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Morgan Elvis:表达了对失踪妹妹Heather的深深思念和绝望,以及对案件真相的渴望。她回忆了Heather生前开朗活泼的性格,以及她对艺术创作的热爱。Morgan还描述了父母在Heather失踪后所承受的巨大痛苦和煎熬,以及她自己作为家人的无力感和悲伤。 Debbi Elvis和Terry Elvis:作为Heather的父母,他们表达了对女儿的无尽思念和对找到女儿的坚定信念。他们详细描述了发现Heather的汽车以及随后与警方合作的过程,展现了他们作为父母的焦虑、担忧和希望。他们也谈到了在漫长的寻找过程中,他们所付出的努力和所承受的压力,以及他们对案件真相的渴望。 Brionna Culser:作为Heather最好的朋友,Brionna提供了Heather生前的一些重要信息,包括她与父母的关系,以及她与Sydney Moore和Tammy Moore的关系。Brionna的证词为警方调查提供了关键线索,也展现了Heather生前复杂的人际关系。 Sydney Moore和Tammy Moore:作为案件的主要嫌疑人,他们的证词和行为在法庭上受到了严格的审查。他们对案件的解释和辩护在法庭上受到了质疑,他们的动机和行为也成为了检方和辩方争论的焦点。 Nancy Livesay:作为检察官,Nancy Livesay在法庭上展现了强大的控诉能力,她通过对证据的分析和对证人的盘问,试图证明Tammy Moore和Sydney Moore有罪。她的控诉有力地推动了案件的审理进程,也为案件的最终判决提供了重要的依据。

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Heather Elvis, a 20-year-old from South Carolina, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 2013. Her family and friends recount the events leading up to her disappearance and the initial search efforts.
  • Heather Elvis disappeared on a summer night in 2013.
  • Her car was found abandoned at Peach Tree Landing.
  • The family launched extensive search efforts, including distributing flyers and using media to spread the word.

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I'm lester haul t tonight on deadline .

SHE is and we're always be my sister. I don't know what happened to, I don't get to say goodbye.

So awful.

if you take her, please just let her come home.

And she's missing where he had.

just also overwhelmingly .

horrible.

This random payphone number called .

headers phone.

He found others hard at the landing.

I was scared .

to death when that this crazy love triangle, kidnapping, potential murder.

This is heather's life for talking about a you .

wish that you could take other pain away. It's impossible.

Here's andrey accounting with return to the landing.

Mural beats south CarOlina vacation heaven. Sixty miles of instagram worthy sand and serve and thrills at every turn. But leave the tourists behind and go inland.

Amer, twenty minutes to a bend in the walk among river, it's tranquil. The trees are draped in spanish moss. There's a boat landing here with a fancy name, peach tree landing.

A quiet spot that you can go think you don't get a lot of that in a small town. So when you find a spot, you knew you go all the time.

What happened here to twenty year old heather Elvis went to summer night in two thousand and thirteen became an enduring mystery.

I know that there is no way that either would not come home as you could come home. No way you don't .

realize how much somebody's face means to you and to you can't see you to be more .

a family and wished, clinging to hope, searching for answers, a journey that would consume them for years.

One of my best friends came to the house. He looked me and he said. He set up a whole in server. I can't get that thought. 我 发现。

Hair was born in nineteen ninety three. The middle kid sandwiched between elder brother Chris and Younger sister Morgan, as Morgan vividly remembers ever, would never let a label define her. SHE wasn't .

really a girl, girl or a time point. SHE was summer in between. SHE would drive for reller in play ball and shoot paint ball games. And then you turn on to put on address and go, you know, look beautiful for photos.

Her parents, debby anti Elvis, say hether was driven by a passion to create. SHE drew all the time decorating the family house with her doodles.

Everywhere you went in the house, there was some kind of writing, or some kind of drawing, or some kind of dutt.

So her brains working .

over time constantly.

