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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Why take a Team of 3 Detectives and a PI off a Case ?? WTH. These Detectives were close to making arrest in 2010. Brittanee Drexel Case. Makes no sense ...



*Someone sent this to us Last year. Said most have not seen it. .. We agree. 
Not heard of Several Investigators being pulled off Brittanee Drexel Case.   WTH .. 
( happened in 2010 ) 


Myrtle Beach, S.C. (WHAM) – It was 10 years ago Thursday that Brittanee Drexel disappeared while on spring break.


The FBI tells 13WHAM it’s still a priority case, and agents continue their work on it. But Brittanee’s mother is growing increasingly frustrated by the case. She wonders why she’s had to wait a decade for resolution.



13WHAM has learned from former investigators that this case was very close to being solved nine years ago, and for the first time, we can show one of the sites that played a key role in it.

It’s been nine years since Steve Pickering traveled on the rural road in South Carolina, but it still comes easily. The work he and others did there is seared in his memory. He spent a week in the remote spot, searching for Brittanee.

The former homicide detective was working for a private investigation firm called in to assist local law enforcement with the search.

An “alligator pit” is how the FBI has referred to the place where agents believe Brittanee’s body was placed. For the first time, using a drone, 13WHAM is able to show you the site along the Santee River.



Pickering says cadaver dogs hit on a scent at the site. Sifting through the dirt, investigators found physical evidence they say was tied to Brittanee’s disappearance.

“It helps piece it together,” Pickering tells 13WHAM. “It helps corroborate what other people said. It’s not conclusive, but it certainly adds to the totality of the evidence that's been gathered so far.”



Still mindful of the FBI investigation, Pickering won’t say what was found at the site – but he says agents have never looked at it, because the evidence gathered there sits in a box in a safe at the private investigation firm’s office.

“The only problem I see is law enforcement didn’t gather it, so they might have a question of continuity, but retired law enforcement gathered it. A respected forensic analyst processed it, testified in court before,” said Pickering. “So, it’s a hurdle a prosecutor can easily overcome.”

With the evidence found at the site and multiple interviews conducted, Pickering says the team – which included investigators from Myrtle Beach, Charleston County and Georgetown County – made significant progress.






“I think we were very close,” said Pickering. “If we needed a key piece of physical evidence or we had somebody finally, maybe not-so-great, involved in the case give information, it would have closed the door on it. But yeah, we were very close.”


They never got to finish, and possibly solve Brittanee’s disappearance. The team was taken off the case so it could get what Pickering was told was a fresh set of eyes.

 ( Take a whole team Off an Active Investigation ?? Why …  ) 
( They were getting close to solving it. smh .. Fishy ) 


For Brittanee’s mother, it’s one of many points of frustration.

“Why would you take someone off the case when they were that close to solving it?” said Dawn Pleckan. “That’s not fair. That's not fair to Brittanee.”

Nine years later, she is still left with many of the same questions she had when Brittanee disappeared: Where is she, who killed her daughter and why has this case taken 10 years to solve?

Steve Pickering wants to know, too. 10 years later, he cannot forget that spot along the Santee River, and Brittanee.



At the request of Brittanee’s mother, Pickering spoke with the FBI last year. The agency, which only took over the case three years ago, said it is open to talking with everyone involved.

Thursday night, a candlelight vigil was held for Brittanee. She was remembered under a tree of hope as a girl who loved frogs and the color pink.

"i just wonder what she would look like today, or if she would have children," said Carol Wagner, Brittanee's grandmother.

Family members from Rochester traveled to remember her. They were joined by what's become a second family of Myrtle Beach residents who have taken them in over the past decade.

Robin Holley says she was drawn to help them.

"It could have been me, and I guess that's probably another reason that I want to help others," she said.

Myrtle Beach police officers also joined the family, lighting candles that spelled out justice - a reminder of what Brittanee's mother is still seeking.

"She's still missing," said Pleckan. "We don't have any remains. We're still looking for her. So, it's not over, once we find her. It's going to be a long time before it's over, but at least I have some sort of resolution of what happened to her."
https://13wham.com/news/local/exclusive-pi-who-investigated-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-revisits-the-case?jwsource=fb&fbclid=IwAR1ZyWizDd2vj7ltul7S59sn_xVdvghxn5mDnBkuK_RdEUv_sj0oQLO4WOo



Please watch the video. Share it as well ..

No one has ever mentioned it before 
See this Link:
Detectives pulled when so close to making arrest .. smh
https://www.wbtv.com/story/14561614/former-cops-speak-out-case-of-teen-missing-in-sc/?fbclid=IwAR2nRYfnFNs4kw-YH4-hZ1JS50wjTmtof3sf8NDvYtmKVevsuibRuj3IARM


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Evidence withheld: 

 *Why remove 3 Detectives off a Case when they are so 

           close to making Arrest??  2010.  Politics.... 


