- I can tell you just as an outsider, looking at the Twitter, which I didn't know existed
until all this went down, she's not right. She's not normal. I look 20, I partied
with bands constantly. I wasn't that kinda girl. And believe me, I had the friends to
make me that kinda girl and I didn't do it. So there's something not right with her. - [Officer] Like I said, we're just trying to get the bottom of it with her being missing. - [Sidney] And that's fine, that's fine. - [Officer] Hopefully she turns up. - [Sidney] That would be fantastic. 'Cause then everything's
like, okay, okay, she's fine. She disappeared. She ran off. She did whatever the hell she did. (suspenseful music) - [Narrator] When you're young, people often make bad choices, whether they are inconsequential and end in a hilarious story
to tell in years to come or mistakes that fill you with regret, but ultimately teach a lesson. With youth comes the idea of invincibility and the idea that bad choices will either be a story or lesson. For some of us, our bad
choices from our youth can haunt us today. But for an unfortunate few, those choices have much
graver repercussions. What is up EWU Crew? Today we are talking
about the shocking case of Heather Elvis and the choices that someone in the invincibility
of their youth can make that have unforeseen consequences. If you enjoy true crime,
mysteries, and true stories, be sure to hit the like
button and subscribe. Now let's get into it. In 2013, a 20-year-old Heather Elvis was working at The Tilted Kilt, a Celtic-themed bar in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Though her family often
described her as shy, the bar she worked for prides itself on hiring beautiful and
scantily dressed young women. The uniform was little more
than a plaid mini skirt and cropped white shirt. Heather tweeted almost
obsessively about her life, as so many others in their
20s were doing at the time. A family friend said of Heather, "She's at that age where
you're going into adulthood "and finding out who you are, "where you're going,
and what you wanna do. "Your horizon is so open. "And that was the essence of Heather." She was waiting tables at The Tilted Kilt to create an income and
start building her life. She had just applied and was hired to be a makeup artist at a local salon. In her tweets, she reveals
that she was incredibly bored with living in her hometown, but she was also full of life and eager to make something of herself. Perhaps it was a combination of boredom and need for excitement that led Heather to make some questionable choices. Still, she was likely too young to understand what she
was doing was dangerous, or if not dangerous, at
the very least reckless. While working at The Tilted
Kilt, Heather met Sidney Moorer, a 38-year-old married maintenance worker. He had been hired to service their industrial
refrigerators and freezers. Despite the age difference, her friends reported
that she was infatuated with Sidney Moorer from
the moment she met him, though they only saw each
other a few times a week during her shifts. Heather's best friend
and roommate at the time, Brianna Warrelmann, reportedly
said in an interview, "Heather was a very pretty young girl "and then you have this scruffy guy "with his hair in a ponytail. "I was like, Heather, are you sure? "Are you sure that's
what you wanna go after?" Heather had reassured her friends that she wanted to pursue
Sidney and even told them that he had an open marriage
with his wife, Tammy Moorer. She was certain that Tammy
even had a boyfriend herself outside of the marriage. Brianna was unconvinced saying, "She was under the assumption "that he was going to leave his wife "and that they were going to be together "and he loved her and he
wanted the same thing. "I looked at it as something "that could potentially blow up." It is always with hindsight
that we often find clarity. So it is only too bad that Heather didn't heed
her friend's warning. At some point between
June and July of 2013, Heather and Sidney started an affair. With Heather feeling so besotted that she started to tweet about him. On July 7th, she tweeted,
"One of these days, "I will drag that man into the mop closet "and have my way with him. "Lord have mercy." Only a few days later, her tweets started to imply that their relationship had escalated. By the 10th, she was tweeting, "You're almost as good as my shower. "Baby did a bad thing," and, "I'm in way too deep. "But watch me get deeper." However, Heather did appear to express some doubts over
the relationship on Twitter. On September 20th, she tweeted, "Once upon a time, an angel
and a devil fell in love. "It did not end well." On November 5th, she retweeted a tweet
from comedian Daniel Tosh. "Hey married fellas, "you can either cheat on your wife "or murder her, never both. "That's when you get caught." Sidney claims that he and
