Jennifer will be 22 years young this Monday, August 16. We will have her birthday party, we will honor her for her presence in our lives.
Jennifer, 22 years ago today I waited with great expectation to meet the love of my life. You have been my love ever since. The day you came into my life was the most woderful day! You were a joy and have continued to be ever since. This year seems very odd not having you here with me. Where ever you are today please know that you will always be that innocent baby to me that I held 22 short years ago. I love you sweetheart, Happy Birthday. Mom
August 14, 2004 - We have had no word of Jennifer and Adrianna. They are still lost in the world. Please continue to watch for them and pray for their safe return home.
June 26, 2004 - Benefit held in honor of Jenn and Nina. Family, Friends and Community came together to support the search and raise awarness of the girls disappearence.
August 21, 2004 - Jennifer and Adrianna's family gather to plead to the public for their involvement to help look for them. There was not a large turnout for the meeting held, but we will not give up. We have received many messages of prayer, hope and offers to help us in our search. I would like to thank each person who has offered their help and prayers. We still need volunteers for geographical teams that we are forming to help spread awarness of the girls disappearence and get their faces farther out across the country. Anyone interested in helping us please e-mail me.
October 6, 2004 - Over six months and still no word and no leads from Jennifer and Adrianna. We continue our search everyday for them and will continue until we find out what has happened to them. We will never give up hope that we will find them and bring them home. This has affected our family and our lives in every aspect that you can imagine. Everyone signing our guest book gives us strength and encouragment. We have had support from around the world and we thank each and every one of you. It has been a very difficult six months and with no contact from Jennifer at all, which is completly out of character for her, things are beginning to get quiet scary. Jennifer has always been in close contact with her family and we are all very concerned for her and Adrianna's well being. We will continue to post flyers and try to get the girls on the media as much as possible. The saying, '" no news, is good news" just is not the case in this situation. We are still trying to find a way to get nation wide media coverage for the girls and if anyone can help with this please contact me. If anyone has any suggestions, comments or information for our family, please contact us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, JENNIFER AND ADRIANNA
Jenn, it will soon be nine months since I last saw your beautiful face. Christmas Eve will be nine months to the day since I last heard your voice. Each day becomes more unbearable than the last. It's so cold and icey. I worry that you and Adrianna are not dry or warm. My prayer for you is that wherever you are that you are happy, warm, healthy and that you look out the window on Christmas Eve and looking back at you is a magical white Christmas. I also pray that you will miss me as badly as I miss you and Adrianna. We will be at midnight mass waiting for you. You will find us on our knees to Jesus at St. Joseph's. I just really feel like that if you are able, you will call your family on Christmas. You know how much the holiday has always meant to our family. I cannot bare to go about the regular holiday family traditions, the only one that we will continue is midnight mass. There will be no family gatherings for me until my family is once again whole. Give Adrianna a big Christmas kiss and hug from Mimi and make sure that she knows how much I love her and want to be with her. So much time has passed that I wonder if she will even remember me. Does she ever ask about me or her Aunt Casey? If you are able to Jenn, please, give me my only Christmas wish and call me so that I can hear your voice again. We all love you, Sweetheart. I hope that you know that. Nothing can ever change that. Not even time. You will always be the most precious thing to me, my first love in life. I know that when you look at Adrianna, you know exactly what I am feeling. It hurts, Jenn. Take care of yourself and Adrianna, stay warm and find your way home soon.
Jenn
NINA
Dear, Sweet Adrianna, My precious love, you are a Christmas Angel yourself. Mimi sure does miss you, baby girl. I sure hope that you and Mommy have a Merry Christmas and that you will be home soon. Oh how I would love to see the sparkle in your eyes as you open your gifts from under the tree and the twinkle that comes from the reflection of the lights in your eyes. I would love to take you for a ride all bundled up to see all the pretty lights and watch the look of amazement on your face. You and your Mommy are all that Mimi wants for Christmas and I am praying to Jesus to bring you home soon. I love you. Take care of Mommy!
CHRISTMAS CANDLELIGHT VIGIL - DECEMBER 14, 2004
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR JOINING US!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADRIANNA
I MISS YOU, MY LITTLE LOVE BUG! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE MIMI
Jennifer and Adrianna's family and friends will gather in honor of Adrianna's birthday on Saturday, January 15th at Cross Plains United Methodist Church at 6:00 p.m.
Adrianna will be 3 years young on January 14th. Please come and help us celebrate and remember the day that she came into our lives and made this world a brighter, funnier and happier place to be. Adrianna has been a blessing to our family since that day and we miss her so very much.
Please bring the children and come and share with us!
2/12/05 - ANOTHER INJUSTICE FOR JENNIFER AND ADRIANNA
After preparing for yet another consented, proffesional search for Jennifer and Adrianna at the property where they lived and were last seen, the property owners withdrew their consent to search at the last minute. Doing this after two months of preperation and all their "conditions" being met. The question remains after almost one year, why will these people not allow a search of their property? Why are they so unconcerned about two beautiful and innocent girls missing from their care? And the biggest of all, WHY will law enforcement not execute a search warrant of property that clearly should have been searched immediatly? There has been no viable leads as to what has happened to Jennifer and Adrianna in almost 11 months. The police are no closer to finding them than they were the day they were reported missing. Please take the time to write Governor Phil Bredesen in TN and implore to him to put a stop to this injustice!
