From the 1980s onward, people started searching for Jim Theis, or so the story goes online. But in the hindsight of all the evidence, it soon starts to become apparent that maybe the reason Jim Theis went “undiscovered” for so long is because nobody wanted to hear the “boring” version of the story: That Jim Theis wasn’t an elaborate hoax, but just an ordinary kid from St. Louis. 29/