Heather were only together a few times, though Heather's
friends and coworkers said that Moorer would often show up at The Tilted Kilt, looking for Heather, bringing her bagels and coffee. Apparently he was even
considering making Heather a nanny for his children as a ploy
to bring his mistress along when he eventually moved to Florida. All of Sidney's plans ended abruptly when Tammy learned about
the illicit relationship in October, 2013. Whether the relationship
was a heated affair or a few late night hookups, all sources agree that
Tammy went ballistic when she found out about Heather. It seemed Sidney had been lying and they didn't have an open
marriage as he had claimed. Tammy had apparently forced
her husband of 15 years to call Heather, whom she referred to as
the little temptress, and end the affair. Brianna and Heather were sitting together when Heather got the
phone call from Sidney, which she answered readily. Brianna would later tell investigators that Sidney tore into Heather. He said she was nothing to him, that she was just someone
who spread her legs and that he had never
really cared about her. Heather was completely shattered. Brianna said the wife threatened Heather and called her over 60 times one day when Heather was at work. She told Heather, "If you don't
stop talking to my husband, "I'm going to come after you. "You're going to have problems with me." That's pretty much when it ended. Tammy ran a website devoted entirely to reporting on her family's
trips to Disney World and helping other people
plan their trips to Disney. From her in-depth posts on Facebook, one can see that she is
a deeply loyal woman, some might say possessive, who explicitly expected the
same from her family members. From the outside, Tammy doesn't seem like the kind of woman to endlessly harass and
denigrate a young girl, yet text messages show otherwise. She started relentlessly texting Heather, even though there is no evidence that Heather had tried
to reach out to Moorer after the affair ended, nor that Moorer had
tried to contact Heather. Messages from the phone Sidney used to contact Heather show that
Tammy had taken the phone to text Heather when she
first discovered the affair. The received texts are from Heather while the sent are from Sidney and Tammy. Most notable are the messages where Tammy explicitly threatens Heather. "Someone's about to get
their (beep) beat down. "Your (beep) is about
to take his last breath. "You can tell me who you are right now, "or I will find out another way. "That way won't have a
great turnout for you. "I'm giving you one last chance to answer "before we meet in person. "Only one." Even when Heather replied that she was, "Nobody you need to worry about anymore." Tammy continued to send
rage-filled messages, including a claim that she had her husband
followed since January, 2012. When Sidney recovered
his phone from his wife, he reassured Heather that his
wife didn't care about her and was only mad at him for lying. Heather told him, "You
knew what you were doing. "It was no mistake. "I understand this can't go anywhere. "I just wanna know that
your wife isn't going to "because I lost hours today
because they sent me home "after she keeps calling." A few days later, Tammy sent more threatening
messages to Heather. "Your (beep) needs to leave me alone. "Stop stalking me, you crazy (beep)." Even after Sidney ended the affair, Tammy continued to abuse Heather. Heather even says to Tammy, "I think you're a little
obsessed with me." She went so far as to take pictures of her and Sidney being intimate
and sent them to Heather. When Heather ignored
this harassing message, Tammy texted Heather again. "By the way, Dad no longer owns a phone." Here it seems that she is referring to her husband, Sidney, as Dad. In addition to abusing Heather, Tammy turned her rage on her husband. She reportedly handcuffed
Sidney to their bed so that he couldn't sneak
out and cheat on her again. She forced him to unlock his phone and she changed the password so that only she could open his phone. Anytime Moorer left the house, Tammy demanded to be with him so that she could monitor
everything he was doing. Though all of this is extreme, Tammy also forced Sidney to do
something even more bizarre. She manipulated him into
getting her name tattooed on his stomach. After all of this abuse, Tammy
started to feel satisfied that her husband was back under control. She then focused her energy
on harassing Heather again. She allegedly tried to get Heather fired from The Tilted Kilt, by calling and asking
to speak to the manager. She detailed the affair and told the staff that if Heather continued
to work at the restaurant, her husband would no longer come around to service their equipment. Even with all of this, by mid November, Brianna said that Heather told her that Sidney had called her and they were texting
