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The girlfriend of the South Carolina killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered a young person on spring break in Myrtle Seashore in 2009 has admitted to mendacity to the FBI.
Courtroom paperwork filed Monday present that Angel Vause, the girlfriend of convicted Brittanee Drexel assassin Raymond Moody, pleaded responsible to creating three counts of creating false statements, together with making false statements to a authorities jurisdiction.
Vause, 56, instructed the FBI in 2022 that Drexel maintained possession of her personal cellphone when, in actuality, Vause took Drexel’s cellphone “and traveled away from her, disposing of it between Georgetown and Charleston,” South Carolina, a grievance filed in March states.
She additionally falsely instructed the FBI that Drexel had voluntarily joined her and Moody “to devour marijuana and cocaine when, in actual fact, [Drexel] was kidnapped underneath false pretenses.”
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Angel Vause, girlfriend of Brittanee Drexel assassin Raymond Moody, admitted to mendacity to the FBI. (Georgetown County Sheriff’s Workplace/Related Press/Charleston County Detention Middle)
Drexel, a 17-year-old from Rochester, New York, went lacking on an April 2009 spring break journey to the favored trip city earlier than her stays had been present in Might 2022.
Surveillance video footage from the resort Drexel was staying at on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Seashore captured her leaving on the night of April 25, 2009. She was assembly a good friend on the close by Blue Water Resort, which was the final time anybody apart from Moody noticed {the teenager}.
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Brittanee Drexel’s mom, Daybreak Pleckman, filed a lawsuit on Jan. 2, 2023, accusing Raymond Moody, the person who murdered her daughter; Bar Harbor Resort, Inc.; and Smith Household Companions, LLC, of “wrongful conduct” leading to Drexel’s homicide whereas the 17-year-old was visiting Myrtle Seashore along with her grownup associates in April 2009. (Lawsuit/ Myrtle Seashore PD)
At 9 p.m., Drexel was strolling alone in Myrtle Seashore when Moody approached her whereas driving a Ford Explorer and kidnapped Drexel in his automobile. He then transported {the teenager} to a distant campsite close to his residence on the Sundown Motor Lodge in Georgetown, the place he held her towards her will, tortured and killed her, courtroom paperwork filed in South Carolina state.
Moody discarded Drexel’s telephone within the North Santee River and buried her physique in a “shallow grave.” Drexel’s household went 13 years with out understanding what occurred to her till authorities discovered her stays in 2022.
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At 9 p.m., Drexel was strolling alone in Myrtle Seashore when Raymond Moody approached her whereas driving a Ford Explorer and kidnapped {the teenager}. (Lawsuit)
Daybreak Pleckan Conley, Drexel’s mom, instructed reporters on Monday that she thinks the responsible plea is “a decision to what occurred, and she or he pays dearly for what she did to” Drexel, in keeping with WMBF Information.
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Drexel’s father, John Kahyaoglu, stated he “bought some happiness out of” Vause’s plea.
“I bought lots of happiness out of it, that she’s not simply going to stroll out of right here,” Kahyaoglu stated, in keeping with WMBF. “Lots of people have been engaged on this and been ready for at the present time. I can’t wait till sentencing, in fact, however it’s been an extended journey.”
Raymond Moody, 62, pleaded responsible Oct. 19, 2022, in Georgetown, South Carolina, to raping and killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel in 2009. (Jason Lee/The Solar Information through AP)
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Moody, now 64, pleaded responsible in October 2022 to kidnapping, raping and murdering {the teenager}.
“I served 20 years, and I believed it was sufficient, however it wasn’t. I used to be a monster then, and I used to be a monster after I took Brittanee Drexel’s life,” Moody stated within the Georgetown County courthouse when he pleaded responsible.
Vause pleaded responsible as a part of an settlement with federal prosecutors and faces a most of 5 years in jail for every of her three expenses.
