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Dec 14, 2023 · In 1957, a murdered boy was found in a box in the woods. Police followed all the leads they could, but his identity wasn't known for 65 years. In 2022, the identities of the boy and his parents were finally revealed, but authorities are still looking into who killed "the boy in the box."
Jan 20, 2023 · The parents of Philadelphia's 'Boy in the Box' have finally been revealed, 65 years after he was found murdered, as a Pennsylvania construction magnate and a 'beautiful, kind and quiet' woman.
Jan 20, 2023 · The Inquirer, based on interviews with members of both families and sources close to the investigation, now knows that police believe that Zarelli and Abel are the parents of Joseph Augustus...
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Joseph Augustus Zarelli (January 13, 1953 – February 1957), previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was an American 4-year-old male whose nude, malnourished, beaten body was found on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957.
Dec 9, 2022 · Zarelli’s parents are deceased, but the boy has living siblings from both sides of the family. In 1998, authorities exhumed Zarelli’s body to extract DNA. Advancements in DNA analysis increased hope that the boy would be identified. However, the investigation yielded nothing.
Dec 8, 2022 · The body of a little boy, then believed to be 4 to 6 years old, was found wrapped in a blanket in a cardboard box in Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood on Feb. 25, 1957.
Dec 16, 2022 · It was those cousins who planted the first seeds that led Misty Gillis, a forensic genetic genealogist and cold-case liaison with Identifinders International, to grow branches that reached all the way to Zarelli’s birth mother, Gillis said, thus putting a name to the “Boy in the Box.”
