Investigators have taken a fresh look at unsolved crimes targeting two other women as new developments surface in Brittanee Drexel’s presumed slaying.

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The FBI recently revealed in court they suspect Drexel, 17, was taken from Myrtle Beach in April 2009 and held in McClellanville where she was raped and shot. The vacationing New York teenager’s body was discarded in an alligator pit, an agent said, citing a “jailhouse confession.” A father and a son from the town were alleged to have played roles in Drexel’s demise.
With that new insight based on witness accounts, and with other evidence they have gathered, investigators are reconsidering possible links between Drexel’s disappearance, the attempted abduction of a Myrtle Beach woman a year later ( Randy Massey ) and the 1998 slaying of Shannon McConaughey, 19, whose body was found in Awendaw.
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In each case, authorities have developed suspects from the same McClellanville Family, but none of them have been successfully prosecuted.
A jailhouse informant told the FBI that Timothy Shaun Taylor, now 43, shot Drexel after his son, Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor, now 25, sexually assaulted her at a home in the northeastern Charleston County town. Her body was never found, and nobody has been charged in her death.
The elder Taylor was questioned about the case after his arrest in July 2010, when he was accused of trying to pull a 20-year-old woman into a van in Myrtle Beach, just blocks from the hotel where Drexel was last seen. He insisted that he was elsewhere at the time of that crime, and police told news media that surveillance video helped corroborate his account. Prosecutors eventually dropped the charges.
Capt. David Knipes of the Myrtle Beach Police Department, which probed that case and has worked with the FBI on Drexel’s disappearance, said the agency continues to recheck the details and facts of the 2010 kidnapping attempt.
“As part of our investigation we have looked at this case again,” he said. “However, we are not in a position to provide further details.”
After the development in Drexel’s case was revealed last week by The Post and Courier, the elder Taylor continued to deflect all accusations in the disappearance and in the Myrtle Beach abduction attempt, his attorney, Steve Schmutz of Charleston, said Monday.
Federal prosecutors have charged the younger Taylor in connection with an unrelated robbery in hopes of forcing his testimony against his father, a maneuver that Schmutz called “an unusual reach.”
The attorney said his client expects any case against him to falter, just as the other did. Schmutz stressed that the elder Taylor had been cleared of wrongdoing in the Myrtle Beach case.
“Of course, he denies any involvement” in the Drexel case, Schmutz said. “The fact of the matter is the result will be the same — no matter how many times it’s looked at.”
But Drexel’s father, Chad Drexel, wrote Monday on Facebook that more evidence pointing to his daughter’s killers will emerge, including her DNA that was discovered in a key place.
But he declined to discuss specifics with The Post and Courier, fearing further public details would compromise the FBI’s probe.
“This is only the beginning!” he wrote. “There is a ton more evidence and horrible info we would like the public ... (to) be aware of for their safety.”
The elder Taylor’s brother, Randall Keith Taylor, 48, was one of five men arrested in McConaughey’s killing.
The St. Stephen woman was last seen at a North Charleston restaurant in January 1998. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office investigators alleged that Randall Taylor raped and shot her and that the other men helped dispose of her body. Her car was burned in the woods near McClellanville. Her body was found months later.
Detectives arrested Randall Taylor and the four others in 2001, but prosecutors dropped the murder charges, citing insufficient evidence.
“We have looked at that case a number of times during the course of assisting the Brittanee Drexel investigation,” Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon said Monday. “We have not made many advances, but we have continued to revisit it as the Drexel case has unfolded.”
Since his release, Randall Taylor has been arrested only on misdemeanor charges, including giving false information to the police.
One of his former co-defendants in McConaughey’s death, Harry James Rivers, 45, was sentenced in 2012 to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor.

     (  ARRESTED FOR RAPE AGAIN. NO SURPRISE THERE.  ) 




                                                BRITTANEE M. DREXEL


                                                     CRYSTAL GAIL SOLES 

      
  

 SAME M.O. 

ALL MISSING FROM THE SAME GENERAL AREA ... 

OR THERE CELL PHONE LAST PINGED IN McCLELLANVILLE, SC 

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