Found Deceased SC - Brittanee Drexel, 17, Myrtle Beach, 25 April 2009 - #18

[Claireishere]

What would make this case a federal case? Is it just because she was not supposed to be in the state?

 

[wvredhead]

We're in MB right now. I've been checking out the Bluewater every time we go by. It's one of the larger resorts but the front area is kind of hidden from the main boulevard. She could have been grabbed as soon as she set foot outside the main doors.

Another thing, I've been looking closely at the folks who ramble down Ocean Blvd. I hate to judge a book by it's cover but the touristy folks tend to keep to the beach at night. Lots of shady folks in the roadside, however. BD would have sticken out like a sore thumb on that road for a predator.

 

[wvredhead]

My God...

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article98193452.html

 

[seventeenseconds]

What would make this case a federal case? Is it just because she was not supposed to be in the state?

Human trafficking?


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[CanManEh]

Alligators digest thier food very very slowly they can go over a year with out food ...SO if there is any truth to this it won't be hard to tell they will have to kill the alligators and disect them and believe it or not they can get dna from the inside of the alligators it takes a long long time for bones to be broken up enough to be digested so if this is true they will be able to find ..it was on a much shorter time span but they were able to say for sure that they got the right alligator in the kid taken from the water at disney world a month or too ago...sadly in that case they would have actually found fully intact parts of the young boy in that case,,,,I just hope they contact a real animal bioligest so they can know that they will still find dna in some of those alligators cause thats not something your prolly taught at the FBI academy....

 

[CanManEh]

The more i think about this iam seriously disgusted when is the last time you heard something like this .This might sound wiered but for me part of me is more pissed off in them holding her hostage rather then what they did to get rid of her remains .I can picture her cowering in a corner while these SOB drink get high laugh all the while someone when they feel like it could do anything they wanted to her .Even the people that did nothing but simply seen her tied up and god only knows what they were doing but I strongly believe the people that came and seen her but didn't participate there just as bad maybe even woarse for not saying something to police .H ow the hell would one of those guys that seen britt and did nothing how they could sleep at night is unreal if u ask me.....

 

[Tarik]

Criminals, especially high-skilled criminals, do not possess the emotions, the awareness and the mental strength that normal folks do. Normal people don't go around kidnapping, gang-raping and killing teenage girls. Therefore, it's only normal for criminals to be able to move beyond what they do with relative ease. There is a good chance that a lot of them were involved in murders/unsolved disappearances prior to this one and that killing people/making people go missing has become "normal" to them.

 

[RoChEsTeR Paul]

If Brittanee were my child and I knew beyond any and all doubt who did these things to her, there would be no trial for them. The trial would be for me. And the only question would be .. will they convict.

 

[JnRyan]

If Brittanee were my child and I knew beyond any and all doubt who did these things to her, there would be no trial for them. The trial would be for me. And the only question would be .. will they convict.

After reading all of this, there are many of us on here who would probably want to forego a trial and she is not our child. So many you probably would have to perform a lottery to decide who gets to be in the group. These articles are thoroughly disgusting and disturbing. I hope they shake some people enough to produce more tips and information.

 

[LLLindsayy]

Seems to me that with a case this size that the "witness" would have been taken for a country ride to ID the "stash house" and a search warrant subsequently issued would lead to a crime scene discovery. Alligator pit sounds like a bad Tarzan movie IMO.

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From the article:

Munoz told the court that investigators have searched several alligator ponds to no avail. He said investigators have been told that the area is peppered with as many as 40 of these ponds. Investigators also have searched the stash house, the agent testified.

BBM. Luckily it does appear the stash house was searched. I don't know what evidence (if any) was found but I do remember that LE has said they have "exhaustive evidence." I suppose some of that could be physical.

Source: http://www.postandcourier.com/20160...as-kidnapped-shot-and-dumped-in-alligator-pit

 

[LLLindsayy]

What would make this case a federal case? Is it just because she was not supposed to be in the state?

I think that the answer to this question is contained somewhere within the quote:

Federal prosecutors obtained indictments in June charging Da’Shaun Taylor, 25, with interference of interstate commerce by threat or violence for his involvement in a 2011 robbery of a Mount Pleasant McDonald’s restaurant. Taylor was the getaway driver while two others held up the restaurant, one wounding the store manager with two non-life threatening gunshots.

Taylor confessed, cooperated with authorities and was sentenced to probation, which he has successfully completed. The gunman got a 25-year sentence and the other robber got six years, suspended after serving 10 months.

Under federal law, prosecutors have the authority to bring parallel charges when federal laws are violated along with state laws. They often did so during the civil rights movement, bringing rights violation charges against people freed from or not charged with state law violations.

What makes this case unusual is that the federal charges against Taylor involve virtually the same evidence as in the McDonald’s robbery for which he confessed and that he has long since completed his state sentence.

The federal charges, which include use of a deadly weapon, carry a potential life sentence.

It's kind of confusing the way they word it. It sounds like Dashaun was charged with something unrelated to Brittanee's case, but the reason they sought him out was directly related to Britt.

