Kyron Horman Missing Case: Terri Horman Breaks Her Silence In People Magazine Interview
New York, NY- For nearly five and a half years Terri Horman has refused to speak publicly about her step-sons case. Outside of one assertion of her innocence while on the stand in a name change hearing she ultimately was denied, Horman did not speak to any reporters or answer any of their questions regarding Kyron Hormans disappearance. Until Now.
Horman courtesy of People
Horman was interviewed by People Magazines Elaine Aradillas for both the print and online editions, and will be doing a series of personal interviews over the next week, to include wwww.blinkoncrime.com.
In the brief online video excerpt , the second part to air on ABC’s Good Morning America Friday morning, Horman maintains she is deaf in her left ear, a critical factor in the outcome of her first polygraph.
“… At what point are Kyron’s biological parents going to realize I don’t have the answers, they need to change this thing around…”
“…There is so much the public is not being told about this investigation, that’s why I am doing this- nobody is looking for Kyron…”
Horman’s interview drew sharp reactions from Kaine Horman and Desiree Young, Kyron’s parents.
“…Why is she silent for 5 1/2 years if she is innocent. I want her to tell me where Kyron is. If she is innocent she should call Multnomah County Sheriffs Office and sit down for an interview…”- Desiree Young
“Hi friends. Yes I am well aware of the tabloid journalism piece in the media today. FYI – there will be more of the same coming Friday
We have a HOST of MCSO and FBI investigators STILL standing by with interviews and polygraphs when someone actually wants to cooperate. FEEL FREE TO STOP BY THEY ARE WAITING!! STILL!! Until then we’ll stick with the scores of people with valid/accurate information and the failed polygraphs as the only actual actions taken to-date. To all of you: how about not linking the article/interview?
REMEMBER KYRON?!?!? This is what we need to be focused on!!
Love you Kyron!!” – Kaine Horman post on his Facebook Page
Christina Stoy, www.blinkoncrime.com Editor In Chief was able to confirm with Ms. Horman directly that she has been willing to meet with Kyron’s investigators both previously and in the future with the sole provision that it be conducted in the presence of her Attorney, Portland criminal defense lawyer Stephen Houze.
Horman went on to say that investigators with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office have been well aware of “that” over the last five and a half years and they have never requested an interview. Um, What?
Horman reveals some shocking details about the subsequent polygraphs examinations referenced by Kaine Horman and Desiree Young and other allegations of improper tactics on behalf of MCSO in the second half of her interview to air tomorrow morning on abc’s GMA and on Nightline.
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Interesting erose.
I appear to have just inadvertantly posted about the origins of that drug task force, once secret, created the first year of Reagan’s Presidency. Headed by a PPB employee Reycek, Frink & Shrunk were on it then, joined by newly appointed (but not new to the Office) US Atty Turner. also on it, a PPB Captn.
I suppose those were the targets’ cases
Ceim Div Scott Kiernan was trying
when he got targeted and got scared.
I imagine Shrunk and Frink would go to great lengths
to protect task force work or personnel, but would leak
to the press when convenient.
PPB’s Ray Tercek first task force head in the 90s, grad of Central Catholic High, ’66.
PPB detective’s Bocciolatt’s (the one Frink endirsed) mother in NY died last year; Catholic.
Frank Romanaggia’s mother died last year in Portland, Catholic.
was there some social track leading to leadershop roles in the PPB detectives’ shop.
No wonder a handfull of Portland priests escaped scrutiny.
OT
Looks like Brown governs the Kitzhaber way, only worse.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/state_utility_regulators_were.html#incart_2box
Could be Staton walks to work to reduce his carbon footptint and girth.
http://www.wweek.com/2016/02/17/records-show-multnomah-county-sheriff-dan-staton-rarely-goes-to-his-office/
or he’s out in the field or say in Troutdale’s bldg near his home.
Jacquiss is reaching. Why? His data source tells nothing about being on the job.
