He was to be used as a sex toy, she claimed. In 2002, an Ohio-based psychiatrist alerted Philadelphia authorities that a patient, Mary (a pseudonym), had claimed for decades that her mother and father bought "America's Unknown Child" from an underground human-trafficking outpost in Kensington. "The other thing that struck me was that if you tried to pursue cases that are too old, chances are pretty good that the guy will never show up in a DNA database because he died before the police started to aggressively collect it from people."įleisher agreed, with one caveat: "You are not going to find anybody, alive, who's culpable," Fleisher said, "unless Mary killed him." Rockne Harmon, an expert in the use of DNA evidence in cold cases, said in a phone interview last year that the window for prosecution starts to close after about 25 years. "I don't know how much DNA was collected," he added.
"If you could have seen how the casket was crumbled, the bones were practically dust, not quite, but time was just very cruel at that grave site." "I think the sample was degraded," Fleisher said. For example, the large civilian DNA databases, such as, use a mouth swab type of DNA that the boy could not possibly provide.Īnd the sample that investigators did extract might be of dubious quality.
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