BRITTANEE MARIE DREXEL: TEEN MISSING FROM SPRING BREAK S.C.
Myrtle Beach, SC– Brittanee Marie Drexel, 17, has been missing since the evening of April 25th. 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.
“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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Blink,
Thanks for clarifying….My kids actually call it the “FEAR OF JESUS”…..As parents Blink, I am sure you will agree, we all just pray………and hope…….But I will admit putting the FEAR OF JESUS in my kids…seemed to work…….but then I had my kids believing I had eyes in the back of my head…True….:) That worked until they got older and realized the rear view mirror….I pray this young lady is fine and is just pouting somewhere….Hat off to loco’s comment….you hit the nail on the head….
Let me tell you about Club Kryptonite… I am a local and have been to this club once. I will NEVER go back! Do you guys know what it even means to be VIP there? Let’s just say that a closed curtain and “whatever you want” is there… this girl may have gotten on some stuff that she can’t get off of. I hope no harm has come to her. I will be praying..
Oh, and let me add… Peter’s “VIP” status has NOTHING to do with his job in NY. ANYONE can be a “VIP” and get into the mysterious rooms in that club.. just have to know how… get past the bodyguards that guard the red curtains! Scary Place!!
Sighting on the Bus was NOT Brittanee!!!
from 13WHAM
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.
The police need to hang PB up by the *****and get to the truth!!
I was wondering about the video from the Nancy Grace Show… Is it of her leaving the Bar Harbour or the Bluewater Hotel?
We can all have compassion for the parents, while at the same time hoping that we and others learn from their behavior WHAT NOT TO DO. You don’t wait till a girl is 17 to instill in her some idea of common sense and self defense. She should already have known how to behave. THis is a very immature and stupid child and I am just really praying right now that her arrogance and stupidity hasn’t killed her. Some kids may be 17 but they act like 12 or 13. Moms and dads have to step up and know their kids. She ran away–report her missing immediately. So your kid is embarrassed, so what? I agree wholeheartedly that whoever took her to Myrtle Beach should face whatever the law can do to them. Let them face prison time for helping facilitate what ever has happened.
I just want to point out that his lawyer said he is cooperating fully with police. I reckon that gives it about a 30% chance that he is cooperating fully with police.
Does anybody know where Peter’s 3 friends were, their age and have they been interrogated by the police? This is looking really bad for Peter.I like the fact posted about the lawyer, Parrinellos, is friends with the club owner where supposedly Brittanee went. Pull up that Club Kryptonite. Huge club, go go girls. Anything could happen in there especially somebody mickeying your drink.
Moon it’s on here I believe, in other comments, no?
B
Thanks B! I have read and must be missing it. Everybody is talking about the parents and all I have to say we live in a different world. Kids have no respect and no fear. If your 17 yr old takes off without your permission, calling the cops does what exactly? They haven’t committed a crime. 17 is that weird age where they have rights and like someone stated in a prior post, 17 in some states is considered adult. Now if 24 hrs has gone by and haven’t heard from your kid, than you can call the cops and file a missing person. The laws are so ambiguous and yet in 24 hrs so much can happen. It gets hectic at age 17. They think they know it all and yet in the end if the kid moved out you are still responsible to take care of them until they are 18.
Everyone here is focusing on the parents. Where will that get you? Focus should be on the people she was with and what they did to find out what happen to her. Judgemental opinions do not resolve puzzels. My two cents.
Peters three friends are listed above on this site. Since the beginning of this Peters name has been spelt two different ways. Last name was misspelled from the beginning. Why was it not corrected sooner in the news? Why have we no information about the girls she was with? It seems to me that the LE is dropping the ball with this one. Peters lawyered up within 24 hours of disappearance and his lawyer said his excuse was because he was getting death threats and media harassment. What! people didn’t even know his correct last name. And yes Kryptonite is quite an adult club.
just to clarify..stepfather is in NY watching younger children..biological Father came up to MB from Florida to help in the search. Mother is in the throes of divorcing stepfather..alleged cause of Brittanees depression?
I think the people who are questioning the mother are really misguided.
To read the above reply from In Session (it’s too small to read) here is the direct link. The post was made by a WebsterNyKid.
You may have to copy and paste this link into a new browser window.
http://boards.insessiontrials.com/showthread.php?p=13055785#post13055785
I AM BLAMING the PARENTS!!!
I was born in 1970 and I would NOT EVEN *THINK* about leaving for MB or anywhere and I can tell you all that my mom would take the first fight down there,just to kill ME herself!!!!