Just just as a reminder, small death in the house that I said has a computer at IT is sticking up all over the top part of the the desk. And the one is right front of my face. This is in her handwriting. Either is amazing, a little harder.

And hair was amazing when I came to cosmetology the art of makeup in a way that only siblings can SHE Sparked Morgans interest in IT.

too. He said, cosmetology was hers. SHE was, I was not allowed to have IT, and I did IT anyway. And that's kind of, you know what sister to do OMG don't tell me because i'm going to do IT.

After graduation from high school in two thousand eleven, heather began working at a local pub called the tilted kilt, where he became a hostess. Briona culser, known as breed.

worked with her there. Sh'd welcome back to the table. She'd already have him laughing, having a conversation, saying thing when .

they're leaving. Brief shared almost everything with heather, including her apartment, and when heather confided that he didn't always see I to eye with her parents. Well, that was hardly unusual for a Young woman determined to make your own way.

They love you and just, I think they knocked heads because either wanted to explore.

As for boyfriends breed, watch heather go through up and downs. Just recently, she's emerged from a difficult relationship with an older man.

I know I perf actually still a feelings for me, and you don't just fall out of love like that as much as sometimes we wish we could.

But on december seventeen th, two thousand and thirteen, everything was falling into place for hether. Elvis SHE got a new job as a makeup artist, had a date with a new guy, even learned how to drive a stickshift in her dates truck. There SHE is the around ten in a picture. SHE texts to her dad.

He was proud of her self. IT was a good day for her.

And youtube must have been ent.

So proud of that day. I think then the picture was, I was like, I did IT without, you know, but you couldn't help be proud of IT.

And then two days later, a knock at debian teris door, a police officer with an odd question, were they missing a car?

That was his exact words. Are you missing a car? And I looked in the driveway and I smote they're all there, not thinking .

about that.

He found a car somewhere.

Was he ther's .

car registered .

in her name?

So that's why he yi came up right behind me. He explained that he found heth's car at the landing.

What was going on? If hetherton car was at the landing, then where was he?

When we come back, a family holds on to hope in .

the local hospitals, said that a high elva had come in on .

their own and been .

released, was wrong.

Take a look in the trunk. I was scared to death. Open that trunk.

Hether Elvis parents 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. He just found hatherly car at peach tree landing abandoned.

The officer said, have extra keys or spare keys to the court, said, yes, will grab those. Those take.

look at IT hatherly mom, debby tried calling her daughter cell phone.

and I was just going straight. I smell he was a ringing while her dad.

Terry, rode down with the officer to the landing.

We pull out to this direction. We we could see the car was sitting face in the water.

He took us there explaining what the officer shot him that night.

He had shown the spotlight on the back of the car and check the .

tag IT was his daughters dodging, trapped right away Terry could see something was .

off but instead of being this way, the corner was turned this way um basically taking up to person ally three parking spaces and I like the car for him him he stopped and he put on gloves he hinted me appear so to on a safe that .

Terry Elvis couldn't understand. The last time I had from heather was when he sent that photo from her date. SHE was fine. Now he was nowhere to be found. He was searching her abandoned .

car on the or council. Her driver's license was there.

That's weird.

And a couple of other business cards and identification cards, but there were no keys.

That's when the officer said something that made Terry Elvis hearts skip a beat.

He said, let's take a look in the drunk and I went back and I turned to key and he said, let me open and I said, just let me lift that he held .

his breath as the lid to his daughter's trunk popped open. Were you worried about?

I was scared to death. Open that trunk. And we both looked in, enables fine IT was nothing there.

There was plenty of clothes, no sign of power play. By that point, break, who'd been out of town for several days, had gotten word. Her best friend hether was missing.

I called her dad, who was with police at the time, at the, at peachy, and he had asked when the last time I talked to her.

there was brea told the two men that hether had called from their apartment a day earlier, around one thirty A M. Tuesday, fresh from her date.

arguing, know I had amazing day and swiss him tomorrow he gets off war but .

breeze said hether didn't want to chat about the new guy. He was upset about a call SHE had gotten from that older men. SHE once stated his name was sydney. Weeks earlier, he dumped to the .

exact words ny called me, and I was like, what? And he was like, yeah. And I was like, what did he say? SHE said he wanted to be with me .

and see me be told her friend not to do anything rash.

