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grab a beer let's talk some true crime foreign [Music] y was last seen this is Sunday April
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26th Dawn John Greco Don's parents and two friends drove down to Myrtle Beach to look for Brittany police in Myrtle
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Beach also started the search large scale searches began very quickly they were Fanning out from the Blue Water
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Resort police saw that there was no activity on Britney's bank accounts or her credit cards
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Dawn and John and others canvassed the town handing out flyers with Brittany's picture her description was publicized
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brown shoulder length straight hair and blue eyes last seen wearing a multi-colored 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 pm 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 Water Resort leaving Peter's Room and they're going to ask anybody that
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you know it could take her half an hour let's say roughly to walk that route back to her hotel anybody that took
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pictures in that area or filmed anything with their phone at that time give us a
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call because we need we need eyes we need to see what was going on in that area at that time one of the things law
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enforcement was is going to be fighting is the fact that a lot of the people that were there the week Brittany was
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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 Brittany Drexel by May
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2nd 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 miles 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 two days after her disappearance Myrtle Beach PD who has described
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Brittany as a quote heavy cell phone user was able to obtain Britney's cell phone records and what they found
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immediately moved the investigation to a high priority endangered missing persons
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case Britney's phone had pinged at 9 27 PM so 29 minutes after her last text to her boyfriend John now this this ping
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was heading south on Route 17 in Surfside Beach seven miles south of Myrtle Beach at a speed indicating that
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she was in a vehicle even more distressing police saw more pinks one at 10 18 pm and one last ping at 11 58 PM
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these were off Tower 332 which is 50 miles south in Georgetown County near the Georgetown and Charleston County
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Line close to a boat landing on the North Santee River and this was very concerning to investigators this was an
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area that was dark rural and Swampy the fact that Britney's phone had been in Myrtle Beach at 9 00 pm and then
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beelined to this god-forsaken area within just a a few hours did not look promising for Brittany
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police set up a search grid in the zone covered by Tower 332 this is roughly a four by five mile area they're also
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going to be searching areas around this spot they began a massive search operation Searchers used boats with
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sonar they used helicopters dogs horses and ATVs now this is an alligator infested area along
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with wild boars and poisonous snakes investigators were not optimistic about finding Brittany here apparently they
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warned that if Brittany or her remains were here they would likely be consumed by Wildlife within six hours or less
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after 11 days of exhaustive round-the-clock searching Britney's family returned to Rochester Chad Drexel
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describes having to tell Brittany's siblings one of whom was only five at the time that they had failed to bring
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Brittany home now there were a couple theories early on in this investigation as far as public information is
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concerned nothing happened on the case for about eight months police were convinced that the answers to where
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Brittany was lie in the cell phone location or in the cell location they cleared Peter and Britney's travel
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companions off of the Persons of Interest list and Don Drexel was not happy about this as we had said two new
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theories though began to emerge around this time let's touch on them because they are still supported by some to this
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day the first is that Brittany was invited Along on this spring break trip because these supposed friends of hers
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wanted to use her as a drug go-between a few things support this Theory we know that Britney was only 17 so a
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minor the others were all legal adults at this time if she if Britney were caught with drugs in her possession it
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wouldn't be that bad for her in comparison to the adults now as far fetched as that sounds this
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could make some sense though we know that that Brittany told her boyfriend that these kids were using drugs right
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Myrtle Beach is known to have a drug scene with drugs readily available in in some of the shadier locations it's part
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of the scene man we know that these girls were not particularly nice to Brittany nor did they seem to care about
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her well-being there is some thought that the whole issue between Brittany and Jen regarding the shorts was
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actually some kind of code and that the texts were about you know not about the shorts they were actually instructions
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for Brittany to go outside and meet a drug dealer that presumably was waiting for her and and bring the drugs back to
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them right so that could explain why Brittany had to leave Peter's Room after only having been there for about 10
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minutes under this Theory Brittany would have fallen victim to a drug dealer perhaps a deal gone bad or something
