Synopsis

Brittanee Drexel, seventeen years old and recognized for her ready smile and remarkable speed on the soccer field, left Rochester, N.Y., for a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., without informing her parents. On April 25th, 2009—the evening before she was due back home—Brittanee vanished. Security footage captured her leaving a friend’s hotel, and a text message sent to her boyfriend represents the last confirmed contact. When police traced her cell phone signal to a remote, sparsely popul