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BOY IN THE BOX MYSTERY

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This is the story on one of America’s most famous cold cases. The story of a little boy subjected to the harsh realities of this world. 

It all starts the February of 1957. In Philadelphia, a young man checking on his illegal muskrat traps down Susquehanna Road, had noticed a box in the woods. He inspected the box and quickly realized what it was; however, he did not tell the police. Instead, fearing the consequences of illegally hunting muskrats, he doesn’t tell anyone.

Two days later, a college student by the name of Frederick Benosis noticed the box as he was spying on girls at the Good Shepherd School. At first glance, he thought it to be some kind of doll. But upon closer inspection, he noticed what it actually was. Not wanting to be a suspect- and not wanting the police to know what he was really doing- he waited until the next day to report what he found.

On February 25, 1957 authorities arrived to investigate. What they found was both sad and disturbing. In the box, was not a doll; but the severely bruised, severely malnourished remains of a 4-6 year old boy clad in a worn out blanket. He was about 3 ft. and 4 in. in height (101.6 cm), and weighed 30 pounds (13.6 kg). His fingernails had been carefully cut, yet his light brown hair was not handled with the same care. His hands and feet had pruned, showing signs of being in water. When a UV light was shown over his left eye, it glowed a bright blue. He had undergone treatment for some kind of eye ailment.

He also had surgical scars on his ankles, groin, side, and chin. Medical examiners found that he had eaten about 2-3 hours before he had died, and found traces of vomit in his throat. They ruled cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head. It was very difficult to determine the time of death because of the bitter cold. However medical examiners put time of death anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks.

Investigators assumed that this would be a fairly easy case. They were very, very mistaken. 

They looked at the box for clues. It was a box from JCPenney, meant for a bassinet. However, locating the owner of the bassinet proved to be difficult. This box was only 1 out of 12 bassinets sold from that particular JCPenney store. All of the bassinets bought were paid in cash, there were no records of who had bought the bassinets. When word got out about this though, only 8 people came forward to say they bought a bassinet. Many of them either said that they had thrown the box away or kept it for later use.

When authorities ran his fingerprints, there were no matches found in the system. No child fitting the boy’s description had been reported missing recently. Authorities sent out flyers and notices nationwide, hoping to find at least some kind of hint on who this boy was. They additionally put out flyers of the boy in sitting position and tried to make him look more “lively” to see if anybody recognized him that way. They had put up descriptions of his surgical scars hoping that maybe the doctor who had done these procedures would recognize the boy. Alas, no one came forward. It was almost as if this boy had never existed at all.

This unnamed boy was buried in Potter’s Field on July 24, 1957. His tombstone read “Heavenly Father, bless this Unknown Boy. February 25, 1957”

Even though this case was considered cold, many refused to give up. Some were so desperate to find the killer that some authorities even consulted a psychic. This psychic lead them to a foster home some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from where the body was originally found. Inside the foster home, they had found the same bassinet that would have been found in the box. They also found some blankets, eerily similar to the one found wrapped around the boy. Police began to speculate that the boy may had been killed in the home or even by the owner, Arthur Nicoletti. Yet there was no hard evidence found to prove this.

Technological advancements would later be made in the justice department. With this newfound set of tools to help, police decided to reopen this case. They thought that this would bring some new insight on who this boy was or who killed him. So on November 3rd of 1998, the boy’s body was exhumed for DNA testing. Coming up empty handed, yet again, police were forced to reinter him. On November 11, 1998, he was reburied at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Cedarbrook, Philadelphia. His grave marked simply:

 “America’s Unknown Child.”

There are many theories on who this boy was, but a few seem to stick out the most.

In May of 2002, a woman from Cincinnati, Ohio only known as ‘M’, came forward claiming that she knew what had happened to the boy. She had said that in 1954, her mother had bought him from his mother. They had called him Jonathan. From then on he was subjected to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse by the abusive mother. One day while bathing, he had vomited up his baked beans in the bathtub. In a “fit of rage” she had slammed his head onto the ground, killing him. This seemed to be the answer to the police’s prayers, the missing puzzle piece. The story also fit well with the account of another witness, who reported seeing two women with a bassinet box on the side of the road. It all seemed to line up. However, it was brought to light that ‘M’ had a history of mental illness, which was unreliable. Her neighbors also denied that what she was saying was true.

A forensic artist named Frank Bender came up with another theory. He believed that the boy was not raised as a boy, but as a girl. He reasoned that, because there were long strands of hair found on the boys body, and DNA testing matched the strands of hair to be his. The boy’s hair had also been cut indicating that his hair had been longer. There was also evidence from his eyebrows, which had been styled in a feminine way.

It’s been 60 years since that little boy was found in a box. Sixty long years of trying to put a name to the face. The face of a nameless boy who was taken much too soon.

“Today we are re-interring him and calling him America’s Unknown Child as a symbol of our nation’s abused children, missing children, and murdered children. We are validating this little boys life. Our mission is to go forward from this day and put a name on that toumbstone. God willng... Today we can move forward. Or can we? Can we ever forget what happened to the boy, or any similar child for that matter? 

                                                       - William Fleisher

                                                      (The Boy in the Box: Americas unknown child)

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