Advanced DNA technology helped solve a cold case more than six decades old by officially identifying a missing four-year-old girl known as "Little Miss Nobody."

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office revealed that DNA technology confirmed the remains found in the desert in Arizona in 1960 as Sharon Lee Gallegos.

"In 1960, people had no idea that DNA would even be a technology," Sheriff David Rhodes said, according to NewsBreak. "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 someday we could get to this point."

ABC News reported that Gallegos was allegedly abducted in July 1960 while playing with two children at her grandmother’s house in Alamogordo, New Mexico, according to authorities. Police and the FBI initially failed to find Gallegos or her abductors. Ten days after the child’s abduction, human remains were found in an Arizona desert. Authorities suspected the partially buried body was Gallegos but didn’t have the technology available for positive identification, ABC News said.

The case remained cold until 2015, when the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children called for an exhumation of the remains for DNA testing. 

Othram, a lab with unique DNA testing, confirmed in February that the remains found in Arizona were Gallegos.

Gallegos’ nephew, Ray Chavez, attended the news conference and shared the reality of his aunt’s disappearance and its impact, according to NewsBreak.

"We were known as that family who had a little girl kidnapped," Chavez said.  “Thank you for what you have done for us. Thank you for keeping my aunt safe and never forgetting her.  It’s amazing, the work that you did for our family to be at peace.”