1951 Goochland cold case investigated: Dale Brumfield talks about his 4 years of research Seventy years ago, a highway worker on a crew cleaning litter from roadside ditches in Goochland County came upon a most gruesome discovery: the body of a young boy stuffed in a duffel bag. The state medical examiner believed the boy to be 5 or 6 years old and estimated he had been dead for about a week, though at the site for a much shorter time, when he was found March 5, 1951, a few feet from state Route 670, just south of U.S. 250, near Oilville. According to law enforcement reports, the boy was wearing blue jeans; a striped T-shirt; and red, white and blue socks, but no shoes. He wore a cardigan sweater. Size 4. The bottom button on the sweater didnât match the others, leading to speculation, noted weeks later in a March 30 story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, that âsomebody had thought enough about this boy to sew a button on the sweater for him.â