Members of Janie’s family are offering the $10,000 reward.

The family members said they need closure.

“It’s been a terrible year. Janie and I were close,” Thomas Cooley, the victim’s brother, said. “I miss her calling and just being here.”

The victim’s daughter wept as she talked about her mother, who lived and raised her family in Wayne County for many years.

Heather Wishum, 19, said her family still needs some answers concerning her grandmother’s death.

“Her life was ripped right from under her,” Wishum said. “I feel like the case is being swept under the rug and we have the same rights as everyone else.”

“It didn’t just happen out of the clear blue. Somebody shot her,” Tod Wishum said. “We need closure.”

Family members questioned the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department’s initial handling of the case and the lack of federal and state agencies being called in to assist them in the investigation.

The MHP’s Mississippi Bureau of Investigations was the only agency called in to assist the county in the case.

“The FBI has a whole lot more resources than a hometown county sheriff office,” Tod Wishum said. “We need all the help we can get.”

“There’s no amount of money worth my sister being killed,” Thomas Cooley said. “We need help from everyone and any agency willing to help.”

Wishum said his family will continue to seek information.

Cooley agreed.

“There’s somebody who knows something somewhere,” Cooley said. “We just need someone to come forth.”

Wishum said the family needs justice.