The boy, who was 4 years old, had been wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a large JCPenney bassinet box. 25, 1957, in a wooded area of Philadelphia’s Fox Chase neighborhood. The child’s naked, badly bruised body was found on Feb. They said his family lived in west Philadelphia. Police said both of Joseph’s parents are dead, but that he has living siblings. But we’re going to do our darndest to try.” Jason Smith, commanding officer of the homicide unit. “It’s going to be an uphill battle for us to definitively determine who caused this child’s death,” said Capt. But they cautioned the passage of time complicates the task. The homicide investigation remains open, and authorities said they hoped publicizing Joseph’s name would spur a fresh round of leads. “When people think about the boy in the box, a profound sadness is felt, not just because a child was murdered, but because his entire identity and his rightful claim to own his existence was taken away,” she said. The city’s oldest unsolved homicide has “haunted this community, the Philadelphia police department, our nation, and the world,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference. This photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Joseph Augustus Zarelli, formerly known as “Boy in the Box.” (Philadelphia Police)
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