Is Zina Linnik’s Death by Suspect Terapon Dang Adhahn Related to Other Missing & Deceased Girls? (Welch, Bastian, Jones, Lewis & Jackson)

Zina Linnik, the missing 12 year old girl, who was abducted the night of July 4th, 2007 body was found this past Thursday. Police were lead to Zina Linnk’s body near Silver Lake, west of Eatonville in eastern Pierce County, by 42-year-old Terapon Dang Adhahn. Terapon Adhahn is a convicted sex offender who has been in custody on an unrelated immigration matter since Monday.

Police are now further investigating Terapon Dang Adhahn as to whether he may have been responsible for other similar crimes against young girls from the past. 1986 was considered a terrible year in the Tacoma, WA area when it came to missing girls. However, because Adhahn traveled around, one could only imagine all the places he visited and lived that girls went missing or were murdered over the years. As we know, there is no such thing as a one time child sex offender. Only those who have not been caught.

The cases include:

• Michella Welch, 12, a Tacoma girl who disappeared from Puget Park on March 26, 1986. Her body was found hours later.

In Tacoma, 1986 was the year of lost girls. Michella Welch was snatched from Puget Park and murdered in April.

• Jennifer Bastian, 13, whose body was found in Point Defiance Park on Aug. 28, 1986. Her killer was never brought to justice.

In Tacoma, 1986 was the year of lost girls. Michella Welch was snatched from Puget Park and murdered in April.

“Around 11 p.m., the police came in and asked for some items of her clothing so they could use their scent dogs,” Pattie said. “All night long, they had the dogs in the park. It was a really nice night. They figured, if they kept going, the dogs would get as much scent as possible.”

The dogs got no scent.

Twenty-eight days after Jennifer Bastian disappeared, officers discovered her body 20 yards off the path, in a depression where a giant tree had fallen. (The News Tribune)

• Lenoria Jones, 4, of Tacoma, who disappeared July 20, 1995.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Age progression

 

• Teekah Lewis, 2, disappeared from a Tacoma bowling alley in 1999, and no sign of her was ever found.

Teekah disappeared from Frontier Bowling Lanes in Tacoma around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1999. The girl’s mother told police she saw her daughter standing near the bowling lanes’ video games. When she looked back, Teekah was gone.

Police at first thought the little girl had wandered off. But when an extensive search of the area turned up nothing, the girl’s disappearance began to look more like an abduction and no one — including relatives — was immune from suspicion.

• Adre’Anna Jackson, 10, of Tillicum, Pierce County, who disappeared in December 2005 while walking to school. Her remains were found in a vacant lot in Lakewood, on April 4, 2006.

FBI Special Agent David Gomez said profilers are also looking into other unsolved homicides and child abductions across the country.

Gomez said Adhahn “was in the military and he traveled around other places.”

Others missing from Washington State in the last 5 years, could Adhahn be responsible?

Terapon Dang Adhahn’s past:

In 1975, Adhahn’s mother married a U.S. Special Forces soldier, who brought him and two younger siblings to this country in 1977. The family initially lived in San Diego, then transferred to Fort Bragg in North Carolina. They moved to Germany in 1983. That same year Adhahn graduated from high school and enlisted in the Army.