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A teenager who vanished from Myrtle Beach, SC, in 2009 was repeatedly ? in a gang “stash house” for several days — then she was shot dead and fed to alligators when her disappearance generated too much media attention, the FBI said last week.
The shocking new details about the mysterious disappearance of 17-year-old Rochester, NY, native Brittanee Drexel came largely from a “jailhouse confession” that was subsequently substantiated by others with “tidbits” and “secondhand information,” FBI Agent Gerrick Munoz testified in a federal court transcript obtained by the Post and Courier of Charleston.
The inmate who gave the alleged bombshell confession, Taquan Brown, is serving a 25-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in a different case. Brown told authorities he was present during the final agonizing moments of Drexel’s life, Munoz said.
Brown claimed to have seen Drexel when he visited a “stash house” — typically a place used to keep guns, drugs or money — in the McClellanville area, the general location where Drexel’s cellphone last pinged.
Munoz said Brown told officials he saw Da’Shaun Taylor, then 16 years old, and several other men “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel.” Brown then said he walked to the back yard of the house to give money to Taylor’s father, Shaun Taylor. But as Brown and Shaun Taylor talked, Drexel tried to make a break for it. Her escape attempt was in vain, however, and one of the captors “pistol-whipped” Drexel and carried her back inside the house. Brown said he then heard two gunshots. The next time Brown said he saw Drexel, her body was being wrapped up and removed from the house.
Drexel’s body has never been found, but Munoz said “several witnesses” have told investigators she was dumped in an unspecified McClellanville pond teeming with alligators.
Drexel was last captured on video on April 25, 2009, leaving the Blue Water Hotel in Myrtle Beach, where she was staying against her parents’ permission. A different inmate serving time at Georgetown County Jail told officials he was informed Da’Shaun Taylor picked Drexel up in Myrtle Beach and transported her to McClellanville.
Munoz said the FBI believes Taylor “showed her off, introduced her to some other friends that were there … they ended up tricking her out with some of their friends, offering her to them and getting a human trafficking situation.”
As the media spotlight grew ever brighter on the desperate efforts to find Drexel, the girl was “murdered and disposed of,” Munoz said.
Munoz’s testimony was part of a bond hearing for a federal charge against Da’Shaun Taylor, now 25, stemming from a 2011 robbery of a McDonald’s. Taylor had previously confessed to being the getaway driver for the holdup, cooperated with South Carolina authorities and completed probation. But prosecutors are now trying to bring federal charges and, if convicted of the new charges, Taylor could face a life sentence.
Taylor’s attorney contended the federal charges are a naked attempt to “squeeze” Taylor for information on the Drexel case. Asked by Magistrate Judge Mary Gordon Baker about “the real reason” for the charges and if they had to do with Drexel’s disappearance, Assistant US Attorney Winston Holliday said “that would be one” reason.
Taylor was released after posting $10,000 bail.
The FBI declined to discuss Munoz’s testimony or any aspect of the Drexel case with the Post and Courier.
The shocking new details about the mysterious disappearance of 17-year-old Rochester, NY, native Brittanee Drexel came largely from a “jailhouse confession” that was subsequently substantiated by others with “tidbits” and “secondhand information,” FBI Agent Gerrick Munoz testified in a federal court transcript obtained by the Post and Courier of Charleston.
The inmate who gave the alleged bombshell confession, Taquan Brown, is serving a 25-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in a different case. Brown told authorities he was present during the final agonizing moments of Drexel’s life, Munoz said.
Brown claimed to have seen Drexel when he visited a “stash house” — typically a place used to keep guns, drugs or money — in the McClellanville area, the general location where Drexel’s cellphone last pinged.
Munoz said Brown told officials he saw Da’Shaun Taylor, then 16 years old, and several other men “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel.” Brown then said he walked to the back yard of the house to give money to Taylor’s father, Shaun Taylor. But as Brown and Shaun Taylor talked, Drexel tried to make a break for it. Her escape attempt was in vain, however, and one of the captors “pistol-whipped” Drexel and carried her back inside the house. Brown said he then heard two gunshots. The next time Brown said he saw Drexel, her body was being wrapped up and removed from the house.
Drexel’s body has never been found, but Munoz said “several witnesses” have told investigators she was dumped in an unspecified McClellanville pond teeming with alligators.
Drexel was last captured on video on April 25, 2009, leaving the Blue Water Hotel in Myrtle Beach, where she was staying against her parents’ permission. A different inmate serving time at Georgetown County Jail told officials he was informed Da’Shaun Taylor picked Drexel up in Myrtle Beach and transported her to McClellanville.
Munoz said the FBI believes Taylor “showed her off, introduced her to some other friends that were there … they ended up tricking her out with some of their friends, offering her to them and getting a human trafficking situation.”
As the media spotlight grew ever brighter on the desperate efforts to find Drexel, the girl was “murdered and disposed of,” Munoz said.
