lid to his daughter s trunk pumped open. were you worried about i was scared to death to open the trunk, we both looked in and it was fine. there was nothing there. there was plenty of clutter, no signs of foul play. by that point, bree who had been out of town for several days had gotten word her best friend heather was missing. i called her dad, who was with police, at the time, at peach tree and he had asked when was the last time i spoke to heather. bree told the two men that heather called from the apartment at around 1:30 am, tuesday, fresh from her date. she said i had an amazing date, i m supposed to seeing him tomorrow when he comes off work. bree said heather did not want to talk about the new guy, she was upset about a call she had gotten from the older man she had dated. his name was sydney, weeks
there is some tiny bit of justice in the world for a brief moment, and then all of a sudden, it s like it never happened. but it wasn t over yet, it was only just beginning. both sidney and tammy both face kidnapping charges. sydney was up first. his trial began in the summer of 2016, he pleaded not guilty. good morning ladies and gentlemen of the jury. the prosecution s case was purely circumstantial. there was no evidence. but they argued, those surveillance videos and phone records proved the last person to talk and meet up with heather with sidney. however, the jury deadlocked. a mistrial has been declared in this case against sydney moorer. the prosecution didn t give up. when it came time for tammy s trial, they came up with a bold new strategy. they argued that tammy had not only been sidney s partner in crime, she d been the
earlier he dumps heather. her exact words were sydney called me, and i said what s, and she said, yeah, and i said what did he say, she said he wanted to be with me and see me. bree told her friend not to do anything rash. and she was like, you know what s, you re right. i m gonna get some sleep, i m exhausted. i love you. we always say i love you when we hang up. and hung up. that was it, bree said. the last time she spoke with heather. it was news to terry. he d never heard about a sydney before. then, the officer had an idea. the officer starts calling hospitals to check and see if she s been admitted somewhere. when he called one of the local hospitals, they said that heather elvis had come in on their own and had been released. he thought heather must be okay, eventually, the officer told terry to take heather s car and head home. but terry s relief was short lived when he told his wife the story of heather checking into the hospital, she didn t believe it.
a dateline episode. it s not a storyline that matches up with two people who have three children, and are supposed to be happily married. in an interview with dateline, tammy told dateline her marriage was a happy one. we were a normal family. it was about our children, our kids always come first. tammy home schooled kids and sidney worked at a restaurant. they enjoyed family vacation together. i ve always loved sydney but i hated the things that he done. tammy said that she found the affair upsetting but quickly got over it. she said within a day or two she had a nice conversation with heather on the phone. i said i m not mad at you, and she said, well, and then she told me the stuff that they had done and what had happened. prosecutors didn t buy tammy s story for one minute. but they had to drop the murder charges, after all, they didn t have a body. how did that feel when they told you about that?
this witness said sydney had a tattoo of tammy s name across his abdomen, his understanding was that tammy made sydney get it. the states theory was that that was tammy s way of saying your mind and you re never going to be anyone else is. the prosecutor says tammy had even chained sydney to the bed with handcuffs. i m not speaking figuratively, i m literally saying that she tied to the bed. but as angry as she was at sydney for cheating prosecutors say that tammy was furious with heather. she sent her several text, the prosecution said some of them are threats. heather was really afraid of tammy? she was. her friends had played a prank on her at work where they pretended to be tammy calling heather s phone, and she was absolutely terrified. and the prosecution said that if there was any doubt about the way tammy felt, just look at this nasty facebook post tammy had written after heather disappeared.