Layla Marie Santanello, 20, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was last seen on June 27, 2023. She is 4 feet 10 inches, about 135 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes, and has tattoos including Roman numerals on her collarbone and her daughter’s name Nova Grace on her left forearm. On the morning she vanished she was barefoot, wearing a white tank top and black leggings, and was last seen around 6:15 a.m. in a field beside the Americourt Hotel asking a warehouse employee for a cigarette before walking toward the Kingsport Greenbelt.

In the days before her disappearance Layla had left the home she shared with her boyfriend after a dispute and was described as acting erratically and paranoid.

Two weeks after she vanished Layla’s family began receiving ransom requests via a cash-sharing app claiming she was being held over a drug debt; the boyfriend was later arrested on identity theft and extortion charges connected to those messages, though authorities have not directly tied him to her disappearance. Investigators say they believe Layla is deceased and have leads about who may have been involved, but no forensic evidence confirming that has been announced. Does anyone who knew Layla or who was in the Kingsport Greenbelt area that morning have information that could help bring clarity to this case?