WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heather Elvis 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:51.961 School of Humans. Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.361 case murders in an effort to raise public awareness invite 0:00:55.401 --> 0:00:58.761 witnesses to come forward and present evidence that could potentially 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.961 be further investigated by law enforcement. While we value insights 0:01:03.001 --> 0:01:06.160 from family and community members, their statements should not be 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.961 considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts 0:01:10.041 --> 0:01:14.041 inherent in cold cases. We remind listeners that everyone is 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.160 presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 0:01:17.961 --> 0:01:20.840 Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply 0:01:21.041 --> 0:01:23.601 that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime 0:01:24.121 --> 0:01:27.121 is guilty of any wrongdoing. Thanks for listening. 0:01:30.441 --> 0:01:34.641 On December seventeenth, twenty thirteen, twenty year old Heather Elvis 0:01:34.681 --> 0:01:37.961 headed out on the first day in Carolina Forest, South Carolina, 0:01:38.241 --> 0:01:42.121 which is west of Myrtle Beach in Horry County. Heather 0:01:42.241 --> 0:01:45.161 grew up in this area, which is for its beautiful beaches. 0:01:45.601 --> 0:01:48.361 Her parents, Terry and Debbie Elvis, and her younger sister 0:01:48.441 --> 0:01:52.361 Morgan described Heather as a kind, fun loving young woman 0:01:52.601 --> 0:01:56.761 who had dreams of working in cosmetology. After graduating from 0:01:56.841 --> 0:02:00.761 high school in twenty eleven, Heather was making her dreams happen. 0:02:01.321 --> 0:02:02.721 She was working two jobs. 0:02:03.001 --> 0:02:03.401 She was a. 0:02:03.441 --> 0:02:06.481 Hostess of the Tilted Kilt in Myrtle Beach and at 0:02:06.481 --> 0:02:09.041 the House of Blues in North Myrtle Beach. She was 0:02:09.081 --> 0:02:13.081 also studying cosmetology. She had moved into an apartment in 0:02:13.121 --> 0:02:16.561 Carolina Forest with a friend of hers named Brianna. Even 0:02:16.601 --> 0:02:19.801 though the population was just over twenty three thousand people, 0:02:20.321 --> 0:02:24.521 their apartment was located in a huge, busy subdivision. But 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.881 Heather's life had taken a pretty dark turn over the 0:02:27.881 --> 0:02:30.561 past few months. Like a lot of young women at 0:02:30.601 --> 0:02:33.121 that age, she had gotten into a relationship with a 0:02:33.121 --> 0:02:36.321 man much older than her, and it had been dramatic. 0:02:37.001 --> 0:02:39.921 But Heather had ended that relationship. She was starting to 0:02:40.001 --> 0:02:43.041 date again, and her friends and family said she seemed 0:02:43.081 --> 0:02:46.800 more like herself. It seemed like life was finally getting 0:02:46.841 --> 0:02:49.520 back to normal and Heather could go back to being 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.201 a happy, go lucky young woman building her life. But 0:02:53.401 --> 0:02:57.441 something happened after Heather got home that night. She got 0:02:57.441 --> 0:03:01.081 a phone call, and then she changed into her favorite outfit, 0:03:01.441 --> 0:03:04.601 and then she went out driving her green Dodge Intrepid. 0:03:05.281 --> 0:03:10.401 After that, Heather vanished, where did she drive into in 0:03:10.441 --> 0:03:14.281 the dark that night and what happened to Heather Elvis. 0:03:14.921 --> 0:03:18.041 I'm Catherine Townsend. Over the past seven years of making 0:03:18.081 --> 0:03:21.241 my true crime podcast, Helen Gone, I've learned that there's 0:03:21.281 --> 0:03:24.721 no such thing as a small town where murdered never happens. 0:03:25.481 --> 0:03:28.321 I've received hundreds of messages from people all around the 0:03:28.361 --> 0:03:31.641 country asking for help with an unsolved murder that's affected them, 0:03:32.041 --> 0:03:35.921 their families, and their communities. If you have a case 0:03:35.921 --> 0:03:37.961 she'd like me and my team to look into, you 0:03:38.001 --> 0:03:40.121 can reach out to us at our Helen Gone Murder 0:03:40.161 --> 0:03:43.201 Line at six seven eight seven four four six one 0:03:43.201 --> 0:03:46.881 four five. That's six seven eight seven four four six 0:03:47.001 --> 0:03:50.041 one four five, or you can send us a message 0:03:50.081 --> 0:04:33.481 on Instagram at Helen Gonpott. This is Helen Gone Murder Line. