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MORE HEARTACHE FOR MOM OF BRITTANEE DREXEL MURDERED ON SPRING BREAK · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Saturday night and I've got something special. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you never know the depths of evil. You don't. So
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  Speaker 2: often I say, well, I've seen it all, and then
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  Speaker 2: something else happens, and then I say I've seen it all.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight heartache for the mother of a beautiful young girl
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  Speaker 2: murdered on spring break. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank you for being with us. The
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  Speaker 2: mom finds out her daughter snuck off to go to
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  Speaker 2: spring break, but that wasn't the end of her shock.
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  Speaker 2: She then discovers her seventeen year old daughter, who would
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  Speaker 2: snuck off to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina face every apparent's
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  Speaker 2: just worst nightmare possible. Her daughter, Britney, last seen on
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  Speaker 2: security video from Blue Water Resort. After that, she was kidnapped, assaulted,
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  Speaker 2: and murdered. But tonight, believe it or not, it can
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  Speaker 2: get worse. For years, the case goes unsolved, and then amazingly,
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  Speaker 2: Britney's killer, Raymond Moody, is brought to justice. After she
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  Speaker 2: watches Moody be sentenced to life behind bars, she fills
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  Speaker 2: a lawsuit accusing Moody and the Blue Water Resort where
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  Speaker 2: Britney stayed of wrongful conduct leading to Britney's death. And
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  Speaker 2: I've got to tell you, this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst cases I've ever seen. What was done to Britney.
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  Speaker 2: Just one year ago, a jury says Moody intentionally caused
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  Speaker 2: Britney's family great emotional distress. But in the last hours
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  Speaker 2: we learn the killer Moody has blocked the mom's payout
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  Speaker 2: after years of suffering. I mean knows no depths, has
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  Speaker 2: no remorse, no sympathy, nothing after what he did to
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  Speaker 2: this girl. What happened to Britney Drexel.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, take a listen to w b t
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  Speaker 3: W in Myrtle Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities now say Raymond Moody confessed to killing seventeen.
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  Speaker 4: Year old Britney Drunxel thirteen years ago and then led
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  Speaker 4: investigators to her Bonnie down in Georgetown County.
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  Speaker 1: Back in April of nine, Drexel visited Myrtle Beast for
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  Speaker 1: spring break. She was with friends from New York State.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators think that Moody kidnapped her, assaulted her.
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  Speaker 5: And then strangled her to death.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me Nicole Boone, special events anchor w b TW
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  Speaker 3: Britney's remains found where.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they were found in a wooded area near the
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  Speaker 6: town Harmony Township subdivision, and it had been gone investigators.
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  Speaker 6: Police had gone to the site a few days before
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  Speaker 6: when they had gotten information dug on this site in
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  Speaker 6: a remote area of Georgetown County, you know, a very
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  Speaker 6: wooded rural area, very remote, off the beaten path. And
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  Speaker 6: once they got this tip, I spoke with solicitor Jimmy Richardson,
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  Speaker 6: came about getting some really good information and went to
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  Speaker 6: this site and did the excavation and that's where her
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  Speaker 6: remains were found. Very rural area of Georgetown County, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 6: along the coast, but in inland, in a remote area.
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  Speaker 3: Two special guests joining us. This is Dawn Drexel. This
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  Speaker 3: is Britney's mother, Miss Jrexel. When did you learn that
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  Speaker 3: Britney's remains had been found.
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  Speaker 7: I had spoken with the FBI. They were pretty much
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  Speaker 7: updating me like every day. I knew when they were
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  Speaker 7: starting to search. But on Wednesday, probably about three o'clock
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  Speaker 7: in the afternoon, they had called me and told me
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  Speaker 7: that they had found human remains.
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  Speaker 2: When you were told that human remains had been found,
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  Speaker 2: what went through your mind.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, with me, I mean, fighting for
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  Speaker 7: as long as I have for Brittany. I was really
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  Speaker 7: upset when they told me they had found her. But
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  Speaker 7: I can tell you that it was a huge relief
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  Speaker 7: to me because now I can bring Britney home.
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  Speaker 2: Did you harbor over the years any secret belief that
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  Speaker 2: Brittany was still alive somewhere.
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  Speaker 7: No early on in her case, they had told us
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  Speaker 7: that they believed that this was going to be a
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  Speaker 7: homicide investigation, and I mean I was pretty much set
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  Speaker 7: up for it. I think I just you know, you
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  Speaker 7: go back to the numbness in everything from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Also with me.
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  Speaker 2: Jarrett Farentino, Pennsylvania high profile a lawyer, homicide prosecutor.
