Daily News | Joseph Augustus Zarelli, the Boy in the Box, remembered at Masses in the city.
A framed sketch of Joseph Augustus Zarelli sat between two candles by the church altar, and one by one, visitors who likely never met the boy came to pay respects on a sunny Wednesday after Christmas. Some kneeled and snapped pictures and others put their fingers to their lips, then touched his little face in black and white.“I just felt the need to be here, that I had to be here,” Pat Flood-Williams, 68, said in front of the portrait.
“For six decades, the name Joseph Augustus Zarelli was known only to God,” said William C. Fleisher, a co-founder of the Vidocq Society. “Now his name is known to the world.” Genealogists first learned Joseph’s name in October 2021 and Philadelphia police announced it to the world earlier this month at a press conference on Broad Street. In the weeks that followed, few concrete details have been made public. Police did not release the name of Joseph’s parents, saying only he had lived near 61st and Market Streets in West Philly. On Wednesday, Sgt. Eric Gripp said the case remains under investigation and the department is still seeking tips.
St Cecilia’s was still lined with Christmas trees and poinsettias during Wednesday’s Mass. Attendees dabbed tears and shook their heads as Pastor Christopher Walsh spoke of Joseph’s short life and the investigators compelled to uncover his identity and solve the case. He compared the individual or individuals who killed Joseph to the biblical story of King Herod and his quest to kill the “holy innocents.
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