Brittanee Drexel’s white killer went free for 13 years while the police pursued black suspects

Ashley Herzog
5 min readJun 3, 2022

It took 13 years for South Carolina police to catch Drexel’s killer, despite plenty of evidence. Did racial bias help blow the case?

Brittanee Drexel on Myspace.

I remember when Brittanee Drexel went missing from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during spring break in 2009. I wasn’t much older than her — she was a senior in high school…

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Ashley Herzog

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