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foreign 1960 Congress Arizona a school teacher out on a hike in the desert makes a
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horrible discovery anytime you deal with crimes against children it always affects people in
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different ways and I can imagine that walking on and finding a little girl buried in the middle of the desert by
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herself I would imagine that was pretty traumatic for for everybody on scene not
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just the fact that it's a human being but the other fact that it is just a small child
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the little girl's remains are terribly decomposed she cannot be identified she
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was in an advanced stage of decomposition that was part of what made it difficult to identify her and they
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made note of it that she had her fingernails and toenails appeared to be recently painted
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story of the murder of an unidentified child who is ultimately dubbed Little Miss nobody
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and for 60 years her identity remains unknown and the search to find it goes cold
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but can a groundbreaking new tool called genetic genealogy give this little girl's name back to her
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I'm Nancy Grace this is bloodline detectives [Music] [Applause] is [Music] July 31 1960 the desert near Congress
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Arizona a school teacher from Vegas is out looking for rocks to decorate his garden when he suddenly makes a gruesome
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Discovery he will never forget he came across two spots in that wash that looked like there had been some
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digging activity but there was nothing in them and then came upon her body partially buried in the wash he called
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to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office so Maricopa County Sheriff's deputy
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showed up and confirmed that this was human remains and then also realized that it was in Yavapai County called us
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and so we had a deputy who lived down in that area at the time he went out to the
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scene and started the investigation police arrived at another what looked she was wearing like a brown and
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white button-up shirt with some red shorts and she had some flip-flop sandals on that were appeared to be
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adult-sized sandals that had been the backs of them have been cut off so they would fit her feet a little bit better
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yeah it looks like it's her toenails and fingernails had been painted at one
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point in time they had found like a knife close to the scene where she had been buried that had what they believed
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was like a red stain on what they thought was blood there were some tire tracks that they
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saw in the area they took photographs of them but there were no casts made of those as far as
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the footprints you know when you get into those Sandy areas those Footprints don't have a whole lot of detail to them
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it's very difficult to compare a footprint in a sand wash to an actual shoe it's even hard to tell the
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size with any specificity that time of the year we're in what we call monsoon season so it's very warm
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down there in the desert it's not uncommon to have temperatures over 110 115 degrees and then when you get the
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high humidity from from the monsoons all of those factors speed up the decomposition
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continue to stay to scare the crime scene and wonder why this little girl was only partially buried exposing her
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to the brutal elements out here in the in the desert especially at lower elevations it's very hard to
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dig there's a lot of rock in the soil the soil is very dry it's just not
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conducive for digging a hole and so a lot of these people are under pressure they're under stress they want to get as
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far away from you know their victim as they can as quickly as they can and at some point they just
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abandon it cover it up best they can and leave at the time people in nearby Prescott
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are horrified by the crime and sad this child has no name they take it upon themselves to create a
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name for her Little Miss nobody Little Miss nobody was given her name by the community in Prescott because they
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felt horrible that this little girl was just going to be buried with no name and
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nobody there to even pay their respects so the community rallied around to buy a
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headstone and on The Headstone they wrote Little Miss nobody between the pastor and one of the DJs on
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the radio station they got the word out about Little Miss nobody and rallied the community to donate
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funds to pay for a funeral to have a funeral service and they did that at you know one of the
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cemeteries here in town there were about 75 people from What We Gather in attendance there there was a eulogy
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a tender little child murdered and left to decompose in the Arizona desert and now unidentified Clues are hard to come
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by next on bloodline detectives investigators launch their search for the truth [Music]
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July 31 1960 the desert near Congress Arizona the unidentified body of a little girl is discovered half buried in
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a shallow grave the community mobilized to give this little girl a funeral her only name Little Miss nobody
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meanwhile investigators wait for her autopsy report hoping the coroner comes up with meaningful Clues
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he came up with an age range that you know was about three or four years in range now we would be able to get far
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more specific he also came up with the range in height that we would be very specific now
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because she was in you know she was intact but back then uh we ended up with with a range in height those estimations
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also created an issue with trying to get her identified her hair did have like an
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Auburn tint to it that was believed to possibly been you know tinted a different color from her original color
