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🗓️ 14 January 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
0:15.0 | It's a whole in your whole family. You know, I mean, there's always this. There's always just this. |
0:25.0 | Blank. Every event in your family, whether it's someone dying or a baby being born or anything, you know, strike you even harder. |
0:38.0 | So every event, whether it's happier, sad, almost sad, you know, it brings it back full force that there's this big missing piece. |
0:52.0 | You know, in my case, it's my daughter and my granddaughter. So. |
1:07.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 60 of the vanished 21 year old Jennifer Wicks and her two year old daughter Adriana disappeared from cross planes Tennessee on March 25th, 2004. |
1:21.0 | According to Jennifer's boyfriend, he dropped them off at a gas station where they got into a white car. |
1:27.0 | The next day, he claims that Jennifer came back to the house to ask for her income tax return and then left. |
1:33.0 | The two have never been seen or heard from again. This is Jennifer and Adriana's story. |
1:51.0 | At the time of Jennifer and Adriana's disappearance, they had been living with Jennifer's boyfriend Joey Benton and his parents at their home in rural Robertson County, Tennessee. |
2:02.0 | Jennifer had started dating Joey less than a year earlier in July of 2003. Their relationship was far from perfect. |
2:10.0 | I spoke to Kathy who was Jennifer's mom and Adriana's grandmother. She gave me some insight into the relationship between Jennifer and Joey and also an incident that happened in September of 2003. |
2:21.0 | That prompted Jennifer to move out of the Benton home. |
2:25.0 | They seem to have a love hate thing going on. Like I said, they hadn't been together that long and they had already had an encounter. |
2:34.0 | Where he had good going on her and so she left in the end and as a matter of fact, I moved home. I had transferred out to Las Vegas Nevada working and I transferred back home just to come back and help her in the baby because she was distraught and. |
2:51.0 | I didn't want to live at her grandmother's house and didn't have a job at the moment and all the athletic leave and move back here to help her out. |
3:02.0 | Unfortunately, Jennifer did eventually move back in with Joey and his family. On the evening of Wednesday, March 24th, Jennifer called and spoke to Kathy. She described that phone call to me. |
3:13.0 | Nothing was normal. She was very concerned. She was very upset. There was a lot of discourse and fighting and cussing and screaming and yelling and calling names and all this kind of stuff going on in the house when she called me. |
3:31.0 | The following day, Jennifer spoke with both her aunt and her father on the phone. While speaking with them, she had told them about her concerns with her current living situation at the Benton house. |
3:41.0 | Those phone calls are the last confirmed contact that anyone had with Jennifer or Adriana. But the story doesn't end there. Jennifer was a young mom and didn't have much money, a cell phone or a car. |
3:54.0 | Joey has told a few different stories about how Jennifer and Adriana left on March 25th. |
4:00.0 | The one that has seemed to stick is that the two hadn't argument on Thursday evening, which would be the day after the argument that Kathy heard over the phone. |
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