Investigators who spent decades on the “Boy in the Box” case unveil a new gravestone bearing the boy’s name, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, on what would have been the child’s 70th birthday.
It’s a confluence of great detective work, cutting-edge science and the careful art of genealogical research, retired city detective William Fleisher said in his graveside remarks Friday.
His naked, badly bruised body was found on Feb. 25, 1957, in a wooded area of Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood. He had been wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a large JCPenney bassinet box. Police say he was malnourished and had been beaten to death. “You have to know history and understand history to do better now,” said Fleisher, who recited a Jewish prayer for the boy during the short service as his own small grandsons squirmed nearby.
Police now believe the boy lived in West Philadelphia, miles across town from where his body was found.
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