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.521 On December nineteenth, Hory County Police respond to a report 0:04:44.601 --> 0:04:48.801 of a suspicious abandoned vehicle, a green Dodge Intrepid parked 0:04:48.801 --> 0:04:51.161 in the area of peach Tree Boat Landing near the water. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.121 This was Heather's car. Peachtree Landing was about eight miles 0:04:56.161 --> 0:04:59.200 away from Heather's apartment, so why would she have driven 0:04:59.241 --> 0:05:02.080 there in the middle of the night. Police went to 0:05:02.081 --> 0:05:05.200 Heather's parents' house at First, her dad told a local 0:05:05.241 --> 0:05:07.561 news station that they thought the car may have been stolen, 0:05:08.161 --> 0:05:10.681 but the car was fine. It was in good condition, 0:05:10.841 --> 0:05:13.961 it had gased, nothing was broken or damaged. But when 0:05:14.001 --> 0:05:18.001 they couldn't reach Heather, they began to panic. Her family 0:05:18.081 --> 0:05:20.601 insisted it would have been totally out of character for 0:05:20.641 --> 0:05:22.880 her to run away. Things had been going well in 0:05:22.921 --> 0:05:25.561 Heather's life and there was no way, they said, that 0:05:25.601 --> 0:05:30.361 she would have disappeared voluntarily. So police immediately started looking 0:05:30.361 --> 0:05:35.481 into Heather's personal life and her romantic relationships. They contacted 0:05:35.481 --> 0:05:37.321 the man she had been on the date with that night, 0:05:37.681 --> 0:05:41.401 Stephen Schiraldi. Stephen told police that he picked Heather up 0:05:41.401 --> 0:05:44.361 at ten pm. He said they drove around, hanging out 0:05:44.401 --> 0:05:48.041 and looking at Christmas lights. Then, he said, because Heather 0:05:48.121 --> 0:05:50.681 had told him she couldn't drive a stick shift, they 0:05:50.761 --> 0:05:52.880 went to the parking lot at the Inlet Square Mall. 0:05:53.521 --> 0:05:55.321 He let her get into the driver's seat of his 0:05:55.321 --> 0:05:57.961 car and he showed her how to drive stick He 0:05:58.001 --> 0:06:01.961 said they had fun driving around during that time. Heather 0:06:02.041 --> 0:06:05.321 sent her father and her friend Brianna, pictures of her 0:06:05.401 --> 0:06:09.041 driving the manual transmission, and she looks happy in those photos. 0:06:09.561 --> 0:06:12.921 She's smiling, and her cell phone with its pink glitter cover, 0:06:13.321 --> 0:06:17.041 is resting in her lap. After a fun evening, Stephen 0:06:17.081 --> 0:06:20.481 told police he dropped Heather back home at one fifteen am. 0:06:20.961 --> 0:06:24.281 Then he said he went home himself. All of Stephen's 0:06:24.281 --> 0:06:27.841 phone records corroborated his version of events and his location, 0:06:28.321 --> 0:06:32.401 and he was quickly cleared by law enforcement because police 0:06:32.401 --> 0:06:35.481 found out that shortly after Heather got home, she got 0:06:35.481 --> 0:06:39.201 another call from someone else, her ex boyfriend, Sidney Moore, 0:06:39.961 --> 0:06:44.161 at one forty four am. They hung up, and Heather 0:06:44.281 --> 0:06:47.001 met in June of twenty thirteen at the Tilted Kilt. 0:06:47.481 --> 0:06:49.921 Sidney was a thirty seven year old repair man who 0:06:49.961 --> 0:06:53.801 worked at the restaurant. Now, Sidney was not only seventeen 0:06:53.881 --> 0:06:57.361 years older than Heather, he was also married with three children. 0:06:57.841 --> 0:07:00.521 But despite that, he and Heather struck up a flirtation. 