Teen’s Strange Behavior Before Disappearing Without A Trace | Mekayla Bali
Hot On The Case
Breanna Heim
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On April 12, 2016, 16-year-old Mekayla Bali vanished without a trace from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. What began as a seemingly ordinary day quickly turned into a baffling mystery that has haunted her family, friends, and investigators for years. Surveillance footage captured Mekayla at various locations around town, but what happened after she left a local bus depot remains unknown.
In this weeks episode of Hot On The Case we dive into the timeline of Mekayla’s last known movements, explore the theories surrounding her disappearance, and examine the ongoing efforts to find her. Was she running away? Was she meeting someone? Or did something more sinister happen?
If you have any information about Mekayla Bali’s whereabouts, please contact crime stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) from anywhere in North America or online at 222Tips.com
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| 0:00.0 | Vanished into thin air. |
| 0:02.5 | It's a phrase we hear all the time in true crime documentaries. |
| 0:06.3 | So often, in fact, I think we've started to become desensitized to just how bizarre that really is. |
| 0:13.3 | In a time where there's a camera on every single street corner, |
| 0:17.1 | how does a 16-year-old girl living a seemingly normal life just up and disappear one day |
| 0:23.3 | without a trace? On this week's episode of Hot in the Case, we're going to be diving into the |
| 0:28.4 | disappearance of Michaela Bali. Chances are if you've spent any time watching true crime |
| 0:34.3 | content on YouTube or listening to True Crime Podcasts, you've at least heard |
| 0:38.8 | of this case before. It's full of bizarre aspects to unanswered questions, and it's pretty clear |
| 0:45.0 | to every single person that has looked into this case that Michaela Bali was hiding a secret. |
| 0:50.9 | This girl definitely had a secret. She was definitely hiding something that no one in her |
| 0:55.8 | life knew about. But what that thing was and how much of an effect it had on her going missing |
| 1:01.1 | is something that has baffled her loved ones and investigators for almost a decade. Why did |
| 1:07.4 | this normal, shy, sweet 16-year-old girl start acting completely out of character, start acting erratic, out of nowhere, 36 hours before she vanished off the face of the earth? |
| 1:21.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Hot on the Case. |
| 1:24.2 | If this is your first time ever joining us for an investigation, here at Hot in the Case, we talk all things true crime with the focus on the Case, if this is your first time ever joining us for an investigation, here at Hot |
| 1:28.0 | in the Case, we talk all things, true crime, with the focus on the unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:34.0 | So if mysteries are your thing, please consider following the show wherever you're listening, |
| 1:38.1 | whether that's on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or if you're watching the video version on YouTube. |
| 1:42.9 | And if you do watch the video version on |
| 1:44.7 | this show, the background might look a little bit different. I actually just moved this week. |
| 1:49.7 | So this is the first episode in my new place. Chances are the background might change a little bit |
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