BRITTANEE DREXEL - 17 yo (2009) - Rochester NY / Myrtle Beach SC

BRITTANEE MARIE DREXEL: TEEN MISSING FROM SPRING BREAK S.C.

Posted by Blink Tuesday 28 April 2009 10:30 pm

Myrtle Beach, SC– Brittanee Marie Drexel, 17, has been missing since the evening of April 25^th. Drexel was last seen, according to witnesses at the Motel she was staying in, against her Mother’s protests, at 8:15PM.




Police have named Peter Broswick, the person last seen with Brittanee, a person of interest in her disappearance. Dawn Drexel, Brittanee’s Mother did not grant her permission for the Spring Break trip, but she had maintained regular contact with the sparkling blue-eyed beauty.



Broswick has retained a local attorney and attempts to reach him for a statement have not been returned to blinkoncrime.com.

Mrs. Drexel became worried when she was unable to reach her daughter Sunday after she told her she would be returning that evening.

Dawn called a family friend in North Carolina to file a missing persons report after Brittanee did not come home on Sunday as promised. Stationed at Camp Lejeune, John Hahn, a family friend for 8 years and Marine, drove the 2.5 hours from base to S.C. to file a missing persons report at the request of Drexler.

“Then I called John Grieco back, Brittanee’s boyfriend.
He proceeded to tell me, nobody’s gone looking for her. Of the friends
she was down at Myrtle Beach with, nobody had gone looking for her. I
don’t know what kind of friends those are, but that’s not right,” Hahn
said.

Hahn went on to say Brittanee’s boyfriend, John Grieco, first informed him of Brittanee’s disappearance in the early hours of Sunday morning through a text message from Rochester. Hahn says Brittanee was staying in a room at the Bar Harbor hotel with three friends - two females and a male.

According to Hahn, Broswick left S.C for Rochester, his hometown, when he learned Police wanted to speak to him and Hahn was on his way to speak with detectives.



When Hahn arrived in Myrtle Beach, he was immediately concerned.

Hahn found all of Brittanee’s belongings still inside her hotel room, he also found Drexel’s clothes and liquor inside Broswick’s hotel room.

Broswick and friends also left behind a $100 deposit at the front desk

The assault on the web community commences, note who gives an obvious Broswick supporter a voice:



Broswick, the 20-year-old who is reportedly the last one to see Brittanee, has hired defense attorney John Parrinello.

Parrinello says his client is fully cooperating with investigators and hopes the young lady is okay.

Apparently his well wishes do not include mentioning “the young lady”, Brittanee Marie Drexel, by name.

In an interview with WHAM, Brittanee’s Mom, Dawn Drexel said:

..” Peter, we need to know what’s going on. “Brittanee
is very special to us. We need to know what is going on. We need to
know why the authorities weren’t called. We need answers and we’re not
getting them,”

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“Person of Interest” Questioned in Brittanee Drexel Case

(Webster, N.Y./Myrtle Beach, S.C.) - A young man from Webster, Peter Brozowitz, is being questioned in the disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel of Chili in Myrtle Beach.

Brittanee's father, Chad Drexel, said local police will be talking to Brozowitz on Wednesday. He is the last known person to see Brittanee on Saturday. He has retained attorney John Parrinello. Chad Drexel said that he doesn't think Brittanee ran away; he wonders what Brozowitz might he hiding since he "lawyered up."

13WHAM’s Sean Carroll spoke with Brittanee’s mother, Dawn Drexel, in Myrtle Beach and she has a message for the young man: "Brittanee is very special to us. We need to know what is going on. We need to know why the authorities weren't called. We need answers and we're not getting them."

Dawn Drexel said about 13 people from the area are in Myrtle Beach putting up fliers and looking for her.

The Myrtle Beach Police Department has interviewed friends and others involved in the case in their continuing investigation.

They said they’ve "attempted to gather every possible piece of evidence, video, cell. or other related evidence in the case."

While Brittanee’s mother is in Myrtle Beach, her father stayed here to care for the family’s younger children.

Brittanee went to Myrtle Beach Wednesday with friends without her mother's permission. She told her mother she was at a friend's house. Her mother didn't discover the deception until the friends called to tell her that Brittanee was missing.

http://www.13wham.com/mostpopular/story/Person-of-Interest-Questioned-in-Brittanee-Drexel/5zvFR4OCL0q6etDkAADcFw.cspx

Missing Chili Teen Reported Sighted

Last Update: 12:25 pm

According to the ABC affiliate in Myrtle Beach, WPDE, missing Chili teen Brittanee Drexel may have been seen.

