Tomeka Jill Jefferson was 24 when she vanished from Ellicott City, Maryland, after a phone call to her family on February 15, 1996. She was last known to be at her boyfriend Courtney A. Williams’s apartment in the 3000 block of Oak Green Circle. Tomeka is Black, about 5 feet 5 inches and 135 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and pierced ears.

After the 10:00 p.m. call, neither Tomeka nor Williams was heard from. Williams’s roommate reported him missing on February 17 and Tomeka’s family reported her missing on February 19 when she failed to show up for work as a legal clerk in Baltimore. On February 21 Williams’s 1995 Nissan Quest was found abandoned behind an apartment building in west Baltimore; neither person was with the vehicle. Williams was later found shot to death in the Gwynns Falls area on April 7, a homicide, but Tomeka was not located and remains missing. Investigators have linked Williams’s death to allegations of drug activity and misconduct by a former officer, but no arrests have been announced in Tomeka’s disappearance.

If anyone knew Tomeka’s whereabouts in February 1996 or has information about her movements that night, please share what is known with the Baltimore County Police.