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let's talk some true [Music] [Applause] crime on the day after Britney was last seen this is Sunday April 26th Dawn John
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Greco Don's parents and two friends drove down to Myrtle Beach to look for Britney police in Myrtle Beach also
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started the search large scale searches began very quickly they were Fanning out
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from the BlueWater Resort police saw that there was no activity on Britney's bank accounts or her credit cards Dawn
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and John and others canvased the town handing out flyers with Britney's picture her description was publicized
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brown shoulder-length straight hair and blue eyes last seen wearing a multicolored striped shirt black shorts
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and silver flip-flop sandals Myrtle Beach PD requested that anyone with pictures or videos from from South and
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Ocean Boulevard between 8:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. on April 25th that they please contact the police so they're going to
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start their search captain from the last known spot that we know that Britney was
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at the blue waterer Resort leaving Peter's Room and they're going to ask anybody that you know it could take her
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half an hour let's say roughly to walk that route back to her hotel anybody that took pictures in that area or
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filmed anything with their phone at that time give us a call cuz we need we need
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eyes we need to see what was going on in that area at that time one of the things
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law enforcement was is going to be fighting is the fact that a lot of the people that were there the week Britney
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was there probably left on that Sunday and might never have heard of this girl going missing you're correct and the
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early searches will provide little to no information as to the possible whereabouts of Britney Drexel by May 2nd
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Dawn her mother had appeared on Nancy Grace appealing to the public for help investigators had shifted their
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investigation to 40 mil away this is in Georgetown County the Press reported that this was due to tips received and
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that may be the case because now we know that 2 days after her disappearance Myrtle Beach PD who has described
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Britney as a quote heavy cell phone user was able to obtain Britney's cell phone
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records and what they found immediately moved the investigation to a high priority endangered missing persons case
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Britney's phone had pinged at 927 p.m. so 29 minutes after her last text to her boyfriend John now this this ping was
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heading south on Route 17 in Surfside Beach 7 milth south of Myrtle Beach at a speed indicating that she was in a
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vehicle M even more distressing police saw more pings one at 10:18 p.m. and one last ping at 11:58 p.m. these were off
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Tower 332 which is 50 Mi South in Georgetown County near the Georgetown and Charleston County Line close to a
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boat landing on the North Santi River and this was very concerning to invest instigators this was an area that was
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dark Rural and Swampy the fact that Britney's phone had been in mtle beach at 900 p.m. and then beelined to this
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godforsaken area within just a a few hours did not look promising for Britney police set up a search grid in the zone
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covered by Tower 332 this is roughly a 4x5 mile area they're also going to be searching areas around this spot they
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began a massive search operation Searchers used boats with sonar they used helicopters dogs horses and ATVs
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now this is an alligator infested area along with wild bores and poisonous snakes investigators were not optimistic
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about finding Britney here apparently they warned that if Britney or her remains were here they would likely be
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consumed by Wildlife within 6 hours or less after 11 days of exhaustive round thee clock searching Britney's family
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returned to Rochester Chad Drexel describes having to tell Britney's siblings one of whom was only five at
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the time that they had failed to bring Brittney home now there were a couple theories early on in this
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investigation as far as public information is concerned nothing happened on the case for about 8 months
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police were convinced that the answers to where Britney was lie in the cell phone location or in the cell location
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they cleared Peter and Britney's travel companions off of the Persons of Interest list and Don Drexel was not
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happy about this as we had said two new theories though began to emerge around this time let's touch on them because
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they are still supported by some to this day the first is that Britney was invited Along on this spring break trip
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because these supposed friends of hers wanted to use her as a drug goet a few things support this Theory we know that
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Britney was only 17 so a minor the others were all legal adults at this time if she if Britney were caught with
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drugs in her possession it wouldn't be that bad for her in comparison to the adults now as farfetched as that sounds
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this could make some sense though we know that that Britney told her boyfriend that these kids were using
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drugs right Myrtle Beach is known to have a drug scene with drugs readily available in in some of the shadier
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locations it's part of the scene man we know that these girls were not particularly nice to Britney nor did
