Alright, obviously, my buddy with all the good isotope alaysis never got back to me on this one. I still don't think it would be possible, considering the difficulty they've had with DNA extraction.
I do still believe that it was his mother or someone with a maternal connection that placed him there, simply because of the way he was covered, and wrapped, so on and so forth. I have also discovered through research on other cases, that some profilers have found that mothers tend to kill their children using water, or later place them in water, maybe to signify the state they were in before birth...no one really seems to know why, but think Susan Smith, Andrea Yates...countless others.
I don't know if I believe his mother killed him, but I do believe that she took part in the body dump or the preparation of the body.
there was such a massive influx of refugess during this general time frame that it makes it hard to say with any certainty whether it would be a reach to say he was an immigrant. The only thing that can be said with much certainty is that he was not born in a Philly area hospital during the years that they believe him to have been born, and he seemingly was not reported missing.
The marks on his body leave no doubt that he was abused at the end of his life, yet even that beating left no fractures. Head trauma, yes, but no indication of old or new broken bones. That means that either the person that beat him was not that strong and the boy bruised easily, not outside the realm of possibility if he was malnourished, or that the person that beat him only wanted to leave marks and had a good deal of control even while beating the child to a pulp.
Since the area was a well known trash dump, it leads me to wonder if there may have been other items at the scene before the body was reported, but a desperate citizen picked them up and took them home for their child. It may seem outlandish and sick but I am not going to judge the action, just point out that it could have happened. Potentially, I suppose that most everything this child owned could have been dumped, but picked up by an opportunistic and desperate person with children at home to clothe.
I don't believe the foster family or the school were involved in any way, except possibly one member of the foster family being used to broker the child without the others knowing. I don't believe that the location of the body has any connection to either of the buildings, it was just a secluded spot, with little traffic and little light to be seen by.
I know that most of the physical evidence is gone now, the hairs disappeared and the box and blanket mostly deteriorated, but I wonder if the hat, which I read is still in decent shape has been tested for DNA from sweat or saliva? More than likely any sample that would have been left on it would have been too badly degraded and since it was a man's hat, and they could only obtain MtDNA from the boy, it likely wouldn't help much if they could.
Just thinking out loud. The boy has been on my mind tonight.
