Philadelphia police identified a boy — found roadside 65 years ago after he was beaten to death — as a 4-year-old named Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
came via recent DNA technology breakthroughs and with the assistance of volunteer sleuths who helped police narrow down the victim’s possible relatives.The body of a little boy, then believed to be between, was found wrapped in a blanket and inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood on Feb. 25, 1957.
For the past 6 1/2 decades, not only has no one ever been held to account for his slaying — before Thursday morning, the victim’s name wasn’t even known.The cold case warmed in recent years when volunteers with theNonprofit Vidocq Society is made up of former law enforcement personnel and forensic professionals who share an interest in unsolved crimes.
After years of investigation and two exhumations of the boy’s body yielded DNA samples, that genetic material made its way to Vidocq Society member andHer DNA analysis helped develop a list of the boy’s possible relatives, and police were able to locate the victim’s family and even got ahold of his birth certificate.
The remains of the “Boy in the Box” rest at Ivy Hill Cemetery with a headstone identifying him as “America’s Unknown Child.”
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