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and a family that refuses to quit. I filed this one in the garage under the title of the Wix girls.
But this case is about a woman and her little girl. A missing mother and daughter.
A duo lost to violence and time. Jennifer and Adriana Wix have been missing for over 20 years and their case
remains open, a mystery. One of the more haunting details of this case is a phone call prior to the two
going missing. On the call, Kathy, Jennifer's mother and Adriana's grandmother, listens to her daughter's voice and
tries to hold on to every syllable, every breath between words. In the background, a baby cries.
Loud, urgent, alive. Filling [snorts] the space behind the conversation like a warning no one yet understands.
The daughter speaks with the casual certainty of someone who believes she will be home soon.
That this moment is ordinary. That the future is guaranteed. She ends the call the way families often
do, with love as punctuation. Those are the last words that Kathy hears from Jennifer.
The last words to a mother from her daughter with her baby crying in the background.
This is the case of Jennifer and Adriana Wix and this is True Crime Garage. >> [music]
>> Jennifer Wix was born on August 16th, 1982. People who knew her best describe
her as quiet and strong-willed. The kind of person who wasn't loud in a room but still somehow anchored it. She
was artsy, drawn to nature and carried herself with a steady maternal seriousness that didn't match how young
she still was. That seriousness had a name. Adriana. Jennifer's daughter who was
born on January 14th, 2002. Now from the start, Adriana was not simply part of Jennifer's life, she was
the center of it. Jennifer arranged her world around her child doing the ordinary devoted things that build a
childhood. Taking her daughter places, keeping her close, making sure she was cared for even when Jennifer herself had
very little. Jennifer didn't have much materially. She had no car, no phone, no bank account of her own for much of this
period. But to her family, none of that defined her. What defined her was the way that she
poured herself into being Adriana's mother. We're going to go to 2003 here, captain. We have Jennifer Wix.
She's living in Robertson County, Tennessee, sharing a home with her aunt and her cousin, Jeffrey. Jennifer is the
oldest of three girls in her immediate household. But she was also a part of a larger blended family. So there's six
sisters as I understand it in total across both sides. She stayed close to family in a way that
was practical and emotional. They helped one another. They stayed in touch often.
Jennifer rarely went long periods of time without speaking to someone in the family. In fact, it was said she
wouldn't speak with her parents each and every day. She wouldn't speak with her sisters each and every day or her aunt
or cousin, but she would always speak to somebody in the family with what seemed
like each and every day. That same year, 2003, brought a major shift for the family. So we have Jennifer's
mother, Kathy Nail, and Jennifer's sister, some of the sisters moved to Henderson, Nevada. This is just outside
of Las Vegas. Jennifer was living with her aunt and her cousin, Jeffrey, as we said. It was during the fall of 2003
that Jeffrey, her cousin, introduced Jennifer to a very close friend of his and this friend is named Joey Benton.
Joseph William Benton, I believe, is the full name here. But for the purpose of our true crime story today, captain,
Joey Benton. Now Jennifer and Joey began dating and in the early days of this courtship, the
relationship appeared promising. Jennifer and Adriana soon started spending a lot of time
at Joey's family's property which is described as a large compound in the Owens Chapel community of Cross Plains,
also located in Robertson County, Tennessee. Is this like a big barn or is it just like a one of those multi-family
compounds? I think both are right. Uh the structure that they would live in at some point is described somewhat like a
barn. So, the Benton family property is a place described more as a spread-out family, air quotes, compound,
rather than a single-family home. So, we have multiple relatives of this Benton family living on nearby acreage. Now, I
did have a hard time, Captain, nailing down exactly just how large this property is. The biggest number that I
did come across, though, however, was 81 acres. Now, it gets complicated. That's a lot
of land. A lot of lot of land. It gets complicated here. >> Long time mowing. The complication comes
in when we have multiple families. Lots of Benton family occupying this land. So, each of
them have portions of it with their own houses and yards and such, but it was difficult to sort out if it was 81 acres
plus the additional properties or if it was 81 acres that is all encompassing of all of the family's properties.
