What Happened to DeOrr?

Criminal Matters
3 min readApr 27, 2023

It has been seven years since 2-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. disappeared from a tent during a camping trip with four adults and to this day, police still haven’t found any clues to tell them what happened to him.

Many investigators suspect DeOrr’s family had something to do with his disappearance. Each of the adults on the camping trip gave conflicting stories and police discovered other inconsistencies in their accounts of the events leading to DeOrr’s disappearance on July 10, 2015. Both of his parents have failed multiple polygraph tests.

Vernal DeOrr Kuntz, his girlfriend and DeOrr’s mother Jessica Mitchell, DeOrr’s great grandfather Robert Orr and one of his friends took DeOrr on a last-minute camping trip at Timber Creek Campground in Idaho Falls, ID. The group arrived on the evening of July 9.

DeOrr Disappears; Left Alone in Tent

The following day, the group split up. Although accounts of what happened vary according to who you ask, what is known is that DeOrr was left alone in the tent -and has never been seen since.

Jessica told police she asked Walton to watch DeOrr while she and Vernal roamed the campground. Walton told police Jessica never asked him to watch the toddler. Instead, he told police he was in the camper trailer relaxing. His friend claimed that he was fishing…

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