Jan. 13, 2026
Breaking: Timothy Busfield Surrenders: “I Didn’t Do Anything To Those Little Boys”
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RSS Feed 68-year-old Emmy award winning actor Timothy Busfield surrendered to law enforcement in New Mexico, following reports U.S. Marshalls were involved in trying to arrest him on child sexual abuse charges. Busfield posted a video before he turned himself in, vehemently denying he did anything wrong, and hoping he’d be “out soon.”
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, January thirteenth, and as of this recording, a developing story actor Tim Bussfield has apparently turned himself into authorities to face accusations of child sexual assault. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. And Ropsey turned himself in after what has been kind of a strange twenty four to forty eight hours of wondering and if he was even a fugitive.
00:00:28
Speaker 2: Yes, because we were wondering when we woke up this morning when we saw the reports that, yes, we know the Albuquerque Police Department put out a warrant for Tim Busfield's arrest. But then to wake up this morning to find that US Marshals say that they were now involved. They confirmed that they were looking for couldn't find Timothy Busfield socials. That was alarming because that arrest warrant, by the way, was issued January ninth. So here we are, January thirteenth, four days later, and you've got police and US Marshall's saying they don't know where he is.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: So he has popped up and we have heard from him and seen him. We will share that in just a moment. But Roes, these were Marshals. We got We were standing by all day and waiting like, wait a minute, this has got to be something else to this. Something is going on. There's no way he's on.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: The run, right, because the developments we had were that they couldn't find him, that he hadn't been located, and that he officially was not in custody despite the arrest warrant being there. Then we get word that Melissa Gilbert, his wife of course of Little House on the Prairie fame, she deleted all of her social media accounts, so that was so they go dark and they can't find him. People are starting to get concerned, and yes, we were curious, is this guy making a run for it?
00:01:48
Speaker 1: Yeah? And when we heard Marshalls, I mean, it's their job to track people down, you know, just bring them in to consult. Right, so we're told now he has yes, turned himself in and Albuquerque again. Actor and director. This is an Emmy Award winning actor Timothy buss Fell. Many people remember him from thirty something. This was in the nineties, but this was the show where he won his Emmy and got several Emmy nominations for it. He also has done plenty of guest appearances on a number of shows. This is one of those guys we talked about Rose. People don't immediately know his name, but you certainly know his face, and you tell me they were set to see his face again pretty soon, but now they won't. So some folks are making decisions about this guy being on their program. That's correct.
00:02:33
Speaker 2: So NBC pulled Timothy, Well pulled an entire episode of Law and Order SVU that featured Timothy Bussfield as their guest star that was supposed to air on Thursday, January fifteenth, a new episode. They actually had to yank it, or they made the decision to yank it, And now I've had to put the next week's planned episode and move it up, so they have a hole they're going to have to fill. But they made a call obviously, think about what the show is, Law and Order Special Victims Unit. I mean, they are looking at people who have the hand to dealt with sexual crimes. So how can you have Timothy Bussfield, now charged with a sexual crime, being featured on your show as a judge. By the way, that was the role he was playing.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: What was the air date did you have that.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: Thursday January fifteenth, as.
00:03:24
Speaker 1: In this week, the less than a week. What are the chances of that less than a week after he's charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor. Yes, he was supposed to be a judge on sv fricking you. That's correct.
00:03:39
Speaker 2: The chance they had to pull the episode, they made the right call. There really wasn't another way to deal with that.
00:03:45
Speaker 1: It's a reminder here the victims here are two boys, two boys twins that worked with him on a show. Yes, they worked on the show The Cleaning Lady that was on Fox before seasons. But these boys they came for with the allegation, and again robes were a reminder. Please, this wasn't just a one off thing. This wasn't just one person. The boy said it to and it it was almost as if the adults had to get it out of the kids. That's correct.
00:04:09
Speaker 2: So the boys when they were first talking with a therapist, and then when they were further questioned later by their parents and then a therapist, they had said that at the age of seven it happened I think three or four times, and then they said when they were eight it happened another handful of times. So this wasn't a one off. They claimed over a two year period, there were multiple, multiple times where they claimed Timothy Bussfield, they said, touch their penis, touch their buttocks, That's how they described it. Initially they told their parents he was tickling them in their thighs and stomach, and then it evolved into full blown molestation.
