In 2002, a woman told investigators she'd watched the Boy in the Box die as a child, and she knew two facts that had never been made public. Investigators were split. Then, two decades later, forensic genealogy did what no detective ever could. In the third and final part of our series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring covers the witness who divided the investigators, the DNA breakthrough that changed everything, and the press conference where, after 65 years, he finally got his name.

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