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even more sinister another offshoot theory is that Brittany was given drugs by one of the older kids
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that she was hanging out with she OD'd and then they chose to dispose of her body
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there were rumors that some of the Rochester kids had connections in the Myrtle Beach area
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because they had once lived there or lived in the area and may have had friends or Associates nearby a possible
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second theory is that Brittany was the victim of human trafficking yeah Don Drexel has stated she believes this is
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the case and she has even gone so far to suggest that she believes that the kids
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on the trip with Brittany including Peter and his friends I I shouldn't say including I think this is straight up
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pointing to Peter and his friends right deliberately set Britney up for trafficking to profit in some way a plan
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that was hatched back in Rochester and that they took Brittany to Club Kryptonite uh the group was just really
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taking her there to show her off to potential buyers now under this theory on Saturday night
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Peter would have texted Brittany saying come here to get your flip-flops and Jen
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would then have possibly lured her back out to the strip saying she needed her shorts right this would put Brittany in
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a vulnerable position wandering on the Strip after dark by herself there is debate about how extensive human
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trafficking is in South Carolina but there were news stories and reports that there is significant human trafficking
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business in that area in fact the member of a task force set up to investigate human trafficking in South Carolina says
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that there are obvious reasons that authorities in the area deny that human trafficking is a problem citing the
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tourist industry would be devastated by stories of young women being abducted in
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any event the behavior of Britney's friends with relocating hotel rooms while leaving Brittany to fend for
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herself and checking out and leaving town in the middle of the night does make them look awfully suspicious right
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but if if the FBI is contacting Peter and they're probably getting his phone records so you'd think that by now we'd
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have some kind of arrest towards Peter if this this Theory actually held up well and I'm totally on the side of
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Brittany's mom of of this thought of let's look at everybody you know and of course let's look at the Inner Circle
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the people that she was traveling with or at least the people that she knew in the area at the time could they have set
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her up on something it it's certainly a possibility yeah the problem with that issue is
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you know while I admire her enthusiasm I question if these look this is a group of of
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somewhat kids I know that they're all over 18 but but in comparison to how wise you and I are here from the garage
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how old and these are merely just crumbling but so what I'm getting at though is what a group of teenagers of
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partying teenagers be so clever to set this whole thing up but have connected enough to set this up and that no one
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would Spill the Beans later well and Peter said something that I thought was pretty interesting on the Dr Phil show
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is when he said uh the other kids in the room with me hmm he didn't say the other
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young adults or anything I mean he said the other kids with me so I think that kind of shows their age to be clear
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though too Jen Alana Peter all those people that that traveled with her or that she knew
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in the area at the time actually none of them have to be involved in Britney's disappearance for her to have been a
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victim of human trafficking right you know when we're looking at that theory I just think there would be checking the
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cell phones definitely of Peter uh I wonder if the FBI did anything as far as the you'd think they would uh get the
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phone records of the two two girls that she went with and from my understanding though all those people have been
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cleared so they must have good reason for clearing them my thought is that they have Britney's cell phone pinging
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miles away hours after the time they believed she disappeared and they probably can account for everybody
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else's whereabouts during this time well it's pretty simple if I don't even need
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to know what you're texting or who you're calling if I could get the cell phone pings from all of those
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individuals you're hanging out with and they're not going south when you're going south then they're not with you
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well and then there's a possible break in the case and this is coming from an area that we've already discussed in
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2009 in December investigators started a week-long search this is in the area of
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where Brittany's phone had stopped pinging this Search is with 70 volunteers and
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police officers pouring in from the area the area is about 40 miles south of Myrtle Beach on this search they are
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using dive teams equipped with underwater cameras while they were searching a couple brought in a pair of
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knockoff Prada sunglasses now these looked like a pair that Brittany had the couple had been searching for firewood
