Toddler Vanishes From Bowling Alley

Cat Leigh
True Crime by Cat Leigh
4 min readDec 6, 2019

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Teekah Lewis was just a few feet away from her family when she was abducted.

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Teekah Latres Lewis was a two-year-old African and Native American girl from Washington. Her eyes were brown and she had brown hair with natural red highlights and some grey streaks. Teekah suffered from asthma and bad allergies. As a result of eczema, she had patches of light discoloration on her face and left side of her buttocks.

She lived with her mother Theresa English while her father, Robert Lewis, was imprisoned at McNeil Island Corrections Center. Theresa had five children; two of them with Robert.

On the evening of January 23, 1999, Teekah and nearly a dozen of her family members went to the New Frontier Lanes bowling alley in Tacoma. It was a popular place and was quite busy that night.

While the family was bowling, Teekah played in the arcade section. At around 10:30 PM, she was sitting at a car racing game a few feet away from her mother and her boyfriend Fred Biggs, and six feet away from the bowling alley’s exit. Theresa turned her back from her daughter for a moment as it was her turn to bowl. When she looked back towards Teekah, she was gone.

The family searched for Teekah in the establishment and then asked the security guard for help. The rest of the customers were alerted through a…

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