Morbid - Episode 203: The Mysterious Disappearance of Brittanee Drexel

Episode Date: January 23, 2021

Brittanee Drexel was 17 years old when two girls, Alanna Lippa and Jennifer Oberer, invited her to go on spring break with them. The girls were from Chili New York and were planning to head to Myrtle beach for a long weekend. Brittanee’s mom, Dawn Drexel, told her she couldn’t go because she didn’t know the girls Brittanee would be going with and was afraid something bad would happen. Britanee told her mom she was just staying with friends for the weekend instead, but really she went out to Myrtle Beach, and disappeared within 2 days. There are many horrible theories as to what happened to Brittanee that will break your heart. But it’s an important story to tell, in the hopes justice will someday be served.  As always, thank you to our sponsors: Lovebook: Visit LoveBookOnline.com/MORBID to receive a special 20% discount only for our listeners! Thrive Market: Go to Thrive Market.com/MORBID. Join today to get 25% off your first order AND a FREE gift! Prose: Prose is the healthy hair regimen with your name all over it. Take your FREE in-depth hair quiz and get 15% off your first order today!  Thredup: You’ll look and feel good with thredUP! And for Morbid listeners, here’s an exclusive offer just for you: Get an extra 30% off your first order at thredUP.com/MORBID See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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we decided that we just wanted to do like a little something for you guys, just because you're red. Well, some stuff. We're gonna be covering Brittany Drexel today. And this is clearly, if anybody knows this case, then you know that it is a lot. A doozy one would say.

It's really only become a lot in the last few years with things coming out. So, I'm going to split this into two parts, but because I know I don't like waiting a long time for part two, and I know you don't like waiting along. So, we're going to put part two out on Monday, and it's going to be ad-free. BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM B I feel like I just wanted like, I mean like guys I gotta tell you they have and who doesn't love a little fun It's just like a fun little extra because you know you deserve it you guys are awesome So well you'll get three episodes next week We're gonna try to throw a bonus episode in there for patreon. It's gonna be a crazy week Yeah, I'm a good one. We're gonna. I mean I got sick of Elena But so yeah, so this one will release on Saturday

and then you're gonna get part two on Monday. So you'll only have like a full day to wait. Cool. So hopefully that'll be cool. Oh yeah, today Saturday isn't it? Yeah, today is Saturday. Holy cow. Today is Saturday.

I thought that today was Friday. No, no. This week was a weird conundrum with time. Yes, I don't understand. Because my kid's birthday was on Monday, and that feels like it was 14 days ago, approximately? 14 years for me. Yeah, it feels like it was a long time ago.

That's actually really crazy. Yeah, this week was strange. Did anybody else feel like they were doing a time warp this week? Did something happen? Because it wasn't even like something specific that made it feel that way. It just, I don't know what it was.

When I found out yesterday was Friday, I was like, oh, all my star people, what's up? Yeah, what's happening? Tell us. What's up out there? What's going on in the planets or whatnot? So let's start Brittany Drexel. Okay.

Now I'd like to start this one by saying that this case is strange. It's frustrating. And I think it's gonna make a lot of people feel like a little bit of a pit in many ways because it's a mother, it's a parents worst nightmare. And it's also like got mean girls in it. I think these kids, I feel like this girl got trapped

far away from home with people that were absolute twats and thought nothing of her personal say, didn't give shit about her. And basically brought her there to basically tease her. I think she was just the butt of whatever they were doing. I hate that. And it made me really angry to read. I was like, I really,

and I'll get into like why their assholes later. We'll spill the hot tea. Yeah, don't worry. Now, I think part two, I'm gonna tell you everything that happened, how she ended up a missing person because right now, she's a missing person. They they've never found her body. Right. They don't know exactly what happened, but in recent months and the year or so, they have found out a lot more. So that will be in part two and we'll go like way deeper into that. Will you tell me at the end of the day? I will. Okay, cool. But I'll set it up so you'll know where we're going with it. Cool. So this happened this Saturday, April 25th, 2009, is when she went missing. She went missing from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was 17 years old at the time and

Now we're gonna get into who she was. All right, and how she ended up missing. Okay, which is very frustrating So she was born Brittany Drexel was born on October 7th. She was born in Rochester, New York She now she went to school. It was like this town's name looks like it would be pronounced chili. Yeah. And I was like, it can't be that easy. Cause a child.

No pronunciation is that easy. No, I think it's chai-lai. Chai-lai. I'm pretty sure it's chai-lai. And I'm pretty sure I said it right. Chai-lai. I'm pretty sure I said it right. You knowai. I'm pretty sure I said it right. You know what?

Everyone will let you know. Everyone will let you know. Everyone will let you know. So you know what? But this one, I'm like, I think I got it guys. Uh oh. Uh oh, now I'm nervous. She went to Chilai High School.

I think it's Gates Chilai High School. Sorry. I think I said it. Chilai. I think I did it. Either way. It looks like chili. Sorry, I just got excited and hit my eyes. Literally over there. I'm weaving her arms around like, I think I got it. I think I said it, Chila. I think I did it either way. It looks like chili. Sorry, I just got excited and hit my eyes. Literally over there weaving her arms around like,

I think I got it, I think I got it. I'm really excited about this one. She's a weird one. It is, it is. I would have just said chili, but I did my due diligence and looked it up. I was like, can't be that easy. No, no.

Because I'll say chili and everyone will be like, you dumbass. I would have said, child. Child. Chila. So she was the oldest. She had two younger siblings named Marissa and Camden She loved them. Oh, it was a very good big sister very protective big sister They I couldn't find the exact ages. I believe that Camden was five at the time she went missing

Oh, and Camden was only a couple of years older than, or Merce was only a couple of years older than Camden. So they were young. Yeah. But she loved them. She was super sweet. Her mother, Dawn Drexel, said that when she was a kid, she absolutely loved the limelight.

Yeah. She said in all the videos you see of her as a kid, she's like a total ham. Oh, always. And she reminds me of my youngest, so that she's always in a tutu, always in some crazy outfit, just being right in front of the camera.

And she'd always be doing something crazy. I can so see that. She basically described her as just super goofy and super full of life. It always makes me wanna rip my heart out when you see the old home videos of missing or a dead person. Yeah, like the people as like toddlers, right?

They're in a two to two life. Having that whole life ahead of them. Because you just, you just think of like their family looking at that being like, we had no idea. We had no idea what the horror that would happen. It taints it. And actually, you know, when it came out later, what they think happened to her, her mother said, I obviously don't know, and they don't have a body,

and we don't have anything to go on, except for what the FBI is telling us they think happened. Which makes that 10 times harder. Well, and she said, in this broke my heart, she said, all I can think of is her face. Oh! In that situation, and she said, all I can think of is the terror that her face must have shown.

And she was like, and I see it every day. My entire body just started like vibrant. Didn't it? Because you just think of your child. Everybody's seen their child at one point or another like scared. Terrified of something. Like, you know, when they're little

and to have to picture that on their face, thinking of something horrible happening to them. Because like we said, when you don't know what happened, filling in the missing pieces is the worst thing. Oh yeah. That you're bringing your left to do. Yeah, your brain will fill in so much worse. And in this case, she doesn't need to.

Yeah. Because the actual information is horrific. Oh great. She was very close to her mother, Dawn. Her mother was married to a guy named Chad Drexel. We love Chad. Brittany took his last name was very close to her stepfather.

I love that. Very, very close. They were tight. We love when a guy will come in and just do what he needs to do with the stepfather. I know. I was thinking that I was like, good job Chad. Good for you, Chad.

Making a good name for steptads across the USA. Yeah. Now her biological father's name was John. He had, he and her mother, Don actually had Brittany when they were teenagers. So they both said, you know, they were babies themselves when they had her. So it was very closely after she, you know, a couple of years after she was born that they split up. Yeah.

He moved to, I believe, Tampa, Florida. So he moved far away, which maybe it was for work or something. I couldn't find that out. Happened to me. Well, that's the thing. I don't understand moving that far away from your child, whether you guys are splitting up or not. I don't either. Because what happened was he didn't really see her for a long time.

Yeah. They did have, they did rekindle their relationship, but only a year before this happened. I feel like that's, it's like reminiscent of some other cases where things like this happen, like not even with just like a father-daughter relationship, just any kind of relationship reconnects and like you're so excited

and then something horrible happens. And then something terrible happens. And I do like, because he was saying, you know, he would fly up to see her. And it became like a thing where every time he got to see her, that he was like, I wanted to do everything with her. I wanted to take her shopping. I wanted to go out to dinner.

Yeah. I just wanted to be with her and we were getting to know each other more. And he was like, and we were just like becoming such good like friends and like-daughter. And he says, I can't believe I only have that short of time, which I imagine he has a lot of regrets. Yeah, and that sucks. That's horrible.

