mlatta, RoseC, locals...I haven't posted here in quite a while but with the anniversary approaching it has piqued my interest again, although I have to admit, not many days have gone by I havent thought of this young lady.
Anyway, especially mlatta who is trekking around, and for other locals I want to get opinions/input on some of my original thoughts about this case.
Does anyone find it odd her phone pinged in Surfside and then not again until below Georgetown? Surely there were towers through MI and PI to pass, yet it didn't ping. This led me to believe who ever had her cut back to 701 in Surfside - much more rural area, maybe less towers to hit...?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou....430868,-79.306183&spn=0.253284,0.615921&z=11
(having trouble with that map...if it puts you in the ocean, just pull it to the right!)
Also, I had serious concerns at this time, enough to make me contact MBPD, for what it was worth, but the week before her disappearance, there had been two attempted assaults on young girls at two different resorts, both between Bar Harbor and the hotel the boys were staying at. These were 'sister resorts'...no cameras in either case - Captains Quarters, April 12, 9th Ave South and then Hotel Blue, April 13, 7th Ave South. Now, who would know they could attempt to assault these girls in the hallways/stairwells of these resorts that did not have video surveillance? No one but an employee/local/someone who was involved in the construction of the resorts, etc. That has always bothered me. These attempted assaults were pretty much swept under the rug and blown away in the media at the time due to the massive wildfires going on in the area at the time. Many employees/locals who work in the MB area live in the more rural areas...and on top of that the area of Andrews/Kingstree etc is very small, 'every one knows every one' - not like an established member of the community can just go out 'hunting' and not risk identification. Myrtle Beach opens up the possibilities for someone in a small outskirt to dip in and dip back into the country with much ease and much more to choose from.
http://www2.scnow.com/scp/news/loca..._on_leads_in_attempted_sexual_assualts/44666/
Anyway, Andrews area has ALWAYS bugged me, always. There is another young woman missing from that area from just a few years ago; young, blond...As far as Brittanee's case goes, the reports early in the case that her cell phone had traveled inland towards Williamsburg Co. (Andrews is in both W'burg AND G'town, am I correct?) and THEN back toward the coast. It was during the weird time when news media were all over the place with it. Right now this is the only reference I can find to it in one of my posts from last year:
Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - SC-Brittanee Drexel 17, Msg 04/25/09, Myrtle Beach thread #2
I just have a nagging feeling and that feeling leads me towards the Andrews area and nothing but her phone coming back out on the bottom end of Georgetwon to go in that river.
So, since this story has evolved to pretty much right back where we started from almost a year ago, I thought I would put all this back in the laps of the ones newer to it and see what you guys think.