YAVAPAI COUNTY, Ariz. — After more than six decades, a missing girl known as 'Little Miss Nobody' finally has a name.
Lauren Meltzer, ABC News
"In 1960, people had no idea that DNA would even be a technology," Sheriff David Rhodes said."They wouldn't even know what to call it. It didn't exist. But somehow, some way, they did enough investigation to preserve, to document, to memorialize -- all the things that needed to occur so that some day we could get to this point."
Gallegos was allegedly abducted on July 21, 1960, while playing with two other children in an alley behind her grandmother's house in Alamogordo, New Mexico, authorities said. She was 4 years old at the time of her disappearance.Ten days later, remains were found elsewhere in the desert in Arizona when a man came across a partially buried body, authorities said.
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