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for their campsite and located the sunglasses on the Santee Riverbank the sunglasses looked suspiciously clean
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however not as though that they had been outside in the elements for eight months
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they were tested and no DNA was found on them investigators are let's say to put
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it lightly skeptical that they even belonged to Brittany right here's the weird thing though could
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someone have you know this is I'm going to be Mr conspiracy here could someone conspiracy called in a tip
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and then planted these glasses to focus investigators on an area a new area uh even though it's close to Old areas yeah
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or but in fact the wrong area right or an individual found these in their car and then they decided I gotta get rid of
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these we are made aware of the discovery we are made aware that they test them for DNA that they find nothing of D of
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Britney's on the glasses however we're not I'm not certain what the update is on these glasses at no
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point could I find information to state if they publicly deter stated that they determined that these glasses had
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nothing to do with Brittany right in January of 2010 there was a task force formed by investigators from
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Myrtle Beach and Georgetown and Charleston counties the December 2009 tip was credited for
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generating New Leads these leads led to Persons of Interest and evidence sufficient for law
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enforcement to obtain search warrants in April 2010 investigators made a bombshell announcement they were looking
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at three to four Persons of Interest in Britney's case police stated that they are confident this tip was leading them
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in a direction of finding who was responsible police would not release any additional
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information on these tips out of fear that it might jeopardize the investigation they did state that these
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Persons of Interest are suspected of being present with Brittany and knowing her whereabouts an investigator made one
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very telling statement and quote at this time there is no reason to believe these
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people knew Brittany directly he went on to say that no arrest warrants had been
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served but lie detector tests had been conducted on two of the Persons of Interest
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they did not disclose the test results another detective stated quote all of our little pieces of evidence they are
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all pointing in the same direction towards certain people end quote investigators described the area along
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the Georgetown slash Charleston County Line where they were concentrating as a location of Interest saying it is where
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the Persons of Interest live the information the investigators had compiled indicated that Brittany was no
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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 from some of the online chatter about this case right is
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what did that word directly mean we hear them say that twice when they're giving
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us this bombshell announcement that she did not know them directly meaning that Brittany was
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was she a victim of a stranger abduction right well I think maybe they use that term because we have
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uh the finger pointing of people that she went down there with and maybe people that were you know quote unquote
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friends of hers so I think by saying saying that statement it's kind of it's not maybe directing you towards more
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evidence as it might just be directing you away from those people well that's why I question that word directly they
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did not know Brittany directly you could one would just naturally say they did not know Brittany right but when you
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hear that added word of directly afterwards it almost seems like maybe they knew of Brittany but never met her
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right and that she didn't know these people um you know meaning maybe she was targeted and somebody provided
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information about her regardless it may mean nothing at all but there's a part of me that when I when I watch that
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announcement and then reading through it again afterwards it almost seems deliberate that they use that word
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directly Britney's High School graduation from the gates Chile High School would have taken place on
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Wednesday June 23 2010 and her family did attend in her absence to accept a honorary degree for Brittany also in
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2010 something happened that investigators in the Britney's case could not ignore this
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is on July 21st when Rhonda Massey age 20. she's from Tennessee she's walking on Ocean Boulevard near the Blue Water
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Resort in Myrtle Beach this is at 4 30 p.m in broad daylight Rhonda heard what sounded like a vehicle creeping behind
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her two men jumped from a pale blue rusted van and tried to pull her into the van's interior
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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 two guys jump out of the van try to
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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 McClellanville in connection with the kidnapping attempt this is 37 year old
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Sean Taylor he is charged with attempted kidnapping and first degree assault law enforcement agencies executed a
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search at Sean Taylor's Home on Old Collins Creek Road in Charleston County near the Georgetown county line one of