Here’s Underhill’s media release creating an inhouse Integrity position for Ratto in Oct 2014.
http://mcda.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Post-Conviction-Deputy-District-Attorney-Media-Release.pdf
apparently he was the DA on that Drug Task force the previous 15 years (1999?). Says while on that task force he was codesignated and appointed as a Special USAttorney.
Tercek gave Frink the same joint Special US Attorney designation back in his 2 page write up on the 1990s task force.
So apparently Ratto followed on the heels of Frink in that appointment.
Thanks for the link about Apple T.Ruth
The Apple CEO was on TV news this morning concerning the order. He is going to fight it. An open order from the judge is not good. Apple has a duty to its customers not to give away the access method to anyone.
The correct solution should be that Apple has the FBI bring the phone to its technicians for them to pull the data. The FBI could have their team in the room, but not doing the work.
Frink officially retired for OPERS purposes as of, 07-01-2011. However, by retiring on that date he could work full time minus 1 hour for the rest of the calendar year. In subsequent years he could work 1039 hours for each calendar year. While I am not sure if there is a specific legal limit for this arrangement, past 2-3 years is probably not common. And, at some governmental level, I think retaining an employee after official retirement has to be justified.
http://gov.oregonlive.com/pers/browse/
This link provides lookup access to all retirees currently receiving OPERS monthly payments. So, one can look up information on most “retired” Oregon government employees, including law enforcement, district attorneys, judges, and educators. Included information: Name, Monthly Benefit, Retirement Date, Retirement Plan, Months of Service, Retirement Calculation Method, Final Salary, Annual Benefit, and Benefit as Percent of Salary.
Of note:
The list of retirees is only for those receiving benefits during the previous calendar year.
Once someone passes they no longer receive benefits therefore are no longer on this list when the new years list is made available. Caveat, if the deceased retiree had made arrangements for another to continue receiving their benefits I am not sure who is listed, if anyone.
If a retiree pulls all of their money out of OPERS they are not listed.
If a retiree appears to receive roughly half the benefits one would expect, given final salary and years of service, they probably pulled half of their accumulated account out of OPERS.
Interestingly Quizzi- Frink gave up his license voluntarily- and Schrunk is pro bono status with the bar. So when (and if) Frink gave up his license he could no longer work in law in any capacity except a non-lawyer. Oh- and Diana Olsen (shore house) retired, lol.
Thanks for re-posting the link.
B
In 2008, relative to the Brook Wilberger case, Frink offered this.
“There’s no big deal about prosecuting a homicide when no body is present. It happens all the time,” said Frink, chief deputy district attorney for Multnomah County.
(Sorry about questions asked to get access to this article through this link.)
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/without-body-state-must-prove-death/article_e82bdb51-9746-504f-aef1-c02d28565619.html
Apparently Frink was not able to “make” that happen in Kyron’s case, and apparently he was not to happy about it.
A perfect stranger- it happens.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/03/notorious_child_killer_larry_l.html
B
Thanks MbS & erose for digging. So if Frink was still chief deputy DA in March 2013, when did he retire? After Dede spoke out here with Blink, September 2013?
@Rose says:
February 17, 2016 at 7:44 am
You are right, Frink would have been logically next in line for the job, unless of course, he didn’t want it. Good question, why Underhill?
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I forget this is out there to peruse, I found it interesting that in 2014 The O (Aimee Greene) petitioned for the Parole supervision records of Adama Lee Brown and it was denied.
http://mcda.us/index.php/about-the-da/public-records-request/
You guys are on fire today.
B
A Texas Grandfather says:
February 17, 2016 at 11:34 am
Absolutely agree with your scenario. One warrant at a time, one phone at a time.
Thanks Quizzi! I posted my last post before seeing yours.
O/T
Knocking myself in the side of the head, why didn’t I go to work for the Great State of O when I moved here! LOL
According to this bulletin Frink was still working for MC as DDA in November 2012. (Maybe it was considered part time? IDK)
https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/12nov/deathpenalty.html
Since 1982, he has served as chief deputy for the circuit court, and directs prosecution of all felony trial units. He personally prosecutes major homicides, felonies and federal drug cases.