0:07:01.321 --> 0:07:05.521 Soon the relationship became sexual. Heather's friends and colleagues told 0:07:05.561 --> 0:07:09.761 police they believed it was much more serious. Heather's roommate, Brianna, 0:07:09.841 --> 0:07:11.921 who also worked at the Tilted Kilt at the time, 0:07:12.281 --> 0:07:15.761 told twenty twenty that she believed Sidney and Heather were 0:07:15.801 --> 0:07:20.201 in love. Her friends even said that Sidney might move 0:07:20.241 --> 0:07:22.921 to Florida with his family and wanted Heather to come 0:07:22.921 --> 0:07:25.321 along with them and be their nanny, even though at 0:07:25.361 --> 0:07:27.601 the time the kids seemed to be pretty much old 0:07:27.721 --> 0:07:31.561 enough to not need nanny's and Heather talked about her 0:07:31.601 --> 0:07:35.481 new relationship both at work and on social media. She 0:07:35.601 --> 0:07:38.681 sent a tweet in June of twenty thirteen saying that 0:07:38.721 --> 0:07:42.081 she had a taste for men who were older. In 0:07:42.121 --> 0:07:45.601 the weeks that followed, Heather continued to tweet about Sydney, 0:07:46.001 --> 0:07:47.841 writing that she had a crush on the guy who 0:07:47.921 --> 0:07:50.481 builds things at my job and joking about how she 0:07:50.561 --> 0:07:52.681 wanted to drag him into a mop closet and have 0:07:52.801 --> 0:07:57.201 her away with him. Later, when the relationship became more volatile, 0:07:57.801 --> 0:08:02.161 Heather's twitter took a darker turn. According to court documents, 0:08:02.361 --> 0:08:06.041 she tweeted, baby did a bad, bad thing and I'm 0:08:06.081 --> 0:08:08.601 in way too deep, but watch me get in deeper. 0:08:09.721 --> 0:08:12.841 Heather and Sydney didn't seem to be hiding things at work. 0:08:13.561 --> 0:08:17.241 Police interviewed Heather's coworkers, who confirmed to them that Heather 0:08:17.361 --> 0:08:21.121 and Sydney weren't exactly discreet people at the Tilted killed 0:08:21.121 --> 0:08:23.801 in the kitchen said that Sidney would bring her coffee 0:08:23.841 --> 0:08:28.001 and bagels at work as the relationship progressed. According to 0:08:28.041 --> 0:08:31.561 court documents, Sydney seemed to struggle with juggling the relationship 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.961 and it had gone on for months, but in October, 0:08:36.361 --> 0:08:39.920 Sydney abruptly ended things with Heather after Tammy found out 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:45.001 about it, and Tammy apparently was enraged, which was odd 0:08:45.201 --> 0:08:48.761 because later, in text messages with a friend, Tammy made 0:08:48.881 --> 0:08:52.041 references to her and Sidney being in an open relationship 0:08:52.481 --> 0:08:56.721 and to her having a boyfriend. Sexually explicit texts between 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.521 Tammy and that boyfriend were shown later in court. To 0:09:00.680 --> 0:09:03.401 her friend, Tammy said that she and Sidney had grown 0:09:03.401 --> 0:09:05.881 apart in the two to three years before he started 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.801 his relationship with Heather, and when you talk about what 0:09:08.961 --> 0:09:12.161 was going on between Heather and Sydney, it depends on 0:09:12.201 --> 0:09:15.921 who you ask. Heather's friends and co workers thought that 0:09:16.001 --> 0:09:19.721 she and Sidney were in a serious relationship, but Tammy 0:09:19.761 --> 0:09:23.201 and Sidney would later say that Heather and Sydney just 0:09:23.241 --> 0:09:26.201 had a brief sexual affair a few hookups that were 0:09:26.241 --> 0:09:30.961 confined mostly to September of twenty thirteen. After Tammy found 0:09:31.001 --> 0:09:34.801 out about Heather, Brianna said that Tammy forced Sydney to 0:09:34.881 --> 0:09:37.641 call Heather and tell her that they were done, and 0:09:37.761 --> 0:09:41.001 she did this while Tammy was on the line. During 0:09:41.041 --> 0:09:45.041 that conversation, Sydney said that Heather was quote nothing to me, 0:09:45.681 --> 0:09:50.081 just someone who spread your legs end quote. Brianna said 0:09:50.121 --> 0:09:54.841 that conversation completely devastated Heather, but it didn't stop there. 0:09:55.401 --> 0:09:58.921 Tammy started sending Heather very graphic shots of her and 0:09:59.001 --> 0:10:03.561 Sidney in sexual situations, and according to what Brianna told police, 0:10:04.121 --> 0:10:07.961 Tammy threatened to get Heather fired from her job. Brianna 0:10:08.041 --> 0:10:11.801 said that Heather was scared of Tammy, but she told 0:10:11.841 --> 0:10:14.401 police that she didn't believe that Heather was scared at 0:10:14.401 --> 0:10:17.961 all of Sidney. A big part of this case is 0:10:17.961 --> 0:10:22.961 the relationship between Tammy and Sydney, because again, everything happened 0:10:23.001 --> 0:10:26.921 behind closed doors and between Heather's friends and family, and 0:10:26.961 --> 0:10:30.721 