Chapter 9: SUSPICIOUS

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Now, I want to invite everyone to open the folder I placed before them titled suspicious, and if you'll kindly turn your attention to the first item, concrete pads, then we can begin. Cindy Benton, Joe Benton, Joey Benton, Jennifer Wicks, and Adriana Wicks all lived in the brick ranch down home on the Benton property on March twenty fourth, two thousand and four. On March twenty fifth, two thousand and four, Cindy Benton, Joe Benton, and Joey Benton were the only three remaining in that home at the time. Jennifer Wicks and Adriana Wicks would never be heard from again. Shortly after the girls went missing, a concrete slab was poured next to the home on the Benton property. We're going to dive into this a little bit deeper. This is missing in Hutchtown Season one, chapter nine. Here we go. Here's TC Collins, who helped build this home in two thousand and four, just one month after the girls went missing. You know, I helped them build their house. That's another thing. You know. The rumors are about, oh, they're buried in the concrete or under the floor, this or that. I pulled up when Joey was mixing bag cement in a mixture and pouring the foundation around the house. And so I know for a fact that there's about seventy feet right there that ain't got anything in it. It's like three feet it's three by three. It's a like a it's a you know, it's a it's the shape of the house. It's a rectangle, but it's a three by three foundation. Saw the concrete is that typical for what they needed it for? It it's not. But there's not anything typical and what they needed it for. What do you mean? Well, they overhauled every single thing that that I say they but me and Joey built it, and Big Joe but he manly just you know, drugged logs with tractor. But they got a. Portable saw meal and cut their own timber and dried it and then we built the house. But they went overhauled on everything they wanted. The house stand four hundred years, is what Big Joe said. So everything, not just the concrete, everything's overhaul. They have still, you know, the storage rack beams that they have in like lows and on depot. Those things are rated for like four thousand pounds, but if they're rated for four thousand thousand pounds, they hold eight. So they use that to make their floor and then put what over top of it, and uh, you could drive a Sherman tank on it, you know, and and all the bit the timbers are all two by two timbers, you know, and uh, you know up to twenty foot long. I mean, they had some nice timber on their property and they used it so everything's big. They wanted it to look like outdoor world. That's what that's the scheme they were going for. The only thing that was weird to me is how much foundation was poured with with bag crete, because that would kill a man. After knowing what I know now about concrete. I have no idea why the man I mean I do. I guess it had to do. With price, but it's a lot cheaper, but it's because you got to mix it bag by bag and it was. A lot of work. I remember when he was doing it. That's one part I got out of, you know. I pulled up he was doing and I was like, well, you're visiting them, we'll go. I hoped him build everything else. So I didn't want none of that. It was an awful looking he was sweating a disc. But so the rumors about the girls remains beaten in the concrete up. I don't believe if. I mean, if they were, it would just makes everything I'm saying is speculation, you know, just like everybody else's. I don't have any more valuable and opinion than anybody else. But as a concrete man, it doesn't make sense to put them inside of the form in the concrete. It would make more sense to put them underneath the concrete where it's not gonna be x ray. Is it suspicious that a concrete pad was poured very soon on the bent And property after the girls disappeared? Okay, I can see it argued both ways. One, it's just coincidental timing. Is there evidence that this structure was planned before April of two thousand and four when construction began. This could give credibility to the Bentons. They could say, hey, look, we have purchase orders of concrete and other materials from before the girls went missing. We have receipts to show you that this was a plan in motion or two was it purposeful? The added factor that the Benton family never joined in any searches along with the construction of this overly poured concrete slab. Now recall, the amount of concrete used was said to be astronomical, and they hand poured it all. They hand mixed all of it. Now we do know that saves quite a bit of money, but still why so much overkill on the concrete. I was able to find that the typical depth of a concrete foundation for a house, let alone a barn is six inches maximum for this barn or later house. Is it possible that the construction of this house was a project to distress the Benton family from everything going on in the background. I'm not insinuating they are guilty of anything in the situation except avoiding facing rumors, accusations, and speculation. Was this a busy body project while they navigated through Hashtam's rumor mill about them? Or are the girls' remains under that concrete slab under that house? Was this building of her searched? Well? According to