Kayla Unbehaun before her abduction, left, at the age of 9 and in an age-progression picture by forensic artists depicting her at 14.
A girl kidnapped six years ago has been found after a shop owner recognised her from a Netflix true crime documentary series and phoned the police.
Kayla Unbehaun, then aged 9, was abducted by her non-custodial mother, Heather Unbehaun from South Elgin, Illinois, in 2017, and was finally
recognised in a shopping centre in Asheville, North Carolina, last weekend.
Kayla’s father, Ryan Iskerka, went to Unbehaun’s home on July 5, 2017, to pick up Kayla, but she had disappeared.
Unbehaun only had visitation rights for her daughter at the time of the abduction. She has been charged with child abduction by the Kane County State’s Attorney in Illinois and is awaiting extradition from North Carolina, held on a bond of US$250,000 ($400,000)
The Abducted by a Parent episode of Unsolved Mysteries was released in November last year as part of the third series of the show, and Kayla appeared as part of a reel of missing children at the end of the programme. Photographs of the abducted children were placed alongside a photograph of the parent suspected of kidnapping them.
