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good evening. thanks for joining us. it was a missing persons case that captivated the country. 7-year-old kyron horman goes to school and vanishes. seemingly without a trace. and the police never named her as a suspect. his step mother has been the subject of sinister accusations. tonight she's breaking her silence explaining what she thinks really happened to kyron. >> reporter: this gap-toothed little boy is kyron horman, smiling in front of his tree frog project on june 4th, 2010, the day the 7-year-old disappeared, seemingly without a trace, from his oregon elementary school. his stepmother terry horman took that last photograph of him. >> when you see that picture now what goes through your mind? >> just -- take him home. just go home. >> reporter: kyron's face was splashed across televisions and

television alongside her husband cain and kyron's biological mother. >> we know how difficult and stressful this is but your memories and statements can help us find him. >> reporter: only days later cane and desiree young began questioning terry saying they thought she may have something to do with his disappearance. the dark shadow of suspicion has followed her ever since. >> did you have anything to do with his disappearance? >> no. none. and i don't -- i don't resent you asking that question, but it hurts my heart to -- to even be asked. every sense of the word, he's my son. >> reporter: for the first terri horman says she's speaking out to set the record straight, an abc news and "people" magazine exclusive. >> more than five years since kyron disappeared. why sit down now? >> because the focus has been on me and i should not be the focus. >> i think the reason why she sat down was because she wanted

and hopefully get people to believe that she had nothing to do with this. >> reporter: kyron lived with his father cane and step mother terri since he was an infant, along with terri's older son james and the couple's infant daughter kiara. his mother lived south in medicaled for, oregon. >> did kyron refer to you as mom? >> he'd call me mom and he'd call december ever ray mom. >> reporter: she's been his primary caregiver. she loved being a mom, especially being able to help with homework. >> she was very proud of that? >> yes, we spent some time on that. >> reporter: she watched kyron walking toward his classroom around 8:45 before class began that day. >> that was the last time you saw him? >> yeah. >> reporter: kyron was marked absent but wasn't reported

>> the secretary says, he's not here. your heart sinks. you're like, how could hi not be here? >> reporter: kyron vanished. the school had no surveillance cameras. >> kyron! >> reporter: or police launched the biggest and most expensive search in the state's history. >> we're going to bring you home. >> reporter: as the family pleaded for help police seemed interested in terri horman, especially after she failed two separate polygraph tests. >> why do you think you failed lie detector tests? >> especially because of my hearing. i'm deaf in my left ear. detector test? >> i'm reading your lips as we're speaking. also i hadn't slept in days. >> no. >> a lot of the people think if detector tests there's gotting to something going xw going on. >> i think they'd already settled on me to be their patty. >> reporter: terri said she left skyline elementary at 8:45. with her.

fred myer pharmacy to hook for a specific kind of medicine for kiara. terri said she didn't have it so she drove to another forehead high tore see if they had it in stock. then a period of unaccounted time. many who followed the case closely question. terri said she pulled her to tend to her fussy toddler. >> i parked awhile, a half hour, i rocked her to sleep and got her to crash a little bit. >> why pull off the side of the road? >> she works best -- at the time, works best to be rocked to sleep. >> reporter: she said when her daughter was asleep she began to drive around to keep her napping. much of the media speculation about her whereabouts that day centers on sav veryuvie island where police search eded there were unconfirmed reports her cell phone was pinging from that location during the unaccounted time. >> highway 30 runs parallel to sauvie island. i was on highway 30. >> you didn't go?

>> reporter: a month later desiree young came forward claiming terri had something to do with it. >> we implore terri horman to fully cooperate with the investigators to bring kyron home. >> reporter: terri's husband cape files for divorce and a restraining order. in the filings, cane writes that police told him they believed terri was involved with kyron's disappearance, even though publicly she was never officially called a suspect. but there'smo. a bombshell accusation. cane claims police told him terri tried to hire their landscaper to kill him. in court documents obtained by abc news, terri's part-time landscaper, radolfo sanchez, told police terri "told me she wanted me to help her get rid of her husband." terri denies this happened and says sanchez made up the story after she rejected his sexual advances. she was never charged. >> you're saying this murder for hire plot was made up?