Casey's recollection, the columns were searched by law enforcement. Let's listen to what was done in the past. Casey, Buddy and myself sat down to talk. Now, law enforcement has told me. In the last couple of years, they've told me not that's when the search, because I don't know when exactly this search was done. Buddy and I were trying to figure that out, but they told me that they did bring out GPR equipment and search the columns underneath the new cabin that was built certain foundations and this particular how there's the footings or whatever, the concrete footings and then there's like big three x three like cinderblock concrete columns under there. So to my knowledge, that is what they search air quotes, because I can't confirm that when they went out there. Each anniversary, the Wicks family and friends do something in remembrance of Jennifer and Adriana. Kathy's late husband Larry started a bike ride he called Chain of Hope. It garnered a lot of support over the years, with the family leading a caravan of both motorcycles and cars through cross planes down the side roads and in front of the Benton home. Each Chain of Hope, Jennifer's sister Casey pulls out her sister's folder of CDs. This is one of the few items that Joey dropped off in trash bags at Kathy's house. In fact, I remember he returned her things in large black garbage bags, and most of the stuff that was in those garbage bags didn't b to Jennifer or Adriana. Uh. Most of it was trash and other people's clothing, And it was as if they had just scooped stuff up off of a nasty floor and thrown it in these trash bags and brought it over to my house. And whatever was in there that was Jennifer's was Jennifer's, and whatever was in there with somebody else with somebody else's. But I can remember going through every one of those trash bags. I had this large. Sunroom at my house, and I emptied them all out on the floor in the sunroom and just started going through every little piece and collecting hairs off of stuffed animals and stuff and putting it in baggies, and of course the toot presses and just everything like that. Turned all that stuff over to the police. Found a T shirt of Jennifer's and there her favorite T shirt that had actually belonged to her high school sweetheart, and she used to wear it all the time, just a baggy o T shirt, but it was her favorite short all the time. And I found it and it was ripped from the top of the shoulder on the sleeve all the way down, the back ripped off, and it had some stains on it, and of course I turned I bagged that up, turned that into him. Found that alarming. And I remember just I remember my husband found me out there in the middle of the night, just laying in the middle of their stuff, just sobbing. But I just wanted to smell them, you know. I just wanted to be close to him, as close as I could, and that was as close as I could be. Casey plays her sister's music. She turns it up and rifts through her memories what she can remember, the ones PTSD hasn't robbed her of, and her mind continues to spend with questions of am I doing enough? Where are you guide me to you, Jennifer? Or what do I do next. It's the one time of year that Casey will take the CDs out of the cases, ever so carefully as she is with all of the items that Jennifer left behind for them, and the family has vigils. One vigil in particular, was devastating and contentious. All let friends and family tell the story. Here's Shawne's Jennifer's childhood best friend. We used to release bloons next to the cemetery we used to gather. It was great. They were so big. The community came out and was so supportive. In the beginning, some of our high school friends came and they were big, and then I guess when Larry came and he started to chaying to hope, they just grew. They've been out there for so long. But then it seemed like in the beginning and then it just seemed like it dropped quick, quicker than it should have. I'm thrilled that we are opening it back up, and I'm hoping that we're closer now than we've ever been, because it's twenty years. That's so long, you are, it's so long. Closer than it's ever been. There is hope there. And here's Heather, Jennifer's sister. Well, that was kind of that was scary the day that we finished out there with one of our I can't remember if we had started doing rides at that point or not, I don't know, but we were out there and all of a sudden there were like multiple gunshots that kind of going off, and it was absolutely terrifying because I had my children there. And clearly you're messing with a family. Who is you know. I'd like to say possible for your sister niece's disappearance, but I don't. I don't like to say that. I like to say, one hundred percent, because that's just how how sure I am with inside me. But that's absolutely terrifying, Like to hear a bunch of gunshots going off, You're like, who's next, Like, get my own babies out of here before something happens to one of them, you know what I mean. It was pretty scary. And then the way they came over to the fence and they just seemed like there was no empathy and no sadness. Who is who is? It was Joey Benton and joe Bitton his father, and they came over to the fence together and they were basically laughing because everyone was scared and and they had like smirks on