A missing persons case that began in the Arizona mountains in May 1994 has ended three decades later, after investigators confirmed that teenager Christina Plante, listed for years as 'missing, endangered,' is alive and now 44 years old, according to the Gila County Sheriff's Office.
Christina Marie Plante was 13 when she vanished from the Payson–Star Valley area, a quiet community northeast of Phoenix. She left home on 15 May 1994 to walk to a nearby stable where her horse was kept and never arrived. At the time, local authorities classified her disappearance as occurring under 'endangered and suspicious circumstances,' language that usually signals serious concern about a child's safety rather than a runaway scenario.
