Wednesday 18 May 2022 03:43 PM Mom of spring breaker whose body was found after 13 years says she's happy ... trends now
The mother of a New York spring breaker, whose body was found after 13 years in Myrtle Beach, said she's happy her daughter's killer is behind bars.
Dawn Pleckan, 49, of Rochester, said she's 'glad [Raymond Moody's] behind bars so that he can't hurt anyone else's child.'
Moody, 62, a registered sex offender, was charged with the kidnapping, rape and murder of Brittanee Drexel, 17, on Monday. The South Carolina convict has an 'extensive sexual criminal history,' Georgetown Sheriff Carter Weaver said.
He is currently being held without bail at the Georgetown County Jail.
'She had her whole life ahead of her and this monster took it away from her,' her mother told Good Morning America (GMA) in an exclusive interview.
Drexel was last seen in April 2009 when she was walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach. Her boyfriend, who stayed home in Rochester, New York, became concerned when she stopped answering his texts.
Drexel was kidnapped that night by Moody, who raped and strangled her to death before burying her body the next day in the woods, authorities confirmed at a press conference on Monday.
Her body was found just 2.5miles away from the motel where the sex offender lived on May 11. Dental records backed and DNA testing confirmed her identity.
Drexel's family has already cremated her body and are returning to New York with her ashes today.
![Dawn Pleckan, 49, said she's 'glad [Raymond Moody's] behind bars so that he can't hurt anyone else's child,' after her daughter's body was found over a decade later](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/18/14/57973699-10829311-image-m-6_1652881760385.jpg)
Dawn Pleckan, 49, said she's 'glad [Raymond Moody's] behind bars so that he can't hurt anyone else's child,' after her daughter's body was found over a decade later
'I've been waiting for this day for 13 years, ever since the day Brittanee disappeared,' Pleckan said on GMA on Wednesday. She is pictured with her lawyer
Brittanee Drexel, 17, (pictured) was reportedly kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death by Raymond Moody, 62
Drexel (pictured in 2009) was last seen on hotel surveillance footage, 35 miles away from where her body was found in 2022
'I've been waiting for this day for 13 years, ever since the day Brittanee disappeared,' Pleckan said on GMA on Wednesday. 'I never thought we would get to that place and we are finally here and we can get her back.'
The family's attorney Jarrett Ferentino said 'this is the case you warn people about.'
'It is your child walking down the street and being snatched up by someone with malevolent homicidal proclivities. That's exactly what this case was and investigators told us that much,' he told GMA. 'Raymond Moody