Either way, it's a [ __ ] ton of land. There you go. That We'll We'll put that in the, uh,
realtor write-up for the sale. Yeah. Seeking [ __ ] ton of land? Here you go. Here you go. To an outsider, it may have
looked like Jennifer was settling into a new chapter of her life, right? One where she and Adriana were increasingly
absorbed into Joey's world. She's spending more time there than she is with her own family. We have the family
that split, right? We have her dad on one side with some sisters there. We have Jennifer's mother and some of the
family now living in Nevada at this time. It's during this time that Jennifer's life back in Tennessee
is tilted toward something very dangerous. So, this is roughly just like 2 months
into this relationship. Right. When [clears throat] Jennifer experienced an incident that
deeply frightened her, and it should. Jennifer's family, now in Henderson, Nevada, said that Jennifer called her
mother in an emotional state that can only be described as hysterical. The reason for her call was not vague at
all. It was specific, and it was terrifying. Jennifer reported an argument that took place in which Joey
pulled a firearm, pulled a gun out and threatened to shoot Jennifer, threatened to shoot Adriana,
and threatened to shoot himself. Oh, great. So, he's a giant piece of [ __ ] Jennifer did not stay
to see if this threat is going to become a reality. She fled with her daughter, and the relationship ended.
>> Yeah, but the problem is when you're threatened like that with a gun to your head, and the person
saying, "Hey, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill your daughter. I'm going to kill myself."
Even when you leave the situation, and you leave immediate contact with that individual, the threat is then ongoing.
Well, oh, absolutely. And And this is going to be one of the This is a huge marker on our timeline for many reasons,
but one that, as we are looking back, as we are checking out the rearview mirror
here, when looking back on this, this is the kind of threat, the kind of incident
that changes a family's internal calendar, if you will, right? Everything for the family will become before and
after this event. Right. Oh, that took place before the gun incident. Oh, that took place after
the the death threat. So, Kathy, Jennifer's mother, and the family moved back to Tennessee with the
quickness. It was like within 1 or 2 weeks of this phone call. So, as quickly as they could get back, they made their
way back to Tennessee to protect Jennifer and Adriana. This threat is going to scare you to death,
but you want to protect your child, but also your grandchild. >> back happened after they had been away
for roughly just like 8 to 9 months. There was a little bit It kind of came at a convenient time.
Forgive me for using that word, considering the the event we just discussed. But
>> think about it. If you're going to If you had to choose between Las Vegas and Tennessee, I'm picking
Tennessee. >> Well, and it What I mean by that is it worked out with for the family that they were able
to return so quickly, because they were able to return and have a place to live.
So, Kathy's mother, this would be Jennifer's grandmother, it sounds like she had a larger home, and
she was like, "Yes, come and stay here. I understand you guys got to move back very quickly. Come and stay here, and
oh, we can have Jennifer and Adriana come and live at the home, as well." So, Jennifer and Adriana, they settle
into a space that almost functioned like a separate apartment. It was a walk-out
basement. I love a walk-out basement. It was a walk-out basement that had two bedrooms
down there, a bathroom, and a living area. So, very much like its own little apartment. You could come and go without
having to enter the the main level of the home. >> Yeah. So, the living arrangement created
a measure of safety. And of course, then you get that closeness with the family being back.
And the family could pull Jennifer and Adriana back toward something steadier, something safer, living together with
family. Now, for a moment, the family felt the relief of having Jennifer and Adriana
back in this safe place, under their roof, with a boundary between Jennifer and Joey, a
a wall, a barrier between the two. Sometimes these pieces of [ __ ] will be threatening towards their partner, but
won't be threatening towards their partner in a public atmosphere. Jennifer and Joey broke up, but unfortunately, my
friends, that breakup didn't hold. And over time, Joey drew her back in. Jennifer and Joey started talking again.
The family didn't want it, of course, especially not after the gun threat, not after what it took to bring Jennifer
and Adriana back home, but part of the issue becomes Jennifer was 21. She's an adult. She's making her own
decisions. Not good decisions, but she's making her own decisions. >> Yeah, for For me here, look, and
I'm not trying to come at Jennifer. Her situation was complicated, but for me, peace out. Smell you later. Like, it's
over. It is over. >> But the problem is when you're young, and [clears throat] somebody's probably
apologetic for the shitty actions, but also, she's in a situation where she's the
sole provider for her child, and we don't teach enough in school systems or even in the family
dynamics to self-worth and self-care. We We just don't talk about that enough, especially
in the teenage years and the early 20s. Well, not only is Jennifer young at this point in our timeline, 21,
she is. And I can speak from personal experience, dudes in their 18 to like 20 years of age,
most of us, idiots. Um, and I I don't think Joey was any exception to that statement
there, and Jennifer's making her own decisions, and eventually, unfortunately, she chose to go back. So,
this relationship resumed. Yeah. Now, there was a day in late 2003 that will stay burned into the family's
memory, because what once was like this threat that they heard about, this is now becomes more
physical, more tangible. So, this is in December of 2003, when an alarming event erupted at
Kathy's home, where Jennifer was staying with her daughter. So, Joey reportedly kicked in a door there.
