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Dec 14, 2023 · America's Unknown Child. The young boy was 3’6" and only weighed 30 to 40 pounds. He had blue eyes, medium to light brown curly hair, and a fair complexion. Authorities believed he was between four and six years of age.
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 2, 2022 · America's unknown child, "The Boy in the Box," now has a name and criminal charges could still be filed. A child was found murdered, stuffed in a box and abandoned in Philadelphia...
- CBS News Philadelphia
- Joe Holden
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Dec 8, 2022 · Detective work and DNA analysis helped officials learn the identity of a 4-year-old boy whose beaten body was found inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957. The killing remains...
Dec 8, 2022 · Police on Thursday publicly identified a boy found dead in a box in Philadelphia 65 years ago as four-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli, the victim of what police say is one of the...
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Sep 2, 2008 · The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child. Paperback – September 2, 2008. On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia.
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Jan 16, 2010 · Known also as “America’s Unknown Child”, the Boy in the Box murder has gone unsolved since the discovery of his body on 25 February 1957. On that fateful day, an anxious college student, Frederick Benosis, reported finding the nude body of what appeared to be a young boy , 4 to 6 years old, wrapped in a flannel blanket inside a discarded ...
