Watch Brittanee Drexel’s Mom Confront Man Who Killed Teen on Spring Break: ‘You Must Face the Consequences’

The case of Brittanee Drexel, who was murdered after disappearing during a spring break trip to South Carolina, will be featured on tonight’s “20/20.”

For more than a decade, Dawn Drexel waited for answers about what happened to her lively daughter, Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared during a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 2009

After many tears, countless sleepless nights and lengthy investigations, convicted sex offender Raymond Moody was arrested in May 2022 and charged with rape, murder and kidnapping in connection with the teenager’s disappearance and death in upstate New York.

In October 2022, Moody pleaded guilty in court to raping and killing Brittanee – and tonight’s episode of 20/20 explores the case and Brittanee’s family’s quest for justice.

Moody was sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years for first-degree murder for kidnapping, raping and strangling the 17-year-old high school football star, who dreamed of becoming a nurse or beautician Democrat & Chronicle Reports.

“I was a monster,” Moody said in court after entering his guilty plea Democrat & Chronicle Reports.

In an exclusive clip from this week 20/20Dawn is shown confronting Moody in court on the day he pleaded guilty to killing her daughter.

“Today we learn the truth and today, Mr. Moody, you must face the consequences for it,” Dawn told him. “Brittanee is present,” she said. “I wear her image and her ashes around my neck. That’s all I have left. That’s all we have left after what you did to her.”

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Dawn remembers the strong emotions she felt that day, she says this week 20/20“He wouldn’t even look at me. I was shaking. I was so angry.”

Related: Body of Brittanee Drexel, New York teen who disappeared in 2009, found in South Carolina — and suspect charged

The two-hour episode will also give viewers an exclusive look at how an FBI team ultimately arrested Moody, who had been a person of interest for more than a decade, ABC News reported.

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On April 22, 2009, Brittanee joined a group of friends who went to Myrtle Beach for spring break but didn’t tell her parents.

Related: ‘I Was a Monster’: Killer Confesses to Kidnapping, Killing Brittanee Drexel During Her Spring Break

On April 25, 2009, Brittanee left her hotel alone and headed to the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard, the busy main street in Myrtle Beach, to visit a friend who was staying there.

She was last seen around 8:45 p.m. when surveillance cameras captured her leaving the hotel.

She texted her boyfriend at home that she was going back to Bar Harbor, a motor inn a mile and a half down the road, where she and her friends were staying.

Moody was living an hour from Myrtle Beach – in a motel in Georgetown, S.C., in 2009 when Brittanee was last seen, investigators said.

According to authorities, Moody kidnapped Drexel as she walked alone along the Myrtle Beach Strip.

ABC’s 20/20 airs Friday, March 8 (9:01-11:00 p.m. EST) on ABC and the next day on Hulu.

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