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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From ABC News May 1, 2009: “Her mother, Dawn Drexel, is now in Myrtle Beach along with Brittanee’s father, stepmother and boyfriend handing out fliers bearing her daughter’s pictures. Her mother fears the worst.”
Her father and mother aren’t married. Her father is married to her stepmother. Therefore it is possible that her mother is also remarried, since someone mentioned a stepfather.
Who’s getting divorced? One or both of her parents, but not from each other.
Ah – here it is. Same story as above, 2nd page: “Diagnosed with depression, Brittanee had recently been put on anti-depressant medication after the stress of family problems, including the divorce of her mother and stepfather, became too much for her to deal with on her own.”
Links to this story:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7479898&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=7479898&page=2
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090429/NEWS01/904290342/1002/NEWS
http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=87782
Chad Drexel considers himself a strict dad. So when his oldest daughter Brittanee asked if she could go to South Carolina he said no. Chad adopted her when she was a little girl. Brittanee’s mother went down to look for her. Chad is staying in the area. “I figure I need to stay back here with our other two children and hold the fort in case she shows up here. In case she pops up I’m here. I’m right her for her,” said Chad Drexel.
Blink, I am not understanding your remarks on #68 about the comments not being accurate and on #71 saying, “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.” All the articles I’ve read are saying the mother thought Brittanee was in the Rochester area the whole time, until she got a call Saturday night and was informed by Brittanee’s friend that she had actually gone to MB and was missing from there. If that is true, how could you have known to call the police before you knew she was missing? If the articles are not correct (or if I’m misinterpreting them), could you post a link to an article that states correctly what happened? I always enjoy your articles and look here first for updated info, that’s why I am surprised and confused about your remarks this time. Thanks!
No, your correct, Im simply saying if she left, as she did, I would have called Rochester Police and the rest would have ensued.
B
Blink, very much agree. Everyone should read Gift of Fear.
It has changed how I have responded to certain situations as well.
She left the boy’s hotel room at 8:00 to go back to her hotel. Jenn Oberer claims that she received a text from Britannee at 8:45 claiming that she was on her way back. The scaredmonkeys have a map posted and it does not appear that the two hotels are such a distance apart that it would take 45 minutes to walk from one to the other.
Also interesting is the fact that Oberer says they became concerned about her at about 2:00 am – the same time that Brosowitz checks out of his hotel leaving his belongings and deposit behind.
A poster on IN Session claims that Oberer moved from Chili to Myrtle Beach a few months ago. She stayed only for a short time, then moved back to Chili. She then went back to Myrtle Beach for spring break taking Britannee with her.
she did not leave the boys hotel the Blue Water Resort until 8:45 pm….she entered the hotel at 8pm.
“On Thursday, pictures from surveillance video showing Brittanee Drexel were released. They show her last known whereabouts, entering the Blue Water Resort in Myrtle Beach to visit friends around 8 p.m. Saturday and leaving around 8:45 p.m”
from 13WHAM.com
and I agree her girlfriends started worrying about her at 2am. at the same time PB and crew up and left MB in a rush???
I smella stinky fish?
http://crimesearchersonline.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Mother-Identified-Missing-Drexel-In-Video.html&Itemid=9
Blink: any more information available? Local news said that on Saturday cadaver dogs were searching a two mile area that was bounded by a river and a road? Does anybody have any idea of what tips were given?
THIS IS WHAT TAMPA, FL newspapers had to say (her real father lives in Tampa Bay, FL area –where it’s ALWAYS warm & sunny …
“Brittanee has ties to Tampa, FLORIDA. The teen’s father and extended family live in the TAMPA Bay area. While Brittanee lives with her mother in (Rochester) New York, she visits her father in Florida from time to time. \
Her family says she was supposed to spend Spring Break at her father John’s home in Carrollwood but she made a snap decision to go to Myrtle Beach with her friends instead.
Brittanee’s friends say the last time they saw her was last Saturday night when she left to visit another friend – alone.
“The FBI is on this. So are the local authorities in Myrtle Beach and the Adam Walsh Foundation,” said Sarikaya.