And SHE was like, you know what? You're right. I'm you guys some sleep. I'm exhausted and I love you because we would say I love when we hanging up and hung up.

As far as the Elvis knew, that was the last time anyone had spoken with heather. Now, almost twenty four hours later, they started to worry.

felt like something was wrong.

Had her sister Morgan arrived home from a basketball game, had they told you at this point what was going on?

T, and I just kind of picked up what was going on through conversation.

That hair was .

not be found that when .

IT down on them, they could retrace her their steps by way of her cell phone. SHE was still on their family plan .

and that are going to land and going to our cell phone provider because you can look at the call record and they pull up the information in the failed to us.

They could see the most recent calls their daughter made and received after her called debris hair doubt another number several times. These are the early .

morning calls, like whose number is the worry.

Parents suddenly found themselves playing detective in the very real case of their missing daughter.

We google the numbers, trying to figure out what they went to.

and they got a hit, the numbers hathor dyle belonga man named sydney Moore. They figured that had to be the x boyfriend bre had mentioned earlier.

Interiors, like i'm gonna call, i'm just onna, call him a here you can call some me in the mild .

the night he did anyway, on the other end, a man answered the way. Terry recalls IT. The man was .

not happy. You don't know me, I said, but how th's father hether ill. And before you get the next word out, i'm getting, i'm getting cast out left and right.

my cussing about what .

nothing just discussed like don't call me you know I don't know what you talking about. I don't know this person okay.

that's very actually.

but I think it's just cursing a cursing at a cursing.

The man who had dated their daughter was hotly denied he'd ever heard of her. As the hours ticked by, terran devi grew more anxious. They knew they needed a new plan to find their .

missing daughter coming up to new on camera. A clue.

someone at a payphone IT appears .

that .

this is someone who .

knows you. Ark truck go by. Soon after that, her phone goes dead and nobody ever heard from her again.

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Her parents couldn't get in touch with her. Police couldn't find her. And then all of mural beach was searching for her. Hether Elvis, a missing person, volunteers, keeps searching for the twenty old hatherly desperate parents called on everyone to discover the area. They printed out fires.

There was at a the world front in metal beach that they have one or two flyers and and then they were in George and tennessee and Flora.

They posted please online for information. They turned to the news media.

Local is either alive .

and the daughter .

and national, including deadlines missing in amErica digital series the Elvis let our cameras into those agonizing early days.

This, this whole that .

we all .

is the failure, just feel.

And bearing silent witness to their anguish was another daughter, Morgan.

I can truly count down one hand how many times as i've seen my dad cry.

In the season like that makes your whole world world apart.

Police quickly turned their attention to hetherton new guy, the man who had been with her on a date that night. His alibi that he dropped either at her apartment and returned home checked out. The date has been questioned.

He is CoOperated with all enforcement, and he is no, he is not listed as a person of interest or a suspect. But what about the old boyfriend? Sydney police wanted to know more about his relationship with heather. Her best friend, free was just the person to tell them about IT.

He floored with her just as much, if not more. Then SHE followed with him. I was .

mutual brace. The two had met that spring at the tilt, red killed the pub where either had been a hostess, sidi took care of maintenance there.

You could tell that he really did .

care about either when he would come in and see her, or just the little things, the text store, the calls to check up on our work.

But there was a big problem. Sydney was married, although heather didn't seem to mind either.

had IT in her head that he was gonna ve, his wife SHE sore up and down, that he was going to leave.

We knew that would never happen. Sure enough, in october two thousand thirteen, sydney's wife got wind of the affair. He broke things off .

with either .

at harder IT IT hurt me .

to see her go through that sydney .

told police he was home, the net hether disappeared, but he did say that either called him. Police went back to her phone records where they saw that called a sydney, and they also found a mysterious number that had never called before. Investigators traced to a payphone at a gas station. A security camera was pointed right at IT.