Can we pl stop with this liberal BS of lets all just get along & sing kumbya,no matter what happens!!!! Lets just be “friends” with our kids & hang out…
Obviously this girl has NO FEAR of her parents and never took them seriously because I promise you that my sister,brother,cousins and most friends and a few kids today,would’ve NEVER thought about doing this.
I have to say in reading these comments…people are very quick to judge without having complete facts. I have met peter. He went to school with my daughter. I think he lawyered up because the media labeled him as a “person of interest”. I have a daughter of my own, she went to Gates Chili she knows some of the people who went. There were several people at the hotels Brittanee visited. Just because the hotel room was in Peter’s name does not mean he did anything…and if you read the news…there is a video surveillance of her leaving that hotel at 8:40pm. He was not the only person in the hotel room when she went there…it was a PARTY and there were several people there.And that is according to the POLICE.
As for her being 17….I am with everyone that the mother should have called the police in Myrtle Beach and had them pick her up as a run away. It is our responsibility to keep our children safe.
And what would posses a teen to go ANYWHERE ALONE during SPRING BREAK…wow her friends dropped the ball there. Someone should have gone with her. If you even want to call them friends…they all left knowing she was missing.
“Liberal BS?”
WTH does that come from? This isn’t a liberal or conservative issue at all. Ever hear of Art Linkletters daughter?
” . . praying . . . her arrogance and stupidity hasn’t killed her?”
People kill people. Just like wearing a sexy outfit doesn’t mean you deserve to be raped, being 17 doesn’t mean that Britt deserved to be killed.
Once again how is she suppose to have her picked up when she did not even know she was in MB till the friend called and said she was missing. I swear some of you people take what you want to from the facts then give all your suggestions as to what you think should be done. “she should have gone to pick her up or called the police to pick her up” stop saying all that crap.
Not accurate, check your facts
B
#66
You make a great point in regards to the ‘buddy system’. We all need to teach our kids and teach them again to always have a buddy and why. I may use this case as an example to refresh this lesson with my 14 year old.
As for the mother calling the police, she did not know that Brit was gone, as soon as she did she had a family friend go meet with police until she could get there. So she DID call police as SOON as she knew Brit was in MB.
I worry that police may be putting too much focus on Peter. His behavior does seem odd but there may be reasons for that.
What if he left at 2 am to go home in order to get back for school and did not bring his alcohol because his buddies were going to drink it, before he got home he may have received calls in regards to Britney’s absence and perhaps his parents advised him to get a lawyer.
Most likely he knows something at least but I hope that isn’t the only focus here. Someone may have snatched her off the street. What about every store/house etc that has video security in the area? Have they looked at them all? What about the girls! Wasn’t one mad at her for borrowing a pair of shorts? Girls have been known to do stupid things over jealousy.
Prevost1580–I was born in 72 and I used to sneak off out of state to follow the Grateful Dead. Sure, I was TERRIFIED of my mother, so terrified it caused a few bummer acid trips. Here is the thing though, she was so strict and oppressive that I almost had to defy her in order to grow up at all. She was oppressive in an unhealthy way. To her there was no difference in leaving the state to follow a hippie band as there was to staying up a 1/2 hour after bedtime. The thing is we can never say that one way is the right way. Each child is a unique person and we have to take that into account when we parent them. I now have a teenager and he is so reserved, a straight A student and I really have to push him to get out there. In other words I was riding roller coasters at the amusement park when I was in diapers and he is 14 and won’t go near them.
The take home story is we all need to get to know our kids. I believe, from my own life, that it is best if our teens are NOT afraid of us. I shake with fear when I think of my kid behaving the way I did. But he won’t because he trust and respects me. He knows that I rarely say NO and if I do it’s because I have his best interest at heart. In our house, lying gets big time punishment and everything else just gets a talking to. So I don’t believe in fear, I believe in trust and respect.
Just yesterday in the car we were having a talk about kids that sneak out and my son said to his friend, “I would never sneak out in my neighborhood (We live in a big city) because mom says there are people out there at night getting robbed and stuff.”
He knows WHY I say not to do something, not just ‘because I said so and if you do your in big trouble.’
Yeah, maybe I am a hippie liberal. My way is right for my family and your way is right for yours and neither of us has to be wrong, just different kids we’re dealing with.
I used to love hanging out on those prevost busses on Grateful Dead tour BTW! Yeah, it got that out of control that I was hanging out with the band at 17. My mom never found out what I was doing either, until I got pregnant with said 14 year old! I don’t want my kids to be so afraid of me that they don’t tell me things and the truth is, I would have gone no matter what punishment awaited me. I was just a wild kid. It would have been better and I would have been smarter about it though if she had let me tell her and given me advice. (Like have a buddy, call home, what to do in an emergency etc.) They say wild mothers raise conservative children and vice versa. Something to think about.