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her teeth were intact they did have the her teeth they did look at that it looked like she had been taken care of
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but her hair color did appear to have been changed to trolley possibly to conceal her identity I would imagine
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the coroner at the time didn't have the medical training that we would require now the cause of death was
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undetermined he couldn't come to a an opinion on how she died they didn't find any fractured bones no
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signs of real significant trauma found the knife but they didn't find any punctures or stab marks in her so it was
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difficult I would imagine to to make that call and that's why she was listed
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as her death was undetermined they couldn't figure out exactly what she died from even to begin with we don't
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know for sure if she was killed there at that scene at that moment or she had died prior to that and just buried there
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and that's something that has never really been determined due to the fact that we don't know exactly what caused
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her death [Music] most people go through their entire life without ever seeing a deceased person firsthand
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we we do that frequently in this line of work that's one of the hardest things to do
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is to emotionally is to deal with a child who's passed away whether it's
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homicide or natural causes or accidental it's incredibly challenging to have you
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know removed her back in 1960 under those conditions you're dealing with you
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know everything associated with decomposition there's there's bacteria that causes odor there's there's you
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know you you're not just looking at this but you you know there's there's other
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senses that become involved and so it's it's incredibly challenging it's 1960 and at that time forensic
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science is in its infancy investigators have heard of DNA deoxyribonucleic acid but retrieving it
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from a victim to analyze it for evidence is Out Of Reach [Music] live interviewing a lot of talking to
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people a lot of the old-fashioned police work that they just rely on reports from
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other agencies a lot of that was just rely upon just going out and talking to people and interviewing and and
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the best they can with what they had at the time local police in Prescott Arizona know
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they need help they reach out to Yavapai County Sheriff so in 1960 I mean they don't have
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internet they don't have DNA like we have it now they barely knew what DNA was and they don't have the ways to
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communicate by computer or anything like that between state to state agency to agency so unless somebody's coming
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forward and saying that is my daughter they're kind of out of luck in terms of
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just trying to Canvas the area but that's totally a shot in the dark there were several other states who said
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hey we have a child who is missing and because of that large age range estimation and the height estimation
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there were a lot of kids that could be included in that the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office deputies and detectives
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at the time spent a lot of time driving around the western United States to go interview law enforcement in those
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communities who contacted us or we became aware of had missing kids they reached out
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all different law enforcement agencies inquiring about missing girls that have been in other jurisdictions there were
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several different leads to detectives with the yappa County Sheriff's Office
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looked into but were never successful in finding any certain lease at that time the hard work by Yavapai sheriffs pays
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off they learn of a little girl kidnapped across the Arizona State Line in New Mexico
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four-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos disappears from Alamogordo New Mexico just 10 days before the body a little
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Miss nobody is found my mom told me that she had a sister when she was five years old a couple
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came and took her away and so I started asking questions I said well did they find her what happened did the police
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come so my mom said yeah you know the police came the FBI got involved the local Alamogordo Police Department got
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involved they interviewed my grandmother and during their interview an investigation
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comes to find out Sharon was outside playing my mom was in the front porch Vicky was
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in the backyard playing with her and neighborhood friends and they were playing in the back
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and then the green car drove through the back alley the lady in the car it was being driven by a man and actually
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shouted out the window Sharon do you want to come with us we'll buy you new clothes and give you candy
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and Sharon clung to Vicky and said I don't want to go with you and Vicky being as old as she was she said I'll go
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with you if you buy me candy and clothes and then so the lady got out of the car
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grabbed Sharon by the arm and pulled her dragged her into the back seat of the car where there was two other kids and
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then sped off well instantly they ran to the front of the house where my mom was on the porch
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and said somebody took share and somebody took Sharon and they started screaming and my mom called for my
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grandmother and they had to run to a neighbor's house because they didn't
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have a telephone in the home and call the police and so the police got there pretty quickly they started it doing
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what the police do even back then they eventually called the FBI and the sheriff had started setting up
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roadblocks and for a lookout for the green car then they started canvassing the neighborhood and come to find out
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that this couple had been around for about 10 days asking questions specifically about my grandmother and
