Why would a 17-year-old girl on spring break from Upstate New York make her way onto a bus which does nothing except ferry housekeeping crew to the Grand Strand from beat-down Williamsburg County?
These are essentially public works vehicles, not public means of transport. I’d be only slightly less shocked if someone claimed to have seen Brittanee Drexel jump off the back of a garbage truck. Seriously. The best way to the explain the supposed sighting is that it is simply mistaken.
The entire story is fuzzy and disturbing, starting with a mom who didn’t know her daughter took off to the beach a couple hundred miles away.
It is also not a good sign that one man named in police reports as having been seen with Drexel at a hotel has already lawyered up. Hope this thing turns out OK.
Update: Sure enough, WHEC reported a few minutes ago (11:30am) that the girl seen on the Williamsburg County bus line was not Britanee Drexel. Thank goodness authorities did not spend much time on that false lead.
