(CNN) — The “Boy in the Box” finally has a name. 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 city’s oldest unsolved homicides. The identification, made through DNA analysis, represents investigators’ […]
His name was Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police say they have finally unlocked a central mystery in the city’s most notorious cold case: The victim’s identity. Revealing the name to the public
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Police have identified the boy from the 1957 "Boy in the Box" case nearly 66 years after his body was found in a blanket in a box in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood.