LOWLAND, Tenn. — The continuing search for a missing 19-year-old woman hit another dead end Saturday when a dig at a Hamblen County landfill yielded no clues.
The search for Megan Maxwell began April 26 after an off-duty Newport police officer spotted her 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse burning on U.S. Highway 25/70. She’d talked to a friend just before 4:30 a.m. as she left her father’s home on Mineral Street.
A dumpster near the father’s house was emptied around the time of Maxwell’s disappearance. That led authorities to the TiDi Waste landfill in Lowland outside Morristown, Newport Police Chief Maurice Shults said.
Newport officers, along with Cocke County deputies, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents and a team of nationally certified handlers of cadaver-finding dogs searched the landfill Saturday with no success, the chief said.
The state is offering a $10,000 reward for any tips leading to an arrest and conviction in Maxwell’s “death or disappearance.”
Jeffrey Lee Stock, a 41-year-old convicted sex offender from Del Rio, has been questioned in the case. A federal grand jury indicted him this week on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
Police described Maxwell as white, about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and about 115 pounds. She wore a blue sweatshirt and tattered blue jeans the day she disappeared.
Police asked that anyone with information in the case call 423-623-5556, ext. 105, or 623-1285.
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