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 ...

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

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

» LIVE UPDATES: Philadelphia police identify the ‘Boy in the Box’ from notorious 1957 homicide The young boy’s body was found along then-rural Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase on Feb. 25, 1957.

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 ...

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.

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 ...