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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Missing Boy’s Father Told Son Found in Basement on Live TV [Watch (HLS stream): Missing Boy’s Father Told Son Found in Basement on Live TV](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nxMSr5VU.m3u8) (3:04)  _Published 2014-06-26. During interview, Nancy Grace tells father his missing son has been found_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:54 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Parents Who Reported Son, 5, Missing Charged With Murder After Body Found Wrapped in Plastic](/video/O0VSFvw6/) ### Parents Who Reported Son, 5, Missing Charged With Murder After Body Found Wrapped in Plastic [Rosie O'Donnell's Missing Daughter Has Been Found](/video/lt62cjUq/) ### Rosie O'Donnell's Missing Daughter Has Been Found [Has Wreckage From Missing MH370 Been Found?](/video/936RDcHU/) ### Has Wreckage From Missing MH370 Been Found? --- ## Transcript To the father of a missing 12 year old boy, Charlie. With me is his father Charlie Bothell. Charlie, we are getting reports, that your son has been found, in your basement. Sir? Mr. Bothuell are you, are you. What? Yeah. We are getting, reports that your son has been found, alive, in your basement. What? Yes. That's what, if, if you could hand me that wire very quickly. Yeah, we're getting that right now. From, from, yeah. How, how could your son be, alive in your basement? I, I have, I have no idea. Now, this is just a report that we are hearing out of, Detroit, that we're trying to confirm. Oh, God, please! Everybody in New York, please, get on it. Let me know when we get Charlie Langton from WWJ. sir, did you, check your basement? I checked the basement. The FBI checked my basement. The Detroit Police checked my basement. My wife checked my basement. I've been down this several times. We've all been checking. How. Okay, this is what we, we're hearing, that the missing 12- year- old boy has been found alive and well in his father's basement. Now, this is what I don't understand why you guys would've reported he's missing. And all our viewers have been on the lookout for him. He's been missing for 11 days. We've been, we've been on the lookout for him. We searched that entire house, repeatedly. The FBI searched. The Detroit police searched. We've all searched. God, they brought dogs, everything. Everybody has searched. What, oh God, my son. Have you checked your cell phone? My cell phone is dead. I, I and I actually, getting down here, I left it in the car charging because it, it, it had, it had, it, had died on me. Oh God. And you're telling us that you searched your basement and your wife searched your basement? I searched my basement, my wife searched my basement, the FBI searched my basement, the Detroit Police searched my basement. We've all searched my basement multiple times. I mean, we, yes. They had the dogs search the, we, we've all searched the basement. The dogs searched my basement. Oh God. Okay. What, you know what, I'm gonna give you, a chance to, call home and see what, you can find out. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Missing Boy’s Father Told Son Found in Basement on Live TV","description":"During interview, Nancy Grace tells father his missing son has been found","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nxMSr5VU/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-26T12:56:25.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nxMSr5VU.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/nxMSr5VU/","duration":"PT3M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/nxMSr5VU/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```