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spring break it's a beloved right of passage for teens and college age guys and girls a week to blow off some steam
and have a little fun away from the pressures of parents in school maybe take an adventure to a beach or a party
town for drinking loud music and dancing one big party a great place to go for spring break is Myrtle Beach of course
Myrtle Beach South Carolina this is one of the most popular spring break destinations because of its beautiful
beaches great weather Great bars and clubs millions of tourists and vacationers go to Myrtle Beach each year
the population is only about 30,000 people so the influx during the peak parts of the Year especially spring
break is vast most 17-year-olds would jump at the chance to spend spring break in Myrtle Beach with friends and that is
apparently just what Britney Drexel did she took off with a group of girls to the South Carolina Party Town 850 M from
home and within 3 days she became an endangered missing [Music] person [Music] let's talk about Britney Drexel Britney
was a star soccer player at her High School in Rochester New York where she was a junior she was 5 foot tall and
about 100 PB so she is a small girl but one of her best friends Casey said that she was a force to be reckoned with on
the soccer field Britney also had modeling Ambitions and was also studying cosmetology she loved to experiment with
hair makeup and clothes and she was very particular about her appearance now looking into this case we've both seen
pictures of her with different hairstyles and different colors one thing about Britney was that she was
blind in her right eye this is due to phpv and she wore contacts that made both eyes well for lack of better
explanation by myself looked the same you know kept one eye from wandering when spring break started in
April of 2009 Britney was a junior at Gates Chile High School in Rochester Britney was at a sort of a difficult
place in her personal life for one thing her mother Dawn was in the midst of a of
getting a divorce from her stepfather Chad Britney was very close with her stepfather and he had been married to
Britney's mom for quite a while her mother's house where Britney lived with her younger siblings this is Marissa and
Camden while the house was under foreclosure and the family was going to have to move Britney's relationship with
her longtime boyfriend John Greco was also in turmoil and was on again off again mhm Britney had recently been
diagnosed with depression and started taking anti-depressants also around this time
we're talking 2008 2009 there is some indication that Britney had recently exhibited some unstable Behavior
Chad Drexel The Stepfather said that she had been sleeping late and skipping school and investigation discovery well
they reported that she had actually overdosed on painkillers although there are no reports that she was suicidal and
her family and friends flat out deny that she would run away or want to hurt herself so we later learn that Britney
planned to go on spring break with her friends and she desperately wanted to go however Captain well there was a big
problem with Britney's plan right yes she wasn't she didn't have permission from her parents to go that's right
Britney had been bugging her mother for weeks about the spring break trip uh because but her mom Dawn refused to Let
Her Go apparently spring break in Myrtle Beach uh was some sort of senior class Tradition at her High School MH and on
this particular Year's spring break April 2009 there were a bunch of kids from Rochester going so Britney as we
said was just a junior you know this is a senior tradition her mother did not know this group of older girls that
Britney wanted to travel with but a lot of times when you're a junior you have a
lot of senior friends so you want to experience some of the senior itis with them well her mother Dawn was not
comfortable with her 17-year-old daughter being so far from home unsupervised hanging out out M
partying like most parents would Don said no the two fought about this it was a shouting match but Dawn stood her
ground Chad Drexel backed up his wife Britney was upset about this and she would ask John to drive her to a
friend's house so on Wednesday night this is April 22nd Britney took off with her friends to South Carolina anyway
this of course without telling her parents in fact she and her friends came up with a ruse to throw her mother Off
Britney called home and asked her mom if instead she could spend a few days at a
friend's house nearby in Rochester one of Britney's friends got on the phone with da and Dawn thought that she was
talking to a parent after being reassured that Britney was going to stay local and to
stay with local friends uh and parents would be present Dawn told Britney yes you can stay at your friend's house for
a few days but of course we now know this was not apparent and Britney wasn't staying local she actually hopped in a
car with some girlfriends and went to Myrtle Beach and that's Wednesday you said correct while in Myrtle Beach
Britney kept up the ruse with her mom texting daily and even spoke on the phone with her at least once that we
know of M and Britney never let on that she was actually in South Carolina hundreds of miles from home instead she
told her mom that she and her friends were watching movies and hanging out someone else uh Britney was in constant
contact with was her boyfriend John Greco so John was aware that Britney was going on this trip and that she had told
um him that she needed to get away right she needed a break from the regular uh everyday life remember we said her
parents are splitting up and might be losing the home so a lot of stress is at home right and you're going into your
senior year so it's almost seems like it would make a little more sense in her life and
maybe she wouldn't struggle with it so much once she graduated high school but the fact that it's going into her senior
year her you know we're going to have to move my parents aren't together anymore
that's a lot to you know take on going into your senior year mhm and I want to be clear here because we're going you
know we're going to have some people say well you're talking about her mother and
her stepfather splitting up but I want to point out the obvious here is that her stepfather's name is Chad Drexel
Britney's name is Britney Drexel duh she was very right but I'm Point what I'm pointing out is that this is not a this
is more of a fatherdaughter relationship than a stepfather daughter relationship
if that just to be clear on this good for him for stepping up well and I want to point that out because there's there
there would be more heartache for young Britney in this matter than a typical you know my mom's getting a divorce from
my stepfather situation MH so John her boyfriend is aware that Britney's going on this trip uh as we said but and he's
