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Speaker 1: This is season eleven, episode two hundred and sixty nine

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Speaker 1: of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the

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Speaker 1: of South Carolina is a sixty mile strip of sand

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Speaker 1: and Ocean. This long stretch of beach is known as

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Speaker 1: the Grand Strand, and right in the middle of it

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Speaker 1: is the resort city of Myrtle Beach. I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: heard of it. Myrtle Beach is mostly known for being

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Speaker 1: a destination for tourists. It's a vacation spot with golf courses,

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Speaker 1: America's tallest ferris wheels. But for young adults, perhaps the

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Speaker 1: most attractive thing about Myrtle Beach is the nightlife. When

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Speaker 1: comes with it. For this reason, many college students in

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Speaker 1: America make Myrtle Beach their preferred destination for spring break.

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Speaker 1: Woo who Well, there is plenty of fun to be

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Speaker 1: Like any other popular vacation spot, there's no shortage of crime,

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Speaker 1: and most of that crime is dealt with by the

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Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach Police Department. Back in April of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: several police investigators in Myrtle Beach, along with a few

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Speaker 1: FBI agents questioned a middle aged woman named Angel Voss.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it. I'm going to read to you

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Speaker 1: Shortly after investigators began asking their questions, Angel became very

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Speaker 3: Jon, I'm going to take.

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Speaker 8: You back in time, back around April twenty second to

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Speaker 8: a young individual named Britney Drexel. She's seventeen years of

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Speaker 8: The scientist she wants to come to Myrtle Beach around

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Speaker 1: In April of two thousand and nine, seventeen year old

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Speaker 10: Well, we we have put up and down, but.

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Speaker 1: Brittany Drexel was born on October seventh, nineteen ninety one,

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Speaker 1: The Drexel family lived in a middle class suburb of Rochester,

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Speaker 12: I don't know the kids you're going with. I don't

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Speaker 12: there's no parental supervision, and something's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Understandably, don Drexel wasn't about to let her seventeen year

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Speaker 1: That would be stupid. This led to a heated argument

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Speaker 9: I picked up her house that she's gone with.

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Speaker 5: It was a huge argument if.

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Speaker 11: She actually ran away from her house, and I think

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Speaker 9: She said, I'm going to Myrtle. I don't care what

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Speaker 11: I'm going. I agree that you need a break because

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Speaker 9: I've seen this all. My mom has been going off

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Speaker 11: That I've known her, and that's typical her, Okay, but

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Speaker 13: Hands are going to divorce. I mean, I'm not saying

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Speaker 13: to show anybody under the bus with his parents because

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Speaker 13: your parents really don't care about her. Obviously, it's all

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Speaker 1: Don and Chad Drexel were in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: so he encouraged Brittany to go down to Myrtle Beach,

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Speaker 14: How did she end up coming down here with you, folks?

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Speaker 15: She was originally supposed to go with another group of guys,

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Speaker 5: When did you get here?

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Speaker 17: Around like nine time in the morning.

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Speaker 11: Okay, and model until yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Brittany and her friends stayed at the Bar Harbor Motel.

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Speaker 1: But these two friends were more acquaintances to Brittany than

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Speaker 1: As she did this, Brittany was wearing a pair of

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Speaker 15: I was like, I'm my breast were fire farms to

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Speaker 17: She said, she went job there.

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Speaker 16: We were in a field.

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Speaker 1: Brittany received a text message from her friend asking her

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Speaker 1: Brittany never made it there.

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Speaker 17: No, so then we weren't down there.

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Speaker 14: She wasn't there.

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Speaker 15: Be how text messages of the night she never came

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Speaker 1: After Brittany was reported missing, Myrtle Beach detectives were able

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Speaker 1: The surveillance footage from the Bluewater Resort Hotel was the

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Speaker 1: It would take Myrtle Beach investigators and the FBI thirteen

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Speaker 1: She felt isolated by her friends and was eager to

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Speaker 11: She said that she really wasn't wrong because I wasn't

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Speaker 11: found there with them. She said that she really looking a.

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Speaker 9: Lot and that her friends would being terrible to her.

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Speaker 9: The friend that she came downdy coming down.

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Speaker 1: During her time at Myrtle Beach, Brittany separated from the

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Speaker 1: This data revealed that shortly after Brittany's last text message

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Speaker 8: That phone is moving fifty five to sixty five miles

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Speaker 3: We don't know where she is.

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Speaker 8: That we make the circumstantial assumption that she is with

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Speaker 1: While Georgetown is a city, the particular area of that

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Speaker 8: Our local law enforcementations, the Sheriff's Apartment, Merby's Police Apartment FBI.

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Speaker 1: Investigators eventually turned their attention to the friends that Brittany

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Speaker 15: I don't know him personally, but I know of him

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Speaker 16: He invited her own in her.

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Speaker 1: Twenty year old Pete Brosowitz lived in Rochester, New York,

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Speaker 1: Brittany went missing after leaving Pete's hotel room suspiciously. When

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Speaker 1: As soon as he got back to Rochester, Pete hired

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Speaker 18: Myrtle Beach police say Peter Brosowitz was one of the

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Speaker 18: In the letter, she accuses Brosowitz of going home to

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Speaker 19: The letter reads, my daughter.

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Speaker 18: Made mistakes, and one of the largest ones she ever

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Speaker 1: When the police and the media questioned Pete about Brittany's disappearance,

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Speaker 1: His attitude and personality made him an easy target. Still,

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Speaker 20: Okay, First of all, I did talk to Brittany about

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Speaker 1: Oh, it doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 21: I'm not I'm on spring break.

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Speaker 1: During his media interviews, Pete didn't do himself any favors.

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Speaker 1: He came across as arrogant and didn't seem to care

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Speaker 20: As anything, I'm from New York Rochester. It's a you know,

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Speaker 1: According to Pete, he left Myrtle Beach at two am

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Speaker 22: Now taking a look at Moody's record, he's got quite

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Speaker 23: Now for those charges, he went to prison for twenty years.

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Speaker 22: Last August to Georgetown County Police and the South Carolina

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Speaker 22: in Georgetown, which is pretty close to the cell phone

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00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:16,599
Speaker 22: tower where Britney's cell phone last and gave off signal.

439
00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: Like Pete Brosowitz, Raymond Moody was heavily scrutinized by the

440
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,839
Speaker 1: media after being named as a person of interest. In fact,

441
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: one reporter went to Moody's work and shoved a camera

442
00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: in his face. Do you know anything about the missing teenager?

443
00:27:32,279 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 24: Well?

444
00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 23: I do not.

445
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 3: Can you tell us where you were?

446
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 5: Back in April of nine.

447
00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:39,039
Speaker 10: Good bye.

448
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 23: Do you know what? Can you go?

449
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 5: Fine?

450
00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:41,759
Speaker 8: Do you tell us where you were on it?

451
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 21: Bye?

452
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 12: April of nine?

453
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 3: Goodbye?

454
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,759
Speaker 22: Can you say it's a couple pluses?

455
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 25: Right?

456
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 3: Can we talk to you for a minute the police?

457
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,319
Speaker 3: You better split? Can I got nothing to say?

458
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 19: Don you understand that?

459
00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:00,319
Speaker 1: In most cases, I'd say it's completely unacceptable for a

460
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: news outlet to go to someone's job and put them

461
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: on the spot like that. But Ray Moody was a

462
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 1: convicted sex offender that raped a child, so fuck them.

