During a news conference held on Thursday, Philadelphia police publicly identified the discarded remains of a young boy known only as "The Boy in the Box" for the past 65 years.
The boy — believed to be between 3 and 7 years old at the time of his death — was found in a small cardboard box off the side of the road in a wooded area of Philadelphia in 1957. After area officials investigated the remains following their discovery it was determined that the boy's cause of death was blunt force trauma, but a run of the child's fingerprints came up with no match and a series of phony leads as to where he came from, or who could have ultimately killed him, yielded no concrete evidence.