                     Brittanee Drexel Case 


They say things were going great. Chris Bailey describes the momentum and chemistry they had from the very beginning.

"You took strangers," said Bailey, "I had never met Rocky before, never met Vincent before, and never met Steve or anybody else from Merrill's before the case, and in a short time, they were able to build a bond and trust."

With the help of Merrill's Investigations, Chris and Rocky say all the agencies were working side-by-side, gaining ground. 

Detectives Chris Bailey, Rocky Burke and Vincent Dorio. Had the 4 kidnappers names. 

They lived and breathed this case, working and developing new leads and getting very close to making some arrests. 


Close to making Arrest. However - the Feds stopped them??  2010. 


In the summer of 2010, however, they say that all changed.

In June, Bailey was taken off the case completely for the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office. Just a few months later, the same thing happened to Burke at the Charleston County Sheriff's Office.

"Some new task forces were formed and my role was diminished," said Burke.  

https://www.wbtv.com/story/14561614/former-cops-speak-out-case-of-teen-missing-in-sc/?fbclid=IwAR2nRYfnFNs4kw-YH4-hZ1JS50wjTmtof3sf8NDvYtmKVevsuibRuj3IARM


*People would be shocked to know what really happened in this Case. 


*For 10 years, these pictures taken off a CCTV Camera, were considered vital evidence in the case. However, after 10 years had passed, they were forgotten about?? Drexel case heats up as persons of interest identified
Published Friday, April 09, 2010 - 7:25 PM


Investigators from three counties who have been working to find a missing New York teenager say they now have persons of interest in the case.

Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Neil Johnson said based on information that has been collected investigators feel Brittanee Drexel who was 17 years old when she disappeared from Myrtle Beach last year is no longer alive.

Johnson said investigators have “three and possibly four” persons of interest in the case. He said no other details about the persons of interest is being released at this time.

Johnson said there is no reason to believe the persons of interest knew Drexel directly.

He said lie detector tests have been administered to two of them.

Investigators from Horry and Charleston Counties are also involved in the case because Drexel’s last known whereabouts was at a Myrtle Beach hotel.

Signals from her cell phone were detected in the North Santee area along the Georgetown County - Charleston County border on April 26 of last year, one night after she went missing from Myrtle Beach. Several searches have been conducted in the North Santee area as well as in northern Charleston County for any evidence that may lead to Drexel.

Johnson said the case got hot in December when Georgetown County Investigator Chris Bailey received information about Drexel’s disappearance.
 
 




It was in December that searchers found a pair of sunglasses near the river in North Santee.

“Everything we know is leading to this area,” Johnson said. “At this point, based on everything we know, we feel she is not alive.”

Johnson said the evidence continues to point to southern Georgetown County as the place something may have happened to Drexel. He said that is based on the amount of text messages she sent in the days before her disappearance.

“She was constantly on the phone texting. Then it all stopped when she went missing,”he said. “It was like someone took the phone.”
He said a private investigation service from Maine has been hired to help in the case because they have a lot of resources such as cadaver dogs to assist local authorities.

When asked if having persons of interest will lead to charges in the case, Johnson said that is not currently known.

“We could make an arrest next week or next year, we just do not know” he said.

By Scott Harper

sharper@gtowntimes.com

Charleston Co., Georgetown Co. and Myrtle Beach PD 
Detectives' had the Information and Leads needed to 
make Arrest in 2010.   
They all were pulled ..  WTH ..    

Cover Up ..  

3 Veteran Detectives threatened with Arrest if they did their jobs. 

In 2011, the new Task Force, tried also to Arrest the 4 Kidnappers.
They too were stopped and threatened with arrest by the FBI. 

This Case was solved 12 years ago. Which would have been a 
lot easier on the family. The 4 Kidnappers could have told 
the Detectives who else was involved. Human Trafficking. However, for some reason the 
FBI stopped all Arrest. 
Makes no sense. 
Except for a Cover Up. 


*The Admins. of this Blog got everything from the News Media, 
FBI and or the Courts: 
CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, etc., 
From Rochester, NY., Myrtle Beach, SC. to Charleston, SC. 
Post and Courier, Rochester, NY Papers, Myrtle Beach News 
and Papers. 

Also, Courtroom Testimony, Federal Court. 
Written Confessions from the Courts. State Court. 

All Certified News outlets. To Federal and State Courts. 
Every post was backed by either: Court Documents, Confessions, 
Courtroom Testimony - to actually News accounts. News stories. 