He could have had a whole life with her, you know? But at least he has something. At least he has something. You just wonder, like, why did it only start a year before she was gone? I don't understand that stuff, but divorce is weird. It's a strange situation. wonder like, you're like, why did it only start a year before she was gone? Like, yeah, you know, I don't understand that stuff, but divorce is weird. It's a strange situation. So, yeah. And I imagine he probably had to move to Tampa maybe for work. That's what I'm going

with. I couldn't find anything to tell you that you're never assuming. Or something, maybe like some kind of like work or just a better opportunity. Yeah. And the good news is Chad Drexel was her father. Yeah. Like, when John wasn't, you know, like that, that he stepped right in. Right. Now, unfortunately, she, uh, Don and Chad were in the process of splitting up.

Oh! When this was all, when this all happened. Oh, God. I don't, it doesn't seem like it was like a vicious, you know, divorce or anything like that, but it was very hard and Britney. Right. Because again, she loved Chad. And he's been in her life since she was a little girl. This is like a biological father, you know, you mean like somebody you've known your whole life?

That, that kind of divorce is like, and anytime you attach yourself to somebody and divorce is involved, like, whether or not it's a biological father, mother, whatever, when you're attached to somebody and they're, you think they're going to be gone, that's horrible. Yeah, and I can't imagine, because like, my parents are still married, I've never sent a divorce, but like, I obviously, I know, like, it's so common that I know about a billion people, like, everybody around me has been through it and I always think about it I'm like that would have devastated me like I can't imagine I was like stoked

I'm divorced my stuff dad. I was like wow like finally I have that Jesus Christ sister and then I was like bye My main but it's like if my parents got divorced, I'd be really sad. Oh my god. No, never. I can imagine it would be a really traumatizing thing. Now something that's interesting about Brittany is that she was blind in her right eye. Oh, I didn't never know that. Yeah. I know like bits and pieces of this case. I never knew that. Yeah. She had something called PHPV, which is persistent hyperplastic primary vitrius. called PHPV, which is persistent hyperplastic primary vitrius. And it's congenital, so you're born with it.

And it happens in utero, the primary vitrius in high alloyed vasculature, which is the major blood supply source to the eye. It doesn't regress. Oh, okay. So the primary vitrius is like, it's like a jelly behind your eyeball. And it usually regresses jelly behind your eyeball, and it usually regresses once you are formed in embryos,

or in fetuses, excuse me. And people with PHPV have bad, like, hazy vitrius that stops light from passing to the back of the eye because it never goes away. And the vitrius isn't, it's not supposed to totally go away, it's just supposed to regress in turn. And their vitrius stays and is also just like shitty vitrius. So it's very, very cloudy.

Yeah, it's like scarred and it's cloudy, so it stops light from going to the back of the eye, and that makes the vision blurry at the very least. Oh, okay. And then obviously it can cause blindness. In her case, she was totally blind in the right eye. And it can often be seen in premature babies. Oh, okay.

But I don't know if Brittany was premature. She was a very petite girl. Yeah. So maybe. But I don't know if she was premature. Nothing has said that. And it's mostly unilaterally present, like in Brittany's case, only in one eye, which very rarely in both.

But it was just interesting. I was like, oh, I knew that. And I guess she wore contacts that helped stabilize, because part of the thing that will happen is when your eyes blind in that eye, the muscle is going to weaken, because you're not used to focusing it on something, so the eye can drift. And she was wearing corrective contacts that would keep it in place. Okay, cool. So like I said, she was very petite. She was five feet tall. Wow. She was barely a hundred pounds Like just a little little girl goals. Yeah, very tiny and five feet tall is very like I'm five foot one and a half

So you're essentially short so short I like to add the one and a half But yeah very short. short. So I feel her. She was a star soccer player in high school at Chai Laai high school. Chai La. At Chai Laai. And everyone said she was like a beast on the soccer field. I love it. She would take you down.

She's got her elbows going. I love how she's five feet tall. She's scrappy. Barely under pounds soaking wet and she's just like taking people out on the high school soccer pitch. I feel like soccer pitch. Soccer pitch. Let's go ahead and down to the soccer pit.

I played soccer when I was little. I don't know why I just called it a pit. That sounds like something I would do. I'm really sure. Soccer ring. The soccer. Oh, the soccer court. So, so she also, if you look at any photos of Britney,

it is very clear that she loved fashion. Yes, she was very much a fashionista. She was very into clothing, makeup, hair, very much an ash-kele, if you will. I'm like dancing, I'm like Britney, Britney, me too. You would have loved Britney, I guess. And she had aspirations.

She loved to model, amateur modeling. She would take those cute little shots where you're looking over your shoulder. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? And she also had, she wanted to become like a cosmologist. She wanted to go to cosmology school.

She wanted to be Ashkel. I love it. And she was very into it. She was, you know, and she does cut. She was like you. She like changed her hair all the time. Yeah, it's a hair stylist thing. Yeah, and she was beautiful.

Oh, like beautiful. She had a beautiful smile. I've seen pictures of her and, of it, it just breaks your heart. Yeah, she's just one of those girls that like you would be like, oh my God, you got that girl right? So pretty.

But fast forward to April 2009 when she's 17 years old, she's a junior in high school at this point. And like I said, her mom Don and her stepfather Chad starting to go through a divorce. She was having in the house was going into foreclosure. So they were going to be moving out of the house. A lot of changes. A lot of not happy changes. It's not like you're moving out of the house because you want, you know, you of your own volition. Right. You're being forced out of your house. Right. And I'm sure knowing about, you know, financial

struggle and knowing what's going on with her parents. It's like, that's a lot. And at 17, you're already going through. For every thing. For every 17 year old stuff. She did have a boyfriend, John Greco, who I love John Greco. Like every interview you see of him, you're like, you really loved her. Like you really loved her. And did they do the thing in like the crime shows where they like point to him and then they're like,

but he was great. No, they actually don't point to him because he was nowhere near this. Okay, good. Nothing's. Because you know when they lead you to believe and then you're like, I hate that I hated that guy for even a fraction of a second. Exactly. Because then you're like, he's a lovely person. Thanks a lot, Dejon. No, John. John is just straight up lovely. Okay, good.

They, they, I think they were dating for about two years on and off. Yeah, they had the typical 17 year and high school. They're really shipy break years on and off. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school. They had the typical 17 year old high school.

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on like pain medicines at one point. That's not substantiated. I've seen it like reported and other things and I'm like, maybe don't do that. Because like they've never confirmed that. Yeah. And I just don't think that's... Yeah. ...to like just be like, where, so people like to say that for shock facts.

And I feel like they just kind of like are drawing off of she was diagnosed with depression. So let's tack on a overdose. And it's like, no, like maybe it happened, but like we're not sure. It's not substantiated. So I wouldn't say that that actually happened. Every one of her family and friends said,

she in no way would want to hurt herself. Oh, that's, happened. Everyone of her family and friends said, she in no way would want to hurt herself. Oh, that's, and let's believe her family and friends. And I believe her family and friends off the table that she would want to hurt herself. And that she would never like run away. She definitely didn't run away and we will find out why there's very clear indication she didn't run away.

Well, and you said in the beginning, she loved her little sister, little sister and little brother. She loved her little sister and little brother. Regardless of what she was going through with John her boyfriend She loved her mom her she loved her mom. She wanted to become a cosmetologist. She was she had goals and she had a good family And it's like we're gonna see like she didn't bring anything that would indicate that she was running away. It just doesn't make sense So she wanted to go to spring break anything that would indicate that she was running away. It just doesn't make sense. So she wanted to go to spring break. Like any 17 year old who is surrounded by kids

going to spring break, it wasn't like a big thing in my school. No, it just wasn't. Some people went to spring break. Yeah, some people did, but it wasn't like, I guess in this high school, tons of kids from her class, like it was a thing. Yeah, like a Laguna Beach kind of thing.

Literally. We just did a crime countdown episode. I don't know when it's coming out, but. I know I was thinking of that. Yeah. Yeah, and it was, it really was like that. It was like, all the kids go to spring break, they all go to rental beach or like somewhere around there.

I think it depends on like your class, because I remember like, when I was a sophomore, the senior class, I remember everyone was talking about going away, but then when I was a junior and a senior, like it was only like basically like the very rich kids. So like, I'm going to Cuba. That was literally ours. It was like, it just wasn't a thing. I think it's also your proximity to a place to go.

Yeah, we're in Massachusetts. I mean, she was in New York though, right? Where are you gonna go? But you're, she, particularly, they're like, what, 14 hours out of a mortal beach where she is? Yeah, I guess that's true. They're a little closer. It's a little closer, I guess.