I’m not being aggressive with your opinion or thoughts, they are valid. I’m just sharing mine. Thus we may learn about each other and gain understanding.
ROCHESTER ADULT……I sorta agree with you but…..he has seemed to have changed his story casting doubt on himself….And also please remember “the craigslist killer” he was clean cut med student” and yet there was a whole other side of him. We all think we really know someone…..actually just how much do we all really know? we all just need to keep an open mind. And yeah, I do think the mom might have called her daughters bluff and sent the cops to get her.After all she said NO!
in defense of #68 that is correct info.. read post #42 and that info. is straight from the mouth of her Mother in an on air interview. When Brittanee said she was at the “beach” her Mom thought she meant the beach in Rochester, NY not MB. you cannot go “pick up” someone you do not even know is really there” Her Mom did converse regularly on her cell..but thought she was talking to her in Rochester, NY not MB.
If your correct than I stand corrected. That being said, she is 17, was told no, my response would have been the same. I would have called the police in Rochester, they would have discovered by pinging her cell where she was, and then followed up with MB police. I am NOT condemning her, I and others on here are saying our response would have been different. God Bless this woman, she is going through Hell.
B
new article @www.associatedcontent.com
Brittanee Drexel went to Myrtle Beach last week with some friends on Spring Break, even though her mother had forbidden her to go. She remained in constant communication the entire time, however, and her mother believed her to be in her hometown of Rochester, New York, up until she went missing. Brittanee’s boyfriend, after hearing from the friends she had went to the beach with that they had not seen her for hours, called John Hahn, a longtime family friend stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Hahn drove 2 and one-half hours to Myrtle Beach Sunday morning to file the missing person report.
Family members and the boyfriend arrived in Myrtle Beach later Sunday. All became active in trying to find Brittanee, passing out flyers, questioning people, and cooperating with the ongoing police investigation. There was also a report of a possible sighting at a restaurant on Sunday.
maybe you should watch the interview again. the mother thought she was at the beach in NY.
and thank you kuaitzudog.
Myrtle beach has 50 gazillion golf courses. There are swampy areas and a lot of areas outside of town with 4′ tall weeds. On the way north to the ares that are famous for their Calabash seafood there are thousands of acres where a tiny 17 year old body could be hidden. Statistics tell us what happened to this baby. They do not say who is responsible but we pretty much know what happened.
I feel deeply for her mom. She did not act as I would have and may pay a heavy price. I do not personally know any parents who would let their tiny daughters run loose in the hometown for days without coming home for wellness checks, speaking to other parents, etc. But it is done now and I am not here to beat up on her. I hope she gets closure soon.
The lawyer says the boy is cooperating fully with LE. Any word yet if it is productive? Any other trails? Other suspects? Witnesses? Video?
Peter has NOTHING TO DO with this! Did any of you people think how Peter feels about all the accusations hmmm. He was getting death threats and media harassment and he was one of 5 people that saw her last, not ONE! All you people see and hear is only bits and pieces of information. He did not drive or got the room in his name! His name was spelled wrong originally because it came from Brittanee’s mom not from police.Police should NEVER release anything to media unless they have proof!!
Watch this you lynch mob!
http://www.13wham.com/mostpopular/story/Brittanee-Photo-Released-Brozowitz-All-but-Cleared/BoaHG7LYD0eq9Gh6z2F0sA.cspx
Sounds like they are searching for her in water. Does not sound good.
http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10289170
#43 WROTE: “Please STOP blaming the parent for everything! All kids have a mind of their own, and not all are easy to “control”, in fact some are IMPOSSIBLE to “control”. Anyway, my understanding is that the mom didn’t even realize that her daughter wasn’t in the Rochester area until AFTER her daughter went missing. In that case, she called a close friend to personally check things out until the mom could get there.
I just get sick to death of know-it-alls always blaming the parents for everything just because THEY think they would handle things soooo much better, or assuming that ALL kids are “controllable”. (END OF QUOTE)\
DEAR 42 & 43 (parental unit apologists):
I am a mother and was ONCE a teen aged daughter. There is no way ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH that my mother DIDN’T KNOW when-ever I WAS lying to her. It’s called “mother instinct” and WE ALL GOT IT.
She was “AT THE BEACH” IN ROCHESTER, NY IN April? Doing what, SNOW FISHING? It begs CREDULITY.
Let’s see, follow the INSANE LOGIC of it: Depressed teen (riled becuz her parents were getting divorced, per mom). Then WHO is the “step father” in Rochester who is “helping out” mom by answering media, etc? IF the teen was upset by upcoming divorce –WHAT did she think about a “step=father?”
