It is a “Cold Case” that has been solved 60 years following the fact thanks to science. In July 1960, the body of a child was found by a hiker in a remote region of the state of Arizona in the United States. Using DNA technology, investigators were eventually able to identify her as 4-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos. The little girl had disappeared a few days earlier while playing with other children in the backyard of her grandparents whose home was located in New Mexico. Witnesses had seen a woman approach the child and leave in a sedan with other adults.
On December 8, 1960, Arizona state authorities reported that there was “some speculation” that the girl found in the desert and Sharon Gallegos were the same person, but the age of the child found in Arizona was estimated to be more than 4 years old and the clothes did not match those of her disappearance.
The child found in Arizona had been tagged “unidentified female child” in a 1960 coroner’s report and « Jane Yavapai Doe » on posters of missing children. She had been nicknamed “Little Miss Nobody”.
“The unidentified little girl who captured the heart of Yavapai County in 1960 and who had occupied the minds of investigators for 62 years is finding her identity once more. She will no longer need to be called “Little Miss Nobody”, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook this week. Indeed, the girl’s body was buried and the DNA was compared to those of relatives of little Sharon. It corresponds.