This random payphone number called others phone called at once that lasted about four minutes. And then SHE actually tried to call the number back .

multiple times. Morra tenco covered the case for nbc affiliate W M B F. TV IT appears that this is someone who knows if she's having a conversation that's lasting that long and she's repeatedly .

calling back right exactly was at sydney.

They pulled the security footage from the gas station.

You can see somebody walk up to the python and place that call to either of this.

Police wondered if that somebody was sydney. They asked him to comment for another round of questioning. If you'd been home, what was he doing at a payphone calling heather? He finally vest up.

City Moore told them in an interview with police. I, that phone call .

to have the investigators began to build a timeline from hetherton phone at one thirty five A M. Sydney called heather from the payphone nine minutes later, at one forty four, heather called her friend break between two twenty nine and three or five, either called the payphone nine times, but no one answered. Her phone did connect to sydney's cell phone at three seventeen A M for four minutes.

Then from three twenty five to three thirty seven, her phone was in her car on the way to peach tree landing. But where was sydney around that time? Police didn't know. That is until a woman who lived near the landing here told police her home had a security camera. Perhaps he thought he captured something around the time of hetherton disappearance.

around three thirty in the morning. On the separate teams, you can see a dark truck, pick up truck, go by her home.

Police believe IT was sydney's truck. IT was a huge break. Police believe they could now place either Elvis in her car and sydney more in his truck, heading for peach tree landing at the same time.

And then soon after that, her phone goes dead, and nobody ever heard from her again.

IT was three, forty two in the morning. Police now had a theory, somehow either had become a problem for sydney, so he, lord hether, to the landing and killed her. And there was more. Investigators believe sydney 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 a harm? heather?

The fire, the jealousy, explodes into other range.

Terry, Elvis is an exactly short when he realized his daughter probably wasn't coming home. Maybe IT was the afternoon long after having disappeared, when he was standing at his mail box talking to his best friend.

One of my best friends came to the house. He looked me, he said. He thought I can get that thought 发现。

The not knowing made IT worse. And then stunning news, new developments tonight in the either Elvis k two months after hathors disappearance, sydney Moore hatherly x boyfriend was arrested and he didn't go to jail alone. He was joined by his wife Tommy more.

Both were charged with hetherton kidnapping and murder. Was this surprising to people? Tell me in sydney more our parents, they have three children, and then now they are involved in this crazy love triangle, kidnapping, potential murder.

It's something that you see in a date line episodes, not a story line that matches up with two people who have three children are supposed to be happy and married.

In her first televised interview, teme told us her marriage was a happy one.

We were Normal family. You know, it's about our children. Our kids always came first before anything .

to my home school. The kids and sydney worked at local restaurants. They enjoyed cookouts together and family vacations.

Boy is love sydney. But I hated the things he'd done to me.

Told her he found the affair upsetting, but quickly got over IT SHE said. Within a day or two, SHE had had a nice conversation with hair on the phone.

I said, i'm not mad at you and SHE said, well and as he told me the stuff that they had done and what had happened.

prosecutors didn't buy tami story for one minute, but they had to drop the murder charges. After all, they didn't have a body. How does that feel when they told you about that?

There is some tiny bit of justice, the world, for a brief moment. And then all of a sudden it's like, I never happened.

But IT wasn't over yet. IT was only just beginning. Both sydney and Tammy still faced kidnapping charges.

Sydney was up first. His trial began in the summer of two thousand sixteen. He pleaded not guilty more. And ladies know of the jury, the prosecution case was purely circumstantial.

There was no physical evidence, but they argued those surveilLance videos and phone records proved the last person to talk and meet up with other was sydney. However, the jury deadlocked a this trial has been declared in this case against sydney. More the prosecution didn't give up. When I came time for tam y's trial, they came up with a bull new strategy. They argued that Tammy had not only been sydney's partner in crime, sh'd been the mastermind calling all the shots.

