Murderous Tuesday: The Boy In The Box

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In 1957 a boy's body was found inside a box in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The boy was severely beaten and malnourished. His age was estimated to be between 4 and 6 years of age. Police tried to trace the killer by locating where the box had come from. It was A JC Penney's box and while most customers came forward, four did not and there was no way to trace them otherwise. The boy's body had been found by a college student but apparently that wasn't the first time it had been found. A man came across it but did not report it and could not recall which day he had seen it. A motorist drove by a pecular scene, a mother and daughter on the roadside appeared to be broke down. The good samaritan tried to offer help but the woman shooed the man away. Years later a story would come out that would clarify the situation. A severely mentally ill woman claims that her mother was the one to have killed the boy, that he was a foster child and had been abused and beaten by her parents. That the boy's death was an accident but that the mother forced her daughter to help her dispose of the body. She claims to be the child on the roadside standing by the mother. She says after the man left they stashed the boy in a box and left him there. Now there are other theories and some DNA testing is yet to be done. However, I do think that this woman's story is the most accurate. Why? because if I had witnessed my parents abuse (and perhaps been victim of it myself), I can't say as I would have come out unscathed. The woman may have experienced trauma as a result of her upbringing in a home like that. Here's more on it for the curious :