The girl’s father, John, is alongside those authorities in Myrtle Beach – a Spring Break hot spot – that he describes as, “no good.”
“[He says] everyone’s drunk or on something. He’s like, there are so many back alleys,” Sarikaya told 10 Connects about what her cousin John told her over the phone.
It is no surprise that this family fears the worst. “That my cousin is going to find her body… I hope it does not come to that,” said Filiz Odabas of Tampa.
Through the tears, this family keeps the faith that Brittanee will come home safe and soon.
The family insists that even though Brittanee was sad about her parents’ divorce, she is still a happy kid who would never run away.” [END OF NEWSPAPER QUOTES]
NOTE: Spring Break would have been a lot more fun and safer had Brittanee gone thru with her plans to stay with her bio father in Tampa. Since she had an option to spend quality time in the sun –we can only wonder WHY she chose to do otherwise.
As I suspected, area they were searching was last area where her cell phone pinged: http://www.carolinalive.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=295057
I don’t think this girl ran away. Nor can I see how placing blame on her Mother (who is already going through an agony I wouldn’t wish on anyone) helping to figure out what happened to this child.
With that said, Jenn Oberer (originally from Chili) moved to Mrytle Beach for a short time, and had recently moved back to Chili. She claims that she and Britannee were not close friends, yet she took her to celebrate spring break at Myrtle Beach. Britannee’s mother claims that she had no more than $100 on her. Spring break at Myrtle Beach would be quite expensive. Why would these girls want to fund a trip to Myrtle Beach for this younger girl if she was not a close friend. Furthermore, if it was so important to these girls that Britannee celebrate spring break with them that they were willing to pay her way, why wasn’t it important to them to stay and help search for her? Maybe, they had other ideas for her.
Peter Brozowitz was a VIP member at club Kryptonite. Here is the home page for Club Kryptonite http://www.club-kryptonite.com/index2.html
Doesn’t exactly look to me like they’re promoting a dance club for people 18 and older.
Jenn Oberer claims that they became concerned about her at around 2 am. I would say that she probably called Brozowitz, as his was the last place she knew of that Britannee had been. Immediately, Brozowitz runs back to NY and hires a lawyer.
Brozowitz works for Ronnie Davis. I have found a Rochester local who has some very interesting things to say about Davis
http://www.topix.com/forum/source/whec-rochester/T38DVS34TS0KNDS4P/p2
Post #29 begins an interesting tale of Davis’ business. Reading through this posters remarks, it would seem that he is running some form of illegal operation. I doubt that he’s just trying to cover up underage drinking.
It would further appear that Davis himself is no stranger to packing up and running in the middle of the night.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2036890/
Article explains that Davis spent $2 million renovating three bars in Rochester NC. Looks like he opened them in August of 2007, then abruptly packed up and ran just a few months later in Nov. of 2007. Also in Rochester NC Nov. 2007
http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/11736131.html
In an undercover operation, police had arrested 20 people for prostitution.
Could it be that these people are involved in the sex trade? Possibly, Oberer and Brozowitz had a plan for this girl before even leaving for Myrtle Beach?
I think the fact that her cell phone was placed 30 miles south of Myrtle Beach is very telling. Perhaps she was drinking and got in the car with someone who offered to drive her back to her hotel because she was walking. I just don’t have a good feeling about this case at all. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends.
Mom is now saying all of the boys are no longer persons of interest. http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S912044.shtml?cat=565
would assume she got this from the police.
My god!!! Any parents worst nightmare.. I have beed having trouble with my daughter (divorced from her mother) she’s straight A’s honor roll etc, getting ready for college, she will be 18 this weekend and has beed so defiante with me, breaks all the rules. I am so afaird she will do something like this and have them same thing happen…I pray that this girl is found ok…and if not, Jail is not good enough for anyone that may have harmed her…bring back public hangings
When I was 16, I was rebellious and YES…my dad came and picked me up/retrieved me a couple times. I was embarrassed at the time, but as an adult, appreciate my father loved me enough to chase me all over Tampa and actually FIND me…and punish me good too.