463
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: In any event, The police had two potential suspects in

464
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,279
Speaker 1: Brasuwitz and Moody, but in both cases they couldn't find

465
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: any significant evidence to link either one of them to

466
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: Britney's disappearance. Typically, when a teenager goes missing, the truth

467
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: about what happened to them comes out pretty quickly. Rarely

468
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,119
Speaker 1: these days do these kinds of cases drag on. But

469
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,799
Speaker 1: that was unfortunately exactly what happened here. The investigation into

470
00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: Brittany Drexel's disappearance lasted for years, all the while Brittany's

471
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: mom pleaded for her daughter's safe return.

472
00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:56,319
Speaker 12: Please give us back our daughter. I mean, we have

473
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,839
Speaker 12: so many people that loved Brittany and her brother and

474
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 12: sister miss her dearly. It hurts me very much when

475
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 12: I see her. Younger brother and sister asked me. You know,

476
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,839
Speaker 12: they say, Mommy, please bring Brittany home. We miss her,

477
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 12: we love her. Brittany may be scared. I don't know

478
00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,119
Speaker 12: what the you know, I don't know what they may

479
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,519
Speaker 12: have done. If someone does have her, you know, I

480
00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 12: want them to return her home. She's ours and we

481
00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:26,319
Speaker 12: need her.

482
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: In June of twenty sixteen, over seven years since Brittany

483
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:36,079
Speaker 1: went missing, investigators seemingly got a break in the case.

484
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:41,079
Speaker 1: A prison inmate and FBI informant in South Carolina came

485
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,079
Speaker 1: forward and claimed to know what happened to Britney Drexel.

486
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: This informant told investigators that Brittany was abducted and taken

487
00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:54,039
Speaker 1: to a drug stash house. Once there, she was raped

488
00:29:54,599 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: and murdered.

489
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,799
Speaker 19: In open court, an FBI agent testifies an informant Salt

490
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,759
Speaker 19: and others raped the young girl at a drug stash house,

491
00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 19: then she was killed and her body dumped into an

492
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,519
Speaker 19: alligator pit.

493
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: According to the FBI, their informant named twenty year old

494
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:18,279
Speaker 1: tim Deshaun Taylor as the culprit behind Brittany's disappearance and murder.

495
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,319
Speaker 1: Tim had a criminal history and was arrested in twenty

496
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: eleven for acting as a getaway driver for an armed robbery.

497
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,559
Speaker 1: He pled guilty to multiple charges and was sentenced to

498
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: eighteen years of probation, but these charges were only resolved

499
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: in state court. After the informant named Tim accused him

500
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,079
Speaker 1: of being responsible for the killing of Brittany Drexel. The

501
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: FBI charged Tim federally for the same crime so that

502
00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: they could arrest him and question him, which is bullshit.

503
00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: The FBI shouldn't be allowed to do that if you

504
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: believe in the constitution. That is, in any event, just

505
00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:03,799
Speaker 1: like Pete Broswitz and Raymond Moody before him, the media

506
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: dug their claws into Tim DeShawn Taylor, so they.

507
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,359
Speaker 24: Arrested you for this conspiracy. Regarding this prior, he said,

508
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,839
Speaker 24: you had already been convicted of a state court. Yes, sir,

509
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 24: And were they asking you about that case?

510
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,039
Speaker 9: Not at all. What were they asking about Britta Drexel?

511
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 3: Did you find that straining?

512
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:22,279
Speaker 1: Yes, sir?

513
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 3: Did you kill Britney Drexel?

514
00:31:25,119 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 9: No, sir.

515
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 24: Were you involved in the kidnapping of Britney Drexel. Were

516
00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 24: you with Britney Drexel the nighte she was she disappeared

517
00:31:36,279 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 24: in April of two thousand and nine.

518
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,839
Speaker 1: No, Sir Tim claimed that before Britney Drexel's disappearance, he

519
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,119
Speaker 1: didn't even know who she was and that he had

520
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: never been in her presence. He explained that everything he

521
00:31:50,079 --> 00:31:53,519
Speaker 1: knew about Brittany came from the authorities and the media.

522
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 24: You heard the allegations from this informant. He says he

523
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 24: saw you in this stash house sexual assaulting Britney Drexel.

524
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,559
Speaker 24: You know, recounts this whole detailed story. What do you

525
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 24: What do you have to say about that story?

526
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 26: There's not then too much that I can say about

527
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,559
Speaker 26: the story. I just think it was not true. It's

528
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 26: very very disorientated.

529
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:17,519
Speaker 1: Okay, Forrest, why don't you tell us about your chocolates now?

530
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 24: Anything that you would want to say to the family

531
00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 24: of Britney Drexel.

532
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 9: I would tell him deeply.

533
00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 26: I apologize for their loss, and I sincerely do apologize

534
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 26: for their loss, and I honestly hope that they find

535
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,039
Speaker 26: who've done this and give them justice. But I honestly

536
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 26: don't have anything or have any information to help them,

537
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,799
Speaker 26: because I honestly don't know anything.

538
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: Tim was unwavering in his denial, and once again, the

539
00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:48,279
Speaker 1: authorities were unable to find any significant evidence to charge

540
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: him with any crimes related to Britney Drexel. More than

541
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: a decade after Britney's disappearance, the case remained unsolved and

542
00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:03,079
Speaker 1: quite cold. The Myrtle Beach Police and the FBI still

543
00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: had no answers for Brittany's mom.

544
00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 20: Because I told them, I said, look, I said, Brittany

545
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,519
Speaker 20: didn't just to scare up these there.

546
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 16: She's down there somewhere. I mean, it's surprising that, you know,

547
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,039
Speaker 16: none of the hunters or anything like that during hunting

548
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 16: season ever came.

549
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,359
Speaker 9: Across any remains or anything like that, you know what

550
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 9: I mean.

551
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 16: I'm just so frustrated. I mean, at this point, it's

552
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 16: just it's.

553
00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 12: Just I want answers, and they better start coming, you know,

554
00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 12: because you know, because to me, I mean, you know,

555
00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:35,799
Speaker 12: I've been in this for a long.

556
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,119
Speaker 16: Time, right along with you guys.

557
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,799
Speaker 1: Don Drexel was desperate, and who could blame her. Her

558
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,519
Speaker 1: daughter left the house one day and never came home,

559
00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:48,759
Speaker 1: and nobody seemed to know where she went. Or why

560
00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:55,319
Speaker 1: what a nightmare can you imagine? In her desperation and

561
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,559
Speaker 1: given the authorities were unable to provide any answers, Dawn

562
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: turned to the unorthodox and spoke to several self proclaimed psychics.

563
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: One psychic told Down that Brittany was still alive and

564
00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:11,559
Speaker 1: that she was being held captive by a clean cut

565
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: man in his late twenties.

566
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 17: She had stated it Britney or when she was reading it.

567
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,679
Speaker 17: She says she was randomly targeted. She says there was

568
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 17: a man setting in his chair offering the girls.

569
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 16: Offering them a joint.

570
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 17: She had said something about a drugphyut in.

571
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:29,639
Speaker 27: The drink, but she wasn't.

572
00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 17: Sure if it may have been a mixed drink or

573
00:34:33,039 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 17: maybe just a coke or something like that.

574
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 16: She heard what she was instructed.

575
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:41,199
Speaker 17: He had made it, this gentleman that when she was

576
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 17: talking about Hidney contacts with all three of these girls,

577
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 17: he was watching her out. Okay, he's the young, he

578
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 17: is clean cut, and she looks like he's in the

579
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 17: age of twenty five to twenty eight. She is in

580
00:34:57,039 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 17: love with her. She doesn't want to hurt her. She

581
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 17: wants to make her his princess.

582
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,599
Speaker 1: I'd like to take this opportunity to say, fuck these people.

583
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 1: If someone wants to play make believe, pretend they have

584
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: magic thinking powers and con gullible people out of their money.

