Philadelphia police identify body of ‘boy in the box’ after 66 years

Police name victim found in 1957 and never identified as Joseph Zarelli, in city's oldest unsolved homicide

Nearly 66 years after the battered body of a young boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia, police in the city finally revealed the identity of the victim in their most notorious cold case.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the Philadelphia police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, named the victim as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, who was born on 13 January 1953.