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the things police seized in the search was a stolen truck which they linked to a homicide in Charleston County
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the van used in the attempted kidnapping of Rondo was never located Rhonda picked Sean Taylor out of a
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lineup the fact that this attempted abduction was conducted in broad daylight right near the Blue Water
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Resort similar to the circumstances under which Brittany disappeared could not and should not be ignored
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and the same multi-jurisdictional task force investigating Britney's case also investigated Rhonda's case
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now who is Sean Taylor well get ready to be impressed Captain I'm just super excited get your POS ready
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actually um let's do plural it should be persons or you never mind hold on let me get
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pieces oh there we go I'm ready okay okay who is Sean Taylor since 1994 Sean Taylor had been convicted of nearly 30
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offenses in Georgetown and Charleston counties some of these involved driving offenses that happens some are
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disorderly conduct he's in charge of that but others were as serious as criminal domestic violence and giving
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false information to police there were also 17 contempt of court charges and convictions for fail failure to pay
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child support oh nice piece of [ __ ] yeah thank you uh unfortunately to the horror
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of many charges were eventually dropped against Sean Taylor in the Ronda Massey abduction
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police told news media that surveillance video had corroborated Sean's story that
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he was actually elsewhere that day when the attempted abduction took place Sean Taylor came from a family with a
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hmm with an interesting criminal history okay in February of 2001 Sean's brother
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Randall Keith Taylor was one of five men arrested and charged in connection to the death of Shannon McConaughey
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Shannon was last seen leaving a Cracker Barrel restaurant in North Charleston on
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January 29 1998. she was only 19 years old her car was found burned in a wooded area two weeks later and her body was
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found in March of 1998 in a wooded area near McClellanville the Charleston County Sheriff's Office
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alleged that Randall Taylor raped and shot Shannon and received help disposing of her body Randy Randall Taylor was
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allegedly ratted out by two men who were also arrested for this and this included
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another Taylor relative Jacob Taylor one of the men told police that the men intended to gang rape Shannon but but
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Randall Taylor had quote gone berserk and killed her this man changed his story uh one two three four five six so many
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times that eventually these charges were dismissed because of lack of evidence so
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they don't have much evidence in this case against this dude except for this other guy these other guys saying this
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is what happened and when this guy changes his story of bazillion times their case falls apart my gut tells me
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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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pinpointed Britney's cell phone signal [Music] [Music] all right we're back cheers cheers to
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you captain in 2012 Fox News reported that a convicted child rapist was being looked at by South Carolina law
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enforcement and two disappearances of young women detectives said that 51-year-old Raymond Moody had been named
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the primary person of interest in Britney's case Moody was also being looked at in connection with another
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missing woman 28 year old Crystal Souls both women were presumed to be dead though neither had been found in 2011
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police searched an apartment where Moody had lived this is the sunset Lodge Apartments
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they're located about eight miles from the site of the boat landing on the Santee River where the police had
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tracked Britney's cell phone signal to right detail to the media that Moody A registered a registered level three sex
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offender he was in Myrtle Beach in the area the same weekend Brittany disappeared we know this yeah the day
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after yeah because well he he was issued a speeding ticket at Surfside Beach on April 26th
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Moody served 21 years in prison this is after he abducted a girl from a California playground and sexually
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assaulted her in 1983. his other convictions include three counts of rape with force and violence two counts of
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lewd behavior on a child under the age of 14. this is according to a South Carolina State Sex Offender database
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website now after his release for these charges from the California State Prison
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in 2004 Moody relocated to Georgetown South Carolina this is where his parents lived
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he worked as a cabinet maker detectives said that they are investigating a possible connection
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between Britney's case and Crystal Souls Souls 28 was last seen January 24 2005 in Andrews South Carolina and it is
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believed to have been abducted as she walked home after dark despite naming Moody publicly police
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have never been able to pin anything concrete on him for as as far as I could find for either of the disappearances of
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these two girls right now the the investigation is going to ramp up here and this is going to be
