Author(s): Tal McThenia

True Crime

THE MOST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in the Louisiana swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the country and destroyed Bobby s parents, the boy was found, filthy and hardly recognizable. A wandering piano tuner was arrested and charged with kidnapping a crime then punishable by death.
But when a destitute single mother came forward from North Carolina to claim the boy as "her" son, not the lost Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody and identity that divided the South. A gripping historical mystery, "A Case for Solomon" chronicles the epic century-long effort to unravel the startling truth.