Investigators have not commented on the damaging allegations made in open court against Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor back in 2016
When South Carolina authorities announced closure was imminent for murdered teen Brittanee Drexel's family following the arrest of sex offender Raymond Moody, there was no mention of Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor — but the disabled man's family doesn't want you to forget about him.
Taylor had to go on the defensive in 2016 after his name surfaced during a run-of-the-mill court proceeding. As an arraignment judge was weighing whether to free him as he awaited trial on unrelated robbery charges, a detective investigating the 17-year-old soccer star's 2009 disappearance and presumed death testified that Taylor was directly connected to the heinous crime.
But, as Taylor has long maintained, he had nothing at all to do with Drexel's killing. On May 17, authorities charged Moody, 62, with individual counts of murder, kidnapping, and criminal sexual misconduct after he both confessed to the killing and led police to the wooded area where he buried Brittanee back on April 26, 2009 — the very day after he abducted her from the Myrtle Beach strip.
Drexel had been in South Carolina for a spring break getaway with friends — unbeknownst to her parents, who were back in rural New York.
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