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>> she is and will always be my sister. i don't know what happened to her. i don't get to say goodbye. it is awful. it makes your whole world fall apart. >> if you took her, please, just let her come home. >> her name is heather elvis. it was news nationwide when she vanished. >> she had a new job. she was going on a first date. >> it is is also overwhelmingly horrible. >> police worked the cruise -- clues. a mysterious caller captured on camera. >> why would this person call from a pay phone in the middle of the night quick >> then came the secret. >> she was married. >> rumors about her being pregnant. >> she truly did believe that he was going to leave his wife. >> a bomb exploded. it was world war iii. >> this kidnapping, potential

murder. >> this is heather's life we are talking about. >> terrifying. when you see your parents hurting, you wish you could take all of their pain away. >> [ crying ] >> it wasn't supposed to be like this. >> that's impossible. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ an independent, young woman eager to make >> hello, welcome to dateline. heather elvis was charging into her future. an independent young woman, eager to make her mark on the world. one night, she disappeared. investigators would quickly discover a love triangle and thought they had their motive. there was a big question that the family still needed answered. where was heather? here is the landing. myrtle beach south carolina. vacation heaven. 60 miles of instagram where the

sand answer. and thrills at every turn. but leave the tourist behind in inland a mere 20 minutes. it is tranquil. the trees are draped. there is a boat landing here with the fancy name, petri landing. >> you don't get a lot of that in small town. when you find a spot, i mean, you go all the time. >> what happened here to heather elvis one december night in 2013 became an enduring mystery. >> i know there is no way that heather would not come home if she can 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 anguish, clinging to hope, searching for answers. a journey that would consume

them for years. >> one of my friends came to the house. he looked at me. he said, i hope she didn't suffer. i can't get that thought from my head. >> heather was born in 1993. the middle kit sandwiched between her older brother, chris, and younger sister, morgan. as morgan remembers, heather would never let a label to find her. >> she wasn't really a girly girl or a tomboy. she was somewhere in between. she would drive four wheelers and play volleyball. shoot paintball guns. then she would turn around, put on the dress. and though, you know, look beautiful photos. >> her parents, debbie and -- evers. she drew all the time,

decorating the family house with her doodles. >> everywhere you went in the house, there was some kind of writing, some kind of drawing, some kind of doodle. >> so her brain is working overtime? >> constantly. >> it would have little sticky notes all over the top part of the desk. the one that sits right in front of my face, in her handwriting, heather is amazing , with a little heart on it. >> and heather was amazing when it came to cosmetology. in a way that only sibling scan, she sparked morgan's interest in it, too. >> she said, cosmetology was hers. i was not allowed to have it, and i did it anyway. that is kind of what sisters do. don't tell me no, because i would do it anyway. >> after graduation from high school in 2011, heather began working at a local pub where

she became a hostess. breanna, known as bree, worked with her there. >> she would walk them back to the table, already have them laughing, having the conversation. >> bree shared almost everything with heather, including her apartment. when heather confided that she didn't always see eye to eye with her parents, that was hardly unusual for a young woman determined to make her own way. >> they loved each other dearly. i think they knocked heads. heather wanted to explore. >> asked for boyfriends, bree watched heather go through ups and downs. just recently, she emerged from an older -- difficult relationship with an older man. >> you don't just fall out of love like that. as much as sometimes, we wish we could. >> on december teeth -- 17th, everything was falling into place for heather elvis.

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andrea canning: heather elvis' parents didn't know what to think. two days earlier, their daughter had been didn't know what to think. two days earlier, their daughter had been all smiles out on a date. now, a policeman was at their door, finding her car abandoned. >> the officer said, do you have any spare keys? i said, yes. he said, grab them. let's go take a look at it. >> her mom tried calling her phone. >> it was going straight to voicemail. it wasn't ringing. >> once we pulled up, you could see, the car was sitting, facing the water. >> he took us there, explaining what the officer showed him that night. >> he shined a spotlight on the back of the car, checked the tag. >> it was his daughter's dodge.

right away, terry could see something was off. >> instead of being this way, the car was turned this way. basically taking the two, possibly three parking spaces. >> he stopped, he put on gloves. he handed me a pair. he said, just to be on the safe side. >> terry elvis couldn't understand it. the last time he heard from heather was when she sent that photo from her date. she was fine. now she was nowhere to be found. he was searching her abandoned car. >> on the center console, her driver's license was there. >> that's weird. >> a couple of other business cards, identification cards. but there were no keys. >> that is when the officer said something that made his heart skip a beat. >> he said, let's take a look in the trunk. i went back, i turned the key, he said, let me open it. i said, just let me lifted.

>> he held his breath as he laid to his daughters trunk popped open. >> were you worried? >> i was scared to death to open the trunk. we both looked in, it was fine. there was nothing there. >> there was plenty of clutter, no signs of foul play. at that point, bree had gotten word that her best friend heather was missing. >> i called her dad, who was with police at the time at peachtree. he had asked when the last, talked to heather was. >> bree told the two men that heather had called from their apartment a day earlier around 1:30 a.m. tuesday, fresh from her date. she was saying, i had an amazing date. i'm supposed to see him tomorrow when he gets off work. >> the bree said heather didn't want to chat about the new guy. she was upset about a call she got from the older man she once dated. weeks earlier, he dumped heather.

>> her exact words, sydney called me. i was like, well what did he say? she said, he said he wanted to be with me and see me. >> bree told her friend not to do anything rash. >> she was like, you know what, you're right. i will get some sleep. i love you. we both say we love you when we hang up. and that was it. >> that was it. the last time she spoke to heather. that was news to terry. 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 her car and head home. his relief was short-lived. he told the wife about her

checking into the hospital. >> she knows it is expensive. she would have called me and said, hey, 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, one relative cleared at the hospital mystery. >> we found out that the heather that was in the hospital is my cousin's daughter, named the same thing. we did had the middle name. just the first and last. >> what are the odds? that it is a heather elvis at the same time going to the hospital? >> it was puzzling. >> so where was their heather? confusion was turning into fear? >> it felt like something was wrong. >> her sister morgan arrived home. >> had they told you what was going on? >> they hadn't. i just kind of picked that what was going on through conversation.

>> that heather -- >> was nowhere to be found. >> that is where it retraced -- dawned on them, they could retrace. she was still on their family friend plan. >> i ended up going online to our cell phone provider. they pulled of the information. they emailed it to us. >> they can see the most recent calls their daughter made and received after her call to bree. heather dialed another number several times. >> these early-morning calls? >> and i'm like, whose number is this? >> the worried parent suddenly found themselves playing detective in the real case of their missing daughter. >> we google the number, trying to go out what they want to. >> and they got the hint. belonged to a man named sidney. they figured that had to be the ex-boyfriend bree had mentioned earlier. >> he was like, i want to call him. i said, you can call someone in

the middle of the night. >> he did anyway. on the other end, a man answered. the way terry recalled, the man was not happy. >> i said, you don't know me, but i'm heather's father. heather elvis. before i could get the next word out, i'm getting cursed out left and right. >> cursing about what? >> nothing. just cursing. like, don't [ bleep ] call me. i don't know what you are talking about. i don't know this person. >> that is a very odd reaction. >> that's what i thought. >> the man who had dated their daughter was denying he had ever heard of her. as the hours tick by, terry and debbie grew more anxious. they knew calling family and friends wasn't enough. they needed a new plan to find their missing daughter. coming up, two new on chemical use. someone at a pay phone. >> it appears this is someone she knows. >> right.

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heather elvis, a missing person. >> volunteers kept searching for the 20-year-old. >> heathers desperate parents called and everyone to scour the area. they printed out flyers. >> there wasn't a storefront that didn't have one or two flyers. and then they were in georgia, tennessee, florida. >> they posted please online for information. >> is heather alive? >> my heart tells me that my daughter is alive. >> and national, including dateline: missing in america digital series. >> there is this hole that we all, the family, just feel. >> and a witness to their anguish was another daughter, morgan. >> i can probably count on one hand how many times i've seen my dad cry.

