Judith Ramona Veloz, also known as Aries Jones, was 19 when she was last seen on March 3, 1993, in Manhattan near 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. A Hispanic female, she was five feet four inches and about 110 pounds, with brown hair dyed bleach blonde or strawberry blonde, hazel eyes, and a tattoo on her right thigh of a woman leaning against a lamppost. Raised in the Bronx with family ties to Valentine Avenue and Jerome Avenue, she was living in Edgewater, New Jersey, and routinely worked on Manhattan’s west side.

The account describes a troubled period before her disappearance: she left home at 16, had a daughter at 19, and was reportedly isolated and exploited by a much older man who coerced her into sex work. Family attempts to report her missing to the NYPD were not taken seriously at the time. In October 2022 the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force uploaded her profile to NamUs, noting a potential but unconfirmed connection to a Midtown-based architect identified as a prime suspect in that investigation. No suspects or persons of interest have been officially named, and the circumstances of Judith’s disappearance remain unknown.

Does anyone who knew Judith or saw her working in the 30th Street area in early March 1993 have information to share?