The box that the boy was found in was thoroughly investigated. The police investigation followed up on several key clues in the hopes of getting some answers. The boy’s footprints and fingerprints were taken to compare to hospital records in the area, but yet again, there was no identification. The American Medical Association sent out a description of the boy but it led nowhere. They then distributed four hundred thousand fliers.
The police kept the boy in the morgue whilst visitors from ten different states tried to identify him, to no avail. The boy in the box has not been identified, but not for lack of trying. The cold weather and the delayed call meant that it was not possible for the police to accurately estimate the time of death. Bizarrely, another man had previously found the body but did not report it to the police because he didn’t want to get involved. The man waited a full day before reporting the discovery to the police. The body was first found by a young man who was walking through the lot. The cause of death was ruled to be blunt force trauma to the head. There were small scars on his chin, groin and left ankle, some suggested a medical procedure. His hair had been recently cut and his body had been recently cleaned. He was found naked but wrapped in a blanket. He was estimated to be four to six years old, thirty pounds and three-foot-three.
On the 25th February 1957, the body of a boy was found in a box in an illegal dumping ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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