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starting in April of 2012. by this point Britney's been missing for three years her stepfather Chad Drexel announced his
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plans that he was going to be working with a private group um and this was so that he's hiring
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people to participate in this investigation to help find his daughter in 2013 Don Drexel moved permanently to
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Myrtle Beach to be closer to Brittany's last known location she wanted to make sure that the case did not grow cold and
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while nothing happened publicly for quite a while on this case things were beginning to take shape behind the
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scenes on June 8 2016 a special agent in charge of the FBI in South Carolina held
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a news conference this took place in mcclellansville 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
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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 Brittany was kidnapped then this would fall under the FBI's jurisdiction
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well what the FBI had to say at this news conference was the following end quote what we've come to discover
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through the course of this investigation is that Brittany Drexel did leave the Myrtle Beach area we believe she
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traveled to this area around McClellanville and we believe she was killed after that
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the FBI agent went on to say that although they had not found Britney's body investigators had exhaustive
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evidence that she was held against her will for days before she was killed they ended
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the news conference with an appeal to the people of McClellanville please come forward this is a very small
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town I think 3 000 people yeah there are people who know what happened and one small piece of
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information could close the case so going off of the information glean from this news conference
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how did investigators know that Brittany was in fact dead and that she had been held against her will in McClellanville
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so let's try to piece this together from what the investigation uncovered behind
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the scenes so in 2016 a prison inmate wrote a letter to prison officials saying he
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knew what had happened to Brittany Drexel he named names specifically someone named Timothy DeSean Taylor now
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does that name sound Vaguely Familiar Timothy who actually goes by his middle name DeSean is the son of Sean Taylor
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the man identified in a lineup by Rhonda Massey the woman who was they had attempted an abduction against her in
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Myrtle Beach in 2010 right so the same Sean Taylor who has a long rap sheet and an extended family suspected of violent
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crimes specifically against women Timothy DeSean Taylor lived in McClellanville and was 16 when Brittany Drexel went
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missing and apparently this was not the first time that DeSean Taylor's name had
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come up it turns out he had been questioned in 2009 in 2016 the FBI rounded up to Sean
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and questioned him but he wouldn't talk at this time he said he had nothing whatsoever to do
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with what happened to Brittany but investigators weren't buying it according to the FBI and the local
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police departments in Myrtle Beach and Georgetown County pieces of evidence they had collected throughout the
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investigation also pointed to Deshawn or people he knew and the FEDS figured out
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a way to put the squeeze on Desean they brought new federal criminal charges against him for an earlier crime
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to detain him and hopefully get him to roll over federal and state charges for the same
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crime are not a violation of a suspect's constitutional rights against Double Jeopardy and this is how this situation
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would work what was interesting though was when they arrested him they said that he was being arrested for the
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kidnapping and the the murder of Brittany Drexel and then when he got down to the courthouse to be questioned
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or the police department to be questioned um you know there were questions about
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Brittany and everything and then eventually when there was a charge it was about this McDonald's which he had
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already served time for right and so because he was a so here's what happens they robbed a McDonald's he was the
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driver and he was since he was young at the time he didn't get charged as much as other people correct and then and
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then basically um basically law enforcement came back and said well we could have charged him
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with conspiracy and so let's do that to him now right and it's really do they give a crap about the burglary
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or the the stick up at the McDonald's no they don't they're trying to squeeze him
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because of this Brittany Drexel case right yes and and basically saying yeah we know that he served some time but now
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we've decided that the the charges and the sentence was too lenient right that this was a very organized and
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potentially violent crime and we need to hold him further responsible for this issue but you're exactly right Captain
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it's most likely put the squeeze on him try to get information regarding this Brittany Drexel case so there's going to
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be a detention Hearing in the case of the United States against Timothy DeSean Taylor
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this is to determine if they could detain him or hold him without bond on these new federal charges related to the
