Truth about Arizona girl found alive decades after vanishing leaves investigator ‘dumbfounded’: report

An Arizona girl whose 1994 disappearance was long treated as a possible abduction was found alive more than three decades later, and investigators now say she left voluntarily.

The Gila County Sheriff’s Office confirmed this week that Christina "Tina" Marie Plante, who vanished from Star Valley at age 13, has been located alive at 44, bringing a decades-old case to a close.

But new details shared by a lead investigator are shifting the narrative behind her disappearance.

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