Deadly Spring Break: What Happened to Brittanee?
Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.2 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Part 3: In this episode of Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, the heartbreaking truth about Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance finally comes to light. After years of false leads, jailhouse rumors, and suspicion cast on innocent people, investigators returned to the beginning — Brittanee’s final walk alone after leaving the Bluewater Resort in Myrtle Beach. Dr. Phil examines how the case was pulled in the wrong direction for years, why uncertainty can cause families to cling to theories, and how suspicion can damage innocent lives when evidence is missing. Then the real answer emerges: Raymond Moody Jr., a convicted sex offender, encountered Brittanee alone on Ocean Boulevard and exploited a brief window of vulnerability. With his signature behavioral analysis, Dr. Phil breaks down the psychology of predator opportunity, the danger of isolation, and the moment this case shifted from speculation to evidence when Moody led investigators to Brittanee’s remains. After 13 years, her family finally learned what happened and brought Brittanee home.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2009, a 17-year-old girl goes missing from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. |
| 0:11.0 | Surveillance video of her in the lobby of a waterfront hotel is the last and only clue she left behind |
| 0:19.0 | before she disappeared, seemingly into thin air. |
| 0:24.1 | I interviewed Brittany's mother, Dawn, multiple times after the teen mysteriously vanished |
| 0:30.6 | from her secret spring break trip. |
| 0:34.5 | I also interviewed her boyfriend John Greco and her father, Chad Drexel. |
| 0:41.3 | Her loved ones, not only heartbroken, but desperate for answers. |
| 0:47.0 | I mean, you can just imagine. |
| 0:49.9 | At the time, they had no closure, no peace, and no answers. |
| 0:53.7 | All they wanted was to know what happened to their beloved Brittany. |
| 0:59.6 | They cast doubt on two people. |
| 1:03.0 | First, Peter Brazzowitz, a friendly acquaintance of Britney's and the last person to see her alive. |
| 1:12.4 | According to Brittany's mom, he had not only rushed out of town after her daughter disappeared, |
| 1:18.6 | but according to authorities, he was snarky with investigators, and he immediately loggard up. |
| 1:26.1 | I spoke to him, too, and he denied having anything to do with Britney's disappearance, |
| 1:32.8 | and you're about to hear that conversation as well. |
| 1:36.8 | The other person on the radar was Timothy Deshawn Taylor, |
| 1:40.9 | a South Carolina teenager that a jailhouse informant claimed abducted and |
| 1:47.2 | killed Brittany. |
| 1:49.5 | Brittany's mother and father had no idea at the time of our interview that actually both |
| 1:57.6 | men were completely innocent. |
| 2:01.6 | We're going to hear from Brittany's family and boyfriend first, |
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