“Any time you have a horrific crime like this exist, no matter how long ago, we can never give up, never stop searching.”
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.
DNA was discovered in 1953 and was many years away from being used as a law-enforcement tool in 1960. The investigation in Arizona eventually ran cold, and local residents raised money to bury the girl in a grave that read: “LITTLE MISS NOBODY.” Ray Chavez, who is Sharon’s 56-year-old nephew, said the family was “overjoyed” to learn part of the case had been solved. His mother, Sharon’s older sister, and their mother have since died, he said.
He also thanked the residents of Prescott, Arizona, who gave Sharon a burial and kept up her grave for so long.Boelts noted that the identification is just the start.
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