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South Carolina wife faces kidnapping charges in case of waitress, 20, who had brief fling with her husband – Tammy Moorer is charged in the disappearance of Heather Elvis in 2013

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"article-header">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"flag-region">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Tammy Moorer&comma; 46&comma; wife of  man indicted in the disappearance of the 20-year-old woman&comma; with whom he was having an extra-marital affair faces kidnapping charges in the disappearance waitress who messed with the her husband<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The 20-year-old South Carolina woman vanished without trace and her abandoned car was discovered Dec&period; 19&comma; 2013&comma; near a boat landing in Myrtle Beach<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The body of Heather Elvis was never found&comma; but cellphone records led police to Sidney Moorer&comma; the man with whom Elvis had an affair<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Sidney Moorer&comma; and his wife&comma; Tammy&comma; aged 38 and 41 at the time&comma;  took to social media to attack the missing woman<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>They portrayed the missing woman as an obsessed stalker and unstable homewrecker&comma; even as the search was on for Elvis<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"double-rule">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300344" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Sidney-Moorer-left-and-his-wife-Tammy-Moorer-right-have-been-indicted-in-the-disappearance-of-Heather-Elvis-center-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sidney Moorer &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and his wife&comma; Tammy Moorer &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; have been indicted in the disappearance of Heather Elvis&comma; &lbrack;center&rsqb; 1&period;JPG" width&equals;"971" height&equals;"647" &sol;>Sidney Moorer &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and his wife&comma; Tammy  &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; have been indicted in the disappearance of Heather Elvis&comma; &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; in 2013<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content entry-content-read-more">&NewLine;<p>A missing young woman in South Carolina was already the target of vicious text messages after a fling with a 38-year-old married father was exposed by his wife&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At the time 20-year-old Heather Elvis vanished and her abandoned car was discovered Dec&period; 19&comma; 2013&comma; near a boat landing in Myrtle Beach and search parties were combing for her&comma; the smear campaign against her only intensified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Elvis has never been found&comma; but cellphone records led police to the man with whom Elvis had an affair&comma; Sidney Moorer who was 38 at the time&comma; and his 41-year-old wife&comma; Tammy&period; With the investigation focused on them&comma; the couple took to social media to attack the Elvis&comma; portraying her as an obsessed and unstable homewrecker&comma; according to prosecutors&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The words Tammy  <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cbsnews&period;com&sol;news&sol;report-missing-sc-woman-had-relationship-with-murder-suspect&sol;">wrote in a Facebook post<&sol;a> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well Sidney cheated on me in the months of Sept&sol;Oct with a psycho whore who has since went missing&comma;” have taken on significant meaning in her trial&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300345" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Sidney-Moorer-and-Tammy-Moorer-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sidney Moorer and Tammy Moorer 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1033" height&equals;"689" &sol;><strong>Sidney Moorer seen &lbrack;left&rsqb; with his wife and Tammy was having an affair with the young waitress at the time of her disappearance&period; Although he won a mistrial on kidnapping charges Sidney was later sentenced to prison in 2017 for obstruction of justice<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The cheating husband&comma; himself claimed his young lover pursued and stalked him even though his wife went to great lengths deter her pursuit of him&period; Tammy monitored his phone use and even handcuffing him to the bed at night&comma; he told police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content entry-content-read-more">&NewLine;<p>Both the Moorers were charged in connection with Elvis’ disappearance&comma; but nearly five years later&comma; the courts still haven’t determined if they’re responsible&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The couple initially was charged with murder and kidnapping in 2014&comma; only for the murder charges to be dropped two years later&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sidney was tried on the kidnapping charge in 2017&comma; but a mistrial was declared when the jurors couldn’t deliver a unanimous decision&period; His case was not retried and a future date has not been set&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Both Tammy and Sidney were indicted for conspiracy of kidnapping in 2017&period; The most recent indictments do not name Elvis as the victim&comma; but they say that the Moorers conspired on the day that Elvis disappeared&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sidney was sentenced to prison last year for obstruction of justice&comma; bringing a modicum of justice to the Elvis family in what has been a complicated&comma; drawn-out legal process&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now&comma; following years of legal setbacks&comma; Tammy will go on trial on the kidnapping charges for the first time&comma; with testimony set to begin Tuesday in the Horry County Courthouse&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a rollercoaster of emotions and it has been for the past five years&comma;” for Heather’s mother&comma; Debbi Elvis&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It actually feels worse now&period; Before&comma; we were more in a fog&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;While the drama of bringing the case to trial played out&comma; the Moorers have continued the cyber bullying and disparagement campaign against the missing woman as well as those who seeking justice on her behalf&comma; according to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;myhorrynews&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;newspaper-excluded-from-press-conference-called-by-family-of-heather&sol;article&lowbar;e5248bde-d980-11e4-841a-132b36f240ca&period;html">court records<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a very volatile case&comma; volatile to the