not concerned about her going he just thought this was a short trip and she was actually checking in with him
regularly he says that she asked him to go along with her to South Carolina but he could not because he had to work MH
later John says that he did not know um because Britney never told him about all
of the people she was hanging out with down in Myrtle Beach and of course not well and later he adds you know and I
think this shows a bit of his honesty um he's he's he adds saying look I would not have been happy if I would have
known who she was hanging out with and how much she was hanging out with these other people and I we can assume that
she he's talking about guys right right uh um you know he says had I known this I would have been pretty upset with her
Britney and her friends arrived in Myrtle Beach on Thursday April 23rd we know the names of some of the people
that Britney was with uh all of these people were over 18 years old the girls she traveled to Myrtle Beach with and
stayed with were Alana Lipa and Jennifer oberer the girls also either traveled with or met up with a group of guys from
Rochester this is including Phil obber okay so he is Jennifer's brother but also Alana's boyfriend and then we have
this other guy and his name's very tough for me to say it's it's uger ozerk that
can't be I think I got pretty close on the Ozark's right um this is Jennifer's boyfriend there are some other guys
there as well all of these people were older than Britney the girls stayed at the barart Harbor Hotel on North Ocean
Boulevard this is right off of the main drag the night the girl that night that Thursday night the girls decided to hit
a club this is called Club Kryptonite and it is downtown Myrtle Beach now we don't know how Britney would get into
this club right um even if it was one of those clubs that would let in 18 and up
she's not 18 but we do know that she was there and while there she was seen with a guy from
Rochester that she knew apparently she knew this guy and his name is this is Peter
brtz now Peter was with four friends of his just sounds like evil character in a
in a book yeah uh and the four friends of his this is Keith Cummings Phil Watson Matt Abrams and Anthony schmy I
like SCH here I thought ohy I shouldn't say this but when I Wasing doing the uhy
fory you know cuz I know we're diving right into this case and people are like oh here here Nick goes with one of his
dumb dinosaur brain comments uh when I was studying this I thought man if my name were Anthony SCH
smizzy how things would have been different for me yeah first off I somebody I would have been riding the
Tony SCH smizzy train for a long time I would have went Tony SCH smizzy y my name is Tony smizzy and by the time I
got to high school and people realized how cool I was I would just be the SCH smizzy you a Tony SCH smizzy I put too
much thought into this but here put a little sauce on it so these guys were staying at a different Hotel they were
staying at a place called the Blue Water Resort the friends of Peter later told police that they did not know Britney
prior to being at that club that night with her and we're not even sure how Britney knew Peter because Peter was 20
years old m he's he uh was a quote unquote Club Pro promoter right that's what he called himself in social media
post from various stating that he did that for various clubs in the Rochester area
which think about this think about how much this doesn't make sense you're a club promoter and you're 20 years old
and I'm sure there's a lot of teenage clubs but not that many cuz they don't make that much money you need people
drinking in bars so your Club promoters are normally above the age of 20 right and let's also be real about this though
too some of these club promoter it's not a real job right you know sometimes it's
just a guy or girl that's that's a partyer with some kind of social following who will then you know the
club may not even pay this individual yeah Peter's very um you know GTL Jim tan laundry for those who don't
know and um you know he's going to get his eyebrows wax he's going to get his hairline tight but also throw in the
fauxhawk um this guy's a very Jersey Shore yeah and like I said may not even be paid by these clubs that he's
supposedly promoting sometimes they just let these individuals in for free and maybe feed them some booze throughout
the night to keep them there the party going he's 20 so they're feeding him some fruit
punch uh word is that during the day Peter uh ran or was somehow involved with a landscaping business now Peter
has said that he and Britney were friends for about 2 years leading up to this point in any event Britney
definitely knew him beforehand right it's possible that maybe he got her into Club Kryptonite where the two of them
were seen in the VIP area yeah now let's be clear I I think when when they asked
Peter if they were friends I think he's saying yes but Loosely mhm if that makes any sense I
think they're probably more acquaintances but they're not in constant contact with one another I
think he's actually saying hey I'm I was friends with her out of respect for the
fact that she's missing I just want to put out that's my gut feeling okay well I think this is probably a good time to
discuss what exactly Britney was doing there and I what I mean is why this crowd of people you know by all accounts
the girl she was traveling with and Jennifer they were older we know that and they were not close friends of
Britney's right Britney's best friend uh Casey and Tara uh were her High School best friends and her boyfriend John none
of these people went along on this Myrtle Beach trip but you know how sometimes it works in high school you
kind of jump into another group for a little bit mhm that kind of happens throughout your four years and in high
school well here's the thing I wonder about um Alana and Jennifer had boyfriends who were on this trip with
them it's it's it seems a little strange to me that they stayed in separate um rooms or separate hotels mhm um the
other thing too is though you have to wonder is this just a situation where Britney could not get her her boyfriend
JN to go with her and then she's the odd man out but we never have at any point John saying like hey I was best friends
with uh Peter or anybody well not not Peter I mean uh Alana and Jennifer's boyfriends oh right right um which he
may have known from school and then so we have Britney Who Lies she she sneaks away with her friends well with people
and couples that she reportedly did not know very well who were in an older party crowd okay uh so did Britney just
want to hang out with older kids and maybe experience the party scene well and this could have been happening a
couple weeks prior to because with all the stuff going on with her family she might have been you know you you see