Myrtle Beach police searched an area Wednesday morning after someone reported seeing Drexel get off a bus there.

Around 8:35 a.m. Wednesday, maids on a county bus in Myrtle Beach reported seeing a girl fitting Drexel’s description getting off a bus on North Ocean Boulevard. This is the same area where she was last seen.

Police showed the women a picture of Drexel and they identified her as the girl on the bus.

Officers canvassed the area searching for Drexel and remain in the area completing an intensive search, but she still hasn't been found. They are going through beach accesses in the area and visiting businesses to distribute fliers with Drexel's photo.

Drexel, 17, was reported missing early Sunday while visiting the area.

13WHAM’s Sean Carroll is in Myrtle Beach investigating this and any other new information in the case. We’ll bring you latest information as it becomes available.

http://www.13wham.com/mostpopular/story/Missing-Chili-Teen-Reported-Sighted/BoaHG7LYD0eq9Gh6z2F0sA.cspx

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/04/28/ng.teen.missing.cnn (Teen missing)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/04/29/ng.teen.mother.cnn (Mother speaks)

Police: Sighting on Bus was Not Brittanee Drexel

Last Update: 11:18 am

(Myrtle Beach, S.C.) -- Myrtle Beach Police confirmed Thursday morning that the girl spotted exiting a bus who matched the description of a missing teen from Chili was not Brittanee Drexel.

Around 8:35 a.m. Wednesday, maids on a county transit bus in Myrtle Beach reported seeing a girl fitting Drexel’s description getting off a bus on North Ocean Boulevard. This is the same area where she was last seen.

Myrtle Beach Police showed the women a picture of Drexel and they identified her as the girl on the bus. The police then conducted an intensive search of the area. They located the young woman and comfirmed she was not the missing girl.

Captain David Knipes, Myrtle Beach Police, said, "This is a transient crowd down here. It's very easy to blend in and certainly there's other people that will take her in and you don't know what's going to happen to her. So, you got to take it seriously." Drexel, 17, was reported missing early Sunday while visiting the area.

13WHAM Reporter Sean Carroll is in Myrtle Beach to bring the latest information in the case.

http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Police-Sighting-on-Bus-was-Not-Brittanee-Drexel/BoaHG7LYD0eq9Gh6z2F0sA.cspx

Endangered Missing

BRITTANEE DREXEL

DOB: Oct 7, 1991 Missing: Apr 25, 2009 Age Now: 17 Sex: Female Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 5'0" (152 cm) Weight: 103 lbs (47 kg) Missing From: MYRTLE BEACH SC United States

Both photos shown are of Brittanee. Her ears and nose are pierced. Brittanee has blonde highlights in her hair. She was last seen wearing a purple top, black shorts, and flip flops.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) Myrtle Beach Police Department (South Carolina) 1-843-918-1000

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Posted at: 04/28/2009 1:50 PM | WHEC.com Updated at: 04/28/2009 5:22 PM By: Kristen Ciaccia Update on missing Gates-Chili student There is new information in the case of a missing Gates-Chili student. The Monroe County Sheriff's office is now helping in the search. Seventeen-year old Brittanee Drexel was on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was last seen Saturday night. The sheriff's office is talking with people who were in contact with Drexel and have now returned to Rochester. Dawn Drexel was handing out flyers in Myrtle Beach, hoping to find someone who knows something about her daughter. “Either someone has picked her up or she's not alive. In my heart of hearts that's how I feel because I know it's not like my daughter to do this.” Drexel says Brittanee's boyfriend, one of her good friends and her grandparents are also in Myrtle Beach helping in the search.

It has now been nine days now since a Gates-Chili High School student disappeared from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
There has been an all out search for Brittanee Drexel. And still no
sign of the 17-year-old. She was in South Carolina on spring break.
Drexel's boyfriend, a 19-year-old from Chili, believes Brittanee has
been abducted. John Grieco said, “It is not a runaway. I can tell you
that right now.”
Grieco says he's known Brittanee for two-and-a half years and she
would not runaway. “She could not drop her brother and sister, her
grandfather. She knows her grandfather has a bad heart. She would not
put her family through this.”
Grieco has been in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for the past week
searching for his girlfriend. He was in Rochester when she disappeared
and is back in Rochester for a day to take care of some business and
he's headed back as soon as he can get a flight out.
Grieco has put college and his job on hold. “Even
though every instinct is telling me she's not in Myrtle anymore. It's
still a lot easier to walk the beach and hand out flyers than to sit at home and talk about it.”
Grieco was possibly the last person to communicate
with Brittanee. Grieco sent her a text and she never responded. He
broke the news to her family that she was in Myrtle Beach and missing.
“Once I talked to her friends I found out that she walked back to her hotel alone and that was the last contact I had with her and that's when I knew something was wrong.”
Grieco says about eight people, mostly family members from
Rochester, are in Myrtle Beach searching for the Gates-Chili High
School junior.
He says they hand out flyers and talk to people everyday. Grieco is
convinced Brittanee has been abducted and is no longer in Myrtle Beach.
“My gut is telling me she's out there, she's alive and somebody has her
and is doing horrible things to her.”
No matter what, Grieco says he won't give up. “Everything's been devoted to Brit, so I'm hoping this pays off.”
Grieco will be headed back to South Carolina with his father. He
says Drexel's family is coping as best as possible. He says the support
from Rochester is helping tremendously.

