http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20101123cops_investigating_whether_mutilated_teen_fell_from_planeCops investigating whether mutilated teen fell from plane
By Joe Dwinell
Investigators trying to solve the mystery of how the mutilated body of a 16-year-old from North Carolina ended up dropped on a posh Milton lawn are asking Logan International Airport officials to probe if the boy was a stowaway on a jet. “We’ve been requested to look into the possibility of that,” Logan spokesman Phil Orlandella told the Herald this morning.
“There’s a remote possibility — a remote possibility,” Orlandella said of the theory the teen could have been hiding on a plane coming into Logan from North Carolina. Orlandella would not say if investigators are being asked to look into if the teen was possibly in a wheel well or somewhere else. But he did say jets approaching Boston from the south drop their landing gear right above Milton at about "1,500 to 1,700 feet" near the Blue Hills...
The mutilated body of Delvonte Tisdale was discovered on a Milton lawn last Monday night at 9:30 off Brierbrook Street and his identity was confirmed this weekend by detectives using a fingerprint match on “a known personal item.”...
Tisdale, a North Mecklenburg High School student was last seen in Charlotte on Sunday. A missing person report was filed Monday, the day the unidentified body was found in Milton. There was no identification on Tisdale when he was discovered on the lawn wearing a pair of jeans over gray boxer shorts, but no shirt. He did have a note in his pocket — believed to be a hall pass — that included his last name. That note proved to be a big break in the case, police said.