Gang-raped, shot and fed to alligators... The story of Brittanee Drexel will leave you in tears.

THE parents of a teenage girl believed to have been gang-raped, shot and fed to alligators claim they may have unintentionally handed a “missing” poster to the prime suspect in the case in the days after she disappeared.



Tragic Brittanee Drexel was 17 when she vanished during Spring Break in South Carolina in 2009.



Now, seven years on, and the FBI has revealed that the pretty teen was suffered a horrible death - claiming she was held against her will for several days before she was killed.



The latest news on the case came as her heartbroken parents appeared on the Dr Phil show yesterday, according to the Mirror.



Dawn Drexel told of her mental torture at knowing of the abuse her daughter suffered at the hands of the "monsters" who killed her.



She told the famous TV psychologist: "The jailhouse informant said he walked into this house in McClellanville – it's called a stash house.



"It's somewhere where they can put drugs and illegal things.



"He was walking through the house and he had said that men were raping my daughter.



"Brittanee tried to escape and they ran out and got her and brought her back into the house and pistol whipped her and beat her and shot her."



The tearful mum added: "My heart just broke because Brittanee didn't deserve this.



"Brittanee didn't even know these people. And for them to do that to my daughter is just, I mean, for nothing.


"I just feel like, you know, they're monsters. I mean, they have no regard for anybody's life."



Tragically Brittanee's dad Chad Drexel revealed that he actually handed a "missing" poster directly to the prime suspect in the case - Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor - as he scoured the neighbourhood at the time of her disappearance asking if anyone had seen her.