CHALLIS — Many people living in Challis in 1993 probably remember the evening of Oct. 11.

That was the evening that Sandi Crane walked into the Custer County Sheriff’s Office and reported that she could not find her 9-year-old daughter, Stephanie Crane.

Stephanie had been bowling in an after-school league and had been instructed to go home after she was done.

She did not make it home.

There was speculation that she may have crossed US Highway 93 and was going to the Challis High School football field to watch soccer practice. Sadly, this would set off a search that continues 32 years later.

There was the thought that Stephanie may have been lost or possibly injured. Family and others said it’s unlikely that Stephanie disappeared voluntarily or ran away, as she was described as a cauti

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