Still Unsolved...!

Sometimes we just can't find a way to solve a crime, even using all of the modern tools we have today. Here is one such story from Listverse.

The Boy in the Box

In 1957, an unidentified Caucasian male, probable age 4 to 6 years, whose nude body, wrapped in a cheap flannel blanket, was found lying face up inside a large cardboard carton just a few feet from the edge of Susquehanna Road in Northeast Philadelphia. The body was dry and clean. The boy’s arms were carefully folded across his stomach. The finger and toenails had been recently trimmed short and neat. His hair had been cut recently – very close to the head, in a crude, hurried way, perhaps as a deliberate attempt to conceal the child’s identity. Small clumps of cut hair clung to his entire body, suggesting that someone had groomed him while he was unclothed, probably either shortly before or immediately after death. There were many bruises all over the child’s body; particularly on the head and face. All of the bruises appeared to have been inflicted at the same time. Despite recent DNA investigations in to the crime, it remains unsolved.

Seems to me that many clues were there to at least find out the identity of the poor victim.

Coffee out on the patio this morning!

Monday Mystery With The Boy In The Box...!

How very sad it is when the body of a young person is found and, despite all attempts, the body is never identified.

I'm constantly surprised at how cruel we can be with one another at times. In my mind, there can never be any excuse for the harming of a child.

Boy in the Box

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

On February 25, 1957, a trapper in the Fox Chase area of Philadelphia, PA stumbled upon a blanket-covered body stuffed into a cardboard box. Although he kept silent to avoid having his traps confiscated, a passing college student later reported the body. The naked victim was four to six years old with signs of severe malnourishment, a lifetime of beatings, and recently shorn hair. Further searches unearthed a child’s cap, scarf, and handkerchief, while media attention brought forth several confessions.

Most strikingly, one woman claimed her abusive mother had purchased, tortured, and accidentally murdered the boy before dumping his body. In 2016, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children added his facial reconstruction to their database, but, to this day, the identity and death of “America’s Unknown Child” remains a mystery.

There is really nothing else I can say. Crimes against children will never be excused, in my way of thinking.

Coffee out on the patio once again. Gotta love it!