Just looking at that potato image I think it would have been obvious… The kid on the left is the missing kid and the one on the right is the one they “found”.
Yeah, according to the wikipedia article, they were dubious, but just rolled with it, apparently, maybe out of desperation and wishful thinking. I have a bit of face blindness myself, but I would like to think I would remember my own kid if I had one. Even the real mother of the kid made some kind of show of not being sure from the way it reads. That is what made me think all these people were loonies. Both mothers stripped down the kid and looked for scars and moles like they couldn’t tell by looking at him.
I suspect that the parents either knew or suspected that Bobby drowned in the lake and had gone with the kidnapping story from the start, then had to double down when the police presented them with some kids.
Did Bobby Dunbar’s parents not point out that he wasn’t their kid? Or were they just like, “Fuck it, close enough.”
Yeah, according to the wikipedia article, they were dubious, but just rolled with it, apparently, maybe out of desperation and wishful thinking. I have a bit of face blindness myself, but I would like to think I would remember my own kid if I had one. Even the real mother of the kid made some kind of show of not being sure from the way it reads. That is what made me think all these people were loonies. Both mothers stripped down the kid and looked for scars and moles like they couldn’t tell by looking at him.
The boy was 4, not like this was two infants being swapped. The parents had to know.
I suspect that the parents either knew or suspected that Bobby drowned in the lake and had gone with the kidnapping story from the start, then had to double down when the police presented them with some kids.