Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Body of Spring Breaker, 17, found in sea as sex offender charged with murder
dailystar.co.ukreported missing on April 25, 2009, was discovered Wednesday near Myrtle Beach, Georgetown County, South Carolina, where she was last seen, police said. “This is truly a mother’s worst nightmare,” Brittanee’s mother, Dawn Drexel, said at a press conference.“I’m mourning my beautiful daughter Brittanee as I have been for 13 years, but today it’s bittersweet.
We are much closer to the closure and the peace that we have been desperately hoping for.”Police arrested career sex offender Raymond Douglas Moody of Georgetown and charged him with murder, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, reports in the US suggested.
Moody allegedly strangled Drexel on the day she disappeared and buried her body the next day, according to the sheriff.The young woman's remains were identified through dental records and DNA testing, police said.Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver appealed to her family at the news conference on Monday, May 17.“To the Drexel family, we mourn with you and pray for you as you cope with the tragedies of 13 years ago,” he said. “No one deserves to go through this and our hearts go out to you.
Our only hope is that this finding allows your family to grieve properly for Brittanee.”Brittanee was on holiday with friends in Myrtle Beach when she was reported missing in April 2009.Police offered a $25,000 reward and issued CCTV images of Brittanee leaving a hotel, the last confirmed sighting of the teen.Taquan Brown, who is serving 25 years for an unrelated manslaughter case, previously said he saw Brittannee when he visited a "stash house" in the area she was last seen.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.He.
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