back and forth again. Sidney and Tammy and their
children then went away to Orlando from November the
19th until December the 11th to enjoy an extended
Disney World vacation. With them gone, Heather's family reported that by early December, she was feeling much
better about the ending of her relationship with Sidney Moorer, though her tweets and
Brianna's testimony suggest that they may have
rekindled their romance. Heather had started her
new job at the salon and continued to work at The Tilted Kilt. But despite seeming to feel better, her coworkers at The
Tilted Kilt were concerned. Because of the revealing
outfits the girls wore while working, they had all noticed that Heather had been gaining a perceptible amount of weight. Her bra size had gone up so much that her manager had even asked her to take a pregnancy test, which Heather said had only shown an error and it was inconclusive. Heather did not appear to be as concerned about her weight gain as her friends. Instead, she was excited to
go on her first real date since her tumultuous
relationship with Sidney. On December 17th, she went on
a date with Stephen Schiraldi, who had gone to the
same high school as her. They went for dinner at
Banditos Restaurant and Cantina in Myrtle Beach before they stopped at a deserted mall parking lot and Stephen showed her how
to drive a stick shift. In the picture of Steven took of her, which Heather then texted to her father, it is clear that she was
having an enjoyable time. Then they went to Stephen's mother's home, where he lived, to watch a movie. Around 1:15 or 1:30 AM, Stephen dropped Heather
off at her apartment and they shared a good night kiss. Later, Stephen would acknowledge that he was likely the
last person to see Heather. Around this exact same time,
Sidney and Tammy returned to South Carolina from their vacation. At 1:35 AM on December 18th, Heather received a call from
a payphone at a gas station. She talked to whoever was on the line for about five minutes. After, Heather called the
payphone back nine times within 35 minutes, but no one answered. When she seems to give up, records show that Heather
immediately called her roommate who was away for the holidays. They briefly spoke for about two minutes and Brianna recalled that
Heather was extremely emotional and she was crying hysterically and couldn't get her words out. Heather told her, "He,"
Sidney, "Said he left his wife "and that he wants to see me. "He's sorry for what he said
and he wants to be with me. "I said, sleep on this and we
will talk about it tomorrow." This was the last time
Brianna heard from Heather. Later in the day on the 18th of December, Heather Elvis was reported missing. Piecing together what happened
that night is something that is still highly debated. The only real clues are
Heather's cell phone records and Sidney Moorer's testimony. At 1:12 AM, Sidney went into a Walmart and purchased a pregnancy test. He was caught on security cameras entering and leaving the Walmart with
the purchased test and a cigar. Sidney explained that he had
called Heather at 1:35 AM to tell her to leave him alone. The tower pings on
Heather's phone records show that in between 2:42 and 2:56 AM, the phone, and presumably Heather, were inside a restaurant
called Longbeard's. The phone leaves the
restaurant for a short time, but by 3:01 AM it
returns to the restaurant and stays there until 3:15 AM. At 3:15 AM, Heather's
phone leaves the restaurant to call Sidney's cell phone,
but he did not answer. Heather returns to her apartment and stays there until 3:25 AM. During this time, she
called Sidney's phone again, and someone answers. Whoever answered talked to Heather for just over four minutes. Sidney claims again that this
discussion was an attempt to get Heather to leave him alone. Heather then reportedly drove to the Horry Country Boat
Landing in Myrtle Beach. Phone records show that Heather, again, tried to call Sidney. It pings at the boat landing
near the Moorer house as she tried to call four more times between 3:25 and 3:42 AM. And then her phone is shut off. That is the last that
is ever heard or seen of Heather Elvis. A security camera mounted on a home near where the Moorers live shows a dark F-150
driving down their street towards the nearby boat landing. At 3:45 AM, the dark truck is seen again, driving on the Moorers' street, but this time away from the landing. Heather's abandoned car was
discovered near the boat landing the next day. But there was no sign of Heather. The car seemed to be
in pristine condition, locked, without any
personal items left inside. It was just sitting there, waiting for Heather to come back for it. When examined by Jill Domogauer, a Horry County police
