MISSING: Brittanee Drexel
High school junior, Brittanee Drexel, just wanted to get away for spring break and have a good time with her friends at Myrtle Beach. Her mysterious disappearance would frustrate law enforcement and haunt her family for years to come.
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Episode Source Material
- Myrtle Beach Police Department Incident Report
- Disappeared Season 2, Episode 1: The Secret Journey
- Arrest made in botched Boulevard abduction
- Convicted sex offender named person of interest in Brittanee Drexel case
- Waiting for Brittanee Drexel: mother thinks missing daughter was trafficked
- FBI Believes Spring Breaker Brittanee Drexel Was Held Captive And Killed
- United States of America vs. Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor
- FBI agent: Missing teen Brittanee Drexel was kidnapped, shot and dumped in alligator pit
- South Carolina’s Brittanee Drexel Case
- Statistics on forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking
- Sentencing Memorandum for Timothy Taylor
- The sick tactics sex traffickers use to find victims
- Brittanee Drexel disappearance still a mystery 10 years later
- Brittanee Drexel: FBI searches new location after News10NBC investigation
- Brittanee Drexel foundation helps fight human trafficking, supports families of missing people
- Brittanee Drexel: Is the FBI skeptical of its jailhouse informant?
- Human Trafficking FAQs
- Timothy Taylor, Brittanee Drexel disappearance suspect, gets probation for robbery charge
- Polaris Project – The Victims & Traffickers
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