Usually, the step father comes AFTER the divorce –NOT before. Whatever was going on, surprise at a divorce couldn’t be the root cause.
Back to the point: Depressed teen says she wants to go to MYRTLE BEACH; mother says NO. Then, mother does NOT SEE teen for DAYS (but THINKS) kid must be at Rochester BEACH?
The mother doesn’t deserve our scorn –she deserves a guide dog or a minder.
We are either RAISED to do whatever the heck we want –OR there are those of us who know BETTER than to run off at will. Your children are raised with the fear of the Lord and respect for the laws of man –or, they’re not.
When lines are crossed, lives are lost. This is not judgment but the facts. Woulda, shoulda, coulda –you either move heaven & earth to protect your kids at all costs … OR, you DON’T.
Every parent has to live with the choices each makes. But the apologists for parents who choose to be less vigilant are only relating their own culpability.
This is the extremely well-articulated version of reality. That being said, this Mother and family still has my support. I have colleagues down there involved in the search effort and it could not be more somber.
B
Friday, May 01, 2009 at 5:46 p.m.
05-01-2009 from carolinalive.com
Myrtle Beach Police are still searching for Brittanee Drexel, a missing teen from Rochester, New York. Friday afternoon police followed a lead to Georgetown County.
Police searched the area around the North Santee River looking for Drexel who has not been seen since Saturday night.
one thing that bothers me is this observation:
Mom said all of her belongings were left behind in the motel room…(except cell phone..not yet located) what about her purse?..you can clearly see her holding it on her shoulder in the surveillance pic as she was leaving the Blue Water Resort? was the purse also left behind in the room?..that would mean she did actually return to the room..and then as soon as she was missing..the room mates moved to a different hotel? I would be tearing the Bar Harbor Resort Hotel apart..and supposedly the girls were only acquaintances not close friends and Brittanee was arguing with one of the girls about clothes…and she was missing from 8:45 pm until 5 am before she was reported missing?
from 13WHAM
Last Update: 7:26 pm
(IDM) MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) – Police in South Carolina looking for a missing 17-year-old New York girl are searching a couple of rivers and a highway about 30 miles south of Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach Police Capt. David Knipes says officers are following a number of different tips in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel.
Knipes says one of the tips led officers to two different rivers and areas along U.S. 17, the main highway going south out of Myrtle Beach, but the search Friday afternoon has not gotten investigators closer to finding Drexel.
Make up all the excuses in the world,ppl!
Stop being your kid’s friend(s). Be a f_cking parent! Otherwise this BS is only going to get worse.
I grew up military style. My parents still have my respect. I would NEVER! even think of doing this. I do not know how so many of you think this is o.k? That’s totally f-ed up! and,well… just a sign of the times & why the kids today are so messed up.
Mmmmmmok! now spin it all to make up excuses for for this pathetic “new way ” of parenting. Is is ADD,ADHD,Autism or a bipolar disorder?! Maybe it’s the fact that we are still paying for the liberal BS of the 60′s. Yep! if it “feels good”
First of all y’all need to lay off the mom. Her daughter is 17 and she told her she was staying at a friends house for the weekend and the mother and daughter were in contact by phone. Each kid is so different. I have one son who never did anything wrong almost a “Stepford” child and the other a wild child telling me he was spending the night at a friend’s house for the weekend only to find out he was somewhere else. It wasn’t until her daughter turned up missing with no phone contact that the mother found out she was out of town and she immediately called a friend close by to file a missing person’s report.
It looks to me this Peter Broswick is definitely who I suspect.
1) Last one seen with her.
2) Brittanee’s clothes were found in his hotel room.
3) The unusual departure of the guys between 1-2 a.m. in the morning.
4) They left $100 deposit behind.
If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat it’s a rat.
Also, I am a little prejudiced by the obnoxious photos. My son is around the same age and in college and bless his heart he is working and trying to pay for school and he drives the junkiest car. Looks like this college kid has a really nice sporty car and the fact that he has one of the priciest lawyers… I think he is a spoiled, cocky rich brat who felt he had a right to exploit some poor girl.
Let’s just for a minute think about the real person/persons responsible for the unthinkable here. Something God awful has probably happened to this poor girl and everyone is looking to blame the parents, the friends, etc. How about the sicko who did this to her??? What if she was 21 and she went with her parents permission? Now what do you have to say? Still crappy parents? This is something that could have happened to a 17 year old, 18 year old, 21 year old, 25 year old. I am so happy that all these people have had no hardship in their life and have no faults that they just want to point out everyone else’s. Focus on finding Brittanee, and the real person/persons who are guilty.
