Brittanee Drexel to be featured on ID channel show

[QueenBee]

A local missing teen will be featured nexxt week on the Investigation Discovery Channel (ID). Brittanee Drexell will be featured on the season premiere of Dissappeared on ID next Monday. Local air time is 10 PM.
She went missing from Murtle Beach a year ago April. This past June, when her class graduated, they presented an honorary diploma to her family.

[Lady Cop]

A local missing teen will be featured nexxt week on the Investigation Discovery Channel (ID). Brittanee Drexell will be featured on the season premiere of Dissappeared on ID next Monday. Local air time is 10 PM.
She went missing from Murtle Beach a year ago April. This past June, when her class graduated, they presented an honorary diploma to her family.

i'll try to catch it. i once thought she was a runaway, now i think she's dead. they'll find a skull one day.
myrtle beach is prime hunting grounds for teenage girl killers/rapists.

here's her website:
DREXEL

[Duchess]

Murtle Beach?

[QueenBee]

Murtle Beach?

Yep..it is Myrtle Beachs' redneck cousin. :B

[QueenBee]

The other day, police visited a room where "some guy"..not even a person of interest or suspect in this case, was staying at the time Brit. disappeared. No idea of what they were looking for.

http://gates-chili.whec.com/news/news/ne...exel/55017

[Lady Cop]

did you see these photos QB? they sprayed with luminol and took samples from room, so they were looking for blood.

link to photos:

http://gates-chili.whec.com/photo-galler...988?page=0


Brandon Herring, a reporter at our affiliate, WMBF, in Myrtle Beach, was able to get inside the room at the Sunset Lodge Tuesday; one day after investigators with Myrtle Beach Police, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on the room.

Blue residue covers the walls, curtains and other surfaces of the room after crime scene investigators sprayed the room in a search for blood particles Monday. Several swatches of wallpaper have been removed from the bathroom walls, leaving bare, white squares sitting next to blue spray.

Capt. David Knipes, spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police Department, said a tip regarding the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel lead investigators to the Sunset Lodge. Drexel was last seen on April 25, 2009 along Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. Her cell phone gave off its last signal in Georgetown County.

Investigators were on scene through most of Monday, collecting evidence that could be connected to Drexel's disappearance, but stayed mum on the topic as they worked.

When they were done, investigators left with a cardboard box and several paper bags presumably containing pieces of evidence collected from the room and the door was locked.

[Lady Cop]

Fox
A convicted child rapist is being eyed by South Carolina cops in the disappearances of two young women, including a New York teenager who disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach almost three years ago, FoxNews.com has learned.

Detectives say Raymond Moody is the primary “person of interest” in the 2009 disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, who was last seen on surveillance video leaving a popular Myrtle Beach hotel along Ocean Boulevard in a case that sparked widespread media coverage and evoked the case of Natalee Holloway. Moody, who served 21 years in prison for abducting and raping a California girl in 1983, is also being looked at in connection with another missing woman, 28-year-old Crystal Soles, law enforcement sources told FoxNews.com.

Both women are presumed dead, though exhaustive searches in the rugged terrain between Myrtle Beach and Moody's home some 50 miles south of the popular destination have been fruitless. Authorities have classified Drexel's disappearance a "cold case," meaning they renew their probe whenever they receive credible, new information. Myrtle Beach nvestigators have received such information within the last week, though they declined to elaborate.

Drexel, high school junior from the Rochester area, went with friends and without her mom's permission to Myrtle Beach on April 23, 2009. A video camera at the Blue Water Resort captured her leaving the hotel on April 25 close to 9 p.m., police said. The footage is the last known sighting of her.

Investigator Phillip Hanna of the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office said a signal from Drexel’s cell phone was detected about 50 miles south of Myrtle Beach later that night – in a remote boat landing area near the South Santee River and roughly eight miles from the Sunset Lodge apartments in Georgetown County where Moody had been living at the time.

Detectives revealed to FoxNews.com that Moody, a registered Level 3 sex offender, was in the Myrtle Beach area the same weekend Drexel disappeared. Capt. Joe Vella of the Myrtle Beach Police Department said Moody was issued a speeding ticket in Surfside on April 26, a day after the teenager was last seen.

