Kayla Unbehaun, 15, was just 9 years old when she went missing in 2017 while in the care of her non-custodial mother, Heather Unbehaun.\n

Kayla\u2019s father, Ryan Iserka, told\u00a0CNN\u00a0affiliate\u00a0WBBM\u00a0that he was granted full custody of his daughter in early 2017, with Unbehaun allowed supervised visits. However, when he went to pick up his daughter on July 5, he realized that she and her mother had not returned from a camping trip,\u00a0WBBM\u00a0reported the following year.\n

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Kayla Unbehaun\/ National Center for Missing & Exploited Children\n\n
A non-profit center, which aids families in finding American children abducted by relatives or strangers or who run away, noted that a felony warrant for\u00a0kidnapping\u00a0was issued for Unbehaun on July 28, 2017. As per the organization, the number of reports of missing children filed with the FBI in 2022, with possible duplicates, was nearly 360,000.\n
Since Kayla went missing, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shared an image online of her from the time she was nine as well as an age-progression photo. Every now and then, the media published articles about Kayla in hopes of finding her.\n
Among the rest, she was featured in Netflix\u2019s reboot of\u00a0Unsolved Mysteries, and it was this series that led to her rescue.\n
After watching a recent episode of the series, a store owner recognized Kayla and contacted the police. She and her mother were arrested, and Kayla, now 15, was taken into protective custody.\n
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Iserka connected with his daughter in North Carolina on Sunday, and they drove back to Illinois together, said John Vojta, an attorney for Kayla\u2019s custodial father.\n
\u201cI\u2019m overjoyed that Kayla is home safe. I want to thank the South Elgin Police Department, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and all of the law enforcement agencies who assisted with her case. I also want to thank all of the followers on the \u201cBring Kayla Home\u201d Facebook page, who helped keep her story alive and were instrumental in spreading \u00a0awareness. We ask for privacy as we get to know each other again and navigate this new beginning,\u201d Kayla\u2019s father said in a statement.\n
Unbehaun faces a charge of child abduction, which is a Class 4 felony. She is currently being held on a $250,000 bond and is awaiting extradition to Illinois.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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