A federal grand jury has indicted the girlfriend of a man who admitted kidnapping, raping, and killing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel in 2009 on charges of lying to investigators during the investigation.

Angel Cooper Vause, 56, was arrested Wednesday in South Carolina on a charge of making false statements to federal investigators, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. She faces arraignment in Charleston on Thursday.

Raymond Moody pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison in October 2022. He admitted that he and Vause spotted Drexel, in Myrtle Beach on spring break from upstate New York, on a street in the beach town on April 25, 2009, and invited her to “party and smoke marijuana,” as CrimeOnline reported.

The three went to a campsite, and after Vause, already a convicted sex offender,  left to visit a relative, Moody raped the girl and then strangled her and hid her body.

Later, investigators had Vause wear a wire to talk with Moody about what happened, leading to his arrest.

At his sentencing, Moody admitted what he’d done and apologized.

“I was a monster. I was a monster then and I was a monster when I took Brittanee Drexel’s life,” Moody said. “I don’t have the words to express how horrible I feel … I’m very sorry.”

According to the indictment against Vause, Vause lied about where she was going and why on the night Drexel was “assaulted and killed” by Moody, Law&Crime reported. She also allegedly told agents that Drexel had her cell phone on her throughout the ordeal, but in fact, Vause took the girl’s cell phone and tossed it somewhere between Georgetown and Charleston.

Further, the indictment alleges that Drexel was “abducted under false pretenses” on the night in question and did not “voluntarily” join Vause and Moody as Vause originally claimed.

For the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’ podcast.

[Feature Photo: Brittanee Drexel/Handout]