It's been two and half months since Matt Maxson was sentenced to 15 years to life for murdering Diana Cooper. It's been a year since he choked and beat the beloved mother and grandmother to death.

And her family is still waiting for an apology - and answers.

"There's no closure and no apology," Cooper's daughter April Searor said.

"He apologized in court but he didn't face April and Kim (McMillan, Cooper's other daughter). They faced him and that took a lot of courage," Cooper's niece Kathy Emmons said.

"And that was hard. But I had to do it," Searor said. "Kathy told me Mom was on my shoulder."

But Cooper's family also has doubts about Maxson's reasons for murder.

"I doubt it was for money," Emmons said. "We went in there and there was money in the dresser which he passed twice when he went to the bathroom. There was $29 in plain sight in the china cabinet."

"He said he was hungry," Searor says. "But she would have fed him, she would have made him a sandwich. She would have given him her last dollar for food."

"We don't believe it," Emmons reiterated. "And we're waiting for him to apologize to us."

Searor says she is grateful for the hard work of the District Attorney's office and the Fulton Police but says that 15 years is not enough.

"I'd like to see him in for life," Searor said.

"And all the people you see here today will be at every parole hearing to make sure that happens!" Emmons added.