ARIZONA 1960 — "Little Miss Nobody" Had No Name for 62 Years. Then DNA Named Her

#TheUnnamedFiles #Arizona #truecrimecommunity On July 31, 1960, a schoolteacher hunting for rocks near Congress, Arizona, found a little girl partially buried in a desert wash. No one came forward to claim her. The town of Prescott raised the money to bury her, and the stone they placed over her grave read "Little Miss Nobody." 🔔 Subscribe to The Unnamed Files for the stories of people the world forgot to name, and the investigators, scientists and strangers who refused to let them stay nameless. Within days, investigators had looked at a 4-year-old girl abducted from Alamogordo, New Mexico, ten days earlier. An age estimate, the clothes she was found in, and an FBI footprint comparison ruled her out. The case went cold for more than half a century. In 2015, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office exhumed her with help from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Years of DNA testing came back inconclusive. Then in 2021, strangers across the country crowdfunded $4,000 in under 24 hours for advanced testing at Othram. In February 2022, a sibling DNA comparison confirmed what investigators had set aside in 1960. On March 15, 2022, the sheriff's office announced her name: Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4 years old. Her abduction and death remain unsolved. If you have any information, contact Yavapai Silent Witness anonymously at 1-800-932-3232. This is the story of a little girl who was nameless for 61 years, the town that cared for her without knowing who she was, and the people who spent years making sure her own name would finally be spoken over her. #TheUnnamedFiles #LittleMissNobody #SharonLeeGallegos #ColdCase #DNA #GeneticGenealogy #Forensics #Arizona #NewMexico 📚 REFERENCES & FURTHER READING Yavapai County Sheriff's Office: "Little Miss Nobody Identified" (March 15, 2022) Othram / DNASolves: case summary and identification National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: "Little Miss Nobody No More" NamUs: case UP10741 The Arizona Republic: identification and 1960 to 1976 coverage The Associated Press: identification reporting KOB 4 Albuquerque: family interviews and the 2022 burial in Tularosa The Boston Globe: investigation history Silvia Pettem, Defrosting Cold Cases: the exhumation and the Prescott funeral What Remains podcast: Episode 14