Who was the Boy in the Box?
In one of the most gruesome murder cases involving an innocent child, an unknown boy, believed to be between four and six-years-old, had been found dead and naked inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957. No one knew the boy and no one stepped forward to help solve the case. Several theories had been presented, including the one speculating that the boy was the step son of a man who owned a foster home located near where the boy’s body was found. Another theory presented by a woman who was identified to have been suffering from mental illness claimed that the boy was a sex slave before being murdered. None of the theories carried substantial evidences, and the case remains open to this day.
