It was a year ago Monday that 19-year-old Megan Maxwell never made it home.
Investigators say they work on this case every day and meet every week to discuss it.
Tips are always coming in: some legitimate, some don't pan out.
Megan was last seen leaving her father's house.
Deputies found her car torched a few hours later.
"It was nice and warm. It was a beautiful day," Lisa Maxwell recalled. "We'd planned to cook out. And, later that day our lives had been turned upside down."
On April 26th 2009, Megan Maxwell never came home.
A year later, the sunshine is replaced with gray skies. And Lisa Maxwell still doesn't know what happened to Megan.
"I've felt it from the very start that Megan isn't with us anymore. But now we need her. We need closure," Maxwell cried.
Investigators believe Jeffery Lee Stock has something to do with the teen's disappearance.
He's a registered sex offender. He's now in jail on charges unrelated to Megan's case.
"He has definitely done something with Megan," Maxwell told Volunteer TV. "I just wish he'd tell us where."
The Maxwell family would love to add to his prison sentence, but they don't have the evidence.
They don't know for sure if Megan's been harmed.
"I would have never thought it'd be this long. I figured we'd find her the first week," Maxwell said, crying again.
The sheriff, meanwhile, says he still expects a break in the case.
"There may be some news coming out shortly we'll have to wait to see. Some leads came in this past week," Cocke County Sheriff Claude Strange said.
As mom waits, she admits she battles her heart and her head.
"Certain days I have a lot of hope. Other days I have none."
"What about today?" WVLT asked.
"Today I have a little bit," Lisa Maxwell said.
Megan's mom says that Megan was acquainted with Jeffery Stock through her father.
She had told her mom she didn't like Stock.
Witnesses say they saw Stock driving Megan's car just before she disappeared.
There is still a $15,000 reward up for grabs for the person who has information that will lead to an arrest.
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