Woman creating memorial mural for sister, niece missing for nearly 20 years
ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Robertson County could be seeing a memorial mural in honor and remembrance of a missing mother and daughter.
It has been almost 20 years since 21-year-old Jennifer Wix and her two-year-old daughter, Adrianna, disappeared.
March 24, 2004, was the last time Jennifer and Adrianna’s family saw them.
Their case is being investigated as a possible homicide.
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“We kind of believe in our heart what we believe, we cannot lose that hope, and we have to forever keep searching unless we are 100% sure what happened,” said Casey Robinson, Jennifer’s youngest sister.
Jennifer’s boyfriend at the time, Joey Benton, is a person of interest in their disappearance, but years of investigation have left the family with no answers or closure.
“Twenty years of limbo is what we have kind of been going through for years and years and years,” Robinson explained. “And I will say, in the recent years, it’s turned more into a fight for not only justice, but for them, for Jennifer and Adrianna, to find answers and honor their lives.”
Robinson wants to give her family a place to go and feel close to Jennifer and Adrianna as they wait for answers.
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“I wanted to give my family somewhere to go to feel close to Jennifer and Adrianna because we don’t have that, and it almost feels like we never will after 20 years,” Robinson explained. “Of course we are hopeful, but this will give us somewhere to go if we want to have lunch together to remember Jennifer and Adrianna. We can stop by there, and we can leave flowers.”
She plans to have a memorial mural painted in their honor.
“It doesn’t say ‘missing 20 years,’ but just kind of is beautiful and it’s art and it grabs their attention,” Robinson said. “So that’s my goal is to represent Jennifer and Adrianna in a way that’s not controversial, that honors them, memorializes them, helps people not to forget them.”
Robinson told News 2 that she has already partnered with a local artist and plans to reveal the mural in either April or July, but she needs around $5,000 of an $8,000 goal to afford the artist.
Robinson said the mural will be in Springfield or Cross Plains, the last two cities where Jennifer and Adrianna were seen alive.
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In the meantime, Robinson told News 2 she will continue fighting for answers and calling for public awareness until her sister and niece are found.
“Speak to law enforcement as many times as it takes to piece it together, because law enforcement does, and we believe, too, that it’s just going to be one tiny thing that kind of ties all of this together and helps us locate Jennifer and Adrianna,” Robinson said.
If you have any information, you are asked to call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND. Callers can remain anonymous and qualify for a $25,000 reward.
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