A daughter's mission to find her missing mother | Forensic Files

she tells me a pretty wild story her mother went missing in Russia and nobody could find her and she knew something
was wrong she gets on a plane within a day and heads to Russia she just was a dog investigator she just didn't stop at
anything I went all over Russia I drove over 60,000 miles I spent thousands and thousands of dollars I was looking for
my mom everywhere I knew she was a wife I felt that she's alive what is it like for you to drive this highway that you
now know was the last drive your mother ever experienced I don't know I think it's a
worst nightmare that thank you experience child besides the police I went to DA I went to detectives I went
to everyone who can help us quick authorities any authorities who can help what are the police and the District
Attorney and what are these people saying to you she went to monastery just wait just
wait she was gonna go she's gonna come back you went to 15 different Russian Orthodox monasteries yes and you'd come
in and what show a picture show that the missing person that's this flyer that they've been everywhere you were willing
to cross an ocean or there and go anywhere in Russia to get this thing so double in russia anywhere in the world
there was a one time i got a phone call they called me and they said hey there is a medic psychological institution and
this is such a such a city and they have digits got yesterday a lady with the same name and the same last name she get
in the car about midnight yeah drive three hours facility to where they where they believe there's a woman who has
your mother's full name gray and fits the description yep so you entered that hospital and what happens I went to the
room and there was a lady from the back in the body shape she look like my mom and when she turned it wasn't her I was
devastated I cried all the way back after I found out that my mom was killed and it became my life to find my mission
my life everything to find the person who did this to my mom

Nadia Ford retraces the steps she took in her homeland of Russia to find her mother, Alla Aleksenko, who disappeared in October 2014.

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Brief Summary

A daughter searches for her missing mother in Russia, facing heartbreak and determination throughout her journey.

Key points

A Mother's Disappearance. A woman recounts her desperate search for her missing mother in Russia.
A Heartbreaking Revelation. The search leads to a devastating discovery that shatters hope.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I felt that she's alive.

A hopeful sentiment amidst despair.

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