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  • Boy killed in the '50s is finally ID'd

    12/08/2022 9:38:41 AM PST · by sodpoodle · 63 replies
    ABC news ^ | 12/8/2022 | not shown
    A little boy killed more than 60 years ago has finally been identified thanks to police work and DNA analysis, The case, known as "the boy in the box," is Philadelphia's oldest unsolved homicide.the Philadelphia Police Department said. 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. He had been severely beaten, Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said. No one ever came forward to claim him, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. The boy has now been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli,...
  • Philly Police to Reveal ID of ‘Boy in the Box' Next Week, Sources Say (1957 Case)

    12/01/2022 5:22:53 AM PST · by PghBaldy · 17 replies
    NBC 10 - Philadelphia ^ | 30 November | Staff
    More than six decades since an unidentified boy was found dead and abandoned in Philadelphia, police have identified the child and are set to reveal the boy's name next week, sources confirmed with NBC10. On February 25, 1957, a boy between the ages of 3 and 7, was found dead, naked and severely beaten in a cardboard box on the side of Susquehanna Road in Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood.