Brittanee Drexel’s killer weighs in on Murdaugh case
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Newly released prison texts reveal convicted criminal Raymond Moody, who’s now serving a life sentence for kidnapping, raping and murdering 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, sympathized with fellow convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh.
Moody apparently tuned into Murdaugh’s state sentencing in Beaufort on Nov. 28 last year, writing to his girlfriend Angel Vause “I do feel bad for him. All of those Court TV [h]osts (all lawyers) bad [m]outh him no matter what he says.”
He goes on to write “[h]e sat there while being blasted by many financial [victims] & then had the class to stand up & humble himself in his issions & regrets & sorrows. I thought that took some [b]alls.”
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Just weeks prior, Drexel’s mother Dawn Pleckan had sued Moody among others for wrongful death. Moody compared Murdaugh’s situation to his own, writing “I’m gonna make them regret it if I actually get put back in that position during [c]ivil [p]roceedings. I’m doing life ... plus 60 years; they can all Kiss My Ass.”
The texts also reveal more about Moody’s health. In the communications with Vause, Moody its he is ill though redactions make it unclear what ailment he is currently suffering from.
READ THE MESSAGES:
On Nov. 14, he says that the medical staff “knows very little & cares even less ... None of them know much about this disease. " He says he felt at one point he might have “dropped dead” in the years prior if he had not been taken to the emergency room per a doctor’s orders. “I had to come here though. This is how my [l]ife was destined to end... It’s called [K]arma, " he wrote. “But I don’t have to allow it to play out as scripted by my illnesses.”
Moody also complains that he hasn’t been seen regularly by medical staff, having to threaten them with a complaint to Columbia through Vause.
In the last few months, written communication has stalled between the two.
Moody’s last text was on Jan. 2 and Vause’s was on Feb. 25. Vause wrote “I don’t really know how to go on without you. I am angry at everyone and everything, it’s like a volcano getting ready to erupt... When it does heaven nor hell will be able to stop it.”
Just weeks later, the feds charged her with lying to investigators about her involvement in Drexel’s murder.
That case is still ongoing.
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