They can’t provide his name in the report?

I lived right near the potters field and can still remember the day when we were kids and found his grave marker. I get chills every time I hear about this story….

WHAT IS IT...WHATS HIS NAME!!! I NEED TO KNOW!

The whole advent of genealogical dna is amazing. I followed the ERA/ONS/GSK case for decades. The fact they were able to finally solve that, and would’ve only solved it using genealogical dna, still amazes me. And once they started doing stuff like identifying septic tank Sam etc I was just like “they’re gonna solve almost everything now”.

They’re going to provide it at a public conference or update next week.

65 years to put a name to a victim? Isn't that fast for Philly cops?

The presser is next week.

Me too! I think the cops are looking for the suspect.

Damn bro 😎 🤣

Can't even find a suspect that shot a guy in the face in broad daylight. Remind me 65 years

please forgive me.

Just another $100million and they'll get right on it, they swear.

The teaser is this week.

What's the story?

Unknown boy was found beaten and dumped in a box. Didn’t have a name for the boy or any info and was buried in a potters field where they bury homeless people. It was a famous case and it seems to resurface with potential leads every few years.

Yep. Remember this when doing a 23 and Me test.... they've used that kind of paid genealogy test stuff to identify the Golden State Killer.

Would you happen to know the laws and what companies like that use my DNA for as well? I e been thinking about doing a genealogy test but I'm not to keen on giving a private corporation my DNA without know what they use it for and the rules

A lot of police forces are now uploading dna from criminals they can’t catch, and then if it matches with close relatives they reach out to them.

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Yeah that's the thing. People in your family can do DNA testing. I know an aunt did ours and we are a small family so no murder for me! /s

On the plus side if I was murdered and found they'd know who I was so...good news?

We still have family we've found that make no sense though. There's a family in Egypt with our same surname that are so similar looking that it's insane but unless one of them does DNA testing we won't know the connection.

And we are eastern European by what we know so we don't know who went where.

We have a very minimal last name to the point where I know only I have my name in the states so other families are odd to find, especially when the people look just like you.

IIRC, in Michael Capuzzo's Murder Room (non-fiction about the Vidocq Society based in Philly), he ends the book with Society members going to interview a suspect in Marshall's Creek, PA (near Stroudsburg). Its been a while, but the suspect was either the (then young) man who set animal traps near where the body was found or the man who found the body.

It is weird to think, but that whole area around Verree Road was just woods then (still plenty of woods with Pennypack park), and I get a chill thinking about the Boy any time I'm in the area.

If it's a cheap test, you are most likely giving up your privacy. Read the agreement.

23andMe have laid out their rules pretty well in the agreement you sign with them. Iirc, they can do whatever they what with your data but it's "anonymous" when they sell it. They're are research companies that gather the DNA data and run it through cold cases to check for matches.

Read up on how 23andMe changed their products, fought with the FDA, and where they make their money before selling yours to them for a $100.

That's not to say they are an evil company nor the research work done with the data bad or wrongfully incriminating, just that once you let your DNA (or any other personal data) in the hands of another company, you loose the ability to argue how it's used.

I lived there too. I loved walking in pennypack. you couldn't shake the story and the knowledge of the kid's in the woods, ever.

What do the acronyms you used stand for ?

Just look up Joseph James DAngelo. He was the Visalia ransacker, east area rapist, original night stalker and the golden state killer. He was basically the first major case solved through genetic genealogy and there was a lot of talk they’d be able to crack zodiac the same way when this came about but alas. That case is another can of worms

Douchey comment.

^Douchey comment.

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W00t! My family and I donated money to his headstone when he was re-interred in the Ivy Hill Cemetery in 1998 <3