{"id":560403,"date":"2026-04-02T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:19:11","slug":"arizona-woman-who-went-missing-without-a-trace-32-years-ago-found-alive-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560403\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona woman who went missing \u2018without a trace\u2019 32 years ago found alive | Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman in Arizona<\/a> who went missing 32 years ago, when she was just 13 years old, has been found alive, authorities said this week.<\/p>\n

Christina Marie Plante was reported missing in May 1994 from Star Valley, Arizona, after she \u201cvanished without a trace from her community\u201d, according to a statement <\/a>released on Wednesday by the Gila county sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Investigators said<\/a> that she was last seen leaving her home on foot to go to the stable where her horse was, and \u201cwas not seen again\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the time, her disappearance prompted an extensive search effort involving local law enforcement, volunteers and regional resources. But despite \u201cexhaustive ground searches, interviews, and investigative follow-up, no viable leads were developed\u201d, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Plante was entered into national missing children databases, and missing person flyers were distributed locally, statewide and across the country.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the sheriff\u2019s office said that investigators continued to periodically revisit the case, re-examining evidence and pursuing new information as it became available.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office said that the creation of its Cold Case Unit \u201cmarked a renewed commitment to unresolved investigations\u201d and that \u201cutilizing advances in technology, modern investigative techniques, and detailed case review, detectives developed new leads that ultimately led to a breakthrough\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, 32 years after her disappearance, the sheriff\u2019s office announced on Wednesday that Plante had been \u201clocated alive\u201d. Investigators said that they have \u201cconfirmed her identify, and her status as a missing person has been officially resolved\u201d.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office added that \u201cout of respect for Christina\u2019s privacy and well-being, additional details will not be released at this time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gila County Sheriff\u2019s Office remains committed to pursuing all unresolved cases and encourages anyone with information regarding other cold cases to come forward,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in Arizona who went missing 32 years ago, when she was just 13 years old, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-560403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}