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A teenager's spring break getaway to Myrtle Beach turns into a mystery that grips the nation; sneaking off without her parents' permission, she vanishes into the night, leaving behind a trail of cryptic clues.
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00:00The search is on for 17-year-old Brittany Drexel,
00:04whose phone last ping near the polyard boat landing.
00:0812 canine units and 15 investigators are scouring the area.
00:12I need your help in bringing the people responsible to justice.
00:17On a sun-drenched playground, a teenager's spring break unravels.
00:22How does someone just disappear? How is she not being found?
00:27Year after year, the perpetrator slips through the cracks.
00:30He was an evil predator that dogged the streets of Myrtle Beach.
00:35Evading law enforcement.
00:36We do have hope that she's still out there.
00:39Somebody's going to slip up eventually.
00:42Leaving behind only questions.
00:44It didn't make sense to me. He only had one arm.
00:46I don't think he did, and you're not going to involve us in it.
00:51He is the embodiment of evil.
00:53We need everyone's help to bring her home.
00:59Evil people lurk, and they don't always have horns and a tail.
01:03Myrtle Beach, a sprawling 60-mile stretch of white sand hugging the coast of South Carolina.
01:27Myrtle Beach is really just a magical place.
01:33It's just always been a very touristy area.
01:44There was the beach, and there was the parties, the boulevard, and all the different food shops, restaurants, bars, clubs.
01:53It was the spring break destination for people in Rochester, New York, and to get out of the cold weather.
02:05For years, this sun-soaked strip has been a magnet for high school and college students.
02:11A spring break haven where fun and freedom mix with just a hint of chaos.
02:16The rite of passage in Rochester is from like 15 on. You go to Myrtle Beach for spring break.
02:23You felt very left out if you didn't go.
02:35Brittany Drexel, 17 and a junior at Gates Chai Lai High School in Rochester, New York,
02:41has been taking off the days eager to join the time-honored tradition of spring break in Myrtle Beach.
02:47Brittany definitely was larger than life, definitely a people person.
02:52She literally could go into a room and make friends with everybody.
02:57She was a force to be reckoned with, especially on the soccer field and in life itself.
03:02The year before Brittany's parents separated and started to divorce, things started to kind of change.
03:12She started to become more rebellious. She had always been spunky, but the spunkiness kind of turned
03:19more to determined. Brittany, she just became a little more distant between both of us, a little more secretive.
03:32When April rolls around, Brittany is excited about the idea of heading down to Myrtle Beach to party
03:39with some new friends. A few older kids from Brittany's friend group had decided to go on vacation or
03:47spring break to Myrtle Beach and they had invited Brittany to go. Her mother said, your daughter wants
03:54to go to Myrtle Beach and I know her grades are bad. And I said, you're waking up for school late because
04:00you're partying the night before your friends. You're not putting priority before pleasure. My answer is no.
04:10Brittany's mother Dawn and father Chad have no idea their daughter has been partying on the sands of Myrtle Beach.
04:16As far as they know, Brittany is safe and sound, spending the weekend with friends in town.
04:21But when Brittany suddenly stops answering her boyfriend John's texts, he makes the call no
04:28teenager wants to make, betraying his girlfriend's confidence to tell her parents the truth.
04:35So initially I had gotten a call that evening around 9 30-ish from dawn telling me Brittany's missing.
04:44As much as I can recall, I was just, what? What do you mean?
04:55She's missing from where? Was she stuck somewhere? I can go pick her up.
05:02No, she's in Myrtle Beach.
05:03Her boyfriend was calling her. Her mother started calling her, her grandmother.
05:14Even her boyfriend's mother had tried calling her.
05:18Brittany, please call me.
05:22We don't know where you are.
05:23You really feel like you try to be positive, but reality hits.
05:35So here comes the storm.
05:37All I want to do is find our daughter.
05:43Determined to ease the Drexel's fears,
05:46the police waste no time tracking down the hotel where Brittany had checked in with three friends.
05:51Police find out that Brittany is staying at the Bar Harbor, an older motel, south end of the beach.
06:01They interview Brittany's friend group.
06:04The girls that Brittany went down with were several years older.
