Missing Veil Files | Case File 009: What Happened to Kyron Horman?

On the morning of June 4, 2010, seven-year-old Kyron Horman proudly arrived at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, to participate in his school's science fair.

He posed for photographs.

He showed off his project.

And then he vanished.

What should have been an ordinary school day became one of the most baffling missing child cases in American history. Despite one of the largest search efforts ever conducted in Oregon, thousands of tips, FBI involvement, and years of investigation, Kyron has never been found.

In this episode of Missing Veil Files, we examine the timeline of Kyron's final known movements, the massive search that followed, the scrutiny surrounding those closest to him, and the theories that continue to surround his disappearance more than sixteen years later.

Someone knows what happened.

The question is whether they will ever come forward.

📁 SHOW NOTES

Case File: 009

Name: Kyron Richard Horman

Age at Disappearance: 7

Date Missing: June 4, 2010

Location: Skyline Elementary School, Portland, Oregon

Status: Missing

Topics Covered

• Kyron's early life and family background
 • The Skyline Elementary School science fair
 • The final confirmed sighting of Kyron
 • The largest criminal investigation in Oregon history
 • The search efforts surrounding Skyline Elementary and Sauvie Island
 • Terri Horman's timeline and public scrutiny
 • The murder-for-hire allegation involving Kaine Horman
 • DeDe Spicher's involvement in the investigation
 • Civil litigation filed by Desiree Young
 • Ongoing theories and unanswered questions
 • Where the case stands today

If You Have Information

Anyone with information regarding the disappearance of Kyron Horman is encouraged to contact the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Sources

• Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
 • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
 • National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
 • Oregon Department of Justice
 • KGW News Portland
 • KATU News Portland
 • The Oregonian
 • CBS News
 • NBC News
 • ABC News
 • Dr. Phil Interview with Terri Horman (2016)
 • Court filings related to Young v. Horman
 • Publicly available law enforcement statements and press conferences

Music Credits

Original music provided by Dave DAddario.

YouTube: @davedaddario

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Transcript

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A seven-year-old boy stands proudly beside his science fair project. A red t-shirt, black cargo shorts, a smile. The project's title Can electricity move through water? His stepmother takes photographs. Teachers walk the halls. Parents admire displays. Students prepare for class. Everything feels normal, safe, routine. And then, somewhere between the science fair and first period, Kyron Horman disappears. No screams, no witnesses, no signs of a struggle. No one sees him leave. A seven-year-old boy vanishes from an elementary school in broad daylight. Hundreds of officers search. Thousands of tips pour in. The FBI joins the investigation. The largest criminal investigation in Oregon history begins. But sixteen years later, Kyron Horman has never been found.

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SPEAKER_03 2:51

This case begins inside an elementary school. A place where children should be safe. A place filled with teachers, parents, and classmates. But on the morning of June 4th, 2010, seven-year-old Kyron Horman walked into Skyline Elementary School for a science fair. He proudly showed off his experiment, he smiled for her photographs, and then he disappeared. No confirmed sightings, no physical evidence, no answers. Only one of the most baffling missing child cases in American history. And somewhere between a crowded school hallway and the end of the school day, Kyron Horman vanished. Kyron Richard Horman was born on September 9, 2002. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. To those who knew him, Kyron was curious, thoughtful, intelligent, and endlessly fascinated by science. He loved exploring, asking questions, and learning how things worked. His parents, Deseray Young and Kane Horman, separated before he was born. Despite the divorce, both remained active in his life. But when Deseray later developed serious kidney failure, custody arrangements changed. Chiron primarily lived with his father. In 2007, Kane married Terry Moulton Horman, and together they raised Kyron and welcomed a younger daughter, Kiara. By all outward appearances, they were a normal family. Kyron attended Skyline Elementary School, a small school located near Portland's Forest Park. Teachers described him as bright, respectful, and well liked by classmates. At just seven years old, he already showed signs of being academically gifted. Science fascinated him. And on June 4th, that fascination would lead him to school early for a science fair. No one could have imagined it would be the last day he would ever be seen.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

