Christina Marie Plante Found Alive After Decades As A Cold Case

While missing outback child, Gus Lamont still hasn’t been found after six months, other news about a missing child, Christina Marie Plante, arrived this weekend. Notably, there’s a twist to it that seems rather interesting. Read on for more details.

The Cold Case Details

Christina Marie Plante disappeared in May of 1994. At the time, she lived in Star Valley, Arizona. Distractify confirmed that she was last seen at age of 13, going off to check on “her horse at a stable near her home.” Since then, the years passed in silence, leaving her family hoping for good news or dreading the knock on the door. But, she’s been found.

The news that she is alive and well arrived after a special unit took another look at the cold case. These days, tech and other tools moved a long way since 1994. Over on NewsNation, Jesse Weber chatted with Capt. Jamie Garrett, who works on cold cases. There, the missing person expert explained more about how they found Plante, and the reason for her disappearance.

New Techniques Helped

Certainly, it seems that the Gila County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit did a great job on the missing person case. Garret told Weber that “back then in 1994 we didn’t have the technology that we have today.” Well, the fact that after all those years, they never found a body, the team naturally suspected that she might be out there somewhere, and alive.

Hunting through various modern databases, the cold case team discovered a woman living under a different name. Surprisingly, it all seemed rather undramatic when they called her up about it. When asked if she’d ever lived in Star Valley, she simply replied, “Yes, I am her.” She’s 44 years old now, and the main question that puzzled people was how, not to mention, why she disappeared.

The Twist – Not An Abduction

For many years, people wondered if she’d been kidnapped. However, it didn’t happen like that. Interestingly, Capt. Garrett revealed that Plante left her home of her own accord. Apparently, she decided that life sucked and she wanted out. However, she did get a little help from an unnamed member of her family.

Basically, Christina Marie Plante just “walked out the front door.” Despite the pain that her family experienced, she’d closed her mind to all of that. Going missing, as far as she’s concerned, happened a “long time ago” and represented an “old life.”

Who knows what goes through the mind of a 13-year-old? But even more amazing, is the fact that even after she became an adult, it never occurred to her that folks might suspect an abduction.

She’s married now and has her own family, and the police won’t be filing any charges against her. After all, she left voluntarily. But, you won’t find out where she lives now because authorities want to protect her privacy. And probably, that of her family.

Viewers Have Their Say

In the comments section of the video, plenty of comments arrived because the episode also covered the firing of Pam Bondi, and more. However, some folks did talk about the missing person case. One of them wrote, “That girl that ran away… she and/her helper should be charged and sent to jail for all the police resources that were wasted.”

Here are a few other responses from the discussion that followed:

• What was the cost to the tax payers by this girl running away. Are they sending her the bill?
• Her poor parents. That undisclosed family member is responsible for helping a…child run away from home.
• That girl Christina Plante was endangered in her own home…
• We don’t know what she may have experienced in that home. People may have ignored her plea for help.

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below, and remember to come back here often for all your family news and updates.