06:08She wasn't super close with them, and they really butted heads when they were down there.
06:13She was kind of a fifth wheel.
06:16There were some arguments over stuff like clothing,
06:19and they find out that that group has not seen her in about 48 hours.
06:26And the last time they had seen her, she had said she was going to the Blue Water,
06:30which is right up the street.
06:38That night, Brittany heads to the Blue Water Hotel,
06:41just about a mile and a half away to meet up with Peter Brazowicz,
06:46a 20-year-old club promoter that she knows from Rochester.
06:49He's in town for spring break, too.
06:52Peter hung out with Brittany, our friends, the little group we had.
06:58He was very infatuated with Brittany.
07:00I don't think Peter was used to hearing the word no or not being given what he wanted.
07:11When police learned that Peter had checked out unexpectedly at like one o'clock in the morning,
07:17on the 26th, that certainly raised suspicions, because it was only a few hours after Brittany had gone missing.
07:24I think it's weird if somebody goes missing, and then within hours, you're all packed up and loaded, and you're on Dodge.
07:36He goes back to Rochester, New York, and as soon as we go up and talk with him, he loggers up.
07:44He doesn't want to talk to anybody.
07:45My only question is why, and I put it very simple, so why would you hire the most expensive, elaborate lawyer when you did nothing?
07:58When police finally sit down with Peter, lawyer firmly in place, he lays out a neatly packaged story.
08:07But the question lingers. Can they trust what he's saying?
08:10Peter was really, you wouldn't call him a southern gentleman, really didn't present well to the police.
08:19He said that she was there roughly 10 minutes before she received a text from the girls that she had come down with, her friends, and then she had to leave.
08:27One of the girls that she was down there with texted her and wanted the shorts that Brittany was wearing.
08:33She wanted to wear them that night.
08:35Brittany said, okay, I'm picking up my flip flops. I'll be back there soon.
08:41So that's it. According to Peter, all he knows is that she left the Blue Water Hotel.
08:47After that, he claims he met up with a friend at the bar.
08:51While Myrtle Beach Police are in the investigative process of checking Peter's alibi, they got a huge break.
09:00They were able to get their surveillance cameras from Blue Water.
09:04The video footage corroborated Peter's story and gave him more credence. Video footage depicted Brittany walking out of the hotel. He was telling the truth.
09:16They were able to substantiate that she had arrived at 833 and that she had left somewhere around 850.
09:29In the last 24 hours, there have been no more reported sightings of 17-year-old Brittany Drexel who went missing here in Myrtle Beach.
09:38Right here to the north here a little bit is a traffic camera that Brittany Drexel was captured on in a very grainy image walking north on the boulevard.
09:51She's wearing shorts and she's wearing flip-flops, but it also corroborates the fact that she's with the phone.
10:02Within a few minutes of that camera catching her, her cell phone, she abruptly stopped texting, which was highly suspicious.
10:19Brittany's cell phone records and the cameras, the biggest thing that you got from both of those was to fill in the timeline.
10:26The police told me she went missing, you know, on Ocean Boulevard.
10:37What do you mean? That area is packed with people. Someone saw something. You know, it's mental torture.
10:45How does someone just disappear off the face of the earth? How do they just vanish into thin air?
10:56While Brittany's friends and family are reeling, detectives shift focus to her phone. It might be the only lead left.
11:05It finally died at right around midnight, 1157, around the poleyards on the Santee River, just south of Georgetown.
11:21Approximately 46 miles from Myrtle Beach, from where it started.
11:25This was a desolate place. It's very dark. There's not much traffic. And it's just a scary area.
11:38What in the world would a person like Brittany Drexel be doing in a very, very remote location?
11:46It just didn't make sense.
11:47Brittany Drexel has been missing for seven long days.
12:01Investigators are following a lead that takes them nearly 50 miles from the busy Myrtle Beach Boulevard where she was last seen.
12:08Here, at a deserted boatyard, they're combing through the shadows, hoping for any sign, any trace that could point them toward the missing high school junior.
12:24Law enforcement explained to us that it is this desolate area.
12:29It's in the middle of the woods, and immediately you feel fear.
12:36The search is on for 17-year-old Brittany Drexel, whose phone last pinged near the poleyard boat landing.
