SC BRITTANEE DREXEL: Missing from Myrtle Beach, SC - 25 April 2009 - Age 17 *Found Deceased*

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Both photos shown are of Brittanee. Her ears and nose are pierced. Brittanee has blonde highlights in her hair. She was last seen wearing a white, black, teal, and gray top, along with black shorts, similar to the outfit pictured above. Brittanee was also wearing white flip flops. When she was last seen, she was wearing blue colored contacts.
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In April 2009, Brittanee asked for her mother's permission to travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break with her friends and longtime boyfriend. Her mother said no, they argued about it, and Brittanee got permission to go to a friend's home. She went to Myrtle Beach in spite of what her mother said.

Her mother was unaware of this; she thought Brittanee was staying with a friend locally. They spoke several times on the telephone after she arrived in South Carolina. Brittanee's mother didn't find out where her daughter really was until she was notified that Brittanee had disappeared.

Brittanee's friends last saw her Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach at 8:00 p.m. on April 25, 2009. Brittanee walked more than a mile to the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard, where other friends were staying. Surveillance cameras there show her going into the resort, then leaving sometime after 8:30 p.m. At 9:15 p.m., she sent a text message to one of her friends saying she was going to see a friend who was staying at another hotel. She has never been heard from again.

She left all her clothes behind at her hotel room. Her beige purse and pink cellular phone disappeared with her. The phone's last signal was near U.S. 17 and the Charleston County line the night Brittanee went missing. Since then its battery has died.

In the summer of 2016, investigators announced they believe they know what happened to Brittanee, and named a suspect in her case. They believe she was held against her will for four days before being murdered. A witness, Taquan Brown, testified he'd seen T.D.T. and several other people sexually assaulting Brittanee at a drug dealer's "stash house" in McClellanville, South Carolina, a small town about sixty miles south of Myrtle Beach. T's father, ST, was also present.

Police believe T planned to force Brittanee into prostitution, but after her disappearance received widespread publicity, he decided to kill her. At one point, Brittanee tried to escape and ran from the house, but she was caught, pistol-whipped and taken back inside. Brown says he later heard two gunshots and later saw Brittanee's cloth-wrapped body carried out of the house. It was supposedly dumped in one of the many local alligator pits.

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In 2004, Brittanee Drexel’s alleged killer said he would never hurt another child​

When Raymond Moody moved back into his parents’ house in 2004, some neighbors stopped letting their children play on the street, and the county sheriff’s office set up regular patrols of the area.

Moody had just returned to the Kensington area from California, where he had been serving a 40-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a child. He was set free after a psychiatrist determined he was no longer a threat to society. But some of his new neighbors weren’t so sure.

Moody told a reporter that he understood their fears but wished folks would just give him a chance and see that he had turned over a new leaf. He insisted he would never hurt another child.

“I don’t even have a thought of doing something like that again,” he told the Georgetown Times in June 2004. “I wish people would have a little faith and not define others by what they have done in the past but by the type of person they are today.”

Five years after giving that interview, Moody allegedly abducted Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old from New York who was on spring break in Myrtle Beach, authorities said. He is accused of raping and strangling the teen before burying her body in a 4-foot grave in woods off Old Town Avenue near Georgetown.
 


By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN
Updated 4:00 PM EDT, Wed October 19, 2022

The man convicted of killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday.

Raymond Douglas Moody, 62, was also sentenced to two consecutive 30-year sentences for the charges of criminal sexual assault and kidnapping.

Moody pleaded guilty to all the charges against him before the judge read the sentence.
 


By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN
Updated 4:00 PM EDT, Wed October 19, 2022

The man convicted of killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday.

Raymond Douglas Moody, 62, was also sentenced to two consecutive 30-year sentences for the charges of criminal sexual assault and kidnapping.

Moody pleaded guilty to all the charges against him before the judge read the sentence.

I was just going to post this:


Glad the :censored: head is off the streets permanently now. He never should have been on the streets anyway!
 
I was just going to post this:


Glad the :censored: head is off the streets permanently now. He never should have been on the streets anyway!
Isn't that too often the case anymore? Shouldn't be on the streets. And this was '09 and it has only gotten worse.

I was so naive and believed through most of my life in our system but I don't any longer. I see nothing but problems. Yes, we are taught to be happy women aren't stoned, etc.

We believe in our hearts we are protected out there by LE and military etc. and our govt. It isn't true.

Anyhow, another one who was free. And because of it Brittanee is dead.

Hey it wasn't their kid.
 
New podcast about Brittanee's case.


The haunting disappearance of a teenage Brittanee Drexel loomed over her family and friends for 13 agonizing years. Stunning revelations in May 2022 have finally brought Brittanee’s loved ones answers and a chance at closure, but the pursuit of some semblance of justice continues in this infamous South Carolina missing person case.

Finding Brittanee Drexel is a new podcast from WCIV’s Edward R. Murrow award-winning Unsolved South Carolina series. In it you’ll hear exclusive interviews with Brittanee’s family, and get unprecedented access to details of an investigation spanning more than a decade.

Join investigative reporter Anne Emerson for stories of daring searches through murky South Carolina swamps of South Carolina, the dogged pursuit of an innocent man, and the chilling truth about the suspect who has confessed to Brittanee’s kidnapping and murder.
 
Good for them. I would think though this is fr past the statute of limitations for a civil suit or does it only start when the guy was charged or when facts were learned? I'd think it could be an issue with the hotel. I can't remember when his arrest and conviction were BUT her going missing has been way past any statute of limitations for a civil suit so I'm curious...
 
Good for them. I would think though this is fr past the statute of limitations for a civil suit or does it only start when the guy was charged or when facts were learned? I'd think it could be an issue with the hotel. I can't remember when his arrest and conviction were BUT her going missing has been way past any statute of limitations for a civil suit so I'm curious...

The suit hasn't been thrown out.
 
The suit hasn't been thrown out.
That's true but it is an issue that can be raised IF there are questions about it. I've seen it so I'm not just saying that and I've seen it all the way to later appeals after a win and a settlement far, far, down the line.

I'm not even saying that is the case here or what the standard is or when the time time of the statute starts running and over what. But clearly it is past by the date she went missing. However, I dou that's when it started running as no one was know to have done it at that point...
 
Just keeping her name & case in the forefront. She deserves justice. Sorry for any confusion. :hugs:
Hey believe me I thought she had been found but hit the link as I wasn't 100%, so good for me at least to confirm on this one. It took so many years and wasn't at the forefront with us for a lot of time. I also thought it had been charged, etc. but not fresh in mind so again it was good to reconfirm it :hugs:
 

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