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

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.

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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.

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