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

Joseph Augustus Zarelli would have turned 70 years old Friday. Zarelli, known as the “Boy in the Box,” was 4 years old when ...

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

Beneath a weeping tree near the entrance of Ivy Hill Cemetery, dozens gathered Friday morning at the grave of a child who, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

SEE ALSO: Genealogist who helped identify 'Boy in the Box' visits grave, seeks justice for child The boy's missing identity gnawed at police officials, generations of whom took up the case.

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 ...