that sometimes I remember a lot of high school parties where somebody drank too much they normally wouldn't drink that
much but they just broke up with their boyfriend or their girlfriend or their parents are going to get a divorce so
they were you know drinking a little bit extra at the party so maybe that's what
she's doing well there are some theories out there that Britney wanted to potentially boost some kind of possible
modeling career uh this being one of her Ambitions and perhaps she she's 5 foot tall okay well I'm just saying that that
cuts down a lot of the jobs that you can have as a as a m oh no I agree with that
but that you know there are still people that play high school basketball that are never going to play in the NBA um
it's one of her Ambitions and the way that's Theory goes is that perhaps that she felt that she would have a chance on
this trip to make some kind of impression on someone and I and I bring that up because her mother backs this
thought up her mother believes this Theory somewhat and thinks that it's possible that Britney was even promised
by someone that there was an opportunity for her in Myrtle Beach well and it could have been I mean who knows where
it came from it could have just came from the internet you know Craigslist hey sign up to be a model um you know
it's actually you know doing por behind the McDonald's but there there is a possibility and I don't
want to make fun of Peter too much like I said normally Club promoters are 21 at
least so they can get into the club but um I was actually a friends with a guy that was I think 19 and started being a
club promoter in Athens Ohio and was actually really successful and had a lot of connection so it's possible that that
Peter was the connection you know here's acquaint I have I went to a couple parties that he threw and he knows some
people that I could get into and it not might not be like you know a lot of these Club promoters they need very
pretty girls to take pictures of to photoshop into these you know flyers and stuff so could have been something as
simple as that but that's intriguing and I tell you why because I could see a 17-year-old girl or guy looking up to
this 20-year-old guy or girl you know a 17-year-old looking up to a 20-year-old and this person who is a quote unquote a
club promoter might appear to her to have connections or to know people you know
what I mean to be connected to uh higher ups or at least uh at some degree well he handles himself a little bit I think
I mean not every action but you know there's a couple times where you see him and just the way he dresses and it's
like he's you know he's Crossing his teeth and Dot in his eyes well this leads me to another theory and this
theory is that Britney had a crush on Peter you know we know that they knew according to Peter's own words they knew
each other for about two years up to this point up to this Myrtle Beach trip and that maybe she had some kind of
crush on Peter and knew that he would be in Myrtle Beach and there four went along with people that she wasn't that
close to what about G kind of tagged along she just forgot about greo back home this this is just a theory there's
no there's no evidence to point to this but we're trying to figure out why she would go with people that she doesn't
really know there's by all accounts by all of her friends by the people that she went to school with people after she
went missing would later say look she's not like super tight with these people we didn't even know she hung out with
these people right well Peter was you know fresh to death so I mean she could had a crush on him he's a he he was a
handsome guy I think that you know we should point out all of these things are they're just speculation of course uh we
don't know at all what motivated Britney to go along on this trip it could just be something as simple as it sounded
like fun um but it is worth noting that she was not good friends with her travel
companions despite several pictures that the group posted of them partying together on that
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wonderful weekend now back to our case captain on the second day of the trip we are now on Friday and this is April 24th
now in all honesty Captain I do not know much about what happened that day but what I do know and this is from
Britney's conversations with her boyfriend I know know that Britney had been having fun at first on the trip but
now by this Friday it appears that she is not getting along very well with the girls that she had traveled down to
Myrtle Beach with John Greco her boyfriend later says that the crowd she was hanging with was pretty into drugs
in his opinion and that was not Britney's thing we know that she was spending time um some time alone and at
one point on Friday night she was walking along the main strip of Ocean Boulevard downtown Myrtle Beach by
herself now I'm looking back at my life captain and I'm trying to recall a time of having gone on a vacation with a
group of friends and not having a great time and deciding to just kind of go off
by myself and I nothing really jumped out at me it it seems you know cuz I was trying to figure out is this either a
normal behavior for her or B normal behavior given the situation how most people would react um and we can't say
like I said I don't know that I know enough to say exactly what was going on that day but from what I've been told
from talking with friends of mine is that this seems to be an unusual behavior for a girl for a 17-year-old
girl I've been told that you know especially on these types of trips spring break TR you know trips people
would girls would travel and packs um I've even been told that it was like an Unwritten rule that that a girl that age
shouldn't just go off by herself uh away from her group that she's traveling with
right and most friends are you know if you're going down to the local corner store or something oh that's not that
far but if you're going to I'm just going to walk this trip somebody's going to go with you but the you know key word
there is when you're traveling with friends and these were more acquaintances so I think probably what
happened was something happened where Britney kind of felt distant from the group she felt like the outsider and I
think maybe it was her way of just you know catching some C you know let me catch my breath and then get back into
this situation yeah and actually I could only think of one time where friend and
I got into some kind of disagreement on a trip to a point where we didn't want to be around each other we had we had
walked to some kind of pool hall hung out there all night long and I don't remember what we got into it about but
but this is the difference between traveling with friends and traveling with acquaintances he and I get into