Like, it's technically like a little over a day drive. Right, right. So it's more realistic than like driving from Massachusetts to like, more or somewhere. Yeah. It's just, I mean, yeah. So, a ton of kids from her school were gonna be going. So of course she wants to go, especially with everything going on,

I think she just wanted to get away a little bit. I think she needed a vacation. She needed a little vacation. And so the problem was, it was mainly like always, the senior class that was going. That's usually what it is. Typically, she was a junior. So she wanted to go with older kids. And her mom was like, no. And these girls that she wanted to go with older kids and

Her mom was like no and these and these girls that she wanted to go with she wasn't friends with really She just kind of like was go acquaintances with them and they invited her didn't know them well and they were all over 18 Oh, so that's why her mom said no. Yeah, and she asked her mom tons of I mean this was she was persistent and she kept She made like a PowerPoint presentation I'm pretty much and they got in fights about that. I mean it was a big deal because I mean it was of course you're 17 You want to do something your mom says no you're gonna start screaming like Then you got mad at your mom because you won't let you there you go. Yeah, and so and Don I give it to her because it must be really hard I'm terrified of the day that you have to repeatedly say no to something like that, and they flip out and you don't know what they're like.

And you've got two that will be working together. And you've got to stay strong. And it's like that must be really hard. So I give Don a lot of credit. And Chad was on, even though they were going through like their split, Chad was on Don's side. It was going to back to her up and was like, no though they were going through like their split, Chad was on Don's side. It was going to back her up and was like, no, like we don't. And their reason was one, you don't know these girls, too.

I don't know these girls. Right, they're older. And then they're older than you. And there's no adult supervision. You're 17 years old. And her mom Don said, something bad's going to happen, Brittany. I don't want you going. Oh, God. Like she knew, she said I knew from the second that she was like, if she went, I was like, no, you're not going. Spring Break is dangerous.

It might, I'm telling it, I hope they're gonna listen to me when I'm 17, maybe they'll listen to this podcast. Girls, you're not going anywhere. No. Spring Break. Hi. I will let them. I'm like, I am gonna be the cool fun. I can't wait. I will

fully back. Yeah. And I'll be like, listen, TT, who did like every bad thing, didn't go on Spring Break. Exactly. So you're not either. No. Mark this day, January 23rd, 2021. You're not going on Spring Break. They're like Bailey Sarian says. And again, Don and Chad did the right thing. They did the right thing. Yeah. the right thing, told her no. They stuck to their guns. And this is just, what happens is really out of anybody's control. Well, and what I hate is like, wouldn't Don

is saying something bad is gonna happen. In her mind, she's probably thinking like, you know, something like bad, like alcohol poisoning. Exactly. Like you'll get like, you won't be able to go into a bar and you'll get like arrested for like a fake ID. Something like that. Something like that. Not life or death. Exactly. She's not thinking you're gonna get plugged off the street and never seen again. But so, you know, Brittany finally after really hammering her mom about this, finally gave up and seemed to give up and was like fine,

but she was plotting. So she said to her mother, okay fine, but can I stay a few nights at my friend's house in Rochester? And she was like, okay, you can stay at your friend's house in Rochester, but I want to talk to their mom. Yeah. And she was like, this again, these are these girls. I'm still fucking hateful. I'm going to do that shit. Mom did that to me all the time. And I'm going to be such a pain in the ass as I do. I know sometimes I think about it and I'm like those poor girls, but they'll be very protected. They will. I, you know what it was, I went from having like absolute freedom

when I lived at my mom's house. I could do whatever the fuck I wanted. And then I moved home with my grandparents for that very reason. And they were like, yeah, you live at the convent now. Yeah, my grandma laterally called it the convent. She did, because you needed it. Yeah. And I just want them to know, like, I love you. And I don't want anything to happen to you. Because I'm sorry if that pisses you off. The older you get, like, now I'm 24.

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Because they were only planning to do an Myrtle Beach for a couple days and then drive home. Yeah, it's about a 14 hour drive. So they were planning, you know, I'm just gonna call mom and text mom and tell her I'm doing things during the day and then we're going home at night and she'll never know.

Yeah, it's the sounds like exactly a scheme I would applaud a whole bag. Oh, one day. But you wouldn't have been able to do this. If I still lived with my mom, if you lived with your mom, yeah. 100% I would have been like chillin' in my little beach. Oh yeah. Mom, Papa, they would have been like chilling in my little beach. Oh yeah.

Mom, Papa, they would have like drove to my little beach and like killed me. They would have got you before you even got no. Thought of the plan. Yeah, they would have like saw me packing. Yeah, and then like really you're stupid. I see the bathing suit. Yeah, no, they would have been like, we know you.

But yeah, so she's on her way to my little beach now. Her boyfriend, John, knew she was going. Okay. He knew not to tell her parents. Obviously. But of course, he's, you know, they're all 17 here. Yeah, a lot of them. And she said, you know, she was just,

and she had told him, like, I'm, you know, not gonna do anything. I just need some, I need to get away for a couple of days. Yeah, I'm gonna go to the beach. But you know what's going on with me? And she actually wanted him to come. And he wanted to come, but he was like, I can't get out of work.

Oh, okay. So he was bummed, she was bummed, but he was like, I can't get out of work. I have to say. So he was bummed, she was bummed, but he was like, go without me, like, have fun. I wish he didn't have to go to work. I know, and I feel so bad, because he probably is like, survivor skills.

If I was there, would this have happened? Yep, probably not. Things like this is just always like, what could have been this happened? Always, always, always, always. So again, she was calling her mother the entire way down there texting her saying she's in Rochester. At one point, she said, Oh, hey, mom, just going back to a friend's house to watch a movie tonight.

Yeah. Can hang out. And it's like Don thinks of that now. And she's like, and now I know she was on her way to Mertle Beach. That must be a bummer. Yeah. So on Thursday, April 23rd, is when they arrived at Mertle Beach. She was with these girls. They're all over 18. These girls' names are Alana Lipa and Jennifer Oberg are the two like main girls that she was going to be staying in the hotel room with. They were also with Jennifer's brother,

who was also Alana's boyfriend. His name is Phil Oberg. And they were with Jennifer's brother, who was also a Lana's boyfriend. His name is Phil Oberg, and they were with Jennifer's boyfriend, Uger Ozturk. Okay. I mean, they're all dicks, so. Yeah.

But his name is Uger Ozturk. And again, they both had their boyfriends with them, so I think she was meant to bring John and Skips, so she was kind of the the odd man out at that with them was also eventually a guy named Viet again. Louis Diamico and Nico Shereko. There are a lot of guys on this equation, a lot of guy. And there's more. There's more guys that when they get there. So and there's only the two girls on a Jennifer and

obviously there's Brittany. Yeah. Okay. There's a lot of shady things happening here. That's weird. Yeah. That's very weird. A lot of shady things. I wouldn't feel comfortable going to one, two.

Oh, I wouldn't want to. And here's the thing. So none of these people were really good friends with Brittany. Right. So she probably didn't even know who was going to be there. She probably didn't even know most of these people. Right. And then she knows Jennifer, she knows Alana,

but like even people at school were like, yeah, I guess they knew each other, they weren't friends. Like they didn't hang out. They were like just becoming friends. And I guess, and I think what this was, was what we find out is that Alana and Jennifer were big party girls. They were big into drugs, big into the party scene.

And I think they were like these cool wild girls. They were big into drugs, big into the party scene. I think they were like these cool wild girls. I think Brittany was just trying to be part of the crowd. Once she was going through the most trying time that when you're in high school, you're either going to try to figure out how to get through it or you are going to party through it. Exactly. I think she was just trying to fit in with them. Yeah.

And she was like, oh, these cool older girls want to take me to Myrtle Beach. Right. And these two older girls really took advantage of that and they treated her like shit. I hate that so much. And I hope it just gives them lots of wrinkles. Yeah.

And I hope they don't have access to a good retinol cream. I hope they don't or Botox. And never give those girls access to retinol cream.. I hope they don't or Botox. And never give those girls access to retinal cream. Never. Never. Never. Don't do it. Yeah. Do not give mean girls access to retinal cream. I think that's a good retinal cream. Don't do it. No. So yeah. So as we, you know, we've pretty much laid out that these girls are part ears. they're into drugs. This is not a good situation for Brittany to be in. No, but she thinks it is, of course, because she's 17. Mm-hmm.

Now, this is going to play into later why Brittany finds herself in a pretty risky situation. Okay, so hang on to that. So they were staying at the bar harbor hotel on North Ocean Boulevard, which there's like a main strip, which is like Ocean Boulevard and it's like where all the things are. Right. I think everybody, it's like every town like this, like it's like destination.

Prime time for spring break. Yeah, like all the hotels and resorts and bars and clubs are all on this one strip. It's like designed for that. Exactly. So they were staying like designed for that. Exactly. So they were staying pretty close to that. So that night, they went to a club. It's called Club Crypto Night. I'm obsessed.

Google what this club looks like. Oh, my God. Because when I googled it, I was like, no. Oh, God. First, if you pulled up in front of this club, and we're like, we're going here, Lane. I would laugh at you so hard. If you got in the car with me to go to a club, I would laugh so hard because I'd be so excited.

Because this place looks like, it looks like in a comic book, like where the bad guy would have his headquarters. Yeah, so I've been in the sense I've been in the script tonight. I've mentioned Puffer Bellies before, that is where my phone got stolen and the Under 18 club we would go to. Sure, health. That's pretty much what I'm picturing because it does look like where the bad guy would have a side quarters. It does.

