In a Q&A session Friday night, Kaine Horman, father of missing 7-year old Kyron, was asked the following questions:
Kaine, why did you and Terri switch cars the day Kyron disappeared? Did you typically drive the white truck, and Terri the red mustang? Did she request to have the truck that day?
Kaine’s answer was…
I typically drive the truck and Terri drives the car. She wanted to use the truck to bring Kyron’s science fair project home, easier done with the truck than the car, although she did not stay for the duration of the science fair – per her statements that the media has reported.
It has already been discussed extensively that the red mustang was Terri’s car and that, for some reason, on June 4th she drove the white F250 Ford truck instead. It has also been discussed that it appeared the science fair project was already set up on Friday morning when Skyline Elementary opened its doors early to students and family to allow them to tour the science fair projects. In Kaine’s response above please note that he did not state she used the pickup that day to TAKE the project to school, but to bring it home.
Now, this begs the question that if Terri and Kaine discussed her using the pickup for the explicitly stated reason of picking up the science fair project, then why did she do things in a way that made no sense, and showed she did not start the day intending to pickup the project?
The first curious thing to point out in this discussion is that Kaine states “…although she did not stay for the duration of the science fair – per her statements that the media has reported.” This statement reads as though Kaine has received this information as different than he believed the day would go. Had Terri led Kaine to believe she was going to the science fair and staying until it was over at which time she would take the project with her? This would actually make the most sense, since in the photos we have seen of Kyron and his project at the school, the projects appeared to be set up in classrooms on students’ desks. In order to continue the regular school day classes after the fair was over, these projects would have to be moved off the classroom desks in order to allow the children access during their classes.
But Terri didn’t do that. She drove to the school with the pickup and then left the school without the project – and didn’t even stay until the fair was over. Now, you might say, she intended to pick the project up after school. There three things that don’t make sense if that was her intention:
1. It has been reported (but remains unconfirmed as far as I know) that Terri sent an email to Ms. Porter in the afternoon asking her when the science fair projects could be picked up. This email has never made sense to me. First, Terri was just there that morning. We know that teachers were present at the school while Terri was at the school. Why did Terri, if she knew she couldn’t stay until the end of the fair, not ask a teacher at what point the projects could be picked up? Second, why did the question need to be asked at all? An email wasn’t needed…period. Would it not make sense to plan to pick Kyron AND the project up at the end of the school day instead of having him ride home on the bus, load him up, and then return to the school to get the project?
2. Kaine only worked a half day at the office. Why did Terri feel she needed to swap vehicles to get the project home if she knew she wasn’t going to pick the project up before the end of the school day? Kaine was going to be home by that time and the pickup would be back at the residence. The only logical and benign reason for swapping vehicles in the morning would be if Terri didn’t know Kaine planned to work at home that afternoon. Did Kaine decide after he got to work that he would work the last half of the day at home? I actually believe the answer is no. And the reason I feel this way is because of the plans he made with Kyron to go get ice cream after Kyron’s school day was over. Taking into account that Kyron was going to be leaving later in the evening to travel with Desiree back to Medford, it makes no sense that Kaine would be discussing going for ice cream at 5:30 or 6 o’clock at night. It makes much more sense that Kaine intended, when he made the statement to Kyron that morning, to be at home when Kyron arrived there from school so they could go for ice cream shortly afterward and earlier in the day. In fact, I would venture to guess that when Kaine got home at 2 p.m. he most likely assumed that Terri had already brought the project home. And most likely, he didn’t even clarify whether she had or not, just assuming she had because that was the entire reason for her taking the pickup…or so Kaine believed.
3. And then lastly, why didn’t Terri plan to the do the logical thing and pick the project up at the end of the school day? The email to Ms. Porter (if it actually was sent) shows that this was not her intention, and it boggles my mind that it wouldn’t be.
Since we know that the science fair project was not brought home that day (prior to the end of school) the question becomes…why did Terri want the pickup and could this give insight into what happened to Kyron? There are a number of reasons I can think of for needing a pickup versus a small two-door car.
1. Large tools – shovel, container???, etc. Did Terri need the pickup to transport things she would need to dispose of Kyron? Did she need it to transport something in the bed that would not look suspicious in the bed of a truck, but would if seen in a car? I can think of several things that would fall into this category.
2. Off road access – did Terri leave that morning knowing that she was going to be driving to a remote location the Mustang wasn’t suited to reach? A rough, rocky mountainous dirt road? A swampy, muddy shoreline area? Keep in mind it had rained almost every day for a week and rained on June 4th. The ground would have been moist to downright muddy depending on what type of location she planned to access.
3. Easy access to cab interior – unlike the Mustang, which is a cramped two-door car, the F250 Ford truck the Horman’s own is a crew cab with four doors, did Terri plan ahead to make sure access and/or retrieval from the cab would be as simple as possible? If there is validity to “Chas’s” account of seeing Terri Horman pull out on Hwy 30 headed south, I note that he saw a red-headed woman driving the truck, but he did not see any children. If the children (assuming Kiara was also with them) were in the backseat, he most likely would not have seen them due to the heavy tinting on the back door windows of the truck.
I believe Terri led Kaine to think that she was going to the science fair with Kyron and when the fair was over she was going to bring his project home – therefore she needed the truck. And I am beginning to believe that we are seeing enough information to start believing the yet unconfirmed account that Ms. Porter claims Terri told her, that morning, “in a crowded auditorium”, that Kyron had a doctor’s appointment and they were going to have to leave before the fair was over. I am also beginning to believe that Terri and Kyron (and Kiara??? still unknown) left the school quickly.
I offer the following scenario in how Kyron could have been taken from the school, by Terri, without being seen together. On the way to the science fair Terri stated, for the first time, to Kyron that he had a doctor’s appointment that morning and that they weren’t going to be able to stay at the fair/school very long. At approximately 8:45 (prior to 9:00 a.m. when the classes began touring the fair) Terri told Kyron to go on out to the truck and she was going to take care of telling Ms. Porter that he was going to the doctor. Kyron went on out to the pickup and got in the backseat where he would normally ride. If Terri had not already told Ms. Porter of the doctor’s appointment, she did so at this time. But irrespective of what Terri did next, she intentionally lingered in the school long enough to ensure that if she was seen leaving, she was seen leaving alone.
Now, the only hiccup to this scenario is that Mr. Matt Shelby has stated that two teachers believe they saw Terri and Kyron leaving the school that morning together. (CORRECTION AS POINTED OUT BY MY READERS: Actually Mr. Shelby made a nonstatement (which seems to be a habit for him). He stated two teachers saw Terri and Kyron at the school that morning and believe they left together. Make of that what you want…that’s exactly what I think Mr. Shelby intended us to do.) If this is true, then the scenario would be that after spending a brief time at the fair (and getting the requisite pictures), Terri found Ms. Porter in the auditorium/gym, told her of the doctor’s appointment, and then she and Kyron quickly left.
Whatever the true events are on how Terri handled exiting the school that morning with Kyron, the facts are beginning to show that she left the Horman residence that morning in a vehicle that would serve her plans for the day. And those plans do not appear to have included bringing Kyron’s science project home.
Valhall.
Related posts:
- Kyron Horman case: Terri neglected the Kyron factor
- Kyron Horman case: A motive, an accomplice and a conference
- Kyron Horman: Why was Kyron not accounted for?
- Kyron Horman case: Initial timeline for June 4th
- Kyron Horman case: Interviews and searches continue
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