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  Speaker 1: Jarrett, thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 8: Pleasure to be with you. Niansey, thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: Jared, I cannot even imagine what Britney's mother has gone
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  Speaker 2: through and has dragged out for so long. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was years ago when I first learned that a
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  Speaker 2: girl named Britney Drexel had disappeared on a Myrtle Beach
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  Speaker 2: vacation and we were trying to find her, and we
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  Speaker 2: were sending out her picture in the tip line, and
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  Speaker 2: just constantly trying to find Britney. That was a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago, in two thousand and nine. As I recall,
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  Speaker 2: the suffering her family has been through is really unimaginable.
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  Speaker 2: No one can know unless you go through it yourself.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely, Mancie, First of all, thank you for the coverage
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  Speaker 9: you've provided and the attention you brought to Britney's case.
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  Speaker 9: Certainly that has inspired people to continue her search and
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  Speaker 9: the quest for answers in the case. In addition to
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  Speaker 9: the thirteen years, the investigation itself had taken some twists
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  Speaker 9: and turns. In twenty sixteen, there were suspects named. There
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  Speaker 9: were certainly rumors and information that came out of what
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  Speaker 9: may have happened to Brittany. So Don has been so
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  Speaker 9: up and down on this rollercoaster of an investigation. But
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  Speaker 9: the past several weeks, as we came to learn that
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  Speaker 9: things were coming to an end in this phase.
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  Speaker 1: Don Direxel is with me.
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  Speaker 2: This is Brittany's mother, you know, Don, we have been
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  Speaker 2: looking for Brittany for so long.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: When I learned that her remains had been found, I
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  Speaker 2: felt like I got punched in the stomach.
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  Speaker 1: I guess somewhere deep.
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  Speaker 2: Inside, I had always hoped that somehow someone had taken
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  Speaker 2: her and she had I don't know what I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe she was afraid.
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  Speaker 3: To leave, or she had been Stockholm syndrome, she had
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  Speaker 3: been brainwashed and she wouldn't tell anybody, And I always
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  Speaker 3: come up with these.
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  Speaker 1: Scenarios in the back of my mind.
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  Speaker 3: And then the finality of saying we found her remains.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to imagine you in that moment. Where
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  Speaker 3: were you when they told you.
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  Speaker 7: I was actually at home when they had called. We
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  Speaker 7: had met with the FBI, probably two weeks prior, and
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  Speaker 7: you know, at that point things were moving pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Fast, and.
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  Speaker 7: So I knew they were, you know, they were searching
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  Speaker 7: for Brittany. But it's just I don't know at that
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  Speaker 7: moment when they when they had recovered, you know, or
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  Speaker 7: had found the human remains, it was like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 7: I was just in It's kind of like in disbelief,
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  Speaker 7: Like I never knew that we were going to get there,
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  Speaker 7: Like thirteen years.
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  Speaker 10: Is a long time.
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  Speaker 7: I never thought that Brittany was going to be found.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen hour cut eight. This is from WHAM.
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  Speaker 11: Brittany was seventeen a junior at Gatest Chili when she
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  Speaker 11: left without her mom's permission for spring break in Myrtle Beach.
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  Speaker 11: She was last seen alone leaving a motel on the Strip.
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  Speaker 11: In twenty ten thirteen, WHAM had this exclusive video of
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  Speaker 11: the site along a river in South Carolina where Britney's
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  Speaker 11: body was believed to have been left.
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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 3: To Cheryl McCollum joining me, forensic expert, founder and director
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  Speaker 3: of the Cold Case Research Institute. A hotel security camera
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  Speaker 3: actually captured one of the last known images of teen.
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  Speaker 1: Girl Britney Drexel.
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  Speaker 3: It was just before nine pm and she was leaving
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  Speaker 3: a friend's room, a friend girls room at the I
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  Speaker 3: think it was the Blue Water Resort. We see her
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  Speaker 3: later walking through the lobby.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many times you've looked at that video,
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  Speaker 2: Cheryl McCollum. I have studied it. I have slow moded
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  Speaker 2: at it screen by screen to see if I saw
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  Speaker 2: anybody watching her in the background. Just you know the
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  Speaker 2: case of Kelsey Smith, who went to a target to
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  Speaker 2: pick out her boyfriend an anniversary gift and when you
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  Speaker 2: look back at the video at Target, she doesn't see
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  Speaker 2: this guy. But in every still you see a white
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  Speaker 2: male not far from her. He may be on the
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  Speaker 2: aisle behind her, you know, looking over, he could be
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the.
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  Speaker 1: Aisle looking around at her.
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  Speaker 3: He's always right around her, but he never speaks to her.
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  Speaker 3: And as Kelsey heads to the checkout at Target, you
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  Speaker 3: see him walk past her and leave, only to ambush
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  Speaker 3: her and kidnap her in the garage of the Target.
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  Speaker 3: I remember slow mowing Britney's video and just seeing who
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  Speaker 3: was walking by.
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  Speaker 1: What can I see? What can I notice?
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  Speaker 2: And nothing was really revealed in that video except the
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  Speaker 2: time of the date stamp.
