Hello listeners, I'm your host Amara, and this is Black Girl God, a true crime podcast.

On this episode of Black Girl God, we tell the story of Tommy Jones, a 19-year-old young woman

who disappeared from Malakahill, New Jersey on April 18, 2002.

The night before, Tommy spent the evening hanging out with some of her girlfriends.

She dropped them all off at home afterwards, arriving home around 1 a.m., but no one ever saw Tommy

again. The next morning, when she didn't come to pick up her daughter from the babysitter,

her family went to her apartment to check on her, but Tommy's gone.

Her car, however, was in the parking lot, and all of her personal belongings were left behind.

20 years later, she is still missing. What happened to Tommy and who is responsible for her

disappearance? This is Tommy's story. For the past 20 years, Tommy's family has been

trying to get to the bottom of what really happened to her in the early morning hours of

April 18, 2002. They have accepted the real possibility that she is no longer alive,

but they still want to know who took her from them and why. In the years following her disappearance,

investigators have been unable to find any significant evidence to make an arrest,

but Tommy is still missing, and whether she is still alive or not, her family deserves to know

what happened to her. At just 19 years old, Tommy, known as Mimi by her family and friends,

was a young mother doing her best to raise her then two-year-old daughter.

Tommy had a job as a mail-sorter for the U.S. Postal Service, and had gone back to school to

earn her GED. Her family said that she was a sweet girl who loved to draw growing up,

and even though she had a few setbacks, she was trying to get back on track, and earning her GED

was one of those steps. She had grown up in Salem County, New Jersey, raised by her mom Cheryl and

dad Thomas, who had given Tommy in her name. He said it was the feminine version of his name.

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