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Gila County Sheriff's Office An Arizona police captain who tracked down Christina Marie Plante , discovered to be alive this week, 32 years after she was reported missing, said he was “dumbfounded” to learn the reason why she disappeared as a 13-year-old in 1994. “I guess she wasn’t happy with where she was living and who she was living with, and she ran away,” Gila County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jamie Garrett explained to NewsNation . Her case was classified as suspicious, and officials warned she was endangered. Advances in DNA technology generated fresh leads, enabling investigators to locate her. Plante, now 44, confirmed that her own relatives helped facilitate her escape and that she has been living a full life elsewhere, dispelling the belief that she was kidnapped. “She said that was a long time ago, that was an old life,” Garrett said. “She’s in her adult life. She has her family now. That’s not something she even thinks about.” Plante has supposedly been using an assumed identity for years, which officials have not revealed out of respect for her privacy. Read it at NewsNation Read more at The Daily Beast.
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