Dr. Phil Show Hosts Missing Portland Child Kyron Horman’s Step Mom Terri Horman Over Two Episodes
I have been covering this case since Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline School in June, 2010. Like most missing persons cases I have covered in the past, I am of the strong opinion that best efforts at the truth are the only way to propel investigations that, similarly to Kyron’s, have gone cold for one reason or another. This approach has worked in resolving some of my previous cases. I am proud of that. I remain steadfast to the integrity involved in those and future cases.
Over the past 10 months (or so) I have been developing an updated series on Kyron’s case to include my multiple interviews with Kyron’s step-mom, Terri Horman. Needless to say as she was the subject of at least three simultaneous cases before an Oregon court and remains a person of interest by the agency investigating her sons disappearance, this has been an arduous and sometimes delicate journey. Ms. Horman’s experiences during the ongoing investigation of the disappearance of Kyron Horman are critically important to propelling his case and with great hope- finding the truth about what happened to this cherubic and innocent child. There are dozens of sources, collateral interviews, forensic experts and legal analysts that also contribute to my series and have done so because of their belief that my motivation is to bring to light information and opinions in such a way that would almost “require” a focused review of Kyron’s case and the likely shaking of that proverbial tree everyone talks about.
Set to publish about 6-ish weeks ago I was asked to postpone the first installment of the series, which I did. I subsequently learned Ms. Horman was participating in the Dr. Phil program after she completed taping. Dr. Phils producers were well aware that Ms. Horman had interviewed with me extensively, and anticipated my series would be publishing information that was not known to the public previously in the days prior to her scheduled episode. When Ms. Horman conveyed to me that she feels obligated to speak out about “her son” in any national medium that will have her, I most certainly respected that. I still do.
While Dr. Phil seems like a gregarious fellow for sure, I have zero interest in being associated with his program, nor do I believe his shows content is designed to do any furtherance of investigation or truth. There is much concern (although I have no affiliation to the show whatsoever) that the timing of the publication of my series on the Kyron Horman matter might be interpreted differently or inadvertently contribute to the programs content or audience reactions. Not what I signed on for. A missing 7 year old boy six years running is not a framework for entertaining a target audience. He is not fodder for online social media bully campaigns- yet it occurs.
I will be publishing my series on Kyron’s case at a later date, in it’s entirety with no editing adjustments as a result of any of the appearances on Dr. Phil. I appreciate your patience and your understanding. Feel free to discuss the show below.
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Blink Desiree continues to say Kyron left the school with Terri.
I think she really believes that. I woukdn’t call her lying but
confabulating, believing what she says.
Respectfully, I have not heard her say that in years, but I may have missed it. I have heard her innuendo and insinuation which I believe is her intentional verbiage to keep Terri “suspect” in the face of the knowledge her child walked out of the classroom with an unknown adult male on June 4th, 2010. I get that she believes Terri is/was involved in some way, but her recent commentary is far more tempered since she was told unequivocally Spicher was cleared and any public commentary by her to implicate her would and will result in Spicher seeking civil remedy for same.
Bottom line- Desiree does not believe Terri took Kyron from Skyline because she knows she could not have, and she knows about SZ and simply believes Terri orchestrated it and refuses to see the lunacy of both believing that, and refusing to investigate the possibility she is very wrong. I do not state it is my opinion that Desiree has full knowledge Kyron did not leave with Terri- I state it is a fact that she knows he did not, and she knows this directly from investigators and her counsel at a minimum. She will never publicly deny it if asked. The problem is- nobody will ask her.
B
Portland govt institutions settle with white employees & imo took this to trial as plaintiffs are 2 black males. Once again the Federal OR regional DOJ shoukd’ve brought this case in Fed Court as there is institutionalized discrimination, but just like turnong a blind eye to mcso corruption, that Fed office appears useless but for drug cases and “terrorism”. These black pps maintenance workers experienced terrorism.
http://pamplinmediagroup.com/pt/9-news/356093-235855-workers-suit-vs-schools-advances
Hah!
http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/04/27/police-union-tries-to-throttle-portland-mayors-hunt-for-a-new-police-chief/
boys in blue don’t want a culture change.
