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While a well to do family vacationed at their lake house in Louisiana during the summer of 1912, a parent's worst nightmare soon unfolded when the Dunbar's 4 year old son Bobby went missing. The lake and surrounding area were tirelessly searched, but there was no sign of the young boy found by anyone. The news spread sensationally across the southeast into 1913 until sightings began coming in of a traveling handyman in Mississippi who had been seen frequently with a child that fit young Bobby's description. It wouldn't be until more than 100 years after Bobby first disappeared that DNA would finally answer whether or not the boy found with the traveling salesman in Mississippi was Bobby or someone else entirely.
While a well to do family vacationed at their lake house in Louisiana during the summer of 1912, a parent's worst nightmare soon unfolded when the Dunbar's 4 year old son Bobby went missing. The lake and surrounding area were tirelessly searched, but there was no sign of the young boy found by anyone. The news spread sensationally across the southeast into 1913 until sightings began coming in of a traveling handyman in Mississippi who had been seen frequently with a child that fit young Bobby's description. It wouldn't be until more than 100 years after Bobby first disappeared that DNA would finally answer whether or not the boy found with the traveling salesman in Mississippi was Bobby or someone else entirely.