And Jennifer's sister, Casey, called the police as a result. So, this is how I pretty much how this went down, or at
least the short of it here, Captain. So, Jennifer and Joey came to the family home
to pack Jennifer and Adriana's things, to pack up some of their things. Now, at that time,
Jennifer's plan was to return to Joey's living setup and start staying there, okay? With her daughter. And we
already know what took place when she was staying there a lot prior, but also, on top of that, what Jennifer's family
will say is that this living setup wasn't a conventional home. So, they were going to be staying
in a partially finished shed or barn-like structure, like you had referenced earlier.
Described as a storage building type of structure that had been roughly remodeled. Like it was in the
in the process of outfitting this barn or storage building into being like a living quarters. It had electricity
and carpet, but it didn't have any running water. It had no air conditioning and it was
not winterized. And of course, Doesn't seem like a place I'd want to stay. Right. December
2003, cold weather is a-coming, my friend. Yeah. So, the family, they're trying to
advise her not to go there for many reasons. Don't live there. They're And then at some point it it changes from
trying to advise her, talk her into it to, you know what? Let's just stop. Let's just stop her from leaving.
And at that point, Joey steps outside. The family, somebody in the family shut or slammed the door
behind him and he responded by kicking the door down, like knocking it straight off the hinges.
Inside the home, we got the little kid, Adriana, the little baby, she crying. Now, in this chaos, police are called.
By the time officers arrived at the scene, Jennifer and Joey were gone. They left without Adriana at first. They
later returned for her. And the way that I understand this here, Captain, legally or as far as the law is
concerned, because Joey had left the property, Jennifer was gone as well. I don't think
anything was pursued beyond that of other than a police report being filed regarding the incident.
>> Yeah, this is a situation where you'd love to light the guy on fire and put him out with a shovel just to teach him
a little bit of a lesson. Of course, after this incident, Joey was no longer permitted to be at Cathy's home, no
longer allowed to step foot into the home or onto the property. And Jennifer took Adriana and moved away
from her mother once again, this time into a large uh that partially finished barn-like structure that we described,
located on the Benton family property. Okay, so let me just get this correct. The family is trying to stop her from
moving, so that pisses Joey off. He causes a scene, but she still goes and moves in with him.
>> Yes. Well, she I mean, she was her intent was to start staying at his place more, maybe even move in there. And it
was her family trying to prevent her from doing this that that upset Joey. You know, hey, you're getting in the way
of our relationship here. Right. >> So, she I think she had already planned to leave,
but him kicking down the door and getting violent in front of her family didn't change that. Yeah, cuz she probably
viewed it as, well, if my family would have just minded their own business, then he never would have acted this way.
And again, it's you got to have some self-love and self-care and self-worth to see that that's not actions or
behaviors that you want to be around, let alone to have your child be around. And guess what, honey? You are my
business. So, Jennifer, in reaction to this situation, clearly upset with her family, she
stopped speaking with her immediate household. And and because her family's kind of spread out, she's
still in contact with some family, but but not in contact. She breaks contact with the family member she was living
with, right? Her >> Right. her mother um and sisters. So, this this break in communication or her stop
speaking with the immediate household, this took place for roughly a month and a half. And during that time, she still
had contact with other relatives, an aunt, uh one of her grandparents or grandparents that live nearby, and her
father's side of the family. And through those conversations, But this is what these abusive types do, whether it's
physical abuse, mental abuse, verbal abuse, they like to separate basically their victim, their continuous
victim, from family members, especially family members that don't approve of the
relationship. The family members they're not able to to pull the wool over their
eyes, to pull the con job on them. >> Through those conversations that she's having with the family she's staying in
contact with, the family learned details that really intensified their concerns. The barn
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tall cans in the air. Cheers, cheers to everyone out there in listener land. Thank you
for joining us in the garage once again. So, we get to about early 2004 here, Captain, in our timeline. All
right. This is when contact resumes between Jennifer and some of her family members. So, she began speaking with her
mother and siblings again around February 22nd. And that date stands out and is memorable, easily
remembered by family because that date mattered because it was Jennifer's little sister's birthday. Her name is
Casey and her mother Kathy's birthday. They shared this day as their birthday and it became a marker of
