The Search For Answers - Jennifer and Adrianna Wix - August 16 2025
Morning Cup of Murder
Morning Cup of Murder
4.6 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
| 0:13.0 | A cup of murder. |
| 0:15.1 | Sometimes a case can be forgotten. |
| 0:18.0 | But other times a family fights to make sure that will never happen. On August 16th, |
| 0:23.6 | 1882, a woman was born who would be at the center of a devastating case, one that her family |
| 0:29.4 | made sure was never forgotten. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, |
| 0:35.8 | sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
| 0:39.8 | On March 24, 2004, Jennifer Wicks called her mother to tell her that she and her boyfriend, |
| 0:46.5 | 23-year-old William Joseph Joey Benton, had gotten into a fight. And even though she was 21 years old, |
| 0:55.0 | she still wanted to talk it out with her mom. |
| 0:58.1 | The following day, likely still raw from the argument, |
| 1:02.3 | Jennifer and her two-year-old daughter, Adriana Wicks, |
| 1:05.4 | left their home in Cross Plains, Tennessee, |
| 1:08.1 | and were never seen again. |
| 1:14.4 | Because Jennifer was in constant contact with her family, |
| 1:21.3 | they knew something was wrong pretty quickly. The phone call she made to her mother, the last time they would ever speak, came in on a Wednesday. Jennifer and her daughter disappeared on a Thursday, and by Saturday, March 27th, |
| 1:30.5 | her family called the police to report the pair missing after all of their attempts at contact |
| 1:35.6 | went unanswered. According to the sources and what the family told police, Jennifer Wicks, |
| 1:43.8 | the eldest of three children, loved being a mother. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Morning Cup of Murder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Morning Cup of Murder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

