The Devil’s Triangle l 20/20 l PART 1

[Music] only a few miles from the dark swamps are these pristine beaches and the bustling boardwalks of the south carolina coast myrtle beach is about 75 miles of beach white sandy beaches very coastal local flying areas a lot of swamps and rivers and intercoastal waterway connection we have everything you'd want in a vacation destination we've got the beach we've got activities we've got shows we've got a lot of golf and tennis we get 20 million tourists a year we get a lot of transplants from the new york area new jersey and then we have locals as well who have been born and raised here the actual permanent population of myrtle beach is more like around 30 000 so this is still a really small town conway i think it catches a lot of people off guard i think they think myrtle beach is kind of all that's here i call it small town usa it's a nice little three block downtown everything's kind of that red brick that you picture when you drive in it's just got a slower feel than myrtle beach when i first came down to myrtle beach to report on this story one of the things that i noticed first was this great divide between the tourists who live on the coast and the locals who live west of the intercoastal inland and it was there that in december of 2013 a young woman just 20 years old heather elvis disappears when people talk about heather they smile because she was so full of personality she lit up a room when she walked in she was precious she had a wonderful life she has a beautiful life she lived it the way she wanted she made her choices the way she wanted we've always been a tight-knit family everybody does for everybody else i would describe heather as outgoing free spirit you know loving life she always wanted to live life to the fullest she loved makeup she wanted to be in front of the camera and behind the camera and design everything that she wore in front of the camera she didn't understand boundaries when it came to dreaming heather alphys worked at a restaurant a sports bar here called the tilted kilt [Music] tilted kill is an irish scottish version of hooters so the girls wear kilts it's like a sports bar so they have tvs everywhere they have a whole bunch of different beers on tap heather was a hostess at tilted kilt where i was a manager she was friendly to everybody she's always smiling she had a contagious laugh that i would love to hear again heather and i worked at tilted kilt together i actually helped her get that job i talked to the managers and said they should bring her on that she's a really great young woman and that she definitely she'd be a great addition to the team it wasn't the most appropriate of uniforms but at that age you do what you can to rebel against your parents heather really didn't give a crap what anybody thought about her she was a very free spirit and she expressed herself how she wanted to and she might have come off abrasive to some people but she was just she was very real it's funny because she looks like such a kid in those pictures she looks like she's tiny she was tiny she was just 20 years old i feel like i'm a short woman but she she made me feel tall she was very tiny and yet there was a big personality very good personality when you're young in myrtle beach you don't think that bad things are going to happen it came out of the blue no one expected this to happen but at about four a.m on december 18th that early morning an horry county police officer was on a routine patrol when he noticed that empty car in the parking lot he got out because it was suspicious that there's a car there this time of night there's no lights there's nobody around he gets out he checks the vehicle there doesn't appear to be anything out of the normal so he then gets back and continues patrolling the next day someone reported that car as a suspicious vehicle because of the length of time it had been sitting at pete's remote landing at that time officer canterbury goes down and sees the car runs the tag when he runs the tag he finds it belonged to terry elvis i think i was sitting in the living room and i had a knock at the door and debbie went to the door and i saw through the window that it was a county police officer and he was asking if we were missing a car and i remember both of us looking in the driveway no he says a green dodge intrepid oh yeah that's heather's car and then he goes on to explain that it's been found at peachtree landing apparently abandoned had keys to it and i said yeah he said let's write down and take a look by the time we got there it was dark and uh he pulled in had his lights on the back of the car and shined his spotlight on he says that is yeah so we got out here take a look mr elvis uh immediately suspected something was wrong he knew that that was his daughter's only mode of transportation it had no business being at that landing she never went to that landing i was just sitting there twiddling my thumbs and waiting calling heather's phone it was going straight to voicemail which is way out of character with heather i thought the car might have been stolen because anyway it was part maybe somebody took it and left it there it really didn't hit me where's heather until he started looking through things clothes art shoes purses makeup you name it was in her car but they don't find her phone they don't find her wallet they don't find a pocketbook i could see the worry on his face that's when i got worried after we looked inside the car he says let's look in the trunk i think even though i still thought the car was stolen i could feel my heart just drop hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Id: okE6aH-H2E4

Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021