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100 1  McThenia, Tal. 
245 12 A case for Solomon :|bBobby Dunbar and the kidnapping that
       haunted a nation /|cTal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar 
       Cutright. 
250    First Free Press hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFree Press,|c2012. 
300    xx, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    A 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]. 
600 10 Dunbar, Bobby,|d-1966. 
600 10 Dunbar, Bobby,|d-1966|xKidnapping, 1912. 
600 10 Dunbar, Bobby,|d-1966|xFamily. 
600 10 Cutright, Margaret Dunbar|xFamily. 
650  0 Kidnapping|zSouthern States|vCase studies. 
650  0 Missing children|zSouthern States|vCase studies. 
650  0 Mistaken identity|zSouthern States|vCase studies. 
651  0 Opelousas (La.)|vBiography. 
700 1  Cutright, Margaret Dunbar. 
730 0  This American life (Radio program) 
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