Who was ‘Boxcar Boy’? CMPD reopens 1932 case of boy crushed to death in boxcar

A haunting 1932 death investigation that counts among Charlotte’s longest running mysteries is being reopened by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.

Known as the “Mecklenburg Boxcar Boy” case, it involves a juvenile who died while hitching a ride in a boxcar.

His name remains unknown, and CMPD is hoping to solve that mystery with DNA testing by Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey…

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