Kaine describes what Terri told him about Kyron’s disappearance

PORTLAND, Ore. – Standing outside his son’s second-grade classroom at Skyline School, Kaine Horman explains what his estranged wife, Terri, told him about the morning Kyron disappeared during the school’s science fair last June.

"My basic understanding is they got here at some point. They did some rounds and I think it was just Terri, Kyron and Kiara that went around on their own – doing some visits to the different rooms and looking at the projects," he says. "I do believe, based on what I understand, I think that she did leave early before the science fair touring part of it was over.
 
"I remember her saying that he went one way and she turned and went the other. And that was the last time she saw him, according to her."

Sources tell KATU News, Terri Horman led Kyron's teacher to believe he had a doctor's appointment that Friday morning. He didn’t. Kaine says Terri had been focused on Kyron's spaciness.

"I didn't see anything out of the ordinary," he says. "I wasn't concerned about it at all."

Kaine says Terri was the one who was pushing Kyron to a doctor to be checked out.

Kaine attributed the staring spells to sleep deprivation. In the weeks leading up to Kyron's disappearance, the baby – Kiara – had been dealing with an ear infection. He says her crying at night was keeping the whole family up, especially Kyron, whose room is right across the hall.

The infection plays a key role in what Terri claims she did after the science fair. Surveillance video shows she visited two different Fred Meyer stores to get medication for Kiara.

Then she says she spent roughly an hour and a half driving the back roads of Northwest Multnomah County to soothe her daughter as the medications kicked in.

Kaine says he’s never had to do that.

"I don't need to drive her around to put her to sleep or to get her to stop crying or anything else. I have not needed to do that once. I have yet to need to do that is about all that I can say," he says.

Because of the natural connection people make between Kaine and his son, he receives mail at Skyline School that offers words of encouragement. But he says it’s still been hard.

"I don’t think there’s a very clear story of exactly what happened here that day," he says.

Terri Horman has remained a focus for investigators but she hasn’t been named a suspect or even a person of interest.

KATU News will air a special presentation on the search for Kyron on the anniversary of his disappearance, Saturday, June 4 at 6:30 p.m. It includes more from the interview with Kaine Horman.