crime scene investigator, she said that there were
no signs of a struggle. Once Heather was reported missing, the community of Carolina Forest
rallied to search for her. This search spanned not
just the Christmas holidays, but into New Year's too. Yet over that time, nothing useful was ever found to help understand what
had happened to Heather. The police first focused on Stephen, as he had likely been the
last person she was with before she vanished. Stephen had reported that he tried contacting
Heather the next day, as they had plans to see each other, but he never heard back. It wasn't until Brianna called him and told him that Heather
was missing that he knew. And so investigators eventually
cleared him of suspicion. It was only when the police started to investigate Heather's
cell phone records that the pieces of her
disappearance started to fall into place. They followed her movements
in those last few hours and reached out to Sidney Moorer, the man whose phone Heather
successfully called twice and tried to call several more times the morning of December 18th. The police actually spoken to
Sidney first on December 20th, at 2:15 AM, as he stood at
the end of his driveway. He was videotaped by the body cam worn by officer Kenneth Canterbury. In it, Sidney said he didn't go to the Peachtree Boat Landing, where Heather was last seen. Though, the video has poor quality. - [Sidney] (indistinct) I
don't wanna talk to you. Just call her out here. - [Narrator] He is heard saying, I'm trying to fix things with my wife. I'm not denying it. I'm saying I ended it. Sidney claimed that when he
ended things with Heather, he wanted to focus on his marriage, but that she had continued to call him. When suspicion turned towards
Sidney and Tammy Moorer, the police executed a search warrant, but came away with little, except for the couple's cell phones which contains several explicit pictures, but only of each other. Tammy was interviewed by the
police in January of 2014, more than a month after
Heather had gone missing. Tammy said about Heather,
"She's not right. "She's not normal. "I look 20. "I've partied with bands constantly. "I wasn't that kind of
girl and believe me, "I had the friends to
make me that kind of girl "and I didn't do it. "So there's something not right with her. - She's not right. She's not normal. I look 20. I partied with bands constantly. I wasn't that kinda girl. And believe me, I had the friends to
make me that kinda girl and I didn't do it. So there's something not right with her. - [Narrator] Regarding
her husband's relationship with Heather, Tammy said, "I had boyfriends. "We had an open marriage. "It's okay. "I could care less if he
had slept with 100 people, "it doesn't bother me." - You guys don't understand. I had boyfriends. We had an open marriage. That's okay. I could care less if he had 100 people. - [Officer] Okay, all right. - I mean, that doesn't really, it doesn't bother me. - [Narrator] Yet this statement
was in direct contrast to a text Tammy sent to
her friend in December that said, "I do not love him. "He betrayed me and I will
never, ever forgive or forget it. "Trust me, there's zero love on my end." On the day before Heather disappeared, Tammy sent another text message that read, "I just had someone cheat on me "that I thought was my soulmate. "You never know who will
screw you over in life. "I felt totally betrayed. "I'm better off without the liar. In his own interview with the police, Sidney had initially tried to deny that he called Heather on a payphone. - [Officer] Had you used
any other phones that night? Your wife's phone? - [Sidney] No. - [Officer] Did you
make any payphone calls? - [Sidney] No. - [Narrator] But he admitted
that he had called her when the police told him
that they had surveillance of him making the call. Sidney claimed, "I asked
her to please leave me alone "because she'd been
leaving notes on our car "when I was at work. "The first night I got back from vacation, "you need to call me." - [Sidney] No, I did
call her on the payphone. - [Officer] Okay, and what did you say? - [Sidney] I asked her
to please leave me alone, because she had been
leaving notes on her car. When I was at work. - [Narrator] Sidney's defensive
is weak and often strange. It is clear that he knows
the evidence against him and he attempts to explain his actions the night Heather vanished. In an audio recording of Sidney's first interview
with police, HCPD John Martin, Sidney says that on the night
of Heather's disappearance, he was with his wife. - [Sidney] Ever since me and
Heather ended our relationship, well, I ended it. Ever since that was ended, my wife found out and all of that went on. My wife's been, she goes to work with me. We do everything together. We don't split up. - [Narrator] Sidney relates in detail that on the night Heather vanished, he says his wife had been
