Missing
Telethia R. Good
Telethia, approximately 1978; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression to an unknown Age at the time of disappearance:
Date and time person was reported missing : 09/10/1978
Missing location (approx) :
Baltimore, Maryland
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Black
Age at the time of disappearance: 7 years old
Height / Weight : 3'4, 60 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A blue t-shirt with the words "Collington Square" and blue Levi's jeans or gaucho pants.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Telethia's nickname is Lee Lee. Her two front teeth are missing at the time of her disappearance.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Telethia was last seen playing with three other children near her aunt's house in the 1700 block of Montpelier Street in Baltimore, Maryland on September 10, 1978. Her mother left her at her aunt's home while she went to attend church services. She has never been heard from again. Her family reported her missing at 10:00 p.m.
A man who later became the prime suspect in eleven-year-old Latonya Kim Wallace's murder regularly visited Montpelier Street in 1978, as his business partner lived there. Latonya was Gender : ually assaulted, stabbed and strangled in 1988, and her murder was never solved. She bore a striking physical resemblance to Telethia.
When police found out the suspect's connection to Montpelier Street, they showed him a photo of Telethia. He said he knew her, then denied it and said he didn't recognize her at all. The suspect is now deceased and was never charged in Latonya's murder or Telethia's disappearance.
Telethia's parents adopted her in Newark, New Jersey when she was an infant. She had only just recently learned this before she disappeared. Her family moved to Baltimore five years before her disappearance, and by 1978 her parents were divorced. She lived with her mother in the 1500 block of Montpelier Street, visited her father every other weekend and for the last two weeks of the summer.
Telethia was a first-grader at Coldstream Elementary School at the time of her disappearance, and enjoyed school. She has relatives in New Jersey and Virginia. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Baltimore Police Department
443-984-7395
September 2021 updates and sources
The Baltimore Afro-American
The Doe Network
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2�5% of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
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The Baltimore Sun
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
October 12, 2004. May 14, 2019; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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