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about Sharon herself like who's her mom is that Sharon does she have siblings is
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her mother my grandmother Lupe is she married all those type of questions we found that very odd I mean nobody could
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explain it to us my grandmother had no idea who would want to take her so there was a lot of good evidence Visual
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Evidence but they could never catch them Yavapai Sheriff's investigators reach
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out to Alamogordo police Alamogordo suggests the little girl found in the desert may actually be
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Sharon Lee Gallegos there was some sheriffs in Arizona that might have some information
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so instead of sending my mom or my grandmother they asked a neighbor a friend a good friend of my grandmother
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to go she said that the sheriffs had discovered a body in the desert of a young girl
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but the young girl had dyed hair painted fingernails which is something that Sharon and my grandmother and my mom
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never did friend of the Gallegos family travels to Yavapai County Arizona to view the
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little girls remains she tells investigators the child's body in the morgue is not Sharon
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there were any Footprints taken from the feet of Little Miss nobody that were compared to known Footprints of Sharon
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Lee Gallegos and the FBI compared those and ruled them out Sharon Lee Gallegos was ruled out as
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being a little Miss nobody from my pre-teens all the way to my teenage years and into my 20s that was a
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talk anytime any kid would go missing it didn't happen often but you know sometimes kids go missing for a day and
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you know things like that but then they bring up you know oh what about you know
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Sharon Gallegos she went missing and nobody ever found her and in our family we always held out hope that we would
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she would actually walk in the door or we would actually find her living her life my grandmother you know she would
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be sad and always say you know I wish I knew what happened to my daughter my mom
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would always say I wish I knew what happened to my sister my uncle John never spoke about it at all
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and um you know through the years there'd be a sheriff call or uh somebody would put
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the name would would actually eventually contacted us and said we put Sharon Lee
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gallegos's name into a database of the missing children and we always carry that hope as a kid I always did my
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siblings did and my mom my mom and dad they truly thought that they would find her
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what kind of Lee would come in they would most definitely follow it but ultimately they didn't it was never LED
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anywhere and it it was probably a little bit frustrating I might imagine it was probably something that ultimately they
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all wanted to to solve but you know as time goes on you know unfortunately the tips come in a little bit slower there's
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not as many things to go on and ultimately that the case goes dry and ultimately after a few years later it
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kind of got pushed you know Sally as it is kind of to the side and because there
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weren't new leagues there weren't new things to do at that time there wasn't
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the technology that we have so it does kind of just get put on the back burner a little bit and kind of get pushed to
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the side because there ultimately isn't much to go on at that point next on bloodline detectives yapovi
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County investigators get help to solve a 50 year old Cold Case the murder of a little girl
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[Music] 2014 Yavapai County Arizona sheriff's investigator Tom Boltz and his team
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reopened the case of an unidentified little girl murdered in 1960 known only as Little Miss nobody
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now over 50 years later investigator Tom Boltz hopes a highly sophisticated lab can somehow retrieve DNA from the
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child's body there wasn't a whole lot of knowledge passed down from the old paper Reports
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most of the people who were working here in the 1960s had long since retired our
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Cold Case volunteer Brendan had attended a training in meta Another Cold Case volunteer from Colorado her name was
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Sylvia petum and the two of them became acquainted started talking and Miss pettum had asked about Little Miss
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nobody because of some similarities between a case she was helping with in Colorado Miss pettum also had worked
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with the national Center for Miss exploited children or Nick Nick for short she mentioned to Brendan that Nick
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may be willing to pay for the examination and examination of the remains of Little Miss nobody
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it's a lot of paperwork that does have to be signed off by a superior court judge all that paperwork was drafted
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ultimately it was signed by a judge who did approve that and the funds were raised we got the money and we went to
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the local cemetery and and the process was started but does a lot of paperwork a lot of stuff prior to that that had it
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been done and approved and it's just a process like everything and it just takes time and ultimately we got things
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together and got that approved and were able to do that there's emotions that you go through you
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have a dead child and probably a murdered child that was cast out and to our knowledge at the
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time not reported missing you feel very sad for the child but you feel hopeful at the same time for the child that
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you're going to be able to find out who she is and what happened to her and bring somebody to Justice
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it is challenging and it is hard like I said you're dealing with little kids and
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little girls a little human remains but I think at the same time it is difficult
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but at the same time there's that level of excitement like this is a possibility
