No shred of evidence of the boy has been found.

Trina Clegg, DeOrr’s maternal grandmother, said the family has not spoken to news media recently because there is nothing new to report about the disappearance.

“It’s killing us all inside that we don’t have anything new right now,” Clegg said.

She said it has been hard to keep the family going with all the attention the case has gotten, some of it accusatory toward the family.

But she said an outpouring of support from community members has negated some of the nasty comments on social media.

“With the people saying the negative stuff, if one person said something bad there are 20 folks doing good that replace that,” Clegg said.

She said the holidays were difficult for DeOrr’s family. Spending Thanksgiving and Christmas without their child and seeing his birthday come shortly after was “heartbreaking.”

“The only thing that got me though is the community," Clegg said. "People just mailing over Christmas cards … or I would go to talk to people and they would just walk up and hug me."