On June 8, 2003, a teenager named Christina Ann Battin disappeared in Riverside County, California. It was the kind of warm early summer day when plans are simple and hours feel generous, yet by night a family began to sense that something had gone wrong. Friends expected calls that never came, relatives made rounds of phone checks, and the first reports were filed with local authorities. In the days that followed, the ordinary facts of a young person’s life were gathered into a case file, and a community learned how quickly a life can slip from view when a timeline breaks and no one sees where the line goes.
The person behind the missing poster
Christina was 14 years old in June 2003. She was around 5 feet 6 inches tall, with blue eyes and hair that family and friends say could appear brown or strawberry blonde depending on dye and sunlight. At school and with friends she carried the usual mix of humor, mood, and energy that marks the early teen years……