I don’t anything about Peter and his situation, but if I were innocent I would be screaming from the rooftops that I had nothing to do with her disappearance and I would be in the heart of the search for her not running as fast as I can to hide. Obviously he wasn’t receiving any threats until he ran and lawyered up, no one even knew who he was before that. So that excuse for running so fast doesn’t quite hold water.
God bless Brittanee and her family.
court p, you mention that you can get anything you want at the Kryptonite. Do you know what exactly lies behind the guarded curtains? Do you suppose this club deals in prostitution? Possibly, forced prostitution?
Let’s try putting this in a different perspective: if you go walking in the woods barefoot, it may seem romantic and safe until you are bitten by a rattlesnake. Is it the rattlesnake’s fault, or your own fault for not wearing boots? It is a parent’s absolute responsibility to teach their children how to protect themselves in the walk in the woods. And, if the kids are too stupid to keep themselves safe, you don’t let them go out alone. I stand by my statement that this poor child was arrogant and stupid and immature. BUt that said, her poor family and friends deserve all the support we can give them. It is not looking good.
Peter Brozowitz is a promotor for Ronnie Davis and his clubs. tries to get girls to go to club. He is not a college student. Rochester blogs have a poor opinion of him and his connections. Took his site down was viphappyhour.com Recently opened his clubs to nites for 18 years olds. For Brit to get into the Krytonite club she needed a false ID or some one with infulence to get her in. She was there with Peter on Friday noc. The lawyer Parrinellas son is partner with Davis in one of the Clubs. Media excuse and death threaths doesn’t wash cause some how Peters name was spelt wrong for days. Did he spell his name wrong so he could clean up his myspace and take down his other internet advertisements. What is he trying to hide? His advocacy group protests to much.
The problem that I have with the parents is that apparently Brittanee was allowed to hang out with these types of friends wayyyy before she decided to go to MB against her mother’s wishes. What kinds of friends your child hangs out with has a HUGE influence on what they will be exposed to. I have a 19 1/2 year old girl who went to her sorority formal last night and instead of going out to parties afterwards at midnight, like most of the others, she came home with her friend and watched a movie at home. She doesn’t live with me so I would have never known if she would have gone or not, but she thought it was dumb and didn’t want to go. This was a kid who in her freshman year of high school wanted to go out every weekend, etc. I was VERY involved during her high school years as to where she could and couldn’t go and had many discussions with her on certain dangers, etc. and we still do have these discussions. Whether we like it or not, Brittanee was allowed to engage in risky behavior for some time before this and unfortunately it looks as though it may have cost her her life. If my daughter was to be gone “for several days” I would check with the friend’s parents IN PERSON, not over the phone, to make sure that she was where she said she was. I have done that with my kids. It is a pain in the butt and not popular with my kids, but I just tell them, ‘sorry, it’s my job as a mom and I’m gonna do it.” They are used to it now. While I understand that her mom didn’t know that she was in MB until it was too late, I guarantee that she DID know that Brittanee went to parties, etc. before this. I guarantee there were problems before this. A straight A, non-partying, obedient girl does not just all of a sudden up and leave to go party at MB during spring break against her parent’s wishes. And if her mom didn’t know, then she should have. It’s her JOB. Unfortunately Brittanee has been headed down this path for quite some time and I feel horribly for her mom and her family to have to go through this. Brittanee was just terribly unlucky and made some critical misjudgements due to her immaturity and she and her family now have to deal with the consequences. I am sorry if this sounds harsh, I feel terribly sad for Brittanee and her parents, but it is the reality.
kuaitzudog, I’m sure more will come out later about what clothes were where, but the fact two different hotels are at issue seems to be causing some confusion. I saw somewhere only thing missing from her hotel room was cell phone, purse and id (so stuff she had on her that nite) I don’t believe this was a case of clothes she was wearing that nite were found at the guy’s hotel room.
I’m with those who are saying let’s stop blaming the parents…
I believe they have the pings of her cell phone leading south on Hwy 17 and are searching the area where the pings stopped….
I’m also guessing PB had nothing to do with this. They have footage of her leaving their hotel alone and presumably have footage of what these guys did, if anything, from that point on. They probably also have some not yet disclosed footage of her walking down the blvd and also have timing of the pings. I’m guessing pings will correspond with guys still being at the hotel….
She was a cute tiny thing. 5′ weighed 100 lbs. I’m guessing someone else saw her as a easy target and picked her up on this 20 block walk back to her hotel.
Let’s concentrate on finding the responsible party.
