South Carolina spring break murder victim's family awarded $700M in civil suit

 A South Carolina assemblage awarded $700 cardinal to the New York household of a 17-year-old miss who was kidnapped and murdered connected a 2009 outpouring interruption travel to Myrtle Beach.

Brittanee Drexel's mother, Dawn Pleckan, filed a suit successful January 2023 that accused Raymond Moody, the antheral who killed her daughter; Bar Harbor Resort Inc.; and Smith Family Partners LLC of wrongful behaviour that resulted successful Drexel's execution portion the teen was visiting the coastal South Carolina abrogation spot with her friends.

The assemblage concluded past period that Moody caused Drexel's household affectional distress, and the grant included $200 cardinal successful existent damages and $500 cardinal successful punitive damages, according to region records and FOX 8 Greensboro.

"I’m astatine a nonaccomplishment for words," Moody reportedly said successful court, according to FOX 8. "I mean, I conscionable person truthful overmuch regret. I’ve realized it doesn’t substance however sincere I americium astir however I consciousness astir things I’ve done. It’s conscionable not enough."

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Raymond Moody was sentenced to beingness successful situation Oct. 19 for the 2009 rape and execution of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel successful Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Georgetown County Sheriff's Office/ Associated Press)

Angel Cooper Vause, Moody's 57-year-old woman of Georgetown, South Carolina, was besides precocious sentenced to service 18 years successful situation for lying to national investigators astir her relation successful Drexel's kidnapping and murder.

On April 25, 2009, Drexel near the formation and the Bar Harbor Hotel, wherever she was staying, to conscionable a person astatine the adjacent Blue Water Resort. It was the past clip anyone different than Moody and Vause saw the teenager. Security footage showed Drexel entering the Myrtle Beach edifice that evening.

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Security footage showed Drexel entering the Blue Water Resort connected the evening of April 25, 2009, conscionable earlier she disappeared.  (Lawsuit)

At 9 p.m., Drexel was walking unsocial successful Myrtle Beach erstwhile Moody approached her portion driving a Ford Explorer and kidnapped the teenager, transported her to a distant campsite adjacent his location successful Georgetown, raped and murdered her.

Moody discarded Drexel's telephone successful the North Santee River and buried her assemblage successful a "shallow grave." 

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Raymond Moody, 62, pleaded blameworthy Oct. 19, 2022, successful Georgetown, S.C., to raping and sidesplitting 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel successful 2009. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

Vause is accused of luring Drexel into Moody's van, promising to springiness her a thrust backmost to her hotel, according to the Justice Department. She kept her engagement and the details of Drexel's execution a concealed for 13 years until authorities recovered the teenager's remains successful 2022.

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"For much than a decade, Brittanee’s loved ones were near to ideate the worst imaginable script successful Brittanee’s disappearance portion Vause withheld the truth," U.S. Attorney Adair Ford Boroughs of the District of South Carolina said successful a connection past month.

"We anticipation Brittanee’s loved ones tin present person some the closure and a measurement of justness that comes with this sentence. May she remainder successful bid knowing that her parent Dawn was relentless successful her pursuit of justice."

In October 2022, 62-year-old Moody of South Carolina pleaded blameworthy to kidnapping, raping and murdering Drexel. He was sentenced to beingness successful prison.