12:4312 canine units and 15 investigators are scouring the area.
12:48It could be a dangerous area if you're not prepared.
12:51There are snakes, there's wild animals, wild hogs.
12:56They're looking for anything as small as a phone, but as big as a person.
13:02It's like the stuff you see on TV every day.
13:04Then you've got to think, it's your daughter, they're looking for her.
13:07That bothered me the most.
13:16After a couple of days of looking, they give up the search.
13:20How can you not find anything?
13:23Not even her cell phone.
13:25We know where her cell phone pinged.
13:26How would we not have her?
13:27How is she not being found?
13:36For 15 months, the case goes cold.
13:39No leads and no new information.
13:42Then, a chilling incident unfolds in Myrtle Beach.
13:45A 20-year-old woman narrowly escapes an attempted kidnapping, not far from where Brittany Drexel
13:52was last seen.
13:55Before I could turn around, one male had me around the waist, trying to pull me into his
14:00van.
14:01That was Randa Massey in her own words, speaking to WMBF News.
14:05He was a young white girl, and she was about the same age as Brittany.
14:09The police immediately focused on that, thinking that, you know, this may be our guy.
14:14Could this be the break in the case everyone has been desperately waiting for?
14:19The description that the young girl had given, it matched Sean Taylor from down in McClellanville,
14:25which was some suspects that had already been generated by the other investigators.
14:29Their picture was put in a photo line up, where they showed it to the young girl, and
14:34she picked out Sean Taylor as one of the persons trying to grab her.
14:39The arrest warrants were issued.
14:40For the next four months, investigators navigate a maze of leads, desperate to find the new
14:54thread that would tie Timothy Sean Taylor to Randa Massey's narrow escape and the vanishing
14:59of Brittany Drexel.
15:03It was a rollercoaster of emotions, because maybe this is the person who took Brittany.
15:07But hope crumbles like a house of cards, when police reveal the devastating truth.
15:14Timothy Sean wasn't even in Myrtle Beach when Rhonda narrowly escaped, or when Brittany went
15:20missing.
15:29We just hit another wall.
15:32Another dead end.
15:33So, after time goes by, I just start getting numb.
15:40You're okay.
15:41You're getting through this.
15:42This is a storm.
15:44Your emotions are a rollercoaster.
15:51Two years have passed since Brittany went missing, and the investigation has unraveled,
15:56with two promising leads that faded into dead ends.
15:59Hoping a fresh perspective might spark new momentum, police bring Detective Phil Hanna onto
16:06the case.
16:07The question now is whether he can uncover a new angle that could finally lead to answers.
16:13I had requested from our deputy, please furnish me with a list of all the sex offenders that
16:20was registered in our county.
16:21And she gave me a list, but kept one out, which was for Raymond Moody, and said, you really
16:28need to look at him.
16:31If there was going to be a boogeyman, it would have been Ray Moody.
16:34Ray Moody had been in the military.
16:38Ray had been sentenced in California for raping multiple children.
16:44He had served at about 20 of those years before he was released in 2004.
16:50But he was on parole, and he moved back to Georgetown.
16:54He was classified as a serial sexual predator.
17:00That's the worst kind of classification that a sex offender can have.
17:04He is the embodiment of evil.
17:08His criminal history, his background was horrendous.
17:13He was a fit man, and he could easily have taken Brittany by himself.
17:21Everybody in Georgetown from the day Brittany went missing thought it was Ray Moody, but
17:29there was not any evidence that pointed toward him.
17:38Determined to connect Raymond Moody to Brittany's disappearance, law enforcement casts a wider
17:44net, turning their focus to those closest to him.
17:47Could someone in Moody's inner circle be the missing link?
17:52Investigators are told by several people that Moody had a girlfriend for the last few years named Angel Voss.
17:58You date Raymond Moody, correct?
18:00Yes.
18:01All right.
18:01How long did you, the two of y'all date you?
18:03Oh, on and off for about three years.
18:06She said that Moody, Raymond, had fantasies about kidnapping girls off the sidewalk, about
18:14hanging people up and gutting them.
18:16I mean, it was as if she was admitting it, that he did it without coming out and saying
18:21it.
