Saturday, August 1, 2015

// What Happened To Brittanee Drexel ?? //


"Brittanee resided in Rochester, New York in 2009; she was a junior at Gates-Chili High School, where she was a star player on the soccer team. Her parents are legally separated and Brittanee lived with her mother, but saw her father frequently. In April 2009, Brittanee asked for her mother's permission to travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break with her friends and longtime boyfriend. Her mother said no, they argued about it, and Brittanee got permission to go to a friend's home. She went to Myrtle Beach in spite of what her mother said. Her mother was unaware of this; she thought Brittanee was staying with a friend locally. They spoke several times on the telephone after she arrived in South Carolina. Brittanee's mother didn't find out where her daughter really was until she was notified that Brittanee had disappeared.
Brittanee's friends last saw her Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach at 8:00 p.m. on April 25, 2009. Brittanee walked more than a mile to the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard, where other friends were staying. Surveillance cameras there show her going into the resort, then leaving sometime after 8:30 p.m. At 9:15 p.m., she sent a text message to one of her friends saying she was going to see a friend who was staying at another hotel. She has never been heard from again. She left all her clothes behind at her hotel room. Her beige purse and pink cellular phone disappeared with her. The phone's last signal was near U.S. 17 and the Charleston County line the night Brittanee went missing. Since then its battery has died.
Peter Brozowitz (often referred to as "Broswick" in the media) is a person of interest in Brittanee's disappearance. He is one of her New York friends and is the last person known to have seen her. He checked out of his hotel at 1:00 a.m., a few hours after he saw Brittanee, and drove back to New York. He maintains his innocence in her disappearance. There were sightings of Brittanee in the Myrtle Beach area in the days after her disappearance, but the reports turned out to be about a young woman who merely resembled her.
There were rumors of an imminent breakthrough in Brittanee's case in April 2010. Authorities announced they had three or four persons of interest, all of them from the Myrtle Beach area, and they had obtained search warrants and given polygraph exams to these individuals. No arrests were made, however, and none of the persons of interest were publicly named. Investigators stated foul play was suspected in Brittanee's case and they believed she may have been a homicide victim.
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---------------------Remembering the Disappeared episode, I always thought it was fishy that "Broswick" just up and left town in the middle of the same night she went missing, directly after being the last person to see her. Who decides mid-vacation to up and leave, and in the middle of the night, unless something went wrong?
If there were indeed local people involved, maybe they were partying and something went wrong. 9:15-1am is a shortish window to murder or accidentally kill and then also dispose of the body, but if he had accomplices, that makes more sense.
God, what a heart-wrenching nightmare for her parents.
[–]therealac 26 points  
Agree with you. I don't think it was stranger abduction or trafficking. I think she was picked up by Peter, they started to party, then she overdosed and everyone panicked. The fact that the friend who was last seen with her left that night is telling.
[–]prof_talc 3 points  
Agreed. I think that is very much the most likely scenario based on what we know.
[–]Dcowboys09 2 points  
Her friends back home said she texted them talking about how everyone was doing drugs. It was making her uncomfortable. I doubt she ODed just from her stance on them.
[–]therealac 2 points  
Source?
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She literally said this in her texts to her boyfriend. Watch the Disappeared episode. And in regards to Peter, one of his friend's mother made them come back ASAP. I'm assuming that alibi was checked up on with the mother in question and checked out.
[–]therealac 1 point  
Okay, thanks. I live near the area where she disappeared and followed closely. I have seen the Disappeared episode but it has been a while.
[–]notthepapa 16 points  
in this scenario it would make most sense that they took a party drug together, she accidentally died, and the friends panicked. But I personally believe she encountered a predator.
[–]atlantafalcon1 17 points  
What's also interesting about that narrow window is that her phone was last detected nearly two counties to the south, near the Charleston County border, yet the guy made it back to the hotel, gathered his things, and checked out at 1:00 AM. Surely this guy had a cell phone in 2009 if he was a promoter for a club in New York.
I wonder if there's ever been any mention of his cell phone records during that period. Do they match the location of her phone? Did he have his turned off? Very perplexing case.
[–]Skipaspace 12 points  
They have her leaving their hotel on seecurity footage though, alone. And they don't have her making it back to her hotel.
It seems like she was picked up while walking between hotels.
[–]autopornbot 9 points  
Myrtle Beach is like that. On the strip where it's just hotel after hotel, people walk around at all hours, cruise around, and pick each other up. It's a redneck party beach where alcohol fuels everything that happens. Walk around for 30 minutes during spring break and you'll see 10 different girls get into cars with guys - maybe just 2 or 3 at night, but it still happens all the time.
[–]Record Keeperparsifal 7 points  
The phone could've also been tossed into the bed of a truck and could have been a red herring.
[–]atlantafalcon1 9 points  
I considered that, but I'm interested to know what type of phone it was.
  1. Was it a nice phone that someone would eventually find and perceive as valuable? Sellable? Or maybe it was ruined by weather and thrown away with no second thought.
  2. Was the phone crammed up into the undercarriage of a vehicle where it still sits today? Beneath the seat of some meth head's car that no longer runs?
Neither scenario seems as likely as the easiest answer. She either went willingly with someone south along the coast, or she was snatched and the phone continued south with or without her. Either way, that nearly two county trek south is the key to this case.
[–]prof_talc 4 points  
