Boy in the Box

<DIV><P>On February 25 1957 the nude badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the Boy in the Box soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide-to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis and the boy was reburied as America's Unknown Child.</P><P></P><B><I>The Boy in the Box</I></B> is the first book to examine America's most famous unsolved case of child murder-one that led to the Stranger Danger child safety campaign and a <I>Law & Order</I> episode. Written in a fast-paced style and featuring never-before-seen photos it examines half a century of shocking and mysterious events surrounding the discovery of the body. David Stout presents a timeline interwoven with flashbacks theories media reports first-hand interviews and urban myths-taking us back to the year America lost its innocence forever.</DIV>