Family and friends are holding out
hope that a missing New York teenager is still alive and are continuing
to plan for Brittanee Drexel's prom this weekend.Carol Wagner
took a few minutes Monday to speak to a business that is making her
granddaughter's dress for the junior prom at Gates-Chili High School in
Rochester, N.Y., on Saturday."It was for a fitting appointment
for the dress," Wagner said from her hotel room in Myrtle Beach. "It's
just, if we do find her, she'll be able to go to the prom. We bought
everything for her. It's just ... you never think this would happen to
your family."

Drexel, 17, was last seen on
April 25 near the Blue Water Resort in Myrtle Beach. Several groups
spent the weekend in Georgetown County near the South Santee River,
where Drexel's cell phone last gave off a signal, police said.Police
did not receive any new leads to the girl's whereabouts on Monday,
according to Capt. David Knipes, spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police
Department."We're still looking for her," Knipes said. "She
could be a runaway, a missing person or an abduction. We don't have a
label on it."Also Monday, two representatives from the Laura
Recovery Center for Missing Children arrived in Myrtle Beach to assist
in the search, according to Bob Walcutt, executive director. The
Texas-based group's mission statement is to "prevent abductions and
runaways and to recover missing children by fostering a Triangle of
Trust among law enforcement, community and a missing child's family."Knipes
said the police department has a "good number" of missing persons
reports that it investigates every month. But because of Drexel's
reported history with depression, the case has been handed over to
investigators.Wagner said Drexel has been dealing with
depression for about the last year because her parents are divorcing,
the family house is being sold, and the teen learned she may have to
switch high schools before her senior year."It has just been one
thing after the other," said Wagner, who came to Myrtle Beach with her
husband soon after learning of the disappearance. "Brittanee keeps it
all bottled up inside. Between the fights with her parents and school
and a boyfriend, it probably just ate her up inside."She said,
'I have to get away for a while.' We didn't know she was going to come
down here. We thought she was at a friend's house back home. ... She's
never done anything like this before."Wagner said she knew something was wrong when Drexel did not call her grandfather on his birthday, April 27."Brittanee
used to call us every night to say good night until the last year,"
Wagner said. "I went to see her three times a week. She would always
say, 'Grandma, can you take me shopping, can you take me to find a
dress.' My husband would give the last dime out of his pocket for her."Tara
Friedman, a friend, said she talked to Drexel about three to four times
a week for the past four years. Friedman said she did not know Drexel
was coming to Myrtle Beach and said she didn't see a "big change" in
Drexel's emotions in the last year."When I was her age, I was
all stressed out, too," said Friedman, 19. "It's kind of a crazy time
for a teenager. I remember going through it. I remember getting in
fights with my parents and grandparents 'cause I was so stressed."But she was still having a lot of fun and was still smiling."Drexel
has played soccer for about 10 years and is one of the top players on
her team in Rochester, Wagner said. She also was taking cosmetology
classes in her hometown, Friedman said."She is a very fun-loving girl, always smiling" Friedman said. "She is very strong-minded, very independent."Anyone
with any information about Brittanee Drexel is asked to call the
Georgetown County Sheriff's Office at 546-5102 or the Myrtle Beach
Police Department at 918-1382 or 918-1952.