Hey maybe Frink is the retired dude still working on Kyron’s uncold case. Oh wait, no that was FBI right?
He better not be, lol. No, it is retired FBI.
B
Who knows what it means, if anything…but my husband just told me that on his way home from work, he noticed that the Ky shrine at the gym is completely gone. He didn’t know how long it’s been like that as he usually doesn’t take that route. I asked, “you mean completely gone and cleaned up?” and he said, “yes”.
Thanks Gwen, sad.
B
Did I ever post this bizarre case here?
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991019&slug=2989812
Scholarship Is Proposed For Sex Offender
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991020&slug=2990015
Sex Offender Rejects Scholarship From Neighbors
I’m awestruck by similarity, TRuth. You erose & I are channeling similar paths today.
I first saw that in an old newspaper today looking up Ratto & planned to embed it in a longer Ratto-Undehill
post late tonight. Thank you.
@Gwen
a reason I thought KM perhaps no longer a
Horman new mommy is because she ceased posting on the BKH FB with “the first round of ornaments is up”
on Dec 19th. No more posts from her. BKH.org still has the broken mcso link. No family pic at a finished tree.
Maybe Kaine ran out of fence housekeepers. Bried’s longtime mgr bought into & is running a 2nd expansion location in Clackamus, so maybe the new local mgr cleaned up.
Where will Momma and Soldier go for car washes and
speaker’s podiums? I vote fir Skyline School’s front doorstep.
@Truth, I believe this is the same story:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19991021&id=l1VWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6569,5982438&hl=en
Ratto, with el ed children, took a not in my backyard, forever, approach. Unlike the lot of Skyline neighborhood. Against the parole officer’s advice, who wished him to remain in his current treatment program residing with supportive family. He apparently has done well.
With simple googles, one learns Ratto divorced in 2005, remains close to his children he says, did a medical mission in Peru in 2005, anis a nice guy. He is a competitive rec runner like Underhill, and once again he, Underhill, and Shrunk have similar builds and demeanors. He was/is no less dogged at putting offenders away and fighting parole than Riddell, maybe more so. In fighting paroles, he is in part motivated to preserve his work product outcomes.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1218421508110830.xml&coll=7 Is he really now a legal altruist?
in April 2014 Steve Wax, 31 year FEDERAL Public Defender, retires in order to direct the new OR Innocence Project.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/lawyer_steven_wax_takes_giant.html
Is it any wonder then that six months later, a month after the start of a school year (Inn Proj relies on law students), Rod assigns pit bull parole-fighting Ratto, who just spent l5 years getting convictions as a special US Attorney (Federal cases)/DA, prosecuting the very client pool of the Inn Proj.
I had seen this Oct ’14 apptmt as indicative that Underhill was a DA “new wave”, an ethicist, or at least responding to his bar complaint proactively. I had seen Ratto as a knight in shining armor, like Steve Wax, coming to review files and free the innocent or publicize wrongs, like failures to share exculpatory evidence.
My sense is that perspective is wrong. Imo Rod created this position, and put a pit bull in it who just left l5 years in the US Atty’s Office as THE Regional Task Force DA member, like Frink once was, as a defensive measure in reaction to the formation and intent of the newly organized Innocence Project. Rod/Ratto had to take it seriously with Wax in charge.
Wax, as the Fed Public Defender Chief during Frink and Ratto’s service as DA on the Regional Task Force, appointed to the US Attorney’s Office as special prosecutors, knew their prosecutorial predilictions and weaknesses. Wax no doubt came in with 31 years of specific cases in mind.
@mbs. notice this? http://www.wweek.com/homepage/www.wweek.com/2016/01/26/parents-say-northwest-academy-mishandled-discipline-of-boy-who-wrote-hit-list-of-classmates/
imo there must many more issues not publicized, bcz when a woman like this founds the school and IS the school, she only leaves willingly feet first. Underhills’ school, remember? Maybe the Board finally looked at test scores and colleges admitted to track record.
