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?
a fire of jealousy was lit in the defendant. she was livid. she was angry. reporter: an anger that became something more sinister when tammy heard a rumor around town. heather might be pregnant with sidney s baby. when this gets out and becomes common knowledge, the fire, the jealousy that is in tammy moorer explodes into utter rage. reporter: prosecutors said that rage wouldn t be satisfied until heather was out of the way. they said it was obvious how much the affair had upset tammy by the way she had treated sidney afterwards. she said she beat the hell out of him. reporter: this witness said sidney had a tattoo of tammy s name across his abdomen. his understanding was that tammy made sidney get it. the state theory was that was tammy s way to say you re mine and you re never going to be anyone else s. reporter: the prosecutor said tammy had even chained sidney to the bed with handcuffs. i m not speaking figuratively to you right now.
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
and to see something like that makes your whole world fall apart. police quickly turned their attention to heather s new guy, the man who had been with her on a date that night. his alibi that he dropped heather at her apartment and returned home, checked out. the date has been questioned. he has cooperated with law he is 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, bri, 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. bri said 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
heather. her exact words, sidney called me. and i was like, what? and she was like, yeah. and i was like, well, what did he say? she said, he wanted to be with me and see me. reporter: bri told her friend not to do anything rash. and i was like, you know what, you re right. i m gonna get some sleep. i m exhausted. and i love you, because we always say i love you when we hang up, and hung up. reporter: and that was it, bri said, the last time she spoke with heather. it was news to terry. he d never heard of a sidney before. then the officer had an idea. the officer starts calling hospitals to check and see if if she s been admitted somewhere. and when he called one of the local hospitals, they said that a heather elvis had been had come in on their own and had been released. reporter: he thought heather must be okay.