The devil you know and all that.
B
note the mention of “political leaders, writers, singers”
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2017/04/rabbi_joey_wolf_retires.html
ie M Bernstein writer
Margie, Eldon’s wife, singer
https://rsa.fau.edu/rosenthal-safyan
and politicians are found here & Beth Israel
wouldn’t be surprised if Rudy’s translator weren’t
found here too
I must have missed it, who was Kyron’s separate math class teacher?
Anyone?
@TRuth. Who knows? maybe Blink.
No press will ask Desiree that Q is like no Crime and Courts reporter will ask or write anout the retired FBI SAC returning to Portland last Aug to assume a mcso divion job converted from deputy to civilian for him, and appearing at monthly Commissioners’ meetings to discuss the mcso budget. And that’s a big chunk of County change. Why are certain County newsworthy matters taboo to Bernstein, Slovic, Redden, Budnik sorts? Writers and politicians intersect somehow in Portland.
1. “The murder business”.
2. Source threats to “dry up”. Remember that long and rambling post from DY about Terri prior to her actual interview with Elaine A? Beat reporters are reliant on sources/contacts within LE and the DA’s office. My best example is Spicher- when my interviews published, I was told between parts I and II that EVERY major hub in Portland was contacted with the offer of free tickets to the leper colony. (overdramatic yes, but you get the idea).
B
says all that can be said about Reese. cover up for a Sgt endangering the public and punish officers who report it. I’ve looked for the first underlying article a few diff ways, but WW has purged it.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.oregonlive.com/articles/5347520/portland_will_pay_40000_to_set.amp
love to know, between Spicer 1 and 2, who contacted
media hubs on behalf of what LE entity (mcso, mcda?)
or what family member or repr did so. And portland media is lame.
Wouldn’t phase any professional journalist
ie K Eichenwald, D Fahrenthold, or even J pitkin.
Managing editors shoukd reply to windbags if you want your story or side of it
on ANYTHING, ever, in our press, stop these empty threats.
and get new sources.
Problem in Portland is owners (WW) and managing editors.
agreed.
B
The Emerald Cup
http://seattlerefined.com/lifestyle/photos-big-muscles-and-fake-tans-the-emerald-cup-is-in-town
Hidden horror of school sex assaults revealed by AP
Relying on state education records, supplemented by federal crime data, a yearlong investigation by The Associated Press uncovered roughly 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students over a four-year period, from fall 2011 to spring 2015.
Though that figure represents the most complete tally yet of sexual assaults among the nation’s 50 million K-12 students, it does not fully capture the problem because such attacks are greatly under-reported, some states don’t track them and those that do vary widely in how they classify and catalog sexual violence. A number of academic estimates range sharply higher.
“Schools are required to keep students safe,” said Charol Shakeshaft, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who specializes in school sexual misconduct. “It is part of their mission. It is part of their legal responsibility. It isn’t happening. Why don’t we know more about it, and why isn’t it being stopped?”
Elementary and secondary schools have no national requirement to track or disclose sexual violence, and they feel tremendous pressure to hide it. Even under varying state laws, acknowledging an incident can trigger liabilities and requirements to act.
(snipped, more @link)
A HIDDEN PROBLEM
Children remain most vulnerable to sexual assaults by other children in the privacy of a home, according to AP’s review of the federal crime data, which allowed for a more detailed analysis than state education records. But schools — where many more adults are keeping watch, and where parents trust their kids will be kept safe — are the No. 2 site where juveniles are sexually violated by their peers.
Ranging from rape and sodomy to forced oral sex and fondling, the sexual violence that AP tracked often was mischaracterized as bullying, hazing or consensual behavior. It occurred anywhere students were left unsupervised: buses and bathrooms, hallways and locker rooms. No type of school was immune, whether it be in an upper-class suburb, an inner-city neighborhood or a blue-collar farm town.
(snipped)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-reveals-hidden-horror-sex-assaults-12-students-47123455
Kindergarteners among youngest schoolhouse assault victims
Student-on-student sexual assaults rise significantly during middle-school years, an Associated Press analysis of federal crime data found. But even as early as kindergarten and first grade, children can be at risk: About 5 percent of all sexual attacks reported on school property in a recent two-year period happened to 5 and 6 year olds, according to the AP analysis.
