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

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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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Brittanee disappeared from Myrtle Beach on April 25, 2009. She was seen at the McClellanville "stash house" two days after she disappeared. Taquan Brown claims that he saw "eight to 12 guys" assaulting her. He says he returned to the stash house a few days after the first visit, and witnessed Brittanee's attempted escape. Taquan Brown claims she was rolled in a carpet and taken away in a truck. At this point in time, it would have been at least four days after she was kidnapped. The date would have been approximately April 29th or later.

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The distance from McClellanville, SC to Jacksonboro, SC is 78 miles and it requires one hour and thirty minutes.

Brown says, five days later, he went to visit his cousin Herman at his rural house on Camp Ave. in Jacksonboro, South Carolina, to show him a car he had just bought. The date would now be approximately May 4th. Taquan Brown says Brittanee was alive at Herman’s house.

As for the murder, Brown says he and a friend witnessed it while walking to his cousin Herman’s house in late May 2009. Brown says he saw a group of men with Drexel -- including a man he only identified as “Nate.” Brown said. “Nate shot her with a double-barrel shotgun two times.” Brown says they turned around and left, so as not to be implicated.

According to Taquan Brown, Brittanee was held captive and abused for about one month.


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How did Brittanee get from McClellanville to Jacksonboro, 78 miles away? Was She sold to Taquan Brown's cousin, Herman?

How did Taquan Brown have such casual access to both locations where Brittanee was held captive? Was he part of this Human Trafficking group? How many other males had this same casual access?

Brown claims to have left so he wouldn't be implicated, but if he witnessed Brittanee at both locations, there were felonies and he is an accessory.

Brittanee was held as a sex slave for almost a month. Where was Law Enforcement? According to Taquan Brown, a lot of people saw her in the stash house and the trailer.
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Akoya, Jun 4, 2019
 
https://www.live5news.com/2019/04/26/fbi-investigating-new-lead-brittanee-drexel-case/

FBI investigating new lead in Brittanee Drexel case


FBI investigating new lead in Brittanee Drexel case
By Harve Jacobs | April 26, 2019 at 4:24 PM EDT - Updated April 28 at 4:58 PM

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The FBI confirmed Friday it’s investigating a possible new lead in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel.

Drexel went missing from Myrtle Beach during spring break in April 2009 and is presumed murdered.

FBI spokesman Don Wood said the agency recently checked out some property and an abandoned trailer on Camp Avenue in Jacksonboro in Colleton County.

The FBI’s interest in the property came after jail informant Taquan Brown reportedly told investigators he witnessed Drexel being killed in Jacksonboro and that some of her remains were buried there.


Brown’s deceased uncle owns the property and trailer.

On Friday, Brittanee Drexel’s mom went to the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office to ask them to help the FBI search the property.

“My thoughts on it, something needs to be done right away. We can’t wait,” Pleckan said after the meeting. “We just marked Brittanee’s ten year anniversary so someone needs to get out there right away.”

Brown reportedly told the FBI Drexel was initially held at a stash house near McClellanville in Charleston County.

Pleckan says it’s possible he could be telling the truth that she was moved to Jacksonboro.

“They could have very possibly taken her out if that area because we were down there searching at that point and they didn’t want her to be seen. This is way off the beaten track,” Pleckan said. “I’m hoping for a break in the case. I’m tired, I’m very tired but I’m also very frustrated and I want my daughter found.”

Copyright 2019 WCSC. All rights reserved.


Pleckan = Brittanee's mother
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https://www.whec.com/news/fbi-infor...e-witnessed-brittanee-drexels-murder/5260439/

EXCLUSIVE: FBI informant speaks with News10NBC; says he witnessed Brittanee Drexel's murder

February 26, 2019 11:16 PM

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WHEC) -- In April, it will be 10 years since Brittanee Drexel disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Now, for the first time, we are hearing directly from the jailhouse informant who claims he witnessed Drexel's murder.

His name is Taquan Brown and he is in the McCormick Correctional Institution in South Carolina, serving 25 years for an unrelated manslaughter conviction.

But before he was locked up, he says he saw Drexel on four different occasions over the course of a month in 2009.

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South Carolina doesn't allow face-to-face interviews with inmates. However, over the course of five recent phone calls, Brown allowed News10NBC to record the conversations for broadcast. And he provided what he claims is his first-hand account.

Brown says he first saw Brittanee Drexel at an abandoned house in McClellanville, South Carolina in April 2009 -- two days after Drexel had disappeared.

Taquan Brown: "On this Monday, April 27, I saw the girl..."