Jennifer quote coming back around. There was pain threaded through even that reconnection,
though. Adriana's birthday is in January. And during that period of estrangement, the family wasn't invited
to the birthday party. Later, seeing pictures of Adriana celebrating at Joey's family home with Joey's family,
this, of course, very much hurt Jennifer's family. Yeah, that'd be upsetting. Now, as contact
resumed, Jennifer would bring Adriana to visit Jennifer's sisters at work. Both were working at a McDonald's in a
nearby town. So, Jennifer brought Adriana to the play place. Remember the McDonald's would have the
the the big play places some of the locations. And she would bring the little girl to play there and also a
nice excuse to visit with her aunts. And on the surface, at this time, things look like
ordinary family moments are returning. But the control, like you pointed out, the control was still there. Joey was
always kind of present. Like Jennifer just didn't arrive alone. Like he he would either be with her or
like when she called her family, Joey could be heard in the background almost policing the call, accusing Jennifer of
using up his minutes and telling her, "Hey, you got to get off the phone. You got to get off the phone. You're using
up my minutes." Now, keep in mind, 2004, there we're going to have some young listeners out there that don't know what
we're talking about with minutes, but there was a many years ago, before unlimited plans
existed, there was a real struggle going on with keeping your minutes low. Yeah.
The cost of texting. I I remember having friends that would have to take on a second job because they got some crazy
cell phone bill cuz they would they would just text all night long or use up all their minutes and get hit with fines
and $250, $350 cell phone bills for 1 month's time. I had to sell bunch of pictures of my feet online one time cuz
I racked up so many text message bills. Well, in part of this control, too, or Joey
always being there, it's sort of easy, too, to maintain that control because Jennifer didn't have her own vehicle.
She didn't have her own vehicle when she met Joey and this matters. This mattered. If she wanted to leave, she
required someone else to drive her. Yeah, and question, did she have her license? Because obviously, if he had a
vehicle, then he could lend her the vehicle, but if she doesn't have her license, then
he's kind of forced to be there. But, like you said, I think the monitoring of the calls and and him always being there
is also to monitor, what are they saying to you? And what are you saying to them?
Because this abuse probably did not stop. Right? So, now that he has her living in
this house and she's dependent on him, the abuse, physical, mental, verbal abuse probably continues, but now you
get to monitor if she's telling her family good things about you or bad things about you. So, Joey would bring
Jennifer to Kathy's home, to her mom's home, and drop her off. Remember, he's still not allowed
at the house. Jennifer's family remained uneasy about the Joey situation. Jennifer reportedly told them about the
barn parties, the presence of weapons in the Benton home, and of course, Joey's temper. Right, but
at some point, if you're the family and you're like, "We told you not to go live
with him. We told you to not be with him after he threatened you." At some point,
everybody has somebody in their life with whether it's a family member or friend
that gets into a situation that you warned them about. And then as they're complaining about
the situation, it's like you don't even know what to say at that point. Because she didn't listen to me on the last 20
things I told you to do. So, at some point, you just kind of go, "Okay, well, that's that's the situation." Cold
weather came and cold weather pushed Jennifer and Joey out of that barn-like structure. Again, the structure wasn't
winterized. So, at some point in February of 2004, Jennifer, Joey and little Adriana were
living in Joey's parents' small three-bedroom brick ranch house with his parents, Cindy and Joe Benton.
We're all under one roof with limited space. Tensions escalated. According to Jennifer's family, the
conflict between Jennifer and Joey's mother, there was conflict between Jennifer and
Joey's mother. It was especially volatile. They say fueled by a closeness between
Joey and his mother that others perceived as intense. Whatever the exact emotional label,
you know, jealousy, hostility, control, Right. >> the outcome, the result is the same
here. The house felt unstable to folks on the outside. And then in March of 2004,
Adriana, the little 2-year-old girl caught in the middle of all of this BS and nonsense, she became sick.
Jennifer called her mother late at night around 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. or so. This would be either on March 20th or
March 21st, 2004. And so, the call comes in. Adriana is in pain when urinating and she's crying
each and every time that she's trying to use the restroom. So, something's wrong
with the little girl. Jennifer says that she had asked Joey and his family to take them to the emergency room, but
they There's conflicting reports here. Some reports say that the family refused.
Other reports say that the family convinced her that it was not necessary. So, the way I understand it here, Captain,
is Joey's mother worked in the medical field in some capacity. Some reports say that she was a nurse.