I think the phone was probably just in her purse
[–]tw3nty0n3 1 point  
Highly doubt it. Someone would have found a random phone in their truck and would have at least done something with it.
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      [–]FAST_AND_GREAT 39 points  
      I personally think an opportunistic predator saw her, saw a moment of opportunity and decided to take it. I don't buy into the whole sex/human trafficking bullshit, especially since that kind of stuff tends to happen in more impoverished areas.
      [–]stop_dont 29 points  
      I grew up in myrtle beach- it is a very seedy town. Most visitors see the tourist side of the town but it's truly a dump. I do tend to agree with you that sex trafficking is an overused theory and unlikely in this scenario.
      [–]hitchcocklikedblonds 2 points  
      I am from Cola but spent every summer of my youth in Myrtle Beach with family. Hell i worked at Can-Am's for a while and my uncle's restaurant on the strip. Myrtle Beach is crazy seedy and the perfect place for a predator to grab and dump a victim.
      [–]TheBestVirginia 11 points  
      I agree about the predator theory, though I wouldn't write off Myrtle Beach just yet as a place that doesn't have a solid "seedy" side. A place like that can pull in transients and runaways. Not far off I95, the major north-south trucking route too. A place like that draws prostitutes as well. I lived in the Carolinas and have been there a bunch of times, plus a long time ago I lived in a different town that was very similar. Definite some shady people and things going on. Still, I don't think that's what happened to her.
      [–]BinaryChode 7 points  
      It's like Israel key's, i'm surprised his name hasn't come up yet. People seem to think he committed every murder or is responsible for every disappearance.
      [–]Murkywaterkid 4 points  
      Myrtle Beach is a hot spot for human trafficking because it is a tourist attraction. This is also true with Florida. There are more human trafficking cases in Florida than in the entire country. There is also an alarming amount of missing persons cases from Florida. Type in on Google ''human or sex trafficking in Myrtle beach''
      [–]TheBestVirginia 5 points  
      First result on that search is this. Turns out my beloved home state of 15 years is a hotbed for this crime, and I never even knew it. Safe to say that for any of us, there is likely a lot more going on than we realize, wherever we may live.
      [–]Murkywaterkid 4 points  
      Human trafficking is everywhere, however in touristy areas it's much worse. The Myrtle beach police were quick to dismiss the sex trafficking angle in the Disappeared episode, as something that ''doesn't happen around here'' I think a lot of people want to protect the image Myrtle Beach since it's a tourist destination. If i becomes known as a human trafficking hub, no ones gonna go there. I know Dawn Drexel is in contact with sex trafficking experts, in regards to Britannee's case. I don't know what they have told her though, but DD is very careful and refuses to answer questions about it for fear it's gonna drive Brittanee further underground.
      [–]trubleshanks 52 points  
      I feel like attributing a disappearance to sex / human trafficking are examples of a Moral Panic. Many people have commented in threads on /r/UnresolvedMysteries that human trafficking has been determined to be a very very rare occurence - so it could still happen. In the Drexall case, I think she met the wrong person and ended up dead. But I ultimately don't know. I suppose it is possible that she was surreptitiously picked off the street and forced into an underground and international ring of human traffickers. I just don't think that is very likely.
      [–]redxmagnum 45 points  
      Sex trafficking doesn't mean what most people think it does. I live right outside of Toronto and we have a huge problem with it, so much so that York Regional police have stopped targeting prostitutes and now go after pimps. Girls are lured in by "boyfriends" who are members of a ring, and they are moved around the GTA, which isn't THAT big an area.
      It's not a moral panic, it's just not what you see on TV.
      [–]trubleshanks 38 points  
      Exactly. What I really should have said was that the proliferation of they were abducted and forced into human trafficking claims relating to any missing persons are an example of a moral panic caused by people misunderstanding what sex/human trafficking really is. This includes prostitution and other forms of human migration.
      Edit: removed my gender bias
      [–]FatFatKittyCat 8 points  
      It's definitely a party place especially during spring break. She had likely been partying and met up with the wrong person.
      [–]Murkywaterkid 7 points  
      Anyone who thinks human trafficking is a very, very rare occurrence is extremely ignorant and unaware of their surroundings. In fact just today in NC a human trafficking victim escaped from a basement where two others were also found. http://www.wbtw.com/story/28559990/human-trafficking-victim-escapes-2-others-found-in-nc-mans-basement
      If this is Drexel's fate, I'm pretty sure her friends were involved in the selling of her. She was probably moved out of town, and state pretty quick.
      [–]alarmagent 19 points  
      Surprising that this guy hasn't made more news, but maybe it's just still early on.
      You've been downvoted and I don't think that's fair. I actually agree that human trafficking is rare but in the way that it is usually defined - ala Taken. I don't think women are being abducted off the street & forced into prostitution in America that frequently.
      I do however think that lots of women are manipulated into becoming prostitutes, and that involves a high degree of coercion, threats, and drug pushing. Your sort of "classic" pimp behaviors. It's really a matter of the term being poorly defined, I think. What I think happened to Brittanee Drexel, for example, is that she was assaulted & killed - not the victim of trafficking or coerced prostitution.
      It's a matter of semantics, I think. I think sex trafficking occurs, but it's unlikely to happen to you or your family unless there are certain qualifying factors - like a history of drug abuse & susceptibility to charm & strong-arm tactics. I don't think women get whisked away off the streets never to be seen by their families again & then pimped out. It's just an entirely different thing to me, and far less believable.


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