He would be approximately 70years old today, although no one really  knows exactly how old he would be, because no one knows when he was born, or his name,or his parents or who is favorite comic book hero was. No one knows anything,. We only know him as The Boy in a Box, or America’s Unknown child. He is the  unidentified murder victim, 3 to 7 years old, whose naked, battered body was found in a cardboard box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957.

I KNEW the building would look like this!!

Newest Grave stone, I hope it soon will say a name instead

Wanted Poster for information

Detectives lovingly dressed him for photos and his funeral

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Information Credits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_in_the_Box_(Philadelphia)

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/decades-after-he-was-found-there-is-still-hope-for-americas-unknown-child-678ce17ff7ec

https://allthatsinteresting.com/boy-in-the-box

https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-and-theories-about-the-boy-in-the-box/cat-mcauliffe

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/11/memorial-services-held-for-boy-in-the-box-decades-after-murder-remains-unsolved-mystery/

IMAGE CREDIT

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fallthatsinteresting.com%2Fboy-in-the-

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FUnexplainedPhotos%2Fcomments%2F23cp6w%2Fknown_also_as_americas_unknown_child_the_boy_in%2F&psig=AOvVaw2AbIGFv3JkjtrqjTFHbpYO&ust=1638399775050000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAwQjhxqFwoTCODxwvqYwfQCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ

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Bob Taft

and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org

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