AZ LITTLE MISS NOBODY: WF, 6-7, found buried on Old Alamo Road in Congress, AZ- 31 Jul 1960 *SHARON LEE GALLEGOS*

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Body of a female child found in Sand Wash/Creek Bed on Old Alamo Road, partially buried on July 31, 1960. Patholigist believed she had deceased 1-2 weeks.

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#JaneDoe was a child found in Sand Wash/Creek Bed on Old Alamo Road, in ARIZONA partially buried on July 31, 1960

Patholigist believed she had deceased 1-2 weeks.
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Fundraiser hopes to help ID 'Little Miss Nobody' found dead in Arizona in 1960​

UPDATE: The fundraising goal for this case was reached within 24 hours. Still, authorities are working to identify “Little Miss Nobody." Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Cold Case Investigator John Shannon at 928-777-7293 or leave a tip anonymously by calling Yavapai Silent Witness at 1-800-932-3232 (reference agency case #1960 or NamUs UPID10741).

The remains of “Little Miss Nobody” were discovered in the desert in 1960, and today officials are hoping to raise money to help identify the little girl.

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says the remains were found by a school teacher looking for rocks in Sand Creek Wash near Congress, Arizona, on July 31, 1960. Investigators determined the body, believed to be that of a girl between 3 and 6 years old, had been burned. She was likely dead for a week or two prior to the discovery.

The remains were partially buried, but no other signs of trauma were obvious. A set of adult shoe prints and other areas of disturbed soil were found by investigators, but the evidence didn't lead to much.

The death was ruled a homicide but no suspects were ever identified.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says the child "had brown hair and was found wearing a checkered blouse and white shorts. She was also wearing a pair of adult-sized sandals (flip-flop style) that had been cut down to fit her. Her fingernails and toenails were also painted."

YCSO says the community raised money to provide a funeral for the unidentified child that year. Her remains were exhumed in 2018 for DNA samples to be taken.

Last year, YCSO partnered with Othram, a private laboratory with the goal of solving these types of cases. Through DNASolves, a fundraising site to raise money for case investigations, officials are hoping to raise $4,000 to have "Little Miss Nobody's" DNA further tested. They so far have $1,000 raised by YCSO.

"What we've wanted to do for 62 years is just give this little girl a name. If nothing else, be able to give her a last name and bury her with a proper headstone with her last name on it," said Lt. Tom Boelts with YCSO.
 
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Yavapai County Cold Case: More than 60 years later, YCSO still working to identify ‘Little Miss Nobody’

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) investigators say they are still working to identify a young girl named “Little Miss Nobody,” whose remains were found in 1960 near Congress – and
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Yavapai County Cold Case: More than 60 years later, YCSO still working to identify ‘Little Miss Nobody’​

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) investigators say they are still working to identify a young girl named “Little Miss Nobody,” whose remains were found in 1960 near Congress – and they need the public’s help.

In a news release on Thursday, Jan. 20, YCSO asked for county residents’ support in closing a cold case that dates to July 31, 1960, when the 3- to 6-year-old girl’s partially-buried remains were spotted by a Las Vegas school teacher looking for rocks in Sand Wash Creek.

Congress is located about 44 miles southwest of Prescott via South Highway 89.

The case remained stalled until 2018, when the girl’s body was exhumed for a DNA sample.

In 2021, YCSO cold case investigators partnered with The Woodlands, Texas-based Othram Inc., a private lab, to determine if advanced DNA testing and forensic-grade genome sequencing could give insight into the circumstances surrounding the child and her death.

Othram Inc. established a DNASolves fund to raise the $5,000 needed to test the girl’s DNA. YCSO has committed $1,000 to the cause and is asking residents for donations to help pay the balance, the release stated.

Background

In 1960, investigators in the “Little Miss Nobody” case determined that the child’s remains had been burned one to two weeks before they were discovered.

However, the release added, “no further trauma was evident, making the cause of death difficult to determine.” Since the case was suspicious, investigators ruled that the girl’s death was a homicide.

At the scene, investigators found a set of adult shoe prints and two other locations of disturbed soil, possibly for failed burial spots.

A white girl, “Little Miss Nobody” was 3 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed about 55 pounds at the time of her death. Her hair was described as brown with an auburn tint, which may have been artificial.

She had a full set of baby teeth and was found wearing white shorts, a checkered blouse, and men’s flip-flops, which had been cut and tightened with brown leather straps to fit her feet. Her fingernails and toenails were painted red.

YCSO received multiple leads after the girl’s remains were found, but none of those leads were confirmed. The release stated that the “Little Miss Nobody” case had garnered broad local and national news coverage.

As a result, many Yavapai County residents were touched by the girl’s death. They generated the money required to give her a “proper funeral service” in 1960, which was well attended, the release added.
 
I'll bet the person responsible is shaking in their boots, if they are still around.
 
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Arizona authorities on Tuesday announced that a 4-year-old girl who was abducted in New Mexico in 1960 is "Little Miss Nobody" — a formerly unidentified little girl whose burned remains were found in a remote Arizona desert area nearly 62 years ago.

Yavapai County Sheriff's officials said the remains belong to Sharon Lee Gallegos, who was reported abducted on July 21, 1960. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts reported that she was snatched by strangers while playing with her cousins outside her grandmother’s home in Alamogordo, New Mexico.


