Today Bob and Linda Crooks will visit their daughter, Jessie Marie Twilight Song Crooks, at her gravesite in Bowling Green.

This marks the 10th anniversary of the Plano teen’s disappearance.

Late on Aug. 28, 2001, Twilight walked away barefooted from the Larmon Mill Road home she shared with her father, Bob Crooks, and her stepmother, Linda. A man walking his dog on Matlock Old Union Church Road found her body 5 miles from her home on Sept. 10, 2001, near a dried-up pond in a wooded area behind what is now a soybean field.

Just two months shy of her 16th birthday, Twilight died at the hands of a killer or killers who have not been found. Her cause of death has never been released.

“How would you feel if it was your daughter or your sister, or a relative, or friend and no one would come forward with information that they had?” Warren County sheriff’s Capt. Tony Chism asked. “Put yourself in the family’s shoes.

“We would like to be able to know who heard what and get it firsthand,” he said.

While he appreciates anonymous tips that have been coming in on the case, it would help tremendously if people would come forward with their names, how they obtained information on the case and who gave it to them, Chism said.

“It’s been 10 years since Twilight was murdered,” he said. “Someone has to have some information that is not currently in the case file that could help solve the case if they provided their information. For whatever reasons, some people don’t want to be involved. This case is not involving a petty theft. We are talking about a murder of a child.”

Today, Linda Crooks plans to plant a purple mum on Twilight’s grave. Purple was her favorite color.

“We miss her terribly,” Linda Crooks said.

Crooks thinks often about the what ifs. What if Twilight had gone to college? What would Twilight be doing now? What if Twilight had gotten married and had a child of her own?

Twilight’s parents will never know the answers to those questions. But they do hope that one day someone answers for her death.

“She needs that justice because somebody took something away that did not belong to them,” Linda Crooks said.

Can you help?

Send information to: Warren County Sheriff’s Office

Attn: Twilight Crooks Investigation

P.O. Box 807, Bowling Green, KY 42102-0807

You can also call Crime Stoppers at 781-CLUE. You will not be asked for your name, and your information could lead to a reward.