And a few of our listeners were like, I've been to Puffer Bellies correct. Yeah, like you are very correct about assertion. If you've been to Club Crypt tonight, let us know if you agree. Yeah, because Club Crypt tonight, not only in name, because that's a perfect name for a bad guy's headquarters. It is. Uh, it's in name, because that's a perfect name for a bad guy's headquarters. It is.

It's, yeah, it looks like it. It just looks cartoony and just like crazy. I want to go live. You got to go live. I'm going to Google it. I was like, I was like, what? But I also don't go to clubs. I mean, I've gone to clubs in Boston,

which are old buildings. Like, they don't look like clubs in like my, you know, where like, it would be like a Miami or like Mertle Beach. Yeah, I would have said they look very different in Boston and I was just not a big club or anyway. So you were so very new to me. So they went to this club. Now I again, she was 17. Is it right? It's no, it's permanently closed. Yeah, I thought it was closed. I wasn't sure, but yeah.

I can't, I'm trying to find what it like to look like. It's crazy looking. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's, that's a lot. Yeah. So, right? Doesn't that look like a place where bad guy would have had quarters? What it looks like.

Which is the same thing as a bad guy had quarters and don't come at me. Looks like a Scientology building. It really does It looks like a like a very cartoonish Scientology. You're right. It does. Yeah, it truly does. It just looks very ominous Are those elephants on the top? What is right? I was confused. I don't know what elephants have to do with Kryptonite I'm not really sure. I don't know if those are no. It's just like a weird Whatever. It's not important. It's just weird either way, she went to this club where she met up with a guy, a 20-year-old guy named Peter Brazois. Okay. She knew this guy. Oh, why? She knew this guy from Rochester. Oh,

okay. They had known each other for a couple of years. They were friendly. They at least knew each other. Sure. So they were seen at this club hanging out. And he was with four dudes as well. A lot of guys in the scenario. We're adding five more guys onto this. And we already have about five. And we already have a lot. So I mean, maybe it's just like the nature of being a woman, you're like, that's a lot.

Maybe it's that I just don't trust straight white males. Well, and it's like, that's just a lot. Like, that's a lot. And if I knew them all, like we used to live in Quincy. Right. All of John's guy, like I know all of them. It's different.

I would of course feel comfortable around all those guys. Guys, I know, that's a lot of guys that you don't know. Well, and you weren't in high school. It's a very different thing when you're 17 and you're hanging out with like fellow 17 year old guys, but when you're getting into like 19, 20 year old guys and you're 17, I'm sorry, there is a big jump there. Of course, and you're good.

I wonder if she was, you know, I wonder how uncomfortable she was starting to do. Intimidated. Because these girls, Alana and Jennifer knew a lot of these guys. So I just feel for her. I feel like this is starting to become a scary guys. So I just feel for her. I do too. I feel like this is starting to become a scary situation.

So far nothing bad is happening, but these guys with him are Keith Cummings, Matt Abrams, Anthony Schmizzy. I know they called him Schmizzy. Phil Watson. I know he went by Schmizzy. Oh, they definitely called him Schmizzy. Yeah, he's Schmizzy. And if not, I'm disappointed.

Yeah, if not, I don't know who they, then I'm even more sus if I didn't want that. But they all hung out as far as, you know, everything's reported nothing wrong. Okay. Everybody had fun. I believe this photos from this night where they were all hanging out, you know, having fun. She's in some of the photos. Right.

Peter. Peter. Peter. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater. Yeah. How do I think couldn't keep her? She, she, she, she is a lot in what regard. So I beg you to go look for his little clip on the Dr. Phil show. For some reason you can't find the entire interview, it's like all taken down. Weird, but I think that's what it is, but you can find little snippets of it. And Peter is, whatever you're picturing, Peter Brazoitz to be, he is. He's a 20 year old club promoter.

Brasowitz to be he is he's a 20 year old club promoter so whatever you are Nope, yeah say no more. Whatever you're saying no more. Just go with that. Say no more. Are you picturing a giant collar inside of it? Are you picturing a giant collar in an open button shirt? You know, open far too low. You know, it makes me on a dig a hole and just like living it forever is that I dated a club promoter. Yeah, I am in the I'm just picturing not scrawny motherfucker. Yeah, and I remember being like ash really. Yeah, really. I'd like to say. Well, this Peter, Peter's that a big collar and an open shirt. Like big, the big like blue collared shirt. And up to, oh my God. An updated pulse nighter. Exactly, exactly. It's like open far too low.

It's still very tan. Yep. Very slick tear. Oh! Very like I'm pretty. Motherwise shoes. Yeah, it's a lot and he's 20. So the reason I'm like bringing him up

and that interview up is he has been cleared of any wrongdoing. But he doesn't come off good in my opinion. I'm still sus. I mean club promoters rarely do. But it's just it's the way he like talked about, I don't know, he just, so what they were doing in this interview like obviously later after she went missing, was they were trying to have him, like allow him to tell his side of the story and like what he knew. Because he was a suspect at one point, I'm assuming.

He was a person of interest at one point. We'll definitely get into that. But it was the way, like he talks to Don Drexel in the interview and he basically tells her like, you know, cause Don Drexel at one point is like, why didn't you stick over it? Like, why weren't you with my daughter instead of letting her like walk alone? Yeah, it places. He was just, she was just asking things like that. And he basically is

giving her attitude and being like, she said, she said, I'm fine. So I let her go. And it's like, maybe don't talk about her. Like that to her mom. Like, don't make it seem like she's this little bitch. Well, and that's like any mom is gonna ask those questions. Somebody that was last with their daughter I'm assuming. Yeah, and he says things like, you know, that he wasn't there to babysit. It wasn't his responsibility.

And it's like, okay. Wow. Wow, all right. So I'm like, wow, you're all very cold for having hung out with this girl that went missing within an hour of hanging out with you. And you're also not babysitting. Like you just take care of your friends. That's the thing. I'm like, what? So it tells you all you need to know about how these kids did not give a shit about the

dynamic. They were not there to help her. They were not there to look out for her. They were there to deal with her. And then the girls were there to try to make her life miserable. So yeah, so that's great. Now Peter said they had been friends. He confirmed that they had been friends for a couple of years. Okay. So he was like, and we like knew each other. We didn't like hang out all the time, but like I knew her in the friend group probably.

Yeah. And later Dawn Drexel did say she believes that she had met Peter at one point during those two years. So Friday, April 24th, this is the day after they arrived in Myrtle Beach. Because remember the night before went fine. Yeah. No incident. She was texting her boyfriend already the morning after saying I'm not having fun. Oh no. She was already saying that she's not getting along with the girls. They're like leaving her out. They're picking on her. Three is not a good number. Yeah.

She was being, you know, she was spending a lot of time alone. Oh. She was like walking down the strip downtown on Friday night, like alone at one point. What the fuck? Yeah. I mean, those other girls never should have led her, but they weren't her friends.

I just, I'm like, why did you invite her? They didn't give a shit what happened to her. Yeah. But I think it's shitty because she was saying, like, they were like, I'm like, why did you invite her? They didn't give a shit what happened to her. Yeah. But I think it's shitty because she was saying like they were like kind of like just, they were like bullying her. Yeah. I was gonna say it sounds like it. Yeah. Like they were literally doing things just to be a Dictator and they keep doing things just to be a Dictator. Do you know anything that they were like saying to her? Well, there's one instance and it's gonna come up in a second where they are clearly doing things just to be Dixed to her. Okay. I think they were just being mean to her. There's mean girls. You know how like those

those assholes can be. Yeah. Yeah. Like we've all like I remember like thinking you're hanging out with like cool girls. I'm thinking you're part of the crowd and they really, and maybe not everybody knows this feeling, but like, then suddenly realizing you're there to be the butt of the joke. Yeah. That is the shittiest feeling. Yeah. Like the sh- What if you were trafficked into a cult over shot nine times, or fell in love with a vampire, or went into a minor surgery and woke up one week later, paralyzed?

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What people like that do, they're kind of girls, especially like that kind of teenage girl. Like if you're that kind, you'd like that. It's part of your day. You drive me, be a dick too. I remember the girls that I've mentioned before, the girls that horrendously bullied me in school. They, I remember one day, and I thank my mom every day

for this. One day, I remember they invited me to come over one of their houses because they were all there. They invited me over like, A-I-M. And I was so excited. And I asked mom, I was like, can I go, please can I go,

can you bring me? Because you're like, it's finally over. I was like, I'm in. I was like, cool, they're gonna like wanna hang out with me and mom was like, no. Yeah, cause she knew what was gonna happen. And she refused and I was so upset and I was so mad at her.

I was like, I'm not, like, they're cool and I wanna hang out with them. And she was like, no. And later she was like, I knew what they were gonna do. Yeah. And she was like, something terrible was gonna happen when you got there. That's the thing. We're inviting you to hang out with them. And she was like, no, and later she was like, I knew what they were going to do. And she was like, something terrible was going to happen when you got there. That's the thing.