Witnesses said a woman, a man and possibly one freckle-faced child drove up to the children in a dark green early 1950s sedan, Yavapai officials said. When Sharon refused the woman's offer of clothes and candy, she pulled the 4-year-old girl into the car and drove away.

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‘Little Miss Nobody’ remains from Arizona cold case identified as New Mexico girl abducted in 1960

The remains of 4-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos were found in the Arizona desert on July 31, 1960, days after she was abducted while playing in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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---------------------- MARCH 28, 2018 RECON! ----------------------
'Little Miss Nobody': Sheriff's Office hopes image helps solve 58-year-old case - By Chris Coppola, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 8:24 p.m. MT March 28, 2018

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office still refers to the case by that name. In the 58 years that have passed, authorities never were able to determine who she was or what may have happened to her.

On Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office released an image produced using technology that wasn't available in 1960, generating a sketch of what the girl may have looked like before her death.

"Published efforts over the years seeking help to identify the remains have been unsuccessful,'' the Sheriff's Office said, in a statement accompanying the image. "This latest effort involves sharing a facial reconstruction image.''

During ongoing research into the case in recent years, authorities determined the need to exhume the remains to allow for further testing and to take advantage of new forensic technologies, the Sheriff's Office said. Investigators worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which funded the exhumation process.

The Sheriff's Office then worked with the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification to generate the facial-reconstruction image and generate a DNA profile, the agency said.

The office hopes the image will lead to new information that might help identify who the child was.

In exhuming the remains, authorities did not have to go far.

After the girl's bones were found, Prescott residents, with the help of a local mortuary, came together to purchase a casket and give her a proper service and burial in Mountain View Cemetery in Prescott.

"Dr. Charles Franklin Parker conducted the rites, attended by more than 70 mourners of the unknown child,'' according to a Nov. 4, 1960, article published in the Prescott Evening Courier. "Her card of memorium (sic) identified her as 'God's Little Child, date of birth, unknown, date of death, unknown.' ''

A simple grave marker reads: "Little Miss Nobody, Blessed are the pure in heart, St. Matthew 5:8, 1960.''

The Courier article, included on a Facebook page devoted to sharing information about "Little Miss Nobody,'' offered a few more details about the girl and her remains. She was wearing pink shorts and a "contrasting blouse'' with a chain design. Nearby, officials found a pair of man-sized thong sandals that had been cut to fit the girl's feet

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office is asking that anyone with information contact Cold Case Investigator John Shannon at 928-777-7293 or leave a tip anonymously by calling Yavapai Silent Witness at 1-800-932-3232.

"Any detail, no matter how small, is important in the quest to determine this child’s identity,'' the Sheriff's Office said.

According to the Courier article, at the girl's 1960 funeral service, Dr. Parker, during a eulogy, anticipated the possibility that the girl's identity might never be known.

"We may never know the whys and wherefors (sic), but somewhere, someone is going to be watching the paper to learn what happened to a little girl left on the desert,'' he said. "If there has been a misdeed, probably a disquieted conscience will go on and on.''

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/03/28/little-miss-nobody-sheriffs-office-hopes-image-helps-solve-58-year-old-case/467973002/
 
Kimster said:
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They actually dismissed that it was her early in the investigation!

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Finally got a chance to read this. They ruled her out back then based on prints? Footprints. Like, from a hospital as a newborn footprints? After decomposition. sigh

To give them some credit, it was across state lines so it's a wonder they even checked or knew of the cases to cross-check back then.

This child was found 10 days after she disappeared. And her family never knew. Thankful her brother was found to provide DNA.
 
Sharon Gallegos was kidnapped Thursday, July 21, 1960 in an alley to the rear of her home at 512 Virginia Avenue on Alamogordo's south side at 2:55 p.m. by a man and a woman.

Sharon who would have been 5 on September 5th, was dragged into a " dirty, old green car" believed to be a dark green 1951 or 1952 Dodge or Plymouth. At the time of the abduction an anglo man, described as fair and thin, drove the car which sped south and west onto Fifth Street after Sharon was kidnapped.

The woman was described as a short, heavy-set, woman in her 30's with dirty blond hair. The couple had been stalking Sharon for the last week. After church the previous Sunday they were seen with two youngsters in their car, a small girl and a freckle-faced boy. The woman asked about Sharon's mother, saying she wanted to offer her a job.

The car stopped, the woman asked Sharon to come with her and she'd buy her clothes and candy. When Sharon refused, the woman grabbed her arm and dragged her into the car. She has not been seen since.



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Little Miss Nobody was the name given posthumously to an unknown American girl whose body was found in Congress, Yavapai County, Arizona on July 31, 1960. Efforts were made to discover who the child was prior to her death, both local and national, yet the case remains unsolved. A girl's partially bu
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Kimster said:
Don't ask me why, but Sharon Gallegos sounds so familiar to me!
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I remember her picture and case once this came up. It was one of so many old cases I looked at that didn't have alot of details. I certainly didn't put the 2 together. I'm so glad she is finally identified. I'm shocked. She would now be around 64?. I can't imagine what she went through. Abducted by a woman in a car with several individuals. And then to find her in that state of what was done to her. Poor girl. At least now she finally has her name back and can rest in peace. If the perpetrators were say 20 yrs old in 1960, They would be 81-82 yrs old now and I doubt they are alive and if they are, Being caught for this. I don't think there is any evidence to track the perpetrators. But I am sure they all had records of some sort, And most likely did some jail time. And wouldn't be surprised at all if there were some offenses against children.
 
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