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Joseph Zarelli was a 4-year-old boy whose nude and beaten body was found in a box in Philadelphia in 1957. After over 65 years of being an unidentified murder victim, he was finally named in December 2022 using DNA and genealogy.
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On February 23, 1957, a student at La Salle College noticed the Boy in the Box for the first time. The student was in the area hoping to catch a glimpse of the girls enrolled at Sisters of Good Shepard, a home for wayward youths. Instead, he noticed a box in the underbrush. Though he saw the boy’s head, the student mistook it for a doll and went on...
For the next six decades, detectives pursued thousands of leads in order to identify the Boy in the Box. And they started with the boy himself. An investigation of his body revealed that his sandy hair had been recently and crudely cut — WFTV 9reports that clumps of hair were still on his body — leading some to believe that his killer had tried to ...
Of all the leads that investigators pursued while trying to identify the Boy in the Box, two seemed especially promising. The first came in 1960 when an employee of the medical examiner’s officer named Remington Bristow spoke to a psychic. The psychic led Bristow to a local foster home. While attending an estate sale at the foster home, Bristow not...
On December 8, 2022, Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner Danielle Outlaw announced a breakthrough in the case. The boy found dead in 1957, she said, was Joseph Augustus Zarelli. “This child’s story was always remembered by the community,” she said. “His story was never forgotten.” As Outlaw and others explained during a police press confere...
The Boy In The Box was a four-year-old child who was beaten to death and dumped in a box in 1957. In 2022, he was identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli thanks to DNA testing and birth records.
- Kaleena Fraga
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 unsolved.
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.
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- David K. Li
Dec 8, 2022 · A little boy killed more than 60 years ago has finally been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli thanks to police work and DNA analysis, the Philadelphia Police Department said.
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- Emily Shapiro
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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Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city’s most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