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  Speaker 12: Right, which was crucial because it gave us a location,
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  Speaker 12: a date, a time, and what she was wearing and
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  Speaker 12: the direction she went.
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  Speaker 13: So when she left Bar Harbor Hotel headed.
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  Speaker 14: The Blue Water, then you know, we knew you only
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  Speaker 14: got a mile and a half and she should have
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  Speaker 14: been there, and she texted her boyfriend and hey, I'm
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  Speaker 14: walking back to my hotel, so she should have been
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  Speaker 14: back there within a half hour.
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  Speaker 1: And it was that critical moment.
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  Speaker 2: A half an hour, you know, a half an hour
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  Speaker 2: and the whole world changed to Jarrett Fiorentina joining US
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  Speaker 2: high profile lawyer out of Pennsylvania who is down Drexel's
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  Speaker 2: lawyer a half an hour. I remember Carly Brusha in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you remember her as well. She had
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  Speaker 2: to spend the night with a friendgirl and was walking
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  Speaker 2: home the following morning, I think it was a Saturday
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  Speaker 2: or Sunday morning, and she cut caddy cornered instead of
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  Speaker 2: following the street, and in the fifteen minutes it would
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  Speaker 2: have taken her to walk, she encountered her killer.
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  Speaker 1: In fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: The world turned upside down for Curly's family and in
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  Speaker 3: Brittany Drexel's case. In that thirty minute segment that Cheryl
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  Speaker 3: McCollum just identified, Brittany was taken walking from one hotel
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  Speaker 3: to the next.
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  Speaker 9: And Nancy that examination of that timeframe, the surgical precision
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  Speaker 9: that the investigator's laser being focused analysis is really what
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  Speaker 9: had to be done, what had to be done in
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  Speaker 9: the Brucia case, that's the kind of investigation what can
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  Speaker 9: be greened from.
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  Speaker 8: The Bar Harbor Hotel to the Blue Water.
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  Speaker 9: That we can learn we knew when we knew what
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  Speaker 9: Brittany was wearing. We knew what direction she was heading.
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  Speaker 9: So the investigators over the past thirteen years and very
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  Speaker 9: recently had to examine that footage, that time frame, and
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  Speaker 9: the technological advances that have been made and the interim
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  Speaker 9: certainly aided in their investigation as time went on.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut five. Our friends at WCIV.
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  Speaker 15: Officials say the teenager was on spring break in April
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  Speaker 15: two thousand and nine. Surveillance video shows her leaving the
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  Speaker 15: Blue Water Resort in Myrtle Beach, and for the first time,
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  Speaker 15: officials are giving details of what happened next.
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  Speaker 16: We believe she traveled to this area around Mcclellanville and
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  Speaker 16: the North Charleston South Georgetown area, and we believe she
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  Speaker 16: was killed after that. And we do know that Brittany
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  Speaker 16: was in this community for several days. We think she
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  Speaker 16: was held here against her will, at least for a
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  Speaker 16: portion of the time that she was here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, why were they so convinced that she was
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  Speaker 2: held against her will in that area for several days
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  Speaker 2: year at Farantino.
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  Speaker 8: Nanci, That's a great question.
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  Speaker 9: They were convinced that she was definitely in that area
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  Speaker 9: based on some cell phone technology where her phone was
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  Speaker 9: pinging from in the remote area some fifty miles away
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  Speaker 9: from the Myrtle Beach area. So whether or not she
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  Speaker 9: was being held against her will, that was a little
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  Speaker 9: bit of conjecture on the part of investigators, and certainly
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  Speaker 9: some information that came out later may have suggested that.
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  Speaker 9: But I'm not sure why at that point they felt
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  Speaker 9: she was being held against her will for an extended
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  Speaker 9: period of time.
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  Speaker 4: What about it, Cheryl McCollum, I have no idea why
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  Speaker 4: they would say it.
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  Speaker 12: I have no idea why they would bring up even
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  Speaker 12: the gator pit.
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  Speaker 13: There were several things in and that first press conference
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  Speaker 13: that Dawn and I talked about that I thought was
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  Speaker 13: just way over the top and almost insatial, And I
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  Speaker 13: thought maybe they were trying to beat the bushes to
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  Speaker 13: bring other.
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  Speaker 12: People out to say, hey, that's not what happened. You're
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  Speaker 12: making it worse. That's what I believed they were doing,
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  Speaker 12: was trying to look for other witnesses to come.
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  Speaker 1: Forward, or maybe they just had at bass ackwards.
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  Speaker 3: Now you brought up my next topic, and that was
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  Speaker 3: how in the world did a gator slither into this
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  Speaker 3: fact scenario?
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  Speaker 1: Who had nothing, had nothing.
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  Speaker 3: To do with this disappearance, and yet somehow that became
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  Speaker 3: the centerpiece of so much of the coverage of Ritney's disappearance.
