It's Monday again, time for Terri Horman's cold case. Today, I have one that was only a blip on the great big screen of media circus stunts, but it still involves someone who thought he had gotton away with a serious crime and that he would never be caught. His name is Robert Neil Boyd. He is sixty-three years old, (sixty-two at the time he was apprehended) but he apparently likes his women young, almost prepuberescent. He also likes the internet a lot. He also likes porn.................
Mr. Boyd lived in Maryland for a long time. Understand, in Maryland, crimes against women and children are almost not crimes, unless the woman or child dies as a result. Then, in the rare event that the perpetrator is even tried and found guilty, he or she will spend about eighteen months in jail. So, in in December of 2006, when Mr. Boyd's computer presented with hundreds of images of kiddie porn, he was only charged with eight counts and was required to answer for a misdemeaner charge. The same crime is a felony almost everywhere else. Maryland works hard to protect it's kiddie porn industry.
Mr. Boyd fled Maryland while waiting to go to court. How unexpected could THAT have been? Without leaving a forwarding address with anyone but family and friends, he packed up everything and skipped off to Tennissee. Something this blogger finds truly amazing is the number of people who actually KNEW where this creep was and never once considered calling the cops. Is loyalty to a friend so very, very special that one allows children to be victimized? This really doesn't make a good statement for Neil Boyd's creepy friends.
Eventaully, in 2010, a friend of a friend heard about all of this. This person was stunned that people actually knew Boyd's whereabouts and still had not picked up the phone and turned him in. It's common knowledge that kiddie porn creeps and child molesters never change. It's also common knowledge that they never stop, unless we make them stop. So this person, upon hearing about the general area of Mr. Boyd's location, went ahead and called Maryland authorities. Maryland authorities were only cursorily interested, and brushed the phone call off. But, undaunted, the informant called authorities in Tennissee. The people in Tennissee differed from the people in Maryland in that they actually cared. They found a drivers' liscence for Mr. Boyd on file, and also found his existing charges and bench warrent in Maryland, and
decided to pay Robert Neil Boyd a visit. This was Winter Solstice, 2010. Happy Holidays, Neil! They found hundreds of images this time. Hundreds. So...........it's abundantly clear that Mr. Boyd had no intention of stopping. He is also charged with one count of exploitation of a minor.
Booking Photo, Robert Neil Boyd
Robert Neil Boyd is in jail now. He has not been tried yet, or sentenced. He cannot get released on bail, because he has already shown that he is a flight risk, and he will go back to Maryland for trial when he is finished in Tennissee. All this happened because someone who knew about the whole thing decided to pick up the phone and make the call. My question for you, Terri Horman, is this: is there possibly someone out there, among the koolaide drinking masses, who won't just accept that you do bad stuff every now and again and shrug it off, even if it involves victimizing a child, and will make the call to solve the case? Is there more than one such someone out there? Is there someone who will read about children getting harmed by creeps and decide that this cannot go on any more? Or are YOU one of the "someone's" who should be inclined to drop a dime, knowing where Kyron is? You see, Neil Boyd thought he had gotton away with something. December of 2006...he runs. December of 2010....he gets caught. Four years; but the right person got involved in the end. He kidded himself and got cocky, even committing the crime again. He obviously was not expecting someone to hear about missing children, like Kyron Horman, and also hear about him, and decide that enough was enough. But ya know, stranger things have happened.
Please let Kyron come home.
Kyron Horman
