for four minutes. then, from 3:25 to 3:37 her phone was in her car on her 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 area 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 pick up truck, go by her home. police believed it was sidney struck. it was a huge break. police thought they could now place heather elvis in her car, and sidney moorer in his truck heading to peachtree landing, at the same time. soon after that, her phone goes dead and nobody ever heard from her again. it was 3:42 in the morning. police now had a theory, somehow, heather had become a problem for sidney, so he lured heather to the landing and killed her. and there was more, investigators believed sidney
welcome back to dateline. i m natalie morales. what happened to heather elvis, the 20 year old vanished in the middle of the night. investigators believe that heather s ex-boyfriend sidney moorer had arranged to meet her at a secluded spot and they thought that he may have had help. as police continue to piece together the puzzle, heather s family was grappling with the reality. once again here s andrea canning with the landing . terry elvis wasn t exactly sure when he realized his daughter wasn t coming home. maybe it was the afternoon, long after heather disappeared, when he was standing at his mailbox talking to his best friend. one of my best friends came to the house, he looked at me and he said, he said i hope she didn t suffer. i can t get that thought out of
use cellphones added to track the moorer movement. 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 18th 2013, with heather s roommate out of town, the prosecution said that the couple struck. it began here, the prosecution showed the jury surveillance video of sidney walking into a walmart and purchasing a pregnancy test for heather. as soon as they leave for walmart, they go and call her. why? because the test is for her. the prosecution s theory was that sidney had called heather to come and get the test. and then meet up with him later at the landing. they said what s she didn t know was that tammy would be there too. there is no doubt, sidney is the bait. he s the bait.
we were a normal family. it was about our children, our kids always came first. tammy home schooled kids and sidney worked at a restaurant. they enjoyed family vacation together. i ve always loved sidney but i hated the things that he done. tammy said that she found the affair upsetting but quickly got over it. she said within a day or two she had a nice conversation with heather on the phone. i said i m not mad at you, and she said, well, and then she told me the stuff that they had done and what had happened. prosecutors didn t buy tammy s story for one minute. but they had to drop the murder charges, after all, they didn t have a body. how did that feel when they told you about that? there is some tiny bit of justice in the world for a brief moment, and then all of a sudden, it s like it never happened. but it wasn t over yet, it was only just beginning. both sidney and tammy both face
a fire of jealousy was lit in the defendant. she was livid. she was angry. 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 it becomes common knowledge, the fire, the jealousy that is in tammy moorer explodes into utter rage. prosecutors said that 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. this witness said sidney had a tattoo of tammy s name across his abdomen, his understanding was that tammy made sidney get it. the states theory was that that was tammy s way of saying