and sidney moorer would arrested, they were charged with murder in addition to kidnapping. >> kidnapping in south carolina means to decoy, inveigle, or take another individual. so even the phone call from the pay phone that sidney made to decoy her out was kidnapping. >> that murder charge was later dropped. i assume given the lack of physical evidence in this case -- no body, no blood, no murder weapon -- that it would have been hard to prove for the state. >> the trial of the man accused of kidnapping heather elvis is now under way. >> i sat in that room and i thought that by the end of the week if things went the way that we wanted them to, it would be like this release. >> call your first witness. >> thanks, your honor. at this time the state calls jessica cooke. >> one of the first witnesses we actually called to the stand was jessica cooke. jessica was one of the managers at the tilted kilt where heather worked. >> do you ever notice any changes in her physical appearance? >> yes. >> remember that vide

however, the jury deadlocked. >> a mistrial has been declared in this case against sidney moorer. >> 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. >> a fire of 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 it becomes common knowledge, the fire, the jealousy that is in tammy moorer explodes into utter rage. >> prosecutors said that 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