Family, friends, even strangers to Ryan Horn have been searching the rural roads in three counties looking for him.
Horn, 28, was last seen last Thursday morning by his mother, Michele Haynes. He walked out of the Hillsboro home they’ve shared since Horn’s divorce this summer.
When he left, he didn’t take his wallet. But police do believe he took a handgun.
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“We’ve never stopped searching since Thursday, since he disappeared,” Haynes said. “We knew he left his ID at home, he had been very upset over some life situations and was depressed.”
Horn was wearing dark jeans and a dark grey hoodie sweatshirt.
“He said something to me as he went out the door,” Haynes said. “I didn’t hear what he said.”
But when he left, she immediately became worried. The family was putting the house up for sale, and Horn was expected that day to be the “brawn,” helping move items in the garage.
After he left the house, Horn used his cell phone to send text messages to several people, Haynes said, though she didn’t describe the nature of the conversations. That was the last time police were able to use cell towers to pinpoint Horn’s general area — about two miles outside Banks last Thursday morning.
“We know that Ryan put $20 worth of gas into his truck the night before” he left, family wrote on the Facebook page Missing PERSON-Ryan Horn. “… We have a feeling that Ryan eventually stopped at a place that is hidden, off the main roads, tucked away. Any ideas you have would be appreciated.”
The key is finding Horn’s dark red 2002 Ford Ranger with the Oregon license plate 806 FFR. Teams of volunteers have searched the area from Banks to the coast, focusing on pullouts or along tree lines where Horn may have left his car. So far, they’ve had no luck.
“There is a spider web of logging roads, rural roads, it’s almost overwhelming how many places there are out there,” Haynes said.
Hillsboro Police Department Spokesman Lt. Mike Rouches said police conducted an air search of western Washington and Columbia counties looking for the truck, without success.
Rouches stressed that Horn has no violent history and is believed to be only a danger to himself, not others.
Horn, an inspector at the Hillsboro biotech firm Genentech, is bipolar, but has been under a doctor’s care, Haynes said. She said Horn isn’t an antisocial person — he has a wide circle of friends, eats well and works out.
“He is a person who was working very hard on his health and wellness,” Haynes said. “Anyone who has ever had a person who was working through mental illness knows, … it’s not just swallowing a pill.”
But Horn was despondent and depressed recently, Haynes said. “I’m not trying to be in some kind of dream land about that.”
Horn, a target shooter, is believed to have taken his gun with him.
Haynes, who works as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Virginia Garcia, knew how to write a press release and took to sending her own announcements to media. The family has also organized its own searches, using hundreds of volunteers who report back on the roads they have driven on the search.
“It’s been absolutely amazing how many people that we don’t know and who don’t know him have written ‘these are all the roads we’ve searched on,’” Haynes said. She added, “We have been extremely impressed with the efforts of the sheriff’s departments in multiple counties and the Hillsboro police.”
Check the Missing PERSON-Ryan Horn Facebook page for further updates on volunteer-led searches.
