The Boy Was Lured to Jump in a Box, Then He Got His Head Out and Yelled For Help

The tragic case of Paul Andrews

Lioness Rue
6 min readDec 10, 2022
Image by pvproductions — on Freepik

Paul heard the sound of shifting gears in the near distance.

And he thought to himself, “That’s got to be my mom!”

Paul was able to reach far enough to open the top of the box and put his head out with a leg chain restricting his movements.

Then he realized that the noise he heard wasn’t his mom’s car. It was two trucks that were coming through the woods.

“Please stop, please stop!”

Paul yelled at the top of his lungs.

Paul Was Thirteen Years Old

Paul Martin Andrews was a thirteen-year-old boy from Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.

Paul had recently moved to the area with his family.

On January 11th, 1973, it was a snowy day. And Paul made his way to a local store to buy milk for himself and his sister.

But Paul didn’t come back home.

His family started getting worried, and they called the police.

The police immediately began Paul’s search. A local firefighter even searched for Paul using a helicopter. But there was no trace of Paul.

--

--