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they seem to care about her well-being there is some thought that the whole issue between Britney and Jen regarding
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the shorts was actually some kind of code and that the texts were about the you know not about the shorts they were
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actually instructions for Britney to go outside and meet a drug dealer that presumably was waiting for her and and
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bring the drugs back to them right so that could explain why Britney had to leave Peter's Room after only having
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been there for about 10 minutes under this Theory Britney would have fallen victim to a drug dealer perhaps a deal
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gone bad or something even more Sinister another offshoot Theory is that Britney was given drugs by one of the
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older kids that she was hanging out with she ODed and then they chose to dispose
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of her body there were rumors that some of the Rochester kids had connections in the
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Myrtle Beach area because they had once lived there or lived in the area and may
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have had friends or Associates nearby a possible second theory is that Britney was the victim of human trafficking yeah
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Don Drexel has has stated she believes this is the case and she has even gone so far to suggest that she believes that
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the kids on the trip with Britney including Peter and his friends I I shouldn't say including I think this is
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straight up pointing to Peter and his friends right deliberately set Britney up for trafficking to profit in some way
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a plan that was hatched back in Rochester and that they took Britney to Club Kryptonite uh the group was just
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really taking are there to show her off to potential buyers now under this theory on Saturday night Peter would
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have texted Britney saying come here to get your flip-flops and Jen would then have possibly lured her back out to the
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strip saying she needed her shorts right this would put Britney in a vulnerable position wandering on the Strip after
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dark by herself there is debate about how extensive human trafficking is in in South Carolina but there were news
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stories and reports that there is significant human trafficking business in that area in fact a member of a task
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force set up to investigate human trafficking in South Carolina says that there are obvious reasons that
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authorities in the area deny that human trafficking is a problem citing the tourist industry would be devastated by
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stories of young women being abducted in any event the behavior of Britney's friends with relocating hotel rooms
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while leaving Britney to fend for herself and checking out and leaving town in the middle of the night does
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make them look awfully suspicious right but if if the FBI is contacting Peter and they're probably getting his phone
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records so you'd think that by now we'd have some kind of arrest towards Peter if this this Theory actually held up
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well and I'm totally on the side of Britney's mom of of this thought of let's look at everybody you know and of
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course let's look at the Inner Circle the people that she was traveling with or at least the people that she knew in
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the area at the time could they have set her up on something it's certainly a possibility yeah the problem with that
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issue is you know while I admire her enthusiasm I question if these look this is a group of of somewhat kids I know
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that they're all over 18 but but in comparison to how wise you and I are here from the garage how old and these
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are merely just crumbl babies but so what I'm getting at though is would a group of teenagers of partying teenagers
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be so clever to set this whole thing up been have connected enough to set this up and then no one would Spill the Beans
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later well and Peter said something that I thought was pretty interesting on the
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Dr Phil show is when he said uh the other kids in the room with me mhm he didn't say the other young adults or
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anything I he said the other kids with me so I think that kind of shows their age to be clear though too Jen Alana
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Peter all those people that that traveled with her or that she knew in the area at the time actually none of
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them have to be involved in Britney's disappearance for her to have been a victim of human trafficking right you
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know when we're looking at that theory I just think they would be check in the cell phones definitely Peter uh I wonder
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if the FBI did anything as far as the you'd think they would uh get the phone records of the two two girls that she
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went with and from my understanding though all those people have been cleared so they must have good reason
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for clearing them my thought is that they have Britney's cell phone pinging miles away hours after the time they
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believe she disappeared and they probably can account for everybody else's whereabouts during this time well
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it's pretty simple if I don't even need to know what you're texting or who you're calling if I could get the cell
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phone pings from all of those individuals you're hanging out with and they're not going south when you're
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going south then they're not with you well and then there's a possible break in the case and this is coming from an