18:22It was just highly suspect.
18:25She did reveal that Raymond Moody would beat her and he would tie her up.
18:46He even threatened her to the point that if she tried to leave him, that she could possibly
18:50end up like the girl from the beach, but she never would tell us anything concrete that
18:58he had done that could link him to Brittany Drexel.
19:01Do you think he could do anything to you?
19:04Oh, I have no doubt he would if he was mad enough and thought that I was in here talking
19:08to you at this moment.
19:09Yeah, I might be dead tomorrow.
19:11The interview with Angel doesn't give them what they need, but it only strengthens their
19:17resolve.
19:18Raymond Moody is still the one they're after.
19:22So the police decide to change tactics.
19:25They set aside the dead-end conversations and focus on something that can't lie, evidence.
19:32A few months after the interview with Angel, we obtained a search warrant for a motel room
19:37south of Georgetown, where Moody had rented during the time that Brittany disappeared.
19:44The hope is that needle in a haystack, that maybe there's something there that connects
19:48Brittany to the room at Sunset Lodge, one of the places that Ray Moody was staying at.
19:56Police searched a motel in Georgetown County today for evidence related to the Brittany Drexel
20:01case.
20:02Sled crime scene technicians with help from Myrtle Beach Police and the Georgetown County Sheriff's
20:07Office searched an apartment at the Sunset Lodge south of Georgetown today.
20:11Hair, DNA, fibers, clothing, whatever.
20:15Even though it had been a couple years, you still can't give up.
20:21I didn't go to sleep.
20:23I had the feeling of, oh, maybe they're going to catch him.
20:28Investigators are sure Ray Moody holds the final piece of the puzzle to Brittany Drexel's
20:33disappearance.
20:34But just as their focus sharpens, a new name surfaces, unraveling the case in ways no one
20:41could see coming.
20:49Determined to uncover a link to Brittany Drexel's disappearance, South Carolina law enforcement
20:55combed through every inch of Ray Moody's former apartment at Sunset Lodge.
20:59With a search warrant in hand, they meticulously catalog each item, eager to find the piece
21:06of forensic evidence that ties Moody to Brittany once and for all.
21:13You don't want to give up on Brittany because you're all she has.
21:21Unfortunately, no evidence was found to help link Brittany Drexel to being in that room.
21:26I was still hopeful that somebody's going to slip up eventually and somebody's going to
21:34say something.
21:39In 2015, desperate to salvage their credibility after the Timothy Sean Taylor misstep, the FBI
21:47convenes a fresh task force dedicated to Brittany's disappearance.
21:51A year takes by as they meticulously sift through six years of evidence.
21:58Then, in June 2016, they call a press conference to unveil a major breakthrough.
22:04The investigation now is that Brittany Drexel did leave the Myrtle Beach area.
22:12We believe she traveled to this area around McClellanville, and we believe she was killed
22:18after that.
22:20The investigators are certain that that's what's happened.
22:22I couldn't accept the fact that she was gone.
22:29I remember thinking, how do you know she's dead if we don't have remains?
22:35I need your help in bringing the people responsible to justice.
22:39We need everyone's help to bring her home to us.
22:43We need your help.
22:44Two months later, law enforcement reveals information that family and friends have been eagerly anticipating
22:52for seven years.
22:54They finally have a suspect.
22:56The real shock comes next.
22:59The man's name.
23:01The federal authorities announced that the suspect is Timothy Deshawn Taylor.
23:06The Taylor name was familiar.
23:10We had heard this name before back in 2010 with the attempted abduction in Myrtle Beach.
23:19And that was Timothy Deshawn Taylor, the father of Deshawn Taylor.
23:28We are wondering where this information had come from.
23:31This information came from a jailhouse informant by the name of Tyquan Brown.
23:36Tyquan Brown was and is currently in prison on a 25-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
23:45Tyquan Brown claims to have crossed paths with Timothy Deshawn Taylor and Brittany Drexel
23:50at a stash house in McClellanville, a quiet shrimping village about 60 miles south of Myrtle Beach.
23:57The house, a suspected hub for drug deals, held secrets as murky as the surrounding marshes.