585
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:21,519
Speaker 1: Gullible usually broke people, I might add, well, that's just

586
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: fucking gross. You're a piece of shit. Do you hear me,

587
00:35:26,079 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, psychic, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know

588
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,119
Speaker 1: your magic crystals tell you things. I know you can

589
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: hear the voice of your grandfather or some shit. That's

590
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:42,119
Speaker 1: because you're mentally ill. Got it, good, Let's continue. When

591
00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: you start blatantly lying and giving made up false hope

592
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:52,199
Speaker 1: to desperate parents or suffering some very very real pain,

593
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,679
Speaker 1: you've crossed the line of being a swindler, a grifter,

594
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,679
Speaker 1: a whatever you want to call it, and now you've

595
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: become a full blown, absolute fucking monster. Shame on you

596
00:36:08,119 --> 00:36:12,679
Speaker 1: if you even know what that word means. These so

597
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: called psychics are sick people with no empathy, and they

598
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: should be called out at every fucking turn. Listen to

599
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,679
Speaker 1: the desperation in Don Drexel's voice. Listen to the desperation

600
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,119
Speaker 1: of this mother who would do anything to find her

601
00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:36,519
Speaker 1: missing daughter, and this piece of shit comes by to

602
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:40,119
Speaker 1: grift on that How could anyone listen to that desperation

603
00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:45,119
Speaker 1: and decide to take advantage of it. It's just shameless.

604
00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 17: She's a well known, normal person.

605
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 7: Believe me, I don't believe in but you know why,

606
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 7: you can.

607
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,079
Speaker 16: Give me some powers of my daughter and every single

608
00:36:57,159 --> 00:36:58,079
Speaker 16: one that we talked.

609
00:36:58,679 --> 00:36:59,519
Speaker 17: She's alive.

610
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 7: But I mean are making her? I mean I was

611
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,199
Speaker 7: watching her you see before?

612
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 16: Yeah, and then we're looking into you know, your mother

613
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 16: leaking her you know, I mean, you know I want

614
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 16: to pay her for my yars.

615
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 7: You had a name, you know.

616
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,079
Speaker 1: For thirteen years, don Drexel did all she could in

617
00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:30,039
Speaker 1: hopes of one day being reunited with her daughter. For

618
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: thirteen years, she searched relentlessly for answers. Then in April

619
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, she finally got some of those answers. Unsurprisingly,

620
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: they didn't come from a psychic. They came from the

621
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:51,039
Speaker 1: girlfriend of the murderer. They came from the woman who

622
00:37:51,119 --> 00:38:26,159
Speaker 1: was dating Brittany Drexel's killer. By April of twenty twenty two,

623
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,679
Speaker 1: thirteen years had passed since seventeen year old Britney Drexel

624
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: went missing while on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

625
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,599
Speaker 1: Throughout the investigation, the local police and FBI took a

626
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,119
Speaker 1: close look at several potential suspects, one of which was

627
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: Pete Brazowitz. Pete was twenty years old when Brittany went missing,

628
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: and he was the last person to see her before

629
00:38:49,559 --> 00:38:54,519
Speaker 1: she disappeared. Pete garnered a lot of suspicion through his actions.

630
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: He left Myrtle Beach within hours of Britney's disappearance, and

631
00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: had seemingly done so in a hurry, leaving belongings and

632
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: a hotel deposit behind. He also hired a criminal defense

633
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,599
Speaker 1: attorney when he returned to his home city of Rochester

634
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,159
Speaker 1: and New York, and seemed to show no concern for

635
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: Britney's well being. Despite all this, authorities did eventually clear

636
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: Pete as a potential suspect.

637
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,599
Speaker 18: Myrtle Beach police say Peter Brosowitz was one of the

638
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,039
Speaker 18: last people to see Britney Drexel before she walked out

639
00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 18: of the Bluewater resort and disappeared, But new emails we

640
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,519
Speaker 18: obtained detail why Myrtle Beach police say they eventually cleared him.

641
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 18: Police say it wasn't Brozowitz's decision to go back to Rochester,

642
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 18: and that while he did leave clothes behind, it was

643
00:39:43,519 --> 00:39:46,599
Speaker 18: only wet bathing suits on the balcony, and the emails

644
00:39:46,599 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 18: show they were at a party at Coastal Carolina, all

645
00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:53,159
Speaker 18: while Drexel's phone was heading south. Police also found nothing

646
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 18: suspicious in their room or cars. Eventually, authorities announced another

647
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:58,599
Speaker 18: suspect in the case.

648
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: Years later, the FBI began investigating a young man named

649
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: Tim DeShawn Taylor, who was named as Brittany's kidnapper and

650
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:13,599
Speaker 1: murderer by an FBI informant. Eventually, it was determined that

651
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,679
Speaker 1: this information was not true at all, and Tim had

652
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Britney Drexel at all. Despite this,

653
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:27,079
Speaker 1: the FBI never publicly set the record straight, and a

654
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: cloud of suspicion followed Tim for years.

655
00:40:31,519 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 19: Tim was never charged in the Drexel case, but for

656
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,599
Speaker 19: the next six years, the court of public opinion presumed

657
00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 19: he was guilty.

658
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 21: They wanted so badly for this to be Timothy and

659
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:46,039
Speaker 21: his submedia didn't look for anybody else. It didn't look

660
00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 21: for the real killers.

661
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,119
Speaker 19: Britney's father was horrified that the FBI had let them

662
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 19: believe Tim Taylor was responsible for all of these.

663
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 3: Years the FBI specifically that they killed her.

664
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 28: This is how they did and she's dead and oh yeah,

665
00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:06,159
Speaker 28: by the way, this really didn't happen five years later.

666
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,079
Speaker 1: Think about that one.

667
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,559
Speaker 4: That's where I get heeded?

668
00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 29: Are you?

669
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,039
Speaker 3: And they don't even want to talk about it.

670
00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: The accusations that the FBI made about Tim reaked havoc

671
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,599
Speaker 1: on Tim's life and the lives of his family members.

672
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: But the FBI maintained that they did nothing wrong. And

673
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,159
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, who do they have to

674
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,679
Speaker 1: answer to anyway, So yeah, go fuck yourself.

675
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 20: It wouldn't really be anything that the FBI would need

676
00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:38,199
Speaker 20: to apologize for because we didn't.

677
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,079
Speaker 30: We didn't leak that information.

678
00:41:40,159 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 3: We're just exploring a whole investigative.

679
00:41:42,159 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 19: They didn't leak the information, They set it in open

680
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,519
Speaker 19: chort and never set the record straight, even after dropping

681
00:41:48,599 --> 00:41:50,119
Speaker 19: Tim as a suspect.

682
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,119
Speaker 21: If they would take the time, they wouldn't know us

683
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 21: a lot to apologize. We lost livelihood, we lost income,

684
00:41:56,079 --> 00:41:59,119
Speaker 21: I lost my job. They blasted us all over the world,

685
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 21: and you just don't do it as somebody will walk away.

686
00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:06,639
Speaker 1: The disappearance of Brittany Drexel had a ripple effect that

687
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 1: devastated countless lives, and for over a decade there was

688
00:42:11,039 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: still no explanation of what happened to her. Then, finally,

689
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, Myrtle Beach detectives were able to

690
00:42:19,079 --> 00:42:23,079
Speaker 1: crack the case. In April of that year, they were

691
00:42:23,119 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: able to speak to a fifty four year old woman

692
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: named Angel Vaz. According to yet another informant, there's lots

693
00:42:32,039 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: of them. I guess maybe everybody's an informant anyway. According

694
00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: to yet another informant, during a night of heavy drinking,

695
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: Angel confessed to killing Brittany.

