In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family fishing trip in Louisiana, sparking a massive, eight-month search. A boy was eventually located in Mississippi in the care of William Cantwell Walters, who claimed the child was Bruce Anderson, the son of a woman who worked for his family. Despite Julia Anderson's conflicting claim to the child, the courts awarded custody to the Dunbars, who identified the boy as their missing son. The child was subsequently raised as Bobby Dunbar. Decades later, in 2004, DNA testing between the descendants of the man who was found and the descendants of Bobby's brother confirmed they were not related, proving the boy returned to the family was not their son and leaving the true fate of the real Bobby Dunbar a complete mystery.