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100 1 $aMcThenia, Tal.
245 12 $aA case for Solomon :$bBobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that haunted a nation /$cTal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright.
250 $a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c2012.
300 $a436 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aA Case for Solomon : Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation chronicles one of the most celebrated--and most misunderstood--kidnapping cases in American history. In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana family, went missing in the swamps. After an eight-month search that electrified the country and destroyed Bobby's parents, the boy was found, filthy and unrecognizable, in the pinewoods of southern Mississippi. A wandering piano tuner who had been shuttling the child throughout the region by wagon for months was arrested and charged with kidnapping--a crime that was punishable by death at the time. But when a destitute single mother came forward from North Carolina to claim the boy as her son, not Bobby Dunbar, the case became a high-pitched battle over custody--and identity--that divided the South. Amid an ever-thickening tangle of suspicion and doubt, two mothers and a father struggled to assert their rightful parenthood over the child, both to the public and to themselves. For two years, lawyers dissected and newspapers sensationalized every aspect of the story. Psychiatrists, physicians, criminologists, and private detectives debated the piano tuner's guilt and the boy's identity. And all the while the boy himself remained peculiarly guarded on the question of who he was. It took nearly a century, a curiosity that had been passed down through generations, and the science of DNA to discover the truth. -- Jacket, p. [2].
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six.
600 10 $aDunbar, Bobby,$d-1966.
600 10 $aDunbar, Bobby,$d-1966$xKidnapping, 1912.
650 0 $aKidnapping$zSouthern States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMissing children$zSouthern States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMistaken identity$zSouthern States$vCase studies.
600 10 $aDunbar, Bobby,$d-1966$xFamily.
600 10 $aCutright, Margaret Dunbar$xFamily.
651 0 $aOpelousas (La.)$vBiography.
700 1 $aCutright, Margaret Dunbar.
730 0 $aThis American life (Radio program)
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