what Tammy and Sidney told law enforcement, there are several 0:10:31.041 --> 0:10:35.001 very different accounts of what happened. Sidney claimed in court 0:10:35.161 --> 0:10:37.721 that after Tammy found out about the relationship with Heather, 0:10:38.201 --> 0:10:41.801 that Tammy insisted that Sidney in things, and that Tammy 0:10:41.841 --> 0:10:43.800 had put conditions on him if they were going to 0:10:43.801 --> 0:10:47.081 stay together for one thing, as Tammy texted a friend, 0:10:47.681 --> 0:10:50.001 she would be allowed to live as a single woman, 0:10:50.441 --> 0:10:53.721 basically to sleep with whomever she wanted with zero consequences 0:10:53.801 --> 0:10:57.201 for a year, and she was going to keep Sydney 0:10:57.321 --> 0:11:01.160 handcuffed to the bed every night. She also took his phone, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.361 changed the password, and went everywhere with him. Sidney told 0:11:05.441 --> 0:11:08.321 law enforcement that he agreed to those conditions and also 0:11:08.761 --> 0:11:12.641 had Tammy's name tattooed above his crotch, but that wasn't 0:11:12.761 --> 0:11:16.281 enough because Tammy kept reaching out to Heather. There is 0:11:16.321 --> 0:11:18.561 a string of text that she sent Heather where she 0:11:18.641 --> 0:11:23.441 talks about Heather meeting the missus, et cetera. On November first, 0:11:23.481 --> 0:11:26.881 Heather finally responded. Tammy had texted Heather to say, by 0:11:26.921 --> 0:11:30.121 the way, Dad no longer has his phone, meaning Sidney. 0:11:31.081 --> 0:11:35.401 Heather texted back a period Tammy called the Tilted Kilt 0:11:35.481 --> 0:11:38.401 and told them that Sidney would stop preparing their equipment 0:11:38.601 --> 0:11:41.681 if Heather was still employed by the restaurant. One day, 0:11:42.041 --> 0:11:45.721 Heather was actually sent home because Tammy called multiple times. 0:11:46.361 --> 0:11:49.881 Sidney reached out to Heather again, saying that Tammy wasn't 0:11:49.921 --> 0:11:53.121 mad about him having the affair, since he said she 0:11:53.321 --> 0:11:56.601 also had a boyfriend. Sidney said Tammy was mad about 0:11:56.681 --> 0:12:00.161 him lying about the affair. Heather texted back to basically 0:12:00.201 --> 0:12:03.441 say she was done. She just wanted Tammy to stop 0:12:03.521 --> 0:12:08.681 calling the restaurant, but things continued to escalate. On November fifth, 0:12:08.921 --> 0:12:13.201 Heather retweeted a joke by Daniel Tosh. It read, hey 0:12:13.241 --> 0:12:16.201 married fellas. You can either cheat on your wife or 0:12:16.361 --> 0:12:20.001 murder her, never both. That's when you get caught. But 0:12:20.401 --> 0:12:24.121 other than a few barbed social media references, things seemed 0:12:24.121 --> 0:12:27.201 to be finally dying down. Heather and Sidney were not 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.521 in touch. Tammy had stopped texting, and Sidney, Tammy, and 0:12:31.561 --> 0:12:35.280 their children left for a Disney World trip on November nineteenth. 0:12:35.561 --> 0:12:40.320 They were gone until December eleventh. Meanwhile, Heather seemed to 0:12:40.361 --> 0:12:43.401 be moving on with her life. Brianna told police and 0:12:43.481 --> 0:12:46.281 Lay twenty twenty that Heather was going to church with 0:12:46.321 --> 0:12:49.241 her and that she had agreed to put Sydney behind 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.681 her and move on with her life. Heather had gotten 0:12:52.681 --> 0:12:54.961 a new job at a beauty parlor that would start 0:12:55.081 --> 0:12:58.601 right around Christmas. She was acting more like her old self, 0:12:58.641 --> 0:13:02.641 family and friends said, and enjoying dating new people. But 0:13:02.761 --> 0:13:07.441 it turned out that Heather might have been hiding something because, 0:13:07.641 --> 0:13:18.200 according to court documents, Heather believed that she was pregnant. 0:13:21.921 --> 0:13:25.881 Was Heather Elvis pregnant? According to court documents, she may 0:13:25.881 --> 0:13:28.921 have believed that she was. She had gained weight quickly and, 0:13:28.961 --> 0:13:32.001 according to her co workers, gone up three broad up 0:13:32.041 --> 0:13:34.801 sizes in her uniform in a short period of time. 0:13:35.601 --> 0:13:39.041 Her manager at the Tilted Kilt testified that Heather thought 0:13:39.081 --> 0:13:41.441 she might be pregnant by Sidney and had taken a 0:13:41.441 --> 0:13:45.280 pregnancy test, but apparently the test came back with an 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:50.321 inconclusive result. After Heather went missing, police talked to Sidney Moore. 