They believe that he was the ultimate brains behind this whole plan.

prosecutors said. IT all boiled, downed this far from being the understanding wife who had access sydney's affair. Timy 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 either might be pregnant with sydney's baby when .

this gets out, IT becomes common knowledge. The fire, the jealousy that is anti more explodes into other 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 he had treated sydney afterwards.

He said SHE load of them. This witness said sydney had a tattoo of Tammy s name across his optima. His understanding was that tame made sydney IT.

The state theory was that was Tammy way of saying your mind and you're never gonna anyone else.

The prosecutor said timmy had even changed sydney to the bed with handcuffs.

I'm not speaking figuratively to you right now, literally changed him to the bed at night.

but is angry as he wasn't suddenly for cheating. Prosecutor said tami was serious with heather. She'd sent her several tax. The prosecution said some of them were threats. Mother was really afraid .

of Tammy SHE was her friends had played a prank on her one time at work where they pretended to be Tammy, calling how their phone and SHE was absolutely terrifying .

and the prosecution said, if there was any doubt about the way Tammy felt, just look at this nasty facebook post Tammy had written after having disappeared.

calling her a SHE could have said, o, am so sorry this girls missing and hope you fighter and left IT alone. But no, he goes on the attack.

Ten is the one with the motive, SHE is the hunter.

and IT was a hunt, the prosecution said. This expert witness told the jury he'd use cell phone data to track the morals movements. In the days before the disappearance, they showed up near heathery's workplace, some of the bar SHE light, even her home.

The prosecution suggested the couple was stalking her. Then in the early hours of december eighteenth, with healer's ROM made out of town, the prosecutor said the couple struck IT began here. The prosecutor showed the jury surveilLance video of sydney walking into a walmart and purchasing a pregNancy test for either from mom.

They go and call her wow, because the test is for her.

The prosecution theory was that sydney had called heather to come and get the test, take IT and then meet up with him later at the landing. They said what he didn't know was that timmy would be there too.

There is no doubt sydney is debate in this hunting. He's debate.

Prosecutors admitted .

they couldn't say what happened to heather at the landing, but they asked the jury to use their common sense. An investigator showed the jury of photo of several items found on the more property.

There is a sport in, there is a bag of concrete next year. And off to the decide up here is some type of a bottle of our cleaning solution.

The prosecution suggested IT was nothing less than a kidnap and kid what the moors might have needed to kill heather and dispose of her body. How hard was IT for you being in that court every day hearing these details, having to see timi .

most days when I woke up, I didn't want to come to the trial, but I went because when you see your parents hurting, you wish that you could take other pain away.

And something like this, I means an possible task for me to do. But you can do small things, you can sit with them, and you can to hold their hands when they need that.

After seven days of testimony, the prosecution rested and the defense announced Tammy was going to testify in her defense. As hard as that might be to listen to her, that was something Morgan didn't want to mess coming up.

Did I tell .

me more understand and all the offensive Tammy .

was just in digna.

There's answers to this mystery and they refused .

to solve IT when deadline continues.

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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 is the one with the motive.

SHE is the hunter. Nobody just wanted at home to my children to take care of them.

Tame believed he was being victimized by a relentless prosecutor here.

There's not getting justice by put an innocent person in jail.

SHE never will. I think that from the beginning, Tammy was just in in dignity that he was even charged with.

This in my column is tami's defense atterley.

They cannot prove to you that anybody, they more ever went to the boat landing at the end of the street route.

The defense told the jury to look at the evidence or lack of IT, starting with hatherly car.

and did not indicate that anything occurred inside to be a one.

The police officer who proceed, hetherton carr testified he couldn't find any evidence of a struggle. Investigators found no trace of a crime inside the morals house or truck either. And speaking of their truck, the defense said you couldn't tell whether IT actually was sydney and tami's truck caught on camera heading towards .

peach tree landing. You have low image, low resolution surveilLance video. Our position is that you absolutely cannot draw any conclusion beyond the fact that that may be a certain making model.