696
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,679
Speaker 8: A confidential source to come forward to law enforcement and

697
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,559
Speaker 8: said that an intoxicated Angel Lass had made shockingly shocking

698
00:42:50,559 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 8: admissions to them, specifically claiming that she was concerned about

699
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:57,159
Speaker 8: Raymond constantly being accused of things that he didn't do.

700
00:42:57,559 --> 00:42:59,039
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, she knows he didn't do

701
00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:02,039
Speaker 8: it because she killed were and Raymond held hid the body.

702
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,639
Speaker 1: Angel Oz was the girlfriend of Raymond Douglas Moody, who

703
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,119
Speaker 1: was another potential suspect that the police had not crossed

704
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: off their list. Moody was a registered sex offender who

705
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: had spent twenty years in prison for raping a child

706
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: in California in two thousand and nine, when Britney Drexel

707
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,159
Speaker 1: went missing. Moody was living in an apartment not far

708
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,679
Speaker 1: from where Brittany's cell phone signal died. After the police

709
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: were made aware of the admission that Angel made about Brittany,

710
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: they questioned her about them. At least they tried to.

711
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 6: During the course of our investigation, we were able to

712
00:43:42,199 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 6: interced conversation between individuals, and these individuals was the person

713
00:43:49,039 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 6: that was responsible?

714
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I saw how I'm gonna do it. I'm

715
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 5: going to read to you a couple of clothes.

716
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,679
Speaker 7: What if you try to accuse you anything involved in

717
00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 7: and I say he didn't, Okay, I say he didn't

718
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,079
Speaker 7: know about I'm not here, you are. That's what that

719
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 7: was about me. I'm straight No, I'm straightforward to I

720
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 7: don't think you did, and you're not very involved in.

721
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 9: It with it?

722
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 7: No, I'm not getting no, please, no, I got no.

723
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,639
Speaker 1: Before investigators could read the admissions that Angel allegedly made

724
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,639
Speaker 1: to their informant, Angel stormed out of the interview room.

725
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 16: No.

726
00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: Within minutes, she was convinced to go back inside, and

727
00:44:38,679 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: the questioning continued.

728
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,199
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did say what I see and I was

729
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 7: talking to care and a friend of mine and I

730
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,519
Speaker 7: was highly dropping it hour and I drinking and she

731
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 7: kept asking me what he's about Ray and everybody that

732
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 7: I was a king and Ray. So yeah, I did

733
00:44:53,119 --> 00:45:00,119
Speaker 7: say nothing. No, I would never heard of anybody. No, no,

734
00:45:01,079 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 7: don't know, no truth. But I don't know if it

735
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,079
Speaker 7: was that night, Like.

736
00:45:04,159 --> 00:45:06,039
Speaker 5: There's no chance of getting an information.

737
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,679
Speaker 7: Don't want to promise you with my children's life. When

738
00:45:10,679 --> 00:45:13,599
Speaker 7: I lost the son of the guard, I don't know

739
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:15,199
Speaker 7: where I don't want.

740
00:45:16,199 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: According to Angel, the only reason she confessed to killing

741
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: Brittany was so that people would stop accusing her boyfriend

742
00:45:23,639 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: Raymond Moody. Sounds like a solid plan. Angel claimed that

743
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: she had no idea what happened to Brittany, but based

744
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: on her earlier admissions, the FBI pursued her and conducted

745
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,199
Speaker 1: another search of the apartment that she shared with Moody.

746
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: During that search, something interesting happened.

747
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 8: Nothing ab evidentry value was particularly found in the search

748
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,599
Speaker 8: warm and what did happen is there was a face

749
00:45:48,639 --> 00:45:52,039
Speaker 8: to face conversation with mister Mudy and that BI agent's

750
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 8: concerning the direction of the investigation and the effort of

751
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 8: building a case towards MISSUS laws based on that, mister

752
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 8: Moody had retained an attorney and agreed to coming to

753
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 8: how to set down discussion with.

754
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 3: Law enforcement OFSTROS concerning his involvement in.

755
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:11,599
Speaker 1: That Since the FEDS were pursuing his girlfriend, a now

756
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: sixty two year old Raymond Moody finally decided to come clean.

757
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: Throughout multiple interviews with authorities, Moody described the night that

758
00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:23,679
Speaker 1: he came upon Britney Drexel.

759
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 3: He told this story.

760
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 5: The only person I've ever told this story too is

761
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 5: my angel. Never even knew the real story.

762
00:46:36,159 --> 00:46:41,079
Speaker 2: Anyway. Well, I was going down Ocean Boulevard and very

763
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 2: slow driving. I was driving and uh, I'm pretty walking.

764
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,639
Speaker 2: She and I saw the jets were working on walking

765
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:55,519
Speaker 2: on the sidewalking. I was smoking pot. She knows that

766
00:46:56,199 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: walked in through the dorm said.

767
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 30: Something about us.

768
00:46:58,679 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 3: I was likely we.

769
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, you want some?

770
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:02,519
Speaker 3: Sure?

771
00:47:03,639 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 16: Damn?

772
00:47:04,639 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 3: She hopped right in her back.

773
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:06,679
Speaker 5: Problem.

774
00:47:08,119 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 3: Did she asked for a rider? Did you ask her

775
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:11,519
Speaker 3: for and you asked.

776
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 4: Her if you wanted to ride?

777
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 2: You remember, I was sure she might required this.

778
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,599
Speaker 3: Okay, She's sure when she had a vehicle with you know,

779
00:47:18,679 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 3: it was for bad purpose.

780
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 4: No, not at all.

781
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 5: Had you even crossed my mind?

782
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 9: Okay?

783
00:47:24,639 --> 00:47:27,119
Speaker 1: According to Moody, he was driving on the main Myrtle

784
00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: Beach Strip with his girlfriend Angel, who was in the

785
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: passenger seat. The traffic was so bad that night that

786
00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 1: they were only moving at a walking pace. Moody claimed

787
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:44,119
Speaker 1: that Brittany noticed them and from the sidewalk jokingly called

788
00:47:44,159 --> 00:47:48,119
Speaker 1: them out for smoking pot. When Moody offered Britney some weed,

789
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,679
Speaker 1: she willingly climbed into the back seat of his suv. Supposedly,

790
00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:55,559
Speaker 1: Angel didn't have a problem with this because she and

791
00:47:55,679 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: Moody had an open relationship.

792
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 5: To other plays like were you an Angel would be

793
00:48:01,599 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with that.

794
00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:05,599
Speaker 14: She paid up, grew and we had done that before,

795
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,599
Speaker 14: so we ended up we end up relatively open entire relationship.

796
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 14: We have very strust in relationship.

797
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: Now that Moody was cooperating with the authorities, Angel Vaz

798
00:48:17,119 --> 00:48:20,679
Speaker 1: did as well, and she also provided her version of

799
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: what happened that night. According to both Angel and Moody,

800
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: after Brittany got into the suv, the three of them

801
00:48:27,519 --> 00:48:31,679
Speaker 1: drove to Georgetown. During that drive, they collectively got to

802
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: know each other.

803
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,039
Speaker 7: I know there was a conversation like, hey, my name

804
00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:35,519
Speaker 7: is so and so.

805
00:48:36,159 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 5: You know, we introduced your sale.

806
00:48:38,199 --> 00:48:40,679
Speaker 3: And then she said about where she's just from River,

807
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 3: New York. That's about he is.

808
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 6: And she says about where she.

809
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:44,039
Speaker 3: Went to Soul.

810
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 7: What did show? She said, she was like eighteen or

811
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 7: something like that, and you know, but it was.

812
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 5: Just like manner party a little bit with this. We

813
00:48:57,039 --> 00:48:58,199
Speaker 5: get some cocaine, you know.

814
00:48:59,199 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 9: She sure.

