Four-year-old Codi Bigsby of Hampton, Virginia, was reported missing to the Hampton Police Department on January 31, 2022, by his father, Cory Bigsby, who said he last saw Codi asleep in his bed at the family’s Buckroe Pointe townhome. The initial report prompted a large community search, but investigators found inconsistencies between the father’s account and the evidence they gathered.

Days after the missing-person report, Cory was arrested on multiple counts of felony child neglect after admitting he had left Codi and his siblings home alone on several occasions in the months before Codi’s disappearance. Prosecutors later alleged Codi had been killed months before he was reported missing. In June 2023 Cory was indicted for murder and concealing a body; his trial proceeded without Codi’s remains ever being found.

In March 2024 a jury convicted Cory of second-degree murder and concealing a body, and in June 2024 he received a 45-year prison sentence. If anyone knew Codi or has information about his case, please come forward to share what you remember.