00:04:55
Speaker 1: And from the affidavit, we shared that the investigator flat out said this was grooming at least from his experience, and thought that Timothy Bussfield and even mentioned his wife. Yeah, they did, were involved in giving gifts to the family and getting the family clothes. He said, this was classic stuff. Now robes you took. I guess we kind of scratched our heads with what was in the effidat with what Timothy Busfield told police about what happened. This will give you an idea, he said, I don't really remember picking those boys up. I remember picking up the boy who followed them. I'd pick him up and he'd be giggling and that would sort of get him ready to act. I don't remember those boys, No, I don't. I don't actually, I don't remember if it happened. I don't remember overtly tickling the boys ever, but it wouldn't be uncommon for me.
00:05:45
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:05:46
Speaker 1: But that was included that verbatim in the police report. Now Timothy Busfield is speaking again. We heard from him and were seeing him. Now this is coming to us from TMZ. They have a video with him. It looks like they tracked him down. They say it his attorney. He's off as an Albuquerque. It looks like he made a video for them specifically, is what it appears. But we have the verbatim when I can't roll it for you here, but we can tell you what he said.
00:06:10
Speaker 2: Yes, he says, Hey, everybody, it's tim I'm sure most of most of you know that are watching that. I was ordered to come to Albuquerque. I'm here now. I got the call Friday night. I had to get a lawyer. Saturday, I got in a car and drove two thousand miles to Albuquerque. I'm going to confront these lies. They're horrible. They're all lies, and I did not do anything to those little boys, and I'm going to fight it. I'm going to fight it with a great team, and I'm going to be exonerated. I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies. So hang in there and hopefully I'm out real soon and back to work. And I love everybody for supporting me.
00:06:50
Speaker 1: What did you make of a statement? Well, you watched it too as well, Right, yeah, I watched it too. How did he come off to you?
00:06:57
Speaker 2: He came off sincere. He came off like somebody who was earnest. He didn't. He wasn't trying too hard, He wasn't overly emotional. He seemed calm and cool headed. I mean he I thought it was a good video for someone who was trying to convince everyone that he had nothing to do with these charges.
00:07:20
Speaker 1: He looked I think he looked tired. He looked a little exhausted. There was one point in there where he referenced. He said, I drove all away wherever he isn't standing. You see very much desert behind him, So he referenced what was going on behind him. The last couple of lines that I took a little pause, he said, I hope I'm out real soon. Yeah, Well that.
00:07:40
Speaker 2: He was thinking that once he turned himself in, and that is happening right now as we record this. That who knows if he was going to get out tonight, if he could get out on a property bond if they were going to allow him to post bail, if there was when he was going to get a bail hearing, So I think he was preparing himself for having to spend the night or perhaps nights.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: And that is not an answer we have just yet again as of this recording. But again hopping on here because we do have a developing story that Timothy Busfield has been tracked down after by all accounts, he was missing for the past twenty four to forty hours after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But stay here, we'll get into what happens next and exactly who he's married to. And yes, Robes already mentioned what she's done on social media, but what is she going to do next? Stay here, We continue here on Amy and TJ a while to think Robes that he wasn't ever officially called a fugitive by any member of law enforcement.
00:08:48
Speaker 2: So I actually googled it to see if that's what they were saying, and they just said they didn't know his location and he hadn't turned himself in yet, and they said they didn't know his whereabouts, and the US Marshals were involved so so kind of like probably a fugitive, but they just didn't use.
00:09:07
Speaker 1: The F word. Oh okay, gouts a reminder, because you had to remind me.
00:09:12
Speaker 2: Melissa Gilbert, Yes, she of course played Laura Ingleswilder in Little House in the Prairie. I grew up watching her, loving her. She is beloved by so many So yes, this is her husband. I didn't realize she was married to him. This is their third marriage each. They've talked about their love story, how they met I think ten eleven years ago. But she is standing by him. In fact, that has been just reported now that he has turned himself in. They said that she fully stands behind her husband, believes in her husband, and will support him throughout all of it. So that is interesting to note. And yes, she did delete her entire social media because literally the post before this came about, she was speaking out about how younger actors aren't protected and that she was just fifteen when she was made to be married and have like passionate love scenes with an actor who was a decade older than her, and how that was inappropriate. So she was speaking out about inappropriate behavior when children are on movie and TV sets. So the irony of then now her husband being charged with that very thing again, what are the chances and her also being implicated in the grooming process, whether she knew it or not, that she was inviting the children to be with them in holidays and by and Christmas Day? Yeah, so specifically, yeah, like whether she was used as a pawn in his scheme or if she was complicit in it, who knows, But at least we do know that today she is standing by her husband again.
