Daily News | The ‘Boy in the Box’ haunted one late investigator for decades
Once a year, or sometimes more, Remington Bristow would drive to the potter’s field with some flowers and toys, and kneel by Grave 191. He’d dust off the snow around the holidays and pull out the weeds in summer. Then he’d pause, in silence, to honor the nameless boy who never left his thoughts.
When the boy’s body was found in a box, in a weedy lot in the city’s Fox Chase section on Feb. 25, 1957, Bristow was working for the medical examiner’s office and took on the case. Kimelheim said his grandfather worked in the funeral industry like his father before him, at one point owning a funeral home in California. He and his late wife, Jean, moved to Philadelphia in 1952 where he worked at several funeral homes before joining the medical examiner’s office.
In most stories, Bristow made a point to say he didn’t think the case was a homicide, that the boy’s parents likely loved him. The death could have been accidental, he told reporters. Kimelheim, who drove Bristow to conduct interviews on the case as he got older, said his grandfather didn’t actually believe that.
“He really hoped it would be in his lifetime, but he also thought some future technologies might help,” she said. “We all just wanted it so badly for him.”
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