

“I believe it would take an out-of-the-blue surprise to ever identify the boy and then, possibly, find out who killed him,” says David Stout, a former New York Times reporter and author of the 2008 book The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America’s Unknown Child. The child, whose age was determined to be 3 to 7 years old, was discovered on Februnaked, battered and alone. Instead the murdered boy remains a longstanding mystery 61 years after his still-unidentified body was found in a cardboard box in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The world will never know how his life would have turned out, whether he would have lived an everyday life filled with family, work and community-or perhaps an extraordinary one highlighted by great contributions to society. The “Boy in the Box” would be around 70 years old if he were alive today.

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