a journey that would consume them for years. one of my best friends came to the house and he looked at me and said, he said, i hope she didn t suffer. i can t get that thought out of my head. heather was born in 1993, the middle kid sandwiched between older brother chris and younger sister morgan. as morgan vividly remembers, heather would never let a label define her. she wasn t a girly girl or a tomboy, she was somewhere in between. she would drive four wheeler s, and play volleyball. she would shoot paintball guns. and she would turn around and put on address and go, you know,
that was it, bree said. the last time she spoke with heather. it was news to terry. he d never heard about a sidney 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. she knows that it s expensive to go to the emergency room and she wouldn t want that kind of expense, so she would ve called me and said this is what s wrong, what do i do? so the couple did what they could, calling family and friends. no one had heard from heather. eventually though, one relative
returned home, checked out. the date has been questioned, he s cooperated with law enforcement and he has not listed as a person of interest or a suspect. but what about the old boyfriend, sidney? police wanted to know more about his relationship with heather. her best friend bree was just the person to tell them about it. he flirted with her just as much, if not more, than she flirted with him. it was mutual. bree said that the two had met that spring at the tilted kilt, the pub where heather had been a hostess. sidney took care of maintenance there. you could tell that he really did care about heather. when he would come in and see her, or, just the little things, the texts or the calls to check up on her at work. but there was a big problem. sidney was married. although heather didn t seem to mind. heather had it in her head that he was going to leave his wife. she swore up and down that he was going to leave.
for a long, long time. the prosecution driving its case that tammy had motive to kidnap heather elvis. they don t have one fiber, one tear drop, one piece of salt, one piece of a shoelace at the boat landing. the defense arguing there was not a scrap of evidence to prove it. what would the jury do? ladies and gentlemen i 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.
here is andrea canning with the conclusion of the landing . when tammy moorer took the stand in her own defense, she sailed through her direct testimony. but then came prosecutor nancy livesay. do you know who i am? i do. who am i? nancy lifesay, you ve made my life miserable. but nancy was just getting started, the prosecutors mission? to show the jury that tammy was hardly the tolerant wife she claimed to be. when it came to heather elvis, the prosecutor argued, tammy was angry, vengeful and tammy s text to heather proved it. you ve texted her, you can tell me who you are right now or i will find out another way, that way won t have a great turnout for you. yes. and at the time, how old were you? i think i was 41, or 42, i m not sure. so do you know now when you sent her that text that she was a 20-year-old. i know now, i did not know