The Murder Of Twilight Song
An unsolved murder of a 15-year-old Indigenous girl.
On the southern edge of Bowling Green Kentucky lived a 15-year-old girl by the name of Jesse Twilight Song Crooks better known as Twilight. She lived with her father, Bob Crooks, and his wife Linda on Larmon Mill Road. Her dream of attending Harvard was a valid one because she was a straight-A student at Greenwood High School. What she was going to study she kept to herself. Twilight was a typical teenager who liked to swim and play soccer.
Her heritage is a unique one. She is half Arapaho through her mother and part Cherokee through her father. When she was with her biological mother in New Mexico she got to learn beadwork and about her family. Twilight was proud to bring this knowledge back with her to her family and friends in Kentucky.
Her father told investigators that she took a shower and later they would hear the phone ringing. That call was at 10:56 PM on August 28th, 2001. The investigators traced it to a pay phone at the Plano store. Twilight slipped out of her house barefoot to meet her killer or killers.
At 6 AM, Bob Crooks called the police and reported his daughter missing. The Crooks knew about her slipping out of her house to meet up with her friends. She always did it barefoot and her friends told investigators that she did it often. Whoever called…
