by that point, bree who had been out of town for several days had gotten word her best friend heather was missing. i called her dad, who was with police, at the time, at peachtree and he had asked when was the last time i spoke to heather. bree told the two men that heather called from the apartment at around 1:30 am, tuesday, fresh from her date. she said i had an amazing date, i m supposed to see him tomorrow when he comes off work. bree said heather did not want to talk about the new guy, she was upset about a call she had gotten from the older man she had once dated. his name was sidney, weeks earlier he dumps heather. her exact words were sidney called me, and i said what s, and she said, yeah, and i said what did he say, she said he wanted to be with me and see me. bree told her friend not to do anything rash. and she was like, you know what, you re right. i m gonna get some sleep, i m exhausted. i love you. we always say i love you when we hang up. and hung up.
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 worried 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 to. and they got a hit. the numbers heather dialed belong to a man named sidney moorer, they figured that had to be the ex-boyfriend bree had mentioned earlier. terry was like i m going to call, i m just going to call him. i said terry you can t call somebody in the middle of the night. he did anyway and on the other and a man answered, the way terri recalls, the man was not happy. i said you don t know me, but i m heather s father. heather elvis. and before i could get the next word in, i m getting cussed out left and right. cussing about what?
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
repeatedly calling back. right, exactly. was it sidney? they pulled the security footage from the gas station. you can see somebody walk up to the payphone and place that call to heather elvis. police wondered if that somebody was sidney. they asked him to come in for another round of questioning. if he d been home, what was he doing at a payphone calling heather. he finally faced up. sidney moorer told them that he made that phone call to heather. investigators began to build a timeline from heather s phone. at 1:35 am, sidney called heather from the payphone. nine minutes later, at 1:44, heather called her friend bree. between 2:29 and 3:05, heather called the payphone nine times, but no one answered. her phone did connect to sidney s cell phone at 3:17 am