3 Males following Brittanee Drexel …
https://13wham.com/news/local/exclusive-pi-who-investigated-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-revisits-the-case?jwsource=fb&fbclid=IwAR0EKjbp_0OTtELFqK02tXP1_xZdBxYuW48TsfEujBg9qbYh7v-EgA0oH3A
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 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.
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."
Watch the 5 pm Video on the Link.
As the reported says, few have seen …
If the 3 males following her were witnesses they wouldn't have come forward
by now. All the news coverage back then and now. Those are Suspects IMO ..
Can't the FBI get License Tags off the Cars Passing by ??!!
Watch the '5 pm' Video on the Link.
As the reported says, "Very few have seen this Video."
The Video is towards the bottom of the Link:
https://13wham.com/news/local/exclusive-pi-who-investigated-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-revisits-the-case?jwsource=fb&fbclid=IwAR0EKjbp_0OTtELFqK02tXP1_xZdBxYuW48TsfEujBg9qbYh7v-EgA0oH3A
4 videos total. Watch all 4. The "5 pm" one shows the suspects following
Brittanee Drexel.
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.
“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.”
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
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.
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.
Many Victims were kidnapped, raped, sold, in this Stash House. A friend said it best. "This is much bigger than just Brittanee Drexel." He nailed it. Several other victims.
https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article230944878.html
Crews on scene 1819 Old Collins Creek Road for a structure fire. This is an abandoned, unoccupied building. All hands workinf
*Why burn down a house if your innocent??
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.
You decide....
*News article: Persons of Interest Brittanee Drexel Case
*April 2010 ( about to make arrest 12 years ago .. )
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.
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.
Detectives had the real kidnappers years ago and were stonewalled!?
12 years ago.
Many girls still missing.
-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.