See Links below: 

1. Da'shaun Taylor had his own suspicious of others. 

Da'Shaun Taylor told on 2 brothers who had Brittanee Drexel Cell Phone in McClellanville, SC. After he just failed his second Polygraph Exam. He was trying to compose himself and got pissed off and told on 2 others involved in Brittanee Drexel disappearance. Da'shaun Taylor had his own suspicious of others. 

*How is her Cell Phone in McClellanville?? ..Others involved.   

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/man-implicated-in-brittanee-drexel-case-had-his-own-suspicions/article_75ee6b9e-291a-11e8-832a-1fb200deff67.html?fbclid=IwAR1s6tJ7Va-WvosD_ZvxKWytDrvBG_TE2iDOXX8i7Ou_d3aWtU3Xp3VezR4 

2. Shawn Taylor set a house on Fire to cover up the horrors within. Ask the FBI for the Facebook Video of him talking about the Fire which he deleted 30 minutes later. However, not before Rochester, NY made a copy of said Arson. And the Destruction of Evidence of many Victims: Kidnapped, Rapes, Tortures and Murders. Shaun Taylor was getting rid of DNA. Tampering with a crime scene is a crime. So is Arson.   

*How the powers that be can explain away this - no one knows. Even the "SS" Gang, South Santee said, "They guilty as hell." A wanted man can burn down a home and walk?? On Video. With several girls missing. 


https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article230944878.html 

An abandoned home that belonged to the family of a suspect in Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance burned down on Saturday evening.
FBI officials did not immediately respond to see if the property is one of the “stash houses” that was searched for clues to her disappearance.
The blaze was reported around 10 p.m. Saturday at 1819 Old Collins Creek Road in McClellanville, South Carolina, said Chief Mike Bowers with the Awendaw-McClellanville Consolidated Fire District.
The road is south of where federal and local investigators searched for clues in Drexel’s case in 2016.

Fire crews arrived to find the building engulfed in flames. Bowers said the house had no power and built 80 years ago.






AMFD PIO@AMCFD

Crews on scene 1819 Old Collins Creek Road for a structure fire. This is an abandoned, unoccupied building. All hands workinf

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10:09 PM - May 25, 2019

3. Testimony by FBI agent concerning the Brittanee Drexel Case. Brittanee Drexel was Human Trafficked, showed off, taken to 3 different cities: North Charleston, Georgetown and McClellanville. Many Witnesses. 

See Transcript below: 

https://www.scribd.com/document/322491855/Transcript-of-hearing-for-Timothy-Da-Shaun-Taylor

 

 14GERRICK MUNOZ - 

4. The FBI also had Several other Witnesses tell them who took 

    Brittanee Drexel. Plus via Tip Line: 1-800-FBI-TIPS. 

    Besides Taquan Brown. 

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 friend 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. 

https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/fbi-agent-missing-teen-brittanee-drexel-was-kidnapped-shot-and/article_8915fe42-9a91-507b-a4e1-f45253da4dec.html   


5. Attempted Abduction of Randa Massey.  07/28/10

Myrtle Beach Police arrested a McClellanville man wanted in connection to a kidnapping attempt a week ago in Myrtle Beach -- a case that has eery similarities to that of missing spring breaker Brittanee Drexel. Shaun Taylor, 37, turned himself in Wednesday morning to face charges of attempted kidnapping and first degree assault. An arrest warrant was obtained Monday, and despite two days of searching, detectives were unable to locate Taylor.

( Why was Shaun Taylor hiding from Police?? )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHF7NkuJS4 

https://www.wmbfnews.com/story/12864913/victim-of-attempted-abduction-in-mb-speaks-out/


 6. Kidnappings prompt look back at other Missing Girls: 

Shannon McConaughey, Brittanee Drexel, Crystal Soles, 

Mia Cyntha Bullock, many others Missing .. 

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/abduction-try-prompts-look-back/article_baee78e5-19d8-5f63-9635-1006e4d1162d.html 


7. Randell Taylor, Shaun Taylors older brother, started the 

    Kidnappings in 1998 if not before, along with 4 other men. 

    They took Shannon McConaughey from us. 

    Kidnapped her, Raped her and Murdered her. 

    2 Wrote Written Confessions. See below:

  


James Isaac Weston Jr. aka "Tag"


Harry James Rivers - Confessed in Writing. 

 
Elijah "Eli" J. Johnson - Confessed in Writing. 


and Jacob Taylor.


Confessions.

Timeline that reveals the Shannon McConaughey story: ( January 1998 - May 2001 )


   ( WARNING GRAPHIC ) 


1) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...04186916.shtml
"...Shannon McConaughey was last reported seen about 11 p.m. Jan. 29, leaving the Cracker Barrel restaurant on Ashley Phosphate Road..."

2) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...19183860.shtml
"...On Friday, McConaughey's dark-blue 1984 Mercury Cougar was found burned on a remote road near McClellanville. The fire nearly destroyed the car, and investigators found only a cellular phone and some Amway notebooks that had not burned, said Berkeley County Sheriff's Capt. Butch Henerey...."

3) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...10184640.shtml
"...For five weeks, relatives and friends of 19-year-old Shannon McConaughey anguished over her disappearance. On Monday, their worst fears were confirmed. A body found Friday in woods near Awendaw has been positively identified as that of the Berkeley County woman missing since Jan. 29..."

4) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...09282315.shtml
"...Charged with murder are James Isaac Weston Jr., 24, of South Santee Road; Harry James Rivers, 29, of Society Road; Elijah J. Johnson, 26, of Old Germantown Road; and Randall Keith Taylor, 32, of Rainey Street in Georgetown. All four were denied bail..."

5) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...28287296.shtml 
"....One of five men charged in the 1998 murder of Shannon McConaughey told investigators she was raped and shot twice in the head after leaving a McClellanville-area bar with the suspects, a detective testified Tuesday. Suspect Elijah Johnson claimed the entire group intended to rape the 19-year-old St. Stephen woman, but the first man to attack her went "berserk" and killed her, Charleston County Sgt. David Robertson said. Robertson testified during a preliminary hearing for three of the men charged with McConaughey's murder - Randall Keith Taylor, 32, of Georgetown and McClellanville residents Harry James Rivers, 29, and James Isaac Weston Jr., 24. All three were arrested Feb. 8...."

"...The defense lawyers also raised questions about four written statements Rivers, one of the suspects, provided to deputies in 1998. Rivers first told investigators he saw McConaughey and Randall Taylor drive off together that night after asking him where they could buy drugs, Robertson testified. Rivers later said McConaughey was slumped over in the car and bleeding from her mouth and nose. He changed his story yet again before finally telling police he had been lying and knew nothing about her death, Robertson said. Taylor is accused of shooting McConaughey, and the others allegedly helped him dispose of her body and car, arrest affidavits state. Also charged in the crime are Johnson, 26, and Jacob Leon Taylor, 46, both of McClellanville...."

** SOMEONE WHO IS LYING WILL CHANGE THERE STORY SEVERAL TIMES. KNOWN FACT. IF HE HAD TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH HE WOULDN'T HAVE KEPT CHANGING HIS STORIES. ie  4 STATEMENTS  ...

"....The assistant solicitor countered that only someone involved in the crime could have known the details Johnson provided, such as where the body was found, the nature of her wounds and that a red gas can was on the rear floorboard of her car. Investigators found traces of the can in the car, he said....."


6) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...11281286.shtml
"...The fifth man accused in the 1998 murder of a St. Stephen woman was arrested Saturday aboard a tugboat in Georgia waters. The U.S. Coast Guard detained Jacob Leon Taylor, 46, of McClellanville. Charged with murder, he was being held Saturday night in Georgia, authorities said...."

7) http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...30292079.shtml
"....After nearly four months in jail, five men accused of a high- profile Lowcountry murder were set free Tuesday when the Charleston County Solicitor's Office dropped the charges, citing a lack of evidence...."

"...On Tuesday, Solicitor Ralph Hoisington and Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon said they had reviewed the case and determined there was not enough evidence to convict the men..."

"...Johnson was arrested in August 1998 on an unrelated breach of trust charge, deputies said. Deputies at the preliminary hearing said Johnson told them that when the group reached the woods, Randall Taylor suddenly appeared and shot McConaughey..."
8)http://archives.postandcourier.com/a...31291695.shtml


"....Authorities say the investigation continues, and they still think some people in the McClellanville area have information, but have not come forward, Lucas said. "We have to have cooperation from people who know about this," he said. "At this point, unless we find some more information, we are not going to be able to bring this case to trial, and we want to," he said...." 

Many more Links to come. It's been over 13 years. 


One thing for sure, Hell is Hot.   


*Every Witness was African American. Not one 

witness said anything about a white dude being 

involved. 

They all said African American suspects. 

Moody did not kidnap Brittanee. However, he 

in the end was the fall guy. Poor Brittanee was 

sold many times the FBI Testified. 


-Da'shaun Taylor told of 2 brothers arguing over her cell phone

 in McClellanville.  


-The father, Shaun Taylor, burns down a stash house. 


-Detectives Stopped from arresting the real Kidnappers 

 in 2010 @ 2011.  



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