themissingandthelost
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Hey all,
I don't know much about this case which is why I am posting it here, I am hoping that someone is able to link me to more information about what happened to the family and if it was ever ruled out that John wasn't America's Unknown Child.
The husband and father, Harold was the only one left. I found out about this family through reading the archives on America's Unknown Child dot net and I can't seem to find any information on the missing family when I try googling it. I was hoping someone would be able to link me to some more information on when exactly they went missing.
08/23/57 Philadelphia Daily News
Slain Boy One of Missing Family?
By JAMES CARTIN and HAROLD HADLEY
Homicide detectives have a fresh and exciting interest today in the case of the murdered boy of Fox Chase. A father came to police with a story that there is a chance the dead boy is his long-missing son.
Harold Sanders, 31, of Dover, Del., had a son who was fair, thin, about the age of the child found battered to death in a cardboard box at Verree and Susquehanna rds. Last February.
The father thus revived a search for his missing family-wife, two daughters, and a son. The father learned only recently about the murder, that the Fox Chase boy had not been identified.
Homicide Lieutenant David Brown said, "Even if it was not the Sanders boy, we are working on the strangest disappearance case in Philadelphia police records."
Missing without a trace are Mrs. Jean Sanders, 32, her daughters, Bonnie, 9, and Carol, 7, and son, John, more than 4, if still alive.
The boy found in the box was believed to be between 4 and 8 years old. Physicians said his exact age could not be determined. The boy was thin, even undernourished, when he was slain.
Sanders told police that his son was "that sort of child."
"John was a thin child" said the father. "He had an organic ailment. No matter how much nourishing food he ate, he always appeared undernourished."
Jean, Bonnie, Carol and John Sanders went missing in the 1950s'.
I don't know much about this case which is why I am posting it here, I am hoping that someone is able to link me to more information about what happened to the family and if it was ever ruled out that John wasn't America's Unknown Child.
The husband and father, Harold was the only one left. I found out about this family through reading the archives on America's Unknown Child dot net and I can't seem to find any information on the missing family when I try googling it. I was hoping someone would be able to link me to some more information on when exactly they went missing.
08/23/57 Philadelphia Daily News
Slain Boy One of Missing Family?
By JAMES CARTIN and HAROLD HADLEY
Homicide detectives have a fresh and exciting interest today in the case of the murdered boy of Fox Chase. A father came to police with a story that there is a chance the dead boy is his long-missing son.
Harold Sanders, 31, of Dover, Del., had a son who was fair, thin, about the age of the child found battered to death in a cardboard box at Verree and Susquehanna rds. Last February.
The father thus revived a search for his missing family-wife, two daughters, and a son. The father learned only recently about the murder, that the Fox Chase boy had not been identified.
Homicide Lieutenant David Brown said, "Even if it was not the Sanders boy, we are working on the strangest disappearance case in Philadelphia police records."
Missing without a trace are Mrs. Jean Sanders, 32, her daughters, Bonnie, 9, and Carol, 7, and son, John, more than 4, if still alive.
The boy found in the box was believed to be between 4 and 8 years old. Physicians said his exact age could not be determined. The boy was thin, even undernourished, when he was slain.
Sanders told police that his son was "that sort of child."
"John was a thin child" said the father. "He had an organic ailment. No matter how much nourishing food he ate, he always appeared undernourished."
Jean, Bonnie, Carol and John Sanders went missing in the 1950s'.
