McClellanville, SC - The search for 17 year old Brittanee Drexel was called off Saturday night at 7 p.m. Officials have been looking for the missing New York teen since she disappeared from her Myrtle Beach apartment on April 25. So far their search has turned up nothing.

It has been another day of searching and waiting.

“It is horrible because you don’t know where she is or what is going on or if she’s hurt,” Dawn Drexel, Brittanee’s mother said.

Police on horseback, ATV’s and in the air searched the woods outside McClellanville, but there is still no sign of Brittanee.

“My personal opinion is that she’s not in this area,” Brittanee’s boyfriend John Grieco said. “I believe they are searching for clues to where her stuff was last located.”

Grieco and Brittanee have dated for the past three years. He was the last person to speak with her.

“We were mid conversation about what she was going to do that night,” Grieco added. “I knew once I didn’t receive a response from the text message I sent her, I knew something was up.”

Brittanee was last seen walking back to her Myrtle Beach hotel by herself.

“I know she didn’t run away,” Drexel added. “Foul play, I don’t know, but I hope not.”

There are more questions than answers tonight for Drexel’s family, but for now they continue to search for answers.

Investigators say even though the search is over, they will continue to work more than 200 new leads they have received.

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