>> [ crying ] >> and to see something like that make sure whole world fall apart. >> police quickly turned their attention to heather's new guy, the man who had been with her on a date that night. his alibi, that he dropped her at her apartment. it checked out. >> he is cooperated with law enforcement. he is not listed as a pertinent -- person of interest. >> but what about the old boyfriend, sydney? 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 has a notch -- much, if not more than she flirted with him. it was mutual. >> bree said the two met that spring at the tilted kilt, the pub where she was a maintenance -- hostess. >> you can tell that he cared

about her. just a little things, the calls, the text, checking on her at work. >> there was a big problem. sydney was married, although heather didn't seem to mind. >> heather had in her head that he was going to leave his wife. she swore up and down. >> bree knew that would never happen. sure enough in 2013, sydney's wife got news of the affair. he broke things off with heather. >> it hurt her. it hurt me to see her go through that. >> sydney told police he was home the night sydney -- heather disappeared. police went back to her phone records where they saw the call to sydney. they also found a mysterious number they had never called heather before. investigators traced it to a payphone at a gas station. a security camera was pointed right at it. >> this random pay phone number

called heather's phone. called it once. it lasted about four minutes. she actually tried to call that number back multiple times. >> marissa from nbc affiliate covered the case. >> it appears this is someone she knows. if she is having a conversation lessening that long and repeatedly calling back. >> right. >> was it sydney? they pulled the footage. >> you can see somebody walk up to the payphone and placed a call to heather elvis. >> police wondered if that somebody was sydney. they asked him to come in for another round of rationing. if he had been home, what was he doing get a payphone calling heather? he finally fessed up. >> sydney told them in an interview with police, i made that phone call to heather. >> investigators began to build the timeline from her phone. at 1:35 a.m., sydney called

heather from the payphone. nine minutes later at 1:44, heather called her friend, bree. between 2:29 and 3:05, heather called the payphone nine times, but no one answered. her phone did connect to his cell phone for 4 minutes, and then from 4:25 to 4:37, her phone was in the car. but where was sidney at that time? police didn't know. that is until a woman told police her home had a security camera. perhaps she thought it captured something around the time of heather's disappearance. >> around 3:30 in the morning on december 18th, you can see a dark pickup truck go by her home. >> police believe it was sidney's truck . it was a huge break. police thought that they could now place heather elvis in her car, and sidney moore in his truck, heading for peachtree landing at the same time.

>> soon after that, her phone goes dead, and nobody ever heard from her again. >> it was 3:42 in the morning. police now had a theory. somehow, heather had become a problem for sidney, so he lowered her to the landing and killed her. and there was more. investigators believe sidney and heather weren't alone. someone else was at the landing. ♪ ♪ >> coming up, who was that mystery person at the landing? and why would anyone want to harm heather? >> the fire, the jealousy explodes into utter rage. >> when dateline continues. ♪ ♪ tinues. ♪ ♪

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president biden and first lady jill biden released a statement extending their condolences to loved ones and families. don't forget, daylight savings time begins at 2:00 a.m. sunday. you would need to spring forward one hour on your clocks. for now, back to dateline. ♪ ♪ welcome back to dateline. andrea canning. what happened to heather elvis? the 20-year-old vanished in the middle of the night. investigators believe that heather's ex-boyfriend, sidney moore, had arranged to meet her at us with spot. they thought he might've had help. please continue to methodically piece together the puzzle. heather's family was grappling with their new reality. once again, here is the landing. terry elvis wasn't exactly sure when he realized his daughter

probably wasn't coming home. maybe it was the afternoon, long after she disappeared, when he was standing at his mailbox talking to his best friend. >> one of my best friends came to the house. he looked at me. he said, -- he said, i hope she didn't suffer. i can't get that thought out of my head. >> [ crying ] >> the not knowing made it worse. and then stunning news. two months after heather's disappearance, sidney moore, heather's ex-boyfriend, was arrested. he didn't go to jail alone. he was joined by his wife, tammy moore. both were charged with the kidnapping and murder. >> was the surprising to people? they have three children. now they were involved in the potential murder? >> yes.

