Who Was The Boy In The Box???

     It is such a hard crime to read about, a young child, lay dead in a box found in Philadelphia. How could someone do such a thing? In February of 1957, this unknown boy was found in a box along the side of an unpaved road. The boy appeared to be about 4 years old and his face was bruised and his hair was all chopped off. Still, to this day, not a single person has ever come forward with knowing who this young boy was. According to, http://www.vidocq.org/northeast/boybox.html, Over the years, the investigation has been taken on by both local and federal agencies that have dedicated thousands of man-hours pursuing dozens of promising leads, none of which has come to fruition. The investigation died and was reborn several times.
    

A 26 year old college student is the one who had found the box with the boy inside it, he had fund it when he snuck out one night to spy on some of the girls in a private dorm. Some investigators had tried their whole careers trying to figure out who this boy was and try and solve his heartless murder.
     Months later, the  police had decided to bury the child in the Potter Field Cemetery. This grave was the only grave in the whole place that had been marked with a tombstone. On the tombstone, it read " Heavenly Father, Bless This Unknown Boy". Some investigators spent over 35 years on this case, and they never got anywhere. However, that never stopped them from trying. Some had believed that the boy's death was accidental, and that the people didn't come forward because it was ruled as a homicide.
They had pictures of this boy everywhere and anywhere and no one had ever come forward and said anything about knowing the child. To this day the police thought they had so many leads but every single one of them turned out to just be a big bust. No one knew anything about this boy in a box. It has been like that since the day that he was found.

The Boy's Tombstone

    In my opinion, this is so sad. An innocent young child had his life taken away, and then was just thrown in a box and dumped along the street. "It takes all kinds of people to make up this world", that is something my grandmother always tells me, and i feel that this is very true. Especially when you are reading a sad story like this and just wish like crazy that you could just do one thing that would have put his parents at ease.

http://americasunknownchild.net/

http://www.vidocq.org/northeast/boybox.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/06/48hours/main627825.shtml

A Picture Of The Child