Slain girl ‘Little Miss Nobody’ identified 62 years later with DNA
Global News
Sharon Lee Gallegos was abducted from the yard of her grandmother’s home in New Mexico, on July 21, 1960.
“Little Miss Nobody” finally has a name.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office said Tuesday the previously unidentified little girl whose burned remains were found over 60 years ago in the Arizona desert was 4-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico.
The child’s remains were found on July 31, 1960, partially buried in a wash in Congress, Arizona. Her age at various times over the years was estimated to be between 6 and 8 years old, then later at between 3 and 6 years old.
Residents in the nearby central-north Arizona community of Prescott raised money for a funeral and florists, and a mortuary donated its services for the little girl they had dubbed “Little Miss Nobody.”
Her original grave marker read: “Little Miss Nobody. Blessed are the Pure in Heart … St. Matthew 5:8.”
News reports at the time said a local radio announcer and his wife stood in for the girl’s parents during the funeral at Prescott’s Congregational Church.
“I guess I just couldn’t stand to see a little child buried in boot hill,” KYCA announcer Dave Paladin was quoted as saying in an Aug. 11, 1960 article by The Associated Press.
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