Police said Drexel, a petite blonde and avid soccer player, had left a group of male friends from Rochester at the Blue Water Resort to walk back to the Bar Harbor Hotel, where she was staying with other girls.

After leaving the Blue Water, Drexel texted her boyfriend back home to say she was headed for her hotel, but security video confirmed she never made it, police said.

Myrtle Beach detectives said they believe Drexel was abducted as she walked the one-mile stretch of Ocean Boulevard between the restaurant and her hotel. She may have been snatched off the street, Vella said, or willingly accepted a ride “from the wrong person.”

They also said Drexel was likely alive and with her phone when it gave off its last signal in Georgetown County. No activity was detected on her bank account since her disappearance and Vella said, “We don’t think it was a robbery.”

Moody served 21 years of a 40-year prison sentence after he abducted a girl from a California playground and sexually assaulted her in 1983. His convictions include three counts of rape with force and violence; two counts of lewd behavior on a child under the age of 14; and one count of assault with intent to commit mayhem, according to a state sex offender database on the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's website.

Moody relocated to Georgetown, S.C., where his parents live following his release from the California State Prison in Solano in 2004. Moody, who police say works as a cabinet maker, could not be reached for comment.

Vella said Moody has refused to speak with authorities. Last August, police searched the unit at the Sunset Lodge apartments, where Moody moved into the day before Drexel disappeared. Investigators have not yet disclosed what clues, if any, they uncovered at the apartment.

“We cannot eliminate him as a person of interest,” said Vella. He also noted that “one, possibly two” other individuals from coastal South Carolina are also “persons of interest,” though he and other law enforcement sources indicated that Moody remains the primary focus.

Detectives with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said they are also investigating a possible connection between Drexel’s case and the 2005 disappearance of Crystal Soles. Soles, 28, was last seen Jan. 24, 2005, in Andrews, S.C., and is believed to have been abducted as she walked home in the dark.

“We are checking for any similarities to see if there are any connections between the two [cases],” detective Phillip Hanna told FoxNews.com.

For Drexel’s mother, Dawn, the anguish over her oldest child is as painful now as it was nearly three years ago.

“Every day is a nightmare,” the single mother told FoxNews.com. “I miss her so much.”

Dawn Drexel said she learned that her daughter, a junior at Gates Chili High School, had traveled to Myrtle Beach when she received a phone call April 25 saying the girl was missing.

“Panic set in,” said Drexel. She said she spoke to her daughter earlier that day, believing she was still in Rochester and staying at a friend’s house near Lake Ontario.

“I was buying her soccer cleats,” Drexel said as she recalled their final phone conversation. “I said 'I love you’ and she said ‘I love you too, I’ll see you tomorrow.’”

Drexel said her daughter, whom she described as “very outgoing,” had aspirations to become a pediatric nurse.

“She just loved children,” Drexel said. “She had a smile that would light up a room.”

[QueenBee]

Thanks, LC. Heard the news earlier this evening, but have not been online until now. I was going to post an article, but figured I would look first, as I know you are usually on top of this as well.

[sharit]

That poor girl is dead because her friend wanted her worn shorts back. Damn

[HairOfTheDog]

Skeletal remains found in Myrtle Beach - are they Brittanee's?



Brittanee will have been missing 5 years in April, 2014.

Snip:

According to the Horry County Police Department, the remains were found Saturday, by someone walking in the area of Tidewater Drive, near Waccamaw Boulevard in Horry County. The location of the discovery is a rural, albeit groomed area, which would likely be better known to locals than outsiders.

The remains, which are confirmed as human, may have been in the area for several years. They will soon be sent to a lab in Texas, which has the ability to expedite DNA testing, authorities said.

The location of the remains is approximately 6 miles from where Drexel was last seen in 2009, prompting speculation that the remains could belong to her.

Slideshow and recap of 8 other missing persons from the area included in link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31..._ref=crime

[HairOfTheDog]

Skeletal Remains NOT Brittanee's

Authorities have confirmed that the remains are those of a male over the age of 20 and that they've likely been there for years.

There are a few males missing from the area, covered in the article linked in post above. It's not yet known if the remains belong to one of them or someone unreported (or someone missing from another area).