The Inquirer, based on interviews with members of both families and sources close to the investigation, now knows that police ...

authorities have identified the young victim. The child, known as "the Boy in the Box," has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw announced ...

The case of Joseph August Zarelli, Philadelphia's Boy in the Box, showed that old mysteries can be solved, but hundreds of ...

Patty Braxton grimaced as a priest led a few dozen mourners in prayer on a gray, drizzly Friday beside the grave of a small ...

The "Boy in the Box," a slain child at the center of one of Philadelphia's oldest cold cases, was identified as Joseph ...

And, it noted that when Gus died in 2014 at 87, one of the tributes on his Legacy.com page noted his “strength and character,” while another person wrote “The world has one less good soul.” So, while ...

Investigators who spent decades on the case unveiled a new gravestone bearing the boy’s name — Joseph Augustus Zarelli — on ...

On what would have been his 70th birthday, a headstone dedication was held for Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Zarelli was ...

Augustus J. “Gus” Zarelli and “Betsy” Abel conceived a child in the spring of 1952, and the boy’s short, painful life, ...

Joseph Augustus Zarelli's naked, badly bruised body was found on Feb. 25, 1957, in a wooded area of Philadelphia's Fox Chase ...

In his heart, he knew he would never live to see the boy identified, and he didn't ... blanket and placed inside a large JCPenney bassinet box. Police say he was malnourished and had been beaten ...