From about 15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am not a hundred percent, but I am you.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

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Hello again, and welcome to serial killing a podcast and this week guys we are

veering off the serial killer path to discuss an old case that has captured the attention of true crime

fans for so many years.

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podcast so come join in with the cool kids. All right let's just jump right in.

So this case has actually been on my radar for years and it is America's unknown child, the boy in the box.

I am actually super excited to be covering this finally.

So let's start with the where, okay?

Fox Chase is an area kind of in the northeastern part of Philadelphia and is developed now, but it was once very

rural or mostly rural, especially so back in the later 1950s. So the exact dates of who discovered the boy and on

which exact day sort of vary in the source material, you know between sources.

I've ordered them with as much

accuracy as I could, but really it is immaterial in the end because it was in the

dead of winter, so the body was being sort of naturally preserved, if you will.

So in late February 1957, across the road from the Sisters of Good Shepherd, which was a sort of Catholic nun ran home for

wayward girls. The body of a very young boy was found partially wrapped in a blanket in a box that once housed the

parts and pieces one would use to put together a bassinet. If you don't know what a

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