24:06Brown says that while he was at the stash house in McClellanville,
24:12that she was sexually assaulted.
24:14She ran away, that she was caught, pistol whipped, and brought back to the stash house.
24:28But that he was out of the room when he heard two shots.
24:33And later he saw them roll up a carpet or a bloody carpet, assuming her body was in it.
24:46And it was taken and dumped into an alligator pit.
24:50There's nothing in my brain that can accept that as something other people do to human beings, to anybody.
25:07But with little evidence to hold Timothy Deshawn Taylor and no legal grounds for questioning,
25:19law enforcement tries a different tactic, an ethically questionable one at that.
25:24Timothy Deshawn Taylor was arrested for a 2011 charge by the federal prosecutors and the federal police.
25:38And it was for a burglary.
25:41And they used that in order to question him for Brittany's case,
25:46which was a very interesting legal move in and of itself.
25:50This morning, Timothy Taylor headed into federal court.
25:54Taylor faced 20 years in prison for a crime he'd already been sentenced for in state court.
25:59The feds used his armed robbery charge as leverage for information in an unrelated case,
26:05Brittany Drexel's disappearance.
26:07She went missing during a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach in 2009.
26:11This was an unusual case of dual prosecution on federal and state levels.
26:15Timothy Deshawn Taylor claimed from day one that he had nothing to do with Brittany's disappearance.
26:23I mean, he even went on Dr. Phil.
26:25And it was hard for me watching that because I saw how adamant he was about being innocent.
26:31I didn't pick her up.
26:32I never saw her besides seeing her on TV and the internet through a computer screen.
26:37So when they read it out, it was like, it was unbelievable.
26:42It did not happen.
26:43Why were they not arresting him for her kidnapping?
26:47If he did this, why were they not arresting him for her murder?
26:52After seven years, one thing remains painfully clear.
26:56No one knows or is willing to admit what happened to Brittany Drexel.
27:03As her family grapples with the agonizing reality of an open case,
27:08a twist of fate will steer the investigation down a harrowing path.
27:12With jailhouse informant Taquan Brown's statement as their cornerstone,
27:23the FBI zeros in on Timothy Deshawn Taylor as their prime suspect in Brittany Drexel's murder.
27:29But there is one glaring fact they can't ignore.
27:37It didn't make sense to me.
27:39Brittany was a healthy, strong young girl.
27:42Timothy Deshawn Taylor, he only had one arm.
27:45And I found it hard to believe that this one-armed person could grab this girl off this sidewalk.
27:55And Mr. Taylor is under all kind of scrutiny throughout the community, throughout the media.
28:01Mr. Brown, in a prison interview, tells the media I made it all up.
28:07That didn't happen.
28:07Jailhouse informants are not always the most credible witnesses.
28:13I mean, most of the time, it's not good information.
28:17With no concrete evidence linking him to Brittany's disappearance,
28:21law enforcement has no choice but to let Timothy Deshawn Taylor walk free.
28:25I can't say I'm sorry enough, because the FBI won't.
28:35The FBI destroyed a family, the Taylor family.
28:38He destroyed their name.
28:41I'm still so sorry for what they went through.
28:52Ten-year mark was very difficult for me.
28:54There have been millions of milestones, literally just stolen from her.
29:01She wasn't there for the birth of my child.
29:04I become comfortable with the fact that I may not ever find answers.
29:09You move on, but you never forget.
29:15In 2019, a new FBI task force is formed,
29:20determined to unravel the mystery of Brittany's disappearance.
29:22For years, the case has been mired in dead ends.
29:28But now, they finally get the break they've been waiting for.
29:32Ten years, technology has gotten better.
29:35So they had equipment, FBI headquarters,
29:37that could better analyze old traffic cam video footage.
29:42So agents on the case go back to the traffic cam footage
29:47to see where Brittany was walking on Ocean Boulevard,
29:50and they hone in on a vehicle,
29:55an SUV that they believed might be involved in the case.
29:58The vehicle they suspect that Brittany Drexel was in
30:05matched the description of a vehicle
30:07that belonged to Angel Voss's brother.
30:12Angel Voss, once the girlfriend of Raymond Moody,
30:16a man police suspected but could never pin down.
