A teen girl from New York who vanished in Myrtle Beach has been missing for 6 years.
Brittanee Marie Drexel, then age 17, of Rochester was on a Spring Break trip to the Grand Strand in April 2009 and was last seen on April 25 of that year along Ocean Boulevard.
After 6 long years with little news of her whereabouts and few leads in the case, Brittanee’s family is living a “nightmare,” according to organizers of the remembrance for the teen.
On Saturday evening, friends and family gathered for “Brittanee’s March,” to walk the teen girl’s “last known path” from the Bar Harbor Hotel to the Blue Water Resort. Brittanee was seen on surveillance video walking from the hotel south on Ocean Blvd.
A candlelight vigil was held at Hurl Rock Park next to the Blue Water Resort vigil in Drexel’s honor.
Dawn Drexel says the remembrance is “very important because it may jog someone’s memory, they may have seen something the night she went missing and they can call in a tip to the police.”s
The Drexel family holds out hope she will be found alive and has made numerous trips to-and-from Brittanee’s hometown of Rochester, NY, over the last several years.
Dawn Drexel, Brittanee’s mother, even relocated to Myrtle Beach to be closer to the investigation and has started working with the CUE Center for Missing Persons as a state director. The organization has played an instrumental part in searching for the 17-year-old.
There have been many searches for Brittanee, including a search that took place in Georgetown County in March 2014.
Myrtle Beach Police would not elaborate on what information led them to Georgetown County other than to say it was new cell phone data collected through technology improvements.
