19 Year Old Megan Maxwell Missing Since 4/26/09 in Newport, TN … Car Found Burned
19 year old Megan Maxwell has been missing Sunday, April 26, 2009. She was last heard from 
at approximately 4:30 am Sunday at her father’s house. Megan Maxwell’s car, a red 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse, was found burnt on East Highway 25/70 in Cocke County, TN.
The Newport teenager was last seen at her father’s house early Sunday morning.
Authorities found her car empty, and on fire, just a few hours later near the part of the river they’re now searching.
Family and friends, who looked on from picnic tables all day Tuesday, have about as many answers to this mystery as they had three days ago when it all began.
Description: Megan Maxwell,
- 5 feet, 6 inches tall
- 115 pounds
- She was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt and blue jeans with holes in the fabric
- had been driving a 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse that was found burning Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 25/70 by a passing off-duty Newport officer
According to her best friend Holly Lane, Megan said that she was coming home. Megan Maxwell never arrived.
“She told me she was coming home, and she didn’t,” Maxwell’s best friend, Holly Lane, said. Lane was the last person to hear from Maxwell during a phone call around 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
“I just don’t know what to do,” Lane said.
If anyone has any information regarding missing Megan Maxwell, please call the Newport Police Department at 423-623-5556.
UPDATE I: Police have a person of interest in the case of missing Megan Maxwell
Authorities have a person of interest in the disappearance of a 19-year-old woman whose burned-out car was found early Sunday morning in Cocke County, according to Newport Police Department Maurice Shults.
Shults declined to release any further information or confirm whether the suspect is in custody, citing the integrity of the ongoing investigation.
UPDATE II: The police chief will only say their “person of interest” is a male acquaintance of Megan Maxwell.
UPDATE III: $10K Reward Offered for any tips in the case of missing Megan Maxwell
UPDATE IV: Family searches for missing Cocke County teen
Family and friends of a missing Cocke County teen are helping police with the search.
19 year-old Megan Maxwell was last heard from early Sunday morning.
Her burned out car was found hours later along highway 25/70 in Newport, but no sign of the missing teen.A big group gathered this morning to scour the woods on foot to find some clue that might lead them to their beloved Megan.Prayers brought everyone together this morning.
Jon Walton says, “You know how much we care. You know how much we love Megan.”
