The South Carolina ju-described $700 million to the New York family of a 17-year-old girl who was invited and murdered on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach on a 2009 spring break trip.
Brittany Drexel's mother, Dawn Preckan, filed a lawsuit in January 2023, accusing Raymond Moody. I killed my daughter. Bar Harbor Resort Inc. ;Smith Family Partners LLC led to Drexel's murder while her teenagers were visiting a South Carolina coastal holiday spot with friends.
Ju-dean last month concluded that Moody caused emotional distress in Drexel's family, and that the award includes actual damages and $500 million in punitive damages.
“I'm at a loss for words,” Moody reportedly said in court, according to Fox 8.
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Raymond Moody was sentenced to life in prison on October 19 for the 2009 rape and murder of 17-year-old Brittany Drexel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Georgetown County Sheriff's Office/Applications)
Angel Cooper Vause, Moody's 57-year-old girlfriend of Georgetown, South Carolina, was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for lying to federal agents about Drexel's invitation and her role in murder.
On April 25, 2009, Drexel left the Beach and Bar Harbor Hotel and met a friend at a nearby Blue Water Resort. It was the last time someone other than Moody and chance saw a teenager. Security footage showed Drexel going into Myrtle Beach Resort that night.
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Security footage showed Drexel entered the Blue Water Resort on the evening of April 25, 2009, just before she disappeared. (Lawsuit)
At 9pm, Drexel was walking alone around Myrtle Beach as Moody approached her while driving the Ford Explorer Invited a teenagercarried her to a remote campsite near his home in Georgetown, raping her and murdering her.
Moody abandoned Drexel's phone on the North Santee River and buried her body in a “shallow grave.”
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Raymond Moody, 62, admitted to raping and murdering 17-year-old Brittany Drexel in 2009 on October 19, 2022 in Georgetown, South Carolina. (Jason Lee/Sun News via AP)
According to the Justice Department, Vause has been accused of luring Drexel into a Moody's Van and has pledged to return to the hotel. She kept her involvement and details of Drexel's murder secret for 13 years until authorities discovered the teenager's body in 2022.
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“For over a decade, Brittany's loved ones have been left to imagine the worst case scenario of Brittany's disappearance while withholding the truth,” South Carolina-area lawyer Adair Ford Barra said in a statement last month.
“I hope that Brittany's loved ones will have both the closure and the measure of justice that comes with this sentence.
In October 2022, 62-year-old South Carolina Moody pleaded guilty Invitation, rape, murder Drexel. He was sentenced to life in prison.
