WALKER COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) -- The family of a missing Walker County woman who was last seen seven years ago is still searching for answers. Now, they are asking for help from the Attorney General's office.
26-year-old Maxine Bieberbach seen walking into the woods in Empire, Alabama, on March 6, 2018. She has not been seen or heard from since.
"People don't just disappear without a trace," said Bieberbach's sister, Zoshia Rosenfeld.
"She could light up a room," Rosenfeld added. "She had so many different friends, and everybody knew her and loved her. You could not find someone to say something bad about her."
Rosenfeld says her sister was battling drug addiction before she disappeared. Bieberbach was part of a sobriety project called The Mercy Project, which was started by Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, who, at the time, was the Cordova Police Chief.
The Walker County Sheriff's Office is the department currently investigating Bieberbach's disappearance.
"We have conducted multiple searches in Walker County looking for her; we have conducted multiple searches in Winston County looking for her," Smith said. "Are there people who know? Absolutely. Do we wish those people would come forward? Absolutely."
Rosenfeld is now asking for the Attorney General to step in and take over her sister's case.
"We all deserve answers," Rosenfeld said. "She was somebody's sister, somebody's daughter, somebody's mom, and she deserves it. I don't care what happened, I don't care about that little chapter in her life where she chose the wrong things. OK, everybody makes mistakes, but she deserves the same respect and the same service from this county and the Attorney General. She deserves that."
Smith says he has asked for the Attorney General to take over the case, but he has not received a reply.
“I’m willing to turn over any case we have that people feel like they aren’t getting the amount of resources dictated toward any individual case," Smith said. "We will turn it over to FBI, ABI, SBI, the Attorney General's office, whoever wants them, they are more than welcome to come get them and investigate them if they don’t think we have done a thorough or good enough job."
The Attorney General's office has not responded to CBS 42's questions on this case.