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  Speaker 13: Cheryl McCollum, Well, Nancy, I remember years ago you and
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  Speaker 13: I were investigating the case and we had to go
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  Speaker 13: talk to some ne'er the whale.
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  Speaker 12: And you said to me, swans don't swim and a sewer.
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  Speaker 12: In other words, who do you think I've got to
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  Speaker 12: go to to find out about this criminal?
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  Speaker 1: Other criminals.
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  Speaker 13: So they were getting information from jail house informants, criminals, liars.
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  Speaker 12: So they have to run that down.
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  Speaker 13: If they get information, if they get a tip, they've
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  Speaker 13: got to run with it and make sure this is
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  Speaker 13: either credible or not credible.
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  Speaker 12: But either lay they got to work that tip.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know another thing, as tough as it is
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  Speaker 2: to believe, I have actually had a case where a
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  Speaker 2: child was killed and left in a swamp infested with gators.
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  Speaker 3: So it has happened, but in this case, it just
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  Speaker 3: seems so far fetched. The whole the scenario that was
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  Speaker 3: being asserted to you. Don Direxeul Britney's mother. Can you
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  Speaker 3: believe it's twenty twenty two and where you're just solving
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  Speaker 3: the mystery.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I know it is.
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  Speaker 8: This case.
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  Speaker 7: I can tell you I believe this case should have
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  Speaker 7: been solved a long time ago. That you know, that's
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  Speaker 7: for another day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're absolutely right about that.
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  Speaker 3: To Nicole Boone joining me from wbt W, Nicole, again,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for being with us. Could you please describe
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  Speaker 3: the area where Britney's remains were found and how far
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  Speaker 3: away is that from where she went missing at the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Water Resort in Myrtle Beach.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Nancy, it was a very remote area, a wooded
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  Speaker 6: area along Old Town Avenue and Harmony Township in Georgetown County.
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  Speaker 6: Georgetown County is along South Carolina's coast, and Georgetown itself
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  Speaker 6: the city would be about fifty four miles from Myrtle
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  Speaker 6: Beach if you the drive time from Myrtle Beach, South
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  Speaker 6: Carolina to Georgetown. Maybe not quite that far, maybe forty,
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  Speaker 6: but still a decent distance. And once she went missing
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  Speaker 6: in Myrtle Beach, immediately once the south and started ringing
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  Speaker 6: paying from the cell phone towers, she ended more in
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  Speaker 6: that remote area of Georgetown County.
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  Speaker 12: And to the fact about the talk of an.
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  Speaker 6: Alligator pid and all of that that was brought up
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  Speaker 6: years after she went missing. It's very much an alligator
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  Speaker 6: invested area, and some of those things start to come
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  Speaker 6: up that may not have merit. But when I spoke
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  Speaker 6: with Solicitor Jimmy Richardson, he told me there were so
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  Speaker 6: many tentacles in this investigation. You have to keep checking
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  Speaker 6: things out, and to the point that when it came
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  Speaker 6: up out of speaking with people that were actually jail
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  Speaker 6: house snitches, you are dealing with criminals themselves. So a
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  Speaker 6: lot of tentacles in this investigation. But the area where
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  Speaker 6: Britney's remains were found very remote in Georgetown County, forty
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  Speaker 6: miles or so from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, up the
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  Speaker 6: coast where she went missing along the.
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  Speaker 1: Boulevards Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, we learn more heartache for the mother of a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful young girl, Britney Drexel, who was kidnapped, raped, and
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  Speaker 2: murdered at Myrtle Beach spring break. She snuck out to
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  Speaker 2: have a good time with her friends on spring break.
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  Speaker 2: She and all of her little friend girls and ends
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  Speaker 2: up dead. Tonight, the killer is blocking mom's civil payout.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems to never end for this mom. Dawn
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  Speaker 2: recently filed a petition saying the money remains unpaid and
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  Speaker 2: Moody has assets he's never turned over. It just sounds
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  Speaker 2: so much like OJ Simpson refusing to pay the Goldmans
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  Speaker 2: in the Browns for years and years and years until
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  Speaker 2: he died laughing he never paid them back down. Lawyer
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  Speaker 2: there at the Hershawn Law Firm says Moody has properties,
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  Speaker 2: including a home he's never disclosed. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: get it. That said, what do we know about why
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  Speaker 2: the mom filed this lawsuit? To start with Brace Yourselves?
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  Speaker 2: The search focuses there at Georgetown County, about fifty miles
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  Speaker 2: away from where she was last seen alive. Now take
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  Speaker 2: a listen to our three our friends at Wham.
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  Speaker 11: A hotel security camera captured one of the last known
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  Speaker 11: images of Brittany.
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  Speaker 1: It was just before nine pm.
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  Speaker 11: She was leaving a friend's room at the Blue Water
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  Speaker 11: Resort to walk back to the hotel where she was staying.
