Translated From: They find the body of a teenager who disappeared 13 years ago during…
Discovered on: 2022-05-17 15:46:42
Justice is finally served for Brittanee Drexel. The 17-year-old teenager, she disappeared 13 years ago during a Spring Break vacation and her remains were just found. Raymond Douglas Moody, a 62-year-old sex offender, was arrested.
When Drexel was murdered, Moody was 49 years old and had been released after serving 21 years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a nine-year-old girl in California in 1983, reports Univision.
Drexel disappeared more than a decade ago, during a Spring Break vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2009. Her mother remembers that she did not want to let her go because she had a bad feeling, but the young woman ran away from home. Drexel’s remains were found and Moody is facing charges for the teen’s murder, kidnapping and rape, reports PEOPLE.
Drexel lived in Rochester, New York, and had traveled to this beach without his parents’ permission to spend Spring Break with friends. The young woman left the hotel where she was staying, with plans to meet up with a friend, and she never arrived at her destination. Drexel stopped replying to messages and was no longer seen. The young woman’s boyfriend called her mother, worried about her because she did not answer him. There began the great nightmare of this family.
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In 2016 an informant told an FBI agent that Drexel had been kidnapped and taken to a house where she was gang-raped and then killed when she tried to run away. The informant, who was in jail, said criminals had dumped Drexel’s carcass in a swamp for crocodiles to eat.
The investigation led authorities to Raymond Moody, who had been arrested for speeding the night the teen disappeared.
Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office
According to authorities, Raymond Douglas Moody raped and killed her the same night that Drexel disappeared. After strangling her, the man buried her body in the woods the next day, Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver said.
The victim’s remains were identified through DNA analysis. “This is truly a mother’s worst nightmare,” her mother, Dawn Drexel, said during a news conference, The Washington Post reports. “I am in mourning for my beautiful daughter.”
