Ariel Cae Jones, 31, was found dead on April 18, 2023, inside an abandoned blue sedan left in a field in Birmingham’s East Lake neighborhood. An autopsy determined she had been shot and her body was burned, and authorities opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators later connected Jones’s killing to the June 1 homicide of Jermiera Fowler in the Roebuck area, who had also been shot and burned. A single suspect, 25-year-old Demarcus Mincey, was identified in the Fowler investigation and was later linked to Ariel Jones’s death. Mincey was arrested by U.S. Marshals on June 22, 2023, in Stonecrest, Georgia, on unrelated charges; Alabama authorities secured a capital murder warrant in Jones’s death and murder and abuse of a corpse warrants in Fowler’s case. Police say the only known link between the two victims is the suspect.

If anyone knew Ariel or has information about her movements in April 2023, please come forward.