They were inviting you to be the punching bag. AIM, group chats with like girls that you weren't friends with always end badly. Because do you remember when I called you because all the popular girls in sixth grade got on AIM and invited me into this group AIM? Yeah. And they invited me to something and they said,

it's next Tuesday. We'll see you next Tuesday. Yeah. And I was like, okay, cool, because I was in sixth grade, so I didn't know what that meant. And I was like, yeah, like they said, see you next Tuesday and you were like, yeah, they're not doing anything on Tuesday. I was like, no, they're not doing anything on Tuesday. They just called you a conch.

And I was like, no, I'm going to kill them all. So. So yeah, we know all about the girls that need to be there just they they need to invite you and they don't make it far Because it makes them feel good about themselves to bring you down And that's awful because if I all cancel Brittany was like I sweetheart Well, you know what I'm thinking to and obviously it's a very cliche thing to say, but you said she's beautiful Oh, they were jealous stuff going. They're jealous. Go look them up. They were jealous.

Yeah. Like she's gorgeous. I can tell you that 100%. And it seems like she was like a likable girl. She had like a lot of friends. She's pretty. Oh, yeah. She had, and our boy, she had like a cute boy friend.

Right. Like she had tons of friends at home. She was popular back in Rochester. Like she was like, everybody liked her. And so they were deffice. And Threaten, I bet. Yeah, she's this like little cutie in there. Like let's try to make her feel bad.

Really? But while she's walking on Friday, she's walking down the strip, like the main drag. And she's alone. At night. I think this was before it got dark, but I think it was right as it was getting dark. It was getting to a point.

I mean, she's a sketcher. A sketcher walking by herself. Cause even in the middle of the day, shady stuff, stuff can happen. Yeah, as we know. But yeah, I think it was coming up to dark. So she definitely shouldn't have been walking by herself, but I think she was just trying to get away from them.

And Bradley was like, and she was texting her boyfriend the whole time being like, I hate it. I want to come home. And she is trapped because they drove her there. Exactly. And she's 14 hours away. So it's not like you can be like, John, please come get me. Because they would take him as long to come there

as it would to just wait it out for another day. Right. So you're really stuck and that sucks. And you can't call your mom. So she's walking down the strip. And apparently like when she was walking down the strip, she did start getting a lot of creepy dudes commenting at her and whistling at her.

Of course. And just being pigs. And because apparently they can't just shut the fuck up and look at a pretty girl and not open their fucking mouth. So yeah, so they decided to make her incredibly uncomfortable. And think about the characters on this strip at this, like, it does spring break. in their fucking mouth. So yeah, so they decided to make her incredibly uncomfortable. One thing about the characters on this strip at this, like it does spring break.

Like these are, or a season, not the finest people. Any and all people are coming in there. So it's like, you don't know. So she's getting uncomfortable and she saw a younger guy like her age. And she, you know, he seemed like a nice guy. So she just kind of like walked up to him really quick

and was like, can you just walk with me? Because I'm like, I just like, I'm freaked out. This guy was a nice guy. Okay, you made me really fucking nervous. No, he was a nice guy. And he said, he said, absolutely, I'll walk with you like no problem. He was visiting for spring break as well from the Midwest.

Yeah. Okay, all right. I feel better. I think she kept telling. So she was like, we love a Midwestern face. It's a friendly face. It is. Don't you know?

So she just could tell. Yeah. So yeah, so he walked with her. She ended up having him like come, nothing happened, but she had him come back to the hotel and like hang for a little bit because that girls weren't there. Yeah.

So there is cell phone video that he took of her just like sitting on the bed, like laughing and like talking to him. Okay. And like a couple more videos of her like on the balcony, like talking to the can, which they're just talking to each other. Yeah. According to him, nothing happened. Like nothing.

There was no, I mean, these girls are being really mean to her and then she meets a nice like western boy. I think she just wanted to just. Yeah, she just needed a moment to have fun. Yeah, I think she just wanted an ally. Yeah, that's all. And it was, you know, when I said it was, it wasn't dark. I was mistaken. It was dark when she was walking because I believe this video, you can see that it's like 10 30 at night. Oh, okay. So I believe it was around the nine

something hour that she was walking. Okay. So when she went missing, he immediately came to the police and was like, I met her. Like here's the cell phone video. I can tell you where she was. I can tell you she wasn't happy with the girl she was staying with. And like he was literally like,

you can polygraph like whatever you need from me, I will give you. A Midwestern sweetie. He was right and he was completely cleared. Good, good, good, good. Like a completely cleared. They didn't think anything was wrong with him. Now, set, and again, he was the one who brought the information to the police. Yeah. Just pretended that didn't happen. Uh, so that happened. Everything was fine. Saturday, April 25th, the next day. Um, Brittany decided to go down to the beach near the,

near the hotel with Peter and those other four guys She hung out there. It was around noon time, I think so they just hung out at the beach Everything seemed fine. Yeah, right there spring break shit. Yeah Peter drove her back to the hotel at one point And she left her flip flops at his car. Mm-hmm. Now around 2 p.m. Her mom Don called her Mm-hmm and Brittany told her she was at the beach because she was and it was hot and Rochester. So Don was like, oh, she's at the beach with friends. Yeah, this is a beach here.

Like this is a beach here. So she was like, okay, so she didn't say anything. She was just like, okay, like she didn't further be like, what do you mean you're at the beach? Yeah, it's not weird. And the last thing she said to her mom was, mom, I'll see you tomorrow. I love you.

Fuck. Yeah. Which is like, uh-hmm. Now nobody, you know, we don't have like her movements every minute of that day. No, of course not. But around 8.15 pm, we know she left her hotel and cameras show Brittany walking on the main strip on Ocean Boulevard. Alone again? Alone again. And they show her texting. And we found out later she was texting John in the moment. And she was also texting Peter. OK. And she was texting Peter, I believe,

because she left her flip-flops in his car. Yes, she's like, I need to get this back. So she went to the boy. She was on her way to the boy's hotel, which was the blue water resort. Cameras at the hotel show her, like, there's CCTV footage of her, like, walking into the lobby and going to their hotel room.

Okay. Now, she went into their room, likely, to get the flip-flops back. She only spent about 10 minutes in there, and then she was gone. Like, so she really did come just to get that. Okay. Every time I think we're getting to, like,

okay, and then she never left the hotel room again. Exactly. So what happened was apparently, according to Peter and all the guys and her cell phone records, the reason she was only there for 10 minutes is because when she see her, she's wearing black shorts and like a multi-colored like top that you would wear on vacation in 2009. Yeah. And so she was apparently in there talking to them and she was getting text messages from Jennifer, one of the girls. Yeah. Jennifer was being a dick and had loaned her those black shorts and then was like, I want them back now. Okay. So she literally let her leave and walk all the way to this

other hotel. And then when she got there was like, you need to come back right now. I want my shorts. Ew. And they were apparently like fighting about it it like Jennifer was like being a asshole about it. She's like what Bernie's probably like dude you just said I could wear them and then you waited until I went like walked somewhere now you're like I'm not even like when you come back I'm just gonna take them no come now. Right I don't care what you're doing. I'm coming back because I want to wear them out. So she's like oh so she's like I gotta go walk back to the hotel and bring her these pants and get a new pair of pants. So she and again, she was texting Brittany the whole time about it and they all confirmed it. They could all see it. Now, so she goes and walks back to this, he's walking back to the hotel. Now,

why did none of them walk with her? Because why did none of them drive her? They had a car. Yeah. them walk with her. Because why didn't none of them drive her? They had a car. Yeah. Why would you let this girl at 8.48 pm walk back down the strip? Because guys like that don't give a fuck. These were not her friends. And according to Peter when he talked to Don Dretzel, he was like, I offered and she said, I'm fine. And left. And I was like, well, even if she said, I'm fine. Like you're saying it. Which I don't think is true. Even if she said it like that, it was because she was having, she was upset. And she's probably like, whatever, like just everybody leave me alone.

You should have been like, dude, I know like you're having a shitty time. Right. I'll just drive you, you can drop them off and like hang with us. Right. We'll, like you have a fucking heart. Step by step on how to be a good fucking friend.

Like you're 20 years old, grow the fuck up. You're 20 years old and you're thinking about something at somebody else. This is a girl that you've been friends with for two years. Like take care of her. Like you should have an instinct to take care of somebody. Like it's just like a younger girlfriend. And it's not taking anything out of your,

you're not sacrificing anything to take care of. Just be like, dude, let me drive you. I just, and even just be like, if she's like, I'm fine, just be like, dude, let me drive you. I just, and even just be like, if she's like, I'm fine, just be like, no, if it's not for your sake, let me, because I don't want you to walk. Yeah. Just try to be, be a fucking good gentleman.

