JUSTICE FOR MEGAN MAXWELL: Searches continue for Maxwell

Monday, June 8, 2009

Searches continue for Maxwell

06/08/2009

Author: Staff Report
Source: The Newport Plain Talk

NEWPORT-Although a search for Megan Maxwell in the Tidi Waste Landfill in Hamblen County this weekend was canceled, two other searches for the missing Newport teenager were held this weekend.

Maxwell has been missing since April 26, when her burned car was found about seven miles east of Newport.

According to authorities, they were unable to get a search organized at the landfill this weekend. No future date has been set.

However, CUE Center conducted a search on Douglas Lake Saturday and the Brushy Mountain Bear Club used members and volunteers to search in the Del Rio area.

In addition, CUE is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone who can lead searchers to the direct location of Megan Maxwell; this reward will only last for ten (10) days and will begin June 5th and end at midnight on June 15.
The public does not have to reveal their identify and can be assured the funds will be paid for information that will lead to the discovery of Maxwell.

Confidential tips can also be submitted through Megan's site.
Megan Maxwell website:http://www.helpfindmeganmaxwell.com.

CUE Center volunteers also organized a candlelight service, distributed massive posters of Megan, requesting aid nationwide and even got her case featured on America's Most Wanted Show, which aired again June 6 and will remain on their Web site; they have also erected a Web site for Megan which can be viewed at www.helpfindmeganmaxwell.com.

The Missing, a new Internet show produced in Crossville, has also joined the cause.
The Missing is an online program to help gain exposure for missing children and adult cases in hopes of bringing them home safely, as well as to help pass along information to help families keep their children safe.

In a recent episode host Scott Davis features information and the picture of Megan Maxwell the 19-year-old female missing from Newport.

Davis resides in Crossville. Visit this link to view this episode, MEGAN MAXWELL <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5fMzkg2a3c&feature=channel_page>.
"We feel that any additional exposure for a missing person is valuable, and where a person may not tune into local news channels or local papers they may look at the Internet," said Davis. "In some cases the victim may be taken out of the immediate area and someone that views our program from another state could make the call that makes a difference."

Currently the show has been visited by viewers in 50 states and an estimated 31 countries worldwide and has received thousands of views via their site and YouTube.
The program is broadcast weekly on the internet via www.YouTube.com/themisingtv <http://www.youtube.com/themisingtv> ; in and through links placed on their site at www.themissing.tv <http://www.themissing.tv/>; and shared with other similar sites to help gain exposure for the cases they will cover on The Missing.

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MEGAN MAXWELL CASE TIMELINE:

April 26th, 2009 - Sometime After 12:00 a.m. – Maxwell receives a call to go check on her father because he has been “in a situation.”

- 4:00 a.m. – Police reportedly respond to Maxwell’s father’s home on Mineral Street in Newport. Family members say Megan, her father and Jeffrey Lee Stock, 41 were there. Stock was allegedly drunk and belligerent, but not arrest was made.

- 4:27 a.m. – Megan calls her best friend to tell her she is finishing a cigarette and driving back to her grandmother’s home in Newport.

- Between 4:30 a.m. and 6:15 a.m. – Witnesses see Stock driving Maxwell’s 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse. One told investigators that stock stopped to ask for a lighter, and kept “fiddling around” with something in the trunk.

- 6:15 a.m. – An off-duty Newport Police Officer spots Megan’s car on fire along East Highway 25/70 near the French Broad River. Evidence found in the car leads investigators to believe she may have ended up in the river.

April 27th, 2009 - Authorities begin searching up and down the French Broad River for Megan’s body. The search goes on for weeks.

April 30th, 2009 - Governor Phil Bredesen authorizes a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person responsible for the disappearance or death of Megan Maxwell.

May 9th, 2009 - Jeffrey Lee Stock is taken into custody for violating the newly enacted “Adam Walsh Act.” He was indicted by a federal grand jury for being a convicted sex offender who traveled to the state of Indiana without registering. Stock was added to the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry after being convicted of sexual battery in 1997.

June 2nd, 2009 - The Cocke County Sheriff’s Office confirms Jeffrey Lee Stock is considered a person of interest in the Maxwell disappearance. Police say evidence put Stock at Megan’s father’s home the night she disappeared and Mr. Maxwell had Stock’s car towed from his home sometime after Megan’s car had been discovered burning.

- Lisa Maxwell, Megan’s mother tells Volunteer TV News that her daughter knew Stock as an acquaintance of her father and that, “She didn't like him and I know that she had run him off from up there before."

June 6th, 2009 - Megan Maxwell's story is featured on America's Most Wanted.

September, 21st, 2009 - Jeffrey Lee Stock enters a guilty plea in federal court to violating the Adam Wash Act. He still refuses to cooperate with the investigation into Maxwell’s death.

March 11th, 2010 - Stock is sentenced to six years in a federal prison for violating the Adam Walsh Act. He is transported to Arizona to serve his term at the United States Penitentiary-Tucson. He'll remain there until 2014 and spend the rest of his life on federal supervised release.

November 4th, 2010 - A man walking his dog along Ponderosa Road near Parrottsville spots what appears to be a human skull and some bones. Cocke County deputies, Newport Police and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation close access to the scene and begin searching the wooded area for more remains. They reportedly discover clothing on the scene as well. - The remains are taken to the University of Tennessee Regional Forensic Center in Knoxville.

November 5th, 2010 - Cocke County Sheriff Armondo Fontes calls a news conference to announce confirmation that the remains are those of Megan Maxwell.