Missing 411

Uh-huh.

News in Idaho falls is kinda slow.

Not a lot of big things happen here.

I had only been here a few weeks,

when this case, the biggest story of my career,

It just didn't make sense

to not find anything.

You know, I got, you know, members of my search and rescue unit

that aren't sleeping too well.

This is a small town in Idaho called Leadore.

It's remote. Your cell phone is going in and out.

And when I say rocky, I mean big boulders.

and that's safe.

And it's just real rocky. Takes a long time

to the campground.

Once you leave the pavement, I think it's

a little over seven miles of pretty rough road.

Once you reach the campsite to where they were at,

it kind of just dead ends.

And you get out and there's the campsite,

there's the table, there's a fire pit.

Ten-twenty feet away,

there's a steep hill that goes to the creek.

It's a combination of

willowy, swampy, creek bottoms,

They arrived at the campground

late on the eveningof July 9th, Thursday evening.

They say they instantly went to bed.

From day one, law enforcement told us

were considered persons of interests

just because they were simply there.

DeOrr Sr and Jessica Mitchell,

Grandpa, Jessica's grandpa,

And another man named Isaac Reinwand,

who was a friend of Grandpa

who apparently at the last minute

decided to go camping with them.

It was dark when they got there.

DeOrr said they parked the truck

parked the trailer in the Suburban.

Issac pitched his tent,

they got Grandpa settled in the camp trailer,

they slept in the back of the Suburban.

Got up the next morning, and then he realized

how rural it was.

You know, they were basically at the end of the road.

Thought it was a pretty safe place.

You know? Cliffs kinda all the way around,

not really any way for him to get out.

You know?

The next morning, July 10th, Friday,

they wake up,

they're hanging around in the campsite.

because Jessica needed feminine products,

They went in there and they bought,

you know, just that stuff

and then some candy and stuff for the little man.

as the boys loaded up.

And they return to the campground.

So they get to the campground,

this Isaac and the grandfather Bob

said, "We got some fish."

And he showed the fish to DeOrr,

I can't believe it. Show me where you got 'em."

So Jessica and DeOrr with this Issac

go towards the creek, which is maybe 100 feet away.

They say to little DeOrr,

"Do you wanna come with us?"

According to law enforcement, little DeOrr follows them for a point,

but then turns around and goes back.

The parents continue on assuming that Grandpa is watching DeOrr.

to make sure the little boy is not following them.

And when she was confident he wasn't following,

they went to the two spots along the creek

where they supposedly caught the fish.

They went down there probably 10-15 minutes,

and then they saw minnows.

And they were gonna go back to camp and get little man,

because he loves fish.

He loves bugs... stuff like that.

and DeOrr looks at Bob and says,

"Where's little DeOrr?"

And Bob says, "He was right here."

Of course he's not there.

Grandfather claims he didn't go inside his trailer.

But I believe he did.

Police say that Issac Reinwand at this time is down at the creek, fishing.

They do a search of the immediate campground.

Craziness started. Everybody's...

I mean, they started yelling, they started searching.

No sign of them.

Then it's decided they better call 911.

Jessica says miraculously she got a signal.

Um, my two-year-old son...

um, we can't find him.

DeOrr hops into his truck,

goes down the road to see if he can get better service.

with 911 at the same time.

You know, "My son's missing. Can you help us?"

Good evening, everyone.

You're in the right place, at the right time.

Tonight, we plunge once again,

into the deep end of the paranormal pool.

Hundreds of people vanish from our national parks and forests.

under very unusual, but very similar circumstances.

Dave Paulides, welcome back to the program.

Thanks for having me, George.

All right, Dave, I wanna jump right into this.

DeOrr Kunz, two-years-old.

I mean, you were a cop.

If you were investigating this case,

I would probably say yes.

And the reason for that is,

is that the family was in a campground,

deep into the mountains.

There was one very rocky, rough road going in,

and the same road out.

If someone would have driven into that area,

you would think that the family would have heard him.

And if they would've walked up to the campsite,

they for sure would have been seen.

It's like, it's like in so many of the other cases.

It's like he's plucked out of the sky.

It's like just snatched out of the sky.

That case is very reminiscent

of a case that happened decades earlier

just outside of Estes Park, Colorado.

St. Malo is... Purely for Catholics,

it's one of the most visited placed in the Estes Valley.

The story of St. Malo is really wonderful.

It goes back to a man named Father Joseph Pascetti,

One day, in 1916,

and he and two or three others were camping

on the slopes of Mount Meeker,

when they saw a meteor in the sky.

They got up,

wandered toward the meteor hoping they'd found where it came down,

where St. Catherine's Chapel is located.

And Father Pascetti said this would be a good place for a boys' camp,

and the rest is history.

I'm the caretaker here,

This was built 1935

Lots of camp kids came here.

And 1973, I came up here and became a camp counselor

at camp St. Malo, and loved the outdoors.

Every week, the kids would go on hikes.

where we did skits and sang songs and...

The camaraderie was awesome.

It's August, it's a warm summer month.

Bobby Bizup was a ten-year-old camper.

And he liked to fish.

when a counselor approached him and told him it was dinner time.

Bobby acknowledged the counselor

and started to follow him downhill towards the retreat.

and Bobby was gone.

And that's when the search started.

St. Malo Retreat and the summer camp

is right on the border of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Within four days there were 400 searches from the National Park Service,

local sheriffs, volunteers and SAR experts.

Officials were difficult to understand

how Bobby could get lost

because it's straight downhillon a very defined trailto the retreat.

over 200 square miles,

which were telling Bobby that his parents loved him and they needed him.

On August 25th, the formal search was terminated

after a nine day effort.

Now, there were three counselors

that were looking for Bobby that entire time,

and the following year they returned.

And one day, they walked up the side of Mount Meeker,

right through the boulder field,

about 2,000 feet up from the retreat,

and saw a hearing aid,

and bits of clothing.

And they found him in a ravine,

up on the face of Mount Meeker,

which is right here,

along Cabin Creek.

He was in a ravine that they had searched

at least three times the year before.

Uphill, the Meeker is an exhausting

and treacherous hiking spots.

Downhill to the retreat is dinner and an easy hike.

You mentioned that Bobby is hearing impaired.

When you look at the big picture

in the number of cases that you have investigated,

George, that's an interesting point.

It seems as though an abnormal number of these people disappear with some type of physical impairment,

or genetic deficiency.

So Bobby's case happened August 15th, 1958.

These go back decades.

But even today it's happening as we speak.

It's the third night an Idaho Falls family

is spending without their son.

More than 10,000 man hours have been put

into trying to find a missing toddler

in Lemhi County.

A lot of facts didn't add up.

The day before--