Little boys made up about 41 percent of the youngest victims — significantly higher than at other times in their school years. Among teens, boys comprised only about 10 percent of reported victims.
(snipped, more @ link)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/closer-littlest-victims-schoolhouse-assaults-47123599
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Sure makes me wonder about the safety of combining K-6 with Junior high age kids, like Skyline was. In fact, I’m thinking elementary school kids ought to be K-5 and then junior high 6-8, and high school 9-12. Seems much more reasonable to me anyway, hormone-wise. Anyway, just one more thing to consider in Kyron’s case. Particularly with what TMH told the media about Kyron’s behavior.
o/t student on student sexual assaults. Most surprising stat to me was that it tapers off in high school.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ap-reveals-hidden-horror-of-sex-assaults-by-k-12-students/ar-BBAB0nE?li=BBnb7Kz
What I found disturbing in the article is
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Report it to someone in authority, such as the school or district’s Title IX coordinator, or a principal, assistant principal or superintendent.
What about call the cops when a crime is committed? Just blows me away every time. Are schools sovereign nations now?
So flipping true. Under the law, as minors, there are mandatory reporting requirements in the first place.
Just unreal.
B
@erose. oh gosh. bet Seattle’s mayor
was there for male events.
The sexual assault problem in schools and on school buses is something that the schools want to keep hidden. Schools that have their own police or school resource officers are trying to hide these behaviors.
A sexual assault of any type is a felony crime and should be the job of a city or county LE agency.
Children today are exposed to far too many ways of learning about sex in the media at an age where they do not understand that it is bad behavior. Many, many homes are where drugs and sex are in the open for children to see. What the see at home in real time or in media is often copied with their peers.
This is also a major moral problem for society as a whole. Until real adults take charge, this is very likely to continue. CPS and other agencies are sometimes helpful, but they cannot correct bad or no parenting.
o/t Rose, mayor is apparently busy attacking victims
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/shame-on-mayor-murrays-attacks-on-accusers/
ot apparently in the late 80s, early 90s, (Shrunk’s era?), nonprosecution was de riguer as long as the criminal left town. here’s another: http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/356848-235598-michael-stoops-former-homeless-activist-in-portland-dies
ot well daughter’s judgment (wrt her hero worship of Reese) tracks her mother’s judgment. She praised Stoops after his criminal assaults on homeless male youth residing in his shelter in Portland were substantiated by formal investigation. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.oregonlive.com/v1/articles/20588830/post_593.amp
@erose says:
May 1, 2017 at 3:34 pm
I totally agree erose. Schools “passing the trash” and now this. We need some new laws. Public Schools are not just state funded, but federally funded, so why aren’t there federal laws requiring the schools to report such crimes to LE, no matter who is committing them? These cover-ups need to be stopped.
https://cayubaodyprod.tylerhost.net/Portal/Home/WorkspaceMode?p=0
04/27/2017 Witness List Filed
05/01/2017 Motion To Dismiss
05/11/2017 Motion Hearing
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So, if I’m understanding this correctly, TMH’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss and that motion will be decided upon on during a 5/11 motion hearing?
The short answer to your question is yes. Backing up though- a subpoena was returned and then a motion to dismiss was filed after a continued hearing date. My opinion only here- in a misdemeanor case which was DROPPED DUE TO LACK OF PROBABLE CAUSE because the complainant refused to press charges ( and we do not know how the complainant came to be- I am convinced LE (MCSO nexus) is simply tracking her every move and interviewing anyone with contact with her, so there’s that).
B
http://www.industrycortex.com/datasheets/results/mcso?per_page=160
@rose
I’m seeing Art B as an employee of MCSO in Oct 2010. Is that consistent to what you have seen.
“Associate Other Attendees Larry Aab, MCSO Art Balizan, FBI Jan Bishop “
T. Ruth
Schools have been “passing the trash” in order to protect their reputation for a very long time. The usual routine is to keep a lid on it if possible and allow the offender to resign. This behavior allows a continuation of bad behavior, but not in their jurisdiction. Kick the can down the road mentality.