this disagreement and on the walk home this was our separation I walked on one side of the street he walked on the
other side of the street so that was that but we were tight you know we wouldn't go we wouldn't be in a in a
different state off by ourselves walking around and just one of us go elsewhere and I'm talking about teenagers you know
back when I was a teenager and I think you bring up a good point here this might be further confirmation
that people's Trav with's not tight with these people and doesn't she feels so much of a disconnect with them that if
they're treating her unfairly or if she doesn't feel like she's fitting in or having a good time she's okay with going
out and walking around on her own it also shows a bit of her uh naive right to be out walking around in a place like
Myrtle Beach that look this place has like 30,000 people that lived there year round at the time roughly M you know
it's not a huge population but you and I went to Panama City uh or Panama Beach together for spring break one time but
but what I mean is it's population wise in the the tourism there is a similar situation to when you and I went there
it it felt like there was like over 100,000 people there and and not that many people lived there but for that
week it was crawling with people well that's what makes this so dangerous because if you only have a population of
30 ,000 in this small community and then you have an influx of let's say just even 70,000 that's huge probably even
more so now what kind of Riff Raff is coming you don't know and but to play Devil's Advocate I actually had a really
good friend of mine that went on a spring break trip with one of his really good buddies and they got an argument
and the dude left him there like the dude home got in his car and took off wait guy wait guy was left there with no
transport like the transportation he arrived in was no longer available when it came time to go home right and we're
talking like best friends so it it is possible not no mo yeah not no mo hurt my feelings but I think but I think I I
really think it was you know you know especially anybody that's younger like it happens with guys it happens with
groups of girls where you start kind of picking on somebody I could see that maybe they would pick on her cuz she was
younger and she felt alienated so she was like hey I'm just going to spend been a little time by myself and maybe
these girls will come around and then on the flip side of that it almost makes you wonder why did these girls want her
on the trip to begin with right I mean we we sit here speculating how much Britney was close with these people why
why why do they just want some younger tag along yeah but is it possible that they just said you know in passing hey
yeah come come with us and then it stuck and then they were like oh [ __ ] she's
coming with us well and I think I think to add to maybe the level of the situation to help everybody understand
the level of the possibility of the situation of not getting along with the other girls or not the group not jelling
uh is Don Drexel Britney's mother who said that Britney did not walk places period like even in her hometown she did
not walk anywhere that Dawn would have to drive her everywhere that she went even to for short trips like to her
friend's house who just Liv down the street mhm so all of this walking from from place to place alone that we're
starting to see at the you know Friday evening Friday night is completely out of character for Britney any of those T
towns like Myrtle Beach or like Panama there's a strip everybody kind of hangs out on the Strip whether they're driving
or walking that's kind of a party in itself you got the party on the beach party in the hotel rooms but you got the
party on the Strip so I don't know so she's woning alone on this Friday evening wonking
what you said I think you said wonking yeah oh wonking she's walking alone on this Friday evening uh and she's getting
harassed and catall um by some guys along the route that she's making her way apparently this made her feel
uncomfortable enough that she ask a quote unquote Nic looking young man to walk with her this is according to him
this is a story that we will hear from him later now we know that she and this guy who was also on spring break
visiting from a from the Midwest spent some time together in one of their hotel rooms he took a cell phone video of her
in which she can be seen sitting on the bed wearing a yellow shirt she's on her phone talking and smiling now the video
is timestamped 10:36 p.m. on April 24th 2009 the young man who took the video brought it to to
law enforcement once he discovered that Britney had gone missing its existence was not disclosed publicly until about a
year later but the guy has apparently been cleared by police of any involvement in what could have happened
to Britney well good good for him for coming forward and sharing this information with the law enforcement on
Saturday April 25th we know from the police report that Britney met Peter and his four friends on the beach near the
Blue Water Resort now keep in mind this is where those guys were staying this is
between 11:00 a.m. and noon on that Saturday and she walked by herself to this Gathering I'm assuming so because
she was there by herself um we know that Britney was not enjoying the company of
the girls that she was staying with so but at the same time Peter could have picked her up mean mean little [ __ ]
because those guys did have a vehicle right so this could have been an arranged hangout and he could have
picked her up or one of the guys could have picked her up using their vehicle yeah but it could have been out simple
as you're hanging out on the beach you get a text hey what are you guys doing we're hanging out on the beach hey I'll
come down and you go okay you know like you're not going to get up from the beach to go pick her up you know there
was a there is a rumor out there too that Britney um Not only was she not getting along with these other girls but
she may have been the target of pranks or bullying by the other girls uh I found one story stating that she was
sitting or lying on a Murphy bed that was uh I guess that was her bed in the hotel room that they were sharing and
one of the girls pushed the button to Stow the bed so you know like went up on Britney almost smashing her against the
wall yeah um so like I said mean little [ __ ] we know that she knows Peter and now she has met Peter's friends
and so it kind of makes sense if this is what's going on that she would seek out
different companions to hang out with during the course of the remainder of this trip now she met Peter and the guys
at the beach that note right there in my notes would lead me to believe that she
made her own way there m uh it's believed that Britney at some point that day must have got a ride from Peter