@Rose, Looks like 2011 was the last year for the Regional Organized Crime and Narcotics Force. It changed to MCSO Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
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Last year this program was: #60067A, MCSO Special Investigations Unit
The Captain’s Position that was funded by ROCN (Regional Organized Crime and Narcotics) Task Force was split out from
this program offer and scaled to offer B.
http://www3.multco.us/budgetwebFY12All/PDF/60067A-MINT.pdf
ROCN starts on page 19, followed by an organizational chart.
https://books.google.com/books?id=za3ERMfvAQcC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=MCSO+%2B+Regional+Organized+Crime+and+Narcotics+Task+Force&source=bl&ots=Eq_Yz_spol&sig=JTLvLrTxmhK1r7Gsl_GPic_e5ho&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie_rKv3IDLAhUUTmMKHbr5CNcQ6AEISDAG#v=onepage&q=MCSO%20%2B%20Regional%20Organized%20Crime%20and%20Narcotics%20Task%20Force&f=false
The management team of the ROCN encompasses about 2/3 of the agencies involved in Kyron’s case at the onset.
Blinkers, I beg your pardon!
Strangely enough we had a reason to drive past the gym this evening. The shrine is still there. That will be the last time I trust someone else’s eyes (even if it is my husband). As I was pointing out the still existing shrine, I gave him plenty of “what for”.
So, major apologies to all for my erroneous reporting and apologies to Blink for the time waste.
LOL!!
I call my hubby and my daughter “man eyes”. No worries Gwen and tell man eyes as well- everyone makes mistakes- I like the fact that he looks for it everyday.
B
Gwen says:
February 17, 2016 at 7:02 pm
Who knows what it means, if anything…but my husband just told me that on his way home from work, he noticed that the Ky shrine at the gym is completely gone. He didn’t know how long it’s been like that as he usually doesn’t take that route. I asked, “you mean completely gone and cleaned up?” and he said, “yes”.
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I wonder if they moved it somewhere else. I haven’t seen anything on the WS page by SG. SG used to be in charge of cleaning it up every spring time so she should say something about the move/dismantle of the shrine.
It’s there, hubby corrected himself upthread
B
From Blink’s Link
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/03/notorious_child_killer_larry_l.html
Did we know this?
comment section:
ImOLiverTwist 03/29/13
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Rackner has made it very clear she would do anything to help LE and had no interest in a fair settlement for both parties. Doesn’t hurt that she used to be supervised by Meisenheimer.
Yes erose, but let me say I appreciate reminders often. I have been pouring over my files these days in prep and fact checking and it is simply way too voluminous to remember everything (at least for me) never thought I would say that. I want to say in Kaine’s first FAPA renewal he used wording such as “more than one judge (or magistrate) believes there is enough probable cause to arrest”. What was always very interesting to me was that outside of a gj indictment (indorsement true bill) filing charges with a magistrate will also generate an arrest warrant (IMPORTANT: I actually worked on a case where the Sheriff threatened the DA to do this and the DA sent his Assistant to stake out the Judge- A DA can “veto” aft or object as a party.
Point is, for me that is further validation the gj issued a no true bill- that very specific wording. Almost as if to say- jic they mention the gj nixed an indictment so lift the FAPA. Moo.
B
I don’t under stand. Is the Kyron fence. And so on gone
Nope, Mr. Gwen had a man eyes moment, lol.
B
OT
@mbs. the Comments re NWA were better than the gossipy article which received deserved criticism.
Easier to criticize a new young employee than a Jacquiss for gossipy articles.
I suspect the next to last comment sums it up. Apparently Founder/Head wanted a permanent bldg, so likely one or
more Board members agreed to mega donations contingent on her immediate retirement.
