Cold cases are often ignored in the true crime world. With documentaries coming out of already solved cases it can easily take away from cases that have been left unsolved for decades. In Netflix’s most recent documentary mini-series, Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter, director Ryan White tackles a thirty-year-old missing persons case where a mother is searching for the daughter she was forced to give up.
The Story Behind Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter
Into The Fire follows Cathy Terkanian, who, at the young age of sixteen, gave birth to a daughter that she was later forced to give up for adoption. It wasn’t until almost 30 years later that Cathy discovered the daughter she put up for adoption was a missing person, Aundria Bowman, from Hamilton, Michigan.
In March of 1989, Audrina was reported as a missing person. At the time, her adopted father, Dennis Bowman, reported to the police that Audrina had probably run away as her jacket and some money was missing from the home. Since then, the case remained cold until 2010, when Cathy received a letter from social services asking to reach out. Cathay was hopeful she would be meeting the child she gave up all those years ago but tragically learns her daughter is a missing person.