Arizona girl missing since 1994 wasn't kidnapped and didn't want to be found, official says

A woman who disappeared nearly 32 years ago — when she was just 13 and living in Arizona — has told investigators she wasn’t abducted.

A woman who disappeared nearly 32 years ago — when she was just 13 and living in Arizona — has told investigators she wasn’t abducted. She ran away.

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Christina Marie Plante, now 44 and living under a different name, told a cold case investigator from the Gila County Sheriff's Office that family members helped her leave.

"This was information we had not been aware of before we located her," Chief Deputy James Lahti told NBC News on Friday. "Up until then, we didn't know where she was and we were under the impression she had been kidnapped."