their faces. There there was no. Just I guess the best word to use is empathy for watching this family, you know, go through what they're going through, and there was absolutely zero support from them at all. You never saw a Benton at any of the vigils, no or at any of the searches. Nope. Has Joey Benton ever reached out to you in the last twenty years. Absolutely not anybody from the. Family, nobody. And here's Joel then Jennifer's friend. So I remember we used to have the vigils at the church across the street from the Venn home. And one year specifically, I remember we you know, we got our billions together, we accept our prayers, and we were going to walk by the Benton home and you know, make it even more known that we're there obviously, and they did. They went out on the property and shot their guns and the air, and we're really trying to intimidate us, like like we shouldn't be there. Did you see them? But you they didn't come out on the porch that as far as I could tell, but you could hear. I mean, you obviously knew where it was coming from. And I know another year, I don't remember it was the same year or if it was a different year. I think it was a year before that baby, where Joey actually drove by in his car when we were doing our thing, Like we saw him back out of the driveway and drive right past us as we're there, you know, so just to escape the situation. To not have to deal with it. You guys were in that uh Owinch Chapel graveyard right next to their. Yeah, we were walking right in front of their house. Yeah, so he pulled out, just left. It wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna be a part of And that's that to me. Like the way that that family has handled this speaks volumes to me. If you. Have nothing to do with it, why are you so secretive and so sheltered and so defensive. If someone went missing at my house and I know I had nothing to do with it and that was the last place they were seeing, please tear this place apart for that family and to clear my name. But that's not happened with them at all, And I think that's crazy. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. Six one five real Estate Advisors People Overprofit. Sixty one five real estate advisors are committed to bringing people in our community home every single day. This includes Jennifer and Adriana Wicks located in Robertson County, Tennessee. Sixty one to five real Estate Advisors proudly serve all of Middle Tennessee. 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They empowered local businesses and promote the shop local revolution through advanced technology, while never sacrificing online privacy With innovative Bluetooth, proximity marketing, direct customer messaging, and in app marketing tools, They're your ultimate local list Hometown Connect. Here's the written incident police report by the Robertson County Sheriff's Office so Officer C. Fry on March third, two thousand and eight. So again, this would be the four year anniversary of the girls disappearance. Says this quote. Responding officer was dispatched to the complaintant's residents in reference to a disturbance. On arrival, responding officer was advised by the complaintant, Amy Meyer, that there were people next door at the Owens Chapel Cemetery for Jennifer and Adriana Wicks remembrance service. Amy advised that earlier she had heard one or two gunshots that came from the side of the house where the cemetery is located. Amy then called her brother, Joey Bent, into the residence. Amy advised that when Joey was at the residence, he went to the fence line separating the yard in the cemetery and was yelled at by one female in the crowd that quote she was going to get him one way or another end quote. Joey advised responding officer that he did not know the female's name, but he believed it was possibly Jennifer Wicks's grandmother. Joey also advised that several TV news cameras were present when this incident occurred. Joey advised responding officer that he was in fear for his life because of these statements. After advising responding Officer this, Joey walked away and went back to the fence row where the female he was in fear for his life of was located, and continued to talk to the news cameras. Responding officer did request that Joey, Amy, and their family attempt to stay inside the residence or at least away from the fence while the service was bue held. All parties refuse this, stating that it was their property and they would go anywhere they wanted to go. Before leaving. Responding officer was also advised by the Bentons that the gunshots came from the opposite side of the property, in the woods behind the house, not on the side were the cemeteries located, as was originally stated. While trying to talk to Joey and his father, Joe Benton, both parties became agitated and started to argue with responding officer, at which point responding officer advised he was not going to argue with them and left the residents. Responding officer advised Amy and Joey of how to obtain a copy of this report and of warrant procedures. Okay, Now, we have a written statement from Kathy to the Robertson County Sheriff's Office. It's on file with them. I have a copy of it, and this is about the same incident. And I am going to read that for you now. So per Kathy's