Lost Between Coweta County and Lenox Square: The Unfinished Story of Missing Dancer Rhonda Ilean Smith

A Young Woman Vanishes Between Home and the City

On the morning of February 27, 1984, 21-year-old Rhonda Ilean Smith left her home in Coweta County, Georgia, intending to spend a day in Atlanta shopping with a friend at Lenox Square Mall. She never arrived to meet that friend, never came home that night, and has never been seen or heard from again. Her case is officially listed as an endangered missing person investigation, with her last known location tied to Atlanta and the sprawling shopping complex that would become the focal point of every search effort and retelling of her story.

Rhonda “Leggs” Smith: Who She Was Before She Disappeared

Rhonda Smith was more than the short description in a missing-person notice. She was about six feet tall and slender, weighing around 140 pounds, with short cropped black hair, brown eyes, and an olive complexion that loved the camera in family photos. Those who knew her called her “Leggs,” a nickname that reflected both her height and her presence. She had previously served in the U.S. Army, then returned home to Georgia to build a civilian life. For a time she worked as an exotic dancer at the Tattletail Lounge in Atlanta, a job she kept secret from her family, who believed she was bartending instead. By early 1984 she had quit that line of work and was planning a fresh start, including a dog-grooming and breeding business for which she had already ordered business cards....Read More

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