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area that we've already discussed in 2009 in December investigator started a weekl long search this is in the area of
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where Britney's phone had stopped pinging this Search is with 70 volunteers and police officers pouring
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in from the area the area is about 40 Mi south of Myrtle Beach on this search they are using dive teams equipped with
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underwater cameras while they were searching a couple brought in a pair of knockoff Prada sunglasses now these
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looked like a pair that Britney had the couple had been searching for fire wood for their campsite and located the
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sunglasses on the Santi Riverbank the sunglasses looked suspiciously clean however not as though that they had been
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outside in the elements for8 months they were tested and no DNA was found on them
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investigators are let's say to put it lightly skeptical that they even belong to Britney right here's the weird thing
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though could someone have you know this is I'm going to be conspiracy here could
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someone have conspiracy called in a tip and then planted these glasses to focus investigators on an area a new area uh
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even though it's close to Old areas yeah or but in fact the wrong area right or an individual found these in their car
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and then they decided I got to get rid of these we are made aware of the discovery we are made aware that they
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test them for DNA that they find nothing of of Britney's on the glasses however we're not I'm not
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certain what the update is on these glasses no point could I find information to state if they publicly
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deter stated that they determined that these glasses had nothing to do with Britney right in January of 2010 there
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was a task force formed by investigators from Myrtle Beach in Georgetown and Charleston
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counties the December 20 n tip was credited for generating New Leads these leads led to Persons of Interest an
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Evidence sufficient for law enforcement to obtain search warrants in April 2010 investigators made a bombshell
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announcement they were looking at three to four Persons of Interest in Britney's
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case police stated that they are confident this tip was leading them in a direction of finding who was responsible
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police would not release any additional information on these tips out of fear that it might jeopardize the
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investigation they did state that these Persons of Interest are suspected of being present with Britney and knowing
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her whereabouts an investigator made one very telling statement and quote at this
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time there is no reason to believe these people knew Britney directly he went on
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to say that no arrest warrants had been served but lie detector test had been conducted on two of the Persons of
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Interest they did not disclose the test results another detective stated quote all of our little pieces of evidence
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they are all pointing in the same direction towards certain people end quote investigators described the area
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along the Georgetown Charleston County Line where they were concentrating as a location of Interest
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saying it is where the Persons of Interest live the information that investigators had compiled indicated
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that Britney was no longer alive investigators were now treating her case as a homicide this without having found
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a body they said we are on to the people we think killed her and she did not know
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them directly and what's Curious here Captain to me and and and from some of the online chatter about this case right
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is what did that word directly mean we hear them say that twice when they're giving us this bombshell announcement
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that she did not know them directly meaning that Britney was was she a victim of a stranger abduction right
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well I think maybe they use that term because we have uh the finger pointing of people
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that she went down there with and maybe people that were you know quote unquote friends of hers so I think by saying
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saying that statement it's kind of it's not maybe directing you towards more evidence as it might just be directing
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you away from those people well that's why I question that word directly they did not know Britney directly you could
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one would just naturally say they did not know Britney right but when you hear that added word of directly afterwards
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it almost seems like maybe they knew of Britney but never met her right and she didn't know these people um you know
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meaning maybe she was targeted and somebody provided information about her regardless it may mean nothing at all
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but there's a part of me that when I when I watched that announcement and then reading through it again afterwards
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it almost seems deliberate that they use that word directly brittney's High School uh graduation from the gates
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Chile High School would have taken place on Wednesday June 23rd 2010 and her family did attend in her absence to
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accept a honorary degree for Britney also in 2010 something happened that investigators in the Britney's case
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could not ignore this is on July 21st when Ronda Massie age 20 she's from Tennessee she's walking on Ocean
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Boulevard near the Blue Water Resort in Myrtle Beach this is at 4:30 p.m. in broad daylight Ronda heard what sounded
