William Cantwell Walters was a handyman traveling through Mississippi and Louisiana. He was found with a boy he claimed was Charles Bruce Anderson, whom he said was entrusted to him by the boy's mother, Julia Anderson. Walters became a central figure in the Bobby Dunbar mystery when the Dunbars identified the boy he had as their missing son, Bobby. Walters was arrested and charged with kidnapping, though he maintained his innocence, asserting that the boy was not Bobby Dunbar.