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More than six decades ago, the remains of a child were found in the Arizona desert. Unfortunately, the technology of the time did not allow criminologists to determine who the girl was, who for years was in documents as “Little Miss Nobody”. Now, thanks to modern technology and tests, it has been possible to discover who the child was and pass this information on to the family.
- Thanks to advanced technology, Yavapai County police officers established the identity of a girl whose remains were found in the Arizona desert after six decades
- A relative of the girl, who participated in a press conference organized by the sheriff’s office, thanked for the effort put into establishing her identity and stated that now the family can finally find peace
- The identification of Sharon Lee Gallegos is the fifth success of the Yavapai County Police in the so-called dead case
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62 years after the discovery of the remains, it was possible to establish who the girl from the desert was. This was reported by the Sheriff of Yavapai County David Rhodes at a conference specially convened for the occasion. Little Miss Nobody was actually Sharon Lee Gallegos.
— In 1960, people had no idea that DNA would be a technology at all. They wouldn’t even know what to call it. It didn’t exist. But somehow they did enough research to preserve, document, memorialize all the things that happened so that we might one day get to that point — Sheriff David Rhodes said.
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Thanks to DNA testing, the family finally had peace
Sharon Lee Gallegos’ nephew Ray Chaves also attended the press conference, revealing that the story of his aunt’s disappearance had a huge impact on the lives of the whole family. He also thanked the sheriff for the work his office had put in identifying Sharon Lee Gallegos, which, years later, allowed her family to find peace.
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Abducted near the house
According to ABC News, Sharon Lee Gallegos was supposed to be abducted on July 21, 1960, while she was playing with two other children in an alley behind her grandmother’s house in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The girl was four years old at the time of her disappearance. Despite intense work by the police and the FBI, both her and the alleged hijackers have not been found.
Ten days after Sharon Lee Gallegos went missing, elsewhere in the Arizona desert, a random man found a partially buried body, but the condition did not permit the identity of the victim to be identified. While there were suspicions that the remains belonged to the missing Sharon Lee Gallegos, police officers were not able to conclusively confirm this, as technologies related to advanced DNA research did not exist at the time.
Online fundraising for research
A breakthrough in the case came in 2015 when the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children offered to help exhume the remains and extract the DNA to perform the necessary tests. The research money was raised on a crowdfunding platform and carried out in a modern laboratory called Othram.
In February, it was officially confirmed that the child’s remains found in the desert actually belonged to Sharon Lee Gallegos. Identifying the girl is the fifth solved by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, the so-called a dead case.
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