Remembering...Tavia Monique Sills, 18
Tavia Sills, who was five months pregnant, disappeared September 9, 2008 in Shreveport, Louisiana after leaving her home with her ex-boyfriend, Lamondre Tucker. After a frantic three day search by her family and friends, Tavia's body was found by fishermen in a pond near her ex-boyfriend's home. She had been shot three times. Tucker, along with his friend, Marcus Taylor, was soon arrested and charged in her murder. Prosecutors say they killed her because Tucker did not want to be a father to her baby. In 2011, it took a jury less than an hour to find him guilty of capital murder and he was sentenced to die by lethal injection. He currently sits on Louisiana's death row. His accomplice, Taylor, has pleaded guilty by reason of insanity and is awaiting sentencing.
Tavia was a freshman at Southern University and was looking forward to becoming a mother. Tavia's mother, Vickie, is here with us and she honors her daughter's memory by performing research and helping parents of missing children with the organization Peas in the Pod.