http://www.localnews8.com/news/private-investigator-cadaver-dog-proves-there-was-a-death/38307992Update: Private Investigator Klein has been "fired" from Kunz investigation
Staff Writer
POSTED: 05:13 PM MST Mar 02, 2016
UPDATED: 10:33 AM MST Mar 03, 2016
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) -
Update 3/3 10:20 am: The attorney representing the Kunz family, Allen Browning, released a copy of the letter that was sent to Klein Investigations and Counseling informing Klein he was being fired from the investigation.
In the letter from Dennis Deorr Kunz, Klein is told he is being fired for expressing public opinions on the case.
"I hired Mr. Klein to find my grandson, not to make public statements concerning his opinions on this case," writes Kunz.
Kunz also accuses Klein of refusing to meet with him and Browning before making his public statements about his findings. Kunz also states that Klein's recent accusations against the family have caused a number of death threats against his son Vernal Deorr Kunz and Jessica Mitchell. He states that Mitchell has lost her job because of the accusations.
"And for all this trouble Mr. Klein has caused my family, and after Mr. Klein had been payed $20,000, I have no more information concerning the disappearance than I had on the day Mr. Klein was hired. Mr. Klein, you and your company are fired," writes Kunz
A copy of the letter is attached to this article.
Update 3/2 6:25: According to the Klein Investigations and Counseling Facebook page, Phillip Klein has been "fired" from the investigation by the Kunz family.
The post on Facebook reads as follows:
At 5:28 p.m. today - KIC Texas received a fax letter reported to have come from Dennis Deorr Kunz of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mr. Kunz has released (fired - his term) our firm from the missing person case regarding Deorr Kunz.
This action taken by Dennis Kunz is the same action he took with Frank Viltz - the former investigator - as it was reported that he too came to the same conclusion in his limited time on the case. This is a pattern of behavior it seems.
Accordingly we have received a request to continue this case from two interested parties who wish us to continue. We are vetting those two requests as we speak.
I want to assure you in Idaho that we are not leaving the case.
Further, it is our opinion that Dennis Kunz is a wonderful man, however, we believe he is being misled. We wish Mr. Kunz nothing but the best from all of us at KIC Texas.
Thank you again for the very nice comments. Our commitment is only to finding Deorr Kunz and not any other side shows."
We've reached out to the Kunz family for comment on this development. We will continue to provide updates as we receive them.
Original Story: The private investigator hired by the Deorr Kunz family said a cadaver dog scented blood or other bodily fluid on a piece of equipment while searching for the boy’s body. He said the evidence proves there was a death.
Philip R. Klein of Klein Investigations and Consulting spoke with reporter Chelsea Brentzel Wednesday. He wouldn’t say what the piece of equipment was or when the cadaver dogs found it.
“We believe it is important for the public to know that the cadaver dog did hit in three certain areas of the pieces of equipment which does indicate there was a death or there was some type of fluid, cerebral fluid, blood whatever it may be, that was in the location where the dog hit, and that we know there was a death,” said Klein.
Lemhi County sheriff’s office isn’t confirming what Klein is saying.
Klein also said Jessica Mitchell, the mother, knows where the body is on the mountain and won’t tell investigators.
You can watch the full interview with Klein on the video above.
Deorr Kunz was reported missing on July 10, 2015 at Timbercreek campground near Leadore. The father, Vernal DeOrr Kunz, great grandfather, Robert Walton, and a friend Isaac Reinwand were also at the campground the day the boy was reported missing.
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The PI was hired by the grandfather of Deorr & was not present at the campsite.
Here is one of the comments posted under the news update. Shades of Amaral.
Neal Rauhauser • 6 hours ago
Klein currently faces an $8M libel suit in Bexar county, Texas. This is due to a couple getting arrested in the U.S. during a custody case based on forged documents procured in Mexico.
There are two blogspots and a stand alone blog that have a great deal of information on Klein's doings.
operationkleinwatch and notthisonetoojacques, both on blogspot.com, are Beaumont locals who know Klein. viaviewfiles.net is focused on my case in Texas, Rauhauser v. McGibney, but Klein's recent escapades are profiled there.
The best source of all would be Jerry Jordan's setinvestigates.com. He is also local to Beaumont, but he's a proper investigative journalist who has done stories on Klein in conjunction with a local TV station in the past.
I have no opinion on what happened to the missing little boy; the only reason I'm here is that this story triggered my Philip Klein Google Alerts. I will say this - I'm from Iowa and I know the mother of this little boy, who fell right off the face of the earth while in the company of his grandfather and older siblings. I'd hate to see this family, already coping with a whodunit loss of a preschooler, facing scrutiny from law enforcement due to some self-aggrandizing claims by an 'investigator' with a record like Klein's.
