Jimmy Duffy - A Suspected 'Bigfoot' Abduction In 1973
Added 2025-07-07 01:34:43 +0000 UTC
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I have the feeling the boy was never there. Sometimes parents who are isolating themselves and their kids have something to hide like signs of spousal and child abuse. It’s easier to fake an abduction in a remote area than in a highly populated urban or suburban area in Tacoma where there would be a lot of potential witnesses for police to interview. Can’t pin this one on Bigfoot.
Wjonespitsch
2025-08-12 05:57:33 +0000 UTCYup, it'll be coming very shortly.
The Missing Enigma
2025-08-06 17:38:57 +0000 UTCI’ve watched this several times and just keep coming back to the parents. If we can’t be sure the child was ever really there, combined with all the other strange evidence, I can’t shake the feeling that this whole story was fabricated. Since they passed the polygraphs, I guess it seems most likely they were just neglectful. As to why they would make up the story, maybe their neglect was so extreme that it was clearly criminal and they were trying to avoid responsibility. I would be curious to hear how the sister was treated growing up. I know that she had stated she believed her parents were not involved but it’s a shame we can’t talk to her a bit more. Also, am I looking too much into the last two most recent videos you have posted and their dates?! Maybe this week a new video will be coming 🧐 thanks again for all your great work, Nick!
Amanda Blackhill
2025-08-06 17:16:54 +0000 UTCHe certainly gives that illusion lol but even just having one person along can be spooky too
Lorna Dryden
2025-07-16 00:21:31 +0000 UTCAre you sure he's always alone?
Polly Schneider
2025-07-15 23:47:29 +0000 UTCAs others said before, I think most of the questions hang around the camper door. The father reported to have locked it from outside, so we must surmise it was opened from inside; anyone wishing to open it without the keys should have it broken or picked the lock, leaving some trace especially if he was doing it in a hurry to kidnap a boy with two parents with rifles nearby. All of this makes the kidnapping hypotesis really far fetched, while the boy learning to open the door from inside even if locked is far more reasonable. I suppose most doors would have some safety feature to allow people inside the vehicle to exit in case of fire or accident. What is more fishy is the “noise” heard from tens, if not hundreds, of yards with both parents in doubt if it was a squeaky door or the child screaming or heaven know what. I cannot imagine the worst mother in the world doubtful if she heard her offspring screaming or not. So what we have here in my opinion is a couple of neglectful and poorly lying, but not altogether criminal, parents. They longed for their hunting trip so they locked the door and felt safe about that, only to come and find the door open and the toddler nowhere to be seen. The whole angle of the incident changes if we suppose that the baby had, say, two or three hours to get lost or scared in the woods and you discussed previously cases where small boys were found at distances far greater than what they were supposed capable of. Add running water, with some steep banks in many places if I read the map well, and you have a perfect recipe for a total vanishing even should they comb the forest for miles and miles around, which they did, but in a small range due to the parents’ version of facts. I’m not so sure about polygraphs and by the way, the lies they should have told in this case are “distortions of facts” (of times mostly) more than straightforward falsehoods: they came back and found the door open, looked around for the boy, only with a different timetable. The husband was a cool hand and the wife was ostensibly nervous, but this could pass easily given the situation. If asked about causing damage or death of the child or hiding a corpse, and about their searches, they could easily tell the truth. Thanks again for your accurate work in digging up so much about such an old case.
john smith
2025-07-14 17:26:53 +0000 UTCGreat investigation as always. As far as the loud noise not waking the baby - my kids used to sleep through all sorts of stuff when they were young and tired, so I am less bothered by this detail than the fact the kittens slept through it. This seems unlikely to me. I tend to agree with those who have suggested that the dad either lied about locking the door or simply thought he had, but he hadn't. If Jimmy had learned to open it himself, it seems to me he could have got out, started wandering and THEN been abducted, hence the scream, which in that case may have been farther off from the van than they thought. Sound in a clearing area like that can be deceptive. I'll admit this makes the lack of child footprints odd, but what if they had already been obscured by the dad's prints? The report suggests that there was soft ground near the van, but further away maybe not?
JenX
2025-07-13 10:52:57 +0000 UTCVery well done, as usual. Thanks, Nick, for staying with your straightforward, no-nonsense format. As YT gets more and more clogged with AI crap, clickbait, and sloppy research, a channel like this gets all the more valuable. I must say I sympathize with the authorities on this one. The parents' story, along with their behavior, sure seems suspicious. The lack of the kid's footprints near the camper is huge, I think. It must be frustrating for the people in charge of the search and investigation to think they have been used in a ruse to conceal the truth. It seems like the interviews with neighbors only added to their suspicions, but in the end, after the polygraph tests, they felt like they had nothing to go on. A sad story no matter what happened.
Zack Reuter
2025-07-12 12:21:31 +0000 UTCThanks Kyle, best Patreon sub ever. I can't wait around on YT for a new case to drop like a pleb... 😆
J
2025-07-10 23:46:44 +0000 UTCI read somewhere that Jimmy was "retarded". To Many in those days that meant "not perfect" I think the parents did it. I don't know how exactly but they wanted to get rid of their baby boy and they did.
Polly Schneider
2025-07-10 03:00:48 +0000 UTCAwesome video. Tragic situation. Gotta say don’t look too hard into parents wacking their kids in 1973. That was par for the course back then. Heck your friends Dad might give you lick and then you would get home and get another! Different times.
Bill Collier
2025-07-09 23:01:25 +0000 UTCfantastic video as always!! one thing, im listening on headphones n the dramatic music in the back is distracting me. that's all, also hi
Min Tunkel
2025-07-09 02:59:52 +0000 UTC