@erose wrt ” erose says:
February 18, 2016 at 1:22 am
Looks like 2011 was the last year for the Regional Organized Crime and Narcotics”
http://blinkoncrime.com/2016/01/21/kyron-horman-missing-case-terri-horman-breaks-her-silence-in-people-magazine-interview/#comments
Those were regional federally-funded task forces begun under Reagan, and I have no doubt
they bit the dust US-wide at the end of 2011 due to the House’s Nov 2011 Budget control Act (sequestration)
that castrated federal agencies’ funds. The loss of effective Federally-organized (thru DOJ District Offices)
regional drug/gang task forces which integrated the DOJ and County PPD/DAs was one byproduct. Pity the
thing devolved to MCSO in Multnomah. It started up with PPB at the reins.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/02/multnomah_county_citizen_commi_1.html#incart_2box
on Staton
What is all this “man eyes” talk? It is a Look, but Don’t See moment.
Everyone has them, but some more often than others. It is a matter of training ones mind to notice everything the eye sees. Teenagers are twice as likely to fit that pattern than adults. That is because their mental attention span is not fully developed.
The description Rose makes about the loss of funds due to the Sequester for LE activities is the prime reason that the Congress critters that allow a continuing resolution to approve budgets or portions of them should be sent home for not doing their job.
A President who sends over a budget late or doesn’t send one over to the Congress, should have no funds allocated and the second time it happens, the House should issue Articles of Impeachment for dereliction of duty.
LOL.
Fair and I apologize for offending with my genderizational occular bias.
B
@Blink yes Kaine did use that wording.
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What’s interesting erose is who knew that particukar divorce attorney on e was supervised by Meisenheimer in the DA’s office and dispatched Kaine specifjcally to her.
Imo an employee of tge DA’s office at that co-working time would know that
arcane tidbit about BOTH Meisenheimer AND Rackner AND what they were
doing in June 2010, making a heavenly matchup.
Another Frink diabolic plan?
Don’t forget the DEA agent/interpreter. Both wheelhouses.
B
Imo after allowing Staton to accrete power & resources, dating back to
2010 anyway, the current timing of WW to “get Staton” comes down
most probably to keeping him from filing by March 8 for McKeel’s
Gresham CC seat which he once expressed a
desire to do. maybe he’s been running out his
sick leave getting ready. I rather thought the CC girls
liked Stegman, a good fit, but another joined the ballot race
last Sept – a President of AFGE Union. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/09/portland_resident_announces_ca.html
I think Staton coukd’ve filed in Feb and beaten both before the bad press.
“more than one judge (or magistrate) believes there is enough probable cause to arrest”..
that sounds like someone in mcso judge-shopped to get a warrant, but the DA put a stop to
that route. maybe the judges were smart enough to call Shrunk because the procedure was
so unusual for the County. Maybe that’s when the DAput Staton’s nose out of joint on this case.
OT
at the same time the longstanding Regional Narc Task Force in Muktnomah met its demise, so did 24 OSP narc detectives aiding task forces across the State, particularly rural depts, get the axe
by the cochairs of Oregon’s Joint Way & Means
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/02/oregon_state_police_proposes_c.html
So both Federal and State funding was lost Oregonwide in 2012 in the war on cartel drugs.
The latter was a Dennis Richardson production:
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/02/two_oregon_lawmakers_with_big.html
What is it with O reporters who put out press releases for govt actors–like the Ratto position creation by the DA–without doing any research?
Good morning, Blink! I’m not sure if you get these local breaking news reports
http://abc7.com/news/fbi-serves-search-warrant-at-syed-farooks-brothers-home/1205817/
If the terrorists did NOT have the County iPhone with them, how could it tell what they did in the 18 minutes missing on the FBI time line? My personal concern is that the FBI MAY be using this case to get access to all locked iPhones especially if they know the terrorists didn’t even have the phone with them!
Good morning, Blink! Please use your judgment on posting this because it seems to be off topic but FBI access or denial of access may have long term implications.
