The boy had suffered extensive physical abuse prior to his death and was severely malnourished and covered in scars.
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A measured return to the Boy in the Box case that keeps the uncertainty intact.
Marty Shaw's episode of Murders and Mysteries of New England returns to the Boy in the Box case in Philadelphia with unusual care. It does its best work when it lays out the known facts first, then gives the foster-home theory and M's later claim enough room to breathe.
Why you'd press play
You want a careful walk through the Boy in the Box case in Philadelphia, centered on Joseph Augustus Zarelli and the unresolved question of what happened to him.
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