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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    It's nice to have a more social understanding of events... Where I live I did not see anyone from another country till my early teens... there where families in Birmingham that moved there during the 1960's, but that was 20 miles away and we had no need to venture into the city... late...
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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    Don't get me wrong... I feel leaving him in the box the way they did was wrong, but I do feel that they were on route to bury the child somewhere more private when perhaps they got disturbed... or just got too scared... What were the feelings at the time towards the immigrants by the police...
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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    Sad but true... How times have changed! Here is something else to ponder over... D.N.A. sampling did not exist in 1957, when the body was exhumed for analysis on the 3rd November 1998. The remains were far too degraded to permit extraction of viable nuclear DNA. Mitochondrial DNA...
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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    Hi Beleive09, I am so pleased that I am not alone on this one... I did feel raising my head and saying what I did might have given people cause to feel upset and send me some non too polite comments back. I think it is all too easy to jump on the same bandwagon and say he was tortored or...
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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    I am of the opinion that this boy’s family probably had money/income at one time due to some of the marks on the boy’s body being consistent to him receiving medical treatment at some point, which would have had to been paid for by the family. One such mark is the scar on the boy's left...
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    Identified! PA - Philadelphia, 'Boy in the Box', WhtMale 4-6, 4UMPA, Feb'57

    Does anyone know if the results from the toxicological analysis and microscopic examination are available online? Only in the Jim Hoffman Book (ISBN 978-1-60008-034-051895) it mentions that "During the autopsy, blood and other body fluids, hair, gastric contents, and tissue samples from vital...

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