This video did not pass the smell test for you.

This video didn't even give off an older OK.

Another piece of flawed evidence, according to the defense, was a cell phone data that seemed to suggest Tammy and sydney had been stocking either.

I would say you could compare their phone activity to anybody else is who lived and worked in the area, those of where the nightclubs are there, restaurants there. I would appear that I would stalking her as well if you just looked at where my phone went.

The dean said that what the jury really needed to understand was a simple fact. No piece of evidence put to me at the landing. If anything, her alibi .

placed her miles away. Tams's children stay in the house there with you where your mother polling lives.

Yes, Tammy sister Ashley told the court he was babysitting tam y's kids on the night of december seventeen, SHE said. Timmy in sydney went out together in the hours leading up to hetherton disappearance, but actually remembered when her sister came home.

SHE texted in me that night saying that he was home.

IT was beginning of .

three o clock in the morning. I believe I was .

three ten for the defense. IT was a timestamp proving Tammy was home well before heather went missing. That wasn't all he said.

Both sydney and Tommy phones were on and pinging from their house, not from the landing. One hair was there. IT was all so hard for Morgan to listen to someday SHE wished he hadn't come to cord. That all changed during a crucial moment in the trial when I found out that tim.

I was going to testify. I really wanted to be there because I do look like out there. And he ran into me in the whole way, and IT was the first time he had ever really made eye contact and been up close and personal with me. And I could hear her audibly gasp.

But when Tammy took the stand, SHE seemed confident, ready to tell her story. SHE told the jury. SHE wasn't a ruthless kidnapper. SHE was a mom.

my Youngest on the far left ever there.

and he was a wife who had found out her husband was cheating on her initially to me, said he texted the other woman's phone number to find out who he was.

The messages were never directed toward to the Alice. They were directed to the mystery burson. And I just want to know what.

At the end of the day, Tammy said the only reason he was angry was sydney, was because he wasn't forthcoming about his affair in their marriage. They had an arrangement.

So I think it's a good idea to have an open marriage for a little bit and just see if we're meant to be together. The only thing I ask if you is, be honest with me. Sydney was an honest with me, and that's why I got angry with sydney.

SHE said. When either went missing, SHE in sydney were working on their marriage, even hoping to get pregnant. That test sydney bought walmer, SHE said, was for her not either. Also, SHE denied that he made sydney get a atto as punishment. SHE said he had gotten IT long before he met either, and he had an answer .

about the handcuff. S too. Gever handcuffed the .

bed and leave with the keys. You could get you out and tell .

my had our own explanation for that so called kidnap and kid sydney needed the concrete for work, the cleaning fluid was for their dirty camper, and the shotgun shell probably just just spent casing from a turkey hunt.

Did you kid that either else?

No, I didn't know that.

Do you know who kids .

after I do know that .

you care that you're able to tell people what happened at what you did do and didn't do.

I want people to know the truth and I too wonder there.

Found to me has said that he wants to find either SHE actually liked, either SHE didn't do this. And yet he goes on facebook calling her a psychopath r which is IT.

You know, I can't really, you know, explain everything that the Tammy said. I felt I think IT was a huge mistake to call her names and do that sort of thing.

He said of Tammy had kidnapped ed either. Why would he be writing nasty facebook post about her? The officers listened to Tammy s. Testimony about heather .

was discussed. SHE deserves to be found so offensive .

to hear her name come out of that woman's mth. You SAT there .

so quietly in that courtroom. Did you .

just want to scream? IT was infuriating some of the things that .

he said the trial was far from over IT was the prosecutors turned to question Tammy and the prosecutor wasn't going to .

pull any punches coming up fireworks in the court room.

This is a story about jealousy and deceit.

They don't have one fiver, one tear drop.

one piece shoe lace. High stakes in the jury room has reached .

averted.

