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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 )
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 )
( 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."
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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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Charleston Co. Georgetown Co. and Horry Co. Sheriff Offices Had 3 - and possibly 4 names of Persons of Interest in Brittanee Drexel Case and were Stonewalled by someone(s) !! About to make arrest. All pulled off the Case ?? smh ..
News article from 2010
Someone wrote in:
Whoever the person or persons are who made the decision to shift the focus of the investigation away from the Taylors and the 4 Persons of Interest messed it up badly. They’ve known what happened to Brittanee Drexel since 2010 and who was involved for 10 years but somehow the whole thing got misdirected at some point.
Was that incompetence or corruption? Or both.
I’d be very curious to hear an explanation for that stupid decision.
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.
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.”
“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
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
Someone wrote in:
Whoever the person or persons are who made the decision to shift the focus of the investigation away from the Taylors and the 4 Persons of Interest messed it up badly. They’ve known what happened to Brittanee Drexel since 2010 and who was involved for 10 years but somehow the whole thing got misdirected at some point.
Was that incompetence or corruption? Or both.
I’d be very curious to hear an explanation for that stupid decision.
Information and leads needed to make Arrest in 2010. ..
They all were pulled ( ?? ) .. WTH ..
Someone wrote in:
It’s sick. If they had given Randell Taylor the chair for Shannon McConaughey Murder none of that would’ve happened. This is what happens when justice fails. I would even say Samantha Josephson wouldn’t have happened if the scumbags who took Brittanee were arrested and put away like the animals they are. It just keeps going. Who’s next ??
Remember 2 wrote Written Confessions against Randall Taylor. 2 of
his friends. Eli Johnson and Harry Rivers.
Brittanee Drexel would still be here if Prosecutors Both State and Federal
had done there jobs. DOJ should have stepped in when Chas. prosecutors
as always drop the ball. In Charleston Co. if your African American you
have a good chance of walking. Prosecutors will let you walk. Just ask
Randell Taylor …
Please write the DOJ, AG and the FBI HQ from below Link: Thank You
https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice
whoever pulled 3 detectives when they were close to making
arrest. 3 detectives from different 3 sheriffs offices pulled when
so close to solving this case ?? smh. only one that could have done
that was the feds. occurred in 2010 .. )
Someone wrote in:
It’s sick. If they had given Randell Taylor the chair for Shannon McConaughey Murder none of that would’ve happened. This is what happens when justice fails. I would even say Samantha Josephson wouldn’t have happened if the scumbags who took Brittanee were arrested and put away like the animals they are. It just keeps going. Who’s next ??
Remember 2 wrote Written Confessions against Randall Taylor. 2 of
his friends. Eli Johnson and Harry Rivers.
Brittanee Drexel would still be here if Prosecutors Both State and Federal
had done there jobs. DOJ should have stepped in when Chas. prosecutors
as always drop the ball. In Charleston Co. if your African American you
have a good chance of walking. Prosecutors will let you walk. Just ask
Randell Taylor …
Please write the DOJ, AG and the FBI HQ from below Link: Thank You
https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice
whoever pulled 3 detectives when they were close to making
arrest. 3 detectives from different 3 sheriffs offices pulled when
so close to solving this case ?? smh. only one that could have done
that was the feds. occurred in 2010 .. )