handwriting, here we go. On three thirty eight, family friends and supporters gathered at Owen's Chapel Cemetery to hold a memorial vigil marking the fourth year since my daughter and granddaughter, Jennifer and Adriana Wicks, vanished from the home that is next to the cemetery, belonging to Joseph F. Benton. As we walked from the church to the cemetery, we witnessed Joey Benton jumped the friends from the cemetery to his yard. As I was speaking to the guests totally in approximately seventy five people, gunshots too sounded from behind the Benton house. Everyone immediately turned toward the sound of the gunfire, including the news cameras, and people seek shelter with their children behind vehicles. I continued to talk to the crowd while joe and Joey Benton approached the fence line and began to try to incite and intimidate members of my family. A peaceful memorial for my children was ruined by the desire to intimidate and frighten their family and friends. There was at least one witness in the crowd that seen the second shot fired. His name is Robert Jones. This site is where my childre from were last seen and the only place where we can take flowers in their memory, and it was ruined and disrespected by Joe and Joey Benton's actions. Witnesses to follow Kathy Casey Holloway. Here's an article about it from The Tennessee Inn by reporter Jim Bellis. In two thousand and eight, tombstones defaced with Justice for Jen day after gunshots disrupt vigil. Monday, a day after gunfire interrupted a vigil and remember to Jennifer Wicks and her daughter Adriana, Robertson County Sheriff's deputies were called out again when three tombstones and the Owens Chapel cemetery were painted to read Justice for Jen. The two girls have been missing since March of two thousand and four. The vigil held for the third year at Owens Chapel United Methodist Church was reportedly attended by upwards of fifty people. During a speech by Kathy Holloway, Jennifer's mother, two shots were heard. This occurred while the vigil participants were in a cemetery adjacent to property owned by the Benton family. Denton Junior was Jennifer's former boyfriend and last known contact. Robertson County Sheriff's Deputies were called and investigated the incident. According to their report, they concluded the shots originated from property owned by the Benton family, but were unable to determine who fired them. Halloway and Peggy Calvert, Wicks's grandmother, have long speculated that the Benton family knows more about the missing too than they have revealed. We just don't know what else we can do, Joe Benton, Senior said. We've done everything we could for a year to try to help find Jennifer. Hey, we just don't know where Jennifer ing was. He describes as searches, tests, investigations they submitted to quote, We've let the TBI search, that the Sheriff's departments search, that the CSI has come out and looked at everything out there. End quote, said Carol Benton, Joe Senior's mother. They brought stuff out that would find a body in concrete and let we let them do all that. Mother and daughter have not been seen since March twenty fourth, two thousand and four, when they were first supported missing by their family. Since then, the police have continued to follow all leads in two day nothing have surface to indicate the whereabouts of the two. Holloway said their family continues to miss them and pray for closure for this tragedy. Grief, anger, desperation, it all plays a part in this journey and sometimes it makes you do things you want it't typically do. But of course, since I cannot get through to the Benton three, Cynthy, Joey or Joe, I cannot ask them directly about this. Did you guys spray this and try to pin it on the Wick's family make them look bad? But you know this did stand out to me Jen jay e Nn It was spelled with two ends Jen. I asked the family what Jennifer's nickname was, and they told me she called herself Jen mostly with two ends. Who close to her called her Jen was it just shortened because her full name wouldn't fit on the tombstone, and Jen with one end would have been easier. I'm led to believe was it. Somebody who knew her well and intimate. The article brings up a great point. The Bentons have always said they took light detector tests and passed. That they've always been fully cooperative and have done everything asked of them, which by now we know is untrue. Joe Benton called on that initial search mister Edwards was trying to do. He tried to get in between Buddy's search and his own father. So when it comes to lie detector tests, we have to wonder what the truth is. There's no confirmation in whether Cindy Benton ever took a lie detector test. And listen to Casey and Buddy, the PI discussed Joey and the light detector test. Schurch Department and the original when this happened. A couple of weeks later after it happened, asked Joey to take a polygraph test, which it's actually avorce. Test polograph kind of, and. He told people on topic and other places that I've talked to of the witnesses that he took the test and passed it, And that's not a true statement because the person that came up from Metro to Springfield to do the test works for me as a license private investigator, and he said that once he read him the instruction, he stood up and laughed. And walked