The Disappearance of Bula Mae Robertson: October 1993

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

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Throughout July, we are re-sharing cases that still need attention and tips. This week, we are re-sharing an episode that first aired in 2022.

Warner Robins, Georgia is a military town that is attractive to families seeking affordable housing and good schools--and few long-term missing-persons cases. The oldest case on record is the disappearance of Bula Mae Robertson, a local mother who vanished late one night in October of 1993, leaving her teenage daughters and extended family without any sign as to where she might have gone, or what could have happened to her. Now, with the aid of a reward, investigators and Bula's family hope that her case can be resolved.

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0:00.0	Every July, we spend our summer break re-releasing episodes that we believe are still in need of public attention and that would benefit from your leads, tips, and shares.
0:10.0	Please be sure to share these episodes and the social media campaigns that will be funding across our platforms.
0:16.9	This episode contains discussion of drug use, crime scenes, and violence.
0:22.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:51.3	This is the fall line. This is the fall line. Warner Robbins, Georgia. It's a city of roughly 80,000 residents in the central part of the state, only 30 minutes from Macon.
0:58.2	Warner Robbins has grown by a lot in the last three decades, doubled, in fact, based on census records.
1:05.4	With an Air Force base located in the same county, Houston, Warner Robbins' identity is in many ways tied to the presence
1:12.4	of Robbins Air Force Base, which is, per its own official website, the largest single-site
1:18.3	industrial complex in Georgia. And Warner Robbins' official city motto is, every day in Middle
1:24.6	Georgia is Armed Forces Appreciation Day.
1:35.4	Based on local real estate reports, the city is a popular destination for families looking for affordable housing in middle Georgia.
1:45.7	The military is the area's biggest employer, no surprise there, but there are also lots of jobs in health care, county government, industrial plants, and education.
1:51.4	And while there are families that come and go, that's the nature of any military town or county,
1:54.1	there are plenty who've been there for generations.
2:02.8	That means that there should be people who remember, even decades later, bad things that happened in town, people who might be able to assist in closing a cold case. Though crime rates have risen roughly on par with the
2:08.6	rest of Georgia's cities, there aren't many long-standing missing persons cases in Warner Robbins.
2:14.4	By Warner Robbins Police Department's Sergeant Justin Clark's count, there are three.
2:19.6	A case from 2016 that another detective is working, and two that he has inherited.
2:25.7	One case from 2009 and the oldest missing person's case in Warner Robbins, the 1993 disappearance
2:32.5	of Bula May Robertson. The facts of the case as reported by
2:37.2	local news can't tell us much. Bula was last seen on October 5th of that year. Per WGXATV, one of the
2:46.6	last official sightings of Bula May Robertson came in the early morning hours of October 5th
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