ColdPriorityCriminal · Unsolved homicide· Philadelphia County, PA
The Boy in the Box — Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1957)
A boy's body was found in a box in Fox Chase, Philadelphia in 1957. Police identified him in 2022 as four-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli through genetic genealogy; his killing is still unsolved.
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1957
The body is discovered in a cardboard box off Susquehanna Road.
1998
The remains are exhumed for DNA extraction.
2022
Police announce the identification through investigative genetic genealogy.
Present
The homicide investigation continues.
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