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this is a possible way that we can find out who this girl is so at the same time
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it is difficult but on the other side just that excitement of you know this is possibly the way that we're going to
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find out who she is I believe that it's probably one something that they want to
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do it was exciting it was opening the doors to you know possibilities of finally figuring out who this little
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girl was the exclamation of Little Miss nobody takes place 2014. the girl's skeleton remains are removed
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from her resting place where the community buried her 50 years before now yapa Valley County investigators hope to
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obtain enough DNA to make a match closely with the lab and University of North Texas to try and determine cause
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of death and recover DNA that we would then be able to put into with CODIS the combined offender database in hopes that
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maybe someone in her family had committed a crime and their DNA would be close enough and and we'd be able to get
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her identified or that police you know wherever she was missing from had taken DNA from a family member and put that in
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we submit all of our prior DNA reports through the University of North Texas everything that we've done up to that
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point they knew quite a bit about the background of the case we did share quite a bit of that information with
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them and they did have all the previous DNA reports at that time so they did have a good understanding of what the
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case was and I think that's why that kind of sparked their interest in and their willingness to help us out with
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that case the University of North Texas was able to give us a much more precise age range
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for a little Miss nobody and a very precise height for Little Miss nobody they estimated that she was probably
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most likely four years old and about three and a half feet tall they were unable to come up with any likely cause
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of death they were able to get a DNA profile that they could enter into CODIS but there were no hits on that
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we were hopeful that we would get a name and a date of birth and a location an exact cause of death and and we'd be
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able to use that information to determine exactly how this happened who did it and get them into into court we
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didn't get all of that what we did get helped move us closer but it didn't give
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us all the answers that we needed to pursue the case the codas Nevada any hits the University of North Texas Center for
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human identification then creates a facial reconstruction of how little Miss nobody may have looked in life
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in 2015 the national Center for missing and exploited children got involved and they were able to take her teeth and
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what they did have of her remains and basically create an image of what they thought this little girl looked like and
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when they did that it changed the game with this case so to speak because now you had this picture of a little girl
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who looked so young and everybody wanted to figure out who she was it's like
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anything else when you see a picture of somebody you're talking about you can
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put two and two together oh this is who I'm talking to this is who I'm relating
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to this little girl is who everybody's rallying behind to try to figure out who
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she was and what happened to her so I think it just gave the case even more emotion and urgency than had before
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when we received the artists rendering the sketch we publicized that in hopes that somebody would see that that sketch
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that picture and call us and say hey I know who this is but we never did get you know anybody
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who knew exactly who it was or enough to move forward to identify her so from the time we exhumed her until
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about 2021 the case had gone cold again because again we didn't have any reports
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we had no idea who she was and so there's really you know nowhere to start until we got a phone call from othram
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saying that they wanted to help offram Laboratories Houston Texas a world-renowned specialist in forensic
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genetic genealogy its team of scientists combined DNA recovery with family history they use this information to
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crack seemingly impossible to crack cold cases there's so many cases out there of
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these unidentified children you know it's it it's terrible and and and we
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want to help solve every single one of those but but the Little Miss nobody case is is just you know an especially
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tragic and just very well known case it's something that I think anyone that's interested or has uh has read
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about you know unidentified remains and changing John does probably knows this case and it goes all the way back to
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1960 and they spent decades trying all sorts of different methods lots of different techniques and trying to
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figure out uh who she might be and then I think what really got me interested in
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it was that you know over 60 years have passed and there's just no identity for
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this girl so when I heard about the case the fact that they had already tried methods elsewhere and they truly in the
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truest sense of the word exhausted all leads and possibilities I felt like this was an important case for us to look at
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because I worried that if we did not take a look at it there may be perhaps no answer for even longer for possibly
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forever can the scientists at author M Labs finally provide a name for Little Miss
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nobody we find out next on bloodline Detectives foreign [Music] County Arizona investigators hoping
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scientists at othram Labs can utilize DNA technology to identify a little girl found murdered out in the Arizona desert