The boyfriend of a
New York teenager who disappeared on spring break in Myrtle Beach said
someone knows what happened to her, but he doesn't believe the male
friends she visited there are involved.
John Grieco said his girlfriend Brittanee Drexel never told him about the
group, including Peter Broswick — whose hotel room she went to shortly
before she vanished the night of April 25.
Detectives believe Broswick may have been the last person to see 17-year-old Brittanee alive.
"She didn't make me aware of that because she was friends with them and she
knew that I didn't necessarily like the fact that she was hanging out
with a whole group of guys," Grieco told FOX News on Tuesday.
But Grieco said he doesn't think Broswick is involved in whatever happened to his girlfriend.
"I don't believe he had anything to do with Brittanee's disappearance,"
Grieco said. "I do believe there are people out there who know what
happened to her."
When asked whether Brittanee could have hurt herself or left of her own accord, Grieco said "absolutely not."
"This is not a runaway case, and she did not do anything to harm herself," he told FOX.Police released new
surveillance footage late Monday of the Rochester, N.Y., high school
junior going to the Blue Water Resort Hotel to visit Broswick and the
group of boys he was staying with along Myrtle Beach's popular Ocean
Boulevard strip.
Meanwhile, Brittanee's mother thinks her daughter could be dead after going on the spring break trip against her wishes.
Dawn Drexel told WHEC News 10 in Rochester that her daughter would never run away.
"I seriously think someone took my daughter or she may not be alive," Dawn Drexel said.
Brittanee Drexel, a junior at Gates-Chili High School, left the Bar Harbor Hotel,
where she was staying with some girl friends, at about 8 p.m. on April
25 to visit Broswick.Broswick, who is also from
Rochester, left Myrtle Beach to return home to New York about 1 a.m.
the night Brittanee was last seen, according to News Channel 15's
CarolinaLive.com.
He and several others were questioned, but were cleared as suspects, according to Brittanee's mother.
"As far as I know, they’ve done what they needed to do as far as those boys
are concerned back home," said Dawn Drexel. "They’re not persons of
interest anymore."
South Carolina authorities focused their search over the weekend on an area just south
of where the teen disappeared after pinpointing the last place her cell
phone gave off a signal.
Brittanee's cell phone signal was captured April 26, a day after police say the teen was
last seen. Myrtle Beach Capt. David Knipes told reporters the search
hasn't yielded any new clues in the case.
Drexel has said she's concerned because the teen suffers from depression. The
girl may have been upset because she and her husband are getting
divorced, according to Drexel.
Family and friends spent the past week canvassing popular beach clubs and hangouts in the resort town without any results.
Brittanee has blue eyes and shoulder-length brown hair with blond highlights.
She's 5 feet tall, weighs about 100 pounds and was last seen wearing a
multi-colored shirt, black shorts and flip-flops.
Those with any information are asked to call Myrtle Beach Police at (843) 918-1300, 1-800-CRIME-TV or 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678).

The mother of a New York teenager who
disappeared on spring break in Myrtle Beach dismissed the theory her
daughter would have run away, and thinks someone knows something about
her location.
Dawn Drexel told FOX News she was "not really satisfied" that police cleared
Peter Broswick and other male friends whose hotel room Brittanee Drexel
went to shortly before she vanished the night of April 25.
"I'm going by what police officers are tell me and they are going by what
evidence they do have," Drexel said. "Someone may have been watching
her and may have abducted her.Brittanee, a junior at Gates-Chili High
School, left the Bar Harbor Hotel, where she was staying with some girl
friends, at about 8 p.m. on April 25 to visit Broswick.
Broswick, who is also from Rochester, left Myrtle Beach to return home to New
York about 1 a.m. the night Brittanee was last seen, according to News
Channel 15's CarolinaLive.com.
Detectives believe Broswick may have been the last person to see 17-year-old Brittanee alive.
Her boyfriend, John Grieco, thinks the male friends she visited there are involved.
"She didn't make me aware of that because she was friends with them and she
knew that I didn't necessarily like the fact that she was hanging out
with a whole group of guys," Grieco told FOX News on Tuesday.Brittanee's mother told FOX her daughter didn't have her permission to take the trip.
"She's 17," Drexel said. "She felt like she needed to get away for a little
bit. She wanted to hang out with her friends. It really didn't matter
[what I said]. Kids are not nieve, but they don't know what's out
there."
Drexel has said she's concerned because the teen suffers from depression. The girl may have been upset
because she and her husband are getting divorced, but would never
runaway. according to Drexel.
"I know my daughter and she is not like that," Dexel told FOX. "She's not that
type of person to leave her clothes behind. She is always done up and
she is not going to stay in the same clothes for five days."

Police and Crime Stopper officials
hope a monetary reward and the ability to remain anonymous will prompt
someone who knows about the disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee
Drexel to come forward and share the information.A $1,000 reward
is being offered from Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry for information
related to Drexel, who was last seen on April 25 near the Blue Water
Resort in Myrtle Beach, said Frank Morea, public information officer
with the organization."We offered [police] whatever help we
could give them. We can easily put that out there and we can take
anonymous tips. We don’t want to know who they are, we only want their
information and we give them a code number,’’ Morea said. "Somebody
knows something. They may be afraid to talk. They may not want to talk
or offer what they know. We offer a layer of protection that we don’t
want to know who they are. I’m hopeful that will spur someone on to
come forward.’’