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  Speaker 11: We know that Britney Drexel made it here to Eleventh
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  Speaker 11: Avenue in Ocean Boulevard.
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  Speaker 1: How do we know Well, one.
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  Speaker 11: Of the few working cameras at the time captured this
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  Speaker 11: image of her. She was about halfway through that a
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  Speaker 11: mile and a half walk back to her hotel when
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  Speaker 11: Britney disappeared. The next clue appears fifty miles away in
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  Speaker 11: Georgetown County, where Britney's cell phone gave off its last signal.
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  Speaker 11: That's about eight miles from the Sunset Lodge where Raymond
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: Moody had moved in the day before. Moody was stopped
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: for speeding a nearby surfside the day after Britney disappeared.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: To doctor Angela Arnold, joining me, psychiatrist renounced psychiast just
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. I don't know if you
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: recall the name Timothy McVeigh. He's an Oklahoma City bomber
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: that claimed the lives of so many, including children that
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: were in a daycare at the Alfred Murrah Federal building
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that was bombed. He was pulled over the cause of
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: a tall light, as I recall, and when his car
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: was searched there was evidence that he may have been
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: involved in the bombing. In this case, Moody was stopped
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: for speeding in surfside the day after Britney disappeared.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: But I think that it's too.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Far fetched to expect the cops to put two and
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: two together based on a speeding ticket. I can't fault
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: them on that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I do think, Nancy, that I mean, let's say that,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I think that these things have to be taken very seriously,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: just knowing. I think that we never can let our
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: guard down.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I agree with that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, Cheryl McCollum, you pull a guy over for speeding,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: so day after Britney disappears, there were rumblings even then,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: where is Britney Drexel. They don't run his rap sheet
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: when they pull him over. I mean when I get
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: pulled over for anything. I said there forever, I don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: know what they're running.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: But you've got a guy who has done hard jail
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: time for raping a little girl in the vicinity where
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Britney Drexel goes missing.
• 23:03
  Speaker 13: Another reason that is so important, Nancy, because when he's
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: questioned later about Britney.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: She says, oh, I was out of jail. They got Bruce.
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: He was not out of jail. He was eight miles away.
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: The day after she was kidnapped.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Two Doctor Michelle Dupree joining US former forensic pathologist, medical examiner,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: detective author, of Home Side Investigation Field guide doctor Dupree.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: The moment the remains were found, police immediately identified it
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: identified them as human remains. How could they do that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: immediately upon site?
• 23:43
  Speaker 17: Most often it's with a skull, because obviously, you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 17: humans have a very distinctive skull shape. It can also
• 23:50
  Speaker 17: be by other means, other buns in the body can
• 23:52
  Speaker 17: tell whether it's human or not.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Don Drexel is with me.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: This is Britney's mother, who has been through pure hell
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: since two thousand and nine. And I can remember the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: very first time we spoke searching for Brittany, and you
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: would beg and you would cry in commercial breaks when
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I was at HLN and I could hear you. And
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: then somehow when we came back on the air, you
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: were crystal clear and Razor focused on trying to find.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Your daughter down. What a long, long road this has been,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and I just I hate it so much for you.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Raymond Moody is a sex offender, okay, And I don't
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: care what anybody thinks. You cannot rehabilitate a sex offender.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You know what.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: That's what I've been saying since day one, when I
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: first started prosecuting. I do not believe child molesters, rapists,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: sex offenders in general can be rehabilitated.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I agree, and Nancy, this is doctor Arnold.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: This is not a matter of believing it or not.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: That is the truth. They can be watched, and when
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I was working with sex offenders earlier in my career,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: we would keep an eye on them very closely.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I can tell you.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: About it sometime. But they cannot be rehabilitated.
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: Dawn.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking back on the very beginning, and I mean,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you see a lot of crime shows on TV and
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: in movies.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Real life isn't like that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Cops are not tarot card readers or sooth sayers.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: They can't look into a crystal ball.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: They can't figure out Oh start this guy speeding. I
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: wonder if you took Brittany, but they had a bead
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: on him from the beginning.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut thirteen. This is the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Georgetown County Sheriff.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Why may never be known or understood, but today this
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: task force can confidently and without hesitation answer the rest
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: of those questions, along with the who is responsible? The
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: who is Raymond Douglas Moody who lives at fifty five
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: oh two Rose Hill Road in Georgetown, South Carolina. His
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: date of birth is May the ninth of nineteen sixty
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: and he is a white male with an extensive sex
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: offender criminal history. The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office charges against
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: mister Raymond Moody are murder, kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct in
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: the first degree, all of these charges occurring within the
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: jurisdictional limits of Georgetown County, all of which occurred on
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: April the twenty fifth of two thousand and nine, in
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: all of which detail Brittany Drexel as the victim.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum way in, I.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Agree with Dong.
