Found Deceased SC - Brittanee Drexel, 17, Myrtle Beach, 25 April 2009 - #16

[ontheclock]

With friends like that... IMO.

I don't necessarily believe they are complicit, but their silence makes me think they know something about Brittanee's misfortune.

 

[justagirl247]

i agree with yall about the friends for sure! never thought of the drug deal theory before but that makes ALOT of sense the only other thought i had was possibly sex trade?? i know its a stretch for a bunch of kids that age but you never know. it definitely dosent sit right with me as to why they took her along to begin with and then for not even 1 to show anytime of concern for her being gone i pretty sure they know something or at least have a very strong suspicion as to what happend

 

[waltzingmatilda]

Would the 'friends' be held complicit in Brittanee's disappearance if the above scenario I wrote about had happened? IDK SC law. We can only hope that someone grows up and grows a conscience and tells what they know about that night. I don't think they disappeared Britt but I think their behind the scenes actions may have contributed to whatever happened to her.

Also, didn't the guys take off and leave their hotel deposit behind? Somebody please refresh my memory as I've been away so much lately I cannot recall for sure. But, if so, that makes it all the more suspicious that they skedaddled out of there so quickly and left their deposit. It's like the whole group was suddenly in panic mode after Britt disappeared when I consider their actions. Which was more like reactions to me! Just drawing on the facts we have .

On another note. I wonder what RM is up to these days. He is rumored to have been seen out at local clubs recently and apparently likes that scene as is evidenced in the pic of him with 2 young women on pg 4 of this thread. It makes me wonder if the group had a chance meeting with him at a club and he managed to find out where they were staying. RSO's are crafty creatures.

IIRC there were pictures posted way back when of the group at a club. Perhaps when I return from caring for my ailing Mother I can find those pics and we can look at peeps in the background to see if there is anyone we recognize. Or you all can do so as it won't hurt my feelings. We've gotta keep on keeping on with ideas and digging.

See you all next month! Keep a candle burning for Brittanee.

MOO

wm

 

[Rochestergirl]

Hi WM, yes PB and friends left the hotel deposit behind their were all sorts of excuses, but I agree with you it seems they took off in a panic. This is not in MSM but the parents' of BD have said on their FB that RM was cleared this came from them but is not in MSM. CD and DD say their is evidence linked to PB. Im not so sure, I too feel the kids no something I just don't think they were directly involved. But they are selfish people. Maybe one will have a daughter of their own one day and finally realize the hell they put Britt's parents through.

Would the 'friends' be held complicit in Brittanee's disappearance if the above scenario I wrote about had happened? IDK SC law. We can only hope that someone grows up and grows a conscience and tells what they know about that night. I don't think they disappeared Britt but I think their behind the scenes actions may have contributed to whatever happened to her.

Also, didn't the guys take off and leave their hotel deposit behind? Somebody please refresh my memory as I've been away so much lately I cannot recall for sure. But, if so, that makes it all the more suspicious that they skedaddled out of there so quickly and left their deposit. It's like the whole group was suddenly in panic mode after Britt disappeared when I consider their actions. Which was more like reactions to me! Just drawing on the facts we have .

On another note. I wonder what RM is up to these days. He is rumored to have been seen out at local clubs recently and apparently likes that scene as is evidenced in the pic of him with 2 young women on pg 4 of this thread. It makes me wonder if the group had a chance meeting with him at a club and he managed to find out where they were staying. RSO's are crafty creatures.

IIRC there were pictures posted way back when of the group at a club. Perhaps when I return from caring for my ailing Mother I can find those pics and we can look at peeps in the background to see if there is anyone we recognize. Or you all can do so as it won't hurt my feelings. We've gotta keep on keeping on with ideas and digging.

See you all next month! Keep a candle burning for Brittanee.

MOO

wm

 

[Vinny]

I do find it unlikely that the friends were directly involved, although this can't be ruled out completely. Whether it was a well known acquaintance or someone they met in MB, I think someone must know something.

Anyone get the feeling Britanee's last exchange with her friends involved more than a pair of shorts?

I just find all the timing odd. I don't see how anyone that knows Britanee, even if for just a short period of time, just happens to see her walking back to her hotel. Either someone decided to catch up with her, or was informed of where she was going.

I just can't reconcile this being random in any way.

 

[ontheclock]

The whole shorts episode has always bothered me for some reason. I feel like it's pivotal to the story. I'm not sure if it's nefarious or not.

