Brittany Drexel, a 17-year-old from New York, vanished in April 2009 while on a spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

For years, her case remained unsolved, leading to various theories and false accusations.

In 2016, authorities focused on Timothy Taylor after an informant falsely claimed he was involved in her abduction and murder, but no evidence

linked Taylor to the crime. In 2022, the case was finally solved when Raymond Moody, a convicted

sex offender, confessed to kidnapping, raping, and murdering Britney Drexel before burying her remains

in Georgetown County, South Carolina.

Moody's guilty plea did clear Taylor of any wrongdoing, but it highlighted the devastating impact of false accusations in criminal investigations.

So shortly after we actually covered the case of Brittany Drexel, there were a bunch of huge updates. And this is one of those stories that goes over, you know, more than a

decade. And the family's looking for answers. Poor Timothy Taylor, his name was dragged

through the mud. And then you have this one name, this Raymond Moody, who's involved in this crime.

But I think when we were recording before, we didn't know really what was going on with the girlfriend.

We knew we had a girlfriend.

We knew she knew something, but what did she know?

And so we're going to get into the updates from this story at the end of the episode.

So if you stick around and listen to the story, we'll get right into it at the end.

So the story this week is one that might hit close to home if you're a parent, which is probably a lot of our listeners.

At some point, or maybe even at many points, every parent has thought up the worst possible case scenario that could happen to their child.

I have always been a bit of an

anxious mom and some might say I even have helicoptered over my kids when they were younger, but it was

and is always out of love and genuine concern and honestly just straight up fear that something

will happen to them. That same fear is why Don Drexel was against her 17-year-old daughter, Brittany,

going on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach with her friends. Like many teenagers,

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