Boy in the Box

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A little boy killed more than 60 years ago has finally been identified thanks to police work and DNA analysis the Philadelphia Police.

. 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. He appeared to have been cleaned and freshly groomed with a recent haircut and trimmed fingernails although he had suffered extensive physical abuse prior to his death with. The boy appeared to be malnourished and his body bore the signs of.

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 Philadelphias Fox Chase neighborhood on Feb. Philadelphia police said Friday that they have uncovered the identity of the so-called Boy in the Box a boy who was murdered placed inside a box and abandoned in the city 65 years ago. The little boys body was found in a box in February 1957.

1 day agoThe Boy in the Box finally has a name. 1 day agoThe boy who was 4 years old had been wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a large JCPenney bassinet box. The Boy in the Box is the name given to a 3-to 7-year-old boy whose naked extensively beaten body was found on the side of Susquehanna Road in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on February 25 1957.

Detectives pooled resources to buy him a grave marker. 1 day agoZarellis body was first located on February 26 1957 inside a box in a wooded area in northeastern Philadelphia police said. On February 25 1957 a boy between the ages of three and seven was found dead naked and beaten lying in a cardboard box on the side of Susquehanna Road in the neighborhood of Fox Chase in.

In the summer of 1957 the slain boy was buried in a potters field. Hed been beaten to death. A child was found murdered stuffed in a box and abandoned in Philadelphia decades ago.

On Wednesday for the first time the Philadelphia Police Department said they have uncovered the boys name.

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