2-Year-Old Girl Goes Missing as Mom Turns Around to Bowl

Police are hoping Teekah Lewis’s new age-progression photo will be the key to solving her cold case disappearance.

Rivy Lyon
5 min readDec 17, 2022
Teekah Latres Lewis. Charley Project

On the 23rd of January 1999, two-year-old Teekah Lewis accompanied her mother to the New Frontier Bowling Alley on Center Street in Tacoma, Washington. It was a busy night at the bowling alley. League night. Theresa Czapiewski and her daughter were there to enjoy a fun evening of bowling with family; each member keeping an eye on the young girl while her mother took her turn to bowl.

But by 10 p.m., the family realized Teekah was nowhere to be found.

Her case is one of Tacoma’s oldest and coldest missing children’s cases. Hundreds of people were there attending league night. There were many other kids in the establishment that evening as well.

Eyewitnesses report seeing the 2-year-old in the arcade section of the bowling alley playing a race car game. The toddler was only a few feet away from almost a dozen of her family members, but she was also very close to the bowling alleys exit.

When it was her turn to bowl, Theresa asked her brother and boyfriend to watch Teekah so she wouldn’t wander away. As soon as she was done, she turned around and saw that her…

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Rivy Lyon
Rivy Lyon

Written by Rivy Lyon

Investigative Journalist | Criminology, Psychology & Sociology B.A. | I’ve loved true crime since Forensic Files was Medical Detectives!

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