Hi JoAnne. I do not think you are a kook. I have been experiencing the same thing. I actually had a dream about all of this back in april of '10 that so disturbed me I had to write it in my journal. At the time I had no idea who the people involved were.

When Kyron was a baby, his mom got kidney disease that forced her to go to Canada for treatment. Kaine got temporary custody of Kyron. He and Terry were taking good care of him, so when Desiree was better, 2 years later, she left Kyron with them because she felt it was in his best interests, but she saw him frequently. Kyron was supposed to be spending the weekend with his mom and stepdad the weekend he vanished.

Kyron was feeding the cat, Bootsie, I think, outside when Kaine was getting ready to leave for work in Terri's red Mustang. They hugged and said "I love you" and Kaine promised him ice cream after school.

You really should do some research and see WHY fingers are pointing at Terri before you rant. TERRI was the LAST person to see Kyron.. She was suppose to take him to school and all the information says he wasn't there. Google his name and read about the case. Why on earth would she plan to plead the 5th? Only a guillty person or someone with ALOT to hide does that.

Everything I have heard suggests that "Terri's friend" was NOT accounted for the morning Kyron disappeared. She arrived at work, and her car was there all morning, but nobody saw her for hours. They looked for her, and tried her cell phone, but got no reply.

work??? im sorry but terri did not and does not work

Proof - the stepmother was the last to see the child and no one saw her leave with or without him. SHE TRIED TO HIRE A HIT MAN. Not a thing normal people do. She has shown deception in numerous polygraph examinations and wont cooperate with the investigation. Seems suspicious to me. I just hope the child is alive and I am very grateful she does not have access to her daughter.

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THANK YOU. I also have never esponded on any of these blogs before, and I too normally really enjoy Dateline and have, many times, felt satisfied with accepting one's guilt after one story after another doesn't add up and resonable doubt begins to drift further into the land of impossibility. This show was just DREADFUL - in the last five minutes, I loved how the narrative suddenly switched to "well, actually ther'es zero evidence and everything we sad in the previous 55 minutes has since been disregarded by officials" yet who among these fellow bloggers actually heard any of that before they cameclamoring to judgmentin the messageboards? Thank god for people like you... people who have enough good in them to see when entertainment begins to sink into exploitation.

Truly, I don't know if Terri is guilty or not - yet all I can say is that nothing on this episode of Dateline warranted the misery she surely endures today.

Not to be rude Matty but I think you need to read into the story a little more hun ... I live down the HWY from this family, so I have a bit more info then what dateline gave out sadly.... Terri is still a person of interest in the disappearance of Kyron, also the reason she is not in jail is exactly what was posted above...

Now I'm not posting to say your wrong and so-and-so is right ... I am posting to let you know that dateline did not completely give all the info. which is understandable that is a lot of information to put out... Also guy's we shouldn't be arguing over who did what it's not going to get anything productive done :/ Just keep Kyron's name out there in hopes he is still alive and we can find that poor little boy. In time things will fall into place and the truth will be known.

I also want to thank Dateline for putting Kyron on to let people know about this story!

Depending on who you talk to, the parents were already planning to divorce while Desiree was still pregnant. They still lived in the same house, but Kaine was seeing Terri and Desiree was probably more focussed on the baby than dating. I know she was crushed when she found out Kaine had "moved on" and surprised he did not find the "package deal" of her and Kyron preferable to Terri and her son.

Desiree had been married before, and had a son as a result of that marriage, Kaine (I believe) had also been married previously.

Whoever you are you have no idea.Those girls were raised the all american family girls and had what they neede in life.Amy set that all up and told everyone her boyfriend was abusing her while pregnant and keeping her from friends.Bunch of crap she made it up!!!They planned it!

FromAv...sounds like you have no idea. Amy did not have anything set up. She is innocent and a pawn in someone's stupid scheme just as much as Ricky was. Before you continue to talk do your research. I can guarentee you were not at the trial, you do not know the details, and you think you have clue, but you do not. If she was being abused at any point in her life, I would have known it. This was never an issue you idiot and she never made that claim! All these people talking now 13 years later are full of bologna.

YinYangCali, for you to say Amy is innocent is laughable to me. See I WAS at the trial. I have personal connections to this case. The only thing I think I can agree with you on is these people talking all these years later is ridicoulous, and sadly we still do NOT have the entire truth.

Well JCP72 laugh all you want. I know more than you think. She is innocent but then again how in the heck would you know that? Oh yeah you were at the trial...but were you around during the time when all this crap was going on? I doubt it. I was.

And where, pray tell, is all this precious "research" you so cockily attest to having done? You really need to provide it to the authorities, dear Amanda - as they have since begun looking in more probable directions. If you know anything, please, it's not right for you to be merely sitting on such vital, irrefutable evidence; the kind of which you seem to feel you possess. Please, do it for Kyron!

