With someone would was sharing their challenges, i he immediately opened up about mine. hopefully it s first of many conversations. she is and will always be my sister. i don t know what happened to her. i don t get to say good-bye. it s so 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 out of state. it was all so overwhelmingly
and then, two days later, a knock at debbie and terry s door. a police officer with an odd question. were they missing a car? that was his exact words, are you missing a car? i looked in the driveway, nope, they re all there, not thinking about that he found a car somewhere. was heather s car registered in her name? it was still in our name. that s why he was at your doorstep. terry came up behind me and asked what was going on. he explained he found heather s car at the landing. what was going on if heather s car was at the landing, then where was she? coming up a family holds onto hope. the hospital said they had a heather can come in on her own and had been released. but fear creeps in. i felt something was wrong. he said let s take a look in the trunk. i was scared to death to open
reporter: and it was a hunt the prosecution said. the investigator told the jury he d used cellphone data to track the moorers movements. in the days before the disappearance, they showed up near heather s workplace, some of the bars she liked, even her home. the prosecution suggested the couple was stalking her. then in the early hours of december 18, 2013, with heather s roommate out of town, the prosecutor said the couple struck. it began here. the prosecutor showed the jury surveillance video of sidney walking into a walmart and purchasing a pregnancy test for heather. soon as they leave from walmart, they go and call her. why? cause the test is for her. reporter: the prosecution s theory was that sidney had called heather to come and get the test. take it and then meet up with him later at the landing. they said what she didn t know was that tammy would be there too. there s no doubt sidney is
Tammy and sidney had been stalking heather. i would say you could compare their phone activity to anybody else s who lived and worked in the area. those are where the nightclubs are. there are restaurants there. it would appear that i were stalking her as well if you just looked at where my phone went. reporter: the defense said that what the jury really needed to understand was a simple fact. no piece of evidence put tammy at the landing. if anything, her alibi placed her miles away. did tammy s children stay in the house with you where your mother polly lives? yes. reporter: tammy s sister ashley told the court she was baby-sitting tammy s kids on the night of december 17, 2013. she said tammy and sidney went out together in the hours leading up to heather s disappearance. but ashley remembered when her sister came home. she texted me that night saying that she was home. do you know about what time that was?
Heather called her friend bri. between 2:29 and 3:05, heather called the pay phone nine times. but no one answered. her phone did connect to sidney s cell phone at 3:17 a.m. for four minutes then from 3:25 to 3:37 her phone was in her car on the way to peachtree landing. but where was sidney around that time? police didn t know. that is until a woman, who lived near the landing here told police her home had a security camera. perhaps, she thought, it captured something around the time of heather s disappearance. around 3:30 in the morning on december 18th, you can see a dark truck, pickup truck go by her home. police believe it was sidney s truck. it was a huge break. police thought they could now place heather elvis in her car and sidney moorer in his truck heading for peachtree landing at the same time. and then soon after that her