 

[waltzingmatilda]

I think that the answer to this question is contained somewhere within the quote:



It's kind of confusing the way they word it. It sounds like Dashaun was charged with something unrelated to Brittanee's case, but the reason they sought him out was directly related to Britt.

So Da'Shaun Taylor was the getaway driver while the other 2 robbed the McDonald's. Sounds very similar to Randa Massey's attempted abduction. IIRC there was a driver and two abductors.

 

[Dee10]

The inmate,Taquan Brown, also implicated a father and son from McClellanville, SC, near where Brittanee’s last cell phone ping was traced.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/08/26/brittanee-drexel-murdered-kidnapped-missing-2009/

 

[RoChEsTeR Paul]

In the article I read, it says that she ran from the house and was pistol whipped, taken back inside and shot. It then states that the searches had drawn massive media attention that caused a problem for her abductors and so she was murdered and disposed of. Just seems to be a slight conflict here, although they're probably both true.
I believe she ran from the house at that moment not to escape the continued rape and torment, but that she knew that they were about to kill her. Perhaps they were in the process using quieter means but she fought back and got away.. so they just shot her. She did the right thing in running. At least she tried

 

[Caffeine]

The articles I've read were quite ambiguous about her departure from Myrtle Beach too. One would think words like "abducted" and "taken against her will" would be used...but they were not.

I don't know if the FBI is unsure of the circumstances for that aspect of it, but the wording of it almost makes it seem like she voluntarily took a ride. I can't imagine she did, but I'd be interested in hearing more how that reportedly went down.

 

[RoChEsTeR Paul]

The articles I've read were quite ambiguous about her departure from Myrtle Beach too. One would think words like "abducted" and "taken against her will" would be used...but they were not.

I don't know if the FBI is unsure of the circumstances for that aspect of it, but the wording of it almost makes it seem like she voluntarily took a ride. I can't imagine she did, but I'd be interested in hearing more how that reportedly went down.

Yes, I would like to know more about that too.
I am very surprised to learn that a 16 year old kid may have taken her. I don't see her going with them willingly but I can see her trying to just be cool, hoping they let her go at some point. I'm sure she really just had no idea what to do

 

[lonetraveler]

The more i think about this iam seriously disgusted when is the last time you heard something like this .This might sound wiered but for me part of me is more pissed off in them holding her hostage rather then what they did to get rid of her remains .I can picture her cowering in a corner while these SOB drink get high laugh all the while someone when they feel like it could do anything they wanted to her .Even the people that did nothing but simply seen her tied up and god only knows what they were doing but I strongly believe the people that came and seen her but didn't participate there just as bad maybe even woarse for not saying something to police .H ow the hell would one of those guys that seen britt and did nothing how they could sleep at night is unreal if u ask me.....

Savages don't have a conscience so they most likely slept very well.

 

[Dee10]

In the transcript, Munoz testifies that the inmate, Taquan Brown of Walterboro, told investigators he went to a “stash house” in the McClellanville area in the days after Drexel was abducted. As he entered the house with a couple of other men, he saw Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor, then 16, “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel,” the agent said.

The FBI agent gave the following account of what the inmate said happened next:

He spotted others also in the room with the girl and Da’Shaun Taylor, and he kept walking through the house to the backyard to give some money to Da’Shaun Taylor’s father, Shaun Taylor.

As the two talked, Drexel ran from the house. She was “pistol-whipped” and taken back inside.

Two shots rang out and the inmate assumed Shaun Taylor shot the girl. Then the girl’s body was wrapped up and taken away.

Asked what happened to the girl’s body, the FBI agent testified that it has not been found but that “several witnesses have told us Miss Drexel’s body was placed in a pit, or gator pit, to have her body disposed of. Eaten by the gators.”

Although, I totally believe this account, I wish there was more detail on who "pistol-whipped" Brittanee and took her back inside. It seems it was the father, Shaun but I wonder if someone else helped and also what was Taquan doing at that time? Wish there was more detail.

 

[Caffeine]

Yes, I would like to know more about that too.
I am very surprised to learn that a 16 year old kid may have taken her. I don't see her going with them willingly but I can see her trying to just be cool, hoping they let her go at some point. I'm sure she really just had no idea what to do

I've always wondered about this, and I can't imagine she'd willingly enter a vehicle driven by the elder Taylor, but driven by a 16 year old? Perhaps.

Especially if it was a van that appeared empty but in reality there may have been older people hiding unseen in the back.

But then again, the abrupt stop to her cell phone use definitely makes it seem like the situation became dangerous very quickly.

 

[Claireishere]

I was discussing this with my husband last night. I don't think I have read a case that came out worse than this. This one is literally every parents worst nightmare. Not knowing where your child is at least then you get to speculate that maybe they are safe or happy somewhere. Brit was kept for days, tortured, it sounds like she was shown no kindness by anyone for days, then when finally able to break free captured (in front of a witness who didn't help) killed and then her body destroyed. As a parent I honestly can not imagine anything more horrific than this.