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: They not only had a beat on him, they named
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: him in twenty twelve.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: As a person of interest. They certainly did.
• 27:11
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and at he.
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: Has hurt six young women and children. And it is
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: baffling to me that anybody can rape and harm six young.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: People and walk free, and walk free to be out
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: there to take Brittany, put her through god knows what
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: before he killed her. You're absolutely right. Take a listen
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: to our cut six our friends from Wham.
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: Raymond Moody was first named a person of interest in
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: Brittany Drexel's disappearance in twenty twelve, but was never charged.
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: In the nineteen eighties, Moody was charged with kidnapping and
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: raping a child in California and as a registered sex offender.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Joining me Nicole Boone Special Events WBtW in Myrtle beat Nicole.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: It was around twenty eleven, I believe, just before Moody
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: was named a POY Person of Interest and one of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: WBtW's reporters questioned Moody.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: What happened was.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: An interesting confrontation, is how I would have described it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: It was he was very much pushing back. Our reporter
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: at the time, Mason Schnyder, went to speak with him,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: and this was after they had searched a hotel room
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: where Moody had been living. And our reporter goes up
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: to Raymond Moody talks to him, said what do you
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: know about Britney Drexel? Do you know anything about her?
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: He said, I know nothing about this. Where were you
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: the night the day that she went missing? He doesn't answer.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: He just tells them you need to get out of here.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: You need to leave, and if you don't, I'm calling
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: the police.
• 28:57
  Speaker 18: Do you know anything about the missing teenager?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Who I do not.
• 29:00
  Speaker 18: Can you tell us where you were back in April
• 29:02
  Speaker 18: of nine?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Good bye?
• 29:05
  Speaker 19: Here's former News thirteen reporter Mason Snyder confronting now confessed
• 29:09
  Speaker 19: Britney Direxel killer Raymond Moody. August first, twenty eleven, Snyder
• 29:14
  Speaker 19: and a photographer tracked Moody down at work. The same
• 29:17
  Speaker 19: day investigators searched Moody's Georgetown County apart the police, saying you.
• 29:22
  Speaker 17: Got to split.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Can you just tell us four in April? I got
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: nothing to say. Do you understand that?
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: Do you know?
• 29:26
  Speaker 19: Moody was in charge a decade ago because of a
• 29:28
  Speaker 19: lack of evidence, But in the short time Snyder was
• 29:30
  Speaker 19: in his grill. Snyder describes his presence as chilling.
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: In the second I started peppering him with questions, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 18: the second he started getting frustrated with the fact that
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: we were there and that we were asking him questions
• 29:41
  Speaker 18: and that we essentially stormed him. You know, we didn't,
• 29:44
  Speaker 18: you know, set up this interview ahead of time. It
• 29:47
  Speaker 18: made me want to get out of there as quickly
• 29:49
  Speaker 18: as possible.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a nerve for him to suggest he's going
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to call police because he's having a problem.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Very interesting.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: He was very in my opinion, belligerent with with our
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: reporter and adamant that he leave, and adamant that he
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: knew nothing and for basically to leave or he was
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: calling to Lee.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: You know, thirteen years this guy has walked free after
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: murdering a teen girl on spring break. Just beautiful girl,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: scrubbed in sunshine on the inside and the out. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: want to go back to Jarrett Farentino, high profile Pennsylvania
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: lawyer that is working with Dawn Direxel Britney's mom jump in.
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: Well, Nancy, I have to say, you talk about capturing
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: Timothy McVay with a ba stop. If you remember the
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: son of Sam, he got captured with a parking ticket.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: This was Moody was a fish out of water.
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: He was fifteen miles away from his home. He had
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: rented an apartment in Myrtle Beach the day before April twenty.
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: Fifth when Brittany went missing.
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: That was suspicious to the officers immediately as well.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: You have this.
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: Individual with a record and the downright dangerous homicidal sexual
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: proclivities in town. When a young beautiful.
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: Girl disappears, he was on their radar and the focus
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: has since, as we discussed, gone on to him in
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: great detail leading to these charges.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I mean the coincidence that he shows up and then
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: suddenly she goes missing. I mean, Charan McCollum, he just
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: got there and suddenly a young girl is kidnapped.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You said that there were six victims of his that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: we know, how explain.
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: That we know of?
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: And that's the big question, Nancy, in the past thirteen years, how.
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: Many more are there. He hasn't just been sitting in
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: that trailer. He hasn't just gone dormant. He's been out
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: free to stalk, pass.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Harm, rape, kill.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I would be on it comparing his mo and him
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to every single disappearance or rape or sex attack in
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the area and beyond another issue. Take a listen to
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: our cut number nine from WPDE.
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Carrie Harding was only eight years old when she was
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: abducted by Raymond Moody.
