SC BRITTANEE DREXEL: Missing from Myrtle Beach, SC - 25 April 2009 - Age 17 *Found Deceased*

Both photos shown are of Brittanee. Her ears and nose are pierced. Brittanee has blonde highlights in her hair. She was last seen wearing a white, black, teal, and gray top, along with black shorts, similar to the outfit pictured above. Brittanee was also wearing white flip flops. When she was last seen, she was wearing blue colored contacts.
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In April 2009, Brittanee asked for her mother's permission to travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break with her friends and longtime boyfriend. Her mother said no, they argued about it, and Brittanee got permission to go to a friend's home. She went to Myrtle Beach in spite of what her mother said.

Her mother was unaware of this; she thought Brittanee was staying with a friend locally. They spoke several times on the telephone after she arrived in South Carolina. Brittanee's mother didn't find out where her daughter really was until she was notified that Brittanee had disappeared.

Brittanee's friends last saw her Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach at 8:00 p.m. on April 25, 2009. Brittanee walked more than a mile to the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard, where other friends were staying. Surveillance cameras there show her going into the resort, then leaving sometime after 8:30 p.m. At 9:15 p.m., she sent a text message to one of her friends saying she was going to see a friend who was staying at another hotel. She has never been heard from again.

She left all her clothes behind at her hotel room. Her beige purse and pink cellular phone disappeared with her. The phone's last signal was near U.S. 17 and the Charleston County line the night Brittanee went missing. Since then its battery has died.

In the summer of 2016, investigators announced they believe they know what happened to Brittanee, and named a suspect in her case. They believe she was held against her will for four days before being murdered. A witness, Taquan Brown, testified he'd seen T.D.T. and several other people sexually assaulting Brittanee at a drug dealer's "stash house" in McClellanville, South Carolina, a small town about sixty miles south of Myrtle Beach. T's father, ST, was also present.

Police believe T planned to force Brittanee into prostitution, but after her disappearance received widespread publicity, he decided to kill her. At one point, Brittanee tried to escape and ran from the house, but she was caught, pistol-whipped and taken back inside. Brown says he later heard two gunshots and later saw Brittanee's cloth-wrapped body carried out of the house. It was supposedly dumped in one of the many local alligator pits.

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Missing From: MYRTLE BEACH, SC. Missing Date: 04/25/2009. Both photos shown are of Brittanee. Her ears and nose are pierced. Brittanee has blonde highlights in her hair. She was last seen wearing a white, black, teal, and gray top, along with black shorts, similar to the outfit pictured...

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BRITTANEE DREXEL has been missing from Myrtle Beach, SC since 25 April 2009 - Age 17

Brittanee's friends last saw her Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach. She walked more than a mile to the Blue Water Resort. Surveillance cameras there show her going into the resort, then leaving. She sent a text message saying she was going to see...

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[GrandmaBear]

I thought about that before! But I think there is a law protecting judges. Pros and cons of changing that law are interesting to consider.

It is interesting. Hmm. Their decisions affect the public and public safety. There shouldn't be protection as to such decisions imo.

The same goes with parole boards. And I don't think news or the public should have to seek out their actions, I think they should have to be published publicly.

This world is just so wrong in its ways any longer. It is crazy the people they let out and how many there are. What do we have in prison, drug users and dealers while sex offenders, felons who do armed robberies and assaults and murderers are released???

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I thought about that before! But I think there is a law protecting judges. Pros and cons of changing that law are interesting to consider.

If that POS had finished his sentence he wouldn't have been on the street the day she was abducted.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

@Kimster

This gives me hope that Michael Bryson's case will be solved.

 

[GrandmaBear]

If that POS had finished his sentence he wouldn't have been on the street the day she was abducted.

Some survey/statistician or group should start tracking just how many murders, injuries/assaults, rapes and other crimes happen to someone else by someone who SHOULD be in prison but was released for whatever reason or due to inadequate sentencing etc. I bet the number is a lot higher than we can imagine... It seems almost every crime we see these days, the first thing found out is there is a record and usually a major criminal record/history. Not always, but a LOT of the time.

 

[Guess Who]

I would imagine this guy was on notice.