News10NBC's Brett Davidsen: "In the stash house?"

Brown: "Yeah. There was about 8-12 guys in there."

Brown says Drexel had a black eye and was being sexually assaulted.

When asked if he recognized her right away, Brown said, "No. I didn't even know who she was. I didn't know who she was until actually a few weeks later when everything started coming on the news."

Over the phone, Brown described the abandoned stash house to News10NBC, and it was consistent with the house we saw when we went to McClellanville to investigate in 2016.

He says he returned to the house a few days after the first visit.

"We was in the front yard and the girl ran out the back door and four other guys ran behind her and they hit her and brought her back inside," Brown recounted.

Brown says he then heard gunshots and assumed Drexel had been killed.

"As I get in my car, I see two gentlemen come out the house with a rug and they put it in back of his truck. And I left," he said.

But Brown says, five days later, he went to visit his cousin Herman at his house in rural Jacksonboro, South Carolina -- to show him a car he had just bought.

The home is on a sparsely populated dirt road about 80 miles away from McClellanville.

Brown: "When I stopped by to show him the car, she was there."

Davidsen: "Alive?"

Brown: "Yes, she was alive. She was at his house."

Taquan Brown's name first surfaced in 2016 during a detention hearing in federal court involving a man named TDT.

An FBI agent testified that they had received information from Brown who said T had direct involvement in Drexel's kidnapping.

News10NBC spoke with T in 2016. He denied ever meeting Brittanee Drexel.

"The only thing I've known is what I've seen on TV and bulletins and what the FBI has been telling me," said T in that 2016 interview.

He also claimed he had never seen Taquan Brown before. But court records show T failed a polygraph about the Drexel case.

Brown claims that T was at the stash house.

As for the murder, he says he and a friend witnessed it while walking to his cousin Herman's house in late May 2009. Brown says he saw a group of men with Drexel -- including a man he only identified as "Nate."

"There's a wooded area on the property line. So we were walking through the path and the shooting took place," Brown said. "Nate shot her with a double-barrel shotgun two times."

Brown says they turned around and left, so as not to be implicated.

Much of Brown's account is consistent with, and even more detailed than, what the FBI has stated publicly. However, there are major parts of what Brown told News10NBC that we've been unable to corroborate.

For instance, the man he was walking with when he says he witnessed the shooting -- we were unable to track him down. His cousin Herman has since died of a heart attack. A third person Brown identified as an eyewitness was murdered in 2016.

Still, he says there are many who witnessed Drexel's captivity.

"There's several people who actually, at some point in time throughout that month, however long it was, that went back and forth to Herman's house who actually seen her back there," he said.

DT has not been charged in connection with Drexel's disappearance. His new attorney had no comment about Brown's statements.

So is Taquan Brown to be believed?

Brown claims he took, and passed, a polygraph administered by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.

The FBI went out on a limb two years ago, stating it had witnesses that would back up Brown's account of what happened to Brittanee and openly called T a target of the investigation.

But still, no arrests.

We reached out to the FBI to find out if they still believe Brown is a credible witness.

A spokesperson would not say. However, he did confirm that agents met with Brown in prison just last month.

In an emailed statement, the FBI says, "The investigative team for Brittanee's kidnapping is constantly assessing and evaluating all information provided to it. We continue to receive leads from South Carolina and beyond and follow up on everyone. Brittanee's mother has access to the investigative team and recently met with them. This matter continues to remain a priority and has every resource available. "

Brown confirms he spoke with several law enforcement agents at the prison last month.

"They told me things was slow and that they're in the process and they told me to be patient," he said.

Brown says he was not promised any deals in exchange for his cooperation. He says he came forward after he and his mother received death threats. He says he agreed to speak with authorities in return for his mother's protection as well as his own.

But Brown says he's also frustrated that nothing came from his cooperation, and last week, he filed a lawsuit against several investigators, claiming they put him in danger by releasing his name to the public.
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https://www.democratandchronicle.co...rexel-jailhouse-informant-lawsuit/3015000002/

Jailhouse informant in Brittanee Drexel disappearance files lawsuit
Sean Lahman, Rochester Democrat and ChroniclePublished 12:05 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019

A jailhouse informant in South Carolina says he's been subjected to assaults and death threats because he shared information with the FBI about the 2009 disappearance of Chili teen Britanee Drexel.

Taquan Brown claimed that Drexel was abducted and he saw her in a drug "stash house" in the area of McClellanville, South Carolina.

He identified a man whom he saw "sexually abusing" the teen.