it is something you see on a dateline episode. not a story line that matches up with the people who have three children. are supposed to be happily married. >> in an interview, tammy told us her happy was -- family was a happy one. >> our kids came first before anyone. >> tammy homeschooled the kids. they enjoyed cookouts together. >> i hated the things he done. >> tammy found the affair upsetting, but quickly got over it. within a day or two, she had a nice conversation with heather on the phone. >> i said, i'm not mad at you. she said, well, and then she told me the stuff they had done, and what happened. >> prosecutors it in by tammy story for one minute, but they had to drop the murder charges. after all, they didn't have a body. >> how did that feel?

>> there is some tiny bit of justice in the world for a brief moment. and then all of a sudden, it was like it never happened. >> but it wasn't over yet. it was only just beginning. both sidney and tammy still face kidnapping charges. sidney was first. his summer began -- trauma game -- trial began in the summer. the case was circumstantial. there was no physical evidence. they argue those surveillance videos and phone records proved the last person to talk and meet up with heather was sidney. however, the jury deadlocked. >> a mistrial has been declared in this case against sidney moore. >> the prosecution didn't give up. when it came time for tammy's trial, they came up with the bold new strategy. they found out that tammy had not only been the partner in

prime crime, she was the mastermind calling the shots. >> they believed she was the brains behind this 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. >> a fire jealousy was lit in the defendant. she was livid, she was angry. >> 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 moore explodes into utter rage. >> 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. >> sidney had a tattoo of

tammy's name across his abdomen. his understanding was that tammy made sidney get it. >> that was tammy's way of saying, you are mine. you will never be anyone else's. >> the prosecutor said tammy had even chained him to the bed . >> i'm speaking literally. she trains him to the bed tonight. >> prosecutors say tammy was furious with heather. she had sent her several texts. the prosecution that some of them were threats. >> heather was really afraid of tammy. >> she was. her friends had played a prank on her where they pretended to be tammy, calling heather's phone. she was absolutely terrified. >> the prosecution said that there was any doubt about the way tammy felt, just look at this nasty facebook post tammy had written after heather disappeared, calling her a psycho

>> she could have said, oh, i'm sorry, this goes missing. no. she goes on the attack. tammy has the motive. she is the hunter. >> he told the jury that he used cell phone data to track the movement. in days before the disappearance, they showed up near her workplace, some of the bars she liked, even at home. they suggest that the couple was stalking her. and the prosecutor said the couple struck. it began here. the prosecutor showed the surveillance video. and taking a pregnancy test for heather. >> as soon as they leave for walmart, they go and call her. why? >> the prosecution's theory was that sidney had called heather

to get the test, take you, then make up with him later at the landing. they said was she didn't do was that tammy would be there, too. >> sidney is the bait. he is the bait. >> they couldn't say what happened to heather at the landing, but they asked the jury to use their common sense. showing the jury a photo of items left on the property. >> there is a bag of concrete mix here. and some type of cleaning solution. >> the prosecution suggested it was not unless the kidnapping kit. what they needed to -- >> how hard was it being in the courtroom every day, having to see tammy? >> most days when i woke up, i didn't want to come to the

trial. when you see your parents hurting, you wish you could take their pain away. >> [ n sicrying ] >> i mean, it's impossible. that you can do small things. you can sit with them, you can hold their hands when you need it. >> after seven days of testimony, the prosecution rested. the defense announced that tammy would testify her defense. as hard as it might be to listen, that was something morgan didn't want to miss. coming up -- >> did you kidnap heather elvis? >> no, i did not. >> tammy moore on the standing on the offensive. >> there are answers to this mystery. they refuse to solve it. when dateline continues. ine co.

