In the Winter of 1957…
On February 25th, police received a tip from an informant who came across a suspicious cardboard box that had been dumped on the side of a road near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In it, police officers discovered a horrifying scene that made them sick to their stomachs.
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It was the corpse of a young boy, nude and partially wrapped in a flannel blanket. The boy was covered in purple-blue bruises. It was later concluded by medical examiners that the young child had died after sustaining serious blows to the head.