WW report: Kaine wishes plot against him had succeeded

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Kaine Horman, the father of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman, said he wishes his estranged wife’s alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill him had happened, he told the Willamette Week newspaper.

Although Terri Moulton Horman has not been named a suspect by police in the disappearance of Kyron, both Kaine and his ex-wife Desiree Young, have said they suspect her of having something to do with Kyron’s disappearance. Both were interviewed by Willamette Week.

Kaine’s revelation that he wished the alleged plot to kill him went through came after a reporter at the paper asked him how he felt knowing he was the one who brought Terri Horman into the family.

“I feel responsible. I feel guilty. It's my job to protect him. It's my job to be there for him. I was there for him and someone got past and got him on my watch. I'm very upset about it. I'm very emotional about it. It's not right. It shouldn't have happened. We all trusted her. I feel partly responsible. In a weird way, I almost wish that her plot that she originally put in place would have gone through, because he would still be here,” he said.

The plot Kaine mentioned was laid out in divorce documents where he claims detectives told him Terri tried to hire a landscaper to kill him. That was the basis of the restraining order that he got against Terri.

He also told the paper that he lives every day with the guilt that he couldn’t protect his son.

“I'm not saying I feel directly responsible for it, but I feel really guilty about it. And I wish there was anything I could do to change places with him in any way, shape or form,” he said.

He said he’s turning that guilt into something positive through his efforts to find his Kyron.

“I would do anything, I would give anything, and I always would. Up to this point I have always been there in that capacity. Anything bad that happens to him, I wish I could shoulder it for him (that) I could take it away from him. I wish it would come to me instead of him. It just didn't go that way this time, and I really wish it would have.”

James Pitkin, the reporter at the Willamette Week who interviewed Kaine said it was difficult to ask questions when there’s so much speculation around his family.

“I never look forward to asking those questions,” Pitkin said. “But in a way that’s the most compelling part of the case. How does someone cope with being in this position? How does a person who believes their wife is involved with the disappearance of their child come to terms with the emotional reality of that.”

Desiree too said she feels guilty for not being able to protect Kyron.

“I think that all of us in this case that’s close to Kyron, all of us feel guilty to a certain degree about what it is that we’re going to feel guilty about,” she said. “I feel guilty I wasn’t here to protect him. And that’s our job is to protect our son, and I feel like I failed in that.”

To hear the entire interview with Kaine Horman and Desiree Young click here.