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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — The parents of missing Idaho toddler DeOrr Kunz are speaking out for the first time since a sheriff publicly announced they were considered suspects in their son's disappearance.

"It's hard to even leave my house to go to get gas or you know to go to the grocery store or something," Jessica Mitchell said. "You get up in the morning hopeful, you go to bed, just no more answers."

Tears stream down the faces of a mother and father accused of lying about their son's disappearance. Mitchell and Vernal Kunz say July 10 is the last day they saw their son.

"It's so much easier just to blame the parents," Kunz said.

Lemhi County Sheriff Lynn Bowerman named the parents suspects in January. Bowerman believes the two know more about what happened to DeOrr Kunz Jr.

"People have pretty much laid my son to rest already," Kunz said.

The parents say not a day goes by without a threat.

"That they know we're going to go to hell for what we did to our son," Jessica said. "How could we do that, just things like that."

"If you're so damn positive, we'd like to talk to you and so does the FBI and law enforcement if you're so positive," Kunz said.

KIFI News in Idaho Falls asked whether the parents confessed to knowing where their son's body is located.

"Absolutely not. No."

In the exclusive interview with KIFI, the parents denied murdering their son and say there was no accident.

"He was left with a trusted adult and when I got back my son was gone," she said.

So do they worry people will stop looking for him?

"I feel like that's been the case for months. I feel like they've already made up their minds that he is deceased or whatever they think and people go 'oh OK, well whatever and they were able to walk past him. They could've walked past him. Someone could have easily walked past him in a store."

"Thanks to the politics of this you've already made up your mind...you've put it behind you. It's closed in your mind. He's not home. We have no more answers than we did July 10.

The parents say the search is not over.

If somebody has him I want them to know that we're not going to give up and we'll find him and it doesn't matter what you do to his appearance we'll find him."

"Till the day I die...til the day we die. I will find him. I refuse to leave this Earth without knowing where he is or what happened at least. At least knowing that he's OK."

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