The partially buried remains of a 4-year-old girl found in the Arizona desert by a teacher and his family on a rock hunt went unidentified for six decades until DNA testing revealed her name.
On Tuesday, police announced the slain child was Sharon Lee Gallegos, who was abducted in 1960 while she was playing with two other kids in an alley behind her grandmother’s Alamagordo, New Mexico, home.
In 2015, technology had progressed to the point that the sheriff’s office thought it would be worth exhuming the remains. A facial reconstruction yielded a sketch. But, Boelts said, “unfortunately, DNA science at that time was not advanced enough to give us an identification.”Enter a DNA testing company called Othram, which says it can extract key information from very degraded or very tiny amounts of genetic material. Some $4,000 was raised to re-examine the DNA from Little Miss Nobody.
But the abduction had loomed over the family for years; Chavez even wrote a research paper in high school about the mystery.
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