0:13:51.321 --> 0:13:53.601 He said that he had not talked to Heather since 0:13:53.641 --> 0:13:57.481 they broke up in October, but Brianna was insistent. She 0:13:57.521 --> 0:13:59.881 had been out of town in Florida, but she said 0:13:59.921 --> 0:14:04.081 when Heather called her that night, she was hysterical. Heather 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.081 called Brianna in a panic at around one forty four 0:14:07.081 --> 0:14:09.641 am to tell her that Sidney called and that he 0:14:09.721 --> 0:14:12.081 wanted to see her. He said that he was sorry 0:14:12.081 --> 0:14:15.441 for everything and that he was leaving his wife. Brianna 0:14:15.521 --> 0:14:18.081 said that Heather was crying and hysterical, and that they 0:14:18.121 --> 0:14:20.401 talked for a couple of minutes and that at the 0:14:20.481 --> 0:14:23.241 end of the phone conversation, she said she did not 0:14:23.401 --> 0:14:25.681 believe that Heather was going to go out and meet Sydney, 0:14:26.121 --> 0:14:31.001 but it seems that she did. At around the same 0:14:31.081 --> 0:14:33.321 time as Heather was being dropped off at home by 0:14:33.361 --> 0:14:37.161 her date, Stephen, Sydney was seen on video buying a 0:14:37.201 --> 0:14:41.481 pregnancy test at Walmart. The surveillance video showed Sydney with 0:14:41.601 --> 0:14:44.601 Tammy in his truck near a Kangar Thru Express gas 0:14:44.601 --> 0:14:48.361 station at one thirty three am. Video from the Kangaroo 0:14:48.401 --> 0:14:52.001 Express showed Sydney leaving his truck and walking over to 0:14:52.041 --> 0:14:55.881 a payphone. Police were able to show through phone records 0:14:55.881 --> 0:14:59.761 that from that payphone, Sidney called Heather and that the 0:14:59.801 --> 0:15:03.961 call lasted four minutes and fifty seconds. But later, when 0:15:03.961 --> 0:15:07.361 police interviewed him, Stephen said he hadn't spoken to Heather 0:15:07.481 --> 0:15:11.161 in several weeks since their relationship ended. Later, though, he 0:15:11.241 --> 0:15:13.281 admitted that he had spoken to Heather the day she 0:15:13.321 --> 0:15:17.121 disappeared for the first time in six weeks. Sydney claimed 0:15:17.161 --> 0:15:19.761 that he called Heather to tell her to leave him alone. 0:15:23.841 --> 0:15:28.041 So what happened after Heather hung up the phone? Heather's 0:15:28.081 --> 0:15:31.601 phone location data provided some clues. The data showed that 0:15:31.681 --> 0:15:34.201 Heather's cell phone left her apartment at two thirty one 0:15:34.241 --> 0:15:38.241 am and arrived near Longbeard's Bar at two forty two am. 0:15:38.881 --> 0:15:41.881 Then there were nine phone calls made from Heather's phone 0:15:41.921 --> 0:15:45.081 to the Kangaroo Express payphone, the same phone that Sidney 0:15:45.081 --> 0:15:48.921 had called her from. Location data from Sydney and Tammy's 0:15:48.961 --> 0:15:52.361 phone showed that they went home during this time. The 0:15:52.441 --> 0:15:56.361 data shows that after these nine calls, Heather's phone and 0:15:56.481 --> 0:16:00.561 presumably Heather, returned to her apartment. Two more calls were 0:16:00.601 --> 0:16:03.201 made from Heather's phone at three sixteen am and again 0:16:03.241 --> 0:16:06.881 at three seventeen am. The first call to Sidney's phone 0:16:06.921 --> 0:16:09.881 went to voicemail. The second call lasted a little over 0:16:09.921 --> 0:16:14.201 four minutes after that call. Location data from Heather's phone 0:16:14.241 --> 0:16:17.361 shows her traveling to Peachtree Landing, where her car was found. 