Last Updated on 2/4/2012

Published on 1/15/2010

Georgetown County investigators tracked down a woman Wednesday night a worker at Food Lion in Pawleys Island thought was Brittanee Drexel, the missing New York girl.
The worker called deputies to the store at about 9 p.m. Wednesday because he thought he saw Drexel shopping in the store.
He said he “was certain” the person he saw in the store was Drexel because he passed by a billboard displaying her photo every day.
The worker said the woman he saw in the store was with a man.
He also said she was hesitant to show her identification at the register. Instead, the man she was with showed his ID.
The employee said he asked the woman if she was Drexel and she said “no.”
“The way she replied seemed suspicious,” the worker told deputies, the report states.
He said the couple left in a white Ford Mustang.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Neil Johnson said investigators obtained information from the store and were able to locate the woman Wednesday night and it was not Drexel.
Drexel was last seen leaving a Myrtle Beach hotel in April. Since then numerous searches have taken place in Horry, Georgetown and Charleston counties.
A Website for Drexel has been created and can be found at www.helpfindbrittaneedrexel.com.