Yeah. She'll be like, it's dead. It's just annoying me, and I'm like, all four, and the other four guys, none of you? None of you had the instinct. Think about who these people were. Oh, it's just driving nuts. No club promoter is being like, I'll drive you had the instinct. Think about who these people were. Oh, it's just driving nuts. No club promoter is being like,

I'll drive you home, honey, unless it's for his game. Exactly, but it's like, gosh. Yeah, it's just horrible to listen to. Yeah. So 848, she's on camera leaving the hotel. That's like the infamous footage everybody sees of her walking out of the hotel. Now, she's walking back on the strip and she's

texting John, her boyfriend, and she's telling him, I'm so fucking miserable. I just want to come home. She said, I'm packing up my stuff when I'm getting back in the hotel. I'm just staying in tonight. I want to go to sleep. I want to get up and come home. That was her plan. My stomach just turned. And John was literally being like, I just try to have fun. Like, I'm sorry. Like trying to be like supportive. Try to make the best of it. Like, you're there. I don't know. Like, I can't do anything about it. So he's just trying to help her out. And he said suddenly, the last text from her was at 8.58 pm. And he said, and then she stopped responding. Now again, she left the hotel at 8.48.

So only 10 minutes later, she was not responding. And do you know how long this walk was? It was like more than 10 minutes. Yeah, this walk would have been, it was like a, I wanna say it was like a couple mile walk. So it was longer than 10 minutes for sure. It was like a good walk. I was gonna say like, we were like a half hour.

It honestly, I think it was about a half hour walk. So yeah, so close to that. Meanwhile, probably would have been about a 10-minute drive. Oh, yeah, it's that. It's easy drive. And so 10 minutes into their conversation, she's already stopped responding. So he's starting to freak out and he keeps texting her and he's like, Brittany, answer me like, what the fuck? And he's starting to like, try tactics. Like, he's like, I'm going to call your mom and tell her where you are. If you don't answer me. Like, that was Like he's like, I'm gonna call your mom and tell her where you are if you don't answer me. Like that was, he was like, just fucking answer me. And she's not answering.

And when he said that and she stopped answering, he was like, that's weird. That is weird. Because in then he was like, does she want me to call her mom? Like is she having that miserable of a time that she almost wants to be at home? So that like maybe someone can get her or something.

I don't know. So he calls Don and this is at like nine something at like nine thirty at night. I mean, while Don thinks that like she's just like hanging out with friends. In Rochester. Not far away. Yeah, and he calls Don and he tells her everything and he says like, I'm so sorry. I didn't tell you, but Brittany's in Myrtle Beach, and she's not answering my texts, when she stopped answering.

And he's like, and he said, I threatened to tell you and she still didn't answer like something through. And she's been having a horrible time. And of course, Don is like furious at first because she's like, are you fucking kidding me? Like what the hell? I thought she was literally like,

a kind of a wily. Right, right. And then she's like, oh my God, she's 14 hours away. Right. And then she was literally like a car in a while is away right and then she's like oh my god she's 14 hours away right and then she was like what do you mean she's not answering your text and he was like I can't get a hold of her I've called her I've texted her she's not answering so good for him to act that quickly thank goodness he's like a good guy yeah because a lot of people might have taken a little longer I mean like oh she's just being a bitch. Your high school boyfriend? You wouldn't.

Nobody would have known. Moss still wouldn't know. She still wouldn't know. Yeah. He would have just been like, you're a bitch. Yeah. It just would have been that it. But no, that John was like, something's a rye here.

John's are good. As you know, as I know. We love it, John. But then of course, she's in full panic mode. Full panic mode, because I can't imagine hearing that. 14 hours away from your baby. 14 hours away. You don't know if she's in full panic mode, full panic mode, because I can't imagine hearing that. 14 hours away from your baby. And she's, you don't know if she's in danger. Now mom and John are calling her over and over and over.

They're leaving voice messages. They, and they said it kept ringing. It was like not showing off. Not dead. So they're like freaking out and they're getting nothing. Oh, my, I am like so stressed. Oh, and it gets better. The mom, so then the mom calls Alana and Jennifer.

Yeah. Because John had their cell phone numbers. Right. Because he was like a good dude. He had all this information. So he ends it over. She calls both of them. Neither of those bitches picked their phone up.

And that's not even the thing, because it's like whatever they were out. But she left them like hysterical voicemails as Britney's mother, being like, we don't know where she is, please help me. They never answered, and they, to this day, they have not spoken to anybody in Britney's family. So what is it 11 years later now? Cunts.

Wow. Yeah. How? How? Wow. How do you get? I don't give a shit. How old you are? No. And I don't give a shit. What you're doing, how you're partying. I don't give a shit. You get a hysterical voicemail from a mother of a girl that you've been treating like shit on this on this trip saying nobody heard from her and you'd in the two of you know you don't know where she is. You're not gonna sit there and be like,

I don't know where she is. At least just give her something. Anything. You just ignore her. And then later you don't even have them. Like, were they questioned at all by police? Yeah, they were all talked to. So it's okay.

But none of them felt the need to be like, we're so sorry. And all these guys, too, that they're with, like they were questioned too. Yeah, okay. And I know it's insane. So that bothered me because I absolutely, they're over 18. Yeah, so you're not a child anymore.

You are well within the realm of you should know better. And if a hysterical mother is calling, leaving a voicemail, give her a call back. Yeah, like come on. Fucking hate high schoolers. Oh, God. I just feel so protective of Brittany. Absolutely.

I thought we've all been in a position somewhat similar. Yeah, of course. I mean, I know, like we've said that in another episode and I think like a couple of people were like, well, I've never been in that position. I was like, yeah, whatever. Well, then you were that girl. So I don't know what to tell you.

Well, I was like, whatever. I'm saying we've all in this room. Yeah, we've all in this room. Hello. A lot of people have known this position of wanting to be cool. Yes. Wanting to hang out with the cool girls. Yes. Now, Don spoke with Peter, because Peter did answer the phone. Okay. I will give that to him. And he said, you know, she left my room. And he stayed for 10 minutes. And he said, you know, she was texting with Jennifer, and they were in like a fight about shorts, and she stayed for 10 minutes,

and then she left. That's the last I've seen her. Right. And he was telling the truth by all accounts. And you know, he probably thinks it's like this stupid thing. Like boys are always like, oh, girls fights are stupid, which that has a stupid fight. So he's probably like, maybe she like went somewhere

to blow off steam. Yeah, and I mean, he had no idea. She just left. Yeah, he didn't know that she wasn't missing after that. Like he was just doing this thing. So they called the police immediately, and the police couldn't really do a whole lot right there because they couldn't really file a report

until somebody had to go there to file a report. And obviously these girls aren't gonna be any help. So what they did was they luckily had a family friend named John Hahn. In Florida. No, he was, well they're in North Carolina. Oh, but he was in Florida. Why do they think Myrtle Beach was in Florida?

I'm not really sure. I'll leave now. Wait, did you really think it was in Florida? The entire time. Wow. Yeah, I had no idea. Wow. Myrtle Beach is in, wow. Wow. Yeah, I had no idea. Wow. Myrtle Beach is in, wow, okay.

Actually, you know what's wild? I've been watching a lot of teen mom lately and Janelle won't shut up about Myrtle Beach. And like I know that she lived in one of the carolinas. And she's from South Carolina. Yeah, or North Carolina. North Carolina. But I mean, damn.

All right. Wow. That's very interesting. I guess that we're in Florida the whole time. Because I think I think of Fucking spring break. I associated with Florida. Yeah, I think oh, yes I mean that makes sense, but yeah, they were they were in a well, I'm late to the party So here we are and they had a friend John Han who was actually in North Carolina

Okay, so he was about three hours away. Okay. So Don called him, told him what was going on and he was like, I will go there right now. I'm gonna drive. And he was like, I'm gonna drive there. I'll file a report. Wow. What a good guy. What a good guy.

Again, Johns. Another good, another good John. Hello. Here we are. So Don was already on her way there. She was like, this is bad. Like I had, and she said, mom's intuition. Did she drive? She said, now I've heard two different things. I've seen that she was like on her way there,

like driving, and then I saw that they flew. So I'm not exactly sure. Maybe the people that said they were driving, they were driving to the airport. Yeah, maybe. Because so John Han went down, and he couldn't find her. He looked for her like he did a brief because while they were coming down, he was like, I better like do a search just to see if I can find anything. Right. He did find out that she had not returned to her hotel room. So he couldn't find her. He couldn't get in touch with any of those dicks.

So he was like, I'm in a file missing person's report. So he did. So what a fucking sat in that lobby until Jennifer and Alana got there and been like, hey, what the fuck is up? Hey, what's up? How are you? What's good, Alana and Jennifer? Literally again, makes an appearance in both episodes this week. You know what I wanted? I just want to give this family and her like boyfriend and all of them such props for moving so fucking fast with this. Seriously. They were on it. And like good family friends.

Good family friend. Like the people around her, like the real people around her really did protect it. Her service by doing this. Like it was just so impressed that they were just like on it. Yeah. Didn't wait to file. Didn't the John didn't wait to call.