perhaps back to the hotel though which is 1.4 mil away down Ocean Boulevard strip well like I said you you'd have to
visit one of these places to understand what the strip is I mean I don't know if you remember but
when we're in Panama I think that was your um senior year and my junior year if I remember correctly or maybe it was
your junior year my sophomore year who knows but but I just remember the strip being so congested that to drive 1.4
miles you might as well just walk so yeah uh it would it would take like 45 1.4 mil might take you 45 minutes an
hour right so maybe one of the guys walked her back or or maybe they were walking to get something to eat and they
just you know she followed along until she got close enough to her hotel I mean 1.4 miles is not a long way to walk well
I say that I believe that she received a ride from Peter at some point because we
know that she left her flip-flops in his car mhm so I'm assuming going off of my
notes that she met them there at the beach and maybe got a ride back to her her hotel right so around 2 p.m. that
afternoon Britney's mother Don Drexel called her about purchasing a pair of soccer cleats the call was brief but
when Don asked Britney what she was up to Britney said that she was at the beach now because it was 80° in
Rochester New York that day Don assumed that she was talking about Charlotte beach in Rochester right Britney didn't
take the opportunity to tell her mother the truth but here's the thing I have to wonder
here Captain with her volunteering that she was at the beach M um was it a slip well I almost wonder if if she's having
that bad of a time that she's almost was was getting close to telling her mother
the truth right I'm at the beach and and when not prompted when the mom just thought oh she means some local Beach
here she's not prompted to go you know you almost expect your mom to go what the hell are you talking about you're at
the beach and that's when you're like uh I didn't want to tell you but you know I'm here I'm having a horrible time I
hate these people this really sounds like something that Ohio people would think I actually
think she probably just was like everybody's at the beach right now back home so that's what I think it was but
but again she is having a bad time so I could see the speculation there yeah and
Britney I guess ended the phone call by saying I love you and see you tomorrow okay let me just do a rough recap or we
can do it together so on Wednesday they get in a car she's with some people that
are not technically her friends but acquaintances they go down to Myrtle Beach they get there on that Thursday
they're hanging out with people they're partying they go to a club and then on Friday she's hanging out with roughly
the same people they're staying in a she's staying in a hotel with a group of girls that she Lo loely knows and then
there's a group of guys that she Loosely knows as well in a different hotel and that kind of brings us to Saturday
morning when she makes the phone call or the afternoon when she makes the phone call to her mother yeah her mom called
her about a pair of cleats and that's when she says I'm at the beach uh on that Saturday night at 8:15 p.m. this is
April 25th street cameras show someone and I want to be clear about that show someone who is believed to be Britney
walking on Ocean Boulevard we can't tell which direction she is heading but we know that she left her hotel she being
we know Britney left her hotel at the bar harbor around 8:00 p.m. and that she arrived at the entrance to the BlueWater
Resort a short time later we also know she's back to see the boys correct we also know that it is a 1.4 mile walk and
Britney did not have a car so we can only assume that it is her that was spotted we can assume that she walked to
this hotel despite her not liking to walk places mhm the street cam shows her texting on her phone as she walks which
as we we all know can mean that she's not really paying attention to her surroundings at time at this time this
area of the main strip is basically a road running between the large hotels and resorts all along Ocean Boulevard
police later confirmed that she had been Britney had been texting her boyfriend as well as Peter whose Hotel she was
heading to sure enough BlueWater Resort cameras caught Britney entering the lobby at approximately
8:35 p.m. with her purse over her shoulder note however that the actual videos are are timestamped they they
have a different time uh there seems to be a common discrepancy between recorded
times and you know on the surveillance videos and the actual time almost every case we cover have you noticed that that
that happens if you're right but if you're going to have security cameras just make sure that you set the the time
right okay just do that well can I tell you why that happens at most of these places MH uh for and I know this from
from work history this happens because a lot of times places will install security cameras and they will take
certain security measures but they will not have anyone that is in fact in charge of security you need you need a
point person you need somebody you can go to and say why is this this way correct it so obviously either this
person they had one and they did a shoty job or they didn't have this person at all so we do see Britney walking into
the blue water hotel the resort there in any event regardless of what the timestamp says Myrtle Beach PD believes
that Britney entered the blue water at around 8:35 p.m. so about 20 minutes after she pass the street cam yeah
Britney enters to her right and goes to the sixth floor this is where Peter and his friends are staying the boys are in
room 601 now they said that that night they were watching the Boston Red Sox versus
the New York Yankees game so big- time baseball game the game started at 400 p.m. and it ended at 8:31 p.m. they
stated to Myrtle Beach police that Britney visited during the actual baseball game although they would be
proven wrong or to be at least slightly off on their timing because we know from
the camera footage she did not arrive until after the game was over just minutes just a few minutes after the
game so we can surmise that Britney came to Peter's Room to retrieve the flipflops that she had left in his car
she is visible on camera leaving the blue water at 8:48 p.m. still with her purse yeah so she's in their hotel room
for maybe 10 minutes yeah so why would Britney walk that far to Peter's hotel which would likely take probably 25 or
30 minutes only to stay for 10 minutes well the answer is according to Peter and his friends this is cited in the
police report that Britney and Jennifer her hotel mate and supposed friend had been having a disagreement over text
about a pair of shorts that Britney was wearing the shorts actually belong to Jennifer and she wanted them back she