Prevost1580 wrote:
“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.”
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I 2nd that. My son got caught drinking this weekend. He’s 18. He has lost the key to the family Jeep which was “his ride” (according to him although I paid for it), he has lost any/all allowance (he can get a job), and he is not going to spring break. I had the money and it’s going towards bills. He knows damn well not to go although 18 because my husband/his father, will knock the sense INTO him for as long as it takes.
This can ONLY be something we did and I am not blaming anything else other than being TOO NICE and trying to give him TOO MUCH. I will not and cannot with good conscious blame another human being. We raised him, we missed something.
He’s an A student on a full scholarship. He now understands this could cost him that FOR GOOD if he were to be caught with this “new buddy” who I’ve learned gets it from his FATHER who buys it for his 17 yr old. Geez…and this other kid’s “father” is active in the school. NO one knows about how the kids is getting this other than my husband and I and we are currently discussing if we should turn him in. Would also destroy HIS family, wife, and three younger kids. What would anyone on HERE do other than what I’ve done already?
Oh…and to add to that…this other “father” and son are popular. They are “COOL”…yeah, real cool.
Concerned Father …don’t give up on her. My 18 yr old also doing same recently. Just last 6 months I see a different kid from the one that we raised. Glad you love your daughter enough to be so concerned…but I think it’s the fact he’s found a new “group” of friends and the influence is bad. I kinda knew it when they started hanging out, but chose (stupidly) to assume my son knew better than to do anything bad. Well, I was wrong.
“As far as I know they’ve done what they needed to do as far as those boys are concerned back home,” said Drexel. “They’re not persons of interest anymore.”
IMO the police are saying this like they did in the Cantu case to throw the guilty off??
Bravo Brenda in Virginia – I applaud your handling of the situation with your son. Lots of parents wouldn’t have done that because now YOU have to drive him everywhere and that is a pain in the behind, but also a consequence he will remember. You guys sound like parents who take responsibility for raising your kids and that is very much missing in today’s society. The group of friends they hang out with matters TREMENDOUSLY. Those are the people he/she will look up to for influence when you are not around. I have a 19 year old girl and she lives on her own with a friend while going to college but I support her financially 100%. She knows if she were to do anything we don’t care for, she would be back home before I could snap my fingers. She knows that we would actually physically move her out and we would. What you have done is good. Even though he is 18, if you still support him financially then you still have alot of leverage in that department. Just be sure that you stay consistent (I know it’s very hard) and if the car is gone, it’s gone NO MATTER WHAT. As long as you are consistent and stick to what you say with the consequences, you will be ok. As far as that other father all I can say to that is that is not a boy that my kids would be hanging out with anymore. Good luck to you and hopefully this is the only time you will have to deal with something like this.
I think something is definitely off that her “friends” would come back from this trip, knowing their friend was missing, and post pictures on FB from that trip.
Not to mention the cute little comments about the photos. Holy Inappropriateness.
If it were my friend that went missing from a trip I took with her, I would be freaking out and scared. Not making cute comments on my FB page.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30375152&id=1013670465#/album.php?aid=2019879&id=1013670465&page=2
proud of you Brenda..Motherhood is definitely not for wimps.
I posess the merit badge for “meanest Mom in town LOL” BUT I now have two wonderful, productive and finally greatful for having strict parents, adult children..what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.
The Golden Rule of Parenthood..”Never give up and never give in, you have to LOVE your children enough to discipline them.”
in response to #123 OMG…posting those pics on FaceBook is in such poor taste..
go to the page and all of the kids pics are labeled except for Brittanees?? it’s like they know she is gone?? I wonder if the cops have seen these pics??
I read their messages also. With friends like that, no enemies are needed.
I’m with you on holy inappropriate with posting those photos and then just not acknowledging her like she doesn’t exist. She’s in almost a 1/3 of them. At least in the first photo someone said provided the comment: brittany
There were two photos on that facebook profile with the comment of being on the way home. It was uploaded via facebook mobile. It’s odd because I assumed that those two girls were the ones she went down there with, but the car was full on the way home with three guys in the backseat so there would’ve been no room for Brittanee in that car.