At the time of his disappearance, Chiron was seven years old. He stood approximately four foot tall and weighed around 50 pounds. He had brown hair, blue eyes, and wore prescription glasses. On the morning he vanished, Chiron was wearing a black CSI t-shirt, black cargo shorts, white socks, and black sketcher sneakers with orange trim. Investigators would later circulate those details nationwide. Because in missing persons cases, sometimes the smallest detail becomes the most important clue. But despite years of publicity, billboards, television coverage, and national attention, none of those details have ever led investigators to Kyron.

SPEAKER_04 6:18

June 4, 2010. Students and parents filled the hallways that morning. Science fair projects lined tables throughout the building. Teachers greeted families, children proudly displayed their hard work. Among them was seven-year-old Kyron Horman. His project focused on electricity and whether it could move through water. Terry Horman later stated that she accompanied Kyron through the school that morning. Several photographs were taken. In one, Chiron smiles proudly beside his display. Those photographs would become the final confirmed images ever taken of him. According to Terry, at approximately 8 45 AM, she watched Kyron walk towards his classroom. Then she left the school. It is the last confirmed sighting of Kyron Horman.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

Yeah, this is the picture that she took. Most people think she's involved, but we'll get to that. You never know. After leaving Skyline Elementary, Terry later told investigators she spent the rest of the morning running errands. She visited two Fred Meyer stores, drove around with her young daughter, stopped at a gym, and eventually returned home. Meanwhile, inside Skyline Elementary School, classes began, students took their seats, attendance was recorded, and somehow, Kyron never entered his classroom. His teacher marked him absent, but staff believed the absence had been excused. No immediate alarm was raised, no emergency call was made. Hours passed, and at approximately 3 30 PM, the school buses returned students home. But Kyron wasn't on his bus. His stepmother called the school. What she learned would trigger one of the largest investigations in Oregon history. Kyron had been absent all day. No one knew where he was, and at approximately 3 45 PM, police were notified. The search for Kyron Horman had officially begun. And from that moment forward, every minute mattered.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

As the reality of Kyron's disappearance began to sink in, the search expanded rapidly. What initially began as a missing child investigation soon became something much larger. Police, sheriff's deputies, search and rescue teams, FBI agents, volunteers, National Guard personnel, everyone was looking for the same little boy. The wooded areas surrounded Skyline Elementary School were searched repeatedly. Forests, trails, ravines, creeks, fields, nearby roads, and eventually locations miles away from the school. Law enforcement searched areas within a two mile radius of Skyline Elementary, then expanded farther. Searchers would later include Survey Island, an area roughly six miles away, and locations surrounding the Swave Island Bridge. Authorities never publicly explained exactly why certain areas, exactly why certain locations received such focused attention. Only that every possibility had to be explored. Hundreds of trained researchers worked day after day. Then came more and more. By the time the largest search efforts ended, more than thirteen hundred trained personnel from Oregon, Washington, and California had participated. Volunteer search fields, mounted unit search trails, helicopters scanned from above. Boats searched waterways. K-9 teams followed potential leads. Thousands of tips flooded into investigators. Every reported sighted was examined. Every lead was followed. At one point, the reward for information leading to Chiron was increased to fifty thousand dollars. Yet, despite the enormous effort, nothing was found. No backpack. No clothing. No evidence. No indication of where Chyron went after he was last seen inside Skyline Elementary School. The investigation ultimately became the largest criminal investigation organ history. And yet, the one thing everyone needed most remained missing. Kyron. As the search intensified, investigators began focusing on a question that would soon dominate headlines. Who was the last person to see Kyron alive?

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Yeah, and apparently this school had no security cameras.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Sounds like the elementary school I went to. Middle of fucking BFE where we're surrounded by nothing but fucking cornfields and all that shit.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

It says just a few months after the incident, a local business donated and installed a high-resolution surveillance system at Skyline Elementary, making it the first in the Portland Public Schools district to have comprehensive indoor and outdoor cameras.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

So it was like no schools in that district had cameras?