815
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,599
Speaker 2: Driving, We're just driving around, was fucking talking. Yeah, I

816
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: went right in Georgetown, went right. She spot where we

817
00:49:13,039 --> 00:49:14,519
Speaker 2: used to camp out down by the river.

818
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: Moody, Angel and Brittany arrived at a desolate campsite in Georgetown.

819
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,079
Speaker 1: Not long after they got their Angel recalled that her

820
00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: son had the keys to her apartment and she needed

821
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,159
Speaker 1: to get them before the night got ony. Later, I

822
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: called my.

823
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 9: Son, or he called me.

824
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,679
Speaker 3: I can't remember the called you, but he had the

825
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 3: keys to the apartment. So after a little bit I

826
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 3: walked back to call. We all walked back to where

827
00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 3: the like the.

828
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 31: Car ripon parks and I said I had to meet

829
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 31: him to get the keys, and h I said, out

830
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 31: went back in a little while, and nobody said anything.

831
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 32: Doesn't know all from anybody, Brian, And so you'll get

832
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 32: in a car with her and you drive out fine,

833
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:00,159
Speaker 32: and then you have to leave, right, So what is

834
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:01,199
Speaker 32: that conversation?

835
00:50:02,199 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 3: Well, I'd just say him in her I was like, yeah,

836
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 3: well we're I'll staying there.

837
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 7: When I left, I just said it up.

838
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,119
Speaker 12: I had you go to meet my son to get

839
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 12: keys before he went back over to the races, and

840
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,559
Speaker 12: I just wanted me and.

841
00:50:17,599 --> 00:50:19,679
Speaker 3: I got a car and drove off.

842
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:25,039
Speaker 1: Angel drove away, leaving seventeen year old Brittany alone with

843
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: a forty nine year old convicted child rapist. Within ten

844
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 1: minutes of Angel leaving, Raymond Moody was raping Brittany.

845
00:50:36,199 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 5: When I made a decision? Did you have any inclination

846
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 5: at that point? When Angel left?

847
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 25: What was going to happen next?

848
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,559
Speaker 5: What can you describe it all? Just kind of what that?

849
00:50:48,159 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 29: What happened there?

850
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 25: Was it?

851
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 3: I want the words in your mouth?

852
00:50:51,559 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 25: But was it?

853
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 23: Sunnan?

854
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,039
Speaker 9: There's something just like.

855
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:02,519
Speaker 5: I knew that I was that I wasn't really like

856
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 5: I have that character at.

857
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: Moody described that Brittany was terrified as he forced her

858
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,559
Speaker 1: to remove her clothes and that she tried to resist

859
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:22,039
Speaker 1: him as he raped her. When the assault ended, Moody

860
00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:25,079
Speaker 1: realized that what he had done was probably going to

861
00:51:25,119 --> 00:51:27,760
Speaker 1: put him back in prison for the rest of his life.

862
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: The only way he might be able to protect himself

863
00:51:31,159 --> 00:51:37,519
Speaker 1: was to silence Brittany forever. So he strangled her.

864
00:51:37,519 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 25: To death and they take her clothes off.

865
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,599
Speaker 5: He is she saying?

866
00:51:48,079 --> 00:51:56,599
Speaker 25: Specifically at that time she still did you start the

867
00:51:56,679 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 25: aspxr Did something happen to stop that?

868
00:52:01,159 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 23: I did?

869
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:02,039
Speaker 7: Yeah?

870
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:03,199
Speaker 25: Yeah?

871
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 14: Do you remember what she was like at a point

872
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:07,280
Speaker 14: after you rader?

873
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:08,039
Speaker 9: Or she.

874
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,639
Speaker 5: And then afterwards it happened?

875
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 9: Did she?

876
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 29: Did?

877
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:16,159
Speaker 14: She say?

878
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 9: Like? What cost? Did it?

879
00:52:18,039 --> 00:52:20,159
Speaker 5: Other than VERA had began?

880
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 14: Because I started just playing the whole thing through my mind?

881
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,079
Speaker 14: What was gonna have I was you know that a

882
00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:30,639
Speaker 14: prison again and the rest of my life? When you

883
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 14: strangled with Brittany with it? Did you use your hands

884
00:52:33,519 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 14: or did you use part of her clothing?

885
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 5: Or did you have to hold her down at all?

886
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 5: Or was she just pretty compliant or traveling?

887
00:52:47,039 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: Brittany fought for her life, but Moody overpowered her. He

888
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: wrapped his hands around her neck and squeezed until Brittany's

889
00:52:57,079 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: life left her body. She was dead. Realizing that Angel

890
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,639
Speaker 1: would be returning at any minute. Moody carried Brittany to

891
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,639
Speaker 1: a nearby wooded area and dumped her behind a.

892
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,159
Speaker 5: Tree out where they had of like roway treees and stuff,

893
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 5: you know. And true, I was all shook up because

894
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 5: what had happened. I didn't want to do.

895
00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 14: I'm trying to her an almah shits back. So I

896
00:53:29,119 --> 00:53:33,079
Speaker 14: came out this story at I can't remember exactly that

897
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 14: she hooked up show with her friends of the phone.

898
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 5: And they came and picked her up.

899
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 14: When I got to the.

900
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 3: Pole yard, he was standing in the parking lot of

901
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 3: the pole yard. I asked him where she was.

902
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 28: He said that she.

903
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,639
Speaker 7: Called somebody or somebody called her.

904
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 3: Was there a way I don't remember, uh.

905
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 6: And she left and I said okay, And we left

906
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 6: the pole yard and went to the apartment.

907
00:54:01,639 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 3: Do you remember anything about after, like after you got

908
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 3: to the apartment.

909
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 16: I would be.

910
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: After Angel went to bed. Moody returned to the scene

911
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: of the crime, collected Brittany, and took her body to

912
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: a heavily wooded area about two miles from his apartment.

913
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 1: Once there, he dug a shallow grave and buried Brittany.

914
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: Angel claimed that She initially believed Moody when she said

915
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: that Brittany's friends picked her up, but she began questioning

916
00:54:31,519 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 1: that story when Brittany's face appeared on the news.

917
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 31: Never made me suspicious one a little bit until things

918
00:54:38,079 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 31: came on TV and I'm like, okay, what's going on?

919
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 3: And he said, I told you was she there? And

920
00:54:43,519 --> 00:54:45,159
Speaker 3: that was my answer I got every time I want

921
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:47,559
Speaker 3: to say anything about it, because even to this day,

922
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 3: if I asked him anything, he would eat straight out

923
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 3: tell me was she there when you got there? And

924
00:54:53,079 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, she wasn't there, And he said, I

925
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,599
Speaker 3: told you she left. He never said one word about

926
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:02,159
Speaker 3: the night or anything after that.

927
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,079
Speaker 1: If Angel's story was true, it means that she kept

928
00:55:07,159 --> 00:55:10,679
Speaker 1: quiet for thirteen years and never told police that she

929
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: saw Brittany on the night that she disappeared. Nonetheless, the

930
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: agreement that Moody and Angel made with the authorities was

931
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:23,559
Speaker 1: that they would cooperate if and only if Angel didn't

932
00:55:23,639 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: face any consequences. Of course, there's always consequences.

933
00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:33,039
Speaker 2: I did this, Angel would have been a victim of

934
00:55:33,159 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 2: mind for a long fucking time.

935
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,599
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, of course that's the kind a piece of

936
00:55:37,639 --> 00:55:41,039
Speaker 5: shit that I am. I didn't turn into a good

937
00:55:41,159 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 5: person until.

938
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:44,760
Speaker 25: Two.

939
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 3: I can be a man of my word, and you

940
00:55:50,519 --> 00:55:52,039
Speaker 3: all can be a man of your word.

