Brittanee Drexel. (Facebook)
A 17-year-old missing New York girl was gang raped, shot and thrown into an alligator pit after disappearing during spring break, an FBI agent says in court documents.
Brittanee Drexel was last seen in 2009 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she had gone on spring break without her parents’ knowledge.
FBI agent Gerrick Munoz provided the new account in court, the Charleston Post and Courier reports. It stems from an inmate’s story to police about what he says happened to Drexel.
For years, family and friends have maintained hope that they would learn what happened to the teenager. Drexel’s parents, Dawn and Chad Drexel, went on Dr. Phil’s program on October 7, and discussed those allegations. Her mother said, “My heart just broke because Brittanee didn’t deserve this,” according to UK Daily Mail.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Videos Captured the Last Moments of Brittanee Drexel Before She Disappeared
Brittanee’s last days were captured on video, including one taken the day before she disappeared in Myrtle Beach (see above).
This compilation video below shows surveillance video that captured the teenager walking out of the Bluewater Hotel where she was staying on April 25, 2009. She was leaving the hotel to go back to another hotel where she was staying.
Police had said previously that Brittanee went to the Bluewater hotel to see a friend from Rochester, Peter Brozowitz, who was staying there with friends, according to WCSC. She stayed 10 minutes. Police said Brozowitz and his friends were not suspects.
Drexel was never seen alive again.
After she vanished, Drexel’s cellphone pinged the next day “near the South Santee River, between McClellanville and Georgetown.”
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Click here to read more2. An FBI Agent Says the Inmate Described What Happened to Brittanee in a ‘Jailhouse Confession’
Brittanee Drexel. (Facebook)
The Post & Courier obtained the statement of FBI agent Gerrick Munoz who “gave the first detailed account of what investigators think happened to 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel after she disappeared in 2009.”
The newspaper said it had obtained Munoz’s statement via a federal court transcript, and described a statement Munoz said the FBI obtained from a prison inmate who claimed in a “jailhouse confession” he was there when Brittanee died.
According to the newspaper, the transcript describes an inmate named Taquan Brown telling investigators he saw another man, identified as Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor, who was then 16, “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel” at a “stash house” in Walterboro.
He said that Drexel tried to flee but was caught and pistol whipped, and he heard two shots he assumed was her being killed. “Then the girl’s body was wrapped up and taken away,” the statement said, according to the Post-Courier.
According to WYFF4, the judge “ordered Taylor released on $10,000 bail” and Taylor’s mother, Joan, said the story is false and “craziness.”
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Click here to read more3. Investigators Said in June That Brittanee Was Held Against Her Will for Days
In a June news conference, investigators revealed that the teen was kidnapped and held against her will for days after she disappeared.
At that time, authorities were vague, but they said they had information that people had seen Brittanee for several days after she disappeared. There is a $25,000 being offered for information leading to a conviction in her case.
The Post-Courier says the inmate’s confession came out in a bond hearing on a charge his lawyer says was designed to “pressure him into confessing and helping the government.” The newspaper says the other people named in the statement deny the inmate’s account.
WCSC says police had previously considered human trafficking as a motive.
4. Brittanee’s Body Was Fed to Alligators, the Informant Claims
Several Facebook pages are devoted to finding Brittanee Drexel. (Facebook/Missing Brittanee Marie Drexel)
After shooting Brittanee, the men took her to an alligator-infested swamp and put her body in it, the inmate claimed, according to The Democrat Chronicle.
“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,” said the transcript. Brittanee’s body has never been found.
5. Brittanee Was From New York & Was a High School Student at the Time of Her Disappearance
Brittanee was from Chili, New York, and she had gone to Myrtle Beach for spring break. Drexel was a student at Gates-Chili High School when she disappeared.
She had gone to Myrtle Beach without her parents knowing. Her family had thought she was at a beach in New York State instead. Brittany had gone to Myrtle Beach with three friends, even though her mother had previously warned her that she something might happen to her if she did.
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October 7, 2016 4:07 pm
The Brittanee Drexel story makes me sick. True justice would be every one of those guys being slowly castrated and left.