SPEAKER_03 12:43

I guess not. The security upgrades at Kyron School eventually led district-wide measures, resulting in indoor and outdoor cameras being rolled out to other elementary schools in the area. Almost immediately, investigators began reconstructing Chiron's final known movements. One fact quickly stood out. The last confirmed adult to see Kyron alive was his stepmother, Terry Horman. Terry told investigators she had arrived at the elementary school with Kyron that morning, walked through the science fair, taken photographs, and watched him head toward his classroom. According to her timeline, she left the school around 8 45 a.m. Afterward, she claimed she spent the day running errands, visiting two Fred Meyer stores, driving around with her young daughter, who reportedly had an earache, stopping at a gym, then returning home. The gym part is what gets me.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

Yeah, let me stop at a gym. But you already got an earache, but let me let me get my uh squats in for the day. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

I went to two Fred Meyer stores. Two Fred Meyer's.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

Yeah, two Fred Meyer stores. What is Fred Meyer store? What is it? I guess it's like their equivalent of like a Walmart. Oh Probably. Let me s let me see. Two of them? Why do you go to two of them? Hypermarket superstores. So like Walmart.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Super Walmart.

SPEAKER_04 14:13

They're owned by Kroger.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

Oh, there we go.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Did the what are they called? Fred Meyer? Yep.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

I want to go to a piggly wiggly. Every time I hear that name, I'm like, I wanna go to a piggly fucking wiggly.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

I wanna go to Super Winnie Hut Jr. So it says the Fred Meyer stores did have security cameras, and investigators pulled surveillance images from them to track Terry's movements. First Fred Meyer in Hillsborough. Oh great. Terry went to the Cornelius Pass location around 9 a.m. Surveillance footage and a timestamped receipt confirmed she checked out at 9.12. Second Fred Meyer store in Beaverton. She drove to the Walker Road location around 10 a.m. Because the first store didn't have the specific medicine she needed. While inside her presence was confirmed by both security cameras and a gym acquaintance who ran into her and spoke with her. Detectives began examining every minute of that timeline. Receipts, phone records, witness statements, surveillance footage. Investigators wanted to know whether Terry's movements could be independently verified, and if they couldn't, why not? As the weeks passed, public attention increasingly shifted toward Terry. But despite the scrutiny, law enforcement never publicly named her a suspect. And to this day, she has never been charged with any crime related to Chiron's disappearance.

SPEAKER_04 15:53

Just weeks after Chiron vanished, the investigation took an unexpected turn. According to investigators, a landscaper named Rodolfo Sanchez reported that Terry Horman had previously approached him with a shocking request. He claimed that months before Kyron disappeared, Terry offered him money to kill her husband, Kane Horman. The allegation stunned investigators, and it sent shockwaves to the community. Authorities launched a separate investigation. Sanchez agreed to cooperate with police. At one point, investigators reportedly arranged for him to wear a recording device while speaking with Terry. The hope was that a confession or incriminating statement might be captured. But despite their efforts, police were unable to gather enough evidence to support criminal charges. Terry denied the allegation, and no arrest was ever made. Still, the accusation dramatically altered how many people viewed the case, and it only placed even more attention on Chiron's stepmother.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

The evil stepmother.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Another name soon emerged during the investigation. Spitcher was one of Terry's closest friends. According to investigators, the two communicated frequently after Kyron disappeared. Police became interested in Dee Dee after discovering what they believed were gaps in her timeline on June 4th. The day Kyron vanished, Spitcher had been working a gardening job along Germantown Road in Northwest Portland. But investigators questioned whether she could account for every hour of her day. Detectives interviewed her extensively. They searched her vehicle, they searched her property, and she cooperated with investigators. Spitcher consistently denied having any involvement in Kyron's disappearance. She maintained that she never left the property where she was working. Despite years of speculation, law enforcement never charged her with any crime. And like Terry, her exact role, if any, remains unknown.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