wanted to wear them that night so she needed Britney to return and give her back her article of clothing yeah this
this really makes me wonder because did Britney take the these without your permission or did you say
that she could wear them and then you decided to be a uber [ __ ] and text her once she got down you know once she
started walking to Peter's Place hey I changed my mind I want my shorts back well because they're playing pranks on
her they're bullying her this just seems like a you know some kind of ruse you know to get her back regardless the
according to these friend these young men the group of young men right uh Britney had to leave and walk back to
the bar Harbor to return the shorts there is quite a bit of debate as to why this group of guys at the Blue Water
Resort allowed this teenage girl to leave their hotel and walk nearly a mile and a half almost at 900 p.m. at night
all by herself Peter says that it wasn't Dark Yet at that time according to his memory and he offered he claims he
offered Britney a ride which she declined MH according to what her mother believes of her daughter would seem out
of character for her daughter unless there was something going on that we're unaware of yeah but here's what we do
know we do know we have proof that she walked to their hotel room or to meet them multiple times we also have proof
that Peter drove her back at some point so we should not not believe that Peter asked her hey do you want me to drive
you back mhm and we do know she left there fine you know she left there visibly with the items that she
brought to the hotel she's leaving there 10 minutes later in an interview with Dr
Phil Peter who's that uh he's he's a guy that claims to be a um doctor doctor and
he's a TV Doctor he's a TV yeah just like you're a garage Captain yeah I don't need I don't need to put my head
up his ass to find out he's not a doctor in an interview with Dr Phil Peter who let's just to put it as simple as
possible he comes across as a total douche canoe in this this interview he says we differ on that but well that's
my opinion and and I tell you why uh he says quote this is a direct quote I I wasn't in Myrtle Beach to babysit yeah
which seems look here's the thing I'm not saying he's a douche canoe in the sense that I wonder if he's covering
something up he could be he could be what I mean is I think there's better ways to deliver your words when you're
on National TV and you're discussing The Disappearance and possible murder of a young girl yeah I think the problem
though is his emotions were way out of whack he's still 20 years old this happened weeks after she went missing
and his his emotions are just way out of control I think this guy knows how to talk to people I think he knows how to
be slick if he wants to be I don't think he could be uh on this show because I think he was just so irritated about his
name being thrown under the bus and and really everybody kind of pointed to here's this guy and he's the number one
suspect when there was no evidence of that at all and I think that's where he comes across maybe a little douchy
because he's upset he's angry mhm and yet she's in his defense she's seen leaving M perfectly fine he offered her
a ride perfectly according to him he offers a ride so so Britney leaves the blue water at
8:48 when we see her in the video she is still holding her purse it is hard to tell whether she it's totally dark
outside because the entrance area to this Resort is illuminated by exterior lights well and like I said the this
strip is lit up man not only with the street lights but with the thousands of cars that are on the Strip as Britney
walked presumably along Ocean Boulevard in the direction of the Bar Harbor she was also texting her boyfriend m in one
of those texts he said he has said she told him how she was so miserable she had already packed up and she was ready
to leave for home he encouraged her the boyfriend encouraged her to try to have a good time she told him she was going
to chill in the hotel and go to bed I would have said f off hey I know you had an awful time but
try to have a good time F off man the last text from her was at 8:58 p.m. after this text John wouldn't get
another reply from Britney he continued to text her but got no response he even threatened via text that if she didn't
answer him he'd call her parents and tell them what was really going on then then well this is two things one he is
obviously concerned as her boyfriend but this is also so um you know jealousy then police later confirmed Britney had
not been picked up by the street cam so to be clear she was not seen by the street camera that she would have passed
would have had passed by to return to her hotel did her hotel have uh security footage I don't believe so yeah so you
know just because we don't have her on the street cam does not mean that she didn't
kind of avert the the street cam right but what it does mean is that it's possible that she did not make it back
to that location mhm okay so presumably if that was her on the street Cam that was seen walking from her hotel to
Peter's hotel which it seems incredibly likely because we know what time she would left her hotel what time she
arrived at Peter's hotel we know about how long it would have taken her to to make that route by foot and we know what
she was wearing we also have her texting we have her phone records from that time
where she's seen texting there's the person on camera is seen texting and we know she was sending text at that time
MH so if she were to take the the same route back to her hotel on foot she didn't make it back to that same
location of that street camera so about an hour after John Greco after he's not receiving any any
word from Britney and he's already threatened to call her parents and still nothing now he calls Dawn Drexel to tell
her that he couldn't get a hold of Britney and he was very concerned like many teens Britney was
generally glued to her pink cell phone we can only imagine how upset Dawn must have been to learn that her
daughter had lied to her in a very in a very big way for days John says Dawn was
initially very angry but then became worried after the information set in I believe it's roughly like a 14-hour
drive so I mean this is a you know it's one thing your if your kid lied to you and and they're hour away or two hours
away but to be roughly about 14 hours away that's I mean definitely as a parent you you can't correct the
situation right now or within an hour of driving well the two Britney's boyfriend
friend and her mother they're going to try to track her down so her mom and John called Britney's phone over and
over and over again now according to them the phone would ring on their end but no one ever answered MH so her
mother even tried calling both Alana and Jennifer that night but she has said that neither of them answered her call
