Overview
- The Gila County Sheriff’s Office, which announced Wednesday that Christina Marie Plante is alive, verified her identity and closed the missing‑person file.
- Plante vanished on May 15, 1994, after leaving her Star Valley home to walk to a stable, and extensive searches produced no leads.
- Detectives in the Cold Case Unit used new tools such as social media, public records and law‑enforcement databases to develop the lead that located her.
- The sheriff’s office now says she ran away and stayed with a relative, and it reports no crime and no active criminal investigation.
- Officials are withholding other facts to protect her privacy, and a captain said she has lived under another name and does not wish to discuss the past.