00:10:45
Speaker 1: All lies, he is saying, absolutely all lies. And Rob pleads a reminder as well that there is a suggestion in the affidavit as well that this is a plan or a plot against him.
00:10:58
Speaker 2: Yes. So, Actually, Busfield's lawyer says that there is a revenge factor at work, and he says in the criminal complaint that there is an actress on set who said that the mother of those twin boys told her she was going to get revenge against Timothy Busfield because her sons were cut from the final season of the show. They were replaced by another actor.
00:11:22
Speaker 1: So hell of a way to go about it. Yes, the slashes tires Jesus.
00:11:27
Speaker 2: Now, so that is going to be part of his defense, that this is a revenge plot by the mother because her sons were no longer in the final season.
00:11:36
Speaker 1: All right, we're keeping an eye on this developing story this afternoon. We'll hop on if there's any significant update. But we're standing by. We don't know. Is he going to get booked, will we get a mug shot, will he post bail? What is going to happen? And we just heard ropes. At least NBC is reporting that his attorney is suggesting or using this language he presented himself yes to authorities.
00:12:01
Speaker 2: Yes, he didn't even want to have the language out there that he turned himself in or that he's surrendered, which is what most of the headlines have said. But yes, that is a good point that the NBC reporter said his attorney really wanted that to be the language used that he presented himself to authorities, although it did sound like from that video he is prepared to perhaps even spend the night. I would encourage everybody, not that I would send everyone to TMZ, but it is interesting if you're interested in this case, to click play and actually watch Timothy buss Field defend himself and talk about, you know, how he got where he is today. In Albuquerque. But I think I would encourage everybody just to read that, watch that for themselves, and form their own opinion about what they think about his response to the.
00:12:50
Speaker 1: Charges I.
00:12:55
Speaker 2: Hesitated for I do think the video is valuable when it comes to the story.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: All Right, we appreciate you as always, we're spending some time here with us. S I M. TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robot. We will talk to the Ulser
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, January thirteenth, and as of this recording, a developing story actor Tim Bussfield has apparently turned himself into authorities to face accusations of child sexual assault. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. And Ropsey turned himself in after what has been kind of a strange twenty four to forty eight hours of wondering and if he was even a fugitive.
00:00:28
Speaker 2: Yes, because we were wondering when we woke up this morning when we saw the reports that, yes, we know the Albuquerque Police Department put out a warrant for Tim Busfield's arrest. But then to wake up this morning to find that US Marshals say that they were now involved. They confirmed that they were looking for couldn't find Timothy Busfield socials. That was alarming because that arrest warrant, by the way, was issued January ninth. So here we are, January thirteenth, four days later, and you've got police and US Marshall's saying they don't know where he is.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: So he has popped up and we have heard from him and seen him. We will share that in just a moment. But Roes, these were Marshals. We got We were standing by all day and waiting like, wait a minute, this has got to be something else to this. Something is going on. There's no way he's on.
00:01:18
Speaker 2: The run, right, because the developments we had were that they couldn't find him, that he hadn't been located, and that he officially was not in custody despite the arrest warrant being there. Then we get word that Melissa Gilbert, his wife of course of Little House on the Prairie fame, she deleted all of her social media accounts, so that was so they go dark and they can't find him. People are starting to get concerned, and yes, we were curious, is this guy making a run for it?
00:01:48
Speaker 1: Yeah? And when we heard Marshalls, I mean, it's their job to track people down, you know, just bring them in to consult. Right, so we're told now he has yes, turned himself in and Albuquerque again. Actor and director. This is an Emmy Award winning actor Timothy buss Fell. Many people remember him from thirty something. This was in the nineties, but this was the show where he won his Emmy and got several Emmy nominations for it. He also has done plenty of guest appearances on a number of shows. This is one of those guys we talked about Rose. People don't immediately know his name, but you certainly know his face, and you tell me they were set to see his face again pretty soon, but now they won't. So some folks are making decisions about this guy being on their program. That's correct.
