Arrest made in Brittanee Drexel disappearance & death

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WROC) — 13 years after Brittanee Drexel disappeared, an arrest has been made, giving family and friends the long-awaited closure they’ve been in search of.

Authorities say 62-year-old Raymond Moody is charged with homicide, kidnapping, and legal sexual conduct for the demise and disappearance of Drexel. In response to Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver, Moody has an in depth “intercourse offender legal historical past.”

Police within the space lately reported the invention of human stays, in a wooded space of Georgetown County, South Carolina. These stays had been recognized as these of Drexel, confirmed by means of dental information.

The Chili native was 17-years-old when she went lacking in Myrtle Seashore in 2009 and police have been on the lookout for her ever since.

Bar Harbor is the title of the lodge that Drexel was staying at earlier than she vanished. Surveillance video of her leaving the lodge was probably the final picture taken of Drexel.

The FBI declared Drexel useless in 2016 — saying that she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and shot.

Raymond Moody, 62, was named an individual of curiosity two years into the investigation. He was charged final week with obstruction of justice — and the date of the alleged offense was the identical date that Drexel went lacking.

“The seek for Brittanee is now a pursuit if justice,” stated Daybreak Drexel, Brittanee’s mom.

“It’s bittersweet. Weighing all of it out is hard on a father and a mom,” stated Chad Drexel, Brittanee’s father.

Daybreak introduced there will likely be celebration of life occasions held in each Rochester and Myrtle Seashore within the coming days with extra particulars to be introduced.

“Brittanee’s mom Daybreak and her father Chad had been promised that each useful resource could be used to search out the reply of what occurred to Brittanee, the place did it occur, how did it occur, and why did it occur,” Weaver stated. “The why might by no means be recognized, or understood, however in the present day this job pressure can — confidently and with out hesitation — reply the remainder of these questions.”

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The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Workplace is holding a press convention at 2 p.m. Monday.

Deputies from the Sheriff’s Workplace stated that the convention is expounded to latest legislation enforcement exercise within the space. This press convention comes amid doable developments into the investigation of Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance.

Drexel, a Chili teenager, went lacking in Myrtle Seashore on April 25, 2009, and police have been on the lookout for her since.

Raymond Moody, 62, was named an individual of curiosity two years into the investigation and was arrested final Wednesday for obstruction of justice — the alleged offense was on the identical date Drexel went lacking.

It’s nonetheless unknown if Moody’s arrest is related to Drexel’s case. In response to the arrest warrant, Moody “did take overt actions to hide and/or get rid of proof of against the law.”

Moody was a registered intercourse offender residing in South Carolina when Drexel disappeared, however he was by no means charged together with her homicide.

The cost of obstruction of justice on the identical date as Drexel’s disappearance has led to many unanswered questions:

Are police formally connecting Moody to the Drexel case? In that case, what proof have they got? Police within the space lately reported the invention of human stays — are they these of Drexel?

For now, it’s a narrative of hypothesis, which has dominated the case from the beginning, however all of the household desires is to know is what occurred.

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