to what happened to the second-grader, described by his grandmother as dreamy, sweet and a bit timid. His stepmother said she last saw him at 8:45 a.m. Friday. She watched him walk toward his classroom after the pair toured the school's science fair.
During police interviews Sunday, a student said he last saw Kyron later that morning near the south entrance to the school. That was the last time the boy was seen, Staton said.
At some point that morning, Kyron's teacher, Kristina Porter, marked the