Like he didn't hesitate at all. He was like, I'm gonna call her mom. Right. It's just I was like, good job, guys. Good job, Drexels and friends. So John Han met with police while he was filing the police, the missing person's report. And they decided to try to get in contact with the girls again. No avail. They're not answering. So they go to the room where Brittany was staying, which was room 305. The room nobody was in there, because they were all out for the night.

But all their stuff was in there. They called Alana and finally got Alana on the phone. Oh, okay. Alana said they hadn't seen Brittany and they were like, that's it. We just haven't seen her. Don't know what to tell you. What the fuck? And when police called Peter and his friends again, the friends say, yeah, like we,

they were like, because they were like, when did you first meet up with Brittany? Like you got to tell us what the weekend has been like. Yeah, we need a timeline here. Yeah, and they said that they first met up with her Friday evening at Club Crypto Night, but it was Thursday evening, but they met her at Club Crypto Night. Okay, what do you think?

So it could be a mix-up the day? Because I am terrible with days, so I can't tell them, I can't say that I wouldn't mess up the day, but it's also just like, more? Well, you just don't know. Yeah. Because that is, it's not like this was like a week later. Uh-huh. It was a day later.

Uh-huh. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I thought today was Friday, so. It was just strange. So, and again, it could just be, they've been partying a lot. They probably don't like that I mean, I thought today was Friday, so it was just strange. So and again, it could just be they've been partying a lot They probably told me to look at it as they also said, you know, they they were like again We reiterate we last saw her when she came to get the flip flops and that was the last time we saw Weirdly the plan that night they found out from Alana was that Jennifer and Alana were gonna be switching hotel rooms for the night on their last night there.

Or not hotel rooms, excuse me, hotels. And so they were going to be leaving Brittany in that hotel alone. Why? And Brittany had never mentioned that to John. No. So I wonder if Brittany even knew. I don't think she knew. I'm just saying.

It's shady. That's shady. That is weird. And there's been no explanation given for why they were leaving I don't think she knew. I'm just saying. It's shady. That's shady. That is weird. And there's been no explanation given for why they were leaving and going to another hotel on their last night there. That's just such a hassle too. Like there's no point of that.

It makes no sense. Unless you were trying to get away from her for a reason. And then the other thing is, she obviously didn't know. Yeah. 100% because she was telling John this entire time what a horrible time she's having, that would have been a factor. Exactly. She would have been like,

and now they're leaving me by myself. Like, I think at that point, she probably would have called Don and been like, I fucked up, please come and go. Oh, yeah. Or like, 100 flying home. Yeah, I definitely think that. And then to make this even weirder,

that same night around 2 a.m. Peter and his friends abruptly check out of the blue water resort and left to go back to Rochester. Now they didn't get their deposit. You said at 2am. At 2am. Okay. In the middle of the night they left their hotel room and drove back to Rochester after they found out that Brittany was missing.

That's weird. They left their deposit and they left some items in the room. Do you know what? Just like closing. So they got the fuck out of there as fast as possible. And it's like when you're 20 years old, you don't leave your deposit somewhere. Like you need that money at 20.

Exactly. And as soon as Peter got back to Rochester, he got himself a lawyer. Which is suspicious, but also smart. So I don't know, it's very suspicious, but it's very smart. Yeah. Because you were the last person to see her. You should lawyer up.

I wonder if his family was like, but it's also- But it's also- It does look good. When you leave at 2 a.m. Right after police have talked to you because there's a missing girl who you were the last person seen with her. You run out of town?

Yeah. Like, you don't think you should stick around and be like, do you need me? Do you need to talk to me some more? I will say, the only thing I'll say is that at 20 years old, I don't know what I would do in that position. No. I think I probably would be like, I need to go home. Yeah.

I don't know if I would leave at 2 a.m. At 2 a.m. But then you have to think about the other dingus in that room. And they probably just all came to a dingus conclusion. Because I would be the one in that room being like, all right, guys, I'm going to look over here. It would look weird.

But this is going to look real fucked up. But I've got to think that. Well, and then you wonder, it's like, what if she comes back to your hotel room? Like, what if she? She's not gone. And like, she somehow gets away. And you know the person she feels dressed.

Constable with on this trip because you know she hates everybody else. So it's like, I don't know. It's strange to me. The whole thing is, I'm thinking about, so they knew that she was with Peter because like this whole thing could have been like Jennifer was texting Peter

as she there yet. Now I need my shorts right now, come back right now and give me the shorts. Yep. Yeah. So the next day, Sunday, Don Chad, her biological dad, John, like flew up. So many Jones.

And her boyfriend, John, and Don's parents all went down to Myrtle Beach to search. So they all arrived. They were canvassing the play. I mean, they were handing out, they had already printed flyers, they were handing out flyers, talking to everyone they could, talking to law enforcement. Law enforcement had gathered a massive search. I mean, it was, it was on. And what they found out was, you know, they found out all the information. They were finding out that Peter and his friends left at 2am.

That's so weird. Finding out about the hotel rooms or the hotels. And then they find out that there's been no activity on Britney's bank account or her card. There's been no, like, no text messages sent from her phone, nothing like that. So when Peter went back to Rochester, because at this point, he's already home. Like I said, he got a lawyer immediately.

He was looked at immediately as a person of interest. They started looking into him. And these guys, I know, I don't know. It's like not at all. He was, I will say, by May 7th, he was cleared. Okay. So not too long, you know, he was cleared. I want to know what cleared him.

I want to know too. And I don't know. And what they found out too when they were doing this search was that she wasn't picked up. So she was picked up on the street camera going to the hotel, but she was not picked up on the street camera coming back, which means somewhere in that 10 minute period, she was gone. Like snagged. Yeah.

So it wasn't they they were trying to narrow it down to where it could have happened, but there's no camera footage of it happening. Well, and the other thing is going back to the shorts theory, because you think if she snagged, like somebody grabs her, puts her in a car, this is a busy area. Yeah. So it does seem like maybe these are like the people that she has been connected with or something. Pick her up in a car. Never to be seen.

And that's it. And that's the thing. It's so, it's so, it's like she vanished into dinner. Because if she was grabbed, you would think, I mean, you, you would think, heard it happen before where people are grabbed in the middle of the day. But you would think that it would be a show.

Because it's not like this was at like 5 a.m. You know, this is a pretty busy time on the strip and everything's starting. So I feel like people must be out. Yeah, I mean nobody's not on the street at like what was it right around nine? Yeah, it was like nine o'clock. Yeah, like so it's like everybody's out then.

Right, people are gonna see, it's like what the fuck at? So was there like a nap and run or was it like get into a car? And a car that she must have known? Yeah, that's what's so strange about this. Now, this is when the investigation takes a scary turn. Okay, because her parents are in the, in town, they're going crazy trying to find her,

handing out everything they're talking to everybody, law enforcement searching, and then they're going through her phone records. They're trying to get anything they can. Right. Now, what they find out was that they need to shift to Georgetown County, which is 40 miles away. Why? And everybody's like, what the fuck?

What do you mean? Did her phone ping? This is because her phone pinged at 9.27 p.m. going that night, going south on Route 17. So she's moving. The phone is moving, at least. And this is on the way to Surfside Beach, which is seven miles away.

Now, the speed that this ping was seen, they could tell the speed that it was moving at. It was moving at such a rate that it was in a car. Okay. So they said, you know, at least the phone is in a car, which means she's likely in a car. Now, more pings were at 10-18 p.m. and the last one was at 11.50 a.m. Oh, no. The 11.50 a.m. was the one that was 40 miles away and a Georgetown County town of McLellanville

McLellanville that's really hard to say McLellan McLellanville now it is close to a boat landing Oh my god. Yep. No, and it's on this place called the San T the North San T river Mm-hmm It's in an area and this is when the phone shuts off. Now, they are terrified at this point because this is just swamp.

And like, there's nothing out here that you need to be going to. And there's also wild boars, alligators, like bad news. Like, it's not a place you wanna be. Oh my God, what the fuck? Now, they start and they said that there's just, first of all, the rate at which that phone went there was fast, was like shoot it, it was going straight there.

They weren't stopping anywhere, it was like, this is the destination. So somebody knew where they were taking. Right, I was just gonna say they know the area. Yeah, it's somebody who definitely knows that area because you're not gonna find this place if you don't know who definitely knows that area because you're not going to find this place if you don't know where it is. And if you're not used to maybe doing things here.

One is it kind of seems like because of the boars and the alligators, you're dumping a body. It's a great place to bring someone that you never want anyone to see again. Because boars will completely, boars are scary. Oh, yeah, boars are really scary. And they focus on this. They start using everything they can to search this area. They were like using helicopters and sniffer dogs and like all the resources they could define this.

And they searched, so 11 days of searching, they found nothing. They weren't able to find anything. The family had to return home at this point. Because I can imagine going there. And then like we have to regroup, we have to return home at this point. Because I can't imagine going there. Yeah. And then we have to regroup. We have to figure out what to do next.

