Overview
- The Gila County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that investigators located Christina Marie Plante alive and confirmed her identity.
- Her missing-person status was lifted and the disappearance investigation was formally closed.
- Plante vanished on May 15, 1994 in Star Valley at age 13 while walking to a nearby stable.
- A county cold-case team credited advances in technology and modern case review for the leads that broke the case.
- Early searches, interviews and nationwide missing-child notices failed to produce a viable lead, so the file stayed active for years.