It's a mystery still looming
over the Hampton Roads community.
Where is four-year-old Cody Bigsby?
On January 31st, 2022,
his father Cory reported him missing.
Right now, the community is holding
a vigil in honor of the little boy.
To this day, no one has seen or found him.
Allison Basil has followed this story
from the beginning and new at 6,
Hampton Police Chief Mark Talbot tells
us where the investigation stands today.
It's a question that still haunts
many people in Hampton Roads.
Where is 4 year old Cody Bigsby?
Hampton Police started looking for him
almost one year ago on January 31st after
his father Cory reported him missing. We
will work as if he's out there
waiting for us to find him.
Crews from other cities stepped in to help.
They used divers, drones,
dogs and volunteer teams to search
for Cody around his home at the
Buckroe Pointe Apartments in Hampton.
There are a number of really emotional
cases that I know I'll carry with me
till I'm not on the planet anymore.
This case is one of them.
For the first time, we are sitting down
with Hampton Police Chief Mark Talbot,
he says. The case is still active,
still looking through the evidence,
making sure that we've followed up on
everything that needs to be followed up on,
making sure that we've understood
the technology that we've uncovered
throughout the investigation,
he says investigators have.
Paste many leads over the past year.
None of them ever panned out.
A number of things have come
up that have had us, you know,
excited about the possibility of
of figuring out what happened.
Chief Talbot says he doesn't
believe Cody is still alive.
I've struggled with that
question for a long time.
Four years old, he obviously wouldn't
be able to care for himself.
No indication that he was taken.
It's not reasonable to think
he's alive at this point.
This case captured the hearts of
thousands of people in the community.
Search groups have gone door to
door and combed through wooded
areas over the last 12 months,
hoping to find the little boy.
Everywhere we go, he's always
right there in the forefront.
Water Team Inc looks for missing
people in Hampton Roads.
Team lead Joe Slabinski says his crew
has spent countless hours on Cody's case
took us all the way out to Roanoke,
Richmond, almost everything on the peninsula
a week before Christmas 2020.
New Hampton police got a call about
remains left behind a middle school.
Many thought it could be Cody,
but investigators said
they were animal remains.
Slabinski says the incident showed
him how much the community is
still interested in this case.
If Cody is found now, he says,
people would find minimal remains,
skeletal remains, very little
else to go along with that.
Most of the cartilage and everything
else would have been liquefied.
If he was preserved, then.
I mean, the sky is the limit.
While community tips have slowed down,
Chief Talbot says investigators
won't put this case on the shelf.
We want to do everything that we feel
like we can possibly do for this child.
Investigators still want to hear
from anyone who might know what
happened to Cody or where he is now.
Chief Talbot says even the smallest tip
could move the investigation forward.
We still believe that there is somebody
out there that has information
that would be meaningful to us.
We would love to hear from anybody
who thinks that they could be helpful
in Hampton. Allison Basil, 13 News now.
If you know anything that
could help investigators,
call one of the numbers you see
right there on your screen the FBI,
Hampton police or the crime line.
In the days following Cody's disappearance,
Hampton police arrested his father,
Corey Bigsby, on unrelated
felony child neglect charges.
Last week, a judge ordered another
competency evaluation to determine
if Corey Bigsby is fit for trial.