As summer turned into fall, the investigation continued expanding. Grand juries were convened, witnesses were subpoenaed, friends and family members were called to testify. Investigators reviewed thousands of tips, conducted countless interviews, and spent months examining every possible lead. But by late 2010, the investigation had already cost well over a million dollars, and yet the central mystery remained unchanged. What happened to Kyron Horman? And where had he gone after 845 that morning? For investigators, the lack of physical evidence was becoming one of the most frustrating parts of this case. Because despite one of the largest searches in state history, they still had no answers. Only theories. Some focused on the school, others focused on individuals close to the family, and some suggest the answer may lie somewhere investigators have never looked. But despite years of investigation, no theory has ever been proven.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

One of the most troubling possibilities is that Kyron was abducted from Skyline Elementary School. The science fair created an unusual environment that morning. Parents were present, visitors walked the halls, classrooms were busy, students moved freely between displays. For investigators, that raised an unsettling question. Could someone have used the crowded atmosphere to remove Chyron from the building? If so, they did it without anyone noticing. No witnesses have ever come forward to report seeing Kyron leaving the school. No surveillance footage exists showing him leaving campus. Which means if an abduction occurred, it happened quickly and silently.

SPEAKER_04 20:37

For many people, suspicion has remained focused on Terry Horman. She was the last confirmed adult to see Kyron alive. Investigators scrutinized her timeline, examined her statements, and spent years investigating her activities. Terry also failed two separate polygraph examinations, a fact that received significant media attention. However, polygraph results are not considered reliable evidence in court. And despite years of investigation, law enforcement has never charged Terry with any crime related to Kyron's disappearance. Terry has consistently maintained her innocence, and she continues to deny any involvement.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Another theory centers around reports of a possible second person. In 2010, investigators publicly announced they were searching for information regarding an individual allegedly seen sitting inside Terry's truck on the morning Kyron disappeared. Witness accounts suggest someone may have been inside the vehicle, but investigators never publicly identified that person. And no definitive explanation has ever emerged. If another individual was involved that day, their identity remains Unknown.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

Well, all the theory so far goes back to her though.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Well, especially if she really tried to hire that person to kill her husband.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Yeah, but that's getting a big thing. But the months before he disappeared, so and then like if she if there was someone in her truck that explains why they didn't see him on the cameras. I just think it's strange how it all comes back to her. I know I've read on several Reddit threads too. Everyone says it just it's her.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

It just all lines up because I mean you're the last person to see him alive. Allegedly, you hired somebody to murder his father moments before he disappeared.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

There's someone allegedly seen in your vehicle that wasn't you, your daughter, or your stepson or husband. So I mean and apparently one of your good friends you talked to, but you guys started chatting a lot more after he disappeared.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

So that's kind of eerie.

SPEAKER_03 22:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Just like the Alec Murdoch thing. If you weren't directly involved, you had something to do with it.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

Yeah, definitely. Alec Murdoch. Perhaps the most haunting theory is also the simplest. Someone knows what happened to Kyron. Someone has known for 16 years. Whether that person participated, witnessed something, or simply heard the wrong conversation, they may still hold the answer. The answer that investigators, his family, and the public have spent years searching for.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

In June of 2012, Kyron's mother, Desiree Young, took an extraordinary step. She filed a civil lawsuit against Terry Horman, claiming that Terry was responsible for Kyron's disappearance. The lawsuit sought $10 million in damages and aimed to prove that Terry had kidnapped Kyron on the day he vanished. But the lawsuit would never reach trial. In 2013, Desiree voluntarily dismissed the case. Not because she had changed her beliefs, but because she feared the civil proceedings could interfere with the ongoing criminal investigation. The lawsuit ended. But the question remained.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

I mean, I guess I could understand why you're But if it's her lawsuit, I mean I guess it's because it's a civil lawsuit instead of like the federal investigation.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

I guess so, yeah. Like she might have been just worried like something would interfere. Like what if there is something they for fine? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

