Philly’s slain ‘Boy in Box’: 66 years later we know his name


              The gravesite of a small boy whose battered body body was found abandoned in a cardboard box decades ago is seen in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city’s most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw departs after a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              The gravesite of a small boy whose battered body body was found abandoned in a cardboard box decades ago  is seen in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the boy was found, Philadelphia police revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police say detective work and DNA analysis helped them learn the name of a youngster, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who'd been known to generations of Philadelphians as the "Boy in the Box." His naked, badly bruised body was found in a wooded area Feb. 25, 1957. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Officials gather for a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith, center, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith departs after a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Michelle Haimowitz, 8, is comforted by her mother, Arlene Fisk, a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney in the Homicide office, as she looks at the coffin, in foreground, holding "America's Unknown Child" after graveside services at Ivy Hill Cemetary on Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 1998 in Philadelphia. The body of the unidentified boy was found almost 40 years ago in a box. (AP Photo/William Thomas Cain)
            
              Philadelphia Police Officials act as pallbearers, and carry the coffin holding "America's Unknown Child" to his gravesite before the start of graveside services at Ivy Hill Cemetary on Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 1998 in Philadelphia. The boy's body was found almost 40 years ago in a box. The identity of the boy still has not been determined. (AP Photo/William Thomas Cain)
            
              Identifinders International Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              A 1957 police bulletin requesting information in the case of "America's Unknown Child," a body found February 25, 1957 in a box in a thicket in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, P.A. (AP Photo)
            
              William C. Fleisher, with the Vidocq Society, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              The marker of the grave of a small boy whose battered body body was found abandoned in a cardboard box decades ago in Philadelphia is seen Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the boy was found, on Thursday, Dec. 8, Philadelphia police revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police say detective work and DNA analysis helped them learn the name of a youngster, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who'd been known to generations of Philadelphians as the "Boy in the Box." His naked, badly bruised body was found in a wooded area on Feb. 25, 1957. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
            
              William C. Fleisher, with the Vidocq Society, center, Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith, and Dr. Constance DiAngelo, Philadelphia Chief Medical Examiner, listen during during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box, Philadelphia police have revealed the identity of the victim in the city's most notorious cold case. Police identified the boy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philly’s slain ‘Boy in Box’: 66 years later we know his name