out the room. So, yeah, like you got to be made some kind of statement. He doesn't remember that statement, but like, you know, just kind of brushed it off and walked out of the room. Yeah, No, that's Joey. Joey. I'm sorry, Joey. Yeah, Joey. Joe was actually there that day. Yeah, and they had him in a separate room in the sheriff's office, and from what I believe y'all told me that joe started like making a ruckus about something started like getting loud in the other room, and Joey heard him kind of doing that, and then he got up and walked out. But he Joey did take his original polygraph tests, which is where it's like the one that everyone knows and sees like on movies and whatnot. You know, like you hook him up and you know it's not based on your voice. I guess it's based on your heart rate. But he took that one in passed. But law enforcement has told me directly that they feel like the questions that were asked at that time were probably not the right questions, that they were asked in a way that would not really give us any results. That is Joe that that past, Joey, Joey Okay, Joey. Yeah, Joey's the only one who's taken polygraph that's correct. Joe Yeah. To our knowledge, Joe and Cindy have not ever and I think that they had Cindy lined up to take one, and I don't believe that she ever did, just with things that I've read in the old topics form, how. Did Joey was he? Was it a court ordered won or volunteer? Volunteer? You can't. You can't court order it because it can be used in court. A lot of times detective views it just to see if they need to put a lot of effort into it or not. It's not admissible at all. No, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. Six one five real estate advisors People overprofit. Sixty one five real estate advisors are committed to bringing people in our community home every single day. This includes Jennifer and Adriana Wicks located in Robertson County, Tennessee. Sixty one to five. Real estate advisors proudly serve. All of Middle Tennessee. Andy Be's Boutique custom tees for all your needs, creating faith, pet and family friendly designs for all. 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With innovative bluetooth, proximity marketing, direct customer messaging, and in app marketing tools, they're your ultimate local list hometown connect. Yeah, and I mean I've heard all kinds of things, like people can pass those. Yes, that's why they're not admissible, is people can pass them even if they aren't telling the truth. So I wonder what caused them to walk out that day. Well, if you go and like you cooperate and then you lead, then you can tell people, hey, I passed it because the only people in is Joy and the TAK examiner. Yeah. So and that's what he did. Hey, I passed. No chance, he took another one and passed. To my knowledge, no, not that we know. I've known. They did not have a technique a person that gives this type of test. That's raight. Metro was called in. Yeah, at Rogerson County. They don't have a lot of the resources, like I've even been told, like they don't have dogs like scent dogs could have or dogs. They have to pull those in from like Tennessee Highway Patrol and Metro and like pool from other agencies. So they have told me that so this was pulled in from Metro and the guy works for Buddy in private investigations have. For several years, and he's like, no, he did not take that. He walked out full disclosure. I started the season by sharing that I'm currently behind the scenes on many developments in this case. There have been searches, both law enforcement headed and family headed that have occurred since March twenty seventh. For now, I say this because I've been rolling my camera and the microphone has been on the entire time, and I will take you through it once we can. I've personally taken an axe to cut away roots to search for Jennifer and Adriana's remains. I've taken sharp shovels and pounded them into the deep layer of the Tennessee mud, into the deep layer of the clay. Based off of leads we've been given. I watched this family frantically search for the girls, not as if they're finding bones and maybe articles of clothing, but as if the girls went missing yesterday, as if they could still save the girls. And although we're saving what we've been doing in the efforts of the search for the sequel to this podcast, I will share a few clips from some of our searches just to give you an idea of how devastating this journey has been and how it continues to be devastating for a family who refuses to give up. I don't know what they're waiting on. I mean in that in that when I just zoomed dinner in your video, like you would go on like this, just like wait for what you know? M hmm, like for what I hope. I hope they thought them like that's what I hope they got. Casey, they would not. Be here to day. You don't think so, I know. They would not waste Let's just drive past there and find like another spot that one wants to go back and forth that's not. Too far and where just out for a country drive. I live down here, this's my neighborhood supt. I'm gonna be like this on the way by its way. You're allowed to. It's the world, it's the world. I will always rationalize your choices. I have a little bit of relief of like it was getting towards the end of the day and I was