Mr. Facts, When you jump on your high horse and start saying “you people”, you include everyone. You said “you people” twice showing your desire to make sure you insulted everyone whether they were involved in the incident that caused your little tantrum or not. Then you called everyone a lynch mob, once again flicking your tiny insult at a group of strangers, none of whom have suggested lynching anyone. You call the boy Peter as if you know him intimately. You pontificate that he had nothing to do with it. Could you please provide a link, dated before your post where a member of LE has said he had nothing to do with it? Or could you provide proof of any kind to back up your statement that he had nothing to do with it. At this point I can only assume that your intimacy level with this young man, when coupled with your lame, angry attempt at defending him means that the young man is “your man”. If you can provide an alibi for him when the young lady disappeared I suggest that you get in touch with LE immediately.
You also brayed about what police should or should not release to the media. Can you provide any information about your educational background that qualifies you to tell anyone in LE how to run their investigation?
Also, with all of your assumptions you had the audacity to name yourself Mr. Facts? I reckon you meant Mr. Assume so I will try to view you in that light from now on. Google the Assume acronym, then spend a few minutes reasoning out why bellicose and obtuse need to go hand in hand when describing your post.
I would also like to step outside of my realm of responsibility and invite you to please come here and post of the inside knowledge you feel you possess. I will thank you in advance for any new light you can shine upon the truth about what happened to this girl. Links are appreciated. Verifiable fact is too.
Dear God,
Please save us from the “good” people.
Amen
Maybe most of you were good/obedient children…but I wasn’t. I sooo get the telling Mom I was “spending the night at my friends house” and I was nowhere near there!! OK…her bad for trusting me but I set the whole bad thing in motion and if I had not come home my parents would be a day or days behind on figuring out where I really was and what I was really doing! She is a teenager…we all think we know everything and are so much smarter than our parents at that age! Only by the Grace of God did I make it through those days alive!
May the Lord give her parents strength.
DEAR 88: You said the “secret word” (“I was spending THE NIGHT at my friend’s house –but wasn’t”).
Key being “THE NIGHT.” As a parent, you do not SPEND DAYS (and NIGHTS) NOT knowing PRECISELY where your child is (especially AFTER said child & her “friends” wanted to go down to MB) on spring break.
4-days/4-nights w/some wacko young guy PRETENDS to be “the father” … yeah, I’d buy that (if I was FOUR) years old.
MOTHERS talk to mothers; concerned mothers would WORRY if “some guy” was making excuses about where her DAUGHTER was; with NO FEMALE PARENTAL units in sight.
As for “friends” … WHO allows friends who are definitely a BAD INFLUENCE to hang around with their kids? These so-called ‘friends’ are same ones who LET Brittannee go missing AND DIDN’T BOTHER TO REPORT IT to the police (immediately).
What kind of ‘friends’ (much older than Brittanee) willingly TAKE PART in LYING repeatedly to her parents (without worrying they THEMSELVES might be in trouble) for aiding/abetting? Either too stupid, too callous/drug-affected to care about consequences.
When girlfriends (back in the day) went OUT, we always stayed TOGETHER. None of us would leave any of the others ALONE. Because everybody knows BAD THINGS happen to girls left alone.
You never left a dance w/o your girlfriend. You never left a bar stool w/o your friend –and you never drank ANYTHING left on the bar after you came back from the bathroom. These were the rules forty years ago.
A lot of things may have changed but basics never do. You never leave a young girl alone in a strange town (especially).
There IS safety in numbers. And no friend would leave another’s mother “hanging out” for DAYS without knowing the truth.
Anybody capable of violating all those basics, isn’t really a friend. Anyone NOT KNOWING these basics is too stupid to be believed. And shouldn’t ever be out of the sight of a BABY-sitter.
Her mother HAD TO KNOW (deep down) she was being LIED TO; no “teen guy” can pas himself off AS A PARENT. Just like the notes kids try to write, thinking NOBODY will catch them -ridiculous!
NO mother’s going to buy daughter’s REPEATED lies -while thinking her child was “at the beach” NEAR BUFFALO, NEW YORK –in April? (There is still snow on the ground).
EVERY mother in the world KNOWS where kids WANT TO BE for Spring Break. Truth be (faced) her mother was too busy doing God only knows WHAT to really FOCUS on any problems her daughter might be having.
If your child is going thru a hard time, THAT’S THE TIME they need to be CLOSE to you (their parent). Whatever was REALLY going on w/mother & their home –a divorce did NOT cause this crime. There’s a step-father involved somewhere, and how do you get a STEP-father before a divorce>? Games are being played; people are NOT “owning” their responsibility. If you want people to HELP and support you –YOU have to tell the TRUTH. The truth that MAKES SENSE. otherwise, you cast doubt on your own SEARCH for your child.
if Brittanee was not reported missing until 5am Sunday by her “girl-friends” then why did PB and co leave abruptly between 1 and 2 am Sunday to drive home? Did they already know something no one else yet knew?
