Michael Jones was 45 when he was found shot to death inside an abandoned house in Bessemer, Alabama, on May 22, 2020. He had finished a morning shift at Steel Dynamics/Severstal on May 20 and was expected back for an evening shift but never arrived; his family tracked his phone from Columbus, Mississippi, through Tuscaloosa and into Bessemer while searching for him.

Jones had been communicating with someone on the Letgo trading app to buy an iPhone 11. The seller reportedly changed the meeting place from Tuscaloosa to Bessemer and offered a lower price. Jones’s Ford Ranger pickup was recovered the same day his body was found. In April 2021 a juvenile suspect was arrested in Bessemer and charged with felony murder; the suspect’s name and age were not released and the investigation was described as ongoing.

Does anyone who lived in Bessemer or Tuscaloosa in May 2020 remember a Letgo meeting gone wrong or seeing a Ford Ranger connected to this case?