Authorities said the girl whose burned remains were found over 60 years ago in the Arizona desert was 4-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico.
PRESCOTT, AZ -- Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity was a mystery and investigators called her"Little Miss Nobody."
"We as the family want to say thank you," Rey Chavez, Gallegos' nephew, said during the news conference."Thank you for what you've done for us, thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her. It's still sinking in." At the time, investigators determined that Gallegos' remains had been burned one to two weeks earlier. Since no further trauma was evident, the cause of death was difficult to determine and due to the suspicious nature of the case, Gallegos' death was ruled a homicide, police said.
Othram received the case in December 2021 and returned the identity to authorities in February 2022, Dr. Kristen Mittelman, Othram's Chief Business Development Officer, told CNN.
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