[Eva]

When I was a kid, there used to be a poster in the Post Office asking for information about a boy found dead. His body was found in a card board box in a field in a run down area of the city. No one ever came forward to acknowledge any connection to the child. I can still close my eyes and see that boy’s picture. It was speculated that he might have been connected to some traveling circus or carnival because surely if he was local, someone would have missed him.

That boy was about nine years old and malnourished.

[mware]

The boy in the cardboard box.

Pretty famous case, as I recall.

[cloudmountain]

When I was a kid, there used to be a poster in the Post Office asking for information about a boy found dead. His body was found in a card board box in a field in a run down area of the city. No one ever came forward to acknowledge any connection to the child. I can still close my eyes and see that boy’s picture. It was speculated that he might have been connected to some traveling circus or carnival because surely if he was local, someone would have missed him.
That boy was about nine years old and malnourished.

I would like to think that is a special place in hell for those a-holes who abuse children (and animals).

[Morgana]

The show “Unsolved Mysteries” did an episode on that kid and nothing ever came of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_in_the_Box_%28Philadelphia%29

He is still known as the “Boy in the Box”.

[ScottinVA]

I remember that — the “boy in the box” case... I believe Bill Kurtis did a feature on it some time back...