In February 1957, a little boy was found dead in a cardboard box in the woods outside Philadelphia. His photo ran in newspapers across the country. Nobody came forward. Nobody knew his name. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring takes you back to the afternoon he was found, the autopsy that revealed a short and painful life, and the investigation that had every reason to solve itself, and somehow never did.

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