Ricki Small, Jessica’s mum, spoke with media at the Bathurst Police Station, after the State Government announced one million dollars for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person/s responsible for Jessica’s disappearance and murder, on Friday morning.

She said the family is now hoping and praying it’s enough to bring Jessica’s killer to justice.

“It’s been 21 long years, heart breaking years,” she said. We need closure, and we need help [to find Jessica’s killer].”

She said not a day goes by that Jessica isn’t in her thoughts.

“Life is empty without Jess” she said, pleading with anyone with information to come forward.

“If you think what you know isn’t significant, it’s significant to us,” she said.

This was plea was supported by Homicide Squad Commander, Detective Superintendent Scott Cook, who at a media conference in Sydney, said it doesn’t matter of the information is “smoking gun or not.”

“Every little bit of information helps,” he said.

Jessica Small, aged 15, was last seen in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, 1997 after attending the ‘Amuse Me’ amusement centre on Russell Street, Bathurst, with a female friend.

The girls were attempting to hitch-hike home and entered a white-coloured sedan driven by an unknown man.

Police were told the man stopped the car on Hereford Street, Bathurst, and turned off the head-lights, and assaulted both girls, attempting to detain them in the vehicle.

Jessica’s friend was able to escape and alert nearby residents, but the car drove off with Jessica still inside.

Investigators believe the last sighting of the vehicle was near Duramana Road and Willott Close, Eglinton, travelling toward Hill End.

Jessica has not been seen or heard from since and Deputy State Coroner, Magistrate Sharon Freund, found at a 2014 Coronial Inquest that Jessica had been murdered.

Anyone with information on  should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.