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.Another piece was tucked inside the box, but the thirdpiece to complete the 64-by-76-inch blanket was missing.The city s chief medical examiner Dr.Joseph W.Spelman arrived onthe scene.He said that the boy appeared to be between four and six yearsold, but he wouldn t know what killed him until he took him to themorgue and conducted an autopsy.Fixing a time of death would be moredifficult.It was cold enough outside to preserve the little boy s body andstave off the decomposition that could help determine when he died. The cool weather makes it difficult to tell how long the boy was dead,Spelman later wrote in his autopsy report,  but it was at least two orthree days, and possibly as long as two or three weeks.I don t think thebody was in the field that long, though. (Mary Jane Barker was founddead a few days later.She had died of starvation after getting accidentallystuck in the closet of a vacant house near her home.) 196 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in AmericaAUTOPSYAn autopsy later that night established that the boy had a full set ofbaby teeth, no deformities, and no signs of having had broken bones.However, he had been malnourished and he died from a severe blowto the head.The bruises that he displayed had been inflicted at the sametime and showed that he had been savagely beaten.He was 41 inchestall and weighed a mere 30 pounds.He had a small L-shaped scar onhis chin, a 1.5-inch surgical scar on the left side of his chest, a well-healed scar on his groin that appeared to be from a hernia operation,and a scar on his left ankle from what appeared to be an incision toexpose veins for medical infusion or transfusion.The boy was circum-cised but had no vaccination marks.In the hours since the first news reports about the unknown childsurfaced, nobody had come forward to identify the boy in the box.No missing person reports matched the child s description.Police detec-tives dressed the child and took pictures of his battered face, hopingthat someone would recognize him.Dr.Wilton M.Krogman was a professor of physical anthropology atthe University of Pennsylvania s Graduate School of Medicine and afounder of forensic anthropology.He was referred to as  the bonedetective. He examined the unknown boy and took x-rays of hisbones.He told police that based on scars on the long bones of the legs,he believed that the boy had been chronically ill and malnourished forabout a year.He said this could happen with an itinerant family.Police had little physical evidence to give them clues to the boy sidentity, but they hoped that some items found at the scene would help.The cardboard box in which he was found once contained a bassinet.The serial number on the box indicated that it had been shipped fromthe manufacturer to a J.C.Penney store in suburban Upper Darby,Pennsylvania, at least 15 miles from where the boy s body was found.The store received a dozen bassinets on November 27, 1956, and soldthem for $7.50 between December 3, 1956, and February 16, 1957,but the retailer could not say who had bought them since everyonepaid cash.Police used newspapers to ask buyers of the bassinets to contactthem and indicate where they had disposed of the cartons.Eight ofthe buyers stepped forward to say that the box was either still in theirhome or that they had put it out for the trash, but garbage collectorshad long burned the boxes.The Federal Bureau of Investigation was Unknown Child: The Boy in the Box (1957) 197unable to find any useful latent fingerprints on the box that had beenfound at the scene.The cheap cotton flannel blanket in which the boy was wrapped hadbeen recently washed and mended with poor quality cotton thread.Technicians at the Philadelphia Textile Institute concluded that theblanket had been manufactured either at Swannanoa, North Carolina,or in Granby, Quebec, in Canada.With thousands of blankets beingsold, it was impossible to determine precisely where this one waspurchased.A man s blue corduroy Ivy League-style cap (size 7 1/8) had beenfound near the footpath leading from the road, about 15 feet from thebox.The distinctive cap had a leather strap and buckle.Inside it wasthe name and address of the cap maker, Philadelphia s Robbins BaldEagle Hat & Cap Company.Owner Hannah Robbins said the capwas one of 12 made before May 1956.She remembered that a blondman about 26 to 30 years old had bought that particular cap a fewmonths earlier.He had asked her to sew on the leather strap andbuckle.Since he had paid cash, she had no contact name and address [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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