Episode 491: Layla Marie Santanello: It's A Mystery, Pt. 1

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Layla Marie Santanello was a 20 year old from Kingsport, TN. She was the mother of 1 and had several siblings. On the morning of June 27, 2023, Layla bummed a cigarette off a warehouse worker near the Americourt hotel then walked off toward a nearby bike path. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jointheofficialsearchforlaylasantanello NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/106365?nav Map Video: https://youtu.be/WcijonlMx4g Article: https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/search-continues-for-layla-santanello-as-officials-provide-an-update/ Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/2025/05/13/layla-marie-santanello/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Layla Santanello, please contact the Kingsport Police Department at (423) 229-9300. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	Layla Marie Santinello was a 20-year-old from Kingsport, Tennessee. She was the mother of one and had several siblings.
0:11.4	On the morning of June 27, 2023, Layla bummed a cigarette off a warehouse worker near the AmeriCourt Hotel, then walked off toward a nearby bike path.
0:24.2	She was never seen again.
0:30.0	I'm Ed Dunsell, and this is unfound.
0:34.6	Music is unfound.
0:50.7	As most of you know, I have no children.
0:53.6	I'm not saying I never wanted children.
0:55.9	All I'm saying is I have none now,
1:04.3	and we'll never have any. So as an outsider and objective observer on parenting, I got to say,
1:13.4	I see no secret formula for creating spectacular adults. Yes, there are obviously better choices versus worse choices,
1:15.9	but as I like to say,
1:20.6	President's Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton came from dysfunctional families.
1:23.0	Whereas the Menendez brothers,
1:26.9	well, we know what they did despite being given everything and no I don't believe their tales of abuse
1:31.3	for what we do here
1:33.6	this is all relevant because for almost nine years
1:37.6	you've heard from parents
1:39.6	seemingly mostly great people who loved their kids.
1:45.4	Yet those now missing kids ended up becoming addicts and criminals and living lives
1:52.0	that were the opposites of the lives of the people who raised them.
1:57.8	How can this be?
2:00.2	Well, with Layla Santinello, we get very much of the same.
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