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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Thursday. It's the 8th day of December. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Philadelphia investigators will provide an update today on one of the city's highest profile unsolved mysteries.

Please say through detective work and DNA analysis, officers have finally identified the child known as the boy in the box.

The body of the little boy was found in a cardboard box on the side of Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase.

Back in 1957, The boy was naked,

malnourished, and fatally beaten. His remains had never been identified until now. The case remains

Philadelphia's oldest unsolved homicide. Bill Kelly took the young victim's fingerprints at the scene

back in 1957. His family says he never stopped trying to find out the boy's identity or the assailant up until his

death. He was the one of the first on the scene that fateful day. He never forgot that image. I mean,

how could you? His granddaughter, Jessica Green says. She says he was the fingerprint expert on the scene.

Those fingerprints were ingrained in his mind his whole life. And when he closed his eyes, in his mind, that's what he saw. There's so many people who were connected to this case. And if they're not still living, like their family members are coming forward saying, this is, like, this is what they've waited for. And, you know, it's a shame that some of them have passed and aren't going to see, you know, the identity finally revealed.

I saw some other, some police officers that have still been working on the case that were saying

that exact thing. They were like, we just wish that the old timers, the people were here,

because we're going to find out. The guy at the cemetery where the little boy's gravestone is,

he, you know, said for years, like he's just been waiting and um he's like we're ready

to engrave it whenever the name is released i'm happy to hear about the identity i'm curious if it's

going to be able to open any uh investigation on on what happened to this kid and who's responsible

and how this all came to be you never know one thing can lead to another.

It's, you know, there used to be a time where you might have said, no, there's no way, but now

with all of the cross-referencing going on and all of the ancestry stuff going on and all the

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