CHARLESTON, S.C. (WBTW) — Fifty-six-year-old Angel Cooper Vause, the longtime girlfriend of the man convicted of killing Brittanee Drexel, will plead guilty to lying to federal investigators during the search for Drexel’s killer.
Vause of Georgetown will be in U.S. District Court in Charleston for a plea hearing at 3 p.m. on Monday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. She could face up to 10 years in prison.
Vause, was indicted in March for lying to the FBI. Her boyfriend, Raymond Moody, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Drexel, a 17-year-old from New York, who was last seen while on spring break in Myrtle Beach in 2009.
Moody confessed in October 2022 . Five months earlier, Vause told an FBI agent she went home to get keys from a truck while Drexel was being assaulted and killed, but the indictments said she was actually going somewhere else.
Prosecutors said Vause played a critical role in forcing Moody’s confession because they initially built a case against her before he claimed responsibility.