February 26th, 2005 - A day approaches that I never dreamed that I would have to prepare for..........................................................
One year without my beloved daughter and granddaughter. As much as I have put it off and refused to face the fact that soon I will be without Jennifer and Adrianna for one year, I must prepare for that day. Our family plans to remember Jenn and Nina on March 26, 2005 with a gathering in Springfield, TN. We need anyones help who has the time and/or talent to help us. We will have a balloon release among other things to mark this day. We invite any ideas or help that anyone has to offer, as this is a very difficult time for us all. Most of all we ask for your support! Please contact me if you can help. Please join us!
May 17, 2005 - It's been 14 months since I last heard my babies voices. My last memory of Jenn's voice was one of great emotion and stress, my last of Adrianna's was or her crying. What was going on in that home? I wish that I had the answer to that question............March 25th came and went without even a clue to tell us what has happened to these beautiful girls. Our family and friends gathered together in a very public location to remember Jennifer and Adrianna and mark this day that none of us will ever forget. We released balloons as we prayed for God to bring us the answers that we so need. I am sad to say that no matter our efforts to beg the public in our community to get involved and support us, very few of the general public stopped by. I am forever grateful for the family and friends who were there and continue to be there for me, my family and for Jennifer and Adrianna. Without you, I do not think that I could have made it this far. A special thanks to Missing Lorne Boulet's, Aunt Louise who released balloons in her hometown on the same day in support of our family!
On April 26th there was a benefit concert held for Jennifer and Adrianna in hopes that we would raise enough money to take care of some much needed legal matters in their case. The music and fellowship was fantastic, but I am sad to say that again, we did not recieve the community support that we so need. There are many people that I would like to thank for putting this all together and for showing their support to Jennifer and Adrianna. First, my Mom, she has worked tirelessly this entire year and been there for me every minute of every day. She done an absoulute beautiful job on the concert. I would also like to thank TN Alliance for Families of the Missing, a wonderful new organization in TN to help families like mine who are living this horrible nightmare. R & R Acoustics for the great sound and lighting that they provided for the concert, these are caring and very talented people. All the bands and singing groups who gave their time to come and share their talent with my family, these include Blues Bound Train, Lauryce Preston Hecker, Salem Ridge Quartet, Grassy Creek Bluegrass Gospel, Friends for Christ Gospel, Michael Chapman and many others. Thank you all for caring about my children and my family.
I am sorry that it has taken me so long to update the website. I just have not had the emotional strength to take care of it. I am struggling with the fact that it seems that LE will never be able to provide the answer to what happened to Jennifer and Adrianna at the Benton home on March 24, 2004, I am trying to make sense of why that people, speaking in general terms, do not seem to care what happened and do not want to "get involved". To those people, I say, you need to get your head out of the sand, if this can happen to my children and my family, it can happen to yours. GET INVOLVED! People getting involved is the only hope that we have in this world. Stop watching so much meaningless shows on TV and turn on the news, you just might change your mind about becoming involved. Are people just content to allow these crimes against our children to just happen? There is work to be done, laws to change, awareness to be made, differences to be made! You may think that there is nothing that you can do, that's just simply not true. One person alone may not can make a difference, but masses of people standing united for a cause, CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Just imagine what a difference that could be made by people uniting and standing up to the murders, abusers, pedophiles, rapist and abducters. We have to stand together in order to make a difference in our communities. I urge anyone who is interested in standing with me to at least try to make a difference, contact me, please!
I miss Jennifer and Adrianna more everyday, this does not get easier, it gets harder. Just because you do not hear about it in the media, does not mean that the pain has stopped or that we have stopped looking for answers. I will never stop looking for the girls, EVER! I vow that I will never stop fighting for my children!
I love you, Jennifer and Adrianna. I promise you that I will continue on as long as I have a breath in me to find out what happened to you and who is responsible for taking you from the people that you love and that love you!
Thank you to all who have shown your support for my children and my family in the past year. Please, stay with me, I need you!
Sept 11, 2005 - A day of mourning for our Nation. Today, millions of people join me in my state of constant grief. I am approaching 18 months of missing my Jenn and Nina and still no word.......It is amazing to me that people can go on with their lives knowing what happened to my beautiful girls, just pretend that they never existed. You see, I know that there are people right here amongst me that have the answers, that know exactly what happened on March 25, 2004. I have no way of knowing if that is even the real date that they disappeared, I have only the word of the last known person to see them to go by. I do have faith that eventually justice will be served. I believe that it will come swift, when it is least expected. Though my hope remains that Jenn and Nina are still out there somewhere, my heart tells me that I would have heard from Jennifer by now, someone would have.
I regret that there is nothing new to share with the many who come here, keeping the girls faithfully in their hearts. Maybe someday soon.................
Jennifer and Adrianna will finally be receiving the first National media attention! Thanks to the Montel Williams Show. A segment will be aired on Friday, October, 21st at 9:00 a.m. Central time. It is our hope and our prayer that someone viewing the show will recognized the girls and have the courage to make the call that will finally bring them home. We feel blessed to have this opportunity and ask that everyone join us in our prayer for a good outcome from this much needed exposure. We would like to thank Montel Williams and all the people at The Montel Williams Show for caring and helping us to bring Jennifer and Adrianna home again. May God be with my children till I hold them in my arms again.