So, her family his family is saying the ER visit isn't necessary. And dismissed the need for the ER visit.
Jennifer called her aunt who's living less than 5 minutes away at this time, and the aunt shows up driving
Jennifer and Adriana to the ER. Now, this is going to be a full-on overnight visit to the
emergency room, and they're going to be test conducted, tests that are run, results that they're waiting on.
A nurse, after getting the results, led them to believe that Adriana had some type of vaginal infection,
noting that it was not common for a 2-year-old. Jennifer and Adriana were sent home
without medication, but they were told that they needed to go to their regular doctor, right? To go follow up
with Adriana's pediatrician. Right. So, on the following day, Adriana's grandmother took her to the
pediatrician. The pediatrician confirmed the infection, and again noted that it wasn't common at that age, though said
that it could have been caused by something as simple as being left in a diaper for too long. Yeah, neglect. Then
we go to March 23rd, the last time Kathy sees Jennifer and Adriana. On March 23rd, 2004, Kathy saw Jennifer
and Adriana in person. They had been to the doctor for that infection. It should have been a forgettable
errand, right? Like an ordinary day, other than the doctor's visit, but it became the last confirmed time Jennifer
and Adriana were physically seen by her family. On March 24th, Jennifer called Kathy, her mother, from
Joey's parents' house. This is a tough call. She's distressed. Jennifer is distressed. She
was arguing with Joey. She wasn't getting along with Joey's mom. Right. Kathy said she could hear yelling
in the background. She could hear Adriana, the little girl, crying in the background. The sound of the call was
the sound of a home in turmoil. Kathy tried to give practical advice in the middle of all of this chaos, saying,
"Go get Adriana, bring her into the room, get her away from the noise, from the yelling."
Jennifer did that. Kathy offered to come and pick them up. Jennifer refuses. She told Kathy not to
do not come over here. She said, "We're going to stick it out." I believe is her exact words, quote,
"Stick it out." And she promised that they would talk the next day. Well, the next day is March 25th, 2004.
This is the last confirmed conversations. Confirmed being the very important word
here, Captain. So, Jennifer spoke with her father, Michael, at approximately 11:00 a.m. that day.
Michael says that they spoke for about 2 hours, which just about everybody in Jennifer's family describes as unusual.
Right. >> Saying Jennifer did not typically stay on the phone with her father for that
long. 2 hours a long call. Jennifer told her father that she was upset. She said she wasn't getting along
with Joey's mother, and that Joey's mother scared her. Jennifer said Joey was at work in Franklin, Kentucky, which
we know where our story takes place in Tennessee, but Franklin, Kentucky, is not terribly far away. She says Joey's
at work in Franklin, Kentucky, but he's on his way home, and Jennifer told her father that they were going to go on a
picnic to talk about the situation and see if they could work it out. Right. The problem here is we have evidence.
You're threatening your partner with a gun. You're threatening to kill her or her her daughter. You're physically
abusive. You're mentally abusive. You're verbally abusive. So, there's tons of evidence that you're a piece of [ __ ]
Well, the piece of [ __ ] doesn't fall too far from that piece of [ __ ] tree. And that would be his mother.
And so, then you're this is just a bad situation overall. Jennifer also said something that
would later haunt the family. She said she was looking forward to seeing her dad in
Manchester the coming Sunday. Now, I've seen that statement several times. I don't I'm
I'm a little uncertain. I mean, we know what's about to take place. We know what
does take place in our timeline here. I I I'm not seeing the writing on the wall of exactly why this was so
haunting, other than maybe it it might have been the last thing that she said to somebody that she was very close
with. There was also an additional family claim that Jennifer spoke with an aunt on March 25th, 2004, so the same
day. I'm guessing this would have been later in the day. The aunt says that she agreed to leave a
key out. I'm going to hide a key somewhere, leave a key, store a key somewhere, so that if you needed to come
by, Jennifer, if you and Adriana want to come here and maybe stay here or drop by, you can let yourself
in. We need to be absolutely clear here that that call has never been verified. It
it's the aunt says that the call took place, but Jennifer's immediate family Mhm. later stated that they could not
confirm this call ever took place, and they're saying that they're basing their question mark of this call
through law enforcement records that they've reviewed. Right. Bizarre. So, after Thursday, March 25th,
2004, Jennifer and Adriana vanished. Poof, gone. Now, before we get into further details
here, let's start off by stating both the obvious and maybe some of the not-so-obvious here, right?
