Sunday will mark one year since missing spring breaker Brittanee Drexel disappeared from Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach.
Saturday night, friends and family held a march and vigil in her honor.
It was a chance for Drexel's loved ones to show they haven't given up hope. This past year has been filled with painful ups and downs and still one year later they have very few clues into her disappearance.
It was Saturday, April 25th of last year - this very weekend - when the Brittanee Drexel, then 17, vanished.
The teen, from Rochester, New York, was on spring break. She was last seen leaving the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard.
In the beginning, detectives tracked her cell phone signals to an area in Georgetown County.
It made a b-line for that area shortly after leaving the hotel last year.
Dozens of searches yielded little in the way of finding Brittanee.
For her mother, Dawn, the hope hasn't faded and neither, though, has the pain.
"Just for her to go through something like that just kills. I mean as a parent, you'd rather have it done to yourself than your child. Nobody, I mean nobody wishes that on anybody," said Dawn.
The friends and family marched down Ocean Boulevard, Saturday, ending at the Blue Water Resort, where the vigil began.
Monday and Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. on NewsChannel 15, Graeme Moore will have a special report an in-depth look at the Drexel case from the perspective of both police and Brittanee's mother.
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