#67 What I've been watching and buying this week.

A new Netflix documentary, a British thriller and a candle subscription!

In 1974, Cathy Terkanian gave birth to a daughter who she named Alexis. She was only 16 at the time and when Alexis was nine months old, her mother convinced her to give the baby up for adoption.

It was a closed adoption, so Cathy had no idea what had become of Alexis until April 2010, when she received a letter from the adoption agency informing her that Alexis, who was now named Aundria, had been missing for 21 years. They wanted a sample of Cathy’s DNA so they could test it against the DNA of a body that had been found.

The DNA was not a match. But that test was just the beginning of Cathy’s long fight to find out what happened to her baby. Cathy’s story is the topic of the new Netflix two-part documentary, Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter, which is one of the best true crime documentaries I’ve seen in recent years.

It’s an unbelievably sad story, with plenty of twists, but Cathy’s sheer determination to find justice for her daughter is incredible to watch. She reminded me of Franc…