Yes, it was a home for wayward, troubled girls.
Girls did not give birth there.
They don't believe there is a connection
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There was a foster home 1.5 miles away, which was looked at extensively.
However, I'm sure they're looking at it again. The foster home is no longer in existence. The owners have long died. A detective felt the boy may have been from there.
However, now that we have a name, (JAZ) maybe they can make some headway.
MOO: I always thought this was a good lead. There were some wacky conspiracy theories about the proprietors, however those were just that. (Such as one of the foster parents was the child's parent..or something. I believe DNA ruled it out) Nevertheless, any foster home always deserves a second look.
There are too many coincidences to not find a connection between JAZ and the Good Shepard School, which was named "Tekakwitha Hills", after the Native American Saint, Kateri Tekakwitha . I'm not saying that the good sisters had anything to do with the murder of JAZ, but there's no doubt in my mind they knew of JAZ as he was probably adopted out (either by school or some agency associated with the Phila Archdiocese).
1) JAZ was dumped almost literally at the end of the driveway to the School. This tells me that someone "returned" JAZ back to where he came from.
2) John Powroznik - an 18-year-old high school junior told police that he had discovered the body of the murdered boy in Fox Chase on the weekend of February 22-23, 1957, but was afraid to tell anyone about it. John Powroznik's home was located on Pine road near Susquehanna road. Powroznik claimed ownership of a number of muskrat traps in the vicinity.
John's parents, Waclaw and Apollonia spoke limited English. Waclaw, the Father, a farmer, and Apollonia, the mother, worked in the laundry at “Tekakwitha Hills”
3) Upon attending an estate sale at the foster home, an investigator in the medical examiner’s office, Remington Bristow discovered a bassinet similar to the one sold at J.C. Penney. He also discovered blankets hanging on the clothesline similar to that in which JAZ's body had been wrapped. I wonder where the foster children living at this home came from? I wouldn't doubt, "Tekakwitha Hills”.
4) The Medical Examiner's office took the blanket to the Philadelphia Textile Institute, for testing. It was determined that the blanket had been made either at the Beacon Mills, Swannanoa, N.C., or the Esmond Mills at Granby, Quebec, Canada.
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha lived the end of her life in an Indian reservation named Kahnawake in Quebec, Canada.
The Esmond Mills at Granby, Quebec is a 1 hr drive from the Indian reservation. She had smallpox, which left scars on her face and she always wore a blanket, which would hide her scars.
The 1939-1964 mayor of the town of Granby, Pierre-Horace Boivin, was instrumental in developing Granby as one of the largest (at the time) textile manufacturing towns. Boivin was a devout Catholic. The Catholic Church honored him as a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory, a title bestowed on him by the Pope.
The Esmond Mills employees' union was created in 1936, the year the Syndicat Catholique National du Textile de Granby (SCNTG) was created, set up to organize all the weavers in the city. Known as the Syndicat catholique national du textile de Granby, Esmond Mills section, it is one of the six components of the SCNTG.
Can someone research whether Esmond Mills supplied the entire Catholic organization in Canada and US with linens/blankets?
I think it's pretty obvious that JAZ was adopted, especially since the Philadelphia police didn't release the names of the birth parents. Hopefully they are getting a subpoena to find out who orchestrated this adoption.
BTW, what happened to the "prominent family" that was mentioned in the press? Were the Zarelli's prominent? Or are the police referring to the adopted family?