This is from our NBC station . . . Maybe the FBI realized that IF the phone was erased, there may be NO WAY to ever retrieve that information, so they are going a different direction!
“The ruling comes after 10 failed password attempts caused the device to automatically erase all of the phone’s contents, which the FBI said were critical. The iPhone found in the couple’s car belonged to Farook and was given to him by his former employer.”
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/FBI-Searches-Home-Connected-to-Syed-Farooks-Brother-369289831.html
O/T Apple – What I have learned is the next Secretary of Defense needs an I-Phone. (LOL?)
Make that Secretary of State. Duh. Where is my head.
@Gwen. LOL I searched for some announcement About the Wall of Hope and just couldn’t find any thing
.
That’s ok You husband Got me busy
Instead of watching tv. That’s a good thing
@Sharon. It’s not the 18 min, tho that may be the grounds for tge warrant.
It’s who he communicated with in the US and overseas. Personally I think if
a Federal Judge grants a warrant, and homicides committed in front of numerous eyewitnesses, it’s good enough for me.
OT Q for the next debates erose.
Who owns an iphone? Hold em up!
What do you think about Apple’s stance and
how would you handle it if you sat on the
Federal Appeals Court?
http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2016/01/making_a_murderer_oregon_injus.html#incart_gallery
O/T, looking at Steve Wax and the O Innocence Project brought me to the above story and it’s related stories. They’re all interesting. But the PPB Narcotics Squad got my attention. And this case: Lisa Roberts is interesting as well.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4443
(snipped)
As the case neared trial in the fall of 2004, the prosecution disclosed to the defense that an analysis of records from Roberts’s cell phone showed that Roberts was near Kelley Point Park the morning of the murder. Roberts denied she was near the park and said the call was made to a friend whom she was going to visit that morning.
Although Roberts’s attorney had hired an expert to analyze the same records, the analysis had not been completed. Confronted with the prosecution expert’s report, Roberts’s attorney negotiated an agreement with the prosecution in which Roberts pled guilty to manslaughter in the first degree on December 1, 2004 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
(snipped)
In 2008, after her state appeals had been denied, Roberts filed a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus. During the proceedings, her defense attorneys, Steven Wax and Alison Clark, received laboratory reports that had never been disclosed to Roberts’s defense. The reports indicated that DNA tests had identified a male profile on a pillowcase found next to the victim’s body. The profile was determined to be too low in quality to submit to any convicted offender database to search for a match.
(snipped)
In addition, a defense expert re-investigated the cell phone records and concluded that cell phone tower data was not capable of pinpointing Roberts’s location. The defense expert said that the prosecution’s expert had not considered the wide area that the tower that picked up Roberts’s cell phone on the day of the crime was designed to cover, nor other variables such as the call load, network of the tower and the cell phone provider’s software, all of which
could have affected which tower picked up Roberts’s call.
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Sounds familiar.
I literally have no idea how that cell reporting missed the first def atty- and yep, definitely sounds familiar except in 2010-2016 MCSO absolutely has the technical resources to identify parameters of a ping.
B
Just like anything else that has been standing on a corner for six years, it becomes easy to overlook. Sad.
ot Citizens Charter Review group:
This is the committeewoman who said “Let’s get more information,” unsurprisingly.
https://multco.us/elections/may-17-2011-corbett-school-district-director-position-7-victoria-purvine
http://corbettoregon.com/csd-school-board-candidates/csd-candidate-victoria-purvine/
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She’s used to dysfunction from a fish’s head and writes a great public letter.
http://corbettpost.com/a-response-from-director-purvine/
However, he’s still the Supt., and she’s a citizen.
Quizzical says:
February 17, 2016 at 12:05 pm
Thanks for the link. I had forgotten about that list which popped up with outrage at the huge benefit paid to #1 – the Oregon Ducks coach.
I wasn’t in favor of publishing a list with names (preferred by job or position), although it did put to rest some of the rumors of teachers making 2 or 3 times their salaries when they retired. Some of the numbers are higher because people did extra work like testing coordinator or coaching or after hours classes and all that was added into your salary. One reason I retired early was because my work was the same but my salary was going down due to days cut from my work year and other changes.
