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My name is Monica and I think somebody still knows somethimg about this case.I think that people that killed the poor little kid maybe were dealing with drugs.I think a family member killed him because if not they would have reported the child missing.In my personal opinion I think that whoever did this to the poor little kid must be punished and be brought to justice.My teacher and classmates agree.

There was another lead also to Remington Bristow the medical examiners office in 1984.An Anonymous letter was written to him about a family in Pottstown that a father was charged several times with neglect.Does anyone know more on this story or who these people were.

Please help this little boy get his name if you can.Please don’t give up on him.Someone knows who he is.

There are a vast number of cases of both children and adults going missing and being ‘invisible’ and ‘unknown’ and ‘unrecorded’ for decades. Colleen Stan and Jaycee Lee Dugard stand out just to name a quick two.

This happened back in the 50′s–long before public media was like it is today. It would not have been difficult for his own family to move from one place to another and before establishing roots somewhere, dump him and no one really be the wiser.

I personally believe the story of ‘M’ who said her parents did it. She was discounted bc she was ‘mentally ill’. Yet her story is one where her parents purchased the boy and subjected him to phsyical and sexual abuse. Who wouldn’t be ‘mentally ill’ having lived through that? Their neighbors say that the parents never had a boy and that ‘M’ is crazy. But people back then didn’t want to get involved in their neighbors affairs or punishments and if someone in today’s world can hide Jacee Lee for more than 2 decades, it’s not difficult to believe someone back in the 50′s could’ve kept a young boy a secret for a few short years.

I was abused in my own childhood–yet everyone thought my family was the ‘all american family’. My dad was a trustee of the school and my mom was vice president of the PTA. All the while, no one had a clue what horror happened behind closed doors.

Don’t discount the power of denial and the desire to not get invovled. Another man had discovered the boy’s body two days before another man reported it to the police. The first man didn’t report it bc he simply didn’t want to get invovled. That says a great deal about the mentality of some and how easily someone could go unnoticed, unreported, invisible, and unknown–especially back then.

If the account from ‘M’ isnt’ the truth, then I firmly believe this boy’s family is responsible. It would’ve been much easier back then to keep your child relatively unknown-especially if you were abusing them. The supposed surgical scars on him could’ve been from torture or they could’ve been caused by surgery needed as a result of abuse that got reported as something different.

People’s desires not to be incovninienced by invovlement mixed with the greater mentality back then that thought discipline and how you raised your child was a personal, private matter and neighbors didn’t get invovled–these things are what have lead to this child remaining unidentified.

Someone knows who he is. Most likely more than one someone. They’re just not talking. Either bc they still don’t want to get invovled or bc they were invovled and don’t want to get caught.

Some wife out there kept quiet bc she feared her abusive husband that did this or some husband remained quiet bc he wanted to protect his disturbed and abusive wife that did this. What a shame.

Keep in mind that when this crime was committed, crime labs could only type blood and body fluids in the ABO system.
By the time I was working in forensics (at the Wisconsin Department of Justice), we could type nine different blood enzyme groups, which offered much better chances for matching blood types.
Thirty years later forensic serologists are typing highly specific segments of DNA, and shedding light on old, obscure, and cold cases.
It is possible that, in years to come, we will be able to read the boy’s DNA against a national database of genetic markers and begin to narrow down the possibilities of his familial origin.