 

[justagirl247]

I agree the shorts thing doesn't make any sense.... And one thing that strikes me as odd also is it's been my experience that when someone is gone (due to a death) it seems like everyone suddenly was super close to that person even when in reality some weren't ... Even tho we are unsure about Britt being alive these kids seem to do the exact opposite and distancing themselves from her as much as possible that is just NOT typical human behavior especially for girls that age range ... Jmo

 

[rachaellouise]

I don't get how this isn't still a constant topic on the Rochester rumor kill to this day. It feels like Britanees memory should be plaguing these kids for the rest of their lives, and they should be constantly asked about what happened.

 

[AnonymousD]

I don't get how this isn't still a constant topic on the Rochester rumor kill to this day. It feels like Britanees memory should be plaguing these kids for the rest of their lives, and they should be constantly asked about what happened.

I have faith that even if it does not haunt them every day (as it should) that one day, *one day*, it will come back to haunt them. Hard & fast.

I pray that day comes quickly for at least one of them.

 

[justagirl247]

This case just makes me so frustrated .... Bc it seems so obvious to me that the "friends" if you can call them that know SOMETHING my heart breaks for her family and actual friends and her herself... I know going May have been a poor choice but what teenager doesn't make their fair share of poor choices but she deserves to come home I just wish so bad there was something that could be done or someone would just call in a tip... Idk I just keep hoping one day soon something is going to break this case open and the monster or monsters involved pay to the fullest sorry rant over now

 

[21merc7]

I check in here now again since the beginning.

I do want to say the fake friends, or even newly made friends, may not know anything about it at all.

It seems she had broken free from what she thought would be new friends, or was breaking free. It is the beach, and anyone can be snatched in a moment. (Literally seconds.) So many people in the area from out of town all of the time.

I don't know what happened, I don't know how many involved, I do know that walking alone at any time at the beach or in a college town is not safe. Even saying yes to quick ride across the block can end in murder. I am uncertain about what happened once we no longer have film of Brittanee, except she is not at home anymore and someone(s) knows why.


I hope some day this case is resolved and she is found, and whomever is prosecuted. If I didn't I wouldn't keep checking.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Something has been nagging at me lately about the behavior of this group Brittanee was with in MB. Why did they let her tag along? She allegedly didn't have any money. She was just a kid, not legally an adult, younger than the rest of the group. I cannot recall if she gained entrance into any clubs but she wouldn't have been able to consume alcohol unless she had a fake ID or someone in the group bought her drinks at the bar and brought them to her. Britt didn't do drugs but there were drugs allegedly consumed by the group of 'friends'. So why would they bring along a 17 year old 'misfit' on their spring break trip?

MOO but I think Brittanee was being used by these friends. She would have been charged as a minor if she had drugs on her person but the friends would have been charged as adults. So I wonder if the group met someone at a club who could hook them up and Brittanee was tapped to meet the person, do the deal and deliver the goods back to each hotel as a type of repayment for being allowed along in the first place. This is the only way I can reconcile in my mind.......why Britt seemed to disappear into thin air. If she were doing a deal, she most likely would have gotten into a described car willingly because drug deals are done in private.....why the guys up and left in the middle of the night. They were probably freaking when Brittanee didn't return and also short on money as well.....why the young women moved to another hotel and left Brittanee's things behind. They would probably all be freaking out that she didn't return and possibly angry, thinking she took off with their money since she didn't have any or much money of her own. Hence, the girls leaving her luggage behind. The actions of this group seems to me that they were nervous about something or trying to distance themselves from Brittanee. Did they think she had been arrested and would point the finger towards them and that's why they all scattered?

There is a good chance that in this scenario the 'friends' didn't even know the dealers real name or only a first name since they were on vaca. I went to Hawaii in my early twenties with a group of friends and the first thing we did was ask a bartender where we could score maui wowee and got results. (Bartenders know stuff) This is just my opinion based on the actions of the 'friends' with a bit of personal experience thrown in for good measure.

wm

BBM
Hey WM, been a long time since I stopped in on BD's thread. I think of her so much though. Your theory here really does make a lot of sense to me. I have followed this case, as many have, from the beginning and your theory makes more sense to me than any I have seen, at least that I remember, as it sure has been way too long since Brittanee went missing. It did always make me suspicious that it was almost immediate that the friends started freaking out about Brittanee not being able to be located. If you recall, there was one time during the trip that she was befriended by a boy and there was a video of her in his hotel room. This is the one where she is seen sitting on the bed looking at her phone and then peering over the balcony for some unknown reason. If she was gone that night and they probably did not know where she was, why then, did they get so freaked out that final night that she could not be located. Seems like (if I can recall correctly) she was not gone long at all, when she stopped texting her BF, he started calling the "friends" and then all h** broke loose. That point of why did everyone automatically assume she was somehow not coming back has always bothered me.

