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Investigation into Brittanee Drexel case progresses

Spectrum News

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP & WXXI News) — The FBI says its work in a wooded area of South Carolina has brought authorities closer to resolving the case of a Chili area teenager who disappeared during a spring break trip that she took without her family's knowledge in 2009.

Multiple media outlets report an FBI supervisory agent said Sunday the work over three days in Georgetown County "progressed the investigation" into the disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel.

She was last seen leaving a Myrtle Beach resort on April 25, 2009.

Authorities have kept mum about what they were doing and what they appeared to be looking for in the area with K-9s and an excavation unit that were brought in Saturday.

FBI supervisory agent Don Woods said authorities are confident they're "getting closer to resolving this matter."

Drexel was 17 when she was last seen leaving a hotel in Myrtle Beach during a Spring Break trip in 2009. 

Last year, the FBI said it was investigating a report that Drexel had been taken, held against her will, sexually assaulted and eventually killed.

So far there have been no arrests.

Randy Gorbman is WXXI's director of news and public affairs. Randy manages the day-to-day operations of WXXI News on radio, television, and online.