A slain child at the center of one of Philadelphia's oldest cold cases now has his name on a grave marker.
around the country in recent years, including the Golden State Killer, through the emerging field of genetic genealogy.
But the clues they disclosed at the press conference last month have thousands of online sleuths in a frenzy trying to unravel Joseph's life and lineage. “We’re humans, and humans have evolved, in this country and other places, on bumpy roads. It hasn’t always been pretty, but we continue to evolve and hopefully become more civilized,” said Fleisher, who has poured years into the case since his 1996 retirement as a member of the Vidocq Society, a group of retired investigators devoted to cold cases.
“It is a big part of our city’s history, a big part of the Philadelphia Police Department's history. It was the country's history,” he said. “Everybody knew about this case. So this is everybody's victory.”
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