Who Was Bobby Dunbar? A Century-Old Case Finally Solved

Accepting the Facts

Margaret’s siblings also felt blindsided by this unwelcome and shocking news. Swin, Margaret’s brother, thought his sister had been selfish for pursuing the test behind the family’s back even after being told not to, over and over again. “You know, she was really going up against the entire family, including myself,” he said later.

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“In fact, I’m not sure of any family member that was for it… another thing about all that is some of us in the family, and probably even me at one time, probably felt like she was a little bit selfish, you know? Why do this? Nobody in the family wants to know.”

Shunned for Dogging the Truth

To this day, Margaret has yet to redeem herself in the eyes of her family – at least some of them. After the news of her grandfather blew up, thanks to the media, her relatives felt like she had disrespected the history and heritage of her family. And to make it worse, she had done so in a very public way.

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Regardless of the results, however, the Dunbars still viewed themselves purely as Dunbars. No matter what the results said, they believed they were still a part of the Dunbar family. Now, there was one last thing Margaret could do. She and her father reached out to Linda Traver and delivered the news of the DNA results. Traver’s reaction to it was quite unexpected.

So Where is Bobby Dunbar?

“I got up from where we were sitting on the couch, and I went around, and I think I hugged his neck, just knowing that, man, we were family. We were just family,” said Linda, about hearing the news from Margaret and her father.

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Even now, the descendants of Julia Anderson regard the Dunbar family as friends and expect nothing more or less. While the identity of ‘Bobby Dunbar’ had finally been confirmed, there were still questions. The most significant one, of course, being: what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar?