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"The Boy in the Box" Finally Identified After 65 Years

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4 minutes ago, binkybink77 said:

Yeah to investigators - not amateur internet sleuths harassing people that may not even been alive or know anything about this. All of the alleged siblings are younger than Joseph and hadn’t been born yet. 
 

There is a good chance that there aren’t any living relatives left that know or knew about Joseph. 

The neighbor of those University of Idaho students got it pretty bad recently.

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

This part is what confuses me. No one ever noticed the kid missing? Makes it seem like the entire family is complicit 

There is so much we don’t know. If he was placed for adoption then the birth family has little to no involvement. Back then not all adoptions were even legal - there were a lot of "under the table” adoption sales, unwed mothers sent to group homes and forced to hand over their children to married and respectable couples, or even family members stepping in and raising kids especially "illegitimate” children. There were also very negative attitudes towards health issues and cognitive concerns. Many kids ended up institutionalized or group homes. There’s just so much we don’t know about this which is why it’s gross that people run out and start harassing potential blood family members that may know nothing about it. 

56 minutes ago, barho said:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131531160/augustus-john-zarelli

Not confirmed obviously, and not saying this was the father, but it has a link to his wife as well.  He was from W Phllly then moved to DelCo.....Age seems to work out.

It’s not confirmed and there is too much not known to publicize this imo. It could be him but it could be one of his siblings too. Sometimes birth mom’s surname was used in an unwed mother situation. Augustus was also the patriarch’s name so the use of it could come from anyone in that family. This kind of stuff without knowing the actual details is how family members end up harassed. 

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