I have a new neighbor and when his wife is at work, and he is watching their little kids, they go up and down the sidewalk on bikes and scooters. And he’s always inside or in the backyard working on the yard. It makes me nervous! It’s sad because when I raised my boys here, I never thought a thing about it and my kids did the same thing.

but at least you now know some of the ones to watch out for and can look up their crimes. A lady I worked for believed her RSO neighbor that he was on the list because of indecent exposure, urinating in public. Reality was that he was on it for what he did to a 4 year old child. She was not a happy camper to find out that he blatantly lied to her.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Some idiot says I should apologize to Peter Brozowitz for this video:



This is what the poster said:

You clowns owe Peter a huge apology!

Here's what I said:

Up yours dude. PeteyBroz just made things a lot harder for the investigation. I'll never apologize to that assclown. He lawyers up immediately, with the most skeevy lawyer in Rochester, and acts like a malignant narcissist on Dr. Phil. He did everything he possibly could to make himself look guilty. He even ran from Myrtle Beach in the middle of the night leaving a $100 deposit on the motel room unclaimed. He lied to Brittannee's mother three times, according to her, about what happened. I have no idea if he had any involvement or not with this guy who did it. He is a POS that could have helped things. Also, If I recall correctly, none of the girls who took her there would talk to anyone about what occurred on the trip. They are the ones who invited her to go. Why? We know who killed her, we don't know how he came in contact with her. The camera for that part of the sidewalk was broken.

 

[Guess Who]

but at least you now know some of the ones to watch out for and can look up their crimes. A lady I worked for believed her RSO neighbor that he was on the list because of indecent exposure, urinating in public. Reality was that he was on it for what he did to a 4 year old child. She was not a happy camper to find out that he blatantly lied to her.

Let's also add that their neighborhood is what most would consider one of the safest, consisting of million dollar to multimillion dollar homes.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Some idiot says I should apologize to Peter Brozowitz for this video:



This is what the poster said:

You clowns owe Peter a huge apology!

Here's what I said:

Up yours dude. PeteyBroz just made things a lot harder for the investigation. I'll never apologize to that assclown. He lawyers up immediately, with the most skeevy lawyer in Rochester, and acts like a malignant narcissist on Dr. Phil. He did everything he possibly could to make himself look guilty. He even ran from Myrtle Beach in the middle of the night leaving a $100 deposit on the motel room unclaimed. He lied to Brittannee's mother three times, according to her, about what happened. I have no idea if he had any involvement or not with this guy who did it. He is a POS that could have helped things. Also, If I recall correctly, none of the girls who took her there would talk to anyone about what occurred on the trip. They are the ones who invited her to go. Why? We know who killed her, we don't know how he came in contact with her. The camera for that part of the sidewalk was broken.

PeteyBroz complains about how his family is going through hell due to his being named a POI. He also complains that his name has been spelled wrong in national media on Dr. Phil.

 

[GrandmaBear]

but at least you now know some of the ones to watch out for and can look up their crimes. A lady I worked for believed her RSO neighbor that he was on the list because of indecent exposure, urinating in public. Reality was that he was on it for what he did to a 4 year old child. She was not a happy camper to find out that he blatantly lied to her.

I think that's pretty common that they lie and people need to look into their record, I've heard of such before.

On the other hand if they didn't put the petty ones on the list people would automatically know a RSO is not just one because he urinated in the park after the bar closed.

It is a debate as to some of those kinds of crimes and placing the offenders on the list. Generally I don't think we see too much of it unless a repeat peeping Tom or more than one incident of indecency, etc.

 

[Mel70]

admitted rape of 3 girls & Calif let him out to rape & kill more

I saw a 1983 rape of a 9 yr old to which he served 21 years. Here is ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF NOT TO LET THEM OUT!! How many more?!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

A jailhouse informant’s lie about the Brittanee Drexel case has forever changed Timothy Taylor’s life — Is it time for reform?

For years, the public believed that Timothy Taylor was involved in kidnapping, sexually assaulting, killing and dumping a missing teen’s body in an alligator pit. The problem — none of it was…

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A jailhouse informant’s lie about the Brittanee Drexel case has forever changed TT's life — Is it time for reform?​

For years, the public believed that TT was involved in kidnapping, sexually assaulting, killing and dumping a missing teen’s body in an alligator pit.

The problem — none of it was true.

“The case of what happened to TT is really tragic, but it is not uncommon,” said Allie Menegakis, the founder and the executive director of South Carolina for Criminal Justice Reform.

The FBI named T a person of interest in the Brittanee Drexel case in 2016 after a jailhouse informant said that T had murdered and raped her.

