65-Year Mystery Solved as Philly Cops Finally Identify Murdered ‘Boy in the Box’

Dec 8 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

It took more than six decades, but cops in Philadelphia have finally identified the infamous “Boy in the Box”—the city’s longest unsolved homicide victim.

The boy was identified as 4-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli, police said in a Thursday press conference.

Zarelli’s body was found in a cardboard box on the side of a Philadelphia road on Feb. 25, 1957. Detectives probed for decades to identify the boy and his killer to no avail, but...

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