The police say that they have a great deal of evidence and they are now "case-building" - in other words, they are preparing a prosecution case against whomever is their main suspect, and will build as strong a case as possible before arrest (the right to speedy trial necessitates this case-building). This is the same thing that happened in the Scott Peterson case, for instance, and the Diane Downs case and many others.

If you believe the police have begun looking in "more probable directions" then you must have an inside scoop the rest of us don't have, into the closed-door sessions of the sheriff's office, because they have never said such a thing publicly and have instead focused their efforts and questioning and the grand jury's efforts and questioning in one single direction.

For the police to be looking in "more probable directions" than Terri Horman, they must also then have convened a secret grand jury to question associates of the "more probable" suspect, and have secretly questioned this mysterious "more probable" suspect, and secretly questioned the neighbors and friends of this mystery other suspect, and secretly obtained search warrants for the home, car and computer of this mystery other suspect... all without a single peep to the public (for help or questioning with identification or evidence) or to the press, or to the family of the missing boy.

Sounds like you're sitting on the conspiracy of the year, Matty. Well done on the investigative reporting of such a closely-guarded inside scoop of the continuing police investigation into the "more probable" suspect!

I truely think from the bottom of my heart that, Terri is gulty. If she had nothing to hide she would not even think twice to help find this child. I live in anothe state & have followed this story from day one. I Pray for God to Please be with lil Kyron. I Pray that they find something very soon. This is a parents worset nightmare.

God Bless lil Kyron & his parents.

You're confused. If you actually watched the show you would have caught the fact that the police neither consider her a suspect and, in fact, "do not [even] consider her a person of interest." Just because someone isn't giving the press the interviews they want doesn't mean they haven't given the police all the information they can - which she obviously did since they are no longer looking in her direction. Nevertheless, I don't blame you for being confused - this Dateline episode was a labyrinthine mess of speculation and half-truths.

Really, shame on Dateline. This was one of the most hackneyed and slanted narratives I've seen on this otherwise thorough program. I don't blame you for thinking she's guilty - that's clearly the assumption you're supposed to make by watching this wildly unsubstantiated drivel. Every apparent piece of semi-evidence presented within the show was either highly speculative or eventually proven to be erroneous within the show's final five minutes. For example...

If it's true Terri tried to kill her husband, why isn't she in jail? Possibly because the only evidence they have of this is some crackpot who called in with this "information" after the story had already garnered the attention of the general populace; among them said nutjob who was probably also the same "witness" who may or may not have seen Terri with another person in the car at the school. On that note, I thought it was funny that it was reported that "at least one person" saw someone else with her that day in the school parking lot... maybe more, maybe less. It's always the mark of quality journalism to be grossly vague.

To that end, she failed two lie detector tests and walked out of one? Okay, but how many did she pass? Odd... they never quite got around to tellng us how many she took in all. And how hilarious it was to see the reporter desperately try to get the admittedly unrelated investigator to mercifully speculate that it "was at least possible" that she could have made the trip to the lake to kill the kid, especially if she had help... which was also never proven, of course, as it has been met with the police's own satisfaction that her so-called accomplice was, in fact, an unlikely co-conspirator in this (at best) improvised and impulsive muder. Ah, but wait! She was "unaccounted for at work" during the time of the murder! Uh, yeah, except that she works in a huge garden and Dateline's version of "unaccounted for" seems to simply be "no one saw her at that time" or likely many other times while tilling in the vast hedges.

Truly, every shred of weak-kneed, wobbly evidence Dateline put forward could just as easily be met with unimpressed shrugs. And often the narrative came up with commercial-teasing falsehoods; like the promise of "Terri changing her story" at a later time... which never happened. Yes, she provided greater detail - but that's hardly changing one's story. In fact, if anyone change their story it was Kaine - who at first was hard-pressed to think of anything negative to say of Terri's behavor within their marriage and then, only weeks later in the follow-up interview (and during a likely bitter divorce) suddenly could not stop himself from detailing one account of inebriation t the next. That's it? She drank wine and fell asleep on the couch a few times? Gee whiz, someone call the cops! Half of America would be in jail overnight. Seems odd no one finds this shift in his character odd, since Dateline has the gall to call into question Terri's story despite "the Police finding no trace of any physical evidence." That's no blood, no mysterious fibers - in this day and age, that mans Terri must be a criminal mastermind.

Sad to see so many of you on this blog saying you think she's guilty based on what you even admit to be just a tepid gut feeling and the thrill of casual judgment. Surely it's not based on any evidence that can't be dismissed with reasonable doubt. I, for one, trust the police who have since had the good judgment to look elsewhere - on a day when even this pitiful little tabloid show admitted several other parents (and adults) were present. Is it not unreasonable to think that just one was there without good intent? That, apparently, seems to be the far liklier tale - both to me and to the authorities.

