The Boy in the Box | True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In the late winter of 1957, Fox Chase was a quiet corner of northeast Philadelphia, all rowhouses, corner stores, and rough fields at the edge of town. In February, in a brushy field off Susquehanna Road, a little boy was found wrapped in a flannel blanket inside a cardboard box that had once held a department-store bassinet. No one came forward to claim him.
Tonight's episode follows the long, patient effort to give that child back his name: fingerprints checked against birth records, hundreds of thousands of flyers mailed with gas bills, a box traced to a JCPenney store, and a medical examiner's investigator, Remington Bristow, who carried the case for more than thirty years. We'll come to December 2022, when DNA and genetic genealogy finally named him: Joseph Augustus Zarelli, four years old.
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