And yes, I did look myself up. Only one name that I noticed was upsetting – the former PPS human resources director who is near the top of the list. IMO, if I had been evaluating his work (many of us did privately), he would have owed the district money rather than the other way around.
Rose says:
February 18, 2016 at 12:07 am
@mbs. notice this? http://www.wweek.com/homepage/www.wweek.com/2016/01/26/parents-say-northwest-academy-mishandled-discipline-of-boy-who-wrote-hit-list-of-classmates/
imo there must many more issues not publicized, bcz when a woman like this founds the school and IS the school, she only leaves willingly feet first. Underhills’ school, remember? Maybe the Board finally looked at test scores and colleges admitted to track record.
Rose says:
February 18, 2016 at 6:59 am
OT
@mbs. the Comments re NWA were better than the gossipy article which received deserved criticism.
@Rose – I agree about the comments and the gossipy tone. Mary Folberg retired first on the PERS list in 1998, 12 years after I met her, and after she could see her arts program within PPS fading away due to many factors out of her control.
She has an enormous passion for the arts and kids. She’s the sister of Will Vinton (Claymation) and has a Kennedy Center Award, among many others. She’s about 75 years old, so retirement again is no surprise to many. She also has a ranch and breeds Peruvian Paso horses. Really fascinating life, I always thought.
She also worked for decades with kids in tough situations and I believe she was very familiar with all the rights and resources involved. Communication is described by some parents as a problem – I see many principals and staff members in districts who seem very unclear about what information they can provide, particularly when a juvenile or a potential crime is involved. Districts solve that by having a PR person who, with legal advice, says very little and acts as a buffer when needed. Individual schools not so much.
It’s interesting how much more upset and outspoken it seems these parents in the comment section are than the Skyline parents. Students, too. The big issue seems to be “is my child at risk” – I still wonder why Skyline parents never got that. I haven’t seen one face of LE that could convince me my child was safe at Skyline simply by pointing a finger at TH.
Erose
The Feds are supposed to use Blackberry phones because of the security concerns. Apple decided to try for the Blackberry market by building an encryption feature into their phones beginning in 2013.
The feds want Apple to give them a set of tools to get around or decrypt the phones. The judge issued an order to Apple to get this done. Unfortunately, he cannot do that without violating the 10th and 14th amendments to the Constitution. Apple is going to refuse which will create a case in the courts for its resolution. Apple has customers who use their phones because of the encryptation.
I don’t think the FBI time line was built from phone records. They have tracked the terriosts by witness sightings. I am not certain where the phone was found.
O/T More on the Narc squad
http://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=81612
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A few days before Christmas 1981, just as the defense team was breaking for the holidays, a small group of bikers and their supporters gathered in Son’s office – where he gave Christopher some shocking news.
‘Pigpen,’ Son said, ‘you’re never going to spend another day in jail. I’ve got these cops on two murders, and I’ve already got one of them proved. When we get back, I’m going to go before the judge and tell him what I know.’
Less than a week later, when they heard that Son had been found dead in his home, they certainly didn’t believe he shot himself.
Four weeks ago, the district attorney’s office received evidence that seems to bear out its worst fears. It’ll be interesting to see what happens now.
http://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=83235
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Over the course of the subsequent investigation, five officers resigned: Neil Gearheart, William ‘Lenny’ Dugan, Frank O’Donnell, Jim Sweatman and Deppe, who later was convicted of using forged prescriptions to obtain narcotics.
Deppe admitted that he and Crowther had brought drugs with them to the St. Johns club, to plant on the bikers. Gearheart admitted he had fabricated the information justifying the search warrant.
In return for specifying which cases were tainted, Schrunk’s office agreed not to prosecute Deppe’s colleagues.
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So the FBI was looking back into this 25 year old case in 2007? Did they ever report on any findings?