00:02:33
Speaker 2: So NBC pulled Timothy, Well pulled an entire episode of Law and Order SVU that featured Timothy Bussfield as their guest star that was supposed to air on Thursday, January fifteenth, a new episode. They actually had to yank it, or they made the decision to yank it, And now I've had to put the next week's planned episode and move it up, so they have a hole they're going to have to fill. But they made a call obviously, think about what the show is, Law and Order Special Victims Unit. I mean, they are looking at people who have the hand to dealt with sexual crimes. So how can you have Timothy Bussfield, now charged with a sexual crime, being featured on your show as a judge. By the way, that was the role he was playing.
00:03:20
Speaker 1: What was the air date did you have that.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: Thursday January fifteenth, as.
00:03:24
Speaker 1: In this week, the less than a week. What are the chances of that less than a week after he's charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor. Yes, he was supposed to be a judge on sv fricking you. That's correct.
00:03:39
Speaker 2: The chance they had to pull the episode, they made the right call. There really wasn't another way to deal with that.
00:03:45
Speaker 1: It's a reminder here the victims here are two boys, two boys twins that worked with him on a show. Yes, they worked on the show The Cleaning Lady that was on Fox before seasons. But these boys they came for with the allegation, and again robes were a reminder. Please, this wasn't just a one off thing. This wasn't just one person. The boy said it to and it it was almost as if the adults had to get it out of the kids. That's correct.
00:04:09
Speaker 2: So the boys when they were first talking with a therapist, and then when they were further questioned later by their parents and then a therapist, they had said that at the age of seven it happened I think three or four times, and then they said when they were eight it happened another handful of times. So this wasn't a one off. They claimed over a two year period, there were multiple, multiple times where they claimed Timothy Bussfield, they said, touch their penis, touch their buttocks, That's how they described it. Initially they told their parents he was tickling them in their thighs and stomach, and then it evolved into full blown molestation.
00:04:55
Speaker 1: And from the affidavit, we shared that the investigator flat out said this was grooming at least from his experience, and thought that Timothy Bussfield and even mentioned his wife. Yeah, they did, were involved in giving gifts to the family and getting the family clothes. He said, this was classic stuff. Now robes you took. I guess we kind of scratched our heads with what was in the effidat with what Timothy Busfield told police about what happened. This will give you an idea, he said, I don't really remember picking those boys up. I remember picking up the boy who followed them. I'd pick him up and he'd be giggling and that would sort of get him ready to act. I don't remember those boys, No, I don't. I don't actually, I don't remember if it happened. I don't remember overtly tickling the boys ever, but it wouldn't be uncommon for me.
00:05:45
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:05:46
Speaker 1: But that was included that verbatim in the police report. Now Timothy Busfield is speaking again. We heard from him and were seeing him. Now this is coming to us from TMZ. They have a video with him. It looks like they tracked him down. They say it his attorney. He's off as an Albuquerque. It looks like he made a video for them specifically, is what it appears. But we have the verbatim when I can't roll it for you here, but we can tell you what he said.
00:06:10
Speaker 2: Yes, he says, Hey, everybody, it's tim I'm sure most of most of you know that are watching that. I was ordered to come to Albuquerque. I'm here now. I got the call Friday night. I had to get a lawyer. Saturday, I got in a car and drove two thousand miles to Albuquerque. I'm going to confront these lies. They're horrible. They're all lies, and I did not do anything to those little boys, and I'm going to fight it. I'm going to fight it with a great team, and I'm going to be exonerated. I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies. So hang in there and hopefully I'm out real soon and back to work. And I love everybody for supporting me.
00:06:50
Speaker 1: What did you make of a statement? Well, you watched it too as well, Right, yeah, I watched it too. How did he come off to you?
00:06:57
Speaker 2: He came off sincere. He came off like somebody who was earnest. He didn't. He wasn't trying too hard, He wasn't overly emotional. He seemed calm and cool headed. I mean he I thought it was a good video for someone who was trying to convince everyone that he had nothing to do with these charges.
00:07:20
Speaker 1: He looked I think he looked tired. He looked a little exhausted. There was one point in there where he referenced. He said, I drove all away wherever he isn't standing. You see very much desert behind him, So he referenced what was going on behind him. The last couple of lines that I took a little pause, he said, I hope I'm out real soon. Yeah, Well that.