941
00:55:54,159 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 9: You can be a man of your word.

942
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 5: Then I'll shay, I'll take him. I really lock you

943
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,199
Speaker 5: because I feel like you in an org. Never get

944
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 5: that body.

945
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,519
Speaker 1: Moody claimed that the recent birth of his grandchild transformed

946
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:10,679
Speaker 1: him into a good man all of a sudden. It's

947
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: kind of like when some of you say I can't

948
00:56:12,519 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: listen to those stories about kids because I have kids.

949
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: You're assuming that everybody that doesn't have kids doesn't give

950
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: a shit. It's kind of insulting. Anyway, This so called

951
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,679
Speaker 1: good man used the hidden location of his seventeen year

952
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: old murder victim as a bargaining chip to save his

953
00:56:33,119 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: own ass. Raymond Moody was, is, and will always be

954
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: a disgusting and evil piece of shit.

955
00:56:44,079 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 8: After that interview with law enforcement was completed, he agreed

956
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 8: to take investigators most of the Pullyard and point of

957
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 8: the campsite locations, and he agreed to go to the

958
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,559
Speaker 8: area off Penny rail Road and pointed to investigators still

959
00:56:56,599 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 8: location where he placed instructures. Morever remains her mortal remains

960
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,639
Speaker 8: will prove be on a reasonable doubt to be hers

961
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 8: through general records as well as DNA testing.

962
00:57:06,599 --> 00:57:10,280
Speaker 23: Tonight from Myrtle Beach, investigators say they have found the

963
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 23: remains of missing teenager Brittany Drexel. It has been thirteen

964
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 23: years since she disappeared. Police arresting a man last week

965
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 23: who they say was once a person of interest in

966
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 23: the case. Well today they confirmed that man Raymond Moody,

967
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,239
Speaker 23: is responsible for her death.

968
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,599
Speaker 4: This is the case you warn people about. It's your

969
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 4: child walking down the street and being snatched up by

970
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:40,679
Speaker 4: someone with malevolent homicidal proclivities. Raymond Moody had no prior

971
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 4: connection to Britney Drexel.

972
00:57:43,679 --> 00:57:47,679
Speaker 1: In May of twenty twenty two, thirteen years after Brittany

973
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: left for Myrtle Beach, her mother, Don Drexel, brought Brittany

974
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: back home to Rochester, New York.

975
00:57:55,880 --> 00:58:00,119
Speaker 12: I've been waiting for this day for thirteen years, ever

976
00:58:00,239 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 12: since the you know, the day Brittany disappeared.

977
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,559
Speaker 3: I never thought we would get to this place.

978
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 12: And we're finally here, and now I can get Brittany

979
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 12: back and lay her arrest.

980
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: Dawn finally got some answers about what happened to her daughter,

981
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: but not everything made sense? How could it? The respective

982
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: versions of events given by Angel and Moody were mostly consistent,

983
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: but there seemed to be some potential contradictions in what

984
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:33,199
Speaker 1: they told police. For one, both Moody and Angel told

985
00:58:33,239 --> 00:58:36,559
Speaker 1: investigators that Brittany initially took an interest in them because

986
00:58:36,639 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: they were smoking pot. Yet according to her friends and

987
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: her boyfriend, Brittany didn't smoke weed at all, and she

988
00:58:45,079 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: was one of.

989
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 9: The party ear that I do when you say partyville.

990
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,199
Speaker 9: Were just talking drinking or we talked in a little

991
00:58:53,199 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 9: bit of everything or anything.

992
00:58:55,159 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 11: Everything was probably she never never smoked on marijuana, never

993
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:01,079
Speaker 11: done anything.

994
00:59:02,239 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: Also, according to one of the girlfriends who went to

995
00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:08,119
Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach with Brittany, when the option to smoke weed

996
00:59:08,239 --> 00:59:11,119
Speaker 1: was offered, Brittany declined.

997
00:59:11,119 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 14: I'm not an I don't know.

998
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 15: I actually asked her a professional figure and I asked

999
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:15,719
Speaker 15: her as a J.

1000
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:16,039
Speaker 21: Saul.

1001
00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 7: She was like wow, that she show me.

1002
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 5: Anything, She's like wow.

1003
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:26,559
Speaker 1: If Brittany did get into Moody's SUV willingly, it seems

1004
00:59:26,719 --> 00:59:30,719
Speaker 1: very unlikely that marijuana was her motivation. It's possible that

1005
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,679
Speaker 1: Moody simply offered Brittany a ride and she accepted, but

1006
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: it's also possible that she was abducted off the street.

1007
00:59:39,159 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: If Brittany was abducted, it means that Angel was a

1008
00:59:42,559 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: willing participant in the crime and now she had immunity.

1009
00:59:49,159 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: Something else that didn't make any sense was that Brittany

1010
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:56,599
Speaker 1: didn't text or call anyone while she was with Moody

1011
00:59:56,679 --> 01:00:00,239
Speaker 1: an Angel. This was extremely out of character for her.

1012
01:00:01,159 --> 01:00:06,199
Speaker 1: Brittany was constantly on her phone like most teenagers, and

1013
01:00:06,559 --> 01:00:11,159
Speaker 1: almost always texting her boyfriend. Yet both Moody and Angel

1014
01:00:11,239 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: claim that they never prevented Brittany from using her phone.

1015
01:00:15,519 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 3: Did she have her phone the whole time? Or did

1016
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,519
Speaker 3: someone take her phone and she hit an answery?

1017
01:00:19,559 --> 01:00:20,679
Speaker 5: I never told her one time.

1018
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,039
Speaker 2: She didn't answer if he never told her, she'd been answering.

1019
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 3: Okay, Now, her phone riding a couple of times, but

1020
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 3: she didn't answer it, and but she said it was

1021
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 3: her boyfriend or something and she would call him.

1022
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:37,119
Speaker 1: Was set back her again. These potential problems with their

1023
01:00:37,239 --> 01:00:42,039
Speaker 1: respective stories suggest that Angel may have acted as Moody's accomplice,

1024
01:00:42,719 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: but investigators were able to use Angel's phone records to

1025
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:50,039
Speaker 1: confirm that she did in fact leave the campsite where

1026
01:00:50,119 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: Brittany was supposedly murdered and returned a short while later,

1027
01:00:55,159 --> 01:00:59,039
Speaker 1: So part of her story seemed to be true. Other

1028
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:03,079
Speaker 1: than that, everything else remains a mystery. Did Brittany get

1029
01:01:03,119 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: into Moody's suv willingly or was she abducted off the street.

1030
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:12,159
Speaker 1: If she did go willingly, why maybe she was tired

1031
01:01:12,199 --> 01:01:15,199
Speaker 1: of walking and accepted a ride. Maybe she felt she

1032
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,239
Speaker 1: was safe because there was another adult female in the

1033
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,679
Speaker 1: passenger seat. But if that was the case, why did

1034
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,079
Speaker 1: she suddenly stop using her phone? Why didn't she tell

1035
01:01:26,119 --> 01:01:29,079
Speaker 1: her boyfriend that she had accepted a ride from two strangers?

1036
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't really add up.

1037
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,239
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, we may never never know exactly what happened that

1038
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,679
Speaker 8: day because mister Exel can't tell us what happened. So

1039
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 8: to some degree we are compelled to listens to the

1040
01:01:42,559 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 8: version is provided by mister Moody, and then it's incumbent

1041
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,199
Speaker 8: upon law enforcement to determine the credibility or not on

1042
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 8: certain points and not certain points.