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old 2011 robbery right during the course of these hearings there is an FBI agent who is going to
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testify during his testimony this is FBI agent Garrick Munoz he alleged that DeSean was the target of
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another FBI investigation an investigation into kidnapping human trafficking and murder Munoz says that
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quote several people had come forward and given testimony outlining desean's involvement
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some of the witnesses even allege that DeSean was the abductor Munoz was referring to the Brittany Drexel case
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there was an eyewitness named and his name is tyquan brown this is the inmate who wrote The Letter who actually
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saw or claims to have seen Deshawn with Brittany Drexel also claims C Timothy um Timothy's father as well yes and
00:35:12
according to taekwon Brown this sighting took place at what Munoz on the stand referred to as a quote
00:35:22
Stash House so no one lived at this location but apparently DeSean and others several others had access to this
00:35:31
place and according to the statement that they received from Brown was that on April 29
00:35:38
2009 which was the Wednesday after Britney disappeared according to this eyewitness he was visiting this stash
00:35:46
house to make a payment of some sort to Sean Taylor Deshawn's father he says that when he entered the home or
00:35:55
entered the stash house he passed through it on his way out back in passing through he said he saw Brittany
00:36:02
stripped and tied to a bed beaten and she apparently was attempting to escape the weird thing here about this
00:36:12
statement Captain is that that Brown says he's just passing through we we've seen a lot of these type of yeah just
00:36:18
passing through man a lot of these type of confessions where people say hey I have some knowledge and I might be
00:36:24
guilty of something but I'm not guilty of everything that you think I could be or that I'm willing to admit to right so
00:36:30
Brown says he's just passing through this stash house but obviously he must have taken his time or some time
00:36:37
if he absorbed all of that all of those uh observations let's say he says that he then stepped outside
00:36:45
with Sean Taylor and at this time Brittany must have escaped and ran out of the room and then outside she was
00:36:54
eventually caught by someone pistol-whipped and brought back inside the house Sean Taylor went into the
00:37:02
house as well Brown says he stayed outside where he heard two gunshots fired then he said he saw a quote
00:37:11
wrapped up body being removed from the stash house and placed in a pickup truck I don't have any better of a description
00:37:19
of that portion of his story than a wrapped up body being moved from the stash house and placed in a pickup truck
00:37:26
Munoz says second-hand information had come in support of Brown's statements the FBI interviewed a prisoner at
00:37:33
Georgetown Penitentiary that heard from another source that DeSean was the one who picked her up in Myrtle Beach right
00:37:41
there's also some rumors that there was some eyewitnesses around town roughly about four of them now keep in mind this
00:37:49
is this is second hand prison informant information right so a lot of times you have to take this
00:37:57
with a grain of salt I think but we have another person claiming to back this up
00:38:02
so this person said that DeSean had picked Brittany up brought her down to McClellanville and quote showed her off
00:38:10
and ended up tricking her out then there was a lot of publicity from her disappearance and so she was disposed of
00:38:20
several witnesses have said that Miss Drexel's body was then placed into a gator pit
00:38:26
to have her body disposed of eaten by the Gators and whatever I don't want to go too much into that Munoz went on to
00:38:35
say that they had several people show them locations where they thought the body was but it
00:38:43
he went on to say that look there's possibly 30 or 40 of these locations where she could be and we also had those
00:38:51
earlier statements by the FBI and investigators stating that if her remains were taken to this location or
00:38:57
if she was taken to this location it might be tough to find any trace of her after short of a period of time is
00:39:05
six hours Munoz also alleged that at the time of this hearing taekwon Brown was serving 25 years in
00:39:14
prison for voluntary manslaughter obstruction of justice and possession of a weapon by a felon so
00:39:21
that's where I bring that up only so we all can question is this a reliable witness is this
00:39:29
reliable information that they've received right the judge would go on to refuse to rule on desean's detention on
00:39:37
that day during that course of that hearing whether they could hold him for a pending plea deal saying that he could
00:39:44
not rule on DeShawn being a danger to society because he needed to know more information about this brown character
00:39:52
and his reliability and whether he was looking for a sentence reduction why is he coming forward with this information
00:39:59
or is he making it up right Deshawn's attorney said two of the men supposedly named by Brown as being at the Stash
00:40:07
House were actually in prison at the time of when the story would have taken place
00:40:13
Brown named several men in his letter now each one of these is a different man okay so this is Rooster homie Cruise
00:40:23
Foot Skills 40 QB and snow bunny and now if you can pick out of those what do you
00:40:31
want your nickname to be none of them I go with a foot I want nothing to do with
00:40:35
it call me foot and of course he also named Sean and Deshawn Taylor but law enforcement apparently has not been able
00:40:42
to identify the real names or real identities of these people that were they were only provided nicknames or
00:40:49
code names by Brown well it's some of those names sound completely made up but yeah yeah
00:40:56
we called our good buddy foot snow bunny well his lawyer also pointed out that DeSean
00:41:04
cooperated with the robbery investigation the one from 2011 and he wasn't actually in the MC the Mickey D's
00:41:12
when it was Rob he was just the driver he didn't have a criminal record at the time of that uh charge or when that
00:41:21
crime was yep so there he's stating look we know that he received a lighter sentence than these other people
00:41:27
involved but I'm standing before you today judged to say he got what he deserved he actually deserved a lighter
00:41:34
sentence because he was not inside the location he was only 16 he had no priors yeah he didn't have a gun on him
00:41:42
and also um I don't know if how much you want to dive into this part of it but also with this confession you know this
00:41:52
jailhouse confession the dates and the times that he gave uh they were able to provide to the FBI
00:42:00
um you know that Timothy was in school during these times that he was supposedly at this Stash House well yes
00:42:09
um okay so the information I could find was that they could they could back up that he was in school the Monday Tuesday
