What happened to Teekah Lewis? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4

Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Josh Mankowitz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries.

Speaker 1 And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Could that someone be you?

Speaker 1 Here's Dateline Missing in America.

Speaker 1 You could feel the energy the moment you walked in. Laughter echoed off the walls.
The smell of burgers and fries hung in the air.

Speaker 1 Bowling balls rumbled down lanes, followed by the clatter of pins.

Speaker 1 This was a Saturday night in Tacoma, Washington. There were a lot of people there that night.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 At least 350.

Speaker 1 January 23rd, 1999. The neon sign read, New Frontier Lanes.

Speaker 1 That glow drew people in on a damp, chilly evening. Teresa Chapeski was one of them.

Speaker 2 So we get there and we get our shoes and we go to our lanes.

Speaker 1 Teresa was there with two of her daughters, her boyfriend, some family, and some friends.

Speaker 2 And Tika sees the video games.

Speaker 1 Tika was Teresa's two-year-old. She picked out a game over in the bowling alley's arcade.

Speaker 2 It was my turn to bowl, and I told my brother and my boyfriend, make sure you watch Tika so nobody, you know, nothing happens to her.

Speaker 1 Teresa bowled her frame, and

Speaker 1 something did happen.

Speaker 2 She was gone.

Speaker 1 That was more than two decades ago. The search for Tika began that night.

Speaker 1 And it still is not over.

Speaker 2 My kids have suffered for 26 years not knowing where their sister's been.

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