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Missing

576 // Bobby Dunbar

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna discuss the mysterious disappearance of Bobby Dunbar from Opelousas, Louisiana in August of 1912 and the absolutely wild aftermath. This episode was researched by Kathleen Studer. Main podcast theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at ⁠⁠https://incompetech.com/⁠⁠. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at ⁠⁠http://williamsflutes.com⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. X: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447. Follow Crawlspace: IG: https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast. X: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to missing. Today we're speaking about the mysterious disappearance of Bobby Dunbar.

0:39.3

Lance, how's it going today?

0:41.3

It's going great today, Tim. Thanks so much for asking. I hope the listeners are doing well.

0:45.3

This one's a real mystery. I mean, we started looking into this.

0:50.3

We started perusing the fantastic research document that the great Kathleen Studer put together for us.

0:58.3

And it unfolds in a way that I didn't see coming.

1:02.0

So I'm excited to talk about this.

1:04.1

I'm excited to get into our personal thoughts on it.

1:07.0

Because I know how we're reacting is pretty much how the listeners are going to be reacting

1:11.4

in real time. But Tim, how are you? Doing great over here. Yeah, this is quite a story.

1:17.3

There's some twists in here. It's very psychological, I think you can say. So we're going to get

1:23.8

into all that, very excited to do so. But first, just want to throw it to commercial and remind you to follow us on social media at missing CSM.

1:35.0

We'll be right back. So Bobby Dunbar went missing from Opelousis, Louisiana, August 23, 1912.

2:00.5

And he was born on May 23rd, 1912. And he was born on May 23rd, 1908.

2:05.1

He's a boy.

2:05.9

He's white.

2:06.6

He was four years old at the time of his disappearance.

2:10.5

And the description of Bobby and what he was wearing was a straw hat, blue rompers, and no shoes. He has blonde hair, blue eyes,

2:21.2

and a mole on his neck, and a burn scar on his big toe. You know, at first glance, when you see that

2:27.1

this is a child of four years old, that automatically really kind of pulls at the heartstrings

2:33.6

there. I mean, it's difficult to talk about missing people, but when you're getting into this range of like four years old where they are very helpless, immediately you see that and you're just thinking, okay, I got to sort of prepare myself for the heaviness of this story.

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