It was June 13th, 1972, and a fourteen-year-old boy taking his bike to a gas station to put air in the tires happened across a gruesome scene: a dead, naked little boy, floating in Massey Creek near Lorton, Virginia.
The child was African-American, somewhere between three and six years old, and appeared to have been beaten to death. Forensic examination suggested that he had only been dead for a day or two, and had eaten a full meal shortly before he was murdered. Significantly, the child also bore several scars, presumably from earlier physical abuse.
Investigators attempted to match the boy’s description to those of missing children in the surrounding area, but came up empty, and despite facial reconstructions that were later released to the public, no one has ever come forward to put a name to the child. A DNA profile was successfully able to be extracted from the boy, however, and the case remains open.
Crime Immemorial 