drinking at home before they left. So that Sidney could go to
work at 9:00 to 9:30 PM, before driving all around
town when he finished working. Buying the pregnancy test, getting gas for the truck
and making the payphone call, before returning home at 2:00 to 3:00 AM, Sidney then explains that his
wife had taken her clothes off and put on her robe and he
was no longer wearing socks, trying to make it clear
that they had not gone out for the rest of the night. - [Sidney] We were home and
my wife had gotten undressed and all, she was in
her gown and everything and I had shoes and socks and all off. - [Narrator] To explain
the pregnancy test, he claims he and his wife
were trying to have a baby, even though his wife was
in her 40s at the time. - [Officer] Did you? - [Sidney] I'm almost positive I got a pregnancy test that night. I don't know if it was in that order. - [Officer] For your wife? - [Sidney] Yes. - [Narrator] Sidney is adamant
that Heather had pursued him, that she had been the
one to get his number before she started calling him. He claimed that he had no idea how she got the number, though he asserts that she had still been the one pursuing him in December. On the night she vanished,
he admits he was the one to contact Heather first and that she had been leaving
him alone at that point. - [Sidney] That's why
I called her that night from the payphone. - [Officer] Okay. - [Sidney] Please, can
you stop, just stop. - [Officer] Okay, how long
was that conversation? - [Sidney] A minute and
a half, two minutes. - [Officer] Or maybe four minutes maybe. - [Sidney] I guess it
could have been that long. - [Officer] Okay, it
doesn't take four minutes to tell her stop, leave me alone. - [Sidney] Well, no. And I mean, she, you know,
talked back and said, hey, you know, what's
the problem type thing. And I'm like, just leave me alone please. I said, I know you're leaving notes and I know you've been by my house. - [Officer] But she wasn't. I mean, she was leaving you alone tonight or that night, right? You kinda instigated conversation. - [Sidney] No, that night, yes. - [Officer] Yeah. - [Narrator] This is where he
clarifies he had called her to tell her to please leave me alone. He even says he was being intimate with his wife before and
after he had called Heather on the payphone. - [Sidney] That the
first time I was able to. - [Officer] And what prompted that? Like, I mean, you're having with your wife and what prompted you to contact her? - [Narrator] When the
interviewer points out that this is odd behavior, he explains that he was trying
to stop the whole situation. - [Sidney] Because I was trying to stop the whole situation. - [Officer] Okay, 'cause
she was with someone at that point, one of her friends. - [Sidney] Okay. - [Officer] One of her female friends. I don't know. Stephanie or, she's got a bunch of 'em. They probably all dress- And she said she got the call and you were talking about
wanting to get up with her again. 'Cause you were gonna leave your wife. And I mean, we're- - [Sidney] My wife is with me. - [Officer] Where was your
wife when you called her? - [Sidney] Sitting in the truck. - [Officer] Okay, so she
wasn't sitting next to you? - [Sidney] No, but I
mean my wife was with me. - [Officer] Did your wife know that you were going to call her? - [Sidney] No. - [Officer] But she saw you on the phone? - [Sidney] I don't know if she did or not, 'cause I know she was
texting one of her friends. - [Officer] What did
you tell your wife you were going to do? - [Sidney] I told her I was runnin' into the store real quick. - [Officer] Okay, where did you park? - [Sidney] Like across the street. - [Officer] So you
didn't park at the store. You parked across the
street from the store? - [Sidney] Yeah, like right across. - [Officer] So you got
gas or you didn't get gas? - [Sidney] I did get gas. Well, I did get gas, but I got
it at the one at the corner. - [Officer] Okay, the other store. - [Sidney] Right. - [Officer] And then you ran
across to a different store and used the phone- - [Sidney] Right. - [Officer] To call and say
leave me alone to a woman- - [Sidney] Yes. - [Officer] Who hasn't contacted you. You need to start over. Yeah, let's start over though 'cause- 'Cause that ain't flyin', boss. - [Sidney] What do you
mean it ain't flyin'? - [Officer] Because I
can't see you running across the road- - [Sidney] Literally, I ran across- - [Officer] To another street. - [Sidney] Literally,
right across the street. - [Officer] Why? - [Sidney] To use the phone, to tell her. - [Officer] Why didn't you
call off your cellphone? - [Sidney] Because I didn't want my wife to know I was calling her. - [Officer] To tell
her to leave you alone. That's what doesn't make- - [Sidney] Yes, 'cause me
and my wife discussed that there was no contact.
