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.
the bait in this hunting. he s the bait. reporter: prosecutors admitted they couldn t say what happened to heather at the landing. but they asked the jury to use their common sense. an investigator showed the jury a photo of several items found on the moorers property. there is a spent shotgun shell here, there is a bag of concrete mix here and off to the side up here is some kind of a bottle of a cleaning solution. reporter: the prosecution suggested it was nothing less than a kidnapping kit. what the moorers might have needed to kill heather and dispose of her body. how hard was it for you being in that courtroom every day, hearing these details, having to see tammy? most days when i woke up i didn t want to come to the trial. but i went because when you see your parents hurting, you wish that you could take all their pain away.
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 about heather checking into a hospital, debbi didn t believe it. because she knows it s expensive to go to the emergency room. and she wouldn t want that kind of expense, so she would have called me and said, hey, this is what s wrong, what do i do? reporter: so the couple did what they could, calling family and friends. no one had heard from heather. eventually, though, one relative cleared up that hospital mystery. we find out that the heather that was in the hospital is my cousin s daughter, named the same thing. we didn t have the middle name on it, it was just the first and the last. what are the odds that it s another at the same time. heather elvis at the same time going to the hospital? it was yeah. it was it was puzzling. reporter: so where was their heather? confusion was turning to fear. i felt like somethin
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i mean with something like this, i mean, it s an impossible task for me to do. but you can do small things. you can sit with them. and you can hold their hands when they need it. reporter: after seven days of testimony, the prosecution rested. and the defense announced tammy was going to testify in her defense. as hard as it might be to listen to her, that was something morgan didn t want to miss. coming up did you kidnap heather elvis? no, i did not. do you know who kidnapped her? i do not. reporter: tammy moorer on the stand and on the defensive. tammy was just indignant. there s answers to this mystery, and they refuse to solve it. when the landing continues. when the landing continues. first time the other day. and forgot where she was.