Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter (2024)

Another gripping crime documentary from Netflix, but I find that biological mother Cathy is very egotistical, taking the whole story upon herself, while she gave away her own daughter and exposed her to the whole situation (without realizing it of course). Katherine's aunt said very wisely: let's pay special attention to the women who fell victim to the monster.

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I really felt sorry for this poor, poor girl. It's a shame that she will now forever be known as Aundria Bowman, after her adoptive father, a serial killer, her killer. Actually, she should just be called Alexis Badger again, officially, on WP, everywhere... A very pretty child with beautiful bright green eyes. She's my age, she died on March 11, 1989, she was only 14 at the time, unbelievable how young that is. Luckily she had a few good friends and towards the end of her life she became more rebellious towards her adoptive parents and even sought help by accusing her adoptive father of abuse, but was not believed, not by the school and not by the police.
It also came as no surprise that the police once again did nothing in this case. As Cathy, the biological mother, describes it well: the 'let's just give up' mentality of the police in the 80s and 90s. A combative mother. Imagine having a child at sixteen, having a mother who forces you to give up the child and years later finding out that she ended up with a convicted rapist and some crazy woman.

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