The FBI Chased the Wrong Story for 13 Years: The Brittanee Drexel Case
The FBI Chased the Wrong Story for 13 Years: The Brittanee Drexel Case
On April 25, 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel vanished from Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, on a spring break trip her mother had forbidden. A hotel camera caught her at 9 p.m. By midnight her phone died on a rural road nearly 50 miles south. Why did it take 13 years to charge a man who was publicly named a person of interest in 2012? And how did a traffic ticket written the morning after she disappeared sit unused for over a decade while the FBI announced a trafficking theory that turned out to be false?
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