she is and will always be my sister. i don t know what happened to her. i don t get to say goodbye. it was awful. it makes your whole world fall apart. if you took her, please just let her come home. her name is heather elvis. it was news nationwide when she vanished. she had a new job. she was going on a first date. it was overwhelmingly horrible. where she at? police work the clues, her car abandoned. i was scared to death. a mysterious caller captured on camera. why would this person call from a payphone, in the middle of the night? then came the secret. he was married. rumors about her being pregnant. she truly did believe that she was gonna leave his wife. anger, betrayal, revenge. a bomb exploded. it was world war three. this crazy love triangle, kidnapping, potential murder. yes. this is heather s life we re talking about. terrifying. when you see your parents hurting, you wish that you could take all their pain away. and with so
horrible. where she at? police work the clues, her car abandoned. i was scared to death. a mysterious caller captured on camera. why would this person call from a payphone, in the middle of the night? then came the secret. she was married. rumors about her being pregnant. she truly did believe that she was gonna leave his wife. anger, betrayal, revenge. a bomb exploded. it was world war three. this crazy love triangle, create napping, potential murder. yes. this is heather s life or talking about. terrifying. when you see your parents hurting, you wish that you could take all their pain away. and with something like this, it s impossible. hello and welcome to dateline. heather elvis was charging headlong into her future. an independent young woman eager to make her mark on the world. then one night, she disappeared. investigators would quickly discover a love triangle and thought they had their motive, but there was a big question the elv
look beautiful for photos. her parents, debbie and terry elvis say that she was driven by a passion to create. she drew all the time. decorating the family house with her doodles. everywhere you went in the house there were some kind of writing, some kind of drawing, some kind of doodle. her brain is working overtime? constantly. just as a reminder, small desk in the house that has a computer at it, there are sticky notes on them, all over the top part of the desk, and the one that is right in front of my face in her handwriting says heather is amazing with a little heart. and heather was amazing when it came to cause cosmotology. the art of makeup, in a way that only siblings can she sparked morgan s interest in it to. she said cosmotology was hers. i was not allowed to have it. and i did it anyway. and that s what sisters do. don t tell me no because i m gonna do it anyway. after graduation from high school in 2011, heather began
both sidney and tammy s phones were on and pinging from their house, not from the landing, when heather was there. it was also hard for morgan to listen to. some days she wished she had come to court. but that all changed during a crucial moment in the trial. when i found out that tammy was going to testify, i really wanted to be there, because i do look like heather. and she ran into me in the hallway and it was the first time she had other ever made eye contact with me, and then up close and personal with. me, and i could hear her audibly gasp. but when tammy took the stand, she seemed confident, ready to tell her story. she told the jury she wasn t a ruthless kidnapper. she was a mom. my youngest is on the far left over there. and she was a wife who d found out her husband was cheating on her. initially, tammy said she texted the other woman s phone number to find out who she was. the messages were never directed towards heather elvis, they were directed to the mystery per
it didn t change anything. 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. heather sister morgan looked across to the moorers, the only thing i saw was another family being torn apart. those children sitting behind their mom? yeah. i have lived firsthand a family getting torn apart. and i wouldn t wish that on anybody. tammy moorer was sentenced to 30 years, she is appealing her husband sidney was jailed in 2017 convicted of obstruction of justice. the state wasn t done with any moorer, in september 2019 prosecuted and recharge him on his kidnapping charges. this time he was convicted and like tammy, received a 30-year term. as for debbie and terry, they re in the same place they ve been since the day their daughter went missing, living with the hope that one day they ll get answers about what happened to heather. the young woman who had so many