Situations such as this are created by large and small school districts of all types. IMO a federal law is not going to change anything. The fewer federal laws the Republic has makes the freedom of the citizen more assured.
Schools and shelters should be regulated by state law. This puts the law close to the area of offense. This also requires the local community to be more vigilant and not allow schools, shelters or LE to ignore or hide such activity.
T. Ruth says:
May 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm
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So, if I’m understanding this correctly, TMH’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss and that motion will be decided upon on during a 5/11 motion hearing?
The short answer to your question is yes. Backing up though- a subpoena was returned and then a motion to dismiss was filed after a continued hearing date. My opinion only here- in a misdemeanor case which was DROPPED DUE TO LACK OF PROBABLE CAUSE because the complainant refused to press charges ( and we do not know how the complainant came to be- I am convinced LE (MCSO nexus) is simply tracking her every move and interviewing anyone with contact with her, so there’s that).
B
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IMO
I don’t understand why a DA would want to waste tax payer monies on a trial for a misdemeanor charge against someone with no prior criminal record (unless the RO counts as a charge or offense). When even the victim of the supposed crime does not want to charge TH. The most she could get out of this is a suspended sentence and maybe some community service. There is no way TH would testify and even if she went crazy and did get on the stand she would just take to 5th to any questions she did not want to answer. I don’t know but I believe that anything about Kyron or MFH’s would be off limits to question her about anyway.
You could say if she takes the 5th then the jury will think she is guilty but so what the charge is minor and she will likely get a suspended sentence pay a fine and/or get community service.
It cost the county money to pick a jury, pay said jury per-diem, get a court room and schedule a trial. This DA could be trying real criminals thieves, drug dealers bad guys that need to be off the streets but instead he is wasting time and money on a misdemeanor charge which doesn’t even matter to the victim. If this is instigated by MCSO he should tell the Oregon boys to have their own trial at Oregons expense not California’s if they are so convinced TH has committed some crime in Oregon.
@TRuth. iirc Art entered on duty shortly after Reese was sworn in (midAugust) in Sept.
However, imo he did not plan his relocation of home to Portland from CA in just 2 weeks after Aug 17, nor did Reese
reorganize and change the position from Deputy to Civilian when he walked in the door. Reese was
appointed by Kafoury et al to take over on Staton’s retirement back in April. I am sure the two men did a lot of reorganization planning, and Art his personal move, between April to August. kind of like between an election andinauguration, with his chief transition advisor. Budgets, and those who manage them, are powerful things. Of course Art didn’t know squat about running jails, mcso’s primary function and the training ground for those who promoted up to his functionalposition previously. Which tells me Reese values loyalty and friendship over competence.
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Defendant’s request to continue was denied at the continuation hearing.
I doubt the motion to dismiss works either. This is a fact intensive case.
The DA can sibpoena the original complaining party who filedthe police report
and also put the officer who took the report on.
needn’t be merely mcso nexus. Kristin has 2 sibs in a local PD.
one now retired, the other a powerful Union rep. From the mother
writing online to her 3 children, doesn’t seem to be a family system who
stays out of kyron’s case.
Stoops and Murray return one to the question of who left the State in the early days of the investigation?
Mathews left the State iirc as did Mastin. Louis T eventually did, oddly near retirement. Not involved with case, but Adams moved clear acrossthe country in what appeared to be a door opened by an OR politician like Wyden or a WRI major donor. for all his credentials, I can’t imagine Adams snagged that job on his own.
It interests me there has been a print media blackout on Reese’s Reorganization of last August (new pdf chart) as well as Art’s hiring. You’d think Bernstein’s headline would blaze: Retired FBI SAC returns to Shape Sheriff’s Budget. or, MCSO Chief Deputy Eliminated to Make Way for Civilian.
unsurprisingly, another Reed College grad. which conveys a lot.
(to me I suggest his findings will be based on “situational ethics”
and what feels right to him, rather than law and facts.
that is, he is a Judge Kantor reprise.)
https://ballotpedia.org/Benjamin_Wirtschafter
wonder who in mcda was in his class at U OR lawschool?
what was Rackner’s alma matter again?
