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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 victim's identity in the city’s most notorious cold case.
Philadelphia police have identified the 'Boy in the Box" as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who was found dead and abandoned in 1957. See the latest details.
Forensic genetic genealogy helped Philadelphia police break new ground in the decades-old "Boy in the Box" mystery on Thursday, identifying the unknown child as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
After nearly 66 years, DNA testing has identified the city's most notorious cold case victim as 4-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
(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’ […]