Report: Missing boy's stepmom tried to have husband killed

PORTLAND, Ore. - Terri Horman, the stepmother of Kyron Horman missing since June 4, attempted to hire a man to kill her husband, according to The Oregonian.

The report has been independently confirmed by KBOI's sister station in Portland, Ore., KATU News.

Terri Horman reportedly approached a landscaper she had hired and offered him money to kill Kaine Horman, her husband. The incident took place approximately six months ago, according to The Oregonian.

The name of the landscaper allegedly involved in the plot has not been released. Terri Horman has not been charged with any crime.

In late-June, Kaine Horman abruptly moved out of the family home and took the couple's toddler daughter with him. He then filed for divorce from Terri and also was granted a restraining order. In official police documents, his new address was not disclosed.

A few days later, Terri Horman hired a high-profile defense attorney.

Two calls to police from the Hormans were logged on June 26, police said. The exact nature of the calls has not been released. However, one reportedly was related to a custody dispute. The recordings of the 9-1-1 calls have not been released by police.

Meanwhile, a source confirmed late Sunday afternoon that the Oregon Department of Human Services opened a case on Terri Horman following a 2005 arrest and charge of driving under the influence. Her biological son, who was 11 at the time, was in the car when his mother was arrested. As such, Horman also was convicted of reckless endangerment of that son.

Horman pleaded guilty in that incident. She had her license suspended for a month and a half, and is still serving out a 12-year probation for those convictions.

Terri Horman has come under increasing scrutiny since Kyron, age 7, vanished from his small school on the outskirts of Portland just more than a month ago. Terri claims she dropped the second-grader off at Skyline School for a science fair and saw him walking to class. He was marked absent for the first class of the day.

Kyron was not reported as missing until nearly 8 hours later, when he failed to exit a school bus taking children home. The failure of the school to call the Hormans after Kyron was marked absent prompted a district-wide revision in procedures by the Portland Public Schools.

Despite a massive search and thousands of tips, the 7 year old has not been found.

This past Thursday, July 1, Desiree Young - Kyron's biological mother - read a public statement imploring Terri to assist in the investigation.

At a news conference Friday, July 2, Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Stanton told reporters that despite their exhaustive efforts, no credible sightings of the child had been reported.

Stanton did not make any mention of the alleged murder-for-hire plot involving Terri Horman but did say she was cooperating with the investigation.

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