Again, WM, your theory does make a lot of sense, IMO.

Hope your mother is doing better really soon.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

I check in here now again since the beginning.

I do want to say the fake friends, or even newly made friends, may not know anything about it at all.

It seems she had broken free from what she thought would be new friends, or was breaking free. It is the beach, and anyone can be snatched in a moment. (Literally seconds.) So many people in the area from out of town all of the time.

I don't know what happened, I don't know how many involved, I do know that walking alone at any time at the beach or in a college town is not safe. Even saying yes to quick ride across the block can end in murder. I am uncertain about what happened once we no longer have film of Brittanee, except she is not at home anymore and someone(s) knows why.
I hope some day this case is resolved and she is found, and whomever is prosecuted. If I didn't I wouldn't keep checking.

Don't mean to be hogging Brittanee's thread tonight. Your post really makes me think of something that happened at MB to me and my BFF waaaaay back in the late 1960's. We were walking from our hotel to the "Gay Dolphin" gift shop (I think it is even still there) and it was in broad daylight on a very hot August day. Right there on the Grand Strand this dark blue car pulled up to the curb, and a man starting asking us if we knew where a certain street was. I noticed this guy was twisting around and began unbuckling his belt. I yelled for my friend to run. She did not realize what he was doing at first until he actually exposed himself. We ran all the long way (probably 10 blocks) to our hotel to tell my friend's father. Been so long I don't remember if he called the police. Anyway, you are so right that things can happen at the beach or really anywhere. I think I posted this story on BD's thread a long time ago.

I am glad to see so many still stopping in and pray for justice for Brittanee and her family.

 

[zelmajane]

I followed this case a few years ago. Do any of you feel that the perps arrested in the Heather Elvis case could be involved? Could Sidney Moorer have taken her? Did he do construction work at the hotel she was at? Is he a SK?

 

[Vinny]

I followed this case a few years ago. Do any of you feel that the perps arrested in the Heather Elvis case could be involved? Could Sidney Moorer have taken her? Did he do construction work at the hotel she was at? Is he a SK?

Nah. The HE case is a love triangle gone wrong. Whoever took Britanee either knew her, if even for a very short time, and/or knew her friends in some way.

 

[zelmajane]

Nah. The HE case is a love triangle gone wrong. Whoever took Britanee either knew her, if even for a very short time, and/or knew her friends in some way.

Hear me out, I don't think it's the first time these folks killed. They were too arrogant about it. The man was a charmer to some women.

Also, if HCPD or MBPD want to look in to it, the wife, TM was on her fave message board the evening of 4-24-09. They could track her ip and see if she was in town or out. Though I don't think she was involved. Just her husband.

Just a thought and a theory.

 

[SassyBenton]

Hear me out, I don't think it's the first time these folks killed. They were too arrogant about it. The man was a charmer to some women.

Also, if HCPD or MBPD want to look in to it, the wife, TM was on her fave message board the evening of 4-24-09. They could track her ip and see if she was in town or out. Though I don't think she was involved. Just her husband.

Just a thought and a theory.

One of my first thoughts when I heard about the couple being arrested was I wonder if these two did this before, perhaps with BD.

 

[Balor51]

This really reminds me of when my family had to deal with a criminal case, and the state police detective told us that most people don't just wake and decided to do a one time crime. Most he said have been doing things all along and just not getting caught. Perfecting their craft I guess you could say. In the back of my mind I think it is highly possible that the Moores were a tag team. I would not put it past them. I am very jaded though. I had thought I had seen everything vile that a human can do to another human , but each day there is always something worse. Anyway, just adding my rambling thoughts to the rest.

Where is Brittanee?

 

[Rochestergirl]

I followed this case a few years ago. Do any of you feel that the perps arrested in the Heather Elvis case could be involved? Could Sidney Moorer have taken her? Did he do construction work at the hotel she was at? Is he a SK?

One of the locals in MB said she heard a rumor he had worked on Ocean Blvd during that time. He is a contractor. I would like to know if it has been looked into.

 

[Rochestergirl]

This really reminds me of when my family had to deal with a criminal case, and the state police detective told us that most people don't just wake and decided to do a one time crime. Most he said have been doing things all along and just not getting caught. Perfecting their craft I guess you could say. In the back of my mind I think it is highly possible that the Moores were a tag team. I would not put it past them. I am very jaded though. I had thought I had seen everything vile that a human can do to another human , but each day there is always something worse. Anyway, just adding my rambling thoughts to the rest.

Where is Brittanee?

I couldn't agree more; people don't just murder. Also the Moorer's seem to know exactly how to hide/dispose of a body. HEs body, purse, and cellphone are not found either.