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like a vehicle creeping behind her two men jumped from a pale blue rusted van and tried to pull her into the van's
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interior Ronda managed to Elbow one of them in the face hard enough that his nose started bleeding in the face that's
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right she broke free and luckily she was not taken uh captive that day so police
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she told police that the van was driven by a third man so van being driven by a dude mhm two guys jump out of the van
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try to grab her try to snatch her up now we don't know how police made the connection to their eventual suspect but
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within a week they arrested a man from mullenville in connection with the kidnapping attempt this is
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37-year-old Shawn Taylor he is charged with attempted kidnapping and first deegree
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assault law enforcement agencies executed a search at Shawn Taylor's Home on Old Collins Creek Road in Charleston
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County near the Georgetown county line one of the things police seized in the search was a stolen truck which they
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linked to a homicide in Charleston County the van used in the attempted kidnapping of Ronda was never
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located Ronda picked Shawn Taylor out of a lineup the fact that this attempted a
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abduction was conducted in broad daylight right near the Blue Water Resort similar to the circumstances
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under which Britney disappeared could not and should not be ignored and the same multi-jurisdictional task force
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investigating Britney's case also investigated ronda's case now who is Shawn Taylor
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well get ready to be impressed Captain I'm I'm super excited get your POS ready actually um let's do plural it should be
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right persons or you never mind hold on let me get pieces oh there we go I'm ready okay okay who is Shawn Taylor
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since 1994 Shawn Taylor had been convicted of nearly 30 offenses in Georgetown and Charleston counties some
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of these involved driving offenses that happens some are disorderly conduct he's
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in charge of that but others were as serious as criminal domestic violence and giving false information to police
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there were also 17 contempt of court charges and convictions for fail failure to pay child support oh nice piece of
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[ __ ] yeah thank you uh unfortunately to the horror of many charges were eventually dropped against Shawn Taylor
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in the Ronda Massi abduction police told news media that surveillance video had corroborated Shawn's story that he was
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actually elsewhere that day when the attempted abduction took place Sean Taylor came from a family with a H with
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an interesting criminal history okay in February of 2001 Shawn's brother Randall
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Keith Taylor was one of five men arrested and charged in connection to the death of Shannon
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mccon Shannon was last seen leaving a Cracker Barrel restaurant in North Charleston on January 29th 1998 she was
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only 19 years old her car was found burned in a wooded area 2 weeks later and her body was found in March of 1998
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in a wooded area near mellenville the Charleston County Sheriff's Office alleged that Randall
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Taylor raped and shot Shannon and received help disposing of her body Rand Randall Taylor was allegedly ratted out
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by two men who were also arrested for this and this included another Taylor relative Jacob Taylor one of the men
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told police that the men intended to gang rape Shannon but but Randall Taylor had quote gone berserk and killed her
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this man changed his story uh 1 2 3 4 five six so many times that eventually these charges were
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dismissed because of lack of evidence so they don't have much evidence in this case against this dude except for this
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other guy these other guys saying this is what happened and when this guy changes his story a bazillion times they
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case falls apart my gut tells me that these guys were involved in the death of this young woman keep in mind however
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Shannon's body was later found in Northern Charleston County the same general area where investigators last
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that a convicted child rapist was being looked at by South Carolina law enforcement and two disappearances of
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young women detectives said that 51-year-old Raymond Moody had been named the primary person of interest in
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Britney's case Moody was also being looked at in connection with another missing woman 28-year-old Crystal Souls
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both women were presumed to be dead though neither had been found in 2011 police searched an apartment where Moody
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had lived this is the sunset Lodge Apartments they're located about 8 miles from the site of the boat landing on the
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Santi River where the police had tracked Britney's cell phone signal to right detectives revealed to the media that
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a registered a registered level three sex offender he was in Myrtle Beach in the area the same weekend Britney
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disappeared we know this yeah the day after yeah because well he he was issued a speeding ticket at Surfside Beach on
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April 26th Moody served 21 years in prison this is after he abducted a girl from a
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California playground and sexually assaulted her in 198 83 his other convictions include three counts of rape