Say, my god.

when Tammy Moore took the stand in her own defense, SHE sailed through her direct testimony, but then came prosecutor Nancy live, say.

please do you know who am I too and who Nancy lives?

Say, you've made miserable.

But Nancy life, say, was just getting started. The prosecutors mission to show the jury that timmy was hardly the tolerant wife SHE claimed to be. When IT came, the heather Elvis, the prosecutor argued Tammy was angry, vengeful, and Tammy s.

Text to heather proved that you can tell me who are right that way won't have a great turnout for you. yes. And at the time, how over you?

I think I was forty one or forty two? Not sure.

okay. So do you know now when you sent her that tip? SHE was a year.

I know. Now I didn't.

The prosecutor suggested Tammy behaved like a stalker .

and you've said, and on eleven, eleven I think the bitches in head and there would you .

say if it's on there?

OK, here's my question to you. How many times have you gone up there and looked her to believe that he was in hat because IT certainly leaves the impressive yeah that what makes you think if the bitches and had I was just being .

in a jerk at the time, I guess, Nancy, so I I can say.

have we ever remade outside of this courtroom?

I don't think so.

but I didn't know when we get on a first name base.

After ten days and more than forty witnesses, each side wrapped up.

This is a story about jealousy and deceit. And this story has been around for a long, long time.

The prosecution driving home its case that Tammy had motive to kidnap heather Elvis.

They don't have one, one tear drop, one piece of salt, one piece of shoe at the .

boat landing the defense arguing there was not a scrap of evidence to prove IT. What would the jury do?

Understand jury reached .

vert IT took yours .

less .

than four hours to reach a verdict when the jury found a defended taming casson Moore guilty of kidnapping, guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap two counts in court. Tammy took IT stoically. Later, SHE was emotional.

told my kids if her that came, and I was going away because I knew that what I would be.

the Elvis got the verdict they wanted, but I wasn't going to bring her there back.

I didn't change anything people say, didn't change the big picture. I didn't change a little picture.

You expect a few to be a Victory, but IT doesn't feel like that at all.

Have their sister Morgan looked across to the moors?

I was another family. They getting turned apart.

those children sitting behind their mom.

yeah. And I have lived first hand. If family getting turn apart, and I wouldn't wish on anybody.

Tommy Moore was sentenced to thirty years per count to be served concurrently. As for her husband's sydney, he too SAT in prison, having been tried and convicted of obstructing justice by lying to police during the investigation. His sentence ten years, but the solicitors office wasn't done with sydney more just yet. In bolden, by the verdict and Tammy Morris trial, IT decided to reach try sydney more for the same two crimes, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. His trial began one year after Tammy was .

convicted and his wife tending more conspired plant and executed that plan to kidnap, either replace on december eighteen to twenty thirteen.

This time, the prosecution stuck to its winning playbook.

They took her from her community, from her friends and from her family.

calling many of the same witnesses as they did during tami's trial.

Question about whether or not he was bad.

yes, the defense countered, arguing that the state's case was then and that the police rushed to judgment.

They've now come you .

and asked that you believe that they've met their burden to beyond the reasonable deal.

And in so doing, they're saying that they've excluded all other reasonable possibilities. The folks they can do that the evidence just doesn't fit.

The jury didn't degree IT deliberated less than two hours the verdict guilty at sentencing, the eldest family told the judge finding heather was more important to them than puni shing.

the defendant point, you give him .

a day if you .

just tell us what .

she's then IT was sydney .

morse turn to respond. I know, I know this service not like people. Sorry.

you like king, like his wife. Before him, sydney received thirty years for each count to run concurrently. As for debian, Terry, they're in the same place they've been since two thousand and thirteen, living with a hope that one day they'll get the answers about what happened to either the Young woman who adds so many years ahead of .

her and what would you say to have her some way home. We were .

not give up, never going to give up.

That's all for now. I'm less or hold. Thanks for joining us.

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