Britney Drexel was a 17-year-old girl who loved to have fun, and so when she was offered

the opportunity to leave behind the wet and gray spring weather of her upstate New York

hometown and escaped to the sandy beaches and sunshine of South Carolina with her friends,

it was no wonder that she took it, but she had done so without the permission of her parents

who were concerned that if Britney traveled to a different state without adult supervision,

she might encounter danger or get into trouble.

But the lively teenager had already made up her mind and she was committed to spending

spring break away from the stress and worries of her life, which is why she climbed into

a car on the evening of April 22nd, 2009, leaving it all in the rear-view mirror and driving

towards the promise of fun and sun, not knowing that something far darker awaited her down

south.

Because Britney Drexel was in Mertle Beach, South Carolina for just 60 hours before she

vanished off a busy road, never to be seen alive again, and what followed would be over a decade

of fear, sadness, confusion, and frustration from her family and from her community before

a recent break in the case revealed what had happened to the energetic teenager who

had just been looking for a few days of fun.

Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly, I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And I'm Derek Lovasser.

So I'm actually really looking forward to discussing this case for several reasons.

We will get into that.

But first we just wanted to once again touch base with you guys, thank everybody who's

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