Munoz’s testimony was part of a bond hearing for a federal charge against Da’Shaun Taylor, now 25, stemming from a 2011 robbery of a McDonald’s. Taylor had previously confessed to being the getaway driver for the holdup, cooperated with South Carolina authorities and completed probation. But prosecutors are now trying to bring federal charges and, if convicted of the new charges, Taylor could face a life sentence.
Taylor’s attorney contended the federal charges are a naked attempt to “squeeze” Taylor for information on the Drexel case. Asked by Magistrate Judge Mary Gordon Baker about “the real reason” for the charges and if they had to do with Drexel’s disappearance, Assistant US Attorney Winston Holliday said “that would be one” reason.
Taylor was released after posting $10,000 bail.
The FBI declined to discuss Munoz’s testimony or any aspect of the Drexel case with the Post and Courier.
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Don't see how anybody can be opposed to death penalty
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Heard about this last week. Savages.
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Don't see how anybody can be opposed to death penalty
If the family has the option to do the deed, I'm all for it. -
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hw they know she was gangraped.....
they only find her ? -
Damn, they're all about to get their big, black ? thrown under the jail for kidnapping and torturing that lily white girl that had gone hundreds of miles on a road trip without her parent's permission as a minor to go get ? , high and ? . This story is all kinds of ? up.
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Damn, That sh*ts over ? .
Her captors should get fed to the Gators. -
Savages... I hope the worst possible things happen to them
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They have gators n new York?
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^^^^^This happened nowhere near NY, fam.
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? , it says where she came up missing in the first sentence. The first one, all you had to do was read for 2 seconds.DA_Executionah! wrote: »They have gators n new York?
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I'm from Rochester and I remember the news coverage. The girl bounced to SC without her mothers knowledge and the mother was trying to blame one of the kids she was partying with because he didn't insist on giving her a ride to her hotel...
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DA_Executionah! wrote: »They have gators n new York?
She's from Rochester upstate ? but this happened in South Carolina brotha man. -
Don't see how anybody can be opposed to death penalty
It's for the wrongfully convicted, not ? like this. You really trust this racist ass government to not be summarily executing poc and anyone else they disliked? Don't convolute two separate ideas
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Don't see how anybody can be opposed to death penalty
I've never read or heard a valid argument against it. -
2stepz_ahead wrote: »hw they know she was gangraped.....
they only find her ?
This is a good point...Sounds like these feds are spectulating based on this rat's testamony..Even how the media spins the words makes it seem like they know the whole truth of the situation ...This girl more than likely wanted to have a train ran on her..She prolly just didn't know them dudes were gonna hold her under extreme guerilla ? hostage...
They are NOT going to find that girls body even if that jailhouse confession is true...This incident allegedly happened seven years ago..That white girl has prolly long been turned into gator doo doo 10 times over by now..
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? , it says where she came up missing in the first sentence. The first one, all you had to do was read for 2 seconds.DA_Executionah! wrote: »They have gators n new York?
they have gators in south Carolina? -
Irrelevant. The problems with the justice system should be fixed regardless, but don't act like serving life is any better than a death sentence. Other societies pre the last 100 years dealt with this ? swift and fast. -
ThaNubianGod wrote: »
Irrelevant. The problems with the justice system should be fixed regardless, but don't act like serving life is any better than a death sentence. Other societies pre the last 100 years dealt with this ? swift and fast.
some societies today still deal with it swift and fast. -
DA_Executionah! wrote: »
? , it says where she came up missing in the first sentence. The first one, all you had to do was read for 2 seconds.DA_Executionah! wrote: »They have gators n new York?
they have gators in south Carolina?
SC, GA, AL, MS and FL
Its the south
We got sharks at the beach and gators in the creeks round here -
DA_Executionah! wrote: »ThaNubianGod wrote: »
Irrelevant. The problems with the justice system should be fixed regardless, but don't act like serving life is any better than a death sentence. Other societies pre the last 100 years dealt with this ? swift and fast.
some societies today still deal with it swift and fast.
No doubt. -
I'm talking more about people who make the moral argument against the concept of capital punishment -
Right, its super speculation. Ain't nobody at a trap house that ain't trying to be there. By the looks of it, she was just moving too fast and got caught up with the wrong ones. I ain't saying she should've died, but she definitely put herself in a ? up situation by being there in the first place.EyeofAsaru wrote: »2stepz_ahead wrote: »hw they know she was gangraped.....
they only find her ?
This is a good point...Sounds like these feds are spectulating based on this rat's testamony..Even how the media spins the words makes it seem like they know the whole truth of the situation ...This girl more than likely wanted to have a train ran on her..She prolly just didn't know them dudes were gonna hold her under extreme guerilla ? hostage...
They are NOT going to find that girls body even if that jailhouse confession is true...This incident allegedly happened seven years ago..That white girl has prolly long been turned into gator doo doo 10 times over by now.. -
I'm talking more about people who make the moral argument against the concept of capital punishment
If there's innocent people being executed then it's not right morally -
Thats too much like right for some folks
