Philly’s ‘Boy in the Box’ finally gets a name after 65 years

On Feb. 25, 1957, a naked, emaciated boy between 4 and 6 years old was found dead in a cardboard box in a wooded area in northeast Philadelphia. He’d been severely beaten and dumped beside the road. As tragic and widely reported as the discovery was, nobody ever came forward to report him missing. With…

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