like, there's nothing for Mede. The right choice, This was the right choice. Intuition is a a great thing for you. They hate you so much. I know they don't hate you. If they had and we see sister and daughter, their asses would go broke. You're not interfering, in my opinion, we're not going to public, we're not talking. Just drive on a little bit more. And I find like, a no, don't go down there and go down Hey, there's no orange jumpsuit. It's like a dude wearing like an orange red shirt. I'll dare him wear the same color the tailors wear. In Nates. Yeah, m. He wouldn't be standing there, you know what. I bet they're I bet they're already back there because I was telling Jewels, I was like, there, he's standing there, like swinging his arms. Like doing the thing. Like he's like just swinging his arms like he's bored, you know, waiting on something. And I bet like they're either they're probably waiting on transport for Joe to come out here, either that or I don't know what they're waiting on, but they're waiting on something because they hadn't got the ATV's down or the whatevers out of the trailers, or they're already back there. And then these people are like the like the okay, yeah we found something, y'all come back here and just like. A few of them went back there with him, and these people are waiting. I want to know where they were digging. Get that drove up there? What spot sit? They're coking back? Is that what you said? Maybe tomorrow go back and. Shake one more interesting? Because there was no equipment, That's why I like hand up rather. Your devices were able to fit in the toolbox on you four by four. That makes me really concerned about. What did he say when you asked about Joe Casey? They had They don't have anything with him. You should text them just so on record. They don't find the bodies, they don't have a deal. Just song record and ask if they head bocks. We're talking twenty years in sentiment build up. Just even assume did the cadaver dogs hit on any spots? Today? They're still coming back and I want to screw it up. If to go back out there, I think you'd have to wait another when they're done, you know, because then it might be interfering. Well okay, okay, that's a day. Wow, Why did you not bring out cadaverdas? You know? Why did you been pick up other phones and they're everywhere? Or you can sit out there and say that, Okay, you said one more possible location. More of the. Response that means Joe eats. Yeah? And how deep? And how close to the water? And how high is that river right now? Is it pretty close to the water? Better for you guys? The river is pretty high after. It hasn't been raining. I think it should be documented that they were not taking the appropriate steps. At least we know this is the exact locations. Oh no, it's been a roller coaster day for any. There have been many days I have gone home from a day of interviews or searches and have just cried. And I wondered if I was the right one for the job. Am I too sensitive? And then there's a side of me, that tiger side that fears nothing because my desire to find these girls so this family can have peace supersedes any logical fear I probably should have. And Casey often jokingly tells me to lock it up, Jewels, I need you to stay tough with me here and we laugh, and she's right. It's made me tougher, but it's not made me immune to how absolutely unreal. This situation is things that this family deals with daily, getting lied to, getting dead end leads, keeping shovels, boots, binoculars in their car in case they get called at a moment's notice with a new location. It's not normal. It's not normal, but to them, it's their life and they cannot stop to feel it because if they do, they may never get back up again. So they push on and stay angry, and they use it as fuel to run through cornfields, to check locations, to be on their hands and knees and fields. They use it for good. And we've still not found the girls, but I'll tell you the family is the closest they've ever been, and those responsible for taking the lives of the Wigs girls should feel afraid. If this family finds the girls before those responsible reveal where they are, there will be nothing less for the devil to bargain with. Thank you to Barnyard Academy, this sponsor for this episode, a Middle Tennessee nature based curriculum set on a small working farm. Hey Jules, here, I sent my own son to this school in Greenbrier and it will forever be our favorite place filled with love and adventure. Children ages three to five are welcome. Tell them Jewles sent you. Missing in Hushtown was executive produced and written by Me your Host Jewles with Anlee Audio House LLC. Casey Robinson was co producer. Special thanks to John Thorpe, Patrick Robinson, my parents, and Jen Rivera, and to our children. To follow our continued efforts on Justice for Jennifer and Adriana Wicks, you can find us on Facebook at Justice for Jennifer and Adriana Wicks. This page is personally managed by Casey herself and you can find me Jewles Hi on Instagram at your Host Jewles. Notes and updates can be found on our website www dot Missing in Hushtown dot com. Please help us continue to grow by considering leaving a five star review and rating wherever you're listening. 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