MISSING - KYRON HORMAN - OREGON

June 14, 2010 - Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton announced the search has now been classified a criminal investigation, ten days after 7-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared from a Portland elementary school. >>>>>>>>>> Until now Kyron was considered a “missing endangered child,” which includes a minor in danger after getting lost. >>>>>>>> The reclassification of the case was announced at the same time a $25,000 reward was offered for information that leads to Kyron on Sunday during a crowded news conference. No explanation of the new charge was offered. >>>>>>>> Investigators have received thousands of tips, some coming from Washington State. >>>>>>>> "(The investigation) is not going to stop," Staton said. "I will address those types of issues once we've located Kyron." >>>>>>>> Mystery case >>>>>>>>>>>>> School officials and law enforcement are keeping tight-lipped and offering few details about Kyron’s disappearance, saying releasing too much information could compromise their investigation. >>>>>>>> Investigators are not releasing a more detailed timeline of the day Kyron went missing. They are not saying if they’ve found any clues or if they have suspects or theories about what happened. >>>>>>>> The unknown is tough on everyone, including those living in the area where Kyron disappeared. Their lives have changed with investigators, search crews, camera crews and TV trucks present. >>>>>>>> "There's a terrible cloud over everything," said Elinor Markgraf, who has lived in the Skyline area for decades. >>>>>>>> At a high school graduation party last week, Markgraf said the mood was tense. >>>>>>>> "Nobody was talking about it," Markgraf said. "But it was so close to the surface." >>>>>>>> What is known >>>>>>>>>>> Search and rescue teams have been combing the two-mile radius around Kyron’s school, Skyline Elementary, that sits on a hill with a 300-foot drop to the east into the basin near a fork of the Columbia River some 5 miles away. >>>>>>>> Teams have spent hours and redrawing maps, searching with dogs and sometimes on horseback. Grid teams of men and women walking nearly shoulder-to-shoulder have been present, all searching for evidence Kyron was there. >>>>>>>> The weather has not cooperated, with rain nearly every day causing slick embankments and roadways and making for undependable footing. One searcher was injured and sent by ambulance to a nearby hospital. No details were available about the searcher’s injuries. >>>>>>>> "It is difficult terrain and, at times, difficult circumstances," said Sheriff's Capt. Monte Reiser. >>>>>>>> The search for Kyron will be scaled back, Staton said Sunday, with teams coming from across the state returning to their homes. The local teams will keep searching, he said. >>>>>>>> "Our commitment and resources are unwavering," Reiser added. >>>>>>>> Kyron was last seen wearing a black "CSI" shirt and dark cargo pants. If you have any information on Kyron's disappearance, please call the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office tip line at 503-261-2847. >>>>>>>> http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m6d14-Kyron-Horman-Update-Missing-7yearold-case-remains-a-mystery-turns-criminal?cid=edition-by-channel-rss-Seattle-News >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tuckahoe1 ... 6-25-10 ...

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