0:16:17.841 --> 0:16:20.281 Then there were four more calls made to Sydney's phone 0:16:20.321 --> 0:16:23.681 between three thirty eight and three forty one am. All 0:16:23.721 --> 0:16:27.081 of those calls went straight to voicemail. But after the 0:16:27.121 --> 0:16:30.521 three forty one am call, there was no more activity 0:16:30.601 --> 0:16:34.881 from Heather's phone. But at four thirty seven am suddenly 0:16:34.921 --> 0:16:38.201 there was something else a text from Sydney's phone for 0:16:38.281 --> 0:16:42.201 the first time in weeks. Tammy had had Sidney's phone 0:16:42.241 --> 0:16:46.481 in her possession since November second, But at four thirty 0:16:46.521 --> 0:16:49.841 seven am, Tammy texted Sydney's mom and he texted back. 0:16:50.481 --> 0:16:53.081 She asked him if he had remembered the potstickers and 0:16:53.121 --> 0:17:00.161 orange juice. He texted back, yes, ma'am. Just a day 0:17:00.201 --> 0:17:03.721 after Heather was reported missing, on December twentieth, police went 0:17:03.761 --> 0:17:07.041 to Tammy and Sydney's home. They found a surveillance system 0:17:07.041 --> 0:17:10.201 that Tammy told them was not functional, and then, according 0:17:10.241 --> 0:17:13.561 to court documents, she actually bought a new surveillance system 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.160 that next day. Police also found a bag of cement, 0:17:17.481 --> 0:17:20.360 a spent shotgun shell, and a bottle of cleaning fluid 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.120 near park camper. Sydney told police that he and Heather 0:17:24.241 --> 0:17:26.960 began their affair in September of twenty thirteen, and that 0:17:27.001 --> 0:17:30.840 it had been brief, but Heather's social media references to 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:36.080 her relationship with Sydney started months before that. Police followed 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.521 that social media trail. They found references to the breakup 0:17:39.561 --> 0:17:42.681 on Twitter, where Heather had written once upon a time, 0:17:42.721 --> 0:17:45.241 an angel and a death fell in love. It did 0:17:45.281 --> 0:17:49.721 not end well. Police were suspicious of Sidney Moore, but 0:17:49.761 --> 0:17:52.921 when they brought him and Tammy in for questioning, both 0:17:52.961 --> 0:17:56.001 of them denied having anything to do with Heather's disappearance, 0:17:56.521 --> 0:17:59.881 and the police had no body and no physical evidence. 0:18:01.361 --> 0:18:05.561 Police did make two arrests. On January twenty eighth, twenty fourteen, 0:18:05.721 --> 0:18:08.961 two people were arrested in charge with obstruction of justice 0:18:09.161 --> 0:18:12.441 after police claimed that they had posted false information about 0:18:12.521 --> 0:18:16.881 Heather's disappearance on social media. Sadly, they were red herrings. 0:18:17.721 --> 0:18:21.321 Investigators had wasted time being diverted from the case when 0:18:21.321 --> 0:18:26.521 they looked into these posts. As the investigation continued, it 0:18:26.561 --> 0:18:29.481 seemed like the whole town was talking about Heather's disappearance. 0:18:30.121 --> 0:18:32.881 Sydney claimed that he and his family had received death 0:18:32.921 --> 0:18:36.601 threats because of the rumors. Not only that, he claimed 0:18:36.641 --> 0:18:39.721 that people had killed and mutilated rabbits and ducks that 0:18:39.761 --> 0:18:43.041 his family kept as outdoor pets. He told police that 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.401 people had fied tired guns at him while he was driving, 0:18:46.041 --> 0:18:49.881 but Georgetown County Deputy sheriffs would later claim they found 0:18:49.881 --> 0:18:54.321 no evidence that Sidney's truck had been hit. On February 0:18:54.321 --> 0:18:57.721 twenty first, police executed a search warrant on Sydney and 0:18:57.761 --> 0:19:02.441 Tammy's property near South Carolina Highway eight fourteen, Sydney and 0:19:02.481 --> 0:19:06.641 Tammy were arrested. They were charged with murder, kidnapping, obstruction 0:19:06.681 --> 0:19:10.321 of justice, and in decent exposure. This related to the 0:19:10.361 --> 0:19:13.400 sexually explicit content that they had taken of themselves in 0:19:13.441 --> 0:19:18.641 public places. Police interviewed Tammy, and the detective who questioned 0:19:18.641 --> 0:19:22.521 Tammy told her that Sidney's relationship with Heather was more 0:19:22.521 --> 0:19:26.281 involved than just a brief sexual affair, but Tammy told 0:19:26.321 --> 0:19:29.761 police that she had an open marriage. She said that 0:19:29.801 --> 0:19:31.640 she could care less if he had sex with one 0:19:31.721 --> 0:19:35.360 hundred people. She also said I was with him in 0:19:35.441 --> 0:19:38.481 the truck all night. She said that on the night 0:19:38.521 --> 0:19:41.880 that Heather disappeared, that she and Sidney had sex in 