>> reporter: kyron vanished. the school had no surveillance cameras. >> kyron! >> reporter: oregon police biggest and most expensive >> 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? >> partially because of my hearing. >> why would being deaf in one ear affect a lie detector test? >> i'm reading your lips as we're speaking. also i hadn't slept in days. hadn't slept in days. >> did you at any time lie to police? >> no. >> a lot of the people think if you flunk not one but two lie detector cysts that there's got to be something going on. >> i think they'd already settled on me to be their patsy. >> reporter: terri said she left skyline elementary at 8:45. her 19-month-old daughter with her. she said she drove to a nearby fred mayer pharmacy to look for a specific kind of medicine for kiara. terri said she didn't have it so she drove to another fred meyer to see if they had it in stock. th

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five years after kyron horman wentll a slew of unanswered questions and even though police have never even called kyron's stepmom a suspect, in the court of public opinion, terri horman has faced brutal this gap-toothed smiley face boy frozen in time. kyron horman vanished five years ago and stepmom terri who dropped him off atday says her life has been a living nightmare ever since. a cloud of suspicion and dark whispered accusations that she somehow harmed her own stepson. this morning, terri says the record straight. >> did you have anything to do with his disappearance? >> no. none. and i don't resent you asking that question but it hurtst to even be asked. >> reporter: when 7-year-old bus on june 4th, 2010, it was terri who called the school in aking to the secretary and he -- she says he's not here and your heart just sinks. i mean you're just like -- how be there. >> reporter: his baffling disappearance launches the biggest manhunt in oregon history. both parents and stepparents showing a strong unitedtil terri fails two lie parents turn against her. >> they threw me under the

and filed for divorce just 24 ys after kyron went missing. he's had full custody of their daughter now 7 who she hasn't been allowed to see in five years. >> i've missed every moment with you. i can never get it back. i'm so sorry. there's a hole. you can't fill that. >> reporter: while never being charged with a crime law enforcement rushed to judgment and even threatened her. >> and they without a doubt told me that we're going to make your life hell if you don't tell us what we want to know. we're going to destroy you and they sure did. >> reporter: today the former teacher says she can't get a job and while she says her life has been forever changed she hasn't lost hope. >> either you're a very convincing liar or a grara injustice has been befallen you. >> i've dealt with the latter. people can say what they want about me. i reallll don't care. my purpose is to find my son. to get my daughter back. to get my life back in order. >> of course, we reached out to the county sheriff who says it's still an active criminal investigation and terr

what are you doing to find my son. >> reporter: but desiree young, kyron's biological mom presents a different story. >> i say she did this and i'm confident in saying that. no doubts. i will search for him until the end of time. as a villain in the press in part due to allegations in divorce papers that she tried to hire sun to murder her husband. you say this plot was made up. >> yes. >> and yet that was the basis on which -- >> my daughter was taken. >> he got a restraining order and filed for divorce just 24 days after kyron went missing. he's had full custody of their daughter now 7 who she hasn't been allowed to see in five years. >> i've missed every moment with you. i can never get it back. i'm so sorry. there's a hole. you can't fill that. >> reporter: while never being charged with a crime law enforcement rushed to judgment and even threatened her. >> and they without a doubt told me that we're going to make your life hell if you don't tell us what we want to know. we're going to destroy you and they sure did. >> reporter: today the former teacher says she can't get a job a

it was a missing persons case that captivated the country. 7-year-old kyron horman disappeared seemingly without a trace from his oregon elementary school in 2010. since that day his stepmother, terry horman, has been living under a cloud of suspicion. now five years later she's breaking her silence. with his disappearance? >> no. none. and i don't resent you asking that question, but it hurts my heart to -- to even be asked. >> reporter: for the first time horman is speaking out about her failed polygraphs, her whereabouts that fateful day, why she was sexting another man during the investigation. >> let's face it. your stepson's still missing, you're in the midst of all the scrutiny, and you're sexting with some random guy. >> sure. >> it doesn't look good. >> no it doesn't. but -- i'm not going to make an excuse for it. i'm going to own up to it. >> reporter: why terry says she's still fighting for kyron and for the daughter she says she hasn't been allowed to see for all these years. >> either you're a very convincing liar, or a grave injustice has befallen you. >> i'd go with the la

. >>> rst we want to turn to terri horman, the stepmom of 7-year-old kyron who disappeared in oregon five years ago. it's a "people" magazine exclusive and "nightline" anchor juju chang sat down with her. >> imagine a second graderoes to school and simply disappears seemingly without a ace. five years after kyron horman went missinghere are still a slew of unanswered questions and even though police have never even called kyron's stepmom a suspect, in the court of public opinion, terri horman has faced brutal accusations. this gap-tohed smiley face boy frozen in time. ago and stepmom terri who dropped him off at school that day says her life has been a living nightmare ever since. a cloud of suspicion and dark whispered accusations that she somehow harmed her own stepson. ththis morning, terri says she's setting the record straight >> did youave anything to do with his disappearance? >> no. none. and ii don't resent you asking that question but it hurts my heart to even be asked. >> reporter: when 7-year-old kyron didn't get off the school bus on june 4th, 2010, it was rri who called