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Two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr.’s parents, meanwhile, will not give up hope that their son will be found alive.“We continue to hope and pray that our ‘lil man’ will be found soon,” Jessica Mitchell and DeOrr Kunz Sr., DeOrr’s parents, said in a short written statement to EastIdahoNews.com late last month.Their comments came the same day Lemhi County Sheriff Lynn Bowerman told KBOI 2News the FBI is helping his detectives with the investigation.DeOrr’s parents confirm they have been in contact with the FBI and, according to Kunz, investigators have searched their house and vehicles.DeOrr was last seen July 10 while camping with his parents, Mitchell’s grandfather and Isaac Reinwand, a family friend, at Timber Creek campground in Leadore. DeOrr’s parents said they went to explore and left the toddler with their grandfather. The grandfather assumed DeOrr was with his parents.