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The Boy in the Box : The Unsolved Case of America's Unknown Child
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The Boy in the Box : The Unsolved Case of America's Unknown Child Paperback - 2008

by Stout, David

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  • Title The Boy in the Box : The Unsolved Case of America's Unknown Child
  • Author Stout, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, Guilford, CT
  • Date 2008-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6200669-75
  • ISBN 9781599212692 / 1599212692
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
    • Locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Library of Congress subjects Philadelphia (Pa.), Police - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008033750
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.152

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

A riveting true account of the infamous child-murder mystery that has gripped Philadelphia and all of America for more than 50 years 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 seeking information on the identity of the "Boy in the Box" dotted the city and police stations nationwide--but to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis, and the boy was reburied as "America's Unknown Child." The Boy in the Box is the first book to thoroughly examine America's most famous unsolved case of child murder--a case that ushered in a whole new era of public consciousness about missing children. Through first-hand interviews and thorough research, David Stout chronicles half a century of shocking and mysterious events surrounding the discovery of the body. He considers the case through the eyes of detectives, some of whom spent their entire adult lives working to solve it. Exploring every theory, profiling a wide array of suspects and informants, and following the national movement to help solve this case, Stout gives readers a compelling, haunting, and unique portrait of a city and a nation impacted by this mysterious crime from the 1950s to today.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 07/28/2008, Page 64

About the author

David Stout, a veteran journalist with the New York Times, is currently a reporter for the paper's Washington, DC, bureau. He is the author of three novels, including the Edgar Award-winning mystery Carolina Skeletons. He is also the author of Night of the Devil, about the slaying of two policemen in Lodi, New Jersey.

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