Episode Details

Layla Santanello disappeared from Kingsport, Tennessee, on June 27, 2023, after a series of troubling sightings around the Americourt Motel. Santanello, then 20 years old, had spent the previous night at the motel and was later seen barefoot, going door to door before running toward a nearby tree line. Early the next morning, she was spotted in a field next to the motel and asked a warehouse employee for a cigarette. Her last confirmed sighting came when she was seen walking along the nearby Greenbelt. After that, she vanished without a trace and has not been heard from since.

Investigators now believe Santanello encountered a group of people after leaving the motel and that some of those individuals know what happened to her. Authorities have said they believe she is likely dead, but no one has been charged and no suspect has been publicly named. Her disappearance has remained unsolved despite searches, interviews and continued appeals for information, while her family has worked to keep attention on the case. More than three years later, the central mystery remains unchanged: what happened after Layla left the Americourt area, who she met, and why no one with knowledge of her final movements has provided the information needed to bring the case to a conclusion.


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