What to Watch Friday: ‘Dateline’ updates Myrtle Beach Spring Break murder case

Brooke Cain
·2 min read

Here’s what to watch tonight.

“Dateline: The Last Walk” (9 p.m., NBC)

Keith Morrison confronts Raymond Moody, the convicted killer of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared during her Spring Break in Myrtle Beach in 2009. Moody pleaded guilty to Drexel’s murder in October this year. “Dateline” has reported on this case for more than a decade now.

Morrison also talks to Georgetown County Sheriff investigator Phil Hanna, Myrtle Beach Police investigator Mike Hull and Captain Kin McKenzie of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, who reveal an exclusive inside look at how they zeroed in on Moody. Hanna tells Morrison that when they asked Moody to come talk to them about the case, he said: “I don’t have nothing to say to y’all. He said, ‘you’re good detectives, you figure it out.” Hull also tells Morrison how the evidence kept leading to dead ends, explaining: “We used to say all the time, ‘the devil himself is helping him,’ because every time we would start to run something down, it’d be like, ‘yeah it looks good, but it isn’t enough.”

Friday’s special will also include interviews with Drexel’s father Chad Drexel, Detective Traci Chanaca, Horry County Solicitor Jimmy Richardson and FBI Assistant Special Agent In Charge Reid Davis.

Holiday specials on TV tonight

“Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” (8 p.m., Disney) - In this 1999 animated special Mickey and his friends tell stories including ”A Very Goofy Christmas” and ”Mickey and Minnie’s Gift of the Magi.”

“The Most Colorful Time of the Year” (8 p.m., Hallmark) - In this new movie, a colorblind elementary school teacher meets an optometrist who helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays.

“A Recipe For Joy” (8 p.m., Lifetime) - In this new movie, sparks fly between a food correspondent and a shy chef as they work together to reopen his family’s beloved diner.

“Scrooged” (8 p.m., Paramount) - In this 1988 film, a ruthless TV-network chief (Bill Murray) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

”Elf” (8 and 10 p.m., AMC) - Adopted as a baby by one of Santa’s elves (Bob Newhart), a man (Will Ferrell) leaves the workshop to search for his family in New York. Also stars James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Ed Asner and Mary Steenburgen.

”A Christmas Story” (8 p.m., TNT) - Little Ralphie tries to convince his parents in the 1940s to get him a Red Ryder range-model BB gun for Christmas in this 1983 favorite. (The big marathon comes Christmas Eve!)

“The Sound of Christmas” (9 p.m., BET) - In this new movie, a woman facing eviction falls in love with a grieving billionaire.

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