You’re not alone. I never believed it either. Idk it could be true but Im always skeptical. think it would have been easy to get details from news as for the baked beans it could have been something she overheard at the police station while waiting to give info or it’s possible they could have been careless and left a file laying out & papers sticking out and also it was winter time & that is when most make baked beans or it could have just been beans. Close neighbors said they never saw a boy & dismissed M’s story. I also wonder what type of mental illness she was supposed to have had
My understanding is that they did take his pic to local drs and also sent out his flyer w/pic inside utility bills when they were sent out
I have to disagree which is ok because we all see things differently
I absolutely agree. I've never believed M's story.
Ita.
The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, 3 to 7 years old, whose naked, battered body was found in a cardboard box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly called "America's Unknown Child."
Discovery of the body
In February 1957, the boy's body, wrapped in a plaid blanket, was found in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. The naked body was inside a cardboard box which had once contained a bassinet of the kind sold by J. C. Penney. The boy's hair had been recently cropped, possibly after death, as clumps of hair clung to the body. There were signs of severe malnourishment, as well as surgical scars on the ankle and groin, and an L-shaped scar under the chin.
The body was first discovered by a young man who was checking his muskrat traps. Fearing that the police would confiscate his traps, he did not report what he had found. A few days later, a college student spotted a rabbit running into the underbrush. Knowing that there were animal traps in the area, he stopped his car to investigate and discovered the body. He too was reluctant to have any contact with the police, but he did report his find the following day...
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Boy in the Box (Philadelphia) - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia
The Boy in the Box is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, 3 to 7 years old, whose naked, battered body was found in a cardboard box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly called America's Unknown Child. His identity has nevealchetron.com
My daughter was born in 2000 and back to sleep was huge here. All moms I knew at the time put their babies on their back to sleep. Well a few didn't because they said their babies wouldn't sleep that way, but they knew that's how it was supposed to be done. So the information was well out there here in the U.S.
Who is the older man pictured to the right of him? TIA
I read through the entire link and he's not identified ?
He was very malnourished, but the eyes were sunken that deeply due to postmortem changes. He was possibly out in that wood in the box for weeks. You can see sunken eyes on Somerton Man's cast, too, and he was found within hours of death. We don't know how long it was between discovery and the cast being made for either of them, but I think in Somerton Man's case, the cast was made because the body was deteriorating and they wanted it to show potential family after the body's burial.
I totally agree, I me never meant any disrespect. I myself come from an abusive background, in several "homes", in fact after my Mum passed away, the physical abuse was so bad, my Dad went to prison for what he did to myself and my siblings. When I was a teenager I wanted to change my name so badly thinking I could erase the past and ease my pain. My musing about not having his given name on his headston, probably has more to do with my unresolved issues and feelings. I'm glad for your comment to put a different perspective on it! It was no way meant to erase or diminish who he was in life...
I am so sorry you endured all of that.
Rem Bristow, who worked as an investigator in the Philly ME's office when the boy was found. Another view of him with the death mask.
www.newspapers.com
Babies that this happens to are primarily premies who are stuck in ICU for a significant amt of the first weeks of their lives.
Maybe they were afraid someone would leak the fact that he'd been ID'd so they decided to get out in front of that. JMO
Notice was given to the media by one or the other party whilst someone else was in charge of coordinating travel schedules that each person was available for the presser. That's how these things happen with such large cases. There's not one person in charge of every aspect.
