The Foster Family:
One of the most prominent suspects in this case was the supposed foster family of the boy found. Initially the family was ruled out as suspects but as more information was revealed, evidence suggested that they were guilty.
About 1.5 miles from the body of the boy was found was the residency of Arthur and Catherine Nicoletti. Their residence was a large stone house that the family used as a foster home to serve homeless children. Catherine Nicoletti did have one daughter of 20 years of age named Anna Marie Nagle from a previous marriage. She is considered to have been mentally ill in some way and unable to live on her own. Before the finding of the boy in the box, Anna, Catherine's daughter, had four children out of wedlock. Three of them were alive when the family was questioned but one died in 1955 from electrocution at an amusement park. The family had numerous of foster children at one time, from 5 up to 25 kids, but during their questioning they only had 8 foster children. The police found no evidence that incriminated them therefore they were initially crossed out as possible suspects.
A few years later, in 1960, a private investigator named Remington Bristow began to work on the case. Initially his findings were not very conclusive and his investigation was going nowhere until he consulted a psychic named Florence Sternfeld from New Jersey. She was a famous psychic who claimed to be able to identify a person by holding a piece of metal that was connected to that person in any way. Detective Bristow decided to visit the psychic with two staples from the box in which the boy was in.The psychic told Bristow to look for a large stone house with a wooden railing and a log cabin within the property. The detective searched for a house like the description he was given and to his surprise it described the foster house in which the Nicoletti's lived in. This encouraged him to further investigate the family.
In the year 1961, the Nicolett's moved from their large home. They gave up on foster care and decided to sell the house. The detective, determined to find an answer to the case, went to look around the house in an openhouse to auction the house. He found two very interesting clues. One was a crib similar to the one that the box from J.C. Penney originally contained and there was a small duck pond behind the house. The pond could be the answer to why the boys feet and hands seem like they had been previously submerged in water. Detective Bristow was completely convinced that the foster family killed the boy in the box, who could have been one of Anna Marie babies who they did not want. Unfortunately he was never able to gather strong evidence that incriminated the family and the father Arthur Nicoletti refused to take a lie detector test. The detective eventually died believing he had found the killers of the boy in the box.
Years later Arthur Nicoletti's wife died and her husband marries his step daughter. Leaving the possibility that the boy in the box could have been Arthur and Anna's baby.
About 1.5 miles from the body of the boy was found was the residency of Arthur and Catherine Nicoletti. Their residence was a large stone house that the family used as a foster home to serve homeless children. Catherine Nicoletti did have one daughter of 20 years of age named Anna Marie Nagle from a previous marriage. She is considered to have been mentally ill in some way and unable to live on her own. Before the finding of the boy in the box, Anna, Catherine's daughter, had four children out of wedlock. Three of them were alive when the family was questioned but one died in 1955 from electrocution at an amusement park. The family had numerous of foster children at one time, from 5 up to 25 kids, but during their questioning they only had 8 foster children. The police found no evidence that incriminated them therefore they were initially crossed out as possible suspects.
A few years later, in 1960, a private investigator named Remington Bristow began to work on the case. Initially his findings were not very conclusive and his investigation was going nowhere until he consulted a psychic named Florence Sternfeld from New Jersey. She was a famous psychic who claimed to be able to identify a person by holding a piece of metal that was connected to that person in any way. Detective Bristow decided to visit the psychic with two staples from the box in which the boy was in.The psychic told Bristow to look for a large stone house with a wooden railing and a log cabin within the property. The detective searched for a house like the description he was given and to his surprise it described the foster house in which the Nicoletti's lived in. This encouraged him to further investigate the family.
In the year 1961, the Nicolett's moved from their large home. They gave up on foster care and decided to sell the house. The detective, determined to find an answer to the case, went to look around the house in an openhouse to auction the house. He found two very interesting clues. One was a crib similar to the one that the box from J.C. Penney originally contained and there was a small duck pond behind the house. The pond could be the answer to why the boys feet and hands seem like they had been previously submerged in water. Detective Bristow was completely convinced that the foster family killed the boy in the box, who could have been one of Anna Marie babies who they did not want. Unfortunately he was never able to gather strong evidence that incriminated the family and the father Arthur Nicoletti refused to take a lie detector test. The detective eventually died believing he had found the killers of the boy in the box.
Years later Arthur Nicoletti's wife died and her husband marries his step daughter. Leaving the possibility that the boy in the box could have been Arthur and Anna's baby.