T's team had reiterated that he was innocent from the beginning, stating that T, then 16, was in class at the time of the crime. Documents released in 2018 showed that he failed a polygraph test, which are known to be unreliable and are generally not allowed to be presented as evidence in court.

T, who had already served a sentence after being charged with robbery at the state level, was then charged at the federal level for the same crime. His lawyers have suggested that he faced the extra charges because the FBI wanted him to give up information about Drexel’s disappearance in exchange for a lighter sentence.

He was never charged in connection with Drexel’s disappearance.

T's mother has said that she lost her job, that the family had received death threats and that the accusations have cost them emotionally and financially.

When asked by News13 if T was still involved, the FBI said that “The person we believe is responsible for Brittanee’s murder has been charged,” and that it had an obligation to follow all leads.

While T's name has been cleared, the “damage has been done,” T's mother said at a news conference last week.

“His name and face will forever be linked to Brittanee Drexel because of a lie,” she said at the news conference. “That pain is beyond words. We’re not relieved. We’re enraged that it took this long.”

 

[Kimster]

How his name got out there as a suspect and how his family has suffered from it has been bothering me quite a bit since they name the actual person responsible.

 

[Mel70]

This s**t has to stop!!!! They need to listen to the psychologists and Psychiatrists that they CAN'T BE REFORMED!!! How many more?. That doesn't count the ones who haven't been found that no doubt have been killed by an offender that had a record.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

How his name got out there as a suspect and how his family has suffered from it has been bothering me quite a bit since they name the actual person responsible.

It's terrible.
Am I correct in seeing a similar named (T. T.) suspect of a different age? Different middle names? I didn't follow this case super closely.

 

[Kimster]

It's terrible.
Am I correct in seeing a similar named (T. T.) suspect of a different age? Different middle names? I didn't follow this case super closely.

@Cousin Dupree, do you know?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

@Cousin Dupree, do you know?

I don't think so. I think the prisoner's BS story may have implicated him somehow.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I figured it out. It was a reference to his father. Who, coincidentally, was also falsely accused of an attempted kidnapping and also had charges dropped.
They really did run this family through the ringer with nothing more than an accusation, and proof to the contrary (TT being in school...).

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Coroner: Brittanee Drexel’s cause of death ‘undetermined’

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Exactly how Brittanee Drexel died remains a mystery after Georgetown County Coroner Chase Ridgeway said on Tuesday that the 17-year-old’s cause of death…

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Coroner: Brittanee Drexel’s cause of death ‘undetermined’​

Exactly how Brittanee Drexel died remains a mystery after Georgetown County Coroner Chase Ridgeway said on Tuesday that the 17-year-old’s cause of death was “undetermined.”

“The skeletal remains were taken to the Charleston County Coroner’s Office to be examined by a forensic anthropologist and a forensic odonatologist,” Ridgeway said Tuesday in a Facebook post. “It was during this examination that the remains were confirmed to be that of Brittanee Drexel, which was collaborated by a DNA analysis performed by SLED. Due to the condition of the remains, manual strangulation could not be confirmed.”

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Coroner: Brittanee Drexel’s cause of death ‘undetermined’

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Exactly how Brittanee Drexel died remains a mystery after Georgetown County Coroner Chase Ridgeway said on Tuesday that the 17-year-old’s cause of death…

myfox8.com

Coroner: Brittanee Drexel’s cause of death ‘undetermined’​

Exactly how Brittanee Drexel died remains a mystery after Georgetown County Coroner Chase Ridgeway said on Tuesday that the 17-year-old’s cause of death was “undetermined.”

“The skeletal remains were taken to the Charleston County Coroner’s Office to be examined by a forensic anthropologist and a forensic odonatologist,” Ridgeway said Tuesday in a Facebook post. “It was during this examination that the remains were confirmed to be that of Brittanee Drexel, which was collaborated by a DNA analysis performed by SLED. Due to the condition of the remains, manual strangulation could not be confirmed.”

I saw that on the afternoon news today and was going to post about it, but I had to take a nap first and forgot about it. Just another sad piece of this whole story.

 

[Mel70]

It's terrible.
Am I correct in seeing a similar named (T. T.) suspect of a different age? Different middle names? I didn't follow this case super closely.

I haven't either, Except for the last video footage and details of her disappearance and what she was doing there etc. But I had never heard they had a suspect. I thought based on the circumstances they would never find her or solve it.