00:07:40
Speaker 2: He was thinking that once he turned himself in, and that is happening right now as we record this. That who knows if he was going to get out tonight, if he could get out on a property bond if they were going to allow him to post bail, if there was when he was going to get a bail hearing, So I think he was preparing himself for having to spend the night or perhaps nights.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: And that is not an answer we have just yet again as of this recording. But again hopping on here because we do have a developing story that Timothy Busfield has been tracked down after by all accounts, he was missing for the past twenty four to forty hours after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But stay here, we'll get into what happens next and exactly who he's married to. And yes, Robes already mentioned what she's done on social media, but what is she going to do next? Stay here, We continue here on Amy and TJ a while to think Robes that he wasn't ever officially called a fugitive by any member of law enforcement.
00:08:48
Speaker 2: So I actually googled it to see if that's what they were saying, and they just said they didn't know his location and he hadn't turned himself in yet, and they said they didn't know his whereabouts, and the US Marshals were involved so so kind of like probably a fugitive, but they just didn't use.
00:09:07
Speaker 1: The F word. Oh okay, gouts a reminder, because you had to remind me.
00:09:12
Speaker 2: Melissa Gilbert, Yes, she of course played Laura Ingleswilder in Little House in the Prairie. I grew up watching her, loving her. She is beloved by so many So yes, this is her husband. I didn't realize she was married to him. This is their third marriage each. They've talked about their love story, how they met I think ten eleven years ago. But she is standing by him. In fact, that has been just reported now that he has turned himself in. They said that she fully stands behind her husband, believes in her husband, and will support him throughout all of it. So that is interesting to note. And yes, she did delete her entire social media because literally the post before this came about, she was speaking out about how younger actors aren't protected and that she was just fifteen when she was made to be married and have like passionate love scenes with an actor who was a decade older than her, and how that was inappropriate. So she was speaking out about inappropriate behavior when children are on movie and TV sets. So the irony of then now her husband being charged with that very thing again, what are the chances and her also being implicated in the grooming process, whether she knew it or not, that she was inviting the children to be with them in holidays and by and Christmas Day? Yeah, so specifically, yeah, like whether she was used as a pawn in his scheme or if she was complicit in it, who knows, But at least we do know that today she is standing by her husband again.
00:10:45
Speaker 1: All lies, he is saying, absolutely all lies. And Rob pleads a reminder as well that there is a suggestion in the affidavit as well that this is a plan or a plot against him.
00:10:58
Speaker 2: Yes. So, Actually, Busfield's lawyer says that there is a revenge factor at work, and he says in the criminal complaint that there is an actress on set who said that the mother of those twin boys told her she was going to get revenge against Timothy Busfield because her sons were cut from the final season of the show. They were replaced by another actor.
00:11:22
Speaker 1: So hell of a way to go about it. Yes, the slashes tires Jesus.
00:11:27
Speaker 2: Now, so that is going to be part of his defense, that this is a revenge plot by the mother because her sons were no longer in the final season.
00:11:36
Speaker 1: All right, we're keeping an eye on this developing story this afternoon. We'll hop on if there's any significant update. But we're standing by. We don't know. Is he going to get booked, will we get a mug shot, will he post bail? What is going to happen? And we just heard ropes. At least NBC is reporting that his attorney is suggesting or using this language he presented himself yes to authorities.
00:12:01
Speaker 2: Yes, he didn't even want to have the language out there that he turned himself in or that he's surrendered, which is what most of the headlines have said. But yes, that is a good point that the NBC reporter said his attorney really wanted that to be the language used that he presented himself to authorities, although it did sound like from that video he is prepared to perhaps even spend the night. I would encourage everybody, not that I would send everyone to TMZ, but it is interesting if you're interested in this case, to click play and actually watch Timothy buss Field defend himself and talk about, you know, how he got where he is today. In Albuquerque. But I think I would encourage everybody just to read that, watch that for themselves, and form their own opinion about what they think about his response to the.
00:12:50
Speaker 1: Charges I.
00:12:55
Speaker 2: Hesitated for I do think the video is valuable when it comes to the story.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: All Right, we appreciate you as always, we're spending some time here with us. S I M. TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robot. We will talk to the Ulser