1043
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: The consensus among law enforcements seemed to be that Brittany

1044
01:01:54,079 --> 01:01:58,679
Speaker 1: did get into Moody's suv voluntarily, but the only thing

1045
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: they could say with certainty was that Moody did murder

1046
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: Brittany Drexel. His confession and the fact that he led

1047
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: investigators to the body were the final pieces that allowed

1048
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:16,599
Speaker 1: investigators to close the case and hand things off to prosecutors. Ultimately,

1049
01:02:16,719 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 1: Moody didn't fight the criminal charges against him. He pled

1050
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:24,559
Speaker 1: guilty to kidnapping and murder, and with those pleas came

1051
01:02:24,639 --> 01:02:28,039
Speaker 1: the inevitable impact statements from Brittany's parents.

1052
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,599
Speaker 3: When I found out that she went missing, I didn't

1053
01:02:32,599 --> 01:02:37,039
Speaker 3: know what to think. I didn't know. I just felt wrong.

1054
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 30: I mean, I'm gonna be here, adopted did I won't her?

1055
01:02:43,079 --> 01:02:47,199
Speaker 33: At first I thought she would be found because like

1056
01:02:48,039 --> 01:02:51,639
Speaker 33: Don don and mentioned that she was going down there

1057
01:02:51,679 --> 01:02:53,920
Speaker 33: in searching, They're going to bring her home, and that's

1058
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 33: what I thought would happen. However, days turned the months,

1059
01:02:57,239 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 33: and those months turned into years, years of torture, wondering

1060
01:03:02,559 --> 01:03:07,679
Speaker 33: where my daughter was. Now, thirteen years later, I find

1061
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 33: out the horrible, disgusting and senseless.

1062
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 3: Way she was abducted and murdered.

1063
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 28: Every part of my being wants to say and do

1064
01:03:17,159 --> 01:03:19,679
Speaker 28: something about that, but my heart knows that I will not,

1065
01:03:20,039 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 28: and Brittany would not want me to go to jail

1066
01:03:23,119 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 28: over that, so I internalize it.

1067
01:03:27,679 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 30: That's all I do is it's sickening. The defendant was

1068
01:03:35,599 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 30: and is, and I'm sorry, a perverted, sick monster.

1069
01:03:40,679 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree that Brittany's adoptive dad

1070
01:03:44,079 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: has absolutely nothing to apologize for. After Chad Drexel addressed

1071
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:53,559
Speaker 1: the court, it was Brittany's mom's turn to do the same.

1072
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,079
Speaker 31: For thirteen years, I have searched for Brittany and suffered

1073
01:03:58,119 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 31: the loss of a child. Today we know the truth,

1074
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:06,239
Speaker 31: and today, mister Moody, you face the consequences for that.

1075
01:04:08,039 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 3: That's all I have left.

1076
01:04:10,599 --> 01:04:14,079
Speaker 31: That's all we have left after what you did to her.

1077
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 31: Brittany was a beautiful seventeen year old with her full

1078
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:22,199
Speaker 31: life ahead of her from the moment I gave birth

1079
01:04:22,239 --> 01:04:22,519
Speaker 31: to her.

1080
01:04:23,159 --> 01:04:26,679
Speaker 3: Brittany was my life. She had a beautiful soul. She

1081
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 3: was our soccer star.

1082
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 31: She was loved by everyone in our family, by her

1083
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,039
Speaker 31: friend's classmates.

1084
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 3: In an entire community.

1085
01:04:36,199 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 31: What gave you the right to put your hands on

1086
01:04:38,679 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 31: my daughter? You are a serial rapist and a child predator.

1087
01:04:44,159 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 31: The criminal justice system has failed my daughter. As it

1088
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:51,519
Speaker 31: continues to fail so many other victims, and frankly, mister Moody,

1089
01:04:51,719 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 31: it failed you because you never should have been released

1090
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 31: from prison. The loss of my daughter has ignited a

1091
01:05:00,039 --> 01:05:02,239
Speaker 31: fire and meat and set me on a mission to

1092
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:05,519
Speaker 31: strip away the rights and freedoms of people like you.

1093
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,639
Speaker 31: My daughter's tragic and senseless murder has inspired me. Britney's

1094
01:05:11,719 --> 01:05:15,199
Speaker 31: life and memory are now the driving force behind the

1095
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:18,599
Speaker 31: initiative to make changes in sex offender laws and to

1096
01:05:18,719 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 31: keep monsters like you where they belong, in cages so

1097
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:25,039
Speaker 31: they can never harm again.

1098
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:30,159
Speaker 1: Raymond Moody will indeed spend the rest of his life

1099
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: in a cage, which is exactly where he should have

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01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: remained after being convicted the first time for raping a child.

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Speaker 1: For fuck's sake, how are we not electing better people

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Speaker 1: to run this shindig. In the case of Britney Drexel,

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01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:55,039
Speaker 1: Moody was given two consecutive sentences, thirty years for kidnapping

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01:05:55,119 --> 01:05:59,039
Speaker 1: and another thirty years for murder. If Moody wants to

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01:05:59,079 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: see the outside of a prison, he'll need to live

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01:06:02,559 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: to be one hundred and twenty two years old. Good luck,

1107
01:06:07,199 --> 01:06:11,679
Speaker 1: shit bag. The Britney Drexel case took thirteen years to solve,

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01:06:11,719 --> 01:06:15,719
Speaker 1: and that long investigation, as well as its resolution, offers

1109
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 1: plenty of lessons and takeaways. For one, the general population

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01:06:21,079 --> 01:06:25,199
Speaker 1: is way too quick to presume guilt. The mild association

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01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: that Pete Brozowitz had with Brittany Drexel has all but

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01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:35,079
Speaker 1: defined his life even to this day, and despite the

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01:06:35,119 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: resolution of the case, you can't Google him without seeing

1114
01:06:38,559 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: his photo next to a picture of Britney Drexel. There

1115
01:06:43,519 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: are countless blogs about him, probably a bunch of Facebook groups,

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01:06:48,039 --> 01:06:51,039
Speaker 1: and I can't even imagine what's on Reddit. Many of

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01:06:51,079 --> 01:06:56,119
Speaker 1: the authors of these comment areas are completely certain that

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01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:03,599
Speaker 1: Pete murdered Brittany despite all the evidence. Okay, okay, granted,

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01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: Pete didn't do himself any favors. I mean, during his

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Speaker 1: media interviews he came across as arrogant and uncaring. He

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01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:15,159
Speaker 1: was really easy to dislike. But then again, what twenty

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01:07:15,239 --> 01:07:18,199
Speaker 1: year old isn't a little self centered and kind of

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01:07:18,199 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: an asshole. I mean, I haven't met one yet. Also,

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01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: Pete was in a no win situation. If he feigned

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01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,239
Speaker 1: sympathy and offered to help, he would have been accused

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01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,519
Speaker 1: of trying to get inside information about the case. Pete

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01:07:34,639 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: was crossed off the potential suspect list very early on

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01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:42,159
Speaker 1: in the investigation, and frankly, the authorities should have made

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01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,639
Speaker 1: more of an effort to make that clear. The same

1130
01:07:45,719 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 1: is also true for Tim DeShawn Taylor, but in his

1131
01:07:48,639 --> 01:07:52,920
Speaker 1: case things were much worse. Not only had the court

1132
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:56,519
Speaker 1: of public opinion pretty much convicted him, but so did

1133
01:07:56,639 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: the FBI. Tim committed a robbery before he was investigated

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01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:05,039
Speaker 1: for possibly murdering Brittany. He pled guilty to that robbery

1135
01:08:05,159 --> 01:08:09,199
Speaker 1: charge in state court and was sentenced. When that kind

1136
01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 1: of thing happens, the FEDS should not be allowed to

1137
01:08:12,639 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: reuse the same crime as leverage against someone and charge

1138
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: them again. That's a very very dirty practice, and the

1139
01:08:22,159 --> 01:08:28,520
Speaker 1: FBI knows it. But again, who's going to stop them anyway. Finally,

1140
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:33,359
Speaker 1: and perhaps the most frustrating element of this case is

1141
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:37,279
Speaker 1: that Raymond Moody was a registered sex offender and a

1142
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:44,079
Speaker 1: previously convicted child rapist. Once again, we have a case

1143
01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: where a predator is released from prison and surprise, surprise,

1144
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:54,319
Speaker 1: they sexually abuse another child. It's almost like we can

1145
01:08:54,399 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: predict that it's going to happen. It's almost like it's

1146
01:08:58,039 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: a given. It's almost like we've known this for decades. Huh.