Now, a month after Brittany went missing, something interesting happened in Myrtle Beach. A man named Sean Taylor was arrested for trying to abduct a 20-year-old girl outside of the blue water resort. Oh, shit. Around 4 p.m. 4 p.m. Jesus Christ. Little of the day. resort. Oh shit. Around 4 p.m. 4 p. Jesus Christ.

Little of the day. Like I said, a glad I said, you know, it could happen. He and another man, or allegedly, because he was let off for this, I should say. Allegedly, he and another man jumped out of a van, tried to grab her when she was walking down the street. And why were they let off for that? She escaped and he was arrested,

but he was somehow let off because he had an alibi. So allegedly, he was accused of this. Hypocetically. He was accused of this. Now, a month later, a man named Timothy Dishon Taylor, who is Sean's son, just saying, was brought in in question by the FBI. And he was brought up, but he was brought in because he was brought up by several people in the area that maybe you should look into this guy for Brittany. Yeah. And so after they spoke to him, they said, you know, he was, they didn't really have anything on him, but they were keeping him in mind, you know, just like, he was brought up.

So now his name's in the investigation. Now eight months go by and nothing. It's going cold. Shit's not cool. And then they get a tip. And this tip led investigators to an area near where that phone had pinged. That swap area. Near like Georgetown, McClellanville. I hate this. They found a pair of sunglasses. Now what's weird about this is that these sunglasses were brand new.

They were not sitting out there for a long time. They weren't dirty. Yeah. Nothing. And you would assume something in a small plant would be pretty dirty. They didn't look like they were sitting out there for any length of time.

They look like they were placed there. So people were thinking, because then they tested them, there was no DNA on them. So they're clean. So like they're brand new. tested them, there was no DNA on them. So they're clean. So like they're brand new. Or yeah. Because also everybody was like, yeah, I don't think those are Britney's. Okay. I don't know what those are. But there's a theory that's going around that this was done to lead them away from the real location

of the body to like make them focus on an area that wasn't the. Oh, that would be very smart. It's just we in a fucked up way. Or it's somebody just being an asshole. Yeah. Because people are assholes and like to involve themselves in these things and like fuck up investigations. So that could definitely be it. Right.

So in 2016 is when things, because everything starts going quiet. There's nothing they found. They just start, she's a missing person. Nobody. no nothing. We go to 2016. Timothy DeShon Taylor is brought up again. He was arrested for robbery of a McDonald's in 2011. He was like the getaway car. What a character. He served a couple of years probation, but the other people that were involved here got like prison time. So the FBI brought him back in the chat with him because they were like, I think we can like, because he shouldn't have gotten two years probation.

He should have gotten more like the other people. Right. And so they kind of used that to bring him in to talk to him about Brittany again. Yeah. Because they were like, his name is brought up again. So they're like, let's just talk to him again. And they, and they were just like, we just want to chat with you. That's all. And so at this same time that this is being done,

an inmate at a prison nearby named Tiquan El Brown sent a letter to prison officials saying, I know you're talking to Timothy to Sean Taylor. Let me tell you what I know. What? And what he said is he said, I know what happened to Brittany Drexon. What the fuck happened?

And he said it involved a period of time being held captive and assaults, a gun, and alligators. And so they were like, okay, let's chat with you. So he said the people involved in this happened to be Timothy Dishon Taylor and his father, Shantaylor. So what he said, and this is terrible, so just want to lay that out, sugar warning. He said back in 2009, when Britney went missing, he said he went to a stash house in McClellanville.

That's apparently where like there's guns and drugs and you sell things. We keep your stash there. A stash, if you will. He was going there in McLellanville, which happens to be the place where her phone pings. Just want to put that out there. He was going there to do a deal with Sean Taylor. Like an exchange of goods and money. He went there, so he went through the house, and he said as he walked through the house, he saw Brittany in that house being held against her will. She was being sexually assaulted by Timothy to Sean Taylor and about eight to 12 other men in the house.

Oh God. No, no, no, no. He said he went to the back because you just ignore that because you're there for your thing. Well, you're shady character. And you go back, he met with Sean Taylor outside. He said they were doing their exchange and he said they're just talking. And then Brittany ran from the house trying to escape.

And he said the men came out grabbed her. They said that she was beaten with a pistol, like pistol whipped, brought back into the home and then killed with two gunshots. And they said he said that he saw her, he saw them bring her body out wrapped up and throw her into a pit of alligators. He saw them throw a body into a pit of alligators and didn't say anything until years later. Exactly. He also said that he knew she was held a couple of days and was trafficked, like being sold out to other men, because when her, but her disappearance had drawn such media attention, that the tailors got scared and were planning to kill her anyways,

because they were like, this is too high profile. Oh my god. Yeah. One, it was a, it was like a couple days after she went missing, or a month after she went missing, that the ping happened? No, the ping happened only like the day, like a couple days after she went missing or a month after she went missing, that the ping happened? No, the ping happened only like the day like a couple days after. Okay, yeah. Okay, so for a period of time

it could have just been a couple days that they were driving her to this location. Oh yeah, and the FBI now, which we're gonna get into in part two, I'm gonna go further into what they think now. They say that they know that she was held for a period of a couple days before being killed. So everything that this guy is saying is could be really accurate. And there's

other witnesses that have come forward and said and corroborated this, corroborated this account. Now that's horrific. My mouth is literally just like I hope that's not what happened. I hope that's what happened. And just as a last thing before we stopped, before part two is Brittany's father Chad Drexel said later, he said he was out there handing out flyers and myrtle beach when they first went down. And he said he was on a dirt road and he stopped a car because he was stopping cars

like handing them flyers. And he said like most people were taking them and being like very respectful. And he said he most people were taking them and being like very respectful. And he said he stopped this car. Oh, sorry, I keep hitting it because I'm like flailing. You talk with her hands. I talk with my hands, I'm sorry. So he hands this flyer to these people in this car.

And he said it was a bunch of guys in a car. And he said, you know, the two, he said the guys in like the back were like whispering to each other and these guys, as he's explaining like, do you see this girl? Have you seen this girl? And then he said, I'm her father. She's missing. Like, can you help?

Like, if you know her or if you've seen her, can you just call? Like we're just trying to give this to everybody. And he said the guys in the back were laughing. And he's like, it was very weird. And he said the driver took the flyer crumpled it up through it at him and then drove away and they all were laughing as they drove away. Did he get a license plate or anything? Well before driving off he said he later found out from the FBI because he explained who the guy like what he looked like and he like markings or anything. the FBO I was like you that was Sean Taylor or DeShon Taylor excuse me his Timothy DeShon Taylor and

He was like well wait. How do you know? And he said well, he said it's funny that you know the FBI We're like that's funny that you bring this up to us because Timothy DeShon Taylor told us that he met you Dude, what the fuck? So it's confirmed. Dude, this makes me, that makes me wanna like, start sobbing. Like I actually feel like I'm gonna start crying because like, that, I feel like that's what happened. I feel like that's what happened to, and it's really hard.

And to be that fucking evil. To be that cold and callous evil. Even if you didn't do it, like, even if like somehow he has nothing to do with it. Even if you had nothing to it, like, even if, like, somehow he has nothing to do with it. Even if you had nothing to do with it, you're an evil person for reacting that way to a father handing you a missing person. This case is absolutely gut-wrenching.

It's unreal. And there was an interview with Chad and Don and Chad relayed that story of meeting him. And so the interviewer was like, so you believe that you met Timothy DeShantaylor and he was like, oh no, I know I met Timothy Dishontailer. Like they have to be fun. Yeah, I told me I did. And it's like, what the fuck? First of all, my arms are covered in goosebumps right now. And second of all, I,

I'm like shook right now. It's, it's hard. And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna end here because part two, we're gonna talk do is we're going to end here because part two we're going to talk about the FBI investigation and what has happened recently to kind of just open this case up and again that's going to be like an ad free episode. But I have so many questions. Yeah and I want to go further into what they've been looking into right now in some of the interviews with Timothy DeShanton Taylor and like all this so yeah I think this is just a lot of bad people and she was in a very terrible situation that she was she couldn't get out of it's just I it's a horrific and poor her poor mother is like in

her in Chad and everybody and like her biological father, John, they've all said that like John fully is like, I don't want to believe that's no, it's got to be something else. Like I can't I can't wrap my brain. I can't fathom that as a father. This is like one of those like like shows like this is like unsolved mysteries like a show that's on there. And or a case. Excuse me.

That's on there. I'm like, so sure. Right now I feel like I can't even form a thought, but that you just watch and you're like, I need to know what happened. It's so much. Like this is right up there now in my mind with like Alisa Lam and Jompele Ramsey.

Oh yeah, I gotta know. I gotta know. And the FBI thinks they know and we'll get into it in part two like what they think and everything is Timothy to Sean and custody Yes, okay, so the yeah, and we'll get into all that in part two, but I'm not I need to get through now I feel like all of you I need to know right now don't worry. It's coming within the day I'm getting it I'm getting it right after this so I love you guys follow us on Instagram

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