Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter - Netflix's new true crime series is based on a harrowing true story

Netflix's latest true crime docu-series tells the story of a mother, her search for justice and a heart-breaking discovery.

Cathy Terkanian received a letter in 2010 informing her that the daughter she had given up for adoption 35 years earlier had disappeared from her adoptive home in 1989. Driven by a need for answers, Terkanian enlisted the help of an amateur sleuth and local authorities and embarked on a 10-year quest to uncover what happened to her child.

Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter chronicles her journey and the morbid answers she found in pursuit of the truth. Directed and produced by Ryan White, Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter is also produced by Jessica Hargrave, Matt Maher, and Charlize Theron.

White said it was Theron who incepted the project after reading Nile Cappello’s report in The Atavist and reaching out to White’s team. On meeting Terkanian, Theron said: “Cathy was resilient and followed her intuition all the way to the end to get answers about her daughter. I think that sort of tenacity in the face of a bunch of people telling you you’re wrong is something that really resonates with audiences. We so often are taught to trust our gut, but rarely see it in action.”

The two-part series drops on Netflix later on this month. Read on to find out what happened to Audrina.

Aundria Bowman, born Alexis Badger, was given up for adoption by Terkanian at nine months old. She was adopted at 21 months old by the Bowman family in Hamilton, Michigan. She went missing on March 11, 1989, at the age of 14, and for decades was considered a runaway.

However, in 2020, the truth behind her disappearance came to light when her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, confessed to her murder. Bowman killed Aundria during an