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January 27, 2016
Article Title:
FORMER KUNZ INVESTIGATOR: DEORR KUNZ AND JESSICA MITCHELL LIED ABOUT SONS DISAPPEARANCE
Video Transcript
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Nate Interview Speaks with Frank Vilt, former family PI)
0:01
Nate Eaton: All right, so Frank, this letter thats been going around the internet, it looks like you wrote back in September.
0:05
FV: Well, basically I told that because of circumstances beyond my control. I dropped them as clients because of a breach of trust on their part, because they didnt seem to trust me what I wanted to do. What I mean by that, I wanted to go public with this. I wanted to go national public, and I wanted to advertise we have this little missing boy. We need more eyes and ears to try to find this missing boy. I offered a $20,000 reward, and they did not want me offering the reward. They said that the Sheriff didnt want it. They said the Sheriff didnt want to go public, and the Sheriff never mentioned that to me and so
I started finding little
little things that they were inconsistent. Their stories didnt jive. One was the timeline, and there was some overemphasis of Jessica, uh
stating that she knew the boy was in the campground because she kept looking back I kept looking back
I kept looking back
and it seemed like this was like an overkill. Why would she keep saying this over and over and over again? She wanted to establish that the boy was in the campground. This was after they came back from town and um they saw some fish that Isaac and Bob, the grandfather, caught and so Deorr says, Well show me where those fish are. Whered you catch those fish? And so they went off with Jessica, Deorr and Isaac went off to the creek where they caught fish supposedly, and Jessica kept saying, I kept looking back to make sure Little Man was there. I kept looking back
kept looking back... Why did she overemphasize that? And that was kind of one of the things, and she couldnt answer my question as to why she kept saying that, like she wanted to establish like an alibi that the boy was there, and some other things that were just inconsistent and didnt want to
were hiding things, like they werent coming forth with the truth. The timeline didnt make sense.
02:05
Nate: When the news came out earlier this week, the Sheriff is naming them as suspects, were you surprised?
02:10
FV: No, I wasnt surprised at all. When the
theres a lot of reasons for that. The Sheriff is not going to just make wild accusations. Theyre not going to do anything until you have some evidence. Theres always double jeopardy involved, too, so they name them as suspects, and theyre not going to make an arrest. Most law enforcement people arent going to make an arrest until they have the evidence to do so because of double jeopardy, because you dont want to make an arrest and then the charges are dismissed with prejudice, so they want to avoid that. So when they know that they have suspects and they have some good, concrete evidence then theyre going to name them as suspects and move them up from persons of interest. Thats what they did in this case.
02:53
Nate: Why come forward with this information now?
02:57
FV: Well, because they spread the rumor they fired me, uh, and thats not true, and I got that from the guys making the documentary on missing children. They told me that Deorr and Jessica told them that they dismissed me that they fired me.
03:12
Nate: And its dated September. Thats when you actually sent it to them and mailed it to them?
03:17
FV: Correct! I followed up the same date of my e-mail. I sent them an e-mail the same date, September 25th. Basically, I said the same thing in my e-mail to them.
03:27
Nate: What do you think happened to Deorr?
03:31
FV: Well, I feel theres uh
one possibility is a
scenario is that uh
its only because Jessica giving up custody of her other two kids and because she didnt really want kids, and when she had Deorr that she was
her tubes were tied and for all intents and purposes sterilized so she could never be reversed. I believe that because of the laws, and Nebraska is an example and Utah, there are adoption laws that as long as the
even though the father may be on the birth certificate, as long as they were not married, the mother could basically have carte blanche to do what she wants to do as far as adopting out her child.
So the one possibility was the child was adopted out it was an out-of-state adoption which was arranged as a cover story so Deorr wouldnt find out about the
they staged this possible stranger abduction or pre-arranged abduction or there was a problem where the boy is
was injured and could be deceased, so I kind of lean towards looking towards life rather than death. So I just feel theres a possibility the boy could have been adopted out and didnt want the father to know, and now because of them being named as suspects the pressure being put on between the two so uh, hopefully one will roll over on the other one, but it just didnt make sense that this boy is missing , and I want to see a resolution to this case, a favorable resolution, but the more time goes by, it doesnt look like its going to be that way. It could be that there was a homicide.
05:16
Nate: Did they ever pay you for any of your services?
05:20
FV: No. Thats another thing, too. They said that they paid me but they never paid me. Listen, this reminded me of the fact that in the very beginning when I said Id work for them - cover my expenses and I wont charge you for my hourly rate, and then Deorr said, Well, I have a cousin in Utah that has a Go Fund Me and she has $1,900 and well see you get some of that. Then a few days later I found out that $1,900 was missing. So whoever this person was, this cousin in Utah, had misappropriated the money and used it for their personal use. One of the other reasons I dropped the case, too, I know that Deorr was uh
was pressuring people to donate money. He was getting money from these folks back in Maryland and these Go Fund Me accounts and then I hear theres other missing money, and he was exploiting people and I just didnt want to be involved with any of these things where somebody was exploiting money from other people. It just didnt add up. It didnt make sense to me. It didnt seem like they were like normal people would be for their son being missing. It seemed like they were concealing something and hiding something, and their body language, too. They wouldnt look you
particularly Jessica, would not look you in the eye. She always looked down, looked away, and even when I tried to go eyeball to eyeball with her when Id talk to her she would look away and not look me straight in the eye and answer my questions.
06:49
Nate: Well, thank you very much, Frank.
Above is video transcript portion only. Article appears below video in link below.
http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/01/former-kunz-p-i/