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of 7 moisturizers awelcome back.. sidney moorer's trial for the kidnapping of heather elvis welcome back. sidney moore's trial for the kidnapping of heather elvis and it was the jury deadlocked. now his wife tammy was in court charged with the same crime. prosecutors painted tammy as a vindictive. this was after limited 20 world was having an air with her has. tammy was about to take the stand and would present a very different tory. here again is the landing. ♪ ♪

tammy moore said her kids should have been tackling homework and hanging with friends. instead, they were sitting in a courtroom, watching her be accused of a terrible crime. >> tammy is the one with the motive. she is the hunter. >> nobody deserves this. >> tammy believes she was being victimized by this prosecutor. >> heather is not getting justice by putting an innocent person in jail. she never will. >> nothing from the beginning, tammy was just vague indignant she was even charged with this. >> they cannot prove to you that anybody named moore ever went to the boat landing. >> the defense told the jury to look at the evidence, or lack thereof it, starting with heather's car. >> the vehicle did not indicate that anything occurred.

>> the police officer testified he couldn't find any evidence of a struggle. investigators and -- found no trace of a struggle inside the home either. they said they couldn't tell whether it actually was their truck caught on camera. >> you have low image, low resolution surveillance video. you absolutely cannot draw any conclusion beyond the fact that that may be a certain make and model. >> this video did not pass the test for you. >> you didn't even get off an older, okay another piece, the cell phone data that seem to suggest that they had been stocking heather. >> i would say you could compare their productivity to anybody else's who lived and worked in the area. where the nightclubs are, the restaurants. it would appear that i was

stalking her as well if you just looked it were my phone went. >> with the jury really needed to understand was a simple fact . no piece of evidence put tammy at the landing. if anything, her alibi placed her miles away. >> the children, that they stay in the house with the? >> yes. >> tammy sister ashley told the court she was babysitting tammy's kid. she said tammy and sidney went out together in the hours leading up to the disappearance. ashley remembered when her sister came home. >> she texted me that night, saying she was home. >> the remember that time? >> the beginning of their:00 in the morning. i believe it was 3:10. >> it was a timestamp, proving she was home well before heather went missing. that wasn't all. both of their phones were on,

pinging from their house. not from the landing. some days, she wished she hadn't come to court. that all changed during a crucial moment in the trial. >> when i found out tammy was going to testify, i really wanted to be there. i do look like heather. she ran into me in the hallway. it was the first time she had ever really made eye contact and then up close with me. i could hear her audibly gasped. >> when she took the stand, she seemed confident. she told the jury she wasn't a ruthless kidnapper. she was a mom. she >> reporter: on my youngest is on the far left. >> she was a wife who found that her husband was cheating on her. initially, she texted the other woman's phone number to find out who she was. >> they were never directed toward heather.

they were directed towards the mystery person. >> tammy said the only reason she was angry with sidney because he wasn't forthcoming. in their marriage, they had an arrangement. >> i said it was a good idea to have an open marriage for little bit. the only thing i ask of you is to be honest with me. sidney wasn't honest with me. that is why got angry with sidney. >> she said when heather went missing, they were working on their marriage, even hoping to get pregnant. that test was for her, not heather. also, she denied that she made sidney get a tattoo as punishment. she said he had gotten that long before he met heather. she had an answer about the handcuffs, also. >> did you ever handcuff him, and leave with the keys? >> no, i did not. sidney is a strong man. he can get out of anything. >> and sidney said she needed

the concrete work. and the shotgun shell? probably just a spent casing from a turkey hunt. >> did you kidnap heather elvis? >> no, i did not. >> do you know who kidnapped her? >> i cannot. >> can you tell people what happened? what you did do and didn't do? >> i want people to know the truth. >> tammy has said that she wants to find heavy -- heather. she actually like heather. she didn't do this. and yet she goes on facebook calling her a psycho . which is it? >> you know, i can't really explain every day that tammy said, or felt. i think it was a huge mistake to call her names, do that sort of thing. >> he said it tammy had kidnapped heather, why would she be writing nasty facebook