So sad! Looked like they weren’t worried one bit about her and to post those pictures and name the album the way she did was in such poor taste. With friends like that….
The FB photos suggest a couple of possibilities (to me). One is that she left of her own volition, and the other “kids” know that she is safe.
The other is that they don’t care, and that the omitting her name, and blatant disregard for the seriousness of the situation are indicative of a dislike for her, and/or knowledge of something very bad happening.
Though I am not optimistic, based on all of the information given thusfar, I hope for the former.
Check the comments on picture 42- Added April 28David James Failing at 11:59pm April 29
wait i saw that girl on the news
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Okay… these are either a bunch of hateful, sociopaths, or she ran away. Who would make comments like that? Who would post those pics, and name everyone except for the missing girl? And did you all notice the many pictures with Alanna?
I didn’t get a chance to read all of the posts, so I’m sorry if this was answered already.
Why was this *beautiful* young lady walking by herself 20 blocks??? This seems like an invitation for all the perverted trash she would pass by…what happened at the hotel that made her leave by herself to venture 20 blocks to meet other friends? No taxi was called?? What “friends” (guys she was visiting) would allow such an attractive naive girl to be alone and susceptible? That doesn’t make sense.
A half decent person who was in the room would have offered to escort her…I know people who have walked miles at 2 am to make sure young ladies made it home safely. Have/were those boys drug tested? It makes me wonder what they were doing in the room
I hope they find her. My prayers & thoughts go out to her family & *real* friends
post #112!!
I checked out the link to the discussion forum you put up (WOW)
on the first link , post #40 says: Peter’s FB or myspace status update says he was sleeping @ 4am (ish) when they were driving from myrtle beach to rochester. Interesting.
Another poster says the boys took 17 hours to drive 14.5 hours (by mapquest, which assumes you drive the speed limit)
Funny how they left in the middle of the night, drove 17 hours straight…taking turns, ok – I guess. When did anyone sleep?? I looked at the FB photo album posted by hk #123 – in some of those pix one of the girls pupils are very very dilated….wonder if they were doing drugs also. Did anybody notice the hotel pic where the guy was sweating profusely? In another pic where 2 girls are standing side by side (in the room) it almost appears as if someone in the background behind them is kneeling over a side table…I can’t see the position of her arms but the height of her head puts her level with the glass table top
This is very sad
Kellybear, PB doesn’t appear to be in any of JO’s photos. I take from this that PB and JO were not friends or were not hanging out with them. Brittanee wanted to visit PB. She had no money so walked to their hotel. There was some mention B was wearing one of the other girl’s shorts and they wanted them back so B left the hotel to walk back – texting she was on her way. Again walked as no money. 20 blocks is nothing when that is your mode of transportation.
This is a bunch of kids on spring break in a seemingly safe spring break town. Kids just aren’t of this mentality to escort the other person home in this type of environment – especially at 8:30.
I looked at both JO and AL’s list of friends. Neither have Brittanee listed as a friend. B is on FB, but if you go to her account now no friends are listed. I’m assuming someone did that post-disappearance as any teenager on FB has “friends”
#84 – it is a known X bar.. and yes, it is very heavily rumored around these parts that it is exactly what you said. I have been talking to some friends who have been there as well. One girl said that when the lights go off and the oxygen comes down from the ceiling that she was nearly pulled in to one of those rooms. Thank God she was able to get away! I don’t know why but I feel as though she met someone that night at Kryptonite and was possibly lured away by this person later on the BLVD. I don’t know. I think someone would have seen her get “snatched”… they probably wouldn’t have noticed her just willingly get in to a car. I could be wrong but, just a feeling I have…
It doesn’t add up. B is close enough to take the trip with these other girls, share a room, share clothes, take pictures, etc.
But not one of them seems concerned about B being missing.
I think drugs/alcohol and jealous are in play here.
I also find it odd that none of these girls is speaking about B’s disappearance. Even if they argued during that trip or weren’t close friends to start, most teens would be talking about it.