even after she left voicemails for both of these girls mhm uh couple things here
you have to wonder about these girls at this point right why why wouldn't they answer well why wouldn't they answer or
return the Frantic late night calls from Britney's mother if they're if they're sober and awake well but wa yeah but
even if they're drunk they're on their phone texting you get a random number from your hometown you probably would
check the message you know yeah maybe you don't want to get Brittney in trouble but uh you know this is a
frantic mother you need to you know Act respons according to Don Drexel none of these
girls has ever at any time reached out to Britney's family in any way Dawn did manage to make phone contact that night
with Peter speaking with him more than once but he said he didn't have any idea where Britney was and he had not
seen or heard from her since she left his room this around 8:45 after being told by the Rochester
police that they couldn't do anything more to help Don decided to call this man his name is John Han okay he's a
family friend who was stationed in North Carolina which is about three m 3 hours
away from where Britney would have been right she asked him to drive to Myrtle Beach and to look for her daughter and
if he can't find her to please alert the local authorities Dawn made AR ments to get to
Myrtle Beach as soon as she can but in the meantime she's going to have her friend joh looking for Britney right she
was so sure that something she okay she wanted to get there because very quickly she is starting to think
something has happened to her daughter that her daughter's not just not picking up her phone or ignoring her mother or
that the the the friends are ignoring the mother yeah 30 minutes go by maybe not so big of a deal once a couple hours
start going by especially somebody that's connected to their phone as much as Britney was now this I mean this is
huge this is a big red flag John Han arrived and found that Britney had not returned to her hotel he then reported
Britney as missing the missing person's incident report uh filed with mbpd the next morning is dated April 26 2009 and
the time stamp is 1902 so 7:02 p.m. although John met the officers at the hotel in the early morning M
according to this incident report Han met with off officers clear and Dam at the bar Harbor Hotel where they
attempted to make contact with the occupants of room 305 officers found no one in the room
but they did find occupants belongings in the room officer clear then made a telephone call to Alana Lipa that
remember that's one of the friends using a phone number provided by John which presumably he must have got from dawn or
from John Greco more likely Alana told the officers that she had not seen Britney officers clearly later telepone
the guys staying at the Blue Water Resort this is Peter's Room according to the incident report the four friends of
Peters reported to the officer that they had met Britney on Friday night at Club
Kryptonite although we believe that she was actually there on Thursday night instead right so and we know this
because she was video videoed in a hotel room at 10:36 p.m. on Friday night so it's not likely she was at both the
hotel room this other hotel room and the club at the same time it's unclear whether the guys were just confused
about the day or whether they were deliberately trying to hide something yeah I think most likely just confused I
mean you're out in the sun you're drinking beers you're amateur you're 20 years old you're amateur so they're
probably just confused when they're speaking with these guys this is also when the officers learned that Britney
had been at the Blue Water on Saturday night in the boy's room but as we had said only stayed for about 10 minutes
leaving after an argument with Jen uh regarding the pair of shorts and then presumably returning to the bar Harbor
another thing that's unclear captain is exactly whose POS whose possessions were
in the hotel room remember the police they they're looking into hotel room 305 for the girls the girls are not there
however there are belongings in there the the girls that Britney was staying with Jen and Alana they had either
already relocated or were planning to relocate to the Boardwalk Motel and this is room number
1435 we do know that Britney's things were in room 305 all of her luggage clothes makeup and her hair stuff was
there well explain to me why they're relocating Saturday night when they're possibly going to be leaving
Sunday I don't have an explanation for this yeah that don't seem right so as far as Britney's concerned only her
purse and cell phone were missing mhm the fact that Britney had left behind her this is according to her mother her
beloved flat iron kind of sealed it for her mother that something bad had happened to her daughter stating that
Britney would never go anywhere without that flat iron mhm so as far as the family is concerned Britney had not she
had not run away or left on her own accord one more question arises about this hotel room you know you mentioned
it their boyfriends were on the trip and the boyfriends were all college age why
wouldn't they stay with their boyfriends you know and why did they they switch like you said hotels on that Saturday
night was was this planned or was this something that just happened mhm was Britney supposed to stay in that room by
herself that night right because they had this argument and maybe they maybe they just thought hey we're going to
move we can't stand this girl anymore so even though they're the ones you know seems they're the ones being
mean to her anyways mhm well One online site dedicated to Britney has pulled incident and arrest
reports from that weekend and reports that on Saturday night around the time Britney disappeared two of the guys in
her party this is the gentleman I had had trouble saying his name this uger ozerk and this other guy who's got even
more of a difficult name uh vit gyen mhm these two guys they were arrested for um
making out behind the McDonald's that's not illegal oh one of these guys was Jen's boyfriend remember this uger well
I guess it depends on how passionate it is okay so they were driving Jen's Brothers uh Phil they were
driving his 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GT that night balla they were pulled over for a noise ordinance mhm the man was
ticketed further for driving without a license and the passenger was ticketed for
littering yeah reportedly Jennifer and Phil were called to come to the police station to pick up the car and post bail
for the two guys MH all of this is said to be around the time that Britney disappeared although you know we can't
confirm that because we don't know exactly what time Britney disappeared right right in addition to the girls
that Britney had been traveling with relocating hotels there was the the very strange fact that between 1 and 2: a.m.