post about her. they listen to her testimony about heather with discuss. >> it was so offensive to hear her name come out of that woman's mouth. >> you sat there so quietly in the courtroom. did you just want to scream? >> it was infuriating, some of the things she said >> the trial is far from over. it was the prosecutors turn to question tammy. the prosecutor wasn't going to hold any punches. coming up, fireworks in the courtroom. >> this is a story about jealousy and deceit. >> they don't have one fiber, one teardrop, one piece of the shoelace! >> high stakes in the jury room. >> the jury has reached a verdict. >> one dateline continues. ine .

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welcome back. tammy moorer's defense argued there song welcome back. tammy moore defense argued there was nothing linking her to the kidnapping of heather elvis. in fact, she seemed to have an alibi placing her miles away. tammy told her story on the stand. now, it was the prosecution's turn to question her. they came on with more of tammy's text messages.

sparks were about to fly. now, the conclusion of the landing. when tammy moore took the stand in her own defense, she sailed through her direct testimony, but then can't prosecutor nancy. >> do you know who i am? >> i do. >> okay, and who am i? >> nancy. you've made my life miserable. >> but she was just getting started. the mission, to show the jury that she was nearly the tolerant wife she claimed to be. the prosecutor argued she was angry, vengeful. and her text to heather proved it. >> you texted her, you can tell me who you are right now. tell me who you are, or i will find out another way. >> how old are you? >> i think 41 or 42. >> okay, and do you know now

she was a 20-year-old girl? >> i know now, i didn't know then. >> they said that she act like a stalker. >> isn't that what you said? >> if it is on there. >> here's my question to you, how many times have you gone up there to believe? it certainly leaves the impression. >> never. >> what makes you think that? >> i was as being a jerk it's time i guess, nancy. that's all we can say. >> have we ever met outside this courtroom? okay. >> i just didn't know we got on the first name basis. >> after 10 days and more than 40 witnesses, each side wrap that. >> this is a story about jealousy and deceit.

and this story has been around for a long, long time. >> the prosecution driving home it's case that tammy had motive to kidnap heather elvis. >> they don't have one fiber, one teardrop, one piece of salt, one piece of us shoelace at the defense -- peer landing. >> what with the jury do? >> i understand that the jury has reached a verdict. >> it soldier is less than four hours to reach a verdict. >> we find the defendant, tammy moore, guilty of kidnapping. >> guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. two counts. in court, tammy took it stoically. later, she was emotional. i told my kids that if a verdict came in, i was going away. because i know that is what it would be. >> the elvis' got the verdict

they wanted. but it wouldn't bring heather back. >> it didn't change the big picture. >> you expected to feel good, to be a victory. it doesn't feel like that at all. >> the only thing i saw was another family getting torn apart. >> and those children sitting behind their mom. >> yeah. i have first-hand a family getting torn apart. i wouldn't wish that on anybody. >> tammy moore was sentenced to 30 years. her husband was jailed in 2013, convicted of obstruction of justice for lying to police. in the state wasn't done with sidney moore. in december of 2019, prosecutors retried him on those kidnapping charges. this time, he was convicted. and like tammy, received the 30 year term. as for them, they are in the same place they were when their

daughter went missing. hoping that one day they will get answers. the woman had so many years ahead of her. >> what would you say to heather? >> if i could talk to her right now? >> if that little sliver of home is -- help is out there. i will bring you home. >> we've said it every time, we are not giving up. we would never give up. >> it doesn't matter what it takes. >> everything else takes a back seat. it really does. life does not go on. you are still stuck. you are holding on to hope. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning. in queue for watching. ♪ ♪ something wrong with him. my brother was crying as well. >>