With the two gone, I want I want to right away, can we squash the idea right away that Jennifer chose
to leave on her own accord? I mean, that's always >> a lot of sense. Yeah, it it's a possibility in a lot of
these stories, and it look, it we can't say 1,000% that that's the case here, but it would seem like very close to
that. I mean, taking her 2-year-old daughter, Adriana, little toddler, with her and
hitting the road to start a new life somewhere else just doesn't doesn't ring true here, right? No car,
no money, and then maybe the less >> No resources, no provisions, and maybe the less obvious here is
it's a little sick kid. The sickness mattered. It matters for more than one reason, for
medical reasons. It makes the idea of Jennifer voluntarily traveling or disappearing
even less believable. Because to the people that knew Jennifer best, they have said now for 20-plus years,
Jennifer was not the type of mother to casually leave town with a sick kid with no supplies. Yeah, but she makes some
bad decisions. So, >> Agreed. that becomes difficult. But, like you said, unless we have
evidence of her communicating with somebody that's going to help her or drive her away,
uh it doesn't make a lot of sense, because every time there's conflict, she is still reaching out to family members.
Like you said, the 2-hour-long phone call with her father, that kind of seems important to me.
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And the family says exactly the same thing. And then, to circle back
to what you said, she makes poor decisions, true. I won't I won't fight you on that.
She does. The person she's closest with, Joey, he makes bad actions. He makes terrible, horrible,
frightening actions. And like you said, piece of [ __ ] acorn doesn't fall too far
from that POS tree. Right. >> I I'm very curious about what actions went on with some of Joey's family
members. Well, yeah, and we do know that Joey was again, like you said, he wasn't like a
million miles away or anything, but he's gone for a time period, and there's still conflict. So, there's a there's
possibility that uh she's missing, but that could be because of Joey, or it could be because of his mother,
or it could be a combination of both of them. And to be clear, while again, while this is another city, he's not
staying there to work. This, from my understanding, this is a a typical work shift of a place that they would drive
to to uh work. I I don't I believe I found it when I was reviewing all the information, but I
don't seem to have it here in my notes what the name of the employer was, but it was located in Franklin, Kentucky,
And right at with that that phone call, that very lengthy phone call with her father,
she does mention that Joey's at work in Franklin, Kentucky. He's on his way home, and
we're going to go on a picnic, and we're going to talk this through. We're going
to We're going to We're going to talk about it. And see what happens. And that kind of leaves
for Jennifer's dad, anyway, that's going to leave a big lots of ball out there, because I don't think that Jennifer's
telling him that we're going to be able to work it out. I don't think she's telling him that oh, it's it's over
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The love between a mother and daughter should be sacred shelter; an untouchable sanctuary that no evil can penetrate. In March 2004, that safe haven would be forever shattered for Jennifer Wix and her daughter, Adrianna. The two have been missing since March 25, 2004. The mystery of the missing Wix girls not only exemplifies the boundless love shared between of mothers and daughters, but also depicts a family scarred by untold grief and lingering, unanswered questions. The agony of spending the last 21 years without Jennifer and Adrianna has kept the family stuck in the past - unable to move forward, yet determined to keep fighting until the truth is finally brought to light, and returning the girls back home. With the 22nd anniversary of the girls' disappearance fast approaching, perhaps this will finally be the year we can lay the girls to rest among their loved ones. If anyone has information about the disappearance of Jennifer and Adrianna Wix, contact the Robertson County Sheriff’s Department at 615-384-7981, or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

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Brief Summary

Jennifer and Adriana Wix went missing in 2004 amid a turbulent relationship and escalating domestic violence.

Key points

The Wix Girls: A Cold Case. A haunting tale of a missing mother and daughter, Jennifer and Adriana Wix, who vanished over 20 years ago. Their case remains open, shrouded in mystery.
The Threatening Incident. Jennifer Wix experiences a terrifying moment when her partner threatens her and her daughter with a firearm, leading to a drastic change in her life.
The Door Kicking Incident. In a chaotic confrontation, Joey Benton kicks down a door at Jennifer's family home, escalating tensions and leading to police involvement.
The Return of Contact. Jennifer reconnects with her family on her sister's birthday, but pain lingers.
The Last Confirmed Sightings. March 23rd marks the last time Jennifer and Adriana are seen by family.
A Disturbing Call. Jennifer's distress during a phone call foreshadows trouble ahead.

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