In 1957, a young child was found deceased in a wooded area of Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police thought that identifying this child would be relatively straightforward: it's not often that a child disappears or turns up deceased without someone knowing something, or there being any record of them somewhere. Unfortunately, detectives were very wrong... and only this year, in the final days of 2022, was he identified after 65 years.
Now that Joseph Zarelli has a name, only one glaring question remains: who killed him?
https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/4umpa.html
https://people.com/crime/philadelphias-boy-in-the-box-identified-after-65-years/
https://phl17.com/phl17-news/philadelphia-police-identify-the-boy-in-the-box-after-65-years/
http://americasunknownchild.net/summary.htm
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/the-boy-in-the-box-joseph-augustus-zarelli/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_in_the_United_States
https://hiddencityphila.org/2014/07/remembering-the-citys-last-potters-field/
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1010291201588.pdf?pdf=button%20sticky
The archived article from the Philadelphia Citypaper:
https://archive.vn/20150117191227/http://citypaper.net/article.php#selection-1417.505-1417.513
Speculative Reddit thread regarding the Joseph’s family:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boyinthebox/comments/zhc7uz/which_zarelli_is_it/
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