30:19Eight years ago, they hoped she'd be the one to turn on him,
30:22but the connection never came.
30:25This new group took all of the information that was collected,
30:29not only from Brittany's cell phone,
30:30but also from the cell towers and the footage,
30:34and reviewed all of that basically at the same time.
30:38They blended them all together,
30:40and dang if that ain't the vehicle coming through there,
30:44registered to Angel's brother.
30:46This could potentially put both Angel Voss and Raymond Moody
30:51in the same place at the same time as Brittany Drexel.
30:57There's no way Brittany got in that car voluntarily.
30:59It was by force, and it was violent.
31:07The FBI knew that with Raymond Moody's history,
31:10that he wasn't going to cooperate.
31:12So obviously, he would use the weakest link,
31:14and Angel Voss is clearly the weakest link.
31:18That's when they went back and interviewed her.
31:29On April 27, 2022,
31:32Angel Voss again finds herself in an interview room
31:35with the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office.
31:38At this point, this is years after.
31:41You just want to find something to bring closure.
31:4411 years has passed.
31:49She's 54 years old.
31:51Angel was a practical nurse in Georgetown.
31:56Angel was still with Ray.
31:58They were living together on Rose Hill Road in Georgetown.
32:03And she verified that's my brother's vehicle.
32:06She was real happy, cheerful, and chatty,
32:27up until they mentioned Brittany Drexel.
32:29And once they mentioned her name,
32:31that's when her defenses go up,
32:33her body language changes.
32:36Did you have any involvement in picking up Brittany Drexel?
32:40Hell no!
32:41Mostly did not.
32:43Her voice becomes agitated.
32:45She really is trying to protect Ray.
32:47I don't think you did.
32:49And you're not going to involve him in it.
32:51Amy, hold on a second.
32:52No, I'm not going to.
32:52Let's keep going.
32:53We're going to get no.
32:53One piece of this one.
32:54No, no means no.
32:55I'm going to go.
32:59Angel's interview leaves agents frustrated.
33:03But just as things seem to stall,
33:06something completely unexpected happens.
33:09I got a call from a defense attorney.
33:12He said that he had a client,
33:14and that client wanted to confess.
33:26Horry County Solicitor Jimmy Richardson's phone rings.
33:30It's a call that will finally unravel the mystery
33:33of Brittany Drexel's disappearance.
33:34The question that's lingered in the shadows
33:37since April 25th, 2009.
33:43A man walked into the Georgetown County Sheriff's office
33:47and surprised everyone.
33:49He told them that he knew where Brittany Drexel's body was.
33:54That person was Ray Moody.
33:58Law enforcement is relieved to finally secure a confession
34:02from the man many had in their crosshairs
34:04since the beginning of Brittany Drexel's disappearance.
34:08Raymond Moody, once the picture of health and composure,
34:12now seems almost unrecognizable,
34:14his physical state a shadow of what it once was.
34:17He was never going to admit it
34:18unless there was some reason for him to.
34:21Was it guilt finally surfacing?
34:24Or had he simply reached his limit,
34:27haunted by the weight of a truth he could no longer bury?
34:30What really changed was Moody's health.
34:32And when he figured out that his health was bad
34:37and they were going to threaten to charge Angel,
34:40he decided he was going to still be in control
34:44and he was going to take the rap for it.
34:46According to Raymond Moody's account,
34:59it all started innocently enough.
35:02He and his girlfriend, Angel Voss,
35:04borrowed her brother's SUV.
35:06From there, the night took a dark turn.
35:09I don't believe a word of that.
35:37Brittany Drexel would have never gotten in that car
35:39voluntarily.
35:40She was taken by force.
35:43I believe that night,
35:44Raymond Moody was out with Angel Voss
35:46and they were doing their thing,
35:47looking for someone to hurt.
35:49The unlikely trio makes their way
35:51toward the desolate pole boat yard landing.
35:54Sometime along the way,
35:56Angel exits the scene,
35:58leaving Brittany alone
35:59in the company of the devil himself.
36:01Did you start to have sex with her?
36:04Did something happen to stop that?
36:08Did you stop me from there?
36:09Yeah.
36:09No, I did.
36:10I did.
36:10I never raped her.
