'It's a great feeling because that was our goal originally, to put a name to this little boy, to give him some dignity,' said Lower Makefield Township Police Chief Ken Coluzzi.
"Through additional testing, the genealogists were able to establish the birth father of the unidentified child," said Philadelphia Police Chief Capt. Jason Smith during a press conference Thursday at police headquarters.
"It was obviously a somber mood. We were up at Potters Field, it was a chilly day," he said. "It was uncertain whether or not we were going to get any decent DNA sample. So, we were fortunate to get the mitochondrial DNA sample that we did receive." "You know, it was a high-profile case at the time, so 'Americas Unknown Child' was pretty fitting," he said.Genealogists and investigators linked the DNA to relatives and then the boy's parents.What happened to Joseph Zarelli is still unsolved.
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