>> yet that was the basis on which -- >> my daughter was taken. >> reporter: cane horman was granted a restraining order and sole custody of their daughter kiara. >> i've lost two children in three weeks. two children. >> reporter: terri's entire life became the subject of public scrutiny. surprising pictures of her days as a female body builder surfaced. as well as a mugshot of her 2005 dui. meanwhile, entire websites devoted to her supposed guilt cropped up on the internet. and in the midst of it all, it's discovered terri has been sending salacious texts to a male friend. >> you're sexting with some random guy. >> sure. >> it doesn't look good. >> no, it doesn't. i'm not going to make an excuse for it. i'm going to own up to it. >> reporter: terri tells us she believed the police zeroed in on her too quickly in the investigation. >> why do you think the police have never charged you, called you a suspect, even a person of interest? >> because they have exonerating evidence they have not shown the

forth with what they know. >> reporter: terri says she told her pediatrician and later the police that she suspected something was off about kyron in the weeks leading up to his disappearance. >> i'd walk into his room and there were things he was doing to himself that -- that would tell me there was something wrong that somebody may be touching him improperly. >> up applying maybe he had been sexually abused? >> possibly. that was a concern of mine. >> what's your theory on what happened? >> that he was taken from school. >> you think a stranger came in and abducted him? >> yes. there's pedophiles in the area. definitely. >> reporter: investigators repeatedly denied our request to comment on terri's story citing the ongoing investigation. but desiree young, kyron's mother, says she is sure of her guilt. confident. i would stake my life on it. >> reporter: desiree says the sexual abuse comments are a diversion tactic. >> he was never abused.

i think terri, and she's been doing this since he went missing, throws up other flags to try and detract from herself. >> reporter: desiree claims police showed her details that point out inconsistencies in terri's story. the details of which investigators would not confirm with abc news. >> it was all her lies. all of her inconsistent stories. the different versions of her timeline. i will search for him until the end of time. i'm going to look until he comes home. >> reporter: though he's spoken out against her in the past, terri's ex-husband cane declined our request for comment. he still has custody of their daughter kiara, who's now 7 years old. terri says she hasn't been permitted to see her in five years. what would you say to her? >> i've missed every moment with you. i can never get it back. i'm so sorry. >> reporter: terri tells us the court recently allowed her to start the process of reuniting with her daughter but it's slow going. what is that like, living as

when the authorities have never arrested you, they've never charged you with anything formally? >> not being able to get a job. >> you're unemployable? >> absolutely. i actually sold my car in order to purchase food, in order to pay her support. >> either you're a very convincing liar or a grave injustice has befallen you. >> people can say what they want about me, i really don't care. my purpose is to find my son, to get my daughter back, to get my life back in order. in that order. >> clearly the one thing everyone wants in this investigation is to find kyron. and the search continues. up next, are old school matchmakers the key to finding love in the modern dating world? and later, #snowmageddon2016 sparking a social media starm online. guys, it's just the two of you. the setting is just right. there's something in the air. but here's the thing:

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life, dating is no cakewalk. just ask these ladies working the room at this chicago networking mixer. >> so i have to ask, are you single? >> are you single? >> no. >> reporter: but these ladies aren't in it for themselves. they're professional matchmakers. >> are you single? we spotted a couple of people in the corner, two parties in mind. we're going to head over this way. >> reporter: these days there's no shortage of dating sites and apps. it can be time-consuming which is why old school style matchmakers like anna and vesty are able to make match making a full-time career. >> you're a wing woman or a wing man for a few months? >> exactly. that's one thing clients love is they can have a long day at work and decide they don't want to go to that event, they know we're out at different events, networking events, they don't necessarily have to do that. >> reporter: millionaire

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