00:42:16
Wednesday so but on the same hand the FBI has stated repeatedly that DeSean and his
00:42:25
associates in McClellanville as being the ones responsible for abducting Brittany raping killing and disposing of
00:42:33
her body I just feel like they're uh throwing this guy under the bus a little bit well one thing that there's one more
00:42:39
thing about DeSean that we should discuss something that may cast doubt on the informant story that you know DeSean was
00:42:48
the one who physically and violently abducted Brittany from Ocean Boulevard on the night of April 25 2009 right Sean
00:42:57
Taylor only has one arm so when he was four years old he was in his grandfather's auto shop
00:43:05
and a car fell on him his left arm which was his uh dormant one or dominant one I'm sorry dormant one it was his
00:43:14
dominant one had to be amputated because of this incident this accident right so
00:43:20
you know a girl that you know we pointed out that she's small but we also have people pointing out look she's fast and
00:43:28
she was she was a tough small girl right and so if he did this by himself it seems
00:43:35
like an uphill battle for him let's say it's this almost points out to it's like
00:43:40
you know fighting a battle with one arm tied behind your back literally it is but the thing is though
00:43:47
it also points to the possibility of here's my thing it actually I think points a little bit more towards this
00:43:56
statement being possibly true meaning that there were several others if not many others that were involved in this
00:44:03
on some level and what I mean by that is we have this situation with DeSean having one arm but
00:44:10
we also have the situation that you pointed out about him being in school during the time that she was held
00:44:15
captive let's say if the FBI theory is correct this is you know Wednesday Monday Tuesday
00:44:21
Wednesday so but according to the story and according to that information even if he did go to school on that Monday
00:44:29
Tuesday and Wednesday there is nothing to say that DeSean couldn't have left her in the hands of some of his
00:44:37
co-conspirators I agree with all that but don't we have the one girl that was almost abducted and she is basically
00:44:43
saying uh Deshawn's father was the one that tried to grab her that's correct but then we've proven that that wasn't a
00:44:52
true statement so I think there's a lot of people that are trying to throw people under the bus and then
00:44:58
you mentioned Brittany's stepfather hiring the private investigators and a private team so then
00:45:05
they came out with statements later saying that they handed a flyer to DeSean and that he crumbled it up and
00:45:12
threw it back at him yeah which was never proven to be true and they also claimed that they
00:45:19
followed him back to around the same area where Britney's DNA was found you know of course they're going to follow
00:45:27
him back to roughly the area where our DNA was found well one we have no report that DNA was
00:45:34
found but we're talking about a very small town so to even say he's a block away from it or whatever that doesn't
00:45:40
prove anything well and I'm glad you pointed that out because the only thing that I could find Captain was that we
00:45:47
have we have Chad Drexel he's the one that publicly posted a statement that he knows of DNA evidence
00:45:55
specifically Britney's DNA that is in investigators possession and that can be linked to DeSean and like right and
00:46:06
there's no proof of this we're all proof of it even existing right but we also have a guy that has cooperated with FBI
00:46:14
said full on out after this long interview I will I will do anything they want me to do anything that they think I
00:46:22
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
00:46:30
um 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
00:46:35
lie detector that was that was a couple years ago so if I don't know it's it just seems
00:46:43
this seems kind of like a crazy Witch Hunt and it all stems from uh jailhouse confession I don't know that it does and
00:46:50
and I'll get into my thoughts on that here in a little bit I want to kind of go to bat for for Chad Drexel here for a
00:46:56
second the reason you know I say what he's his statement about the DNA should be taken with a grain of salt and this
00:47:02
is because obviously he's a grieving father who until she is found he will unfortunately
00:47:10
forever be a grieving father grieving his daughter's disappearance and possible death
00:47:18
um so may could he have heard something from investigators could investigators have suggested to him that there's a
00:47:27
possibility that there might be DNA somewhere and maybe he kind of latched on to that hope and and ran with it a
00:47:34
little bit that's certainly a possibility um the thing though is regarding the DNA if
00:47:42
that were true if there were actual evidence of Britney's DNA that could be linked to Timothy Deshawn Taylor
00:47:50
he would have been arrested DeSean Taylor would have been arrested not just pressured with the threat of unrelated
00:47:57
criminal charges he would have actually have been arrested for that now where you point out that that the only link to
00:48:06
this is a prison informant yes that's true in some sense the other truth though that's out there and this
00:48:14
is DeSean Taylor's words you know why were you initially spoke to in 2009 and then all these years later
00:48:22
there's information coming out that you might have been in connection with the stash house and that you were in
00:48:28
connection with Britney's disappearance well his own words are I was questioned in 2009 from his understanding or at
00:48:34
least what he tells the media is that he was told that everyone in McClellanville was being questioned back
00:48:43
in 2009 because like you pointed out this is not a heavily populated area right and when you have the the last
00:48:51
pinpointed pings of her cell phone are in this area and you have a small population to deal with it's fairly easy
00:48:59
for them to do just what he believes or what he says to media and question everyone there
00:49:05
so while we do have this connection through the prison informant if DeSean Taylor's words are correct
00:49:14
well actually his words don't even have to be correct there is some evidence to show that there is a McClellanville
00:49:21
connection which we know him to have been part of that community and it's a small
00:49:27
population that Community right the other tricky thing here too Captain is that and this is just me making leaps on my
00:49:37
own but you know where people question could he have abducted her by himself I want to throw this little tidbit in
00:49:44
there we have this young man who at one time he was a high school athlete this is a
00:49:51
person that has obviously learned to overcome the disability of having one arm he was a high school athlete he had went
00:49:59
to school to be a auto mechanic and this was a job that he performed and he worked for his father the information
00:50:09
I have here is that he worked for his father and his father owned some kind of tow truck company some kind of towing
00:50:15
company I am I'm making a bit of a leap here but it's not too far-fetched to believe that
00:50:20
this guy whether it be DeSean Taylor or his father Sean Taylor one of them could have been driving a
