The FBI agent's testimony came out during a bond hearing on an unusual charge against Da'Shaun Taylor that his attorney, David Aylor, characterized in the transcript as "clearly nothing but a squeeze-job" designed to pressure him into confessing and helping the government. Investigators also have searched the stash house, the agent testified. He said investigators have been told that the area has as many as 40 such ponds. Munoz told the court that investigators have searched several alligator ponds to no avail. Then the girl's body was wrapped up and taken away.Īsked what happened to the girl's body, Munoz testified that it has not been found but that "several witnesses have told us Miss Drexel's body was placed in a pit, or gator pit, to have her body disposed of. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined and under investigation, Bowers said, but there were no apparent signs of arson. Bowers said the house had no power and built 80 years ago.
Fire crews arrived to find the building engulfed in flames. She was "pistol-whipped" and taken back inside.Īccording to Brown's account, two shots rang out and the inmate assumed Shaun Taylor shot the girl. The road is south of where federal and local investigators searched for clues in Drexel’s case in 2016. As the two talked, Drexel ran from the house. Munoz said Brown said he saw others also in the room with the girl and Da'Shaun Taylor, and he kept walking through the house to the backyard to give some money to Da'Shaun Taylor's father, Shaun Taylor. As he entered the house with a couple of other men, he saw Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor, then 16, "sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel," the agent said. In the transcript, Munoz testifies that the inmate, Taquan Brown of Walterboro, told investigators he went to a "stash house" in the McClellanville area in the days after Drexelwas abducted. Drexel, a cheerful teen who excelled at soccer, was said to have become increasingly depressed. The Rochester native had secretly left New York in April of that year for a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she had vanished. His account, contained in a federal court transcript obtained by The Post and Courier of Charleston, is based on a statement from a prison inmate who claims he was present when she was killed.īut a McClellanville woman whose husband and son have been implicated by the inmate says the story is just a bunch of "craziness" adopted by federal authorities desperate to solve the case. Brittanee Drexel, 17, went missing in 2009, leaving her friends, family, and investigators stunned.
(AP) An FBI agent, citing a statement from a prison inmate, says a Chili teenwho disappeared from Myrtle Beach seven years ago was abducted, gang-raped, shot to death and thrown into an alligator-infested swamp.Īgent Gerrick Munoz this week gave the first detailed account of what investigators think happened to 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, after she disappeared in 2009 whole on a spring break trip.