DOB: April-27-1999
Missing: April-04-2001 Age Now: 3 years
Sex: F Hair: Blonde Eyes: Blue
Height: 3'0" - 91 cm Weight: 24 lbs - 11 kg
Missing From: PORTLAND, Oregon, USA
Case Number :911559

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Portland PD (Oregon) 1-503-823-0044 or FBI - Portland (Oregon) 1-503-224-4181
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Kimyala Henson ( their Mother ) was A Homicide Victim , her body was found on the Nevada desert.
Her traveling companions ( a long time lady friend and her fiance') bodies, a male and female were found several days later in Florida. LE investigation termed as A murder-suicide.

The family was last reported seen where they had spent the night at Redding, California . Later reported they were also seen at a Nevada court house.

Why are these two little girls out there somewhere with no further search? Forgotten? Somewhere, someone knows what happened and where they are.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT : Portland PD (Oregon) 1-503-823-0044
or FBI - Portland (Oregon) 1-503-224-4181

Girls' father remains hopeful
Dad optimistic missing tots are OK

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENO -- The father of two children missing for more than a month isn't giving up hope they are alive, even as an exhaustive search continued in the desert near where the mother's body was found.

"I'll grieve when we know we've lost them and I will hold out hope that the kids are OK somewhere," Steven Curtis Kirkpatrick told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

"My biggest hope is that whoever has the children doesn't know they are being looked for. Those little girls are sorely missed and very loved," he said from his home in Portland, Ore.

Kirkpatrick's girlfriend, Kimyala Henson, 21, was found partially buried in the desert April 29, nearly a month after she was last seen alive with 2-year-old Shaina Ashly Kirkpatrick and her 4-month-old sister, Shausa Henson.

They spent the night of April 5 at a motel in Redding, Calif., with a couple who died April 20 in a murder-suicide in Florida. Washoe County Sheriff Dennis Balaam said the dead couple, Frank Oehring, 28, and Christina Mayer, 24, are the only suspects in Kimyala Henson's slaying.

She was shot to death and left in the desert 60 miles northeast of Reno where her body was found by a motorist who had pulled off the road.

Searchers covered about 100 square miles in the area over the weekend and spent another six hours in the area on Wednesday but found nothing. The Search and Rescue team, aided by dogs, the department helicopter and 25-40 volunteers returned on Thursday but had no success.

Kirkpatrick said he last saw Kimyala Henson and his daughters April 4, when they left Portland with Oehring and Mayer on what was supposed to be a sightseeing trip to British Columbia.

He said Mayer was a childhood friend of Kimyala Henson's, who showed up at their home with a man she called "Curtis" and said was her husband.

"I didn't know them at all," Kirkpatrick said. "Nobody knew Frank. He was introduced to us as Christina's husband Curtis. We had no reason not to believe them."

Kirkpatrick learned about Kimyala Henson's death on Tuesday. But he began to suspect foul play April 20 when Florida investigators notified them of the couple's deaths.

Detectives originally thought Mayer was Henson, after finding the younger woman's identification on her body. But Mayer did not have a heart-with-wings tattoo that helped investigators identify Henson.

Kirkpatrick was in limbo during the two weeks it took to find and identify the woman.

"I would sit there waiting by the phone waiting for someone to call and tell me Kim was dead, or for Kim to call me and tell me she was OK," Kirkpatrick said. "The not knowing kept me from grieving. It's the not knowing that really gets to you."

And the not knowing continues as he awaits news about the girls.

"I bounce all over the place," he said. "One moment my feeling is that they are dead, the next moment I think maybe they are with Kim's friends in Sacramento. Maybe they were dropped off at a church somewhere.

"She was a very good mother and wouldn't leave the children anywhere she didn't feel they wouldn't be taken care of."

His oldest daughter had just learned to talk in the months before she disappeared.

"She would pick up words like you wouldn't believe," he said. "If you said the wrong word, it would be her new favorite word.

"She loved to have her picture taken and would smile for anybody. She was such a sweet little girl."

By Dean Schabner

May 11 — The discovery of the decomposing corpse of a young Portland, Ore., mother in the Nevada desert — the apparent victim of a couple who ended their lives in Florida in a murder-suicide — has sparked a nationwide search for the woman's two little girls.

The two girls, 2-year-old Shaina Henson and her sister, 4-month-old Shausha, were last accounted for on April 5, when their 21-year-old mother, Kimyala Henson, checked into a hotel in Redding, Calif., with Frank Oehring and Christine Mayer.
Oehring, whose ex-wife says he was the leader of a group of Satanists in Missouri, and Mayer were found on April 20, in a car at a rest area near Naples, Fla., both shot in what the Collier County Sheriff's Office said was a murder-suicide. Literature related to Satanism reportedly was found in the car.

Henson's body was found April 29 in the Nevada desert, near a rest area 37 miles north of Wadsworth, and she was finally identified on Tuesday. She had been shot several times, Washoe County Sheriff's Deputy Michelle Youngs said, adding that it did not seem that Satanism played a part in her killing.

"There was nothing about the way the body was found to indicate ritual or any of that," Youngs said.

Kimyala Henson, with her two daughters, Shaina and Shausha (Handout)

Searching for Bodies

Search teams have been combing the Nevada desert around where Henson's body was found ever since she was identified as the missing Portland woman on Tuesday. The searchers, including dogs and a helicopter, have covered more than 200 square miles, and no sign of the two little girls has turned up, which offers hope they are still alive.

"We're not convinced the children are dead," Youngs said. "We are going on the assumption the kids are alive."

Oehring, 28, and his girlfriend, Mayer, 24, were named as the prime suspects in the killing of Henson, and police are hoping that the two may have taken the two girls with them after killing Henson and dropped them off somewhere along the way to Florida.

The tale, spanning from Oregon to Florida, began on April 4, when Henson agreed to go with Mayer, a woman she befriended four years ago when they met at a Portland, Ore., church, and Oehring on a trip to British Columbia.

Relatives said Henson did not know Oehring, who Mayer introduced as her husband, calling him Curtis.

Fugitive From a Murder Plot

Oehring was a fugitive from Missouri, where he was supposed to stand trial on March 7 on charges that he conspired to kill his ex-wife. Oehring's parents told police in Florida that their son left Missouri on March 6 with Mayer.

After hooking up with Henson in Portland, they did not head north from Portland to Canada. Instead, the group went to California so Henson could get a copy of her birth certificate.

"It appears she thought she needed her birth certificate to get into Canada," Portland Police spokesman Henry Groepper said. "Why she thought that I don't know."

Kids Could Be Anywhere

On April 5, someone picked up Henson's birth certificate in Sacramento, Calif., and that night the three adults and two children spent the night in the Shasta Lodge in Redding.

After that the trail is composed mostly of credit card receipts from gas stations, motels and restaurants, though on April 9, Mayer got an identification card in Henson's name from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles in Las Vegas, using the birth certificate.

The paper trail winds through Utah, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, leading to its bloody end at the Naples rest area.

"Those kids are somewhere between and Florida," Groepper said. "They could be anywhere."


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/popoff/DailyNews/Kidnapping_Map_010510.popoff/index.html

http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/kidnap/henson.htm

Edited to correct link.