- [Officer] What I think is, I think you called her, I
think you called her and said, 'cause you were pissed off
at your wife about something and called her and- - [Sidney] I haven't been
mad at my wife in two months, over anything.
- [Officer] Okay. Well, the friend that was
sitting next to Heather said that you made comments about not wanting to be with your wife anymore. And maybe it was just something you wanted to get off your chest to Heather,
but that's what she heard. 'Cause Heather's like said, or she said, Heather's eyed opened up, like maybe things are gonna work again. - [Sidney] Well, I'm not leaving my wife. - [Officer] Well, did you
say something like that that made her think that?
- [Sidney] I had no intention on leavin' my wife, ever.
- [Officer] But did you say something maybe thought
that you were wanting to start up a relationship again? - [Sidney] I did not. - [Officer] You didn't say anything. And so she was confused
about what she heard. - [Sidney] I guess so. - [Narrator] In a few instances, Sidney seems to implicate Tammy, before retracting his
words and rephrasing. - [Sidney] Well, the
officer said last night, and that's what kinda weirded me out too, that there had been 300
and some odd text messages between my phone and her
phone in the past 30 days. I mean, there's no way. Unless my wife's been talkin' to her and I doubt very seriously that my wife's been talkin' to her. - [Officer] On your phone?
- [Sidney] Right. - [Narrator] Sidney even
go so far as to suggest that the police may be framing him, as they had his truck for 11 days and that he doesn't believe
that the day and time in the video evidence of the truck going to the docks are accurate. When asked if Tammy had met Heather, Sidney says that the two women had talked and planned to meet up,
but Heather never showed. - [Officer] Had she ever met her? - [Sidney] No.
- [Officer] Never seen her, never met her? - [Sidney] No, and then the following day, I told my wife what was going on and my wife actually talked to her and they had planned a
meeting and she didn't show up for the meeting. - [Narrator] He claims
Tammy was trying to find out what had actually happened
because he had lied to her. - [Sidney] And she was just trying to, my wife was just trying to
find out exactly what happened. That's all she was trying to find out, 'cause I lied to her, didn't tell her. - [Narrator] In a later
TV interview in 2019, Sidney says that Tammy
and Heather had spoken and he implies there was no animosity, though text messages prove otherwise. He says that Tammy had wanted
Heather to accompany her to an attorney to help her
get a divorce from him. Sidney says he was shocked when his wife had been
arrested alongside him. But it was Tammy's own behavior that led to her falling under suspicion. Tammy was seen on surveillance video just a few days after
Heather went missing, suspiciously, searching her
yard with a hand mirror. She inspects a fountain
from top to bottom, using the mirror to
see it from all angles. In another surveillance video, Tammy and Sidney are seen
cleaning out their truck in the days just after
Heather disappeared. They can be seen at the
top left of the video. Both instances are strange and suspicious, as it is very unusual to ever
use a mirror to inspect a yard and very coincidental to clean a vehicle immediately
after Heather vanished. Neither Sidney nor Tammy
gave very good explanations to the investigators as to what could have happened to Heather. Sidney even said he hoped she turned up because, "That would be fantastic, "because everything's
like, oh, she's fine." Sidney said. - [Officer] Like I said, we're just tryin' to get to the bottom,
with her being missing. Hopefully she turns up. - [Sidney] That's fine, that's fine. That would be fantastic
because then everything's like, oh, okay, she's fine. She disappeared. She ran off. She did whatever the hell she did. - [Narrator] Both Sidney
and Tammy were arrested for kidnapping a month
after their interviews, two months after Heather vanished, and the recordings were used
as evidence in the case. Prosecutors believed that Sidney and Tammy both
lured Heather that night down to the boat landing, where phone records and
camera footage place them. Initially, both Sidney
and Tammy were charged with murder and kidnapping. The murder charges were later dropped as there wasn't enough evidence. In Sidney's case, the jury was unsure of his guilt. 10 wanted to convict, but two were just not sure that
