29/12/2025
Thirty Seconds. That's All It Took For A Mother's World To End And A Mystery To Begin That Still Haunts Tacoma Today.
Theresa picked up the bowling ball.
She took three steps, released it down the lane, and watched it roll toward the pins. The whole thing—maybe thirty seconds.
When she turned around, her two-year-old daughter was gone.
This was January 1999 at a packed bowling alley in Tacoma, Washington. Saturday night. Families everywhere. Bright lights. Noise. The kind of place where you think your kid is safe because everyone's around.
But Teekah wasn't hiding behind a machine. She wasn't in the bathroom. She wasn't anywhere.
What happened next—the frantic search, the 911 call, what police found when they started interviewing everyone who'd been there that night—it's the kind of thing that makes you understand how fast everything can fall apart.
Because someone saw something.
Something that didn't make sense at the time but makes perfect, terrible sense now.
And twenty-six years later, in May 2025, when police showed up with excavators at a house less than a mile from that bowling alley and started tearing into the ground, a mother who never stopped searching finally thought she might get answers.
What they pulled from that earth would either end the nightmare or prove it was never going to end.
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