No new information was available
Wednesday in the search for Drexel, which included areas in Myrtle
Beach and Georgetown County since she was last seen, Myrtle Beach
police Capt. David Knipes said. Officials welcomed the offer of a
reward and for tipsters to remain anonymous, but provide clues to
Drexel’s whereabouts, he said."If
it helps obviously it is a great thing,’’ Knipes said. "I hope that
people aren’t just motivated by money to turn in information to us. But
whatever avenues we can take to try to get this thing resolved we
will.’’Several groups along with police have searched an area of
the South Santee River in Georgetown County, but have not found
anything related to the girl, police said. A cell phone belonging to
Drexel gave off its last known signal the night of April 26 in the area
around U.S. 17 and the South Santee River, authorities said.Less
than 40 percent of rewards are claimed through the Crime Stoppers
organization, Morea said. More often the organization is used by people
who have information, but wish to remain anonymous."While the
money can be an incentive, the anonymity is more of an incentive,’’ he
said. "We get the information and it’s sent to the departments within
10 or 15 minutes of us receiving it so they can act quickly. If
somebody knows something here is an avenue to tell us and remain
anonymous.’’Anyone with information about Drexel or her
disappearance can call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-274-6372
(1-888-CRIME-SC), or log on at www.5541111.com. Anonymous text tips can
be sent by starting a new text message to CRIMES (274637), and mark the
beginning of the message with "CSL".

(CBS)




John Greico refutes many of the theories surrounding the disappearance of his girlfriend, Brittanee Drexel.
He says he doesn't think Drexel's problems at home or depression
caused the 17-year-old spring breaker to vanish nearly two weeks ago in
Myrtle Beach, S.C. Both are from Rochester, N.Y.
"That is something that I really want to get out to the nation, that she didn't run away," Greico told Early Show news anchor, Russ Mitchell, on Thursday. "This is not a runaway case, and it should not be handled like a runaway case."
And he says he still believes -- 12 days after her disappearance -- that Brittanee is alive.
"I speak for myself, my family, and her family, we miss her
terribly. And we're going to do everything in our power to bring her
home safely," Grieco said. " ... We all love her with all of our
hearts."
Grieco told CBS News Drexel was going through a lot when she
traveled to Myrtle Beach without her parents' permission: Her parents
were getting divorced, she had her own relationship issues, and her
family was losing their home.
Grieco said she needed the trip to clear her head.
Drexel told her mother she was going to stay the weekend a friend's house.
"I knew she was going," Greico said. "It was only for three days,
so I wasn't concerned -- I never thought anything could happen in three
days."
Grieco himself has taken two trips to Myrtle Beach to search for Drexel and follow leads -- many of which have now gone cold.
"I can't stand to be in Rochester without her," he said. "It is
more like a marriage. I miss her. I was going through my voicemails,
and there was one of her yelling at me, and I even miss her yelling at
me."
Grieco says something must have gone wrong, but he doesn't think suicide should even be considered.
"She definitely met with foul play," he said. "I think somebody saw
her walking and offered her a ride and she got in the car with the
wrong person."
Grieco said the police have leads that they won't discuss, so as not to ruin the investigation.
"(The police) are giving us a positive vibe, so we are hoping that
the outcome is also positive." Grieco said. "(Brittanee) is a fighter.
If anybody of going to survive this she will."
The last person known to have been with Brittanee is Peter
Broswick, a high school friend she went to visit in another hotel that
night. Police named him a "person of interest" in the case.

The search for a missing teen from chili has expanded to a South Carolina high school.
Myrtle Beach Police,
who are looking for Brittanee Drexel, were at Georgetown High School
yesterday. Georgetown is about forty miles from where Brittanee was
last seen in Myrtle Beach on April 15.
Police were asking high school students questions and they have
searched the woods and a river in that county looking for clues since
Brittanee's cell phone gave off a signal in Georgetown.
Early this morning, Matt Lauer of The Today Show
did an extensive interview with biological parents of Brittanee. This
was the first time we've heard from Drexel’s biological father, John
Kahyaoglu, who saw Brittanee about three weeks ago.
Kahyaoglu said, “Nothing that I have seen when we hung out we went
to the movies, she was in a great mood, we went out to eat, she was
making plans, she was very excited to come down to Tampa to see our
family everybody has been waiting for her so there was nothing that I
have seen.”
Brittanee's biological father re-established contact with his
daughter about a year and a half ago. He's now with Brittanee's mother
helping in the search.