Crime Major break in Philadelphia's Boy in the Box' cold case - "WHAT'S IN THE BAAAAAWXXXX?!!"

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A major new development in one of Philadelphia's highest-profile unsolved mysteries.
Philadelphia police sources say they have identified the child known as "the boy in the box."
The body of the little boy was found in a box on the side of Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase back in 1957.
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His remains had never been identified until now.
The case was taken up by the Vidocq Society, which is made up of some of the world's top investigators.
Police say they will release additional information on the case in the near future.

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Major break in Philadelphia's Boy in the Box' cold case

Philadelphia police sources say they have identified the child known as "the boy in the box."
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>major breakthrough
>there is no actual breakthrough mentioned in article
Some rabbi pulled a number out of his yarmulke for What To Torment/Humiliate the Goyim With Today and drew "seventy year-old murder of blond blue-eyed child we got away with."
 
I imagine the killer is long dead or so fossilized they can't even remember their name.

They haven't announced anything yet. Some of the big theories were that he was a foster child at the Nicoletti house because the blanket in the box was the same as the ones the foster children had, and the mentally ill woman who claimed her mother bought the boy for sex then dumped the body. The last one lines up with some witness accounts. Plus this woman had details only known to the police. I know they tried to trace the purchase of the bassinet since the model was only sold in one store and they had a pretty good idea of how many were recently sold. Which is why I wonder about him being a foster child. I went to school with a Nicoletti and my uncle told me that they're pretty much all related locally. That's just weird. Especially since this child was only a few years older than my mom.
 
They are revealing the identity soon apparently. Another success for forensic genealogy.
 
Wasn't he commonly thought to be a missing foster child from nearby? Did they finally prove it? Good luck but I don't think they'll ever find the killer.
 
I think there was a 90s episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” about this case, but it could have been some other show. It made my little kid brain realize that there are adults who will murder kids.
 
They've really been racking up the wins with DNA mapping over the last couple of years. The Boy in the Box, the Somerton Man, the Lady of the Dunes, Septic Tank Sam -- all these folks who I never thought would be identified now have names, even though their full backstories may never be known.
 
Telo Miriam dijo:
I think there was a 90s episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” about this case, but it could have been some other show. It made my little kid brain realize that there are adults who will murder kids.
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My loss of innocence in this area came when I was 12 YO, and read the account of the 1965 Sylvia Likens torture-murder. And in that one, the adult enlisted her own children and their little pals to join in an orgy of senseless, unbelievable cruelty.
 
DavidFerrie dijo:
My loss of innocence in this area came when I was 12 YO, and read the account of the 1965 Sylvia Likens torture-murder. And in that one, the adult enlisted her own children and their little pals to join in an orgy of senseless, unbelievable cruelty.
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Mine came when I was six, overheard my parents talking about the Tate-LaBianca murders, and I was saddened and confused about someone hurting a pregnant woman.
 
At least the little dude has his name back. I doubt any meaningful justice will be served after all these years, but he deserves to at least have his own name on his stone.
 
Poor Polly Klass, that was all over the news, and the guy that killed her is going to die of old age since our lovely governor put a moratorium on the DP in California.
Fucker even admitted he did it.
Take him behind the prison and give him two to the back of the head.
 
Cheesegirl78 dijo:
Poor Polly Klass, that was all over the news, and the guy that killed her is going to die of old age since our lovely governor put a moratorium on the DP in California.
Fucker even admitted he did it.
Take him behind the prison and give him two to the back of the head.
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Yeah, that POS Richard Allen Davis. At his sentencing he accused Polly's dad of molesting her, and the dad almost decked him. A real winner.

And speaking of missing California girls: Last night I watched an episode of the new Unsolved Mysteries that dealt with Mary Elizabeth Spannhake, who disappeared from her Chico neighborhood in 1976. She was almost certainly abducted and murdered by Cameron Hooker, who'd more famously kidnapped another teenage girl several years later, and held her for seven years while he and his wife molested and tortured her (the wife eventually grew a conscience and testified against Cameron in exchange for immunity). If they ever recover her body, Hooker, who's now being considered for parole after serving 34 years of a 104-year sentence (!) will no doubt go to trial for her murder.
 
Mary Elizabeth Spannhake...that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
And yes, Hooker has been long suspected in her murder as well.
 
Now that they have the identity of the kid it opens up a lot of questions and perhaps may resolve the case. The Mother and Father have largely been identified off the name alone and the location of where they lived by the detective, 61st and Walnut. The kid has siblings who are still alive and may be able to fill in some details.

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The detective said the boy was never reported missing so this doesn't look good for the parents. This doesn't invalidate one of the strongest leads for the case as well; the "Martha" testimony by a mentally unstable woman in 2002 stated that her parents bought a boy named "Jonathan" and sexually abused him and treated him like shit until one night they were feeding him a can of uncooked baked beans which he vomited up, leading to a beating, after the beating left him with severe head trauma they threw him into a bath which is where he died. In the panic after the kid died Martha's mother did a quick hackjob of a haircut and drove him to the rural area where his body was found, locating an existing box the boy was tossed into it and some random guy apparently drove by asking if they needed help, which they fast talked their way out of. Police had never reported that a brown substance was found in the boys stomach nor did they ever reveal that his fingers were pruned from being submerged in water for a time. The police have been very hesitant to use this lead because of the manner it was discovered, apparently this was revealed to a psychiatrist when dealing with the lunatic woman and it broke doctor-patient confidentiality, plus the woman is a headcase. One can easily connect this case to the Martha story, the two parents had a mentally disabled kid (at least that is how his skull shape looks to me) and wanted to get rid of him, sold him to "Martha's Parents" for a small sum and then the kid was abused and killed.
 
DavidFerrie dijo:
They've really been racking up the wins with DNA mapping over the last couple of years. The Boy in the Box, the Somerton Man, the Lady of the Dunes, Septic Tank Sam -- all these folks who I never thought would be identified now have names, even though their full backstories may never be known.
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They also IDed "Baby Jane", and the male skeleton they discovered while trying to dredge out her mother:
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Murder of Alisha Heinrich - Wikipedia

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I remember another story about IDing an unnamed teen boy who got hit by a train while traveling. Sad, but less of a mystery since he wasn't murdered.
 
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