He claimed Drexel was later pistol-whipped. Then, Brown told investigators, he heard shots — he assumed Drexel was fatally shot — and Drexel's body was wrapped up and dumped in an alligator-filled pit.

Brown, now serving 25 years in prison for an unrelated manslaughter conviction, filed a lawsuit in December that names six defendants, including a U.S. attorney and an FBI agent who he says publicly identified him as "a snitch."

He also alleges the pair released his statement regarding Drexel to various media outlets.

"Because of the defendant's reckless actions it inflames the individuals' responsible for [the] Drexel murder hatred for plaintiff," Brown says in his complaint.

He claims that he has been assaulted in prison and that a $15,000 bounty has been offered to kill him. In court papers, Brown says he "is currently in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury."

Brown says that he believes the person behind the threats is ST, the person he claims to have witnessed abusing Drexel in the drug house.


T, identified in court papers as TDT, has maintained that Brown concocted the story. He was questioned by federal authorities about Drexel and failed a polygraph in which he claimed to have never seen the missing teen.

Prosecutors have not formally named T a suspect, saying only that they believe he has information than can help them solve the case.

Drexel was 17 when she traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in April 2009 without her parents' consent. She went missing then; the FBI said in 2017 that it suspects she was killed. Her body has not been found.

SLAHMAN@Gannett.com
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Akoya, Jun 4, 2019
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Spike, I don't understand what is happening, either. Taquan Brown gave the FBI all of this information in 2016 and they have just recently investigated the deserted mobile home in Jacksonboro. His cousin Herman died of a heart attack in 2016. A third person Brown identified as an eyewitness was murdered in 2016.

An RV was reported missing at the same time period that Brittanee's remains were supposedly hidden in the vehicle. Has anyone searched the auto salvage location? If Brittanee was buried in a garden at some point, there should still be DNA in the soil. And, how did Taquan Brown manage to witness all of these activities? It sounds like all the FBI has done is release Taquan's name to the public so that he and his family have received death threats.

I once lived off of Rt. 17 north of that area and it is very rural, but this is ridiculous.
 
His name is Taquan Brown and he is in the McCormick Correctional Institution in South Carolina, serving 25 years for an unrelated manslaughter conviction.

McCormick Correctional Institution in McCormick, S.C.

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Hermon Miller

WALTERBORO, SC | 83 Years Old

587 Camp Ave, Jacksonboro, SC 29452.

Property / Lot Details

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  • # of Buildings: 1
  • Municipality Name: COUNTY UNINCORPORATED
  • Land Use Code: Mobile Home
  • Zoning Code: RC
  • County Use Description: RESIDENTIAL MOBILE HOME
587 CAMP AVE is a home in JACKSONBORO, SC 29452

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https://www.whec.com/news/brittanee...c ... n/5330517/

Brown: "After she was killed, some of her remains were buried in a garden area and after some time went by, they removed it from the garden area."

Brown says he was there when her remains were dug up. He says some of them were taken to a gator-infested pond, others placed in a stolen RV and taken to a scrapyard. News10NBC has confirmed through police reports that a neighbor's RV was stolen around that time period.

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It looks like a small scrapyard behind the “Stash House” property in McClellandville. I wonder if they brought the stolen RV and Brittanee’s remains from Jacksonboro back to this location. Was any evidence from Jacksonboro burned in the Stash House fire?
 
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YES! Federal charges are coming T's way!

https://www.whec.com/news/man-conne...harged-federally-for-unrelated-crime/5407892/

Man connected to Drexel case can be sentenced federally for unrelated crime

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHEC)- A Supreme Court decision earlier in June means that a case involving a man accused of being connected to the disappearance of Chili teen Brittanee Drexel can and will be sentenced federally in an unrelated case.

According to NBC affiliate WMBF in Myrtle Beach, the Supreme Court Decision in U.S. v. Gamble means that TDT will face sentencing in a 2011 robbery case, even after he served 18 months probation on state charges.

Although T was indicted on the charges in 2016, his attorney called it unconstitutional because of the double jeopardy clause. As a result, T's sentencing was placed on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered a similar case, U.S. v. Gamble. Like T, the defendant in that case claimed that he was being tried twice for the same crime, one in state court and then in federal court.

On June 17, the Supreme Court declined Gamble's appeal, citing what is known as the dual sovereignty doctrine, which states that state and federal courts are two different entities and therefore the same can can be tried twice.

T could face 10 to 20 years in prison, but a sentencing date hasn't been set, according to WMBF.
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Now, they just need to get his father locked up.
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