where she at? police work the clues, her car abandoned. i was scared to death. a mysterious caller captured on camera. why would this person call from a payphone, in the middle of the night? then came the secret. she was married. rumors about her being pregnant. she truly did believe that she was gonna leave his wife. anger, betrayal, revenge. a bomb exploded. it was world war three. this crazy love triangle, kidnapping, potential murder. yes. this is heather s life or talking about. terrifying. when you see your parents hurting, you wish that you could take all their pain away. and with something like this, it s impossible. hello and welcome to dateline. heather elvis was charging headlong into her future. an independent young woman eager to make her mark on the world. then one night, she disappeared. investigators would quickly discover a love triangle and thought they had their motive, but there was a big question the elvis family still need
Lid to his daughter s trunk pumped open. were you worried about i was scared to death to open the trunk, we both looked in and it was fine. there was nothing there. there was plenty of clutter, no signs of foul play. 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 peach tree 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 seeing 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 dated. his name was sydney, weeks
Earlier he dumps heather. her exact words were sydney 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 s, 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. that was it, bree said. the last time she spoke with heather. it was news to terry. he d never heard about a sydney 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.
Year old heather elvis one december night in 2013 became an enduring mystery. i know that there is no way that has the would not come home if she could come home. no way. you don t realize how much somebody s face means to you until you can t see it anymore. a family anguished, clinging to hope, searching for answers. a journey that would consume them for years. one of my best friends came to the house and he looked at me and said, he said, i hope she didn t suffer. i can t get that thought out of my head. heather was born in 1993, the middle kid sandwiched between older brother chris and younger sister morgan.
this witness said sydney had a tattoo of tammy s name across his abdomen, his understanding was that tammy made sydney get it. the states theory was that that was tammy s way of saying your mind and you re never going to be anyone else is. the prosecutor says tammy had even chained sydney to the bed with handcuffs. i m not speaking figuratively, i m literally saying that she tied to the bed. but as angry as she was at sydney for cheating prosecutors say that tammy was furious with heather. she sent her several text, the prosecution said some of them are threats. heather was really afraid of tammy? she was. her friends had played a prank on her at work where they pretended to be tammy calling heather s phone, and she was absolutely terrified. and the prosecution said that if there was any doubt about the way tammy felt, just look at this nasty facebook post tammy had written after heather disappeared.