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with force and violence two counts of lewd behavior on a child under the age of 14 this is according to a South
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Carolina State Sex Offender database website now after his release for these charges from the California State Prison
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in 2004 Moody relocated to georgtown South Carolina this is where his parents lived he worked as a cabinet maker
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detectives said that they are investigating a possible connection between Britney's case and Crystal Souls
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Souls 28 was last seen January 24th 2005 in Andrews South Carolina and it is believed to have been abducted as she
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walked home after dark despite naming Moody publicly police have never been able to pin anything concrete on him for
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as as far as I could find for either either of the disappearances of these two girls right now the the
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investigation is going to ramp up here and this is going to be starting in April of 2012 by this point Britney's
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been missing for 3 years her stepfather Chad Drexel announced his plans that he was going to be working with a private
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group um and this was so that they he's hiring people to participate in this investigation to help find his daughter
00:31:28
in 20133 Don Drexel moved permanently to Myrtle Beach to be closer to Britney's last known location she wanted to make
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sure that the case did not grow cold and while nothing happened publicly for quite a while on this case things were
00:31:44
beginning to take shape behind the scenes on June 8th 2016 a special agent in charge of the FBI in South Carolina
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held a news conference this took place in mullenville a around the area where Britney's phone gave its last signals it
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was attended by Britney's family and friends now it is not initially clear when or why the FBI became involved in
00:32:11
Britney's case but from the news conference it became apparent that the FBI had taken over the case and there
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were updates well if there was evidence that Britney was kidnap then this would fall under the FBI's jurisdiction well
00:32:25
what the FBI had to say at this news conference was the following and quote what we've come to discover through the
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course of this investigation is that Britney Drexel did leave the Myrle Beach area we believe she traveled to this
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area around mullenville and we believe she was killed after that the FBI agent went on to say that although they had
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not found Britney's body investigators had ex exhaustive evidence that she was held against her will for days before
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she was killed they ended the news conference with an appeal to the people of mullenville
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please come forward this is a very small town I think 3,000 people yeah there are
00:33:09
people who know what happened and one small piece of information could close the case so going off of the information
00:33:18
gleaned from this news conference how did investigators know that Britney was in fact dead and that she had been h
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against her will in mullenville so let's try to piece this together from what the
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investigation uncovered behind the scenes so in 2016 a prison inmate wrote a letter to
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prison officials saying he knew what had happened to Britney Drexel he named names specifically someone named Timothy
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Deshawn Taylor now does that name sound Vaguely Familiar Timothy who actually goes by his middle name DeShawn is the
00:33:57
son of Shawn Taylor the man identified in a lineup by Ronda Massie the woman who was they had attempted an abduction
00:34:07
against her in Myrtle Beach in 2010 right so the same Shawn Taylor who has a long rapi and an extended family
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suspected of violent crimes specifically against women Timothy Deshawn Taylor lived in mullenville and was 16 when
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Britney Drexel went missing and apparently this was not the first time that Deshawn Taylor's name had come up
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it turns out he had been questioned in 2009 in 2016 the FBI rounded up DeShawn and
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questioned him but he wouldn't talk at this time he said he had nothing whatsoever to do with what happened to
00:34:46
Britney but investigators weren't buying it according to the FBI and the local police departments in Myrtle Beach and
00:34:53
Georgetown County pieces of evidence they had collected throughout out the investigation also pointed to Deshawn or
00:35:00
people he knew and the FEDS figured out a way to put the squeeze on DeShawn right they brought new federal criminal
00:35:09
charges against him for an earlier crime to detain him and hopefully get him to roll over federal and state charges for
00:35:17
the same crime are not a violation of a suspect's constitutional rights against Double Jeopardy and this is how this
00:35:25
situation would work what was interesting though was when they arrested him they said that he was being
00:35:31
arrested for the kidnapping and the the murder of Britney Drexel then when he got down to the courthouse to be
00:35:38
questioned or the police department to be questioned um you know there were question about Britney and everything
00:35:44
and then eventually when there was a charge it was about this McDonald's which he had already served time for
00:35:50
right and he was a so here's what happened is they robbed a McDonald's he was the driver and he since he was young
00:35:57
at the time he didn't uh get charged as much as other people correct and then and then
00:36:03
basically um basically law enforcement came back and said well we could have charged him with conspiracy and so let's
00:36:10
do that to him now right and it's really do they give a crap about the burglary uh or the the stickup at at the
00:36:18
McDonald's no they don't they're trying to squeeze him because of this Britney drexal case right yes and and basically
00:36:25
saying yeah we know that he served some time but now we've decided that the the charges and the sentence was too lenient
00:36:34
right that this was a very organized and potentially violent crime and we need to
00:36:39
hold him further responsible for this issue but you're exactly right Captain it's most likely put the squeeze on him
00:36:47