Mom said on Nancy Grace today that the timelines do not jive..and she is correct in that.
and is there surveillance camera footage of any of the boys in that room leaving the hotel after Brittanee left..knowing that she would be walking 20 blocks ALONE..and perhaps lured her into their car saying they would give her a lift to her motel,and she probably would have accepted thinking she had already met them?
just thinking out loud..
I think the police know much more than they are telling..like in the Sandra Cantu case??
kuaitzudog, correct. The police ALWAYS know more than they are saying. ALWAYS.
I’m sure they have all video from the hotel that nite showing exact movement of Brittanee and these guys. I’m sure they have other recordings from the 20 block stretch showing her walking or not appearing at all on certain parts of the blvd.
And, as I speculated before, I think they have the pings of her cell phone going south out of town and stopping in the area where they are now searching.
RE:#92 Divorce dad, marry step-dad; divorce step-dad.
Gee, it must be gratifying for you, #92 karen lee, to have ALL the answers, eh?
This IS a dangerous world we’re living in.
There ARE a lot of bad parents/bad mothers/bad fathers out there.
What my parents called “street smarts” ARE more important than ever.
I’m just not getting the bad Mom/Family accusations here at all. I’m just not getting that that Brittany is anything other than an average 17 year old. I’m just not getting the tone that the Mom/daughter deserved whatever it is they’ve gotten here?
Judge not lest ye . . . and all that jazz.
From all appearances this woman IS a BONAFIDE Soccer Mom, for Pete’s Sake. Not cooking meth in the back of her mini van . . . not shacked up with a pedophile . . . not hooking up on Craigslist.
She’s out with a cameraphone trying to buy the right soccer shoes for cryin’ out loud (and every other tired phrase I can think of:)
The venom toward Mom is more indicative of individual posters own issues, I think.
Just as I would think it be inappropriate to personally attack Mrs. Drexler, I think it is inappropriate to overact to posters that would have handled the situation differently. I am willing to bet if you asked her, she would. I would rather have someone read here and take the mental note that if their child ever pulls this, not to wait it out. I say that with the utmost respect for Brit and her family, but it is what it is.
B
#95 Comment by Bren — May 2, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
“RE #92: Divorce dad, marry step-dad; divorce step-dad.”
That analogy doesn’t make sense. Not in context that Brittanee was “having hard time w/the IDEA of her mother/father’s divorce.” Something isn’t playing right, that’s all. The mother keeps alluding to Brittanee’s depression as something “recent.” It takes TIME to get separated, then divorced –and then, REMARRIED to give Brittanee a STEP-father. 6-mos … a YEAR?? And if that were the case, they could have been getting counseling for Brittanee to help her with her depression. Depression is nothing to take lightly; not with teens facing the peer pressure they have today.
Something that happened six months to a year ago and was already a fait accompli doesn’t seem to jive with the mother’s reasoning that her DIVORCE was the reason her daughter ran away to Myrtle Beach.
#95 Comment by aud — May 2 “Gee, it must be gratifying for you, #92 karen lee, to have ALL the answers, eh? This IS a dangerous world we’re living in. There ARE a lot of bad parents/bad mothers/bad fathers out there. What my parents called “street smarts” ARE more important than ever. I’m just not getting the bad Mom/Family accusations here at all. I’m just not getting that that Brittany is anything other than an average 17 year old. I’m just not getting the tone that the Mom/daughter deserved whatever it is they’ve gotten here? Judge not lest ye . . . and all that jazz.
From all appearances this woman IS a BONAFIDE Soccer Mom, for Pete’s Sake. Not cooking meth in the back of her mini van . . . not shacked up with a pedophile . . . not hooking up on Craigslist.
DEAR AUD: NOWHERE in my post is there a JUDGMENT of poor Brittanee’s mother. She will face whatever the outcome is; and that’s that. She will be her own worst critic in the days & years to come. But: you cannot find out what happened unless/UNTIL the truth is told. NOT the truth as anybody MIGHT LIKE IT TO BE ..just the truth. WHO were the people she traveled w/to MB? What kind of people –did they have any scary habits (doing drugs?) Did they have enough MONEY to afford decent rooms and meals?
ALL these things are relevant to finding Brittanee. IF her ‘friends’ were not really FRIENDS, but just people she hitched a ride with –it says something different (like why they left town so quickly & w/o HER).
Lastly, I was stating my opinions from years of experience; living life and not being fooled. But i was NOT comparing my life w/her mother’s. I was just commenting on the inconsistencies in her stories and the believability of a teen being in snowbound upper New York in the winter time at the BEACH. Beach – Beach.
