One year after Drexel's disappearance Sharing in sadness
Families of the missing gather for support
By Jake Spring
Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010
Chad Drexel walked down Ocean Boulevard on Saturday night and pointed across the street, angling his Blackberry to take a picture.
"That's the camera over the visitors center board that got Brittanee," Chad Drexel said.
The camera produced some of the last pictures of Brittanee Drexel, Chad's daughter, before the New York teen disappeared on April 25, 2009.
One year later to the day, the Drexels and a crowd of supporters gathered to march the same length of road where Brittanee was last seen in an event to both remember and raise awareness of missing persons. They marched on Ocean Boulevard from Bar Harbor Motor Inn, where Drexel was staying on a trip to Myrtle Beach, to a candlelight vigil next to the Blue Water Hotel, where she was last seen leaving.
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A Vigil for Brittanee
Last Update: 4/24 11:20 pm
Sunday, April 25, marks the one year anniversary of Chili teen Brittanee Drexel's disappearance while on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Drexel's family and friends took part in a march and vigil Saturday evening, hoping to once again bring attention to the case.
The march began at the Bar Harbor Motel, where Brittanee was staying last year, and ended with a vigil near the Blue Water Resort, where she was last seen.
Investigators and search crews have spent the last year combing an area in Georgetown County -- the last place they were able to track signals from Drexel's cell phone.
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Remembering Brittanee Drexel at Vigil in Myrtle Beach
04/24/10 11:51 pm
Myrtle Beach, SC - Family and friends of Brittanee Drexel, missing for nearly a year, came together to pray and hope for her safe return. With heavy hearts, the family met in the parking lot of the Bar Harbor Motel sharing hugs and tears.
They were met by parents and relatives of other missing persons, a community tied to each other by a bond they never wanted to share. Drexels mother, wearing a tee-shirt bearing her missing daughters face, described the anguish she and her family live with everyday.
"Its a nightmare, Drexel said. You never wake up, its horrible, the most horrible thing you ever want to go through as a parent.
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Emotional vigil honors anniversary of teen's disappearance
Posted: Apr 24, 2010 11:49 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 24, 2010 11:49 PM EDT
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - It's a position no mother would ever want to find herself in, but one year after the disappearance of her daughter, Dawn Drexel has returned to the Grand Strand begging for a break in her daughter's case.
Brittanee Drexel was on Spring Break from the Rochester, NY, area when she was last seen at a Myrtle Beach resort along Ocean Boulevard on April 25, 2009. Since then, police and investigators say the teen is nowhere to be found, and now they're on the hunt for someone who knows what happened to Brittanee the night she went missing.
More than 40 people marked the one-year anniversary of Brittanee's disappearance Saturday evening with an emotional 20-block march down South Ocean Boulevard. The line of family, friends and supporters walked from the resort the teen was staying at while on Spring Break, to the place she was last seen alive.
It may seem like the Drexel family is returning to square one with no significant leads under their belt, but this time around for Brittanee's mother, the one-year anniversary is more than a reality check.
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