uh Saturday night well I guess really Sunday morning Peter and his four friends checked out of the Blue Water
Resort and they they left town yeah now what he States is that they were planning on leaving around 5 6 in the
morning because they had a 14-hour trip for them to go all the way back back and
to get back super late on a Sunday and then to be ready for work or whatever they had to do Monday morning was going
to be difficult uh so they decided hey we'll just leave at 2: we're going to get back you know Midday Sunday so then
we can sleep whatever get everything ready for Monday the the issue I don't have a problem with that because I think
on our our trip we uh went to stay in Cincinnati and we were going to wake up the next morning to leave to go to
Panama roughly the same time these guys said they were going to leave 5 or 6 in the morning we were going to leave very
early in the morning right and then we were at this party and we were just being kind of dumb and we're like let's
go now well I think we were pumped up and we could you know you couldn't sleep anyway so you're like well it does mean
no good to just lay here right you know so so I kind of see their story the thing I what's weird about it is that
they went to a club they were partying this is what they claim and so to take a 14-hour drive after you've been partying
I don't know if that's smartest thing in the world the other big wait wait and the other red flag that I have there is
he talked about if you left like at 10:00 in the morning or 11:00 in the morning with the strip being the way it
is you weren't going to get out of there and that's reasonable right but you leave at 2 a.m. the strip is still
happening yeah do you know what I mean so that's a good thought so if if you left at five maybe the strip's not
happening but you left at two strip's happening and so it's really strange to me that you have these four individuals
and then you have these girls and they're both switching their plans roughly around the same time so they
also these guys left some of their clothes in the room which is not a huge red flag to me I've been on trips where
I've probably partied a lot less than these guys were partying this week mhm and I've left things in in the hotel
room on accident to the point where I'm like halfway home and I'm cursing myself
thongs and stuff um but one thing that I wondered about was by leaving in the middle of the night they actually these
guys forfeited their room deposit yeah which which seems a little strange for guys in their early 20s
maybe they didn't know that was going to happen that's true that's true we don't
know the time of the calls that Dawn made to Peter we do know they happened where you know he tells her he
didn't know where Britney was but since JN alerted Dawn to Britney being missing
around 10 or 11: it would likely have been before 1 a.m. or right around that time okay so Peter and his friends
leaving Myrtle Beach so abruptly well this makes me very suspicious because it could be roughly around the same time or
just after receiving these calls from dawn that spooked him right right that had he done something or his boys or all
of them done something wrong something bad now he's aware that other people are aware that that something happened that
Britney's missing mhm it didn't help that as soon as Peter got to Rochester and learned that Britney had not been
located he lawyered up and this lawyer told NBC news.com that Britney began hanging out
with the guys after several disagreements with the friends that she was traveling with he said that after
Britney left the hotel mhm the guys Peter and the guys went to as you stated a nearby club I think he might have
called it a college party but doesn't mean that it was not at a club right but there's several eyewitnesses yes uh then
the young men they decided just to leave and get a head start on their long drive
Peter's lawyer went on to say that the car that the men had been traveling in has been searched by the time of this
interview and that Peter was willing to submit DNA now you bring up something very interesting here because if all of
this is true then Peter was seen at this party or Club so therefore around the time that we think Britney went missing
right therefore he would have an alibi at the at at least for the time that he was there at this party or at the club
mhm Peter was initially named a person of interest by the Myrtle Beach police but by May 7th 2009 he had been cleared
of having any involvement this was puzzling to to Britney's family who believe that Peter Not only was the last
person to see Britney but they believe that he knew much more than he was willing to
say thanks everybody for listening thanks for telling a friend make sure you join us back here in the garage
tomorrow for part two of the Britney Drexel disappearance story and also check out our show off the Record we
just released episode 8 on Stitcher premium until tomorrow everybody be good be kind and don't
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Brief Summary

Britney Drexel disappeared during a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach in 2009, leading to a complex investigation.

Key points

The Mystery of Britney Drexel. Britney Drexel, a junior from Rochester, goes missing during spring break in Myrtle Beach.
Britney's Turmoil Before Spring Break. Britney was dealing with family issues and a tumultuous relationship before her trip.
The Ruse to Go to Myrtle Beach. Britney deceives her mother to go on a spring break trip with friends.
The Club Scene in Myrtle Beach. Britney was seen at Club Kryptonite with older friends, raising questions about her safety.
Britney's Crush Theory. Speculation arises about Britney having a crush on Peter, influencing her trip decisions.
Unusual Behavior on Vacation. Britney's decision to walk alone raises concerns about her comfort level with her companions.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

She took off with a group of girls to the South Carolina party town!

Describing Britney Drexel's spring break plans.

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