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 about heather checking into a hospital, debbi didn t believe it. because she knows it s expensive to go to the emergency room. and she wouldn t want that kind of expense, so she would have called me and said, hey, this is what s wrong, what do i do? reporter: so the couple did what they could, calling family and friends. no one had heard from heather. eventually, though, one relative cleared up that hospital mystery. we find out that the heather that was in the hospital is my cousin s daughter, named the same thing. we didn t have the middle name on it, it was just the first and the last. what are the odds that it s another at the same time. heather elvis at the same time going to the hospital? it was yeah. it was it was puzzling. reporter: so where was their heather? confusion was turning to fear. i felt like somethin
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okay, that s a but very odd reaction. but it s but it s but it s just that s what i thought. it s just cursing after cursing after cursing. reporter: the man who had dated their daughter was hotly denying he d ever heard of her. as the hours ticked by, terry and debbi grew more anxious. they knew calling family and friends wasn t enough. they needed a new plan to find their missing daughter. coming up, two new on camera clues. someone at a pay phone. it appears that this is someone she knows. right, exactly. reporter: then someone in a pickup. you can see a dark pickup truck go by. soon after that her phone goes dead and nobody ever heard from her again. when the landing continues. . o man, that s a whole lot of wrinkly at least my shoes look good! looking good start with bounce wrinkleguard, the megasheet designed to prevent wrinkles in the dryer.
stoically. later she was emotional. i told my kids, if a verdict came in, then i was goin away. because i knew that s what it would be. reporter: the elvises got the verdict they wanted, but it wasn t going to bring heather back. if i i d opened my eyes and my daughter had been standing in front of me and heather had been there, i wouldn t have cared what they did with anything or anybody after that point. but that s they didn t do that. it didn t change anything. people say it didn t change the big picture. it didn t change the little picture. you expect it to feel good to be a victory, but it doesn t feel like that at all. reporter: heather s sister morgan looked across to the moorers. the only thing i saw was another family getting torn apart. reporter: yeah. well, those those children sitting behind their mom. yeah. reporter: i m sorry. i have lived firsthand a family getting torn apart. and i wouldn t wish that on anybody.