0:19:41.961 --> 0:19:46.080 the truck. She told the detective questioning her the pregnancy 0:19:46.121 --> 0:19:48.721 test that Sidney was seen on camera buying had been 0:19:48.761 --> 0:19:51.201 for her. She said they had been trying to get 0:19:51.201 --> 0:19:54.721 pregnant for several months and that over that time, Sidney 0:19:54.761 --> 0:19:58.041 told detectives he had bought several pregnancy tests and that 0:19:58.121 --> 0:20:01.761 all of them had come back negative. Later, while incarcerated, 0:20:01.921 --> 0:20:04.920 Tammy told prison staff that she was pregnant, She was 0:20:04.961 --> 0:20:08.121 advised of dietary needs and to take prenatal vitamins, which 0:20:08.161 --> 0:20:11.561 she refused to take. Medical records obtained through a foury 0:20:11.641 --> 0:20:15.360 request state that quote inmate was advised repeatedly of the 0:20:15.401 --> 0:20:18.881 need for confirmation of pregnancy for need for prenatal care, 0:20:19.601 --> 0:20:22.641 but Tammy stated prenatal vitamins had caused her to miscarry 0:20:22.681 --> 0:20:27.080 her first baby, so she did not want to take them. Later, 0:20:27.241 --> 0:20:31.201 Tammy's mother said publicly that Tammy had had a miscarriage 0:20:31.321 --> 0:20:43.041 while in jail. When the detective questioning her asked about 0:20:43.041 --> 0:20:45.920 the phone call made to Heather the night that Heather disappeared, 0:20:46.481 --> 0:20:49.281 she said she'd heard phone calls made to Sydney's phone 0:20:49.281 --> 0:20:52.681 from Heather, but she said she didn't see or know 0:20:52.881 --> 0:20:57.680 about Sidney contacting Heather. Both Sydney and Tammy worked odd hours, 0:20:57.801 --> 0:21:02.161 mostly night shifts. They homeschooled their three children. Tammy's sister, 0:21:02.281 --> 0:21:04.840 Ashley Cayson, who lived in a house next door to 0:21:04.881 --> 0:21:08.440 Sidney and Tammy with her and Tamy's parents, told police 0:21:08.481 --> 0:21:11.201 she babysat the children on the night that Heather disappeared. 0:21:12.001 --> 0:21:15.080 Ashley later testified in Tammy's defense and as part of that, 0:21:15.241 --> 0:21:18.080 she challenged Sidney's story about the tattoo he had gotten. 0:21:18.801 --> 0:21:21.361 She said that Tammy had not forced Sidney to get 0:21:21.361 --> 0:21:24.441 that tattoo. She said, in fact, Sidney had had that 0:21:24.481 --> 0:21:28.721 tattoo since January of twenty twelve. Ashley said that Tammy 0:21:28.801 --> 0:21:32.120 and Sydney used the handcuffs for sexual role play, that 0:21:32.201 --> 0:21:35.121 he was not handcuffed against his will as he claimed. 0:21:35.921 --> 0:21:38.481 Tammy also told police they had a sleigh bed, so 0:21:38.521 --> 0:21:42.121 it would have been impossible for her to handcuff Sidney. 0:21:42.161 --> 0:21:45.400 On the night Heather disappeared, Ashley said that the kids 0:21:45.401 --> 0:21:48.761 were over at her place until approximately three am, and 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.960 then Tammy had texted her at three ten am to 0:21:52.001 --> 0:21:54.721 say she and Sidney were home. At that point, the 0:21:54.801 --> 0:21:58.361 kids walked back home. Tammy told police, yes, she wasn't 0:21:58.361 --> 0:22:00.721 a rage when she found out about the affair, but 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.121 she really minimized the fallout to her marriage. She said 0:22:04.161 --> 0:22:06.241 she and Sydney got over it in a few days. 0:22:06.561 --> 0:22:08.761 She said they had healed their marriage during that trip 0:22:08.801 --> 0:22:12.241 to Disneyland. She said she and Sidney got home at 0:22:12.241 --> 0:22:15.001 around three ten am. That would have been about the 0:22:15.041 --> 0:22:17.241 time that she texted her sister to say the kids 0:22:17.241 --> 0:22:21.961 could walk home. Police asked Sydney and Tammy if they'd 0:22:21.961 --> 0:22:25.120 been anywhere near peach Tree Landing where Heather's car was found. 