Brittanee Drexel’s chilling last texts to her boyfriend are revealed before she disappeared

Murdered teenager Brittannee Drexel sent her boyfriend a chilling text message before she vanished more than a decade ago, it’s been revealed.   

The 17-year-old was last seen on April 25, 2009 walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where she had been on a spring break trip with a group of friends, without telling her parents.

She had texted her friends throughout the day, new court documents obtained by WCSC reveal, reaching out to her boyfriend in her hometown of Rochester, New York to complain about something less than one hour before she was reported missing.

‘I’ll tell you later when you call me,’ Drexel told her boyfriend, adding: ‘I’m so heated.’

Drexel later told him she was planning to just stay in that night and pack before going to sleep.

But that same night, Raymond Moody — a known sex offender — kidnapped and raped the teenager before he killed her. Drexel’s remains were only discovered earlier this year in Harmony Township, South Carolina after the 62-year-old finally confessed to the crime.

Moody has since been sentenced to life in prison.

Court documents reveal Brittanee Drexel, a 17-year-old from Rochester, New York, sent her boyfriend a text message telling him she was ‘heated’ and wanted to complain to him before she disappeared in April 2009 while on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Drexel was last seen on April 25, 2009 walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach, where she had taken a spring break trip with a group of friends

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Drexel had texted her boyfriend she would tell him about what was aggravating her ‘later when you call me,’ adding: ‘Im so heated’

Court documents now offer a more complete picture of Drexel’s day on April 25, 2009.

Raymond Moody, 62, a known sex offender, finally pleaded guilty to her murder earlier this year. He has been sentenced to life in prison

Throughout the day, WCSC reports, the teen sent text messages to her boyfriend, her friends she voyaged to Myrtle Beach with as well as people she met while on vacation there.

In one text, Drexel tells a friend she had borrowed a pair of shorts, and made plans to meet at their hotel later in the day to return them.

And in another, she tells a friend she ‘went for [a] walk’ and asked ‘what’s going on tonite?’ 

Drexel also talks about her outfit, describing the teal and black shirt she was later seen wearing in surveillance footage at the Blue Water Resort. 

By 8.58pm, Drexel sent her boyfriend one last text message reading: ‘I’m staying in packing and going to sleep probably.’

Although the phone records show no other messages from the teen, her boyfriend and her friends grew increasingly worried about her lack of a response.

One texted, ‘Send me something, we think ur missing.’ Another told Drexel to ‘stop playing games,’ while her boyfriend simply wrote: ‘Babe im concerned.’

Throughout the night, the court documents say, Drexel’s phone continued to ping off different locations in the Myrtle Beach area before it died at 11.57pm.

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Surveillance footage on April 25, 2009 caught Drexel leaving the Blue Water Resort wearing a teal and black shirt she had texted her friends about

Her last text to her boyfriend said she planned to ‘stay in packing and [going] to sleep’

Her friends and boyfriend started getting concerned about her when she wasn’t answering her phone

Investigators now say that Moody kidnapped Drexel in Myrtle Beach that night and took her to his house in Georgetown County, where he sexually assaulted her, killed her, and then buried her body before throwing her phone into a local river.

Moody had previously been considered a person of interest in the case, but was never charged and the case grew quiet.

He has an ‘extensive sex offender history’ and is listed on the South Carolina sex offender registry for 1983 convictions in California for sodomy by force of someone under 14 and kidnapping, according to State Law Enforcement Division Records. 

The break in Drexel’s case finally came earlier this year, when Moody admitted to raping and killing the teenager, and led authorities to her body — buried on the property of his Georgetown home.

Drexel’s remains were positively identified using dental records and DNA. It was later determined by a coroner that Drexel had been strangled to death.

Drexel’s mother finally got a chance to confront Moody in court last month, telling him she hopes he is ‘haunted’ by what he did to her daughter 13 years ago. She is pictured here with her husband, Chad Drexel, Brittanee’s adoptive father

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Moody called himself a ‘monster’ at a sentencing hearing last month

Drexel’s mother finally got a chance to confront Moody in court last month, telling him she hopes he is ‘haunted’ by what he did to her daughter 13 years ago.

Dawn Pleckan also told her daughter’s killer he will ‘carry the scars of what my daughter did to you’ after the courtroom heard she ‘scratched the hell’ out of his head.

‘I am so glad my daughter was feisty, she fought back. She fought for her life,’ Pleckan said. ‘We know now she scratched the hell out of your head, face and neck. 

‘You will forever carry the scars of what my daughter did to you, and I hope you are haunted by what you did to her.’

Moody, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to his crimes and called himself a ‘monster.’

‘I was a monster, and I took Brittanee Drexel’s life,’ he said. ‘I don’t have the words to express how horrible I feel and have felt since that day.’

Moody was ultimately sentenced to consecutive terms of 30 years on the charges of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct, and a life sentence on the murder charge.