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

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

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — After 65 years of only being recognized as the “Boy in the Box” and “America ... unable to identify the victim. However, in December, Philadelphia police ...

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

A slain child at the center of one of Philadelphia's oldest cold cases now has his name on a grave marker. Mourners who gathered at the gravesite Friday marked what would have been the 70th birthday ...

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 ...

How "The Boy in the Box" mystery will help solve other cases ... Police have not yet identified the child's mother or said who was raising him. But the clues they disclosed at the press conference ...

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

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 ...

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