Shannon gray 23 and her girlfriend. The mother of a 4 year old boy and her girlfriend have been arrested on capital murder charges in the child s beating death fort worth police said friday. His cause of death was multiple blows to the head.
He had not eaten within 2 3 hours before his death. The boy may have had a chronic eye ailment. Officially he is known to authorities as simply unidentified boy and it seems he is likely to remain that way.
The boy in the box remains unidentified the circumstances leading to his death unknown and even the cause of his death not totally clear. Dr spelman s report put the cause of death as head trauma possibly caused by a blunt object. This was due to dye that was discovered in the victim s eye which was used to treat eye problems.
Spelman also noted that the boy in the box victim had been the recipient of eye treatment recently. So when it comes to the cause of death the mysterious death of the boy in the box isn t too much of a mystery anymore. Forensic teams stated that he died due to multiple blunt traumas to the head and that it seems like he was heavily abused and neglected.
Eventually the boy s body was exhumed in 1998 and mitochondrial dna was extracted from his tooth. The boy was buried in a potters field next to mechanicsville and dunks ferry rd the tombstone simply read heavenly father bless this unknown boy. The cause of death was multiple blows to the head.
Investigators were unable to determine if the boy had been submerged in water before or after his death but they ruled the. Bristow thought the boy in the box could have drowned after falling in a lake despite having multiple head injuries because the bottoms of the child s feet and the palm of one of his hands were wrinkled as if they had been in water for an extended period of time. The boy in the box is the name given to an unidentified murder victim a 4 to 5 year old boy whose naked battered body was found in a bassinet box in the fox chase section of philadelphia pennsylvania on february 25 1957 he is also commonly called america s unknown child his identity has never been discovered and the case remains open.
