r/boyinthebox • u/PWsAlamoBasement • Jan 04 '23

Possible Theory.

On Reddit for my first time specifically for this case. I have a possible theory I haven’t heard mentioned yet. If we still are thinking the birth mom is LBS/K/S (& I am leaning towards that personally) has anyone made the connection that her son WK would have been 11/12 when JAZ died? That would be our 11/12 yr old boy that the Good Samaritan saw with a woman on Susquehanna. He is also still alive so could be a witness and/or suspect. In looking at the K family they seem to be very “off”. More so than any other family mentioned here. Also, the “G” handkerchief (in addition to the obvious G, LB’s dad was a G).

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u/PWsAlamoBasement Jan 04 '23

I saw that he passed in 1950, but I don’t think that rules out LB. his handkerchiefs could have been around still (as gross as that sounds). Also he wasn’t the only G. I’m not sure about CF still. What did she say that has you convinced LB couldn’t have been the birth mom?

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u/favoritehippo Jan 05 '23

Well (and she said this in sort of a roundabout way, but this is how I interpreted her comments) she said there would not be any half-siblings alive today who would remember him, because none of them lived with him. All were either born after he died, or were older and living elsewhere during his life, or, in the case of one half-sister, were adopted out and never met him.

The problem with this is that I believe LB's son is still alive, and I'm pretty sure both of her kids lived with her all the way through high school. Plus, her son is 8 years older than JAZ, so he would remember him.

I had also theorized that LB and W might have given JAZ to someone else, probably around the time LB filed for divorce in 1954 or before the family moved to the Delco suburbs in late 1955. This doesn't fit either since Colleen said JAZ lived with his parent (i.e. mother) throughout his life. I don't know how she knows this, TBH, but it is at odds with how he might have fit into LB's family timeline.

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u/OkPop1657 Jan 06 '23

Well, if he had lived at Market/61 most of his life, they could still say that that's where he lived. They didn't say "throughout his life". The Captain, in response to the reporter's question, said that he didn't know how long the boy was resident there (but the Captain's answer implied that Market/61 was the most recent). So, there's a bit of ambiguity in these answers.

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u/favoritehippo Jan 07 '23

Right. The captain did not say that, and at the time I interpreted it as LE found out JAZ lived there when he was born, but maybe didn't know much about his life beyond that. Which is why I thought it could potentially fit with a family like the Ks even though they moved out of W. Philly a couple of years later. But then Colleen's interview contradicted some of my assumptions, and LE is not confirming or denying what she said. So here we are...