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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 165: Joseph Augustus Zarelli - The Boy in the Box

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On February 25, 1957, a young boy’s body was found in the woods in Pennsylvania, and for 65 years, he went unidentified… until now. Joseph Augustus Zarelli finally has a name, but what happened to him and will his murderer ever be caught?

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Okay, today we are going to be talking about a very big, I think, case. And most of you have probably

1:15.8

at least heard the former name of this case. And you've probably seen it in the news recently

1:24.9

because I think it's been hitting like, I feel like there's two levels of true crime news.

1:28.7

There's like true crime news that gets attention but like isn't big if you're outside of the true

1:35.0

crime community. Right. And then there's like true crime news that everyone here is about.

1:39.7

Right. And this is one of those that everyone here is about. Like even my husband had heard about it

1:45.3

and he does not do true crime at all. That's so true. Like you just breaking that down. That's so

1:51.1

free true. Because I didn't really think about it because I'm in the true crime community. So

1:55.6

right. You don't think about it. Yeah. Yeah. So most of you have probably heard about the boy in the box

2:02.0

and the recent movement. But today we are going to be talking about Joseph Augustus Zarelli,

2:08.8

formerly known as the boy in the box. This is hard. That's all I have to say. Gosh. I know.

2:15.8

So we're starting way back in 1957. On February 25th, a young man was in the woods in Fox Chase,

2:26.1

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, checking his muskrat traps. He came across a cardboard box and when

2:33.0

looking inside, he found the body of a young boy wrapped in a plaid blanket. This man did not

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