La-Tonya was 11 years old when she went missing on the way home from a trip to the library on February 2nd 1988. Her body was found in an alley yard near her home in the Reservoir Hill area of Baltimore in the early hours of February 4th, a victim of homicide. Although police had a strong suspect, there was not enough evidence to arrest him and her murder remains unsolved. At her memorial service, Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, who had given a presentation at La-Tonya's school just three weeks previously, described her as "Baltimore's child". Friends and family remember her as a happy and cheerful child, always ready and able to make people laugh. She was active in her church and popular at school, where she was a member of the cheerleading team. Her ambition was to be a professional dancer. In 1993, her case was immortalized in the acclaimed NBC television series "Homicide: Life On The Streets" as the murder of "Adena Watson", which became a running plot device throughout the entire show from the first episode to the finale seven seasons later.
La-Tonya was 11 years old when she went missing on the way home from a trip to the library on February 2nd 1988. Her body was found in an alley yard near her home in the Reservoir Hill area of Baltimore in the early hours of February 4th, a victim of homicide. Although police had a strong suspect, there was not enough evidence to arrest him and her murder remains unsolved. At her memorial service, Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, who had given a presentation at La-Tonya's school just three weeks previously, described her as "Baltimore's child". Friends and family remember her as a happy and cheerful child, always ready and able to make people laugh. She was active in her church and popular at school, where she was a member of the cheerleading team. Her ambition was to be a professional dancer. In 1993, her case was immortalized in the acclaimed NBC television series "Homicide: Life On The Streets" as the murder of "Adena Watson", which became a running plot device throughout the entire show from the first episode to the finale seven seasons later.
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