By Evan Lambert, WMBF News Reporter – bio | email
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) There’s a new billboard in Myrtle Beach with missing New York teen Brittanee Drexel’s face on it, but her own mother thinks it may compromise the case.
Dawn Drexel spoke exclusively with WMBF News about the new billboard, saying it’s a call for attention from an organization that isn’t involved in the case.
“I feel like you know a lot of people out there are just trying to get publicity from Brittanee, and I don’t want anyone using my daughter for that,” said Drexel.
That organization is the Kristen Foundation, a Charlotte-based non-profit that helps families of missing people. It says the ad is aimed at bringing in tips in the case, but Dawn Drexel is worried the billboard will confuse anyone who may come forward with information.
Dawn says the billboard directs people to call the Kristen Foundation as well as police and she thinks that puts too many hands in the pot.
Members of the CUE Center for Missing Persons say in many cases too many people involved can complicate things.
“It confuses the situation a little bit. People get confused about who actually is conducting the search, who is actually helping in the case,” said Cyndi Graham, board member with the CUE Center.
According to the Kristen Foundation, the billboard was designed by Brittanee’s dad Chad Drexel.
The group says it’ll officially unveil the ad at a press conference Friday in Myrtle Beach.
The Rochester-teen was last seen in the Myrtle Beach area in April of 2009. Her cell phone last sent out a signal from Georgetown County.
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/15246322/brittanee-drexels-mom-upset-over-new-billboard
Not finding Britanee Drexel’s body put renewed hope and engery in the serach for her. I feel like she is still alive and will be found soon. Just like Jaycee Dugard she too will be found. They never found Jaycee Dugard’s body and that meant she must still be alive. 18 years later she was found alive and healthy. Our prayers are with her family. God Bless…
My prayers are for Dawn and I support her 100%
Having just watched the story on a segment of “Disappeared”, I don’t blame the mother of the missing teen for not wanting law enforcement to change in any way the status of her daughter from missing to presumed dead (or whatever) until either the young woman or her body, is found. Like Brittanee’s mother in one segment of the story, I, too, believe in at least the possibility of the girl’s being abducted and forced into the bondage of human trafficking. I don’t know if human trafficking is quite a multi-billion dollar business as is porn, but I suspect that it accounts for a significant percentage of missing youth. God knows where this young person is, and God will ultimately judge those who have perpetrate(d) any outrage upon her.
The Cue center and there search team are the only one’s that have done the searches for Brittanee.The Kristian fondation has not done anything to help on any of the searches.So on that note they are the ones that get all the credit besides Sled team and the police officers that have been there from day one.The people that deserve all the credit is Monica founder from the Cue Center for missing person and her wonderful search team.And just a fyI the kristian fondation didn’t pay for the billboard it was donated by Mark Stocks.So lets give te credit were credit is deserved.