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Prison playing cards feature missing teen Brittanee Drexel
By Mason Snyder
Published: April 23, 2010
Updated: April 23, 2010
MYRTLE BEACH - Authorities believe a new deck of cards featuring missing persons could help locate missing New York teen Brittanee Drexel.
Monica Caison with the CUE center for missing persons said the cards will be distributed throughout state prisons in hopes that clues will surface in the missing persons’ cases.
Drexel is featured on the two of diamonds.
According to helpfindbrittaneedrexel.com, “Effective Playing Cards” are released to every inmate in the Florida State Prison System.
The decks are also released in other participating states, including South Carolina.
“In the prison system guys talk, and Florida had a case solved because one inmate heard a guy bragging about it,“ said Thomas Lucas, President of Spartanburg Crime Stoppers, the group that brought the cards to South Carolina. “These cards came out and [the inmate] said, ‘I know who did this’.“
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Brittanee Drexel featured on special deck of cards
By Joel Allen
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 5:28 p.m.
Sunday marks one year since the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, the Rochester, New York teenager who went missing during a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach.
Searchers have already tried so many things to get information about her disappearance, but Friday they unveiled a deck of playing cards. On the front of each card is a picture of a South Carolina missing person or unsolved homicide victim.
Prison inmates have plenty of time on their hands and often, plenty of information about unsolved crimes. On a trip to Florida, Tom Lucas of Spartanburg, whose son was the victim of an unsolved murder, saw a deck of playing cards made available to prison inmates that featured information about unsolved crimes.
He thought, why not do the same in South Carolina? "My motivation is to help victims and to get information that will help solve cases and give a little bit of relief for the families," said Tom Lucas, Spartanburg Crimestoppers.
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