Is practically impossible that someone has not seen an episode of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ and who says one says hundreds because it is an addictive documentary series that reviews cases of murders or disappearances, many of which have not been closed. That is the key that awakens the research vocation shared by many people and that leads to analyze all the evidence presented for each event.
The Serie It began airing on NBC in 1987 and has already had more than 15 seasons. and in its different stages it has gone through several television channels in the United States. Created by John Copsgrove and Terry-Dunn Meurer it was conceived as a project of three special programs, but its success led to its becoming a series. Throughout its history there have been several presenters and narrators of the chapters, among which are Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, Robert Stack or Virginia Madsen. After a break in 2017, the creators of the program showed their intention to continue the series and aroused the interest of Netflix. This is how ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ reached the global platform in 2019.
The new and fifteenth season came to Netflix in 2020 divided into two blocks of six episodes. And last October 2022 a third nine-chapter volume from the creators of the original docuseries Cosgrove/Meurer Productions and from the producers of ‘Stranger Things’ 21 Laps Entertainment. Precisely in the last episode entitled ‘Parental kidnapping’, two cases of missing minors are dealt with after having been kidnapped by one of their parents. The disappearances of minors are a worrying issue according to the FBI that received more than 300,000 complaints for this crime in 2022. And thousands of victims are kidnapped each year by one of the parents. At the end of the episode, several posters of missing minors appeared. with photographs of you and the father or mother who took it away. One of them was that of Kayla Unbenhaun and it helped her to be identified last weekend by someone who had seen the episode.
An ‘unsolved mystery’, solved 6 years later
The disappearance of Kayla Unbenhaun has been solved six years after she was kidnapped by his mother Heather in Illinois when he was 9 years old. Her father Ryan Iserka and her family have not stopped looking for her and created the Facebook page ‘Bring Kayla home’ in which they kept the case active and asked for citizen help. This week the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported that she had been found safe and sound The funny thing is that she was recognized by a person who had seen her photo in the Netflix series ‘Unsolved Mysteries’, as she has published on her own platform on Twitter.
From the NCMEC page they have shared some statements from the father: “I’m so glad Kayla is home safe. I want to thank the South Elgin Police Department, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and all law enforcement who helped on his case, and the Facebook followers.” They have also asked for privacy as they “restart and navigate a new way”.
The curiosity of the case is that The young woman who is now 15 years old has been located 900 km from the place where she lived thanks to a viewer of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ that he has recognized the image of the young woman in a chapter of the series that reviews cases of murders or disappearances that are still open.
According to collect CNNthe Ashville Police Department (North Carolina) reported that last Saturday night a person recognized the young woman in a store after seeing her photo in the series and tipped off a store clerk who called the police.
