New clues revealed in case of Teekah Lewis' disappearance

Thirteen years after 2-year-old Teekah Lewis disappeared from a Tacoma bowling alley, investigators are acknowledging that police may have overlooked some key clues: Other children were targeted by a stranger in the same area, around the same time Teekah vanished.

No one saw Teekah leave when she disappeared from New Frontier Lanes Bowling Alley on Jan. 23, 1999. 

One witness saw a dark Pontiac Grand Am speed away, but didn't see who was behind the wheel.

It's been revealed that more children were targeted in the same area, at the same time.

"Now we're talking about three incidents around the same time Teekah disappeared," said Teresa Lewis, Teekah's mother.

Two months before Teekah disappeared, a stranger molested a 4-year-old boy in the bathroom of New Frontier Lanes.

A few weeks later, a stranger approached a 6-year-old at the same bowling alley and tried to lure him away.

And just hours before Teekah vanished, a man tried to take two children from Oakland Madrona Park, less than a mile from the bowling alley.  He sped off in a Pontiac Grand Am

"It was a white male with brown curly hair," said Brad Graham of the Tacoma Police Department. "That is the sum total on the case."

Police said they aren't sure all the cases are connected.

When asked whether investigators failed to follow up on some crucial leads 13 years ago, Graham said, "I can't say for a fact that it wasn't discussed 13 years ago amongst investigators at that time, and may have been discounted. I just don't know at this point."

As for whether the original detectives on the case would leave notes connecting the dots between the four cases -- all involving children at the same time in the same area -- Graham said cold case detectives are looking into it, but it is a "manpower issue."