Drexel was never seen alive again.
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Investigators revealed in June that Drexel’s case was being investigated as a murder. However, in June, they held a press conference where they said they believed Drexel was dead and that she had been held against her will.
Police had said previously that Brittanee went to the Bluewater hotel to see a friend from Rochester, Peter Brozowitz, who was staying there with friends, according to WCSC. After that, she disappeared.
Drexel’s cellphone transmitted its last known signal the day after she disappeared near the South Santee River, about 15 miles outside McClellanville.
Now, there appears to be a conclusion to this horrifying story. His account, contained in a federal court transcript obtained by The Post and Courier of Charleston (http://bit.ly/2bvYaCJ), is based on a statement from a prison inmate who claims he was present when she was killed.
Munoz said Brown told officials he saw Da’Shaun Taylor, then 16 years old, and several other men “sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel”. The inmate, Taquan Brown, also implicated a father and son from McClellanville, SC, near where Brittanee’s last cell phone ping was traced.
Shortly after, Brown said he heard two gunshots. Her body was “wrapped up and taken away”, according to the account in The Post and Courier.
Brown said he saw a few other men in the room with Drexel and Taylor. “Eaten by the gators”.
Brown’s confession is allegedly corroborated by an inmate in the Georgetown county jail.
Da’Shaun Taylor’s attorney believed the transcript was nothing but a way to pressure Da’Shaun Taylor into confessing and helping the government.
Munoz said the Federal Bureau of Investigation 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”.
The Post and Courier reports Munoz said Drexel’s body was “placed in a pit, or gator pit”.
The FBI has supposedly conducted sweeps in various alligator pits for physical evidence, and have thus far come up empty. They believe there are about 40 in the area.
Brittanee Drexel went missing from Myrtle Beach in 2009.
The family of Da’Shaun Taylor have labelled inmate Brown’s claims as “crazy”. In 2011, Taylor was the getaway driver in a robbery, and subsequently served probation.
Additionally, Joan Taylor, wife of Shaun Taylor and mother of Da’Shaun Taylor, claims this whole process is being used to “pin something else” on her son.
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The FBI agent also testified they’ve been receiving information since the press conference in June that indicates Da’Shaun Taylor tried to traffick her, but they said they chose to murder and dispose of her after her disappearance hit the media.