1147
01:09:04,199 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: This is a complicated issue that we have covered extensively

1148
01:09:09,079 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 1: in prior episodes of this show, and there are many

1149
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 1: conflicting opinions on how child rapists should be dealt with.

1150
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,560
Speaker 1: A wood chipper is a popular suggestion, But one thing

1151
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,600
Speaker 1: is clear. The system we have in place right now

1152
01:09:25,239 --> 01:09:29,520
Speaker 1: simply isn't working, and our kids are paying the price

1153
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:34,399
Speaker 1: for that failure. Again, why pay for a safety net

1154
01:09:35,079 --> 01:09:39,520
Speaker 1: if there's no safety In this particular case, seventeen year

1155
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:44,560
Speaker 1: old Britney Drexel paid the ultimate price. She paid with

1156
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:50,560
Speaker 1: her life, her parents paid with their grief. And until

1157
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 1: we make reforms to the way that our government handles

1158
01:09:54,079 --> 01:09:57,119
Speaker 1: child sex offenders, this kind of thing is going to

1159
01:09:57,239 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: continue to happen again and again again. And you could

1160
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: be anywhere in the country, anywhere, because once these predators

1161
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: are released in whatever state they're released in, they travel

1162
01:10:11,079 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: to whatever state they want to and maybe that's where

1163
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: your child is. Maybe one of those times it happens again,

1164
01:10:20,199 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: it'll involve a child that you know, Maybe, just maybe

1165
01:10:24,159 --> 01:10:28,079
Speaker 1: it'll be your child. And I'm not saying that to

1166
01:10:28,159 --> 01:10:32,640
Speaker 1: scare you. I'm not saying that to scare monger. I'm

1167
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: saying because it's fucking reality. If you look around for

1168
01:10:36,079 --> 01:10:40,319
Speaker 1: half a second, it's just the world we live in now.

1169
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:46,079
Speaker 1: Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes, and here we are.

1170
01:10:47,319 --> 01:10:51,600
Speaker 1: The Drexels were a typical suburban family, and the events

1171
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,359
Speaker 1: that led to Britney ending up in Myrtle Beach is

1172
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:59,239
Speaker 1: a story as old as time. She lied to her

1173
01:10:59,319 --> 01:11:03,079
Speaker 1: mom about where she was. Kids do that all the time.

1174
01:11:03,119 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, I did it. All my friends did it.

1175
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:11,079
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody who didn't do it. Actually, now

1176
01:11:11,159 --> 01:11:14,279
Speaker 1: that I think about it, everybody lies to their parents.

1177
01:11:15,239 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 1: Everybody goes out and sneaks out and does stuff when

1178
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,279
Speaker 1: they're a teenager that they shouldn't be doing.

1179
01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:21,279
Speaker 14: So.

1180
01:11:22,079 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: The thought that it can't happen to you is a

1181
01:11:25,079 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: dumb one, no matter how good your kid is. Usually

1182
01:11:30,039 --> 01:11:34,159
Speaker 1: when kids lie about their whereabouts, things don't end badly

1183
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 1: like they did this time. But every once in a

1184
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 1: while a monster comes along and waits for the perfect

1185
01:11:43,119 --> 01:11:49,319
Speaker 1: opportunity to strike on their prey. The frustrating part is

1186
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 1: that it's not just any monster. It's a monster we

1187
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:58,359
Speaker 1: can see coming. It's a monster that our laws and

1188
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:28,399
Speaker 1: our government released from a cage. Don't be sad. This

1189
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:32,520
Speaker 1: isn't the end. There's more true crime available at swordscale

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Speaker 1: four Angeli bloods Oh boy, Even when you're doing well,

1192
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not doing well, you know what I mean. Anyway,

1193
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:49,319
Speaker 1: it's an amazing story that our television team put together.

1194
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:52,399
Speaker 1: They get in an RV, they stuff in all their

1195
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:55,359
Speaker 1: cameras and all their gear, and they travel all around

1196
01:12:55,399 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: the country, all year around to do this. You've got

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Speaker 1: to check it out.

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Speaker 9: Stay sick.

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Speaker 29: Guess why do I have to upgrade from plus to

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01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:36,079
Speaker 29: plus two to watch season Learn to listen to season two?

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01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 27: That makes no sense.

1202
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 29: I've been paying ten bucks this whole time, and then

1203
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 29: you put out a new episode for season two to

1204
01:13:44,119 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 29: listen to.

1205
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:46,399
Speaker 7: But yeah, you want me to upgrade.

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01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,239
Speaker 3: To twenty bucks now, Like, what are we doing here?

1207
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Speaker 5: Guys?

1208
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:58,239
Speaker 16: Oh my god, people kicks up fuck over it.

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01:13:59,239 --> 01:14:02,560
Speaker 27: I understand that you are limited in what you can

1210
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:08,399
Speaker 27: say on air and in private to those very special

1211
01:14:09,199 --> 01:14:13,239
Speaker 27: customers that you have that don't seem to understand that

1212
01:14:13,359 --> 01:14:17,159
Speaker 27: you don't get more shit without paying for it.

1213
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:20,760
Speaker 3: You know, there's a thing called inflation, and there's things.

1214
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,079
Speaker 17: The thing called people need to make a living, and

1215
01:14:23,199 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 17: that's what Mike in.

1216
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,279
Speaker 16: History do and that's why he's created more tears.

1217
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:32,079
Speaker 27: So I thought i'd talked directly to them so that

1218
01:14:32,159 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 27: you didn't have to and I could say some of

1219
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,039
Speaker 27: the things that we should all know.

1220
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,760
Speaker 7: If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. But

1221
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 7: get with the time.

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01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:45,560
Speaker 17: You are going to get what you used to get

1223
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 17: for the same price.

1224
01:14:47,359 --> 01:14:48,239
Speaker 16: Things are changing.

1225
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 7: It's called life, it's called progress.

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01:14:51,199 --> 01:14:56,159
Speaker 27: The number of sort and scale episodes on your feed

1227
01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:03,640
Speaker 27: for regular subscriber and plus subscriber has not changed. The

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01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 27: shows that are additional in your seed are the offerings

1229
01:15:09,239 --> 01:15:13,399
Speaker 27: and hard work of Mike and his team on new

1230
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 27: projects that, if you so please, you can listen to

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01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:21,199
Speaker 27: for an appropriate expense.

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01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:26,159
Speaker 17: I'm so sick of him people complaining on social media and.

1233
01:15:26,279 --> 01:15:29,560
Speaker 14: On the voicemails about what hopeing you bok boss here?

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01:15:30,239 --> 01:15:32,079
Speaker 7: Get that buck over it?

1235
01:15:33,319 --> 01:15:38,199
Speaker 27: How do I put this gently? You fucking idiots. You

1236
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:45,199
Speaker 27: can't get a bunch of more shit for free. Mike,

1237
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 27: keep doing what you're doing. We'd love you for it.

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01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,119
Speaker 27: Don't listen to our special friends

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