New details discovered in the history of Raymond Moody

Georgetown County, S.C. — It's been an investigation full of fits and starts.

Brittanee Drexel's trip to Myrtle Beach began as something of a daring adventure - she went with friends on Spring Break without her mom's permission. It wasn't long before the daring adventure turned dangerous.

A security camera captured one of the last known images of Brittanee. It was just before 9 p.m. when she was leaving a friend's room at the Blue Water Resort to walk back to where the hotel, where she was staying. It's just under a mile and a half walk down the busy, often rowdy, Myrtle Beach strip.

We know Brittanee made it to 11th Ave. N. — how do we know? One of the few working cameras at the time captured an image of her on the street. She was a short distance away from her hotel but never made it there. This is when Brittanee is presumed to have disappeared.

The next clue appears 50 miles away in Georgetown County, where Brittanee's cell phone gave off its last signal. That's about eight miles from the sunset lodge, where Raymond Moody had moved in the day before.

Moody was stopped for speeding in nearby Surfside the day after Brittanee disappeared. Two years later in 2011, investigators searched Moody's room at the Sunset Lodge.

A few months later in 2012, he was named a person of interest in the case. However, Moody was never charged, and the case grew quiet.

In 2016, the FBI took over the case, and alongside Brittanee's parents, said they believed she was held against her will, killed, and had her body placed in an alligator pit.

Later that same year, Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor was named a suspect in the case. He denied any involvement and was never charged.

Once again, the case had grown cold — until this year.

When Raymond Moody resurfaced, he was charged this past week with obstruction of justice dating back to April 25, 2009, the day Brittanee disappeared.

Days later, police searched an area not far from Moody's home in Georgetown County, and human remains were found. It's unclear if the search or the remains are linked to Brittanee's case, and police are often very little information at the moment.

We learned that just a day before his arrest on May 4, Moody appointed a power of attorney to oversee his affairs. Moody remains behind bars.

On Monday, Georgetown County law enforcement are planning a news conference and we could find out more about what happens next for him, and more importantly, if Brittanee's family and friends learn what happened to the girl they love, who came to Myrtle Beach seeking an adventure.