Kunz family re-enacts toddler’s disappearance

The parents of missing 2-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. as well as a private investigator and a Lemhi County Sheriff’s deputy spent Monday afternoon re-enacting Kunz’s disappearance at the Timber Creek Campground southwest of Leadore.

Kunz went missing at the site on July 10.

Frank Vilt, the private detective who’s been looking into the case, said the purpose of the re-enactment was prove his theory that Kunz was abducted.

Vilt said Kunz’s parents left him with his grandfather the day of his disappearance while they went to scout fishing locations.

“The grandfather could have been distracted,” said Vilt.

As part of the re-enactment, Vilt used a girl around Kunz’s age to demonstrate how easy it would be for someone to abduct a child from the remote campsite.

“This gentleman who was camping here went inside his trailer just for a moment and I just walked up and took the child, the child came with me,” said Vilt.

After Monday’s exercise, Vilt said he’s more sure than ever that Kunz was abducted and that Kunz’s parents had nothing to do with his disappearance as some have suggested.

“Very small time window of time, but I feel that he was abducted. At least you can’t disprove that he wasn’t abducted,” said Vilt.

As Local News 8 reported Monday, Vilt is currently looking into reports of a suspicious-looking man seen staring at children across eastern Idaho.

The man is described as being in his 50s and having whitish-gray hair with curls at the bottom. He’s reported to be driving a new-looking black Jeep Rubicon.

Kunz’s mother said she saw the man looking at her son the morning of his disappearance at a store in Leadore.

About a week later, a local couple said they saw a man bearing the same description staring at their kids while hiking at the Palisades, and later, at a store in Swan Valley.

Vilt said he’s working on obtaining a sketch of the man. In the meantime, he’s asking anyone who may have seen him to call 888-852-6505.