That's why I'm confused, because I mean it's nearly the same lawsuit, just a different jurisdiction. It's not really at a federal level, more of a local level. Me being ignorant to all the processings of law and stuff, it'd feel like her doing a lawsuit and them doing a lawsuit, they could combine their findings and get closer to a actual idea of what really happened, but then again, sh the same thing. It could have collided with everything and ruined it, but it's still an open case, so whatever they did wasn't working.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

It says Desiree Young dismissed her $10 million civil lawsuit against Terry Horman on July 30th, 2013, to protect the ongoing criminal investigation into her son Kyron's disappearance. Young initially filed a lawsuit in June 2012 to accuse K Terry of kidnapping Kyron and to legally compel her to talk, break her silence, or reveal the location of his body. However, she chose to drop the case due to specific legal and procedural roadblocks, such as access to police records. To successfully move the civil case forward in court, Young's attorney needed access to the police criminal investigation files. Under the Oregon Public Records Disclosure Law, authorities could not legally release active, ongoing police investigation files to a civil party. Risk to the criminal case. Pursuing the civil suit further meant attempting to force open police files, which Young feared would compromise or jeopardize the integrity of the actual active criminal investigation. She stated she wanted no part in hindering law enforcement efforts. And Terry's right to silence. Terry Horman continuously asserted her Fifth Amendment rights, and her defense team aggressively fought her this civil suit, arguing it was an attempt to bypass criminal protections and influence future juries. So yeah, she was just, I guess, afraid it was gonna harm any evidence they did have, I guess. As the years passed, many assumed the investigation had gone cold. But behind the scenes, detectives continued working the case. Grand juries continued hearing evidence. Searches continued, tips continued arriving. And in 2017, authorities conducted additional searches along Skyline Boulevard, the same area where Kyron was last seen. For a brief moment, hope returned. Perhaps investigators had discovered something. Perhaps there was finally a breakthrough. But once again, the searches yielded no public answers, and the mystery continued.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

In twenty sixteen, Terry Horman appeared publicly during an interview on Dr. Phil. For years she had remained largely silent. Now she wanted to tell her side. Terry denied any involvement in Kyron's disappearance. She stated that she had always wanted to speak publicly, but claimed she had been advised not to do so during the investigation. Terry also expressed her belief that Kyron had been abducted and referenced reports of a suspicious man seen near a convenience store on the day Kyron vanished. What about the one in your car?

SPEAKER_03 27:59

That doesn't make any sense, though.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

No, you're just trying to throw people off your trail.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

I mean, I see we mean creepy people all the time, but I used to work with creepy ass people.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

I still don't know.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

But like, oh, oh, well, there is this strange man at the gas station. What? Go fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

For some viewers, the interview raised new questions. For others, it changed nothing. And once again, the case remain unresolved.

SPEAKER_03 28:32

Kyron Horman has been missing since June 4th, 2010. He was seven years old. As of 2026, no one has been arrested for his disappearance. No criminal charges have been filed. And no definitive explanation has ever been provided. The investigation remains open, and law enforcement continues to accept information. And Kyron's family continues searching for answers.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Over the years, age-progressed images have been released, national media campaigns have been launched, and thousands of people have followed the case. But despite all of it, there has never been a confirmed sighting of Kyron.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

His mother, Desiree Young, has never stopped advocating for her son. Never stopped speaking his name. Never stopped searching. For her, the case is not history. It is not a headline. It's her child. And every day without answers is another day waiting for a phone call that never comes.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Yeah, so and then I was wondering like where did his dad Kane go?

