Investigators doubt Spicher was seen near Horman truck
Story Updated: Aug 18, 2010 at 7:22 PM PDT
* Spicher’s People interview contradicts sources
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PORTLAND, Ore. - Investigators have learned they have reason to believe it was not DeDe Spicher, the friend of Kyron Horman’s stepmother Terri Moulton Horman, who was seen in a truck the morning Kyron disappeared, according to sources.
Investigators are working on following up on tips they received since last week’s news conference about the person seen on June 4. Those tips are in addition to the 4,000 they have collected so far.
They also want to know if a third person is tied to Kyron’s disappearance.
According to sources, investigators have witnesses who saw an adult in and around the truck in front of Skyline School between 8:15 and 8:45 that morning.
Investigators aren’t identifying the gender of the person in the truck but have reason to believe the person may not be Spicher.
They have linked Spicher and Horman through fliers they distributed that ask for information about both women and the Hormans’ truck. Terri Horman drove the white Ford F-250 pickup truck to the school that morning for Kyron’s science fair.
Terri Horman claims to friends she left the school around 8:45 in the morning and went to two different Fred Meyer stores.
The flier distributed about Spicher and Horman asks about a window of time starting an hour later, from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. The overlapping time for which Spicher and Horman are both unaccounted, as far as investigators are concerned, is between 10:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
At 1 p.m., Spicher was apparently accounted for once again at the nursery where she was working.
At 11:39 a.m. Terri Horman checked in at the 24-Hour Fitness in Beaverton to work out.
DeDe Spicher insisted in a People magazine interview she remained at work that day, which is an assertion criminal defense attorney, Lisa Ludwig, said is possibly strategic. She said Spicher may be testifying, in a sense, to the public about her own innocence.
“You are going out on a limb when you say, ‘I know exactly where I was for that full amount of time, I’m positive about it.’ You really are committing to that, and if you’re contradicted about any part of it, it makes you look like a liar,†Ludwig said.
Ludwig also said that law enforcement can’t focus too closely on one theory.
“If you commit to one theory and pursue it to the exclusion of others, you can really make big mistakes. I’ve seen that happen,†she said.
In the People magazine interview Spicher alluded to Terri Horman’s innocence. The magazine reported Wednesday that after Kyron disappeared, Spicher says: “We were very worried for her life. There were death threats against her. And again, whoever has taken Kyron is still out there and could be after her, too.â€
Investigators have not named any suspects or persons of interest in the disappearance of Kyron and they have not made any arrests.
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