The police have said several times that they have plenty of evidence -- and that they are not going to make it public at this time as they continue to tie up loose ends and create their prosecutable case.

Just because you do not know what evidence they have does not mean there is no evidence. They've repeatedly said they have evidence they are deliberately not sharing with the public at large. Kyron's biological parents have reported that some of this evidence has been shared with them. While I'm shocked that the police have not contacted you personally, Matty, to explain their evidence and convince you of their case, perhaps one can assume that instead they've chosen to follow standard investigative protocol and to focus their time and efforts on Kyron, the evidence, and the case necessary to bring the guilty party to justice.

The reason they have not made an arrest - as the police have said in several press conferences, which you've no doubt watched as you are a case insider and keen amateur sleuth - is the fact that once a person is formally accused, they 1) have the right to review the evidence against them, and 2) have the right to a speedy trial. Therefore, as I'm sure the police have explained at length to you over coffee, they spend several months creating a criminal case that they feel can be prosecuted successfully, tie up any and all loose ends that the defense attorneys might use to clear their accused client on a technicality, and continue to watch said informal suspect for further behavior that could be deemed suspicious and/or point to the location of accomplices or the victim. During this "case building" phase, the informally identified person of interest is believed to be guilty yet not arrested.

You might remember a chap named Scott Peterson, currently sitting on death row in California for the murder of his wife and unborn son, and perhaps you'll recall the months that he roamed free in California, chatting away to his girlfriend, laughing, smiling and flirting as police ran sonar across the Berkeley marina sea floor looking for the body of his wife. Your keen analytical skills and quick grasp of patterning in human behavior, Matty, will probably quickly jump to Terri's own cell phone use and budding romance via text message and thong while police sonars dropped into the forbidding waters upon Sauvie Island in a search for a shape that is not a log, and is not a tree, but is somehow relevant to the disappearance of her stepson Kyron.

But as you've repeatedly pointed out, you alone Matty have the ear of the authorities who are even now making connections of yet another person, a "far liklier" suspect than Terri, a different suspect who has been until your dateline comment board post completely hidden from all but a select few. A suspect about whom they have so much evidence, the police don't even need to question Skyline residents, teachers, friends, or Kyron's family, so sure are they (and you, clever Matty), of their new suspect. No, no sketches are necessary, no alerts to keep the other Skyline children safe, no fliers with this new "far liklier" suspect's car, or face, or profession, no grand jury testimony to pin down this new suspect's timeline, no requests for security video of this "likly" suspect's store visits. Their case against the new suspect is just that firm, and I'm glad to hear it, Matty. Very glad that they have such certainty. And hats off to them, and to you Matty, for keeping this secret in the face of so much media scrutiny.

I'm glad the police gave you the nod of approval to unofficially leak the facts concerning the existence of a new suspect in such a way, Matty. You've been given a weighty responsibility with this secret information and you carry it well. Please do keep us informed with any updates, as I have yet to meet another soul who has been both included in these closed-door discussions with police and yet forthcoming with information to the public at large.

Skittles32...she is not a mean girl. You on the other hand are despicable. Why? How dare you attack her family? Unfortunately it is people like you who happen to our world. Once again, I will say it is obvious you have not done your research and just believe what you read in the news and see on t.v...sensational journalism. It is not objective or factual. She is innocent. Having said that, she is allowed contact with the outside world. Her parents are great parents and many of my fellow alumni will agree. You have shown your lack of intelligence by making the statements you did. Many of us are proud of her for being a good mom, for standing up for her innocence, and for continuing to fight in the face of adversity. I leave you with a quote which I think you and several other members of our society need to ponder upon, "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." ~ Jesse Jackson

I will agree with you here that her family should not be attacked for her actions. But will disagree she IS a mean girl. I also agree that this story was a case of sensational journalism, obviously Dateline went for the "story" not the truth.

You have a right to your opinion, but what you base it on is questionable. Mean is what I call all of the people lying about what really happened. She would never have to be mean like that, trust me. You just do not get it. Perhaps you do not really understand the dynamics of the whole situation.

The fact that Amy was such good friends with Jen Kellogg say a lot about her. Jen Kellogg was a MEAN girl and always was. Nice girls don't become close with evil girls.

ya im not to far from this either im longview wa and this story has not left my mind not one day, i can bet anything that that red headed step monster had something to do with it! shes a master manipulater and after hearing desiree say she now feels that terri is capable or harming kyron or even worse it just breaks my heart! the love from a mother for a child is a bond that can never be broke! i just pray that hes out there alive and someones just holding him, i try not to think of the bad only bcuz ive seen cases where its yrs and they come back! i just hope that terri will one day talk and let the world know what she did with him so there family could at least find the closer and the peice of mind they deserve!