If TMH reads here, my query is HOW could you
move to a city with THIS Judge? And with the 2 LE Mickelson’s?
ot I came across this as Oregonian Wirtschaffer, Terri’s Judge, repped Pederson in 2013.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.oregonlive.com/articles/13563635/david_joey_pedersen_gets_2_mor.amp
delightful to see now retired, sadly, Haggerty rip into corrupt OR State Police and prosecutors.
ot wirtschafter was a stiff sentencer in crime against a 7 yo:
https://m.facebook.com/yubasutternews/posts/1925882647641321
ot
yippee for that jury http://cni.pmgnews.com/pt/9-news/357568-237536-candidate-for-portland-public-schools-superintendent-withdraws
ot
http://cni.pmgnews.com/pt/9-news/357510-237471-tigard-tualatin-school-district-bus-driver-arrested-for-child-sex-abuse
@cd. imo the “rush to judgement” and “demand to try” is coming from either of 2 sources:
1) some local LE honcho dragged in by a police Union Prez, who has power in the State Union as well;
2) the Judge. the Reed/Univ OR law school (old school ties) man with a very soft heart for the young and a very hard heart for their abusers. imo on this misdemeanor he will sentence hard as he can, bcz he has been lobbied. TH’slawyer on appeal, if she can scrape up appeal $, needs to look into Judge ex parte contacts. I bet like Meisenheimer, he’s had them. No one could pressure this DA into a refiling but a megadonor, or imo on the QT the Judge who says I really want tolook at this.
@cd. if TH does not take the stand, imo she will be found guilty as she alone can state the gun was lent to her, not stolen. But, if she takes the stand, DA will bring in her RO, OR no contacts and no guns order. I suppose the 3rd alternative pressure on this DA to refile could’ve been the Multnomah DA calling him to say I really need this favor…..,
one UO law school grad to another.
overlap
Mult DA graduated U OR law in 1988; Wirtschafter, 1990. overlap.
If they’ve met previously at school or alum events and know each other socially, or shared
speaking panels (both being in criminal law), imo Wirt should recuse.
father
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/february2005/jonathan-d-wirtschafter-1956.html
brother
https://fedweb-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/fed-67/2/JuneShalom2015web.pdf
Both his father & the Judge went to Reed. there are Wirtschafters in Portland synagogues. Grandparents lived in Portland & were with nevah shalom. GM died 2013. M Bernstein’s synagogue as mentioned at http://nevehshalom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/chronicle_JulAug_11_web.pdf
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107791143
Gee all kinds of people coukd’ve chatted with the judge about kyron’s abduction dating back to 2010.
Wish one could learn if the Judge discussed the Horman case with any family members, ie his mother. Or read or viewed anything about it. ie like seeking to disqualify a biased juror preexposed to inflammatory media.
Rose says:
May 5, 2017 at 4:02 am
@cd. if TH does not take the stand, imo she will be found guilty as she alone can state the gun was lent to her, not stolen.
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But does it really even matter if she is found guilty. The charge is a misdemeanor and she has no criminal record. The RO Kaine had against her that said she could not have a fire arm was replaced by a protection order. She took the gun before the new RO so it doesn’t count. Even if found guilty she probably will only get a fine/suspended sentence/community service so why risk getting on the stand.
She will never take the stand, imo.
B
When this mess she is in is over, TH should do exactly what Rose suggest and get the heck out of Dodge by about 2000 miles. Let the investigation continue without her distraction. If she is involved they need some new information and maybe they will find it but this 7 year path has not done the job. I do believe the universe gives us back what we give. The universe does not seem to be happy with TH. It still gives me pause about her.
I do not disagree with you. In fact, you may be more diplomatic in your opinion than I at the moment.
As I believe her to be a fixed target in this “investigation” , it is difficult for me to discern how much of her behavior/decisions are “born” from that effect, or “other. ” As far as I know, we are all imperfect people and I am in no position to judge anyone. That said- focusing solely on behavior here- it is not indicative of a Mother looking to reunite with her toddler or putting “Kyron first”. I would be a hypocrite if I feel that both Kaine and Desiree could certainly be doing more and I did not point that out about Terri.
