The Brief
- Tacoma Police are seeking tips in the 1995 disappearance of 3-year-old Lenoria Jones after her great-aunt’s claim that she vanished in a Target was debunked by surveillance footage.
- Investigations revealed shifting stories from the aunt and a neighbor’s report of a household member saying “I killed her” days prior; the aunt and her daughters have refused polygraph tests.
- The aunt remains uncooperative while living in Spokane, and police continue to search for Lenoria’s remains to provide her mother with closure and a proper burial.
TACOMA, Wash. – More than 30 years after a 3-year-old girl vanished from Tacoma, police are renewing calls for the public’s help.
Lenoria Jones was reported missing on July 20, 1995, after her maternal great-aunt, Berlean Williams, called 911 from a pay phone outside a Target store and said the child had disappeared inside the store.
The backstory:…