Episode 362: Jennifer and Adrianna Wix, Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On March 25, 2004, a 21-year-old mother and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter vanish without a trace from rural Robertson County, Tennessee. Their family is devastated…and immediately suspicious. In the months leading up to their disappearance, Jennifer Wix had become increasingly isolated, with no car, no job, and no way out. Her relationship with her boyfriend and his parents was volatile, and her final phone calls made one thing clear: she was scared, and she was trying to leave with her daughter Adrianna. In episode 362, Jac and Alexis trace the emotional and increasingly dangerous path that led to Jennifer and Adrianna’s disappearance and the moment her family knew something was terribly wrong.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:03.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:20.0	And then Granny Wicks called her back and says Kathy something's wrong, Jennifer's missing.
0:28.6	And that was what triggered everything.
0:34.6	From that moment, I remember mom start panicking and calling everyone to come to our
0:42.6	house. And everyone started showing up at her house. And my initial fault were that also panicked.
0:52.2	It wasn't one of those things where, oh, she's done this before, she'll come back, or I'm not worried at all.
0:58.6	It was like the last encounter that I had with her boyfriend, the person that she was supposed to be with,
1:07.0	with him busting down our door and telling my mom she didn't have a daughter anymore.
1:17.5	So it doesn't feel good to me. It doesn't feel right. I mean, my initial thoughts were panic and something's not right. And my mom will tell you the same thing. Her mother's instinct,
1:23.3	her gut, first thing was something's not right.
1:28.1	Welcome to the first degree of the true crime podcast that you might end up on.
1:31.7	My name is Jack Fannick. I'm sitting here with Alexis Link Letter, and today is part one of our
1:36.6	two-part series of Jennifer and Adriana Wicks. And if you know, if you've been listening to
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