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in 1960. othram is the first lab in the world that was purpose-built to use Advanced genomics and apply it to
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intractable forensic evidence what we do is when all these standard forensic methods fail and you come to a
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DNA dead end where you're not able to figure out any more clues about the DNA
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that was left at a crime scene we come in and we create one of these high performing DNA profiles that have
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hundreds and hundreds of thousands of markers and more information than any other DNA profile ever created using
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these Advanced genomics methods our case manager Michael vogan he actually had a
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relationship with law enforcement in Arizona and Yavapai they asked Michael if we would take a look at the evidence
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but told him that unfortunately there were there was no more budget for this case because they had already paid for
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advanced testing and it hadn't worked and so Michael said we would be very happy to do so
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othrum had told us that they would make an attempt to do an extraction they would look at the existing DNA profile
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and if they didn't think that they would be able to identify her then there was
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no risk to us but if they thought that they had enough DNA material to get her identified then
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they would partner with us DNA testing is very expensive our public affairs officers were thrilled to help and
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really did a phenomenal job of getting the word out we were covered on every local news broadcast down in Phoenix
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which is about an hour and a half south of here that's our largest media market
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and so because of that effort we were able to to raise those funds in a very short period of time it was under under
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24 hours our community is very caring and very giving and when they said that they'd
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already received the money within 24 hours the public here is very supportive of law enforcement it was a story that
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had been out there people were interested in it I believe that people just in general that people have good
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hearts and they want to solve just as much as we did took the remains we extracted DNA from
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the remains after the extraction we ran this inspection to make sure that we understood everything that was all the
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different components that comprise that DNA how degraded it was whether it was a
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mixture or not how contaminated it was all these different components for DNA and then we decided the best approach on
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how to sequence that and build a profile I was actually very pleased it was certainly far from the worst thing we've
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worked with and I was extremely optimistic to be able to build a profile once the QC was in it was just really a
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matter of time from our perspective and sure enough when we built the DNA profile it came out looking great we did
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not see any of the challenges that that other groups had faced everything looked
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wonderful quality of the data was high and we had plenty of these genetic markers with which to then go perform
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the genealogical search and and the you know familial testing was necessary to positively resolve this case
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[Music] in 1960 police considered Little Miss nobody may have been four-year-old
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Sharon Lee Gallegos Sharon disappeared in Alamogordo New Mexico just 10 days before Little Miss
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nobody's body was found now investigators again follow that lead they reach out to the missing girls
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family seeking a DNA sample that's next on bloodline Detectives [Music] 2022 Yavapai County Arizona
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investigators team up with forensic scientists to try and identify a little girl
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60 years after she's found murdered in the desert their next move to obtain DNA from a living relative
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that could be connected to this little child victim throughout the years we've had different
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people contact us the police the Alamogordo police actually came to my mom and said would
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you give us a DNA sample so that we can put it in the missing children database and then they contacted me and asked if
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I could get my uncle to do that the next time he was here in the United States and so I was able to make that happen he
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went to San San Padre Island and the police there took a DNA sample from him and put it in the missing database
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one thing we wanted to really kind of consider is that you know over the last six decades there was a speculation that
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this unknown set of remains could have belonged to this little girl that had gone missing in New Mexico and so that's
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something we wanted to confirm and we had the benefit of a relative a living relative of the girl that had vanished
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and so we built a profile from his DNA we built the profile from the DNA of the skeletal remains and and we did a
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comparison to determine if we could establish that there was a relationship and what we found which was even more
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exciting is that there was a relationship and so this this information together with the
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investigation and other details enabled investigators to conclude that in fact this unidentified little girl was Sharon
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Gallegos [Music] and although they had ruled out Sharon glagos as a possibility early on as
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science caught up and improved we were finally able to use the proper techniques to demonstrate that in fact
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it was this little girl when we got the call from othram and they told us that they were
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convinced that little Miss nobody was actually sharing Lee Gallegos from Alamogordo New Mexico
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and the first reaction was are you sure and we said yes absolutely 100 they said
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but this name was ruled out multiple different ways multiple different times in the beginning as as a
