#544: The disappearance and murder of Brittanee Drexel

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jim and Kathy discussed the 2009 disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old girl who was on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. After more than a decade and a half of investigation, the two offenders were finally brought to justice.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.
0:14.7	This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former in New York City prosecutor and writer-cer of Criminal Minds and Bluebeard on Audible.
0:21.7	And with me today is?
0:23.6	Kathy Canning-Mello, retired FBI agent and FBI profiler and co-host of the Audible podcast, FBI Profilers, Criminal Archives, with my dear friend, Jim Clementie.
0:35.8	How are you?
0:36.5	How are you? It's good to have you back. How you doing, Kathy? Good. How are you?
0:38.1	It's good to have you back.
0:39.2	Let's dive right into this case.
0:41.9	This has been a case that's been going on since, well, since we were still in the BAU.
0:49.5	And it happens to be pretty close to home right now, doesn't it?
0:53.0	Yes, that just happens like an hour down the road from me in South Carolina.
0:58.0	Wow. Well, on April 26, 2009, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during spring break, 17-year-old
1:08.8	Brittany Drexel went missing.
1:11.6	She was there with friends for spring break, which is a very popular destination for spring break.
1:18.6	And she apparently was going to meet friends at a different hotel than where she was staying.
1:25.6	And she was last seen on hotel surveillance leaving the hotel
1:32.9	and and maybe some street cameras but she disappeared that night and it would be many years later that her body was found.
1:49.8	Yes, Jim. And we had just discussed that this happened in 2009 when we were both in the BAU,
1:55.9	but neither of us remember this case. And I think it's because the FBI was not called in. Because otherwise,
2:02.6	I think this would have been a card deployment, a child abduction, rapid team deployment.
2:07.3	Right. Yeah, because we did respond to child abductions across the country at the time. And
2:14.4	many of them, we responded together or we responded in tandem or one of us was back at the office and the other one was on in the field and
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