try to get information regarding this Britney Drexel case so there's going to be a detention Hearing in the case of
00:36:56
the United States against Timothy Deshawn Taylor this is to determine if they could detain him or hold him
00:37:05
without bond on these new federal charges related to the old 2011 robbery right during the course of these
00:37:14
hearings there is an FBI agent who is going to testify during his testimony this is FBI agent Garrick
00:37:21
Munoz he alleged that Deshawn was the target of another FBI investigation an investigation into kidnapping human
00:37:31
trafficking and murder Munoz says that quote several people had come forward and given testimony outlining Deshawn's
00:37:40
involvement some of the witnesses even alleged that Deshawn was the abductor Munos was referring to the Britney
00:37:48
Drexel case there was an eyewitness named and his name is taquon Brown This is the inmate who wrote The Letter who
00:37:59
actually saw or claims to have seen Deshawn with Britney Drexel also claims to see Timothy um Timothy's father as
00:38:09
well yes and according to tawon Brown this sighting took place at what Muno on the stand referred to as a quote Stash
00:38:20
House so no one lived at this location but apparently Deshawn and others several others had access to this place
00:38:30
and according to the statement that they received from Brown was that on April 29th 2009 which was the Wednesday after
00:38:39
Britney disappeared according to this eyewitness he was visiting this stash house to make a payment of some sort to
00:38:47
Shawn Taylor to Shawn's father he says that when he entered the home or entered the stash house he passed through it on
00:38:55
his way out back in passing through he said he saw Britney stripped and tied to a bed beaten and she apparently was
00:39:06
attempting to escape the weird thing here about this statement Captain is that that Brown
00:39:12
says he's just passing through we we've seen a lot of these type of yeah just passing through man a lot of these type
00:39:18
of confessions where people say hey I hey I have some knowledge and I might be guilty of something but I'm not guilty
00:39:23
of everything that you think I could be or that I'm willing to admit to right so
00:39:28
Brown says he's just passing through this stash house but obviously he must have taken his time or
00:39:34
sometime if he absorbed all of that all of those uh observations let's say he says that he then stepped outside with
00:39:43
Shawn Taylor and at this time Britney must have escaped and ran out of the room and then outside mhm she was
00:39:52
eventually caught by someone pistol whipped and brought back back inside the house Shawn Taylor went into the house
00:40:00
as well Brown says he stayed outside where he heard two gunshots fired then he said he saw a quote wrapped up body
00:40:10
being removed from the stash house and placed in a pickup truck I don't have any better of a description of that
00:40:18
portion of his story than a wrapped up body being moved from the stash house and placed in a pickup truck Muno says
00:40:25
secondhand information had come in support of Brown's statements the FBI interviewed a prisoner at Georgetown
00:40:32
Penitentiary that heard from another source that Deshawn was the one who picked her up in Myrtle Beach right
00:40:40
there's also some rumors that there was some eyewitnesses around town roughly about four of them now keep in mind this
00:40:47
is this is secondhand prison informant information right so a lot of times you have to take this
00:40:55
with a grain of salt I think think but we have another person claiming to back this up so this person said that Deshawn
00:41:03
had picked Britney up brought her down to mullenville and quote showed her off and ended up tricking her out then there
00:41:12
was a lot of publicity from her disappearance and so she was disposed of several witnesses have said that Miss
00:41:20
Drexel's body was then placed into a gator pit to have her body disposed of eaten by the Gators and right whatever I
00:41:30
don't want to go too much into that Muno went on to say that they had several people show them locations where they
00:41:37
thought the body was but it he went on to say that look there's possibly 30 or 40 of these locations where she could be
00:41:47
and we also have those earlier statements by the FBI an investigator stating that if her remains were taken
00:41:53
to this location or if she was taken to this this location it might be tough to find any trace of her after short of a
00:42:02
period of time as 6 hours Munos also alleged that at the time of this hearing taquan Brown was serving 25
00:42:11
years in prison for voluntary manslaughter obstruction of justice and possession of a weapon by a felon so
00:42:20
that's where I bring that up only so we all can question is this a reliable Witness
00:42:26
is this reliable information that they've received right the judge would go on to refuse to rule on des's
00:42:34
detention on that day during that course of that hearing whether they could hold
00:42:38
him for a pending plea deal saying that he could not rule on DeShawn being a danger to society because he needed to
00:42:47
know more information about this brown character and his reliability and whether he was looking for a sentence
00:42:55
reduction why is he coming forward with this information or is he making it up right desa's attorney said two of the
00:43:01
men supposedly named by Brown as being at the Stash House were actually in prison at the time of when this story
00:43:09
would have taken place Brown named several men in his letter now each one of these is a different man okay so this
00:43:18
is Rooster homie Cruz Foot Skills 40 QB and snow bunny and now if you can pick out of those what do you want your
00:43:29
nickname to be none of them I go with foot I want nothing to do with it call me foot and of course he also named
00:43:35
Shawn and Des Shawn Taylor but law enforcement apparently has not been able to identify the real names or real
00:43:42
identities of these people that were they were only provided nicknames or Coden names by Brown well some of those
00:43:49
names just sound completely made up yeah yeah we we called our good good buddy foot snow bunny well his lawyer also
00:44:00
pointed out that Deshawn cooperated with the robbery investigation the one from 2011 and he wasn't actually in the M the
00:44:09
Mickey D's when it was robbed he was just the driver he didn't have a criminal record at the time of that uh
00:44:17
charge of when that crime was yep so there he's stating look we know that he received a lighter sentence than these
00:44:25
other people involved but I'm standing you today judge to say he got what he deserved he actually
00:44:31
deserved a lighter sentence because he was not inide the location he was only 16 he had no priors yeah he didn't have
00:44:38
a gun on him and also um I don't know if how much you want to dive into this part
00:44:45
of it but also with this confession you know this jailhouse confession the dates
00:44:52
and the times that he gave uh they were able to provide to the FBI um you know that Timothy was in school during these
00:45:02
times that he was supposedly at this Stash House well yes um okay so the information I could find was that they
00:45:10
could they could back up that he was in school the Monday Tuesday Wednesday MH so but on the same hand the FBI has
