Missing Girl Featured On 'Unsolved Mysteries' Found Six Years After Disappearance

Netflix often shows crime documentaries and cases based on real-life events. The platform is full of documentaries about missing people, murders and fraud true life stories which the audience finds intriguing. Recently, the case of a missing girl featured on Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries was solved six years after her disappearance.

The Netflix show Unsolved Mysteries showcases some of the cold crime cases and unsolved phenomena that couldn't be explained by people. In one of the episodes of the show released in November 2022, the story of a missing girl named Kayla Unbehaun was featured.

In July 2017, when Kayla was 9 years old, she was on a trip to her grandparents with her mother Heather Unbehaun in Wheaton, Illinois. On July 5, Heather was supposed to meet Ryan Iskerka and give Kayla's custody to him as per court orders.

Though Heather and Kayla left the parental home, they never reached Iskerka.

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Kayla Unbehaun Found After 6 Years

Ryan Iskerka searched desperately for his daughter and filed a complaint at South Elgin Police Department claiming that his ex-wife kidnapped his 9-year-old daughter.

Six years later, on May 13, 2023, Asheville Police found the whereabouts of Kayla according to the information given by a local shop owner who identified her from the published reports about her disappearance.

The police found the now 15-year-old in North Carolina with her mother Heather Unbehaun who was arrested on fugitive charges. Heather will soon be shifted to Illinois and the case will proceed there.

Kayla Unbehaun was sent into the care of the North Carolina Division of Social Services and will be there until she is reunited with her family in Illinois. Her father had reportedly expressed his gratitude towards the police department for finding her daughter and said that he is really happy to find her. He had asked people to give them privacy so that he and his family could reconnect with his daughter.

Feature Image Credit: GoFundMe/Ryan Iskerka (left) and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (right)