When Brittanee Drexel's mom discovered her 17-year-old daughter had snuck off on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, she faced every parent's worst nightmare.
Brittanee was last seen in security video footage leaving Blue Water Resort on April 25, 2009, before being kidnapped, raped and murdered.
It would be a further 13 years before her remains were found in May 2022 and her killer Raymond Moody was finally brought to justice later that year.
But for Brittanee's mother, Dawn Conley Pleckan, the nightmare is far from over. Having watched Moody be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, she then filed a lawsuit in January 2023 accusing Moody and the resort where Brittanee stayed of wrongful conduct that led to her death.
Last year a jury declared that Moody intentionally caused Brittanee's family emotional distress, records showed.
The upstate New York family was awarded $200 million in actual damages and $500 million in punitive damages.
But Dawn has now filed a petition saying that the money remains unpaid and that Moody has assets that he has not turned over.
Dawn's lawyer, Lawrence Hershon, at the Hershon Law Firm, believes Moody has properties he has not disclosed including a mobile home.
Brittanee Drexel, 17, disappeared while on spring break in South Carolina's Myrtle Beach in April 2009
Drexel's mother, Dawn Pleckan, spoke directly to her daughter's killer in court and said: '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'
'So instead of that being real estate, that's personal property, we have to go through a separate process to get recovery of that personal property that belonged to Mr Moody,' Hershon told WHEC.
'So what's set up right now is we're looking to get possession of that mobile home or have it sold so that we can then have complete control of the real estate that we've already acquired.'
Brittanee was declared dead by the FBI in 2016. The family did not discover what had really happened to her until 2022, when Moody turned himself in, issuing a full confession to police and even leading them to Drexel's remains.
'I'm at a loss for words.' Moody said at a hearing four years ago.
'I just have so much regret. I've realized it doesn't matter how sincere I am about how I feel about things I've done. It's just not enough.'
He confessed to the court that he offered marijuana to Brittanee and then raped and killed her at his campsite.
Brittanee had snuck out of her home in Chili, New York, to go on a spring break trip without her parents' knowledge.
'She asked me if she could go and I told her no,' her mother told ABC News in 2022.
Surveillance footage on April 25, 2009, caught Drexel leaving the Blue Water Resort
Bar Harbor Resort on Myrtle Beach, where Drexel was staying at the time of her disappearance
'And she asked me why. I said, because I don't know the kids you're going with. I don't - there's no parental supervision and something's going to happen.'
Moody's ex-girlfriend, Angel Cooper Vause, is serving 18 years in federal prison for lying to the FBI during the investigation.
Vause, 57, was driving up and down Myrtle Beach's main drag when she spotted Brittanee walking alone.
Moody revealed to FBI agents that Vause was attracted to him because of his criminal past.
He was previously convicted of kidnapping and raping a nine-year-old girl in California.
Before the trip, Moody texted Vause: 'So you want to go hunting with me, huh?', to which she replied: 'Yeah.'
'I had my eye on her and thought she was the one,' Moody said.
Moody recalled how Vause got out of the car to speak with Brittanee. He said they believed that since Vause was a woman, she would 'trust us'.
Brittanee's remains were found in Myrtle Beach in 2022 after Raymond Moody confessed to her killing and led cops to her remains
Angel Cooper Vause was sentenced after lying to the FBI during their investigation
Vause told prosecutors that Drexel 'voluntarily joined' the couple to 'consume marijuana and cocaine.'
They pretended to be tourists like Brittanee and offered her a lift to her hotel.
Brittanee accepted, and once inside the car, Moody pretended to get lost and Vause took over the driving.
It was at this point that Moody handcuffed Brittanee, telling her he was a kidnapper while demanding $5,000 in ransom fees.
Vause drove them to a tent beside the Santee River, and got out of the car with Brittanee. Moody left them momentarily to drive to his apartment, where he retrieved a briefcase full of 'sex toys.'
He then raped and sodomized Brittanee before strangling her to death with a rope. He then stabbed her with an ice pick to ensure she would die.
Vause was not involved in the rape or murder, but she sat inside the tent watching before Moody buried the teenager's body in a shallow grave at a construction site.
Brittanee's boyfriend, who stayed home in Rochester, New York, became concerned when she stopped answering texts, prompting an investigation.
A break in the case came in May 2022 when Raymond Moody was arrested on an obstruction of justice charge. According to police, that's when he admitted to raping and killing Brittanee
In the years since Brittanee's murder, Dawn has been persistent about seeking justice for her daughter.
She frequently books speaking engagements telling her daughter's story and is vigilant in ensuring Moody and Vause never forget what they did.
Still, she said, 'the system failed her.'
'Brittanee you have sparked a fire in me to fight with and for the families of the missing so they can have resolution and justice that their missing loved one deserves,' she wrote on the anniversary of Brittanee's disappearance.
'I have seen with my own eyes what happens in most cases. God has a new path for me to do his work. Changes need to be made, more training, empathy, communication and accountability.'