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Missing TEthnicity : y Leigh Gardner-Tetso 
TEthnicity : y, approximately 2005; Gardner-Tetso's tattoo; Gardner-Tetso's car Date reported missing : 03/06/2005 Missing location (approx) : Rosedale, Maryland Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Female Ethnicity : White DOB : 03/21/1972 (49) Age at the time of disappearance: 32 years old Height / Weight : 5'4, 130 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A gray sweatshirt, white Nike sneakers, silver rings on all her fingers and both thumbs, silver necklaces and possibly blue jeans or sweatpants. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. TEthnicity : y may use her maiden name, Gardner. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies refer to her as TEthnicity : y Leigh Tetso. She has a black ink tattoo of a bird on her right ankle and a tattoo of a large bird on her lower middle back. A photograph of one of the tattoos is posted with this case summary. TEthnicity : y's ears are pierced and she bleaches her hair. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : TEthnicity : y was last seen at approximately 3:00 p.m. on March 6, 2005 at her residence in the vicinity of the 7000 block of Bluegrass Road in Rosedale, Maryland. She was planning to meet friends that evening to attend a Motley Crue music concert at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C.; her friends had bought her a concert ticket for her birthday. TEthnicity : y never arrived at the concert and has never been heard from again. Her cellular phone has been turned off since her disappearance; the last recorded call was at 3:05 p.m. on March 6. There is a record of her black 1996 Pontiac Trans Am passing through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel southbound at 7:48 p.m. The vehicle was located on March 17, eleven days later, in the parking lot of a Days Inn in the vicinity of the 6600 block of Richie Highway in Glen Burnie, Maryland. A photograph of the car is posted with this case summary. It has tinted windows and the Maryland license plate number LRN 534. A surveillance camera of the parking lot showed an unidentified figure driving the vehicle into the lot, parking it, getting out and walking away. Enhancement of the video indicated the figure was a man. Motley Crue posted a reward for information leading to TEthnicity : y's safe return, but the offer yielded no viable tips. TEthnicity : y was reported afraid of her husband, Dennis Joseph Tetso, at the time of her disappearance and was contemplating divorce. They had only been married for about six months. She had begun a relationship with a coworker in January 2005, and was planning to attend the concert with him. Dennis was the one who reported her disappearance to police, but afterward he refused to cooperate with the investigation or participate in search efforts. In June 2009, over four years after TEthnicity : y's disappearance, Dennis was arrested and charged with her murder. At his trial in October 2010, the prosecution alleged he was an abusive husband who killed TEthnicity : y after he found out she was having an affair. Dennis was the only defense witness; he stated he had not harmed his wife and had no idea where he was. He was convicted of second-degree murder. TEthnicity : y was employed as a dispatcher at Aggregate Industries at the time of her disappearance. She is described as a responsible and caring woman who owned a home and cars, had a good job and took good care of her three pets. Her loved ones stated it's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning; they never believed she left of her own accord. Her body has never been recovered, but foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved. |