What NOT To Say During A Missing Persons Investigation

While looking at notes and pictures from a vigil in Roseburg, Oregon, held in connection to Kyron Horman's missing persons case, someone told me about her experience with a neighbor of the parents of Terri Horman, the last person reported to have seen Kyron, at his school in Portland on June 4, 2010. This person is a little old fart of a man named Jeff Manly. I was told that when someone merely knocked on his door in an effort to pass out as many flyers as possible, he not only wrinkled up and threw a flyer, but also threw a whole bunch of flyers face down on the ground, screaming that Terri Horman is "innocent" (I don't think anyone asked him that!) and a bunch of unrepeatable guff. The lady who handed him the initial flyer asked him why he felt so strongly, and if he had any idea where Kyron could be, and he said, "buried in my backyard"!

Now; I am certainly not convinced that Jeff Manly has Kyron in his backyard, but......it's certainly not a good choice of statements to make about a missing person, while law enforcement is still looking for the person! The defensive attitude is also not necessary. All Jeff Manly, of 1913 Lamont Avenue really needed to do, if he did not want a flyer, was say, "no thankyou".

Now that I heard that story, I am wondering what, exactly, Mr. Manly DOES know about young Kyron, and his disappearance. His residence is next door to the person called the "prime suspect" by a judge in the Multnomah County court system. If he knows anything about this case, the decent thing to do is to come forward and share it. Kyron was only seven when he disappeared. He had not harmed anyone, and he needs his parents as much today as he did on June 4 of 2010. A friendship with people like the Moultons is certainly not worth sacrificing the welfare of a little boy.