cleared up that hospital mystery. we found 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, just first and last. what are the odds that it s another, heather elvis at the same time going in the hospital? it was puzzling. so where was their heather, confusion was turning into fear. i felt like something was wrong. heather sister s, morgan, arrived home from a basketball game. had they told you at this point what was going on? they hadn t and i just picked up what was going on through conversation. that heather was nowhere to be found. that s when it dawned on them. they could retrace heather s steps by way of her cellphone. she was still on their family plan. we ended up going online and going to our cell phone provider, because you can look at the call records. they pull up the information
but when tammy took the stand, she seemed confident, ready to tell her story. she told the jury she wasn t a ruthless kidnap or. 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 person. i just wanted to know who it was. at the end of the day, tammy said the only reason she was angry with sidney was because he wasn t forthcoming about his affair. in their marriage, they had an arrangement. i said i think it s a good idea to have an open marriage for a little bit and to see if we were meant to be together. the only thing i asked to you is to be honest with me. sidney wasn t honest with me, and that s why i got angry with sidney. she said when heather went missing, she and sidney were working on their marriage, even hoping
confusion was turning into fear. i felt like something was wrong. heather sister s, morgan, arrived home from a basketball game. had they told you at this point what was going on? they hadn t and i just picked up what was going on through conversation. that heather was nowhere to be found. that s when it dawned on them. they could retrace heather s steps by way of her cellphone. she was still on their family plan. we ended up going online and going to our cell phone provider, because you can look at the call records. they pull up the information and email it to us. they could see the most recent calls their daughter made and received. after her call to bree, heather dialed another number, several times. these are the early morning calls? yeah, and i m like whose numbers this. the worry the parents suddenly find themselves playing detectives in the very real case of their missing daughter. we google the numbers trying to figure out what they went
understand that the jury has reached a verdict. it took jurors less than four hours to reach a verdict. we the jury find the defendant tammy moorer guilty of kidnapping. guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. two counts. in court, tammy took it stoically. later, she was emotional. i told my kids if the verdict came guilty i would go away. the elvis is got the verdict that they wanted but it wasn t going to bring heather back. 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
it took jurors less than four hours to reach a verdict. we the jury find the defendant tammy moorer guilty of kidnapping. guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. two counts. in court, tammy took it stoically. later, she was emotional. i told my kids if the verdict came guilty i would go away. the elvis is got the verdict that they wanted but it wasn t going to bring heather back. 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.