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possibility to this case this case didn't just solve the unknown identity of Little Miss nobody there was also The
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Disappearance of of the little girl from Alamogordo New Mexico early on in the investigation there was a thought that
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maybe the two cases were connected and then that was ruled out and so they were very surprised to hear the name but they
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were also very excited because they knew that finally there were answers finally
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there was a path to figuring out what happened to Little Miss nobody or sharing the Legos in this case
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immediately after getting off the phone with Ostrom and making sure we understood exactly what they had been
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able to determine we started to work with Nick to make contact with those remaining relatives so that we could
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arrange a meeting to explain to them what we had found out what they confirm is that little Miss
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nobody is in fact little miss somebody she's four year old Sharon Lee Gallegos
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after all Sharon the young girl who disappeared from the neighboring state of New Mexico
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in 1960. I was trying to keep it together and not burst out crying my sister did start
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crying my brother was speechless and my uncle didn't say anything they were like
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oh my goodness my aunt really in Germany was the one talking and saying oh my gosh I can't believe it after all these
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years and I myself I thought you know I just didn't believe it was happening
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but then I was like okay they found her what happened what do we do you know and so
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they told us they were going to do a news conference and they had invited us to be there it's kind of amazing I mean
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this is a story I grew up with my entire life and I had always I had never given up
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hope that we would find her and hopefully alive but at the same time we do know what happened to her now
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David and I myself Michael we all went up to the press conference in Arizona and we also met Little Miss nobody's
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nephew he was a family member that flew in for the press conference to speak on behalf of the family
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and it was extremely touching because even though he was only the nephew it was very obvious very early on in his
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talk in the press conference how affected he actually was by Sharon Gallegos being abducted he
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said he grew up a very different life because you know they were always afraid to let
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the children go outside and do normal things she was abducted in the middle of the day right
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there in the middle of a small town there was obviously some premeditation and a woman had approached her mom about
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her job this is the same woman that was found or thought to be seen in the car that took her away there were other
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children in the car that took her away that eyewitnesses saw and there was a strange man that is the last thing
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anyone knows about what happened to Sharon Gallegos and how she ended up in Arizona is a complete unknown
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Yavapai County Sheriff's Department is a great example to hopefully other sheriff's departments and police
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departments that this technology works and if there are cases that are sitting dormant on a shelf where there is a girl
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or a boy or a mom or a daughter or a father who has no identity that they could have an identity and that
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hopefully they'll they'll take this knowledge take that case off the shelf
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and reopen it and try something new because it's obviously working it would have been very easy to just say
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you know hey it was a long time ago there's you know we're not going to be
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able to do much with this but being able to identify her and we're still working
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the case we we very much want to find out who those people in the car were we very much want to find out what they
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were doing in Alamogordo and why they came through Yavapai County and what happened to Sharon
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[Music] happy that we got closure I wish my mom was alive you know to have seen this because it
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was really hard for her it was really hard for her and you know she took that to a grave not
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knowing what happened to her sister I I was able to see footage of my mother having her DNA taken at the police
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station and it just broke my heart when she was telling detective oscaro that you know about the story she was telling
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the detective about the story and that and and how how she felt and she wished she could have done something and
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and it just broke our heart to see our mom like that so I actually visited the site this Easter
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me and my partner went out there actually to the spot where they found her body and it's just probably 50 feet away from
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the road and ironically we had passed by that spot 15 times in our lifetime going to Las Vegas Nevada from
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Alamogordo and I left a memorial there for her just for our family showing our respective that's where they
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found her if it wasn't for that teacher that stumbled upon her you know we would
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have never known it's just kind of sad that they left this little girl there
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but at least we know now that this little girl is my aunt so-called nobody finally becomes a
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somebody a nameless child gets her name back and with it a portrait of her short but
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sweet life is uncovered it's the kind of resolution genetic genealogy can give us
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the more people whose DNA is in the National Database the more likely it is that victims like little Sharon Lee
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Gallegos can get their names back again even after 60 long years I'm Nancy Grace thank you for joining us
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here on bloodline detectives thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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