The Search Is Over – Or Is It?
On April 13, 1913, authorities arrested a man who they suspected was involved in the case. It was a traveling tinker by the name of William Cantwell Walters near Columbia, Mississippi. He’d been traveling with a boy who matched the description of Bobby Dunbar. The same age, blonde hair, blue eyes – it was enough for authorities to take the boy from Walters and send him off on the next train to Opelousas.
When the boy arrived, the parents should have been over the moon. And they would have been if there hadn’t been a tiny problem: the Dunbars didn’t recognize their supposed son when the authorities brought him home. And thus began the mystery of Bobby Dunbar.