STILL no identity. I don't think it's been released at all.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/11064828.htm
Mother arrested in 1994 death of 'Boy in the Bag'
Another arrest is expected. The slaying of the child, 4, found in a duffel bag in Old City, had been a mystery.
[size=-1]By Larry King[/size]
[size=-1]Inquirer Staff Writer[/size]
One of Philadelphia's saddest murder mysteries - the 1994 discovery of a 4-year-old boy, beaten to death and stuffed inside a duffel bag in Old City - has been solved, a Philadelphia homicide detective said early today.
The boy's mother has been arrested and charged with abusing his corpse, but her name has not yet been released. Another arrest, for the boy's murder, is imminent, homicide Lt. Michael Chitwood said, and might be announced tomorrow.
"As far as the mystery of who he is and who killed him, we know that," Chitwood said of the child who became known as the Boy in the Bag. "It is just a matter of the other dominoes falling into place."
Chitwood said the boy was murdered in a "neighboring jurisdiction" then strategically dumped in Philadelphia.
The child's skeletonized remains were found on May 27, 1994, in the 300 block of North Lawrence Street. An autopsy showed the boy had been beaten to death, with blunt force trauma to the head and torso. His remains were found inside a nylon bag beneath the Ben Franklin Bridge, wrapped in bedsheets and a towel.
For years, the body lay unclaimed at the city morgue. In 2001, an elderly woman from North Philadelphia arranged for the boy to have a funeral, and his ashes were buried in Juniata Park on Ash Wednesday, beneath a headstone saying "God bless this grave of this unknown boy."
Chitwood said Detective George Fetters and Sgt. Robert Kuhlmeier solved the case after an uncle of the boy contacted them last month. Using that tip, the detectives conducted numerous interviews that led them to the suspects, Chitwood said, as well as a horrific account of a brutalized child's life.
"Based on what we are told by the mother, and based on the results of the autopsy, you learn that this boy had just a horrendous life," Chitwood said. "His last day of life, his last 24 hours, would make you cry."
Chitwood said a search warrant to obtain the mother's DNA was obtained before her arrest. He said he expected additional information, including the identity of the killer, to be released as early as tomorrow.
And in time, Chitwood said, the boy's headstone will finally have a name on it.
"It will," he said, "if I have to put it there myself."
