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

On this episode of Black Girl Gone, we share the story of Asia Adams,

a 21-year-old college student from Philadelphia who was brutally murdered in her home by someone she thought she could trust.

Asia's mother devastated her mother and the neighborhood she came from.

Her story serves as a warning for other young women, because can you ever really trust anybody?

This is Asia's story.

In 2004, 21-year-old Asia Adams was a student at Westchester University, a school located just outside Philadelphia where Asia had grown up.

Asia lived with her mom, Sheila, who she was very close to, she was Sheila's only child, and that made their relationship really special.

And I really related to that because I too am an only child, and growing up with just you and your mom really creates a unique bond.

And Asia and Sheila were no different.

Asia was a bright young woman who had dreams of being a nurse, and after attending Penn Charter High School, a private school in Philadelphia where she had been given a scholarship to attend,

she went on to attend Westchester University after receiving a scholarship to that school also.

She continued to be a great student while at Westchester, and Asia was described by her school as being a mentor and someone who really just added to the campus and the culture at the school.

In November 2004, Asia is getting ready for midterms. It's now her junior year at Westchester University, and she's getting prepared for her final semesters as an undergrad.

The weekend of November 5th, however, Asia decided that she was going to go home for the weekend, and when you go to school that close to home, it's really not unusual to go home for the weekend, and Asia was close to her mom, so she probably made that trip home a lot.

But this weekend's trip had a different motive.

This mom, Sheila, was actually going to be at a town that weekend, so she wasn't going home to see her mom.

As a matter of fact, she kind of didn't even tell her mom that she was going home, and Asia is not a kid at this point.

I mean, she's 21 years old, she's a college junior, she's an adult, so therefore she may not have told her mom, you know, or felt the need to tell her mom that she was coming home, and the reason why she was coming home was probably more than why she didn't tell her mom that she was going to be coming home.

Asia had decided to take a weekend trip home to Philadelphia, and the reason why is because she wanted to spend some alone time with the guy that she had been dating.

And he was a guy that she had met the summer before, and his name was Napoleon.

Now Napoleon is not described by anyone close to Asia as her boyfriend, and I get the impression that they were like dating, you know, kind of like, you know, they were talking, you know, like back in the day, like we talked to each other, but I don't really get the impression that they either one of them were telling people like this is my boyfriend, this is my girlfriend, because no one in Asia's life really considers him as her boyfriend.

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