the circumstantial evidence was strong enough to
send a father to prison for the rest of his life. They were hung and the
judge declared a mistrial. Tammy, however, did not get off so easily. The prosecution gave themselves more time to build up the case against her. And they had far more evidence
of her hatred for Heather, especially given her history of violent and controlling behavior. The keystone of the state's case was a vile Facebook
message Tammy had sent one of her friends after Heather disappeared. She called the girl a psycho (beep). She said that Heather's Twitter
and Tumblr were evidence that she was crazy. During the ensuing trial,
Tammy Moorer was referred to by prosecutors as the evil
queen from Snow White, as she had grown increasingly jealous of her husband's
relationship with Heather. Senior assistant solicitor
Nancy Livesay said, "When you mix jealousy, deceit, "and just an absolute crazed woman, "so worried about Heather
stealing her husband, "that is when unnatural things happen." In the end, the jury agreed. They felt the record of her text messages, her incessant calling The Tilted Kilt and Heather's movements during
the last hours of her life were enough to prove that
Tammy had kidnapped Heather. Tammy was sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping and conspiracy, while Sidney was charged
to serve a 10-year sentence for obstructing justice in the case. After the sentencing, Heather's family were
asked how they felt knowing that both Sidney and
Tammy were behind bars. Morgan Elvis, Heather's sister said, "It's been so long and all of a sudden, "something final has happened "and you don't really
know what to do next. "Nothing changes. "Heather's not home. "If anything, things are worse "because it's not just one
family that's ripped apart. "It's two." As of February, 2019, Sidney is waiting for a retrial
on his kidnapping charge, Sidney and Tammy's attorney, Eric Poston, has said that they plan to file a lawsuit in federal court against
the law enforcement involved in the case, as well as specific
law enforcement officials. They will also be suing Facebook and others who were involved in what they are calling
coordinated harassment. He claims that the Moorers
were lynched by the community and they were publicly convicted before they had a chance
to tell their story. In a tear-filled 2016 interview, Sidney claims that he has
been shot at while driving and his kids are being threatened online. The Moorers attorney says, "We've had to do with
the police didn't do, "actually investigate. "It's going to be incredibly
humiliating for the police." Which he says will be worth it if it gets two innocent
people out of prison and replaces them with the real criminals. "If it finally produces justice
for Heather, and it will." Today, many wonder of
Heather Elvis was pregnant at the time of her disappearance, hinted to by her noticeable weight gain and Sidney's purchase of a pregnancy test. A pregnancy could very
well have been the catalyst in her disappearance, but
her father, Terry Elvis, had said he couldn't say for sure whether or not Heather was
pregnant when she went missing. And so we may never know for sure. That is, unless her body is finally found. Other online conversations indicate that many people believe
that Sidney lured Heather to the dock and either
helped his wife murder and hide her body or that
perhaps Tammy had caught them and killed Heather herself,
making Sidney her accomplice. It has also been pointed
out that, during the trial, Tammy had a very emotional
reaction to seeing Morgan Elvis as the sisters look a lot alike. Some view this reaction
as an admission of guilt and that Tammy had initially thought she was looking at Heather, the girl she had kidnapped
and possibly murdered. What really happened to
Heather remains a mystery, as Sidney and Tammy have
retained that they are innocent and refuse to give any
closure to her family. For now, her friends and
family simply have to wait and hope that her body will be found and then they will finally have answers. Heather's father, Terry Elvis, has said, "We're not giving up. "Everything else takes a back seat. "It really does. "Life does not go on. "People around you, their life goes on, "but you're still stuck. "You're holding on to the hope."
