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’.“
The Drexel family is on the Grand Strand for a series of events this weekend that mark the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Brittanee.
They attended the unveiling of the deck of cards Friday.
Saturday, a march down Ocean Boulevard will start at 5:30 at the Bar Harbor Motel and will end at the Blue Water Resort, the hotel where Brittanee was last seen.
At 7:30 there will be a candle light vigil to raise awareness and mark the anniversary of Brittanee’s disappearance.
Caison said there are still constant searches going on for Brittanee, and believes the new playing cards could aid in those search efforts.