SPEAKER_01 29:54

That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

It says, um, so they're no longer together, Terry and Kate are no longer together. Their marriage was officially resolved on December 31st, 2013. He initially filed for divorce on June 28, 2010, just 24 days after Kyron disappeared. The separation and subsequent divorce proceedings were highly continuous and driven by several criminal factors.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

It seems like he even found her suspicious.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

Well, the investigation, Kane moved out of the family home and filed for divorce after law enforcement made Terry the primary focus of the investigation. Murder for hire allegations. During the initial investigation, detectives uncovered an alleged plot where Terry had reportedly tried to hire a landscaper to murder Kane. This discovery prompted Cain to immediately take their infant daughter and seek a restraining order against Terry. And a divorce settlement. After years of legal battles, a judge finalized the split. Cain retained the family home and was granted full legal custody of their daughter, and Terry was ordered to pay child support and was initially denied visitation rights. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

You can't take somebody else's child and expect to keep yours.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

No.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

You can try to say all the bullshit you want, but everything's pointing back to you.

SPEAKER_03 31:12

Says yes, Kane Horman believes that his ex-wife Terry Horman was involved in Kyron's disappearance.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

But why? That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Like woman so in July twenty ten, Kane filed when he filed for a restraining order against Terry, he's explicitly stated the court documents, I believe that Terry is involved in the disappearance of my son Kyron. He added that police had provided him with probable cause to believe this was true. The failed polygraph test, Kane and Kyron's mother, Desiree Young.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

I mean, I'm glad they do polygraph tests, but if they don't hold up as evidence in court, then what's the fucking point of wasting the time?

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Kane and Desiree revealed in interviews that while they both passed their polygraph tests with flying colors, Terry failed both of hers. The process of elimination, Kane later explained that an investigators ruled out other possibilities and tracked Terry specific and consistencies. All paths kept pointing back to her.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

So Yeah, because it doesn't say nothing about this gym that she supposedly went to, does it? Doesn't say anything about seeing her there, just that she ran into one of her gym mates at one of the Fred Myers.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

Yeah. And then now over the years, Kane has stated that while he still believes she played a role, he has emotionally forced himself to move past obsessing over her. Instead, he chooses to focus his energy on working with law enforcement, keeping Kyron's face in the public eye, and raising his daughter. Which good for him, but still, yeah, they're it all goes like we said earlier, it all goes back to the only reason why I knew it was that name was because of the second line King.

SPEAKER_04 32:51

Kiara.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Oh, Kyara. Kiara. Kiara, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

But Kiara.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

On the morning of June 4th, 2010, a seven-year-old boy walked into school for a science fair. He proudly displayed his project. He posed for photographs, and he walked down a hallway. Then he vanished. No confirmed sightings, no physical evidence, and no answers, only questions. Questions that have haunted investigators, journalists, and an entire family for more than sixteen years.

SPEAKER_04 33:30

Somewhere the truth exists. Someone knows what happened. Someone knows where Kyron went. And until that truth is discovered, the story remains unfinished.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

A school hallway. And a seven-year-old boy who never came home.

SPEAKER_03 33:56

Well, I was also thinking, like, did they have any like tension between each other? Like Kyron and Terry. But um apparently on the outside it looked like they were a happy, loving family. But the father's per se perspective. So Kane Horman later said that he picked up on a noticeable tension between Terry and Kyron. He revealed they frequently argued because he found her treatment of the children unacceptable. Kane noted that Terry and her own teenage son from a previous marriage were actually the ones who did not get along. Oh. The extreme hatred emails. Investigators shared intercepted emails with Kyron's biological mother, Desiree Young, which Terry had sent to friends before the disappearance. Desiree publicly stated that these emails revealed an extreme hatred for Kyron, where Terry blamed the seven-year-old for her maritable problems and even wrote about wanting to hurt him. Another major point of contention in the house involved Terry's teenage son. Kane had recently insisted that Terry's son moved out move out of the house. Investigators looked into the theory that Terry grew to resent Kyron because Kane allegedly favored his own biological son over hers. Ultimately, while Kyron was widely described as a sweet, easy-going child who loved his family, evidence suggests Terry harbored severe hidden resentment towards him.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

I had a stepmom like that.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Yeah, she's crazy too. What happened to Kyron Horman? This has been Missing Veil Files. Until next time, keep your ears open.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

And the veil closed