36:12As he was raping her,
36:13she was fighting back
36:15and his first thought
36:17after all of this was over
36:18is she is going to tell
36:21and I'm going to go back
36:22to prison for rape.
36:28I got a strain on her
36:30and I was in a panty
36:33so I grabbed her up
36:35in a blanket
36:37and took her stuff.
36:40I picked her right up
36:41and I put her underneath the tree.
36:44I was all shook up
36:45because, you know,
36:47what had happened,
36:48I didn't know what to do.
36:52He killed her
36:52because he kidnapped her
36:54and raped her.
36:54He wanted to eliminate the evidence.
36:57He learned from that
36:58long stint in prison
36:59what to do
37:00and what not to do
37:01and he buried her.
37:13Now this site
37:14is maybe two miles
37:15from the Sunset Lodge
37:16where he was staying
37:18in 2009
37:19when Brittany went missing.
37:23I had years worth
37:25of being so disappointed
37:27and then all of a sudden
37:28everything stopped
37:29and that's a sense
37:32of closure I got.
37:34So that's when,
37:35yeah.
37:38Yeah, that's the finally
37:40patience and, yeah.
37:44I, I, I don't know.
37:47It's tough.
37:49I, I just,
37:50I prayed.
37:57It turns out Ray Moody
37:59was a evil predator
38:01that stalked the streets
38:04of Myrtle Beach
38:05looking for unsuspecting
38:07teenage girls.
38:0812 days after what would
38:20have been Brittany Drexel's
38:2131st birthday,
38:22Ray Moody
38:23faces formal charges
38:25at last.
38:26Murder,
38:28kidnapping,
38:28and sexual assault.
38:30Finally, some closure
38:32for everybody.
38:33Investigators, family,
38:35you know,
38:36friends that had
38:37suffered all these years
38:39wondering,
38:40wanting to know
38:40what happened to Brittany.
38:44Such a senseless act
38:46that affected
38:47so many people
38:49and so many lives.
38:52Brittany is forever
38:52frozen at 17.
38:54I want Brittany to be
38:56remembered as the
38:58beautiful soul
38:58that she was,
39:00the compassion
39:01and the kindness
39:02that she carried
39:03with her.
39:05I don't want her to be
39:06only thought of
39:07as a victim.
39:11I ask you,
39:12Judge Cothran,
39:13to sentence
39:14Raymond Moody
39:15to the fullest
39:16extent of the law.
39:18Ray Moody
39:31got life
39:33imprisonment
39:34for the murder
39:35and then the judge
39:36gave him
39:36a consecutive
39:3730 years,
39:38which was the
39:39maximum
39:39for the rape
39:41and he gave him
39:43an additional
39:4430 years
39:45on the kidnapping,
39:46which was the
39:46maximum.
39:47So he got life
39:48plus 60 years.
39:56I was glad
39:57that that monster
39:58was going to be
40:00behind bars
40:01for the rest
40:01of his life.
40:02I felt good
40:03that we got closure
40:04there.
40:05He deserves
40:06to be tortured,
40:07but hopefully
40:08God does that.
40:10Brittany's case
40:11made me want to
40:12hold my children
40:13closer,
40:14appreciate them,
40:16warn them
40:17about things
40:17I know about
40:18young people.
40:21They don't know
40:21the evil
40:22that lurks
40:23out there.
40:25It makes you
40:26wary of the world
40:27around you.
40:30Every community
40:31can have a dark
40:32side,
40:33including Myrtle
40:35Beach.
40:36None of us
40:36are immune
40:37from that.
40:38evil people lurk
40:41and they don't
40:42always have
40:43horns and a tail
40:44and that's
40:46scary.
40:46on the next fatal
41:11destination.
41:12New Orleans is
41:14a party town
41:15and he was
41:16a party guy.
41:17It looked
41:17satanic,
41:19like it could
41:19be some sort
41:20of dark
41:20religious scene.
41:22He held him
41:23under the water
41:24shouting,
41:24I am your God.
41:26These people
41:27were plotting.
41:28They were predators.
41:29in the water
41:29and all the
41:30bad shots
41:30near the pool.
41:35The
41:51age need
41:51to be
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