I agree…..I think any man who sexually assaults another human being should be castrated.
With a butter knife.
i agree.castrated.most men think about is their penis.i think penis should be 1 inch so they can piss.no intercourse.buy kids at store.
Never should have taken the animals out of the jungle!
Race has nothing to do with this, we all know crimes and criminals come in all colors as well as victims. I pray she is ok but a lesson to our youth listen to your parents and don’t sneak off…the party will still be there when it’s your turn.
Nig nogs did it.
You are scum
your a racist jerk!! white people want to believe they’re superior but your NOT. half of you are white trash, no different than being ghetto!! #message
This is what BLM, Mr. Obama, and Mrs Clinton all about: allow criminal element of the Black population to roam free. These are the sons Mr. Obama never had and dreamed of having, and guess what, they are his sons, they are also the sons Mr. Jackson, Mr. Shapton, and the True brothers of the BLM founders.
You’re an idiot
You shoul
You should know since your father is black who was his father? The pool man. You should be very familiar with black tendencies since you have been trolling for gay black men on the down low. Keep making ridiculous comments and I will post the pictures of you bent over getting served. You are an idiot . Race has nothing to do with it. Bad people come In all different races/colors. What was your white mothers excuse when she had sex with the 10 year old neighbor? Unlike the test of these people leaving comments I know who you are that’s why I think people need to be aware of what you and your family are like since you want to make crazy statements , yes craziness surrounds you but my statements about you are TRUE!!
So Tim who son is the bastard that raped his Girlfriend 10 month old daughter of which she later died Donald Trump? When white folks kill, assault bastard like you are as quiet as a church mouse because it don’t support your ignorant, brain dead thinking. White Folks kill just as much as any other race of people. Stop making it about race and make it about bad people plain and simple.
I don’t think anyone would blame the father if he pursued a little street justice.
It’s all in the DNA People created To live in the Jungle are given more agility and hostility. Great for sports not so good for other parts of the world. The Black people in America have been under control of leftists or slavers their whole existence. There is nothing that can be done because of that. The main problem is for the last 60 They had few opportunities to advance beyond the slums that they were put in to live by the Leftists. They went to schools where few learned decade after decade and now the leftist have switch Dropped you all and now run to the Islimes.America might have a chance small as it may be a breath of fresh air. If the leftists and hate mongers get you to burn down your cities you will now that these are the Last Days
Fail to warn: your mother lives in a small room in the back of a whore house, sucking pipes for a living . Taking her out of the whore house still makes her a whore and your father unknown
Losers are losers no matter the race. Thugs come in many colors. Look at the Holly Bobo story. I do agree
That a law should be in place to neuter sex offenders. If that were passed, I believe a good number would think twice. Imagine going to jail without your family jewels. I think that would be a good deterrent for many. If you commit first degree rape, then ya lose your nuts and go to jail.
Obviously the fellows that killed this girl are black or there would be mugshots of them accompanying this story.
Actually it’s the other way around.
Monkeys and Humans cant coexist
I guess you would know Monkey.
Lets get a description of these rapists and murderers. oh wait we can already tell by their names what they look like. shocking
all they think about is their penis.penis don’t get me off.as of babies.breed each other sold in store.get rid of the heat stuff of animals.same way.
world be better if no sex.
tired all date rape.sex objects of women.child rapist.butt sex.so on.men want their penis bigger.better off all be its.
I’ve been keeping an eye on any developments in her disappearance for quite some time now. I still recall the Nancy Grace segment – which was in rotation immediately following her disappearance. Based on the facts of the case that I am familiar with, I was always hopeful that several aspects of her phone trail would lead to some sort of compelling breakthrough. And it looks like investigators are well on their way to prosecuting someone. My thoughts are with her family at this most difficult time — her mother and father have shown immeasurable strength in the face of such a heinous crime. I don’t know that I could be that strong and it’s a true testament to how we can all endure even when it feels like we cannot possibly put one foot in front of the other. I wish Brittanee peace and I send support to her mother and father particularly.
god….one slut less.
so what??
If I could sentence them, they would be thrown in an alligator pit!!!
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