A child who disappeared from Alamogordo in 1960 has been identified as a victim in a cold case that went unsolved for 62 years. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has identified the victim in the “Little Miss Nobody” case as Sharon Lee Gallegos of Alamogordo. According to the Department of Justice, on July 21, 1960, Sharon was kidnapped by a man and a woman behind a home in Alamogordo. A green car stopped and a woman in the car asked Sharon to go with her with the promise of clothes and candy. When Sharon refused, the woman grabbed Sharon and dragged her to the car. She would have turned five that September. In a poster from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, on July 31, 1960, the decomposed body of a small child was found in a sand wash near Congress, Arizona in Yavapai County. At the time the child’s remains were found, it was believed she had been deceased for one or two weeks prior to being found. On March 15, 2022, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office held a news conference announcing DNA testing had identified the child known as “Little Miss Nobody” as Sharon Lee Gallegos. The community in Prescott, Arizona paid for a funeral and the remains were exhumed in 2018 to take DNA samples. The sheriff’s office and a Texas DNA company recently raised $4,000 for specialized testing to finally identify her.
A child who disappeared from Alamogordo in 1960 has been identified as a victim in a cold case that went unsolved for 62 years.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has identified the victim in the “Little Miss Nobody” case as Sharon Lee Gallegos of Alamogordo.
According to the Department of Justice, on July 21, 1960, Sharon was kidnapped by a man and a woman behind a home in Alamogordo. A green car stopped and a woman in the car asked Sharon to go with her with the promise of clothes and candy. When Sharon refused, the woman grabbed Sharon and dragged her to the car. She would have turned five that September.
In a poster from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, on July 31, 1960, the decomposed body of a small child was found in a sand wash near Congress, Arizona in Yavapai County. At the time the child’s remains were found, it was believed she had been deceased for one or two weeks prior to being found.
On March 15, 2022, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office held a news conference announcing DNA testing had identified the child known as “Little Miss Nobody” as Sharon Lee Gallegos.
The community in Prescott, Arizona paid for a funeral and the remains were exhumed in 2018 to take DNA samples. The sheriff’s office and a Texas DNA company recently raised $4,000 for specialized testing to finally identify her.