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The boy, police said, was “a very nice looking child,” and was “slender and thin-faced,” weighing 35 to 40 pounds. He had been “apparently molested and beaten by a sadist,” his head, legs, and arms bearing significant bruising.His dark brown hair was shorn into a crude sort of crew cut — almost “home-made,” or the type that might be given to a child living in an orphanage or foster home,.
During an autopsy, authorities found that the boy had a full set of baby teeth, and still had his tonsils. There was no evidence of bone fractures or past surgeries. His finger and toenails were clean and clipped. He had never been vaccinated, so he “apparently never attended school,”“[He] came from a home where the parents gave him loving and tender care,” Kelley said at the time. “The parents were at least neat and clean.
Benonis returned the next day, finding the traps untouched, and again ignored the box. But the following morning, Feb. 25, he heard a report about a missing girl from Bellmawr, N.J., and realized that maybe the figure in the box wasn’t a doll, but a child’s body. He contacted police, and was never considered a suspect in the case. He passed a lie detector test,But Benonis wasn’t the first person to see the body.
“He tells us he was so startled and scared he was afraid to mention it even to his parents,” Kelly told The Inquirer.In the months after the boy’s body was discovered, investigators received hundreds of tips from Philadelphians and out-of-towners.
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