A Youngstown man allegedly involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Higham in 2001 will appear in court today.

44-year-old David Sharpe is charged with murder, tampering with evidence, endangering children, permitting child abuse, and gross abuse of a corpse in the six-year-old case.

Sharpe's former live-in girlfriend Jennifer Snyder had custody of Jimmy Higham when police say the child was drowned in the bathtub of the couple's home in June of 2001.