Robertson County Times
Wednesday, 03/21/07
Wix family asks Please dont forget them
Saturday marks third anniversary of disappearance
By Cindy Kelly
Robertson County Times
This weekend marks three years since family and friends have seen Jennifer and Adrianna Wix, the mother and daughter who simply disappeared on March 24, 2004.
Her mother, Kathy Holloway, and her grandmother, Peggy Calvert, ask that the community remember the missing pair.
One of the largest fears I have as a mom is that people will forget them, said Holloway.
Wix was last seen by her boyfriend Joey Benton who told authorities he dropped her and her daughter at an Exxon station around 9:30 p.m. that night. He added that Wix and her daughter left with someone in a white car.
Holloway said that her last contact with Wix was when she called her upset over an argument with Benton. Wix had been living with the Benton family since the previous fall.
At the time of their disappearance Wix was 22 years old and Adrianna was 2. A billboard on Interstate 65 has kept their faces in many minds for the last year.
But so far, the family has no answers. And neither do officials.
We still get an occasional tip but nothing solid we can use, said Lt. Don Bennett of the Robertson County Sheriffs Office who has worked the case since the beginning.
It has been a missing persons case. We are now looking at it as a missing person and presumed dead case. With all these sighting and nothing concrete, we have to presume they are dead.
In the three years since the girls disappeared, Bennett and other officers have spent many hours investigating the case.
Im still sitting here looking at it, Bennett said of the vast amount of information and paperwork collected during the investigation. We worked nearly 1,000 different leads counting from when we started until now.
We hoped they are alive and show back up some day alive and well.
We work on the Wix case every day, Sheriff Gene Bollinger said.
Wixs family believes someone knows something that will help the Sheriffs Office find out what happened.
We know there is someone out there that has the answer and to not be afraid of coming forward, said Calvert. It is time for us to have closure. It can be confidential.
Please search your conscious and come forward to help us find what happened.
Holloway has a special request for property owners.
I ask individual landowners, if they would just take a look at their land and search, said Holloway, who believes her daughter met with foul play. I cant walk the whole county. If I could get everyone who owns land to walk it and help us.
To mark the third anniversary of the girls disappearance, the family is gathering at the Owens Chapel United Methodist Church on Saturday, March 24, at 3 p.m. where they will walk to the nearby cemetery and release balloons.
Wed like to ask everyone to join us, said Calvert. Wed like to ask people to pray for justice.
We ask for the communitys support and prayers as we seek justice for Jennifer and Adrianna.
Both Holloway and Calvert said they wait each and every day hoping this will be the one when they finally hear something.
This has destroyed our family, said Calvert. (Our life) is kind of on hold.
We never know what well hear tomorrow.
Please, please, dont forget them, Holloway added.
If anyone has information concerning the disappearance of Jennifer and Adrianna Wix, contact the Robertson County Sheriffs Office at 615-384-7971.