PS: if her father & his divorce was causing Brittanee angst, WHERE IS HE in all this? If her mother had told her (real) father their daughter hadn’t been seen in days, it’s likely he would have guessed the truth of where she was –and might have acted sooner –or not.
Too many children and young teenage girls are being horribly killed (*tortured, molested, etc) these days. It won’t stop until society takes extreme measures to stop these predators. UNTIL THEN: parents have to be STRIDENT and VIGILANT (& scare hell out of their kids if necessary) ==whatever it takes to convince them that leaving home alone can get them killed. I think that’s worth commenting about, even if you don’t.
Comment by aud — May 2, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Dear God,
Please save us from the “good” people.
Amen
DEAR AUD,
I assume that my post is one of the posts you were responding to with this post. Yes, I am proud to say that I am one of the “good” people you refer to. I am the mom of 3 girls (and 2 boys) and I know where all my kids are at all times. I don’t let my 15 year old go on several day outings without meeting, face to face, the responsible adult who is supervising the outing. If I don’t meet and talk to the responsible adult beforehand, they don’t go. Period. My oldest daughter is now 19 and she is in college, has never been to a bar or nightclub (and does not want to go), has never smoked, drank alcohol or done drugs. Such kids DO exist out there and you will most likely find that the home lives of these kids have one critical thing in common: a stable family with both their mom and their biological dad under the same roof. I am not saying that some single parents or divorced parents don’t have good kids, but in these cases, more often than not, the parents are distracted by their messy personal lives and often the child pays the penalty. What these parents don’t understand is that just because THEY no longer like the father they once loved enough to make a baby with, it doesn’t mean that their child feels the same way. My kids are not “good” because they were born that way, my kids are “good” because I work damn hard every day to know exactly what they are doing, who they are with, etc and to provide them with the proper guidance so they don’t end up how poor Brittanee most likely ended up. To discount my opinion and the opinions of others like me by this statement is rude. I think it is completely tragic beyond belief that this beautiful young girl most likely (statistically) lost her life because she made a series of stupid decisions and her mom (for whatever reason) was not there to provide the proper guidance to her (and I don’t consider talking on the phone and texting with her over 4 days without really knowing where she was as providing the proper guidance she needed). I would be willing to bet that Brittanee has had issues long before spring break 2009. If you look at the myspace and facebook pages of all these “so-called” friends of hers you will see the kind of crowd that Brittanee was allowed to run with long before spring break 2009. I have seen so many parents of teenagers turn a blind eye to what their kids are doing because it is so much easier than to have to deal with opposition from your child. Kids are immature and will put themselves in risky situations and that is exactly what Brittanee did. At 17 she should have known a girl does not go to a motel room alone to meet 4 boys and does not walk 20 blocks alone in a party town during spring break. My girls knew this at 10 years old. I know that blaming the parents is not going to bring Brittanee back, but like Blink said in a response to one of your later posts, if only one parent looks at this sad case and acts sooner if their child pulls the same thing, then it is well worth pointing out the obvious in this case. Are my kids perfect? No way! Have they ever tried to pull over on me something like this? On a smaller scale, yes, and I got down to the bottom of it very quickly and then sat in the car and went to where they were and picked them up and brought them home immediately. Needless to say, it only took once and never repeated again. Do I think that Brittanee’s mom would do things very differently if she had it to do over again? Absolutely!!! I feel horribly sad for her because, she (as we all do) knows the statistics in these cases very well and she probably deep down knows that at this point it is not statistically likely that she will see her daughter alive again. I hope that whoever perpetrated this crime gets the punishment they deserve. I think it is fair to express opinions and make comments about this case and about something that is so prevalent in society today, is putting so many kids at risk and eliciting the kind of response I referenced above basically stating that those of us who are the “good” people are anomalies in this society. How sad and that is why, unfortunately, we will continue to have more Brittanees out there.
Ok. I know where this is going to end up. Let’s all agree the reality is, a girl this age and maturity level, has no business having the flexability to be away, whether it is 5 miles or 5000 miles unsupervised for days at a time. Even if she were a “stepford child”, there are people out there WAITING for the opportunity for some beautiful, young lady to be out on her own… People, that is history repeating itself. Point being, its not just her to worry about. It is Predators.
Many years ago, I read the book “The Gift of Fear” written by Gavin deBecker. It changed my path, it changed the way I valued my personal security. I have given over 100 copies of that book as gifts to people I love, or people I was scared were clueless like my sor sista who has more money than God, and less sense than a teetsy fly.
Instead of arguing about coulda shoulda woulda, although I agree it has it’s place, buy a copy for yourself (not anyone in particular, anyone reading this) or buy a copy for someone you think might benefit.
B
Thank you Karen Lee. I agree with you 100%.