A year on from the disappearance of pregnant Queensland teenager Tiffany Taylor, there's still no sign of her body.
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Rodney Wayne Williams, 60, stands accused of the 16-year-old's murder but searches around Lowood and Fernvale in the Somerset region failed to find the girl's body.
Investigators allege the Logan girl met her accused killer at a Waterford West motel where she had been living with her boyfriend on July 12, last year.
On that day, her Samsung Galaxy phone gave out a signal for the last time, somewhere between Blacksoil, north of Ipswich, and Wivenhoe Dam, leading police to believe her body had been dumped in that area.
In a heartbreaking effort to provide for her unborn baby, Tiffany had turned to offering sex to people she met online but her sister, Chloe, described her as a "lovely little girl", when she bravely fronted the media to appeal for help in August last year.
"She knew what she was getting herself into but she didn't deserve this ... but I still hold out hope that we'll find her," she said.
Tiffany was five months pregnant when she disappeared.
But as the tragic anniversary of Tiffany's disappearance came on Tuesday, there was still no sign of the friendly girl who would talk to anybody.
Detective Acting Inspector Mick Thiesfield told News Corp the search for a body kept going after Mr Williams was charged.
"As important as it is for the police, it's probably more important for the family with respect to any person out there who may know any information in relation to where the body may be," he said.
"It would be very important to them that the body be recovered."
Mr Williams is due in court next month.
The sad milestone came amid a heightened awareness of the problems with Queensland's child protection system following the death of Mason Jet Lee, months after a government department first became aware of his injuries and the release of a report into the disappearance of Tiahleigh Palmer.
Sweeping changes to how police and government departments treated the disappearances of children in out-of-home care were brought in on the back of its recommendations, including giving police more power to quickly make missing persons cases public.