I am not a proponent of anyone helping LE to get themselves thrown in jail – most especially when I am convinced this woman was not involved in her sons disappearance and has no knowledge of who was. As much as MCSO/MCDA strategy needs to change to locate Kyron- so does TM’s, imo.
B
@Blink. and she shoukdn’t.
thank goodness for attorneys and parents.
Agreed entirely from a legal perspective.
B
the tort Terri could’ve filed had mcda ever brought her to trial
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/former_pps_educator_intends_to.html#incart_river_mobile_home_pop
This I did not know:
Christy-Hamilton and his wife had their first child last year, but the Human Services Department restricted contact with his baby until the charges were cleared this year, according to the tort claim.
Just OMG. I don’t think he even has his job back iirc. When the charges were first brought- I also did not know that he (among others) refused to comply with such an inappropriate and risk heavy policy, all of which apparently is well documented.
So.. he apparently was seen as insubordinate and then (where’s the union rep?) capitulates to keep his position and a very specific complaint is lodged by an alleged victim who is egregiously communicationally challenged except to her Mother who intended to file a civil action against the school. Do I have that right?
OR is a notice required state, let’s see how many “executive sessions” this takes and what reporters cover it.
B
This case with Christy-Hamilton is all about money for the alleged bathroom impropriety by the child’s mother.
Schools everywhere should NOT be taking students who cannot manage bathroom chores or speak coherently. They should be in special care facilities.
I know the reason for them being in schools and it is simply money. The state provides additional money to the school for each child with such disabilities and pays for people like Christy-Hamilton to care for them. This also increases the student count which in the Portland schools is important. The school district is declining in enrollment so every student is important to get state funds.
We don’t have any way to understand how such students feel regarding when they see normal children doing things they will never do. How much destruction is that to a child’s mental well being? To some who are barely alive, probably not much, but to others maybe a lot.
It struck me he was treated by his union and his supervisors, and human resources dept, exactly as the two black male janitors who won at trial this week. Their pay out in tort was ridiculously small and worse once split with attorneys, and there was no corrective action ordered on PPS as part of the outcome, at least in the press. PPS has a persistant HR problem, and the Director resigned this week as well iirc. I do hope Christy-Hamilton does not settle and gets a payout large enough to motivate internal reform. Acting Supt McKean, Kim Sordyl and others keep pointing out, has not fired and retired enough known dysfunctional administrators. I think Lopez was one too.
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So if a white male para who was the son of a retired higher up in PPS, was treated this way on the job (ordered to do something inappropriate and risky over his and others’ objections), think back to the four paras, and the SPED Terrones, at Skyline in 09-10. Stands to reason they labored under the some of the same guidelines, wont of supervisory professionalism, union abandonment of the “little guys” like the janitors and Hamilton, and pressures, and they very likely were unhappy in their jobs.
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I think I have finally realized something Blink was trying to convey. As suspicious as I am, seemingly not enough so of LE employees. It sounds like at the behest of mcso or mcda, and maybe a CA brother deputy or two, LE with jurisdiction where Terri has resided has kept track of her address. I speculate when she has moved, LE has visited her last known address, interviewed occupant(s) with a bucket list of questions designed to get something on her. I don’t think now relative housemate picked up the phone and said my gun has been stolen. I think LE visited him on her departure and in the course of interview questions (ie what was she like to live with, did she ever show a temper, is anything missing, did she have access to a gyn, where is it now and so on). I imagine housemate relative said I loaned her my gun, so many people have threatened her life. LE interviewer would point out that was illegal without a documented transfer. Rather than take the heat, homeowner would switch to She just took it with her when she left. We’ll make out a police report. and so on. After she left the home of housemate #2, he gets a visit:
Did you ever have any disagreements? Was she quarrelsome? Did you ever see her with a gun? and so on. Let us show you how to fill out a DV complaint and request an RO (even tho Terri was long gone from the home). I don’t think either of these people approached police. I think a deputy was stalking her thru her former roommates.
