On January 23, 1999, a two-year-old toddler named Teekah Lewis was abducted from New Frontier Bowling Alley. Twenty-five years later, her family is still searching for answers and plans to take the unsolved case into their own hands after the now 28-year-old was possibly seen at a local Home Depot.

Theresa Czapiewski, Teekah’s mother, told FOX 13 that her brother, Teekah’s uncle, made contact with the woman they believe may be Teekah while working a shift at Home Depot. The woman in question was seen inside the store Monday night asking if she could use the restroom. According to the family, the description fit their daughter and what she might look like at age 28.

Now Theresa wants to watch the Home Depot surveillance video to see for herself.

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“This tip is very, very important,” Theresa told FOX 13. “We don’t want the girl to get away because what if it’s Teekah and she’s scared? My brother had a feeling, ‘This could be your daughter.’ He never would have called me if he didn’t have that feeling.”

Teekah is half black and half Native American. When she was kidnapped in 1999, she was wearing a Tweety T-shirt, white sweatpants and Air Jordan sneakers. When she was last seen, she had a silver streak in her front right hair.

On January 23 of this year, the day of her kidnapping, a candlelight vigil was held for Teekah outside the Tacoma Police Department.

Theresa remained in close contact with Tacoma Police throughout her daughter’s disappearance, but the speed at which the investigation was progressing left her impatient.

“It may not be Teekah, but it could be her and we can’t just wait,” Theresa said. “You have to look at this.”

Tacoma police have not given up on the case either, despite the lack of leads over the years. Without evidence, there is not much the police can do.

Former Tacoma Police spokeswoman Loretta Cool told MyNorthwest the only possible lead was a report of a maroon Pontiac Grand Am fleeing the New Frontier bowling alley in January 1999.

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“It left the bowling alley at a high rate of speed and almost collided head-on with another vehicle,” Cool said.

Although Theresa is still devastated and frustrated that the police never found out what happened to her child, she is committed to keeping the case in the public eye, even decades later.

“We want people to know that Teekah is still missing and we’re still looking,” Theresa told MyNorthwest in 2020. “I don’t care if it’s 30 years from now, I’ll still be out there looking for Teekah. I can’t give up.”

Frank Sumrall is a content editor at MyNorthwest. You can read his stories here and email him here.