my head. the not knowing made it worst and then stunning news. new development tonight in the heather elvis case. two months after heather s disappearance, sidney, heather s ex-boyfriend was arrested and did not go to jail alone, he was joined by his wife tammy moorer. both were charged with heather s kidnapping and murder. was this surprising to people, tammy and sidney moorer are parents, they have three children and now they are involved in this crazy love triangle, kidnapping, potential murder? yeah. it s something that you see in a dateline episode. it s not a storyline that matches up with two people who have three children, and are supposed to be happily married. in an interview with dateline, tammy told dateline her marriage was a happy one.
said the only reason she was angry with sidney was because he wasn t forthcoming about his affair. in their marriage, they had an arrangement. i said i think it s a good idea to have an open marriage for a little bit and to see if we were meant to be together. the only thing i asked to you is to be honest with me. sidney wasn t honest with me, and that s why i got angry with sidney. she said when heather went missing, she and sidney were working on their marriage, even hoping to get pregnant. that tests sidney bought at walmart, she said, was for her. not heather. also, she denied that she made sidney get a tattoo as punishment. she said he had gotten it long before he met heather. and she had a answer about the handcuffs, to. did you ever handcuff him to the bed? no, i have not. sidney is a strongman. he could get out of anything. and tammy had her own explanation for that so-called kidnapping kit. sidney needed the concrete for work. the cleaning fluid was for
kidnapping charges. sidney was up first. his trial began in the summer of 2016, he pleaded not guilty. good morning ladies and gentlemen of the jury. the prosecution s case was purely circumstantial. there was no evidence. but they argued, those surveillance videos and phone records proved the last person to talk and meet up with heather with sidney. however, the jury deadlocked. a mistrial has been declared in this case against sidney moorer. the prosecution didn t give up. when it came time for tammy s trial, they came up with a bold new strategy. they argued that tammy had not only been sidney s partner in crime, she d been the mastermind calling all the shots. they believed that she was the ultimate brains behind this whole plan. prosecutors said it all boiled down to this. far from being the understanding wife who had accepted sidney s affair, tammy had been consumed by it.
that was it, bree said. the last time she spoke with heather. it was news to terry. he d never heard about a sidney before. then, the officer had an idea. the officer starts calling hospitals to check and see if she s been admitted somewhere. when he called one of the local hospitals, they said that heather elvis had come in on their own and had been released. he thought heather must be okay, 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 of heather checking into the hospital, she didn t believe it. she knows that it s expensive to go to the emergency room and she wouldn t want that kind of expense, so she would ve called me and said this is what s wrong, what do i do? so the couple did what they could, calling family and friends. no one had heard from heather. eventually though, one relative
returned home, checked out. the date has been questioned, he s cooperated with law enforcement and he has 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 bree 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. bree said that 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 up on her at work. but there was a big problem. sidney was married. although heather didn t seem to mind. heather had it in her head that he was going to leave his wife. she swore up and down that he was going to leave.