Something that comes up again and again in Weinstein’s recounting of the search for Theis is the number of times people would come out of the woodwork outright saying they knew Jim and that he was still in fandom, but routinely be dismissed. Really, it wasn’t until Weinstein actually sat down to look for him—without preconceived notions about who he might really be—that anyone really seemed invested in actually finding the real Jim Theis. 36/