Daily News | Joseph Augustus Zarelli’s biological parents have finally been identified
Betsy — that’s what everyone called her — liked skating, and dancing, and swooned over Italian boys, wearing out the needle on Frank Sinatra records at her home in the Tioga neighborhood of post-World War II Philadelphia.Gus was a concrete-and-stone mason, a hard worker in a proud family of Italian immigrants in West Philly.
Abel went on to become a cashier at the Goldman Theater, one of Center City’s late, great movie houses, on 15th Street. John J. Plunkett, a man she’d later marry, according to her obituary, was its manager. Joseph’s body was discovered in a bassinet box in a weedy, Fox Chase lot, far from West Philly, in February 1957. Investigators said the child died from blunt-force trauma, and for six decades, no one stepped forward to identify him.
“Each of his children is extraordinarily sympathetic to the death of this young boy, and horrified by the events that are being discussed,” Bush said in the statement. “However, until recently, they had never heard of any of this. They have never been shown anything that links their father or any member of their family to this.”
While police have said Joseph lived in the 61st and Market streets area in West Philly, directories show the Zarelli family lived on the 6300 block of Callowhill Street.
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