• 32:19
  Speaker 20: Just as I passed, he grabbed me from behind with
• 32:22
  Speaker 20: his hand over my mouth and around my waist and
• 32:24
  Speaker 20: put me in the passenger seat of the car. And
• 32:27
  Speaker 20: he drove from there two or three miles away to
• 32:31
  Speaker 20: an undeveloped housing track to get in the back seat
• 32:34
  Speaker 20: and take off your clothes and then I said why,
• 32:36
  Speaker 20: He said, because we're going to screw which you know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 20: you don't tell it it. You're a file that we
• 32:41
  Speaker 20: don't even know what they call that means.
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: Moody served twenty one years of a forty year prison
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting Harding and six other girls.
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: He relocated to Georgetown after his release from California State
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: Prison in two thousand and four.
• 32:54
  Speaker 20: Nobody should get a second chance to hurt child.
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: Police suspect Druxel was kidnapped as she walked along Ocean
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: Boulevard and driven to Georgetown County. Her cell phone signal
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: was last detected in a remote boat landing area near
• 33:06
  Speaker 10: the South Santy River.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: A mom's broken heart after her daughter is murdered on
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: spring Break Myrtle Beach and now her killer, Moody twists
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: the knife. What happened to Brittany?
• 33:36
  Speaker 21: So the directions were working walking along the sidewalking smoking pie.
• 33:41
  Speaker 21: She knows that and walked over through the door and
• 33:44
  Speaker 21: said something about this, but I.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Was likely we.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want some sure, get in.
• 33:52
  Speaker 21: She hot right in her bag and had a problem.
• 33:54
  Speaker 22: When she had a vehicle.
• 33:55
  Speaker 23: Do you know it was for a bad purpose?
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: No, not at all.
• 33:57
  Speaker 21: I didn't even crossed my.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Mind on Drexel with me. This is Brittany's mother and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: this has been a very long road for her and
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: she never gave up ever in her search for her daughter.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: You were telling me down that it was early on.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: That you believed that Brittany had been killed. What led
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you to believe or think or feel that.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Well, shortly after Brittany went missing, the Myrtle Beach Police
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Department had told us that they believed that they were
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: dealing with a homicide investigation at that point. From there,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: you know, and then what came out in twenty sixteen
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: with the FBI. I mean, we pretty much knew that,
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: you know, it was thirteen years We pretty much knew
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: that that Brittany was most likely defeased.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: What's some things in a pennic?
• 35:10
  Speaker 21: Is she pennick an astraya?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Guys, take a listen to our cut fifteen. This is
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Melissa Richardson in Georgetown County.
• 35:20
  Speaker 23: Justice is never going to be good enough. That's the
• 35:24
  Speaker 23: fallacy and all of this that somehow we're going to
• 35:28
  Speaker 23: do our very best to see that Raymond Moody pays
• 35:32
  Speaker 23: for what he's done here, but that is not going
• 35:36
  Speaker 23: to replace Brittany. But what we have been able to
• 35:40
  Speaker 23: do is to return a body to Chad and Dom
• 35:47
  Speaker 23: and hopefully start the process of closure. And again, closure
• 35:53
  Speaker 23: is not nearly as good as justice, and justice isn't
• 35:56
  Speaker 23: nearly as good as just having it not happen. But
• 36:01
  Speaker 23: that's all we have to offer. So again, to repeat,
• 36:05
  Speaker 23: Raymond Moody is in custody, is being hailed. He does
• 36:08
  Speaker 23: not have a bond. That original bond was on an
• 36:12
  Speaker 23: obstruction of justice charge. That's another charge that I failed
• 36:16
  Speaker 23: to mention. But he remains in custody.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Moody confessed that he took her to a campsite in
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Georgetown County, raped her, killed her, and left her there.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: He said he choked her because he started to worry
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: after he raped her.
• 36:29
  Speaker 19: Raymond Moody, he sat through investigators or prosecutors, I should say,
• 36:33
  Speaker 19: explaining the thirteen year timeline that led up to Todany.
• 36:36
  Speaker 19: Also heard from Britney Drexel's family. He walked in first
• 36:40
  Speaker 19: without showing emotion, but that changed as the hearing went on.
• 36:44
  Speaker 19: It was about an hour and fifteen minutes long, and
• 36:46
  Speaker 19: in that hearing, Moody confessed to the kidnapping, rape, and
• 36:49
  Speaker 19: murder of Britney Drexel, and he also did in a
• 36:51
  Speaker 19: May fifth interview with investigators.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: The case against him, installed.
• 36:55
  Speaker 19: More than a decade ago after a search warrant didn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 19: yield to any results. He was named a person of
• 36:59
  Speaker 19: interest but was never charged.
• 37:00
  Speaker 21: I was finished forty years four months and I did
• 37:08
  Speaker 21: twenty years and eight monch and I thought that was enough,
• 37:12
  Speaker 21: but it wasn't. I was a monster. I was a monster,
• 37:20
  Speaker 21: and I was a monster, and I took Brendan Gregx's life.
