The terrifying true story behind the fire

Dennis Bowman He called the police to report his 14-year-old daughter missing on March 11, 1989.

Aundrea Bowman He was a good kid but at age 12 or so, it was as if “someone flipped a switch,” Dennis told investigators, as heard in the recording played in the Netflix docuseries. Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter. He added that she started running away and got into trouble at school.

Dennis said that when he returned to their home in Hamilton, Michigan, on the day she disappeared, not only was Aundrea gone, but so was the tax refund money he had hidden in the closet and change from his youngest daughter’s children’s bank.

Initially, sightings of Ondrea were reported from nearby Holland — in line at the grocery store, at a skating rink, etc. — all the way to Indiana, authorities recalled in the series. But those things eventually diminished and the case became very cold.

andrea’s mother, Cathy Tarkanian— who put the 9-month-old daughter she named Alexis up for adoption in 1975 — said on the series that she had no idea anything was wrong until she received a letter from the adoption agency in 2010.