4-year-old Codi Bigsby was reported missing on January 31, 2022 (almost 1 year ago) from his home in Hampton, VA USA. His father, Cory Jamar Bigsby Jr. is currently incarcerated in the Hampton Roads Regional Jail on more than 30 counts of child neglect that are NOT related to Codi's disappearance. He is, however, named a "person of interest" in Codi's disappearance.

Cory first reported that he last saw his son Codi asleep in his bed around 2:00am but reported him missing later that morning at 9:06am. Hampton Police Chief Mark Talbot is skeptical of the father's story, saying, "We don’t believe that 4-year-old Codi wandered off and we don’t believe that he was abducted." Codi lived with his father and other siblings at the time of his disappearance. Little is known about his mother, except that she currently lives in the Washington D.C. area and is not considered a person of interest at this time. Court documents show Cory Bigsby left one or more of his young children home alone on 7 different occasions. The documents show that he neglected to care for at least one of his four children on December 13-15, again on December 28, on January 11 and 25, then once more on February 1. The day Codi was reported missing was the same day the family was scheduled to move into a new house. The information from Bigsby is not reliable, according to Police Chief Talbot. Detectives have found evidence that has led them to question the credibility of information they’ve received from Codi’s parents and other adults who may have helped to care for him, so they’re asking the public for information to determine when he was last seen.

Search efforts have been performed of the surrounding areas/neighborhoods with teams initially concentrating on the 1-mile radius around his home. On Feb. 3, a reporter witnessed evidence technicians search the home, bringing out several sealed bags of evidence. W.A.T.E.R., a veteran-owned nonprofit search team, has been concentrating on the nearby Buckroe Beach and Eastern Shore. Police search teams have also reportedly searched the nearby Hampton Steam Plant.

Cory Bigsby initially spoke freely & voluntarily to detectives at the Hampton Police Department on January 31st, with the initial interviews lasting 9 hours. He voluntarily took a polygraph test around 10:00pm that evening. The first 2.5 hours of the interview were not recorded. Investigators began recording the interrogation just before midnight and continued recording it until it ended around 4:45am. According to court records, Cory Bigsby told investigators he was tired and wanted to go to sleep more than 20 times during the interview. Investigators continued to question Cory Bigsby despite his repeated complaints of exhaustion and attempts to end questioning. They didn’t let him leave even though he was not under arrest, court records state. The interrogation became adversarial around 4:04 a.m. during a discussion about the results of the polygraph test between Cory Bigsby and the HPD investigator. With the HPD detective and a FBI agent in the room, Cory Bigsby made his first request for an attorney at 4:13 a.m., but the investigators ignored him, court records show. He would remain at police headquarters without an attorney until he was arrested on February 3rd and charged with seven counts of felony child neglect. At a February 4th press conference, Police Chief Talbot told the public that Bigsby never asked for an attorney during the questioning; however, he walked back that statement on February 14th, admitting that the father did ask for representation and was denied. “His desires should have been honored,” Talbot said on Feb. 14th. “They weren’t.”

Where is Codi?

Sources: https://www.dailypress.com/news/vp-nw-codi-bigsby-missing-hampton-boy-20220201-62x2ejezpvbw7hb7vbyskzy73i-story.html https://www.wavy.com/news/investigative/six-months-into-codi-bigsby-search-still-no-trace-of-the-4-year-old/ https://www.wtkr.com/news/cory-bigsby-indicted-on-30-counts-by-grand-jury https://www.waterteaminc.com/who-we-are