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Hope hasn’t wavered for Dawn Drexel, whose daughter Brittanee Drexel was last seen five years ago in Myrtle Beach.
Brittanee Drexel was 17 when she disappeared on April 25, 2009, leaving the Blue Water Hotel on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. She had come to the Grand Strand for spring break with friends from her home in Rochester, N.Y., and without the consent of her parents.
Myrtle Beach police continue to investigate her disappearance, but no arrests have been made.
In August 2011, police searched a room at the Sunset Lodge on U.S. 17 near the Georgetown County Airport where someone identified as a person of interest had stayed. Police officials declined to comment on findings in that hotel room, and no new information has been released since.
Dawn Drexel moved to the Myrtle Beach area in late 2013, and said while she misses family and friends still living in Rochester, N.Y., “I feel closer to her here. Not only that, I’m able to keep up with law enforcement and keep up on Brittanee’s case.”
Five years time hasn’t taken away the pain of her daughter’s disappearance, she said.
“It’s the same as it was the day she left,” Dawn Drexel said of the sorrow she feels daily. “I’ll never stop searching for my daughter.”
The family is holding a candlelight vigil Friday to mark five years since the teen was last seen.
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I hope one day they find Brittanee
. Her case was profiled on Disappeared and it's always stuck with me. Her family deserves closure!