After being sued by Brittanee’s mother in 2009, the South Carolina resort disputes claims that they allowed the 17 year old New Yorker check in prior to her kidnapping and murder on a spring break trip.
Dawn Pleckan filed a lawsuit against Raymond Moody (the man who murdered her daughter), Bar Harbor Resort Inc., and Smith Family Partners LLC on Jan. 2, 2020, accusing them of “wrongful conduct,” which led to Drexel’s murder in April 2009, while she was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with her adult friends.
The group stayed at the Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach, which is owned and operated jointly by Bar Harbor Resort Inc. and Smith Family Partners, LLC. Pleckan’s suit states that Brittanee stayed at this hotel and was unaccompanied at all times. The hotel and its operating company profited from the transaction.
The lawsuit also states that “in April 2009, the hotel and its operating groups had no policies to detect and alert the law enforcement of the presence of unaccompanied children traveling without their legal guardians and/or parents… which could have prevented rape or murder of Brittanee.”
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Brittanee Drexel Myrtle Beach Police Department
In a court filing in December, the defendants denied these allegations. They argued that “on information and belief Plaintiffs’ deceased was never a guest registered at Bar Harbor Hotel but may have known Bar Harbor Hotel Guest Jennifer Oberer.”
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Drexel met a friend in the Blue Water Resort near the beach on April 25, 2009. This was the last time that anyone but Moody saw her. Drexel was seen on security footage entering the Myrtle Beach Resort that evening.
(Lawsuit).
Drexel, a teenage girl walking alone on Myrtle Beach at 9 pm that night was kidnapped by Moody in a Ford Explorer.
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“Defendant Moody abducted Brittanee, and took her to a remote campground near Defendant Moody’s home in Georgetown South Carolina. The lawsuit claims that Defendant Moody had Brittanee held against her will, brutally tortured her and raped her before killing her on April 26, 2009.
On that evening, at 9 p.m., Drexel Drexel was walking in Myrtle Beach alone when Raymond Moody drove up to her and took the teen hostage.
Moody dumped Drexel’s phone into the North Santee River, and buried Drexel’s body in a shallow grave. Drexel’s relatives did not know what had happened to her for 13 years until 2022, when authorities discovered her remains.
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Moody, aged 62, of South Carolina, admitted to kidnapping and murdering Drexel in October 2022.
Raymond Moody pleaded guilty to raping Brittanee, 17, and killing her in 2009. (Jason Lee/The Sun News/AP)
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Pleckan also claims that the hotel’s owners “created, fostered, and maintained an environment in which minors including Decedent could stay unaccompanied on their premises.”
The lawsuit contains screenshots of reviews that are negative for the hotel and allege nefarious activities.
The lawsuit claims that “Decedent fell into the foreseeable risk zone created by Hotel Defendants misconduct alleged above as she was a minor unaccompanied female who was brutally abducted, raped and murdered during her visit.”