00:45:20
stated repeatedly that Deshawn and his associates in mullenville as being the ones responsible for abducting Britney
00:45:29
raping killing and disposing of her body I just feel like they're uh throwing this guy under the bus a little bit well
00:45:36
one thing that there is one more thing about Deshawn that we should discuss something that may cast out on the
00:45:42
informant story that you know Deshawn was the one who physically and violently abducted Britney from Ocean Boulevard on
00:45:51
the night of April 25 2009 right deshan Taylor only has one arm so when he was 4
00:45:59
years old he was in his grandfather's auto shop and a car fell on him his left arm which was his uh dormant one or
00:46:09
dominant one I'm sorry dormant one was his dominant one had to be amputated because of this incident this accident
00:46:17
right so you know a a a girl that you know we pointed out that she's small but we also have people pointing out look
00:46:25
she's fast and she was she was a tough small girl right and so if he did this by himself it
00:46:32
seems like an uphill battle for him let's say this almost points out to it's like you know fighting a battle with one
00:46:40
arm tied behind your back yeah literally it is but the thing is though it also points to the possibility
00:46:48
of here's my thing uhhuh it actually I think points a little bit more towards this statement being possibly true
00:46:56
meaning that there were several others if not many others that were involved in this on some level and what I mean by
00:47:04
that is we have this situation with DeShawn having one arm but we also have the situation that you pointed out about
00:47:10
him being in school during the time that she was held captive let's say if the FBI theory is correct this is you know
00:47:18
Wednesday Monday Tuesday Wednesday so but according to the story and according to that information even if he did go to
00:47:25
school on that Monday Tuesday and Wednesday there is nothing to say that Deshawn couldn't have left her in the
00:47:33
hands of some of his co-conspirators I agree with all that but don't we have the one girl that was almost abducted
00:47:39
and she is basically saying uh Deshawn's father was the one that tried to grab her that's correct but then we proven
00:47:49
that that wasn't a true statement so I think there's a lot of people that are trying to throw people under the bus and
00:47:56
then you mentioned Britney's stepfather hiring the private investigators and a private team so then they came out with
00:48:03
statements later saying that they handed a flyer to Deshawn and that he crumbled
00:48:09
it up and threw it back at him yeah uh which was never proven to be true and they also claimed that they followed him
00:48:17
back to around the same area where Britney's DNA was found mhm you of course they're going to fall him back to
00:48:25
to roughly the area where our DNA was found well one we have no report that DNA was found but we're talking about a
00:48:33
very small town so to even say he's a block away from it or whatever that doesn't prove anything well and I'm glad
00:48:40
you pointed that out because the only thing that I could find Captain was that we have we have Chad
00:48:47
Drexel he's the one that publicly posted a statement that he knows of DNA evidence specifically Britney's DNA mhm
00:48:56
that is in investigator's possession and that can be linked to Deshawn and like right and there's no
00:49:04
proof of this we we there's no proof of it even existing right but we also have a guy that has Co cooperated with FBI
00:49:12
said full on out after this long interview I will I will do anything they want me to do anything that they think I
00:49:20
can help with to get answers I will do and I will continue to do that's what he's done he's taken a lie detector um
00:49:28
that now they haven't came out and fully said hey he took a lie detector and he passed it but when he took the lie
00:49:34
detector that was that was a couple years ago so if I don't know it's it just seems this seems kind of like a
00:49:42
crazy Witch Hunt and it all stems from uh jail house confession I don't know that it does and and and I'll get into
00:49:49
my thoughts on that here in a little bit I want to kind of go to bat for for Chad
00:49:53
Drexel here for a second the reason you know I say what he his statement about the DNA should be taken with a grain of
00:49:59
salt and this is because obviously he's a grieving father who until she is found
00:50:06
he will unfortunately forever be a grieving father grieving his daughter's disappearance and possible death um so
00:50:18
may could he have heard something from investigators could investigators have suggested to him that there's a
00:50:24
possibility that there might be DNA somewhere and maybe he kind of latched onto that hope
00:50:31
and and ran with it a little bit that's certainly a possibility um the thing though is
00:50:38
regarding the DNA if that were true if there were actual evidence of Britney's DNA that could be linked to Timothy
00:50:47
Deshawn Taylor MH he would have been arrested Deshawn Taylor would have been arrested not just pressured with the
00:50:53
threat of unrelated criminal charges he would have actually have been arrested for that now where you point out that
00:51:02
that the only link to this is a prison informant yes that's true in some sense the other truth though that's out there
00:51:12
and this is Deshawn Taylor's words you know why were you initially spoke to in 2009 and then all these years later
00:51:20
there's information coming out that you might have been in connection with the stash house and you were in connection
00:51:26
with Britney's disappearance well his own words are I was questioned in 2009 from his understanding or at least what
00:51:32
he tells the media is that he was told that everyone in mlen Ville was being questioned back in 2009 because like you
00:51:42
pointed out this is not a heavily populated area right and when you have the the last pinpointed pings of her
00:51:50
cell phone are in this area and you have a small population to deal with it's fairly easy for them to do just what he
00:51:59
believes or what he says to media and question everyone there so while we do have this connection
00:52:07
through the prison informant if Deshawn Taylor's words are correct well actually his words don't
00:52:14
even have to be correct there is some evidence to show that there is a mullenville
00:52:19
connection which we know him to have been part of that community and it's a small population that Community right
00:52:27
the other tricky thing here too Captain is that and this is just me making leaps
00:52:34
on my own but you know where people question could he have abducted her by himself I want to throw this little
00:52:42
tidbit in there we have this young man who at one time he was a high school athlete this is a person that has
00:52:50
obviously learned to overcome the disability of having one arm he was a high school athlete he had went to
00:52:57
school to be a auto mechanic and this was a job that he performed and he worked for his father
00:53:06
the information I have here is that he worked for his father and his father owned some kind of tow truck company
00:53:11
some kind of towing company I I'm making a bit of a leap here but it's not too far-fetched to believe that this guy
