Philadelphia's 'Boy in the Box' is getting a new grave marker on what would have been his 70th birthday.
Her father, retired Philadelphia Detective Thomas Joseph Augustine, worked the high-profile cold case most of his career. The family lived down the street from the potter's field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays.
A gravestone was unveiled for recently identified Joseph Augustus Zarelli at the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Zarelli, who was killed in 1957 and long known as"America's Unknown Child."With the mystery of the boy's identity solved, police now hope to learn how he died, even if it's too late to make an arrest.
But the clues they disclosed at the press conference last month have thousands of online sleuths in a frenzy trying to unravel Joseph's life and lineage. "We're humans, and humans have evolved, in this country and other places, on bumpy roads. It hasn't always been pretty, but we continue to evolve and hopefully become more civilized," said Fleisher, who has poured years into the case since his 1996 retirement as a member of the Vidocq Society, a group of retired investigators devoted to cold cases.
"It is a big part of our city's history, a big part of the Philadelphia Police Department's history. It was the country's history," he said."Everybody knew about this case. So this is everybody's victory."
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