The mafia kills whole families. Furthermore one case I know of where a teen was locked in a well for months to pressure the mother. This was in Italy.Ah. That's probably true. Now I feel kinda stupid, lol.
Wait what. A cat?
"Trouble-maker" and pregnant girls would not be housed together. The pregnant girls would have been seen as a "bad influence" on girls whose families were trying to to avoid getting them pregnant. (I know. I know)
Would you recommend that book? I was considering purchasing it, and the poor deceased cat is not something I had heard before and I wonder if this is a book that digs deeper into facts unknown to some of us.
Respectfully, I don't think the cat is involved in any way. The location where JAZ was found was a dumping ground. The cat was found 1/2 a mile away, also in a dump site. Like maybe someone ran over the cat then wrapped it in a sweater and discarded it nearby. You would think if it were someone's pet, they would have just buried it in the backyard. I guess, sadly, the same could also be said for little JAZ. If the person who killed and discarded him didn't want him to be found, I wonder why they didn't just bury him? Hmm.
It's in that essay i attached.
Because they ran out of time.
I think the ground was pretty hard that time of year
More interesting for me is that his body was dumped over at Fox Chase, which was a well-known dump site. Now I know dump sites in my area, but I don't know dump sites 40 minutes from my home. So that tells me that whoever dumped his body must know the area, come from the area at some time, work in that area.
Excellent and thoughtful post!
I know dump sites near my home. I don't know dump sites more than 40 minutes drive away. Whoever dumped the body, knew the area. Worked there, used to live there, had family living near there.
I feel some of the information was given by the mother's hobby genealogist relatives. I don't think she was from Philly, perhaps rural PA. Further why is the current image substantially different? Looks like a photo that has been turned into a sketch."At the time of Zarelli's death in 1957, he was living in the area of 61st and Market streets, police said.
Given the publicity that the case received at the time and ever since, police are unsure why no one from the family or Zarelli's neighborhood came forward with information. It's unclear how long Zarelli had been living in West Philly. "
Philly's cold-case homicide victim, the 'Boy in the Box,' identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, police say
Investigators hope this breakthrough – the result of forensic DNA analysis – leads to an 'avalanche of tips' that help determine his killerwww.google.com
Same article says the bio mom birthed 2 other siblings all between 1954 to 56. Might be a combination of the birth certificates that gave them the assumption he was living with the mom during those years in the vicinity. Maybe that combined with utility records. They also say they don't know how long he lived in west Philly, but have suspicions of who might be responsible.
Seems reasonable that they don't want to name anybody till they dig deeper.
Different reconstruction artists work in different ways. I think most digital artists these days work from mortuary photos if they have them, and build an image from that. Reconstructing from a skull is different, because you have to work out how the flesh would have sat on the face as the foundation. I am not someone who has ever done this, but there are a couple of folks on websleuths who do work in this field, who would be able to explain better how different recons may have been created. I think one of them even did one of the more recent recons of Joseph, @CarlK90245 .
And now he has dark eyes.
IMO the bath, hair cut & trimmed nails is more for the destruction of evidence than out of care/concern for JAZ. If it was really care/concern, I don’t see that he would have been left naked.
Long time lurker, first time poster here. Reading through the discussion here about JAZ's injuries and the way his body was cleaned immediately made me think of the case of Sylvia Likens, where she was regularly tortured, but at the end was cleaned up properly and given new clothing, despite the fact that her body would have evidence of what had happened to her. I wonder if it's the same case here, where the people involved realized that the poor child was not going to be alive much longer and may have tried to clean him up anyway out of sheer panic and wanting to make the situation look (in their minds) less awful in the event they were ever caught.
