Posted on September 18, 2015 by KID News
http://590kid.com/2015/09/18/tips-about-missing-toddler-forwarded-to-idaho-fusion-center/
I had the chance to interview Frank Vilt, the private investigator for Deorr Kunz's family. I asked him a little bit about his background and the latest on the case.
I specialize in recovering abducted or missing children, and I knew Deorr's - the boy's - father because he worked in a body shop in monteria and I'd had my cars worked on down there and I'd seen the little boy [something] in the shop a few times, and it was a month since he was missing and nothing was happening so I kinda got myself involved because I wanted to help out and find out what was going on.
Okay. So, there are a couple of different really interesting things that are happening in this case right now. Little boy down in California was found wandering around and a woman shows up and "claims" him, now there's a picture of this little boy - they put it side to side with a picture of Deorr - I can not tell the difference between those two little boys. The resemblance is remarkable, so weigh in on that angle right now.
Well, what I have learned - this was in a Motel 6. A little boy with no shirt on and with a diaper was wandering in the parking lot of this Motel 6, so a motel employee brought him inside and put a - kind of a shirt on him and took his picture holding a telephone and notified the police of this. And when the Orange County Sheriff showed up, I believe they released him to a person without obtaining the proper identification as to who this person was. I've been in contact with a lieutenant down there - Lieutenant Roach - and his e-mail to me was they were gonna see if they followed the proper procedure, and I have not heard back. I have put them in touch with Detective Sergeant Noah of Bonneville Sheriff's Office, and they were corresponding back and forth, and I believe that the person that the little boy was given to has left the area. I don't even know if they have been able to find them. But I do know that they supposedly opened some kind of CPS case about this and I haven't heard the results, and I'd like to hear the result - but I should hopefully hear the results of that some time today. It's very strange.
It is very strange. And when you look at the two pictures - since you're been involved in these kind of abduction cases - was your response similar to mine? They're close enough that this absolutely merits more attention.
Oh, absolutely. That's why I made the initial call down there, and yesterday when I called down there no one knew anything about anything, then of course the boy's father called down there and he was quite upset and he was transferred to homicide and then disconnected, and then finally I just went through the proper procedures again and then finally got an e-mail back from the Watch Commander, so then I e-mailed him and he advised me that he was in contact with the Bonneville County Sheriff's office up here to hopefully get some resolution to find out what actually did happen. Right now nobody's saying anything about that, but it's very suspicious to me.
Okay, let's shift over to this other story. Witnesses apparently have come forward and said that they saw - I guess a suspicious looking man in both the Leadore area and also in Swan Valley, of all places, so give us the run down on that particular part of this story.
Sure. I established a national hotline - a tip line - because the sheriff and high county didn't put out an Amber Alert. So I felt that just to get the public involved, with their eyes and ears to help us solve this case. So a lady called me from Swan Valley - she had been in Swan Valley but she lives in the Idaho Falls area - and she said that she has four little blonde boys and they were hiking in the Palisades campground area and the husband kinda lagged behind with one of their boys - their children, their little boys, boys are 3, 4, 6 and 9 - and she got back to the van earlier than her husband and she saw this man - he was in his mid fifties with gray-white hair - staring obsessively at her boys and it made her feel very uncomfortable. And so when her husband finally got back she said "Maybe I know this guy" so she kind of waved at him and said "Honey, don't - don't - that guy looks kind of kooky - stay away from him, let's get out of here". and then the man followed them to tan ice cream store. He was driving this very expensive looking black Rubicon - Jeep Rubicon - and so she called the tipline and she said "This is what happened to me, and I was concerned about this black Jeepy Ribicorn - this guy was just staring at my kids. "
So I called Deorr, the boys father, and said have you seen any vehicles outside the store in Leadore before you went back to the campground prior to when your son was missing and he said "Yeah - right - I saw a very brand new - almost brand new - very expensive-looking black Rubicon jeep."
