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Passage: The "Boy in the Box" mystery, solved

He became known as the "Boy in the Box," when the child's badly-bruised body was found stuffed in a cardboard box in a Philadelphia neighborhood in 1957. For decades his name and tragic story were unknown. But this week it was announced that detective work and DNA tracing has brought the mystery of the boy's identity to an end. Jane Pauley reports.
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