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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.
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 · 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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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 8, 2022 · On Feb. 25, 1957, a naked, emaciated boy between 4 and 6 years old was found dead in a box in a wooded area in northeast Philadelphia.
Dec 8, 2022 · 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.
Dec 9, 2022 · The discovery of a boy's battered body in a box in 1957 became Philadelphia's best-known cold case, with the child's identity a mystery for decades.