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This strategy seems to have started up abouat the time Art – former SAC in that area of CA before Portland – went to work for MCSO. About Sept 2016. Art was not hired for his sheriff dept budget mastery. He’d never run a jail, mcso’s primary budget expense. What he was good for was arm candy at the monthly meeting with Reese with other County depts. TRuth saw the personnel attendance list. Includes the DA, judges, the PPB Chief, and generally the County leadership. The Budget Chief Deputy always attended at Staton’s side; now Art does. And, if I looked at the personnel attending list I’m sure the real budget master, a position under Art, goes too. Iirc the other two Chief Deputies (Gates, Schultz) ordinarily attend.
Art was front and center before the cameras the first month anyway Kyron disappeared. He was devoted to finding him. No doubt he’s chitchatted with Rod at those monthly meetings over coffee about the case casually from time to time. I suggest the strategy being followed to flush Terri out in the open in his old stomping grounds of CA has been his design. And when the DA refilled the misdemeanor, I bet Art was behind whatever strings were pulled. All opinion on my part.
This:
I think I have finally realized something Blink was trying to convey. As suspicious as I am, seemingly not enough so of LE employees. It sounds like at the behest of mcso or mcda, and maybe a CA brother deputy or two, LE with jurisdiction where Terri has resided has kept track of her address.
And more.
Personally, I would like to know how it is possible MCSO keeps renewing warrants accordingly.
B
One always wondered why the gun ownership restriction was in the settlement with Kaine wrt Terri. After all, he owned the family gun.
I believe it was included at the suggestion of mcso just so she could be found to have violated it someday because it was more likely than not some roommate someday would have one. Perhaps her father owned one and that was known to Kaine.
there are two good PPS reporters now: Bethany Barnes (O) and while more heavily edited probably, Rachel Monahan (WW). I don’t bother to read others. I check at times on the Parents (PEPP) facebook as they have links to stories that they feel worthwhile. some are, some aren’t. they’re exercised now about a 5 yo so badly bullied at school he is being taught at home because PPS employees will not handle it. Which suggests if Kyron were bullied, he’d have gotten no help from staff either but he would be blamed by his teachers too.
I feel sometimes that perhaps Terri was not completely up front with you, with things of late, and you have put your neck out “so to speak” for reasonable doubt. I am a huge fan of reasonable doubt and of you and I cry at the American Anthem. I also miss Malty.
ANd I you, Ode. I originally typed a pretty lengthy response I decided not to post because in fairness to Terri- I haven’t published her interviews in an update context so I feel anything I comment on is one sided. I miss Malty so much.
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cd says:
May 4, 2017 at 1:48 am
IMO
I don’t understand why a DA would want to waste tax payer monies on a trial for a misdemeanor charge against someone with no prior criminal record (unless the RO counts as a charge or offense). When even the victim of the supposed crime does not want to charge TH.
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Maybe someone in the northern California legal system has it in for this DA and is waiting for (encouraging him) to waste tax payer trying to prosecute a case via a jury trial which could have been settled months ago with a fine or dropped altogether. Even if they did get a sentence out of this case it would immediately be appealed. I don’t believe this DA can come out looking good whilst doing the bidding of another states LE and charging California for it. It possibly could even end up with some sort of discipline by the California bar association.
This guy isn’t just another lawyer he is the DA and is responsible for protecting the public by prosecuting actual criminals not creating kangaroo courts to further victimize someone being harassed and stalked by people from another state.
@Blink. What is the nature of mcso’ renewed warrants?
for what? doesn’t a judge have to sign them? which mult.
judge has been signing?
No earthly idea- I just know they need to be active for some of the investigative field work I have been apprised is ongoing.
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4th story down. In 2005. Reminescent of Pennsylvania State AG employees, PA State Supr Crt justices, & PA State investigators. Only once caught, they had to retire or be fired. But not in Yuba’s DA McGrath’s Office.
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20050812cl#.WQ_UnoEpCaM
Googling McGrath, who’s been the da a long time, this idiosyncratic crusader, say typical of some Portlanders, popped up.
his bandwagon: levee issues over time and lost or found money
https://rexarcher.wordpress.com
linked to a McGrath diatribe fwiw
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20050812cl#.WQ_UnoEpCaM
@cd. I think mcgrath is a mere publicity hound
who loves feeling powerful. waive publicity
under his nose, he salivates imo.