• 37:32
  Speaker 21: I don't know, I don't have the words express.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I'll horri bof Fiel.
• 37:42
  Speaker 21: And I felt ever since that day, very very.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Sorry to Don's rex Sol. This is Britney's mother. I
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: know it's hard to think about it right now because
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: since two thousand and nine, your goal has been to
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: bring Brittany home. Now Brittany has been found. Does this
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: all seem so surreal to it?
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: Does it happened so fast? You know, and it just
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: you kind of go back to like the numbness, and
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: you know, like that those surreal moments when she first
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: went missing, I'll always remember Britney's last words to me,
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: I love you, I'll see you tomorrow.
• 38:32
  Speaker 22: Listen now, I know that you told your daughter, no,
• 38:36
  Speaker 22: you cannot go to Myrtle Beach. So she went to
• 38:38
  Speaker 22: Myrtle Beach. That's not the worst thing in the world.
• 38:41
  Speaker 22: Many a seventeen year old has gone off on spring
• 38:44
  Speaker 22: break without telling their parents. But she stayed in contact
• 38:48
  Speaker 22: with you. She stayed in touch with you for many,
• 38:50
  Speaker 22: many days until when until Saturday?
• 38:55
  Speaker 24: Saturday afternoon was the last time I spoke with.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Brittany, And take a list the cut to where we
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: hear what Britney told her mom?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: What can you tell me about the last time you
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: heard from her? What did she say? What did she text?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: When I spoke with Brittany.
• 39:08
  Speaker 24: I asked her what she was doing, and she says, oh, Mom,
• 39:12
  Speaker 24: I'm at the beach and it was an eighty degree
• 39:15
  Speaker 24: day in Rochester. So of course, you know, I thought
• 39:19
  Speaker 24: that maybe she was at the beach in Rochester with
• 39:24
  Speaker 24: one of her girlfriends that she had said it was staying,
• 39:28
  Speaker 24: she was staying overnight.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And then I.
• 39:32
  Speaker 24: Said, well, what do you plan on doing later? She said, oh,
• 39:35
  Speaker 24: I'm just going to hang out.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: With my phone.
• 39:37
  Speaker 24: We're going to watch a movie. And I told her,
• 39:40
  Speaker 24: I said, well, please give me a call later, and
• 39:43
  Speaker 24: she said, okay, Mom.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, I.
• 39:46
  Speaker 24: Told her, I said, I love you, Brittany, and she says,
• 39:47
  Speaker 24: I love you, Mom, and then then we hung up
• 39:51
  Speaker 24: the phone.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: You were hearing me speaking to Britney's mother when Brittany
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: first went missing.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Right now, Oh, it's I feel the same way. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: feel like it's so surreal, like you know, it is
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: this really true? You know, and it just I don't know.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: I've always, you know, fought for Brittany and I've always
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: wanted to bring her home.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Don I'm curious, what is your most vivid memory of Brittany.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: Just her her laugh or smile. Brittany, she just was
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: she was just full of life, her person She had
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: a great personality. She had a lot of friends, and
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: just watching her play soccer on that soccer field, she
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: was just amazing. She was amazing at the game. She
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: loved the game. And Brittany. Brittany made like twenty six
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: goals within her season, which was was pretty awesome. And
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: she was just she was just so full of life,
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: you know, and for somebody to take that away from us.
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: It's just it's undescribable. It really is. We live in
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: an evil world, Nancy.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: As we wait for the registered sex offender Raymond Douglas
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Moody and for justice to unfold w B tw and Myrtle.
• 41:23
  Speaker 19: Beate Well, Moody, we'll get thirty years on kidnapping and
• 41:26
  Speaker 19: criminal sexual conduct in the first degree because he pleaded
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: guilty to all three of the charges against him, including murder,
• 41:33
  Speaker 19: in which he will face life in prison without parole.
• 41:37
  Speaker 19: The judge sentenced him to that this morning, and the
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  Speaker 19: state recounted thirteen years of an investigation in about twenty
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  Speaker 19: five minutes, and Deputy Solicitor for the fifteen Circuit Scott Hickson,
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  Speaker 19: said in court that the passage of time, unlike most
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  Speaker 19: cold cases, actually helped out this case because of the
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  Speaker 19: fact that there were advancements in cell phone tracks, the
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  Speaker 19: technology that allowed investigators to pinpoint Britney Drexel's phone from
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  Speaker 19: Myrtle Beach on its way south into Georgetown County.
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  Speaker 2: When I look at photos of Britney Drexel just seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: when she disappears in South Carolina's Myrtle Beach, she looks
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  Speaker 2: so alive, so happy. What she endured was horrendous, and
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  Speaker 2: now the mother suffering goes on as her daughter's killer
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  Speaker 2: blocks for civil payout. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Grace Crime Stories. Nancy Grace signing off Goodbye friend,