“OMG! That could have been one of us.”
“OMG! I totally knew that girl.”
“OMG! I have pcitures of me with her that weekend!”
Nope. Not a word. Why are they trying to distance themselves? Is someone advising them to do so?
Why are there reports of LE interviewing PB but not any of the girls that were with her?
I find it very odd that they would act like she doesn’t exist. On one of the comments someone says “She needs to come back” and then the comment below that says “Where is sssshhhhheee?” One other thing I find very odd is the fact that B’s mom is coming out to the media over and over saying her daughter is probably dead. Statistically, at this point, that is probably very likely, but in every other missing child case I have seen, the parents only admit that once a body is found. Usually they hang onto the very last shred of hope as long as they can. I am not saying she was involved, I am just saying it strikes me as odd.
One of the guy’s comments in a FB pic is that he was “panging”, term some kids use for the high off X. Something here with these girls seems very odd! She might’ve gotten a ride out of camera range by someone she vaguely new with the promise of being taken to her friends. How do the people she’s travelling with not look for her, call about her or report it????
#137 – I was surprised by the FB comments on the photo album as well
This young lady may have died over someone’s pair of SHORTS.
A PAIR OF SHORTS!!! – the other girl obviously didn’t need them immediately – to make B walk 20 blocks to return them….then nobody really noticed that she was actually missing until 4 hours later? I would think 30 or 40 minutes is the proper time frame, especially if the girl made B walk all the way back to return the shorts because “she needed to wear them that night” – if she needed them so badly why did it take her 4 hours to realize she still didn’t have them to wear??
NEW surveillance video released:
http://www.13wham.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=206443@wokr.dayport.com
god help Brittanee and her family. this is a nightmare that no one want’s to happen. and hey folk’s, really, lay off the ‘rents. at 17 i was graduating high-school, had two scholarships and two grants and thought i was queen-bee. Brittanee was an ‘A’ student (better than me, i just do well with multi-guess test). and if ya wanna’ know, at the end of my senior year, there really wasn’t much my mom could tell me (IMO at the time). heck, she hadn’t gone to college, and now i’m goin’ on a full ride. Needless to say my alligator mouth etc,.. dropped out my second year to get married and three husbands later and a beautiful five year old girl (and for all who want to know baby came first with hubby 3 and then we tied the knot when she was four) and ya know what , it happens. the IT being life. i’m sure Brits mom had no doubt about her daughter and i’m SURE whatever has happened to that poor girl-SHE did not plan. hindsight IS 20/20; but, you cannot make you child’s mistakes for them. hard lessons are spent for the price of a productive life, and if anyone is to blame for this it is WHOEVER KNOWS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO BRITTANEE!
your–you cannot make YOUR child’s mistakes…
SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP OUT OF COLLEGE!
Karen Lee ..small world. I grew up in Tampa and lived in Carrollwood.
Dear HK..yes, my thought after reading about the photos was possible that jealousy played a huge factor. I do hope it’s that she only ran away, but with all the news how can she stay so “hidden” on her own? Did Brittney get involved with a boy at that club one of the other girls wanted to have interested in them instead?
We know with Natalee Holloway, Urin Van de Sloot admit on that hidden camera to a friend Natalee became “unresponsive” and his friend took her in a boat and threw her in the ocean (this is after whatever he did to her obviously…). could it be same here? Brittney overdosed and rather than get help, someone chose it was “better” to get rid of her? Who knows at this point.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519135,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519116,00.html
Thanks, kuai, Dr. Keith’s article was emotional and strong.
Something led LE to Georgetown high school, close to where Britanee’s cell phone last pinged. They are really pushing that any info Crimestoppers gets is anonymous. This may mean that they feel some of these HS kids may know something or that they are just drawing a blank on the disappearance. I find it hard to believe they would specifically target the HS for no reason.
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/889484.html
Towards the end of the video posted on comment #140, they mentioned PB is cooperating with authorities and even submitted a DNA sample to further clear his name. My question is, why would they even need a DNA sample? I would guess they would only need it in the event that they had Brittany either alive and harmed or dead, no?