00:53:19
whether it be Deshawn Taylor or his father Shawn Taylor mhm one of them could have been driving a tow truck saw
00:53:27
a girl walking by herself and stopped and offered a ride and she could have seen the tow truck with the business
00:53:36
printed on the side of the door and felt some sense of security some sense of oh
00:53:42
maybe I could get in here or at least long enough to engage in conversation to which somebody would
00:53:49
would have the the unfortunate opportunity to abduct her yeah yeah and my argument there would we we have
00:53:57
thousands of people on this trip I think they would have a lot of more eyewitnesses talking about a tow truck I
00:54:04
think I po I only point that out because I think it's food for thought and I've not seen it pointed out anywhere else no
00:54:10
no I think I I think at this point everything needs to be looked at so I mean it's definitely a an angle that I
00:54:17
haven't heard and we have no ey Witnesses at this point anyway so that that leads us to a good a good summation
00:54:25
of this because where are we now Captain well this year in January of 2018 Deshawn was scheduled to be
00:54:34
sentenced for the federal charges again these not related to Britney's case but this hearing was delayed due to an
00:54:43
unspecific matter of law MH so since then Deshawn has made a motion to change attorneys actually from from what I saw
00:54:53
online and on TV I thought his attorney was giving him pretty good representation but right I'm not the
00:55:01
client it's not up to me to decide if he thinks he's receiving good representation so anyway he's decided to
00:55:07
change attorneys this lawyer switch has delayed the um the hearing further the government has recommended a sentence of
00:55:16
10 to 20 years against Desa Taylor I believe that the plea deal also provides so they they are offering him straight
00:55:27
up a plea deal mhm if you have information on other cases specifically Britney Drexel's case we might be able
00:55:34
to work something out here and I believe that this plea deal also provides that if a third person if a third party comes
00:55:42
forward and provides substantial assistance this being information about Britney's case on Deshawn's behalf if
00:55:50
they can back up his his statement then this would further reduce the sentence Britney's mother Dawn since this has
00:56:01
gone down has remarried she said to the media in February of 2018 quote to us it
00:56:08
looks like it's not going anywhere this is her referring to the investigation she said her phone calls to
00:56:15
investigators haven't been returned lately and now she's retaining private investigators of her own to find out
00:56:23
once and for all where br he is all right so I want to be clear on something so I call him Timothy Taylor because
00:56:30
everything that I read this whole week that's what they call it you you are not right or I mean you're not right you are
00:56:36
not wrong in fact I was thinking of my my uh phrase there you are exactly right because technically that's his legal
00:56:43
name Timothy Taylor but just to be clear we're talking about the same person Timothy Deshawn Taylor right so first of
00:56:50
all I I believe in fully in my heart that this Double Jeopardy uh McDonald's charge is complete horeshit and this
00:57:00
would not have happened if he was a white uh white kid with some money um that just just wouldn't happen I stand
00:57:09
by that comment every day of the week I now I do believe that this informant is telling a story he heard and I think
00:57:20
there is some truth to it I think the players involved in the story I don't think there's a lot of Truth there but
00:57:28
it's such a small town we have her cell phone pings we have these Alligator Pit areas it makes sense the story makes
00:57:37
sense I just don't think they have the right um players involved in the story or the right characters involved in the
00:57:44
story correct yeah that I mean that's very interesting for for several reasons because one thing and this is just mind
00:57:55
this is just an inference that I made but it seems to be that the portion okay here's what I really want
00:58:02
to happen in this case if I could pick one thing you know that you know of course without without finding Brit
00:58:08
Britney that's not an option let's say right but if I had a genie and a lamp and I could make one request it would be
00:58:14
to get to either confirm or obliterate this story because I think right now this is really holding up the
00:58:22
investigation and I think that that might be why Britney's mother has not heard from investigators I think that
00:58:28
they are fully immersed in this potential uh informant that they've heard from and I think that they are
00:58:36
fully diving into this portion of the investigation and I think until this story can either be confirmed or removed
00:58:43
from the case it's going to hold a lot of crap up MH and I think you're right I think what might be holding it up is
00:58:50
there might be some truth to this case to this story and it doesn't have to go down exactly how this tawon brown said
00:58:58
that it went down now the interesting thing here though the inference that I made was it's the the where the truth
00:59:04
lies in this seems to be that law enforcement thinks that this is a real story because they seem to believe this
00:59:11
is an actual Stash House okay so local law enforcement and FBI that's the first part of the story that you can go ahead
00:59:19
and confirm that this guy is telling you the truth or outright lying right you go
00:59:24
to the that he claims is called a Stash House you go there and if it's known by local law enforcement to be just that
00:59:32
well there there might be some truth to this guy's story right and and also if you do any tests and you find any DNA
00:59:39
from from Britney there then obviously that's another part of the story that's correct and I would also like to know
00:59:45
what law enforcement means by uh Taylor Deshawn Taylor whether it be him or his father or both had quote access to this
00:59:55
Stash House what does that mean does that mean access in the sense that just anybody could walk in there or does that
01:00:02
mean that specific people only had access to this stash house here's where I had hold out some
01:00:09
hope though that this story is wrong and not that I don't want this to be solved
01:00:16
but the description of that story and you know it's so horrific that you personally I don't want the story to be
01:00:25
right where I hold out some hope that that story is not correct is that I would think that if they could identify
01:00:32
this as being a stash house now mind you I do understand that it's seven eight years later that you would think if
01:00:40
things went down the way that it was described by that prison informant in that in that home in that house that
01:00:48
they would have some proof of that later and it doesn't seem to be the case mhm if so so we've not heard anything even
01:00:56
though law enforcement said that they ruled out everybody that Britney knew from Rochester I need to know where
01:01:03
their cell phone pings happen and I think if they could provide that information to the public then you can
01:01:09
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01:01:17
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