For 13 years FBI in SC tried to frame a black boy for a white girl's murder and failed

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A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/

They began spreading a story about him - a boy who lost one of his arms in an accident at the age of 4 - and a group of other black dudes about supposedly kidnapping Brittanee Drexel gang raping her and...it's even worse than than. 2/

They claimed they used her for human trafficking. They said the 16-year-old boy's father was involved. They said they beat her, murdered her and threw her body in a gator-infested lake. 3/

They used the local media to pressure that 16-year-old boy into confessing to the crime. They based it all on a jailhouse informant. And it was all a lie - which is typical of jailhouse informants, if you don't know. 4/

Just recently, they found Drexel's remains and charged an old white dude who has an extensive criminal sexual record. And when they announced it during a press conference held by officials from every law enforcement agency, they didn't mention the 16-year-old boy's name once. 5/

They devastated the family of that then-16-year-old black boy. They never directly charged him in her case but used his past mistakes to try and pressure him to confess. On national TV, he was called an animal. His mug shot is everywhere. 8/

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