0:22:25.521 --> 0:22:29.441 They both said no. Police had footage from two surveillance 0:22:29.481 --> 0:22:32.840 systems on a road between Tammy and Sydney's residence and 0:22:32.921 --> 0:22:35.960 the Peachtree Landing where Heather's car was found. These were 0:22:36.001 --> 0:22:39.840 about a five minute drive apart. A dark colored truck 0:22:39.881 --> 0:22:43.120 was seen on camera heading toward Peachtree Landing at approximately 0:22:43.121 --> 0:22:47.200 three forty five. Then nine minutes later, the dark colored 0:22:47.201 --> 0:22:51.681 truck appeared on camera going back the same way. A 0:22:51.801 --> 0:22:55.481 Hoary County grand jury indicted Sydney and Tammy for kidnapping 0:22:55.721 --> 0:23:00.960 and for conspiracy kidnap on December eighteenth, twenty thirteen. They 0:23:01.001 --> 0:23:05.881 would be tried separately. At trial, prosecutors called in someone 0:23:06.001 --> 0:23:08.880 who was an expert on cars. The state found a 0:23:08.921 --> 0:23:12.961 forensic video analyst, Grant Fredericks, to assist them in identifying 0:23:12.961 --> 0:23:17.080 that truck scene on video. He did something called headlights 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.681 spread pattern analysis. He said in his opinion, the truck 0:23:20.761 --> 0:23:24.561 in the video footage was Tammy and Sydney's new blackboard 0:23:24.641 --> 0:23:28.120 f one point fifty Before the trial began, both Tammy 0:23:28.121 --> 0:23:31.201 and Sydney tried to get that expert testimony about the 0:23:31.241 --> 0:23:34.961 identity of the vehicle excluded, but the evidence was allowed. 0:23:35.001 --> 0:23:39.241 In Shortly after the arrest, a judge issued a gag 0:23:39.321 --> 0:23:43.561 order on all participants of this case. Later, investigators announced 0:23:43.561 --> 0:23:46.641 they were filing additional charges related to what they called 0:23:46.921 --> 0:23:50.761 financial discrepancies, filed with the state of South Carolina. Later 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:52.840 it came out what they were talking about was that 0:23:52.881 --> 0:23:56.761 the Moorers were charged with medicaid fraud. The investigators said 0:23:56.801 --> 0:24:00.160 Tammy and Sydney had failed to disclose over ten thousand 0:24:00.201 --> 0:24:03.160 dollars in income from their business and alleged they had 0:24:03.201 --> 0:24:11.761 fraudulently received benefits. This case is very unusual because on 0:24:11.801 --> 0:24:14.361 the one hand, you have the gag order from the judge, 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.561 but in the absence of any real information coming out 0:24:17.601 --> 0:24:20.481 about the case, social media stepped in to fill the void, 0:24:21.121 --> 0:24:24.840 and Tammy was not being silent. She and Sidney posted 0:24:24.881 --> 0:24:28.561 on Facebook and other media sites. Tammy called Heather a 0:24:28.601 --> 0:24:32.881 whore and a stalker. She said the police had framed them. 0:24:33.641 --> 0:24:38.881 Tammy made posts on Facebook addressing Heather's disappearance. One read quote, well, 0:24:39.241 --> 0:24:41.721 Sidney cheated on me. In the months of September October 0:24:41.721 --> 0:24:44.761 with a psycho whore who has since gone missing. I 0:24:44.761 --> 0:24:47.160 could care less what he screwed around with, but the 0:24:47.201 --> 0:24:50.721 fact that this jerk is stalking my family is unacceptable. 0:24:51.241 --> 0:24:56.281 End quote. Then nothing happened for a long time, at 0:24:56.361 --> 0:25:07.441 least on the surface. In early twenty fifteen, Sidney and 0:25:07.481 --> 0:25:10.961 Tammy were finally able to bond out from jail. They 0:25:11.001 --> 0:25:14.160 had to follow bail conditions, including GPS monitoring and an 0:25:14.161 --> 0:25:17.001 agreement to stay away from Heather's family and to not 0:25:17.121 --> 0:25:20.761 mention them on social media. Sydney and Tammy claimed that 0:25:20.881 --> 0:25:23.201 during this long way and due to the publicity of 0:25:23.201 --> 0:25:26.321 the case, they were unable to find work, so they 0:25:26.361 --> 0:25:28.681 asked the court to allow them to move to Florida. 0:25:29.281 --> 0:25:32.080 Sidney had found a job there, and the judge allowed it. 0:25:32.881 --> 0:25:38.120 This outraged Heather's family. Prosecutors said that they did not 0:25:38.281 --> 0:25:40.840 have enough evidence to go forward with the murder charges 0:25:40.881 --> 0:25:44.041 against Tammy and Sydney, so in March thousand, six sixteen, 0:25:44.361 --> 0:25:47.521 it was announced they were going to be dropped without prejudice, 0:25:47.881 --> 0:25:51.201 meaning that they could be refiled later. Then in March 0:25:51.201 --> 0:25:54.960 of twenty sixteen, there was another announcement the prosecutors were 0:25:55.041 --> 0:25:58.321