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Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm Nicole Prton.

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Speaker 3: Two decades have passed since Jennifer Wicks, a young mother,

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Speaker 3: and her two year old daughter, Adriana, mysteriously disappeared.

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Speaker 2: From Robertson County, Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Despite their family's relentless pursuit of the truth, the case

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Speaker 3: remained largely stagnant. Adriana was her everything, recalled Casey Wicks Robinson,

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Speaker 3: Jennifer's younger sister, Reflecting on the bond they shared. Adriana's grandmother,

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Speaker 3: when speaking to NBC, recalls those moments of realizing something

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Speaker 3: was terribly wrong.

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Speaker 4: If you've ever had a child that doesn't get off

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Speaker 4: the school bus like you expected them to, or hides

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Speaker 4: under the clothing racket, target that minute of panic that

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Speaker 4: you have, just that moment of panic. This has been

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Speaker 4: nineteen years, that moment of panic.

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Speaker 3: At the time of her sister's disappearance, Casey was just sixteen,

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Speaker 3: Jennifer was nineteen and had recently graduated from high school.

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Speaker 3: Casey often cared for Adriana, who had striking blue eyes

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Speaker 3: during Jennifer's night shifts, but their close knit relationship shifted

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Speaker 3: dramatically about a year and a half after Adriana's birth,

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Speaker 3: Jennifer and her children were living with their mother and

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Speaker 3: two younger sisters when she began dating a man, Joey Benton.

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Speaker 3: Soon after, Jennifer moved in with Benton and his parents,

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Speaker 3: joe and Cynthia, who resided in Springfield. In March two

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Speaker 3: thousand and four, Jennifer reached out to her mother, sounding

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Speaker 3: distressed over a heated argument with the Bentons. Adriana was

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Speaker 3: in the other room and my mom could hear her crying,

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Speaker 3: the sister recalls. The following day marked the last time

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Speaker 3: anyone heard from Jennifer or Adriana. When Jennifer failed to

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Speaker 3: contact her family for two days, a behavior that was

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Speaker 3: out of her character, her concerned family members began to search.

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Speaker 3: Casey mentioned that Joey Benton and his parents were unresponsive

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Speaker 3: to their repeated calls. Eventually, Casey managed to speak with

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Speaker 3: Joey over the phone. He told me, quote, I don't

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Speaker 3: know where she is.

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Speaker 2: We broke up. I dropped her off at a gas station.

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Speaker 3: Joey claimed that a person in a white car picked

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Speaker 3: up Jennifer and Adriana, but he could not provide any

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Speaker 3: details about the vehicle or the driver. Jennifer's family reported

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Speaker 3: her missing, prompting the Robertson County Sheriff's Office to search

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Speaker 3: the Benton residents. However, no suspects were publicly identified at

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Speaker 3: that time. Over the next twenty years, despite numerous efforts

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Speaker 3: including prayer, visuals, fundraisers, private investigators, and confrontations with the Bentons,

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Speaker 3: little to new information emerged about Jennifer and Adriana. That

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Speaker 3: is until March twenty seven, twenty twenty four, making exactly

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Speaker 3: twenty years since the day they were reported missing. Law

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Speaker 3: enforcement raided the Bitton home, prompting a flurry of calls

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Speaker 3: to Casey from friends and neighbors. We had no idea

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Speaker 3: what they might uncover, she said, following the execution of

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Speaker 3: a search warrant. Joseph Benton Senior now faces forty charges,

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Speaker 3: including unlawful possession of numerous weapons, explosives, sexual exploitation of

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Speaker 3: a minor after investigators discovered a twenty year old photograph.

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Speaker 3: Though none of the charges are directly tied to the

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Speaker 3: case of Jennifer and Adriana and their disappearance, their disappearance

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Speaker 3: was officially classified a homicide in twenty thirteen, Sheriff's.

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Speaker 5: Salvage, TBI and other investigative officers. We're here to deplayer

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Speaker 5: of the reclassification of the Wicks Adriana being from a

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Speaker 5: mission persons to a homicize.

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Speaker 3: The case has remained unsolved, but Tonight Crime Stories with

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Speaker 3: Nancy Grace dives deep into the mystery where are Jennifer

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Speaker 3: and Adriana wigs? Tune in tonight six and nine pm

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Speaker 3: Eastern Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Doctor Phiel's.

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Speaker 2: Merit Street Media or Crime and Justice News. After this.

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Speaker 1: Mary Lands, a pediatric nurse, lives in Marshall, Michigan, with

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Speaker 1: fiancee Christopher Pratt. After an argument, Mary tells Prite she's

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Speaker 1: getting some mirror and leaves home on foot. She never returns.

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Speaker 1: Pratt calls Mary's family the next morning. They immediately report

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Speaker 1: her missing. Mary left her cell phone and car keys

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Speaker 1: at home. She did have a purse with her, but

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Speaker 1: there's been no activity on bank accounts or credit cards.

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Speaker 1: Canine's loose or sent at a nearby hotel. Pratt stops

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Speaker 1: cooperating with authorities after his initial statement. He's been in

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Speaker 1: and out of prison for unrelated domestic violence and sex

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Speaker 1: assault charges. Since Mary's disappearance. Mary five six, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. She has a

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Speaker 1: naval piercing last scene wearing a brown leather jacket over

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Speaker 1: her scrubs with slip on sneakers, carrying a white mass purse.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on mary Lands now missing over

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Speaker 1: twenty years, called Marshall, Michigan PD two six nine seven

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Speaker 1: eight one two five nine.

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Speaker 2: Six for the latest crime injustice news.

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Speaker 3: Follow crime stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcasting

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Speaker 3: app with this crime alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Pardon