00:50:28
tow truck saw a girl walking by herself and stopped and offered a ride and she could have seen the tow truck with the
00:50:38
business printed on the side of the door and felt some sense of security some sense of
00:50:44
oh maybe I could get in here or at least long enough to engage in conversation to which somebody would would have the
00:50:52
uh the unfortunate opportunity to abduct her yeah my argument there would we we have
00:50:59
thousands of people on this trip I think they would have a lot of more eyewitnesses talking about a tow truck I
00:51:06
think I put I only point that out because I think it's food for thought and I've not seen it pointed out
00:51:11
anywhere else no no I think I I think at this point everything needs to be looked
00:51:16
at so I mean it's definitely a angle that I haven't heard and we have no eyewitnesses at this point anyway so
00:51:23
that that leads us to a good a good summation of this because where are we now Captain well this year in
00:51:32
January of 2018 DeSean was scheduled to be sentenced for the federal charges again
00:51:39
these not related to Brittany's case but this hearing was delayed due to an unspecific matter of law
00:51:48
so since then DeSean has made a motion to change attorneys actually from from what I saw online and on TV I thought
00:51:58
his attorney was giving him pretty good representation but I'm not the client it's not up to me
00:52:04
to decide if he thinks he's receiving good representation so anyway he's decided to change attorneys this lawyer
00:52:11
switch has delayed the um the hearing further the government has recommended a sentence of 10 to 20 years against
00:52:20
Deshawn Taylor I believe that the plea deal also provides so that they are offering him
00:52:29
straight up a plea deal if you have information on other cases specifically Brittany Drexel's case we
00:52:36
might be able to work something out here and I believe that this plea deal also provides that if a third person if a
00:52:43
third party comes forward and provides substantial assistance this being information about Britney's
00:52:50
case on desean's behalf if they can back up his his statement then this would further reduce the
00:52:58
sentence Brittany's mother Dawn since this has gone down has remarried she said to the
00:53:06
media in February of 2018 quote to us it looks like it's not going anywhere this
00:53:12
is her referring to the investigation she said her phone calls to investigators haven't been returned
00:53:19
lately and now she's retaining private investigators of her own to find out once and for all where Brittany is all
00:53:28
right so I want to be clear on something so I call him Timothy Taylor because everything that I read this whole week
00:53:34
that's what they called it you you are not right I mean you're not right you are not wrong in fact I was thinking of
00:53:40
my my uh phrase there you are exactly right because technically that's his legal name Timothy Taylor but just to be
00:53:48
clear we're talking about the same person Timothy DeSean Taylor right so first of all I I believe in fully in my
00:53:56
heart that this double jeopardy McDonald's charged complete horseshit and this would not have happened if he
00:54:04
was a white white kid with some money that just just wouldn't happen I stand by that comment every day of the week I
00:54:14
now I do believe that this informant is telling a story he heard and I think there is some truth to it I think the
00:54:25
players involved in the story I don't think there's a lot of Truth there but it's such a small town we have her cell
00:54:32
phone pings we have these Alligator Pit areas it makes sense the story makes sense I
00:54:40
just don't think they have the right players involved in the story or the right characters involved in the story
00:54:46
correct yeah that I mean that's very interesting for for several reasons because one
00:54:55
thing and this is just mind you this is just an inference that I made but it seems to be that the portion okay
00:55:03
here's what I really want to happen in this case if I could pick one thing you know that you know of course without
00:55:09
without finding Brittany that's not an option let's say right but if I had a genie and a lamp and I could make one
00:55:15
request it would be to get to either confirm or obliterate this story because I think right now this is really holding
00:55:24
up the investigation and I think that that might be why Brittany's mother has not heard from investigators I think
00:55:30
that they are fully immersed in this potential uh informant that they've heard from and I think that they are
00:55:38
fully diving into this portion of the investigation and I think until this story can either be confirmed or removed
00:55:45
from the case it's going to hold a lot of crap up and I think you're right I think what
00:55:51
might be holding it up is there might be some truth to this case to this story and it doesn't have to go down exactly
00:55:58
how this Taekwondo Brown said that it went down now the interesting thing here though the inference that I made was
00:56:04
it's the where the truth lies in this seems to be that law enforcement thinks that this is a real story because they
00:56:12
seem to believe this is an actual Stash House okay so local law enforcement and FBI
00:56:18
that's the first part of the story that you can go ahead and confirm that this guy's telling you the truth or outright
00:56:25
lying right you go to the location that he claims is called a Stash House you go
00:56:29
there and if it's known by local law enforcement to be just that well there there might be some truth to
00:56:36
this guy's story right and and also if you do any tests and you find any DNA from from Brittany there then obviously
00:56:43
that's another part of the story that's correct and I would also like to know what law enforcement means by
00:56:50
uh Taylor Deshawn Taylor whether it be him or his father or both had quote access to this Stash House what does
00:56:59
that mean does that mean access in the sense that just anybody could walk in there or does that mean that specific
00:57:05
people only had access to this Stash House here's where I have hold out some hope
00:57:12
though that this story is wrong and not that I don't want this to be solved but the description of that story and you
00:57:22
know it's so horrific that you personally I don't want the story to be right where I hold out some hope that that
00:57:30
story is not correct is that I would think that if they could identify this as being a stash house now mind you I do
00:57:37
understand that it's seven eight years later that you would think if things went down
00:57:43
the way that it was described by that prison informant in that in that home in that house
00:57:49
that they would have some proof of that later and it doesn't seem to be the case if so
00:57:56
we've not heard anything even though law enforcement said that they ruled out everybody that Brittany knew from
00:58:02
Rochester I need to know where their cell phone pings happen and I think if they could
00:58:09
provide that information to the public then you can lay to rest those people being any suspects or any person of
00:58:16
interest and I hope and pray that there is some movement on this case very soon for the
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