Daily News | Philly police expect to announce ‘significant update’ on notorious 1957 ‘boy in the box’ homicide case
, citing sources, reported Wednesday that investigators using DNA evidence have identified the young boy, whose body was found in a large cardboard box along then-rural Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase. NBC10 reported that an announcement was expected next week.
On Feb. 25, 1957, Officer Elmer J. Palmer was dispatched to the scene and found a box for a J.C. Penney Co. bassinet containing the nude body of a boy, wrapped in a cheap flannel blanket. He appeared to be 4 to 6 years old. His blond hair had been cut short in a crude fashion, with clumps of hair still on his body. The back of his head had been smashed in. He was face up in the box, which was stamped “fragile.
A major investigation commenced. Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons approved the citywide distribution of posters with the boy’s face. News of the murder case, and a plea to help solve it, was literally hand-delivered to nearly every household in Philadelphia in the form of copies of the poster inserted with gas bills.The unknown boy’s body was exhumed from his pauper’s grave for a DNA test, which proved fruitless at the time, and was reburied at Ivy Hill Cemetery in 1998.
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