Authorities announced the child's name at a news conference on Thursday, more than 65 years after he was found dead in Philadelphia.
The victim in Philadelphia's oldest unsolved homicide, referred to as"The Boy in the Box" case, has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
Police said Thursday that they were eventually able to identify Zarelli's remains using a combination of detective work and DNA analysis, which allowed them to cross-check DNA profiles in a genealogy database. Outlaw noted that the police announcement"closes one chapter in the deceased boy's story, while opening up a new one," since the longstanding cold case remains unsolved. An active homicide investigation is still underway as authorities continue to search for a suspect, the police commissioner said.
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