The Fentanyl Files: What Happened to Kayla?
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
On October 21, 2021, a woman named Kayla died in Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada. She was 33. She died in a crackhouse with fentanyl and cocaine in her system.
But what happened to Kayla? What happened in her life that led her to that point? What happened as she died?
Kayla was loved. She had a family that loved her — that still loves her. That continues to fight for answers about what happened to her. We will speak to them today.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to talk about the death of a young woman in Canada, |
| 0:04.6 | and the aftermath her family is still dealing with over four years later. |
| 0:08.6 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of mental illness, addiction, murder, and suicide. |
| 0:15.8 | On October 21, 2021, a woman named Kayla died in Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada. She was 33. She died in a crack house with fentanyl and cocaine in her system. But what happened to Kayla? What happened in her life that led her to that point? What happened as she died? In this episode, we will hear from Kayla's father and stepmother, Les and Carrie Ray Mitchell. |
| 0:42.7 | They would talk with us about their experience, their anguish, and what continues to frustrate them about what they feel is a lack of answers in Kayla's case. |
| 0:52.7 | This is an important conversation. It gets at the heart of issues |
| 0:56.3 | we see so often on this show. It touches upon the following. Drug abuse and mental illness. |
| 1:03.2 | Starting as a teenager, Kayla struggled with mental health issues. She remained in denial about those |
| 1:09.1 | issues and instead medicated with illegal drugs. |
| 1:12.3 | Systemic impediments. From early on, Kayla's loved ones felt the system impeded them when they tried to get her help. |
| 1:18.8 | They were pushed away, told no, and labeled the problem. |
| 1:22.9 | Unanswered questions. Now that Kayla is gone, the Mitchells are still haunted by what they do not know. |
| 1:29.4 | They told the murder sheet they questioned how thorough the death investigation actually was. |
| 1:34.9 | Issues between the police and victims' loved ones around transparency. What's more, |
| 1:39.0 | the Mitchells say they have never gotten the police file on Kayla's death, despite the fact there's |
| 1:43.1 | seemingly no criminal case going |
| 1:44.7 | forward here. Kayla's family still has unanswered questions and feel that no one is helping |
| 1:50.2 | them get to the bottom of those. In this episode, we also heard from the chief coroner who worked on |
| 1:56.3 | this case and received some responses from other agencies involved. |
| 2:01.4 | This talk is raw. It's painful. |
| 2:03.9 | It's two people remembering their daughter, her struggles, her ups and downs, the loss of her. |
| 2:10.8 | The Mitchells are incredibly brave, I think, to talk about this with such candor. |
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