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Search for missing NY teen continues
By Aisha Khan
WBTW Reporter
Published: April 28, 2009
MYRTLE BEACH - The mother of a missing New York state high school student is asking anyone who may have seen her daughter to contact police.
Myrtle Beach Police are searching for 17-year-old Brittanee Marie Drexel, of Rochester, NY. According to a police report, she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday.
Her mother, Dawn Drexel, says Brittanee is a junior at Gates Chili High School in Rochester, and was in Myrtle Beach with a group of older friends. Dawn Drexel says her daughter did not have her permission to travel to Myrtle Beach.
“I last talked to her Saturday around two o’clock. Her boyfriend spoke to her around eight o’clock,” Drexel said.
“She sent a text message to one of her friends around 9:15 p.m. and said she was going to see another friend who was staying at another hotel. She never came back,” Drexel said. “It’s been almost 48 hours, and I’m really worried. We need everyone to be looking out for her.”
John Hahn a friend of Drexel’s family and a Marine stationed at Camp LeJeune, NC, contacted police on the family’s behalf to report her missing. Hanh drove down to Myrtle Beach to help Dawn Drexel and her parents look for the missing teen.
“I’ve been friends with Britannee for a really really long time, we are very close friends. I’m trying to pray for the best but prepare for the worst,” said Hahn.
Hahn and Drexel both tell News 13 that it is very unlike Brittanee to not keep in contact with family or friends. Drexel added that she has a bad feeling about what may have happened to her daughter.
“It’s horrible because all I can think about is that someone could’ve taken her, someone could’ve taken her out of state she could be laying dead somewhere. She is my first born and it’s just tearing me up inside, I’m just very very upset,” said Drexel.
“I know for a fact that she wouldn’t just pack up and leave, leaving all of her belongings behind and not calling anybody,” said Hahn.
According to the report, Drexel was staying with a group of friends at the Bar Harbor Hotel, 1010 N. Ocean Blvd. Since her disappearance, the group moved to the Boardwalk Hotel, located at 2301 N. Ocean Blvd.
Authorities handed out printed flyers of Brittanee’s picture to the beach’s watch patrol. Crews there said they are pretty heavily staffed at this time of the year, which makes it easy to do a search of any missing persons.
“With the water being as cold as it is and temperatures dropping at night it’s you know it’s very unlikely that she went for a swim or anything of that nature. We haven’t had any leads or any luck, we’ve been going up to different patrons doing pretty much everything that we can do out here to make sure she is not out on the beach or if she is we would definitely have found her by now,” said beach manager Wesley Cox.
“With the water being as cold as it is and temperatures dropping at night, it’s very unlikely that she went for a swim or anything of that nature.”
Drexel is described as 5-feet tall, weighing 103 pounds. She has brown, shoulder-length, straight hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a multi-colored striped shirt, black shorts, and flip-flop sandals. She reportedly suffers from depression.
Police entered Drexel’s description into the National Crime Information Center database on Sunday.
Anyone with information on Drexel’s disappearance or whereabouts should contact the Myrtle Beach Police Department at (843) 918-1382.
Stay with News 13 and scnow.com for more on this story as details become available.
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
Dawn Drexel drove from New York on Monday to come to Myrtle Beach to look for her missing daughter, 17-year-old Britannee Marie Drexel. She spoke exclusively to News 13’s Aisha Khan on the events that led up to the disappearance and her efforts to find her daughter.
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Posted 28 April 2009 - 10:38 AM
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Brittanee Drexel, 17, Missing While on Spring Break
April 28, 2009 by Saul Relative
Gone on Spring Break Without Mother's Permission, Then Gone Without a Trace
Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old junior at Gates Chili High School in Rochester, New York, is missing. After being told by her mother that she could not go with her friends on Spring Break to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, she went anyway. On Saturday evening, just after 8 p.m., she left a hotel room of a friend to return to her hotel and has not been seen since.
Brittanee Drexel left with a group of older friends Wednesday for a Spring Break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. On Saturday, she walked from her hotel room to another hotel to visit a friend, who was also from Rochester. After leaving that friend's room, supposedly headed back to her own room, Brittanee disappeared. Myrtle Beach Police have almost nothing else to go on.
Brittanee's mother, Dawn Drexel, told WBTW in Myrtle Beach that she had a "gut feeling something is wrong." She said that her daughter would never leave her clothes behind. All of Brittanee's clothes were still in her hotel room.
"Something's wrong," Dawn Drexel, obviously distraught, said. "It's not like my daughter to not call."
The family arrived in Myrtle Beach Sunday to help search for the missing teen. A family friend, John Hahn, a Marine stationed at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, drove 2 and one-half hours to Myrtle Beach Sunday to file a missing person report to get things moving as soon as he found out from Brittanee's friends and family that she was missing. Hahn, 20, has known Brittanee Drexel for about 8 years.
"It just doesn't make sense," Hahn told Democrat And Chronicle. "It's very weird that she just up and vanishes." He went on to say, "We're all praying for the best, but preparing for the worst."
Myrtle Beach Police Captain David Knipes said that Brittanee's friends changed hotels Sunday before preparing to leave for the return trip to New York. He also said that finding that Brittanee suffered from depression heightened concern for her well-being.
Cases such as Brittanee Drexel's always resurrect the story of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teenager who went missing after traveling with a group from her high school to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Her case caused a media sensation, exacerbated by conflicting tales and what looks like shoddy, lackadaisical investigation methods exercised by Aruban authorities. Natalee Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005. She nor her remains have ever been found.
Brittanee Drexel is described as 5', weighing approximately 103 pounds. Anyone with information as to the missing teenager's whereabouts is asked to contact the Myrtle Beach Police Department at (843) 918-1382.
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Democratandchronicle.com
Rochesterhomepage.net
CBSNews.com
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