In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family vacation only to turn up nine months later in nearby Mississippi. Or did he? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this odd tale of a boy with two mothers claiming him as their son, and the weirdo lurkers and gawkers that we're all now descended from who watched the whole thing with maws gaping wide open. New Strange Country tagline: We've always been garbage.
Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands
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McThenia, Tal and Cutright, Margaret Dunbar. A Case of Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation. Free Press: 2012.