Bobby Dunbar was only four years old when he went missing on a family fishing trip to Swayze Lake near Opelousas, Louisiana in 1912. Join Carly and Tab one of the most mind boggling and absolutely infuriating disappearances of all time – one that was believed to have been solved less than a year after it happened only to be completely uprooted 90 years later due to advances in DNA testing and the badass investigative skills of – you guess it – a woman – who was determined to uncover the truth.
Content warning: Discussion of violence against women and children; child loss.
Case Sources:
- Podcast: Unexplained Mysteries – the Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar Part 1 and 2
- https://cite.case.law/la/135/1070/
- https://www.dailyworld.com/story/news/2018/08/17/walters-dunbar-kidnapping-case-part-2/1018090002/
- A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation. By Tal McThenia, Margaret Dunbar Cutright
- https://www.thisamericanlife.org/352/the-ghost-of-bobby-dunbar
- https://husheduphistory.tumblr.com/post/630687032399790080/embed
- Beck, Harold Thomas (2010). Finding Marjorie West. Custer City, Pennsylvania, USA: Mountain Laurel Publishing.
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-dunbar
- https://medium.com/@joedonan/the-disappearance-of-bobby-dunbar-8c061b5b7c9b
- https://charleyproject.org/case/robert-clarence-dunbar
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207508137/robert-clarence-dunbar/photo
- https://historydaily.org/the-bobby-dunbar-story
Historically Bad is created and produced by Tabitha Festa and Carly Sullivan.
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