Daily News | Police have identified the ‘Boy in the Box’ 1957 homicide victim. They will reveal findings Thursday
in 1957 that has haunted investigators for decades. They will reveal the findings Thursday morning.
“Through detective work and DNA analysis, police are finally able to identify the child,” the department said. A major investigation commenced. Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons approved the citywide distribution of posters with the boy’s face. News of the murder case, and a plea to help solve it, was literally hand-delivered to nearly every household in Philadelphia in the form of copies of the poster inserted with gas bills.The unknown boy’s body was exhumed from his pauper’s grave for a DNA test, which proved fruitless at the time, and was reburied at Ivy Hill Cemetery in 1998.
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