point of both sides receiving violence&comma;” Debbi said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;13043845" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h6><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300362" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Heather-Elvis-8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Heather Elvis 8&period;JPG" width&equals;"713" height&equals;"480" &sol;>Still missing&colon; nearly five years after&colon; Over the phone Heather Elvis &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was put down viciousl&comma; scorned and derided by the older married man&comma; Sidney Moorer&comma; with whom she was having an affair&comma; while his wife was on the line  <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-300379" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Heather-Elvis-9&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Heather Elvis 9&period;JPG" width&equals;"663" height&equals;"665" &sol;> Elvis &lbrack;left&rsqb; and Moorer met on the job&period; She was one of the young waitresses at a local pub named Tilted Kilt&&num;8217&semi;&comma; where 38-year-old Sidney Moorer performed repair work<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Prior to her disappearance&comma; Elvis worked at a local pub named Tilted Kilt&comma; where she first encountered Sidney&comma; who performed repair work at the Celtic-themed bar known for the lively atmosphere and skimpy outfits that servers wore&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Soon enough&comma; the pair started talking and Elvis gushed about him to her co-workers&comma; according to testimony from the 2017 trial&period; Colleagues recalled that Sidney would drop by off the clock to bring her coffee and bagels&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During his obstruction of justice trial&comma; Sidney claimed their brief affair began in September 2013&period; Sidney allegedly talked about moving to Florida and Elvis joining his family as a nanny for his children&comma; according to her friends&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Elvis&comma; however&comma; may have had reservations about their relationship&comma; which she appeared to allude to on social media&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Once upon a time&comma; an angel and a devil fell in love&period; It did not end well&comma;” she <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;heatherelvis&quest;lang&equals;en">wrote on Twitter<&sol;a> in mid-September 2013&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Their relationship came to an abrupt end weeks later in October when&comma; according to Sidney&comma; his wife learned of their car rendezvous&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;13043850" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300351" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Sidney-Moorer-and-Tammy-Moorer-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sidney Moorer and Tammy Moorer 2&period;JPG" width&equals;"718" height&equals;"735" &sol;>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well Sidney cheated on me in the months of Sept&sol;Oct with a psycho whore who has since went missing&comma;” Sidney Moorer &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and his wife&comma; Tammy  Moorer &lbrack;right&rsqb; continually slagged a missing woman about whom they have been indicted in her disappearance<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Elvis’ roommate and close friend&comma; Brianna &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bree” Warrelmann&comma; said once Tammy discovered the affair&comma; she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;exploded” and barraged her husband’s lover with calls and texts&comma; going as far as to send a photo of her husband having sex with Elvis&comma; according to court testimony and media interviews&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tammy called Heather and said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;You’re going to end it with my husband&comma;’ and so she put Sidney on the phone&comma; sat there while Sidney and Heather talked&comma;” Warrelmann told Crime Watch Daily&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They ended things on the phone but Sidney made comments to Heather and said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;You were nothing to me&comma; you were just someone who spread your legs’ and basically tore Heather apart as a human being&comma; and who she was as a person and made her feel horrible about herself&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to phone records that was not the end of the harassment as the then-41-year-old Tammy continued with the barrage&period;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hey sweetie ready to meet the Mrs&period;&comma;” Tammy texted to Elvis in a Nov&period; 1 message&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The relentless messages prompted the 20-year-old to respond in a message saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think you are a little obsessed with me&period; I’m nobody you need to worry about anymore&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300353" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Investigators-search-the-Moorer-home-looking-for-evidence-in-the-disappearance-of-Heather-Elvis-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Investigators search the Moorer home&comma; looking for evidence in the disappearance of Heather Elvis 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"664" height&equals;"429" &sol;>Investigators the Moorer home&comma; looking for evidence in the disappearance of Heather Elvis&period; Prime suspect Sidney Moorer had just been forced by his wife to end an affair with the missing woman<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Elvis was despondent over the breakup&comma; according to acquaintances&comma; but she appeared to have a new lease on life as the holidays approached&period; She recently had been hired as a makeup artist and planned to start attending church with her roommate&comma; Bree&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Dec&period; 17&comma; Elvis went on a first date with a man named Stephen Schiraldi and they drove around neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 20-year-old sent her father a photo of her driving her date’s stick-shift vehicle with the caption&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Just learned to drive stick&period; I’m a pro&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Schiraldi said he dropped her off at her apartment around 1&colon;15 a&period;m&period; and they made plans to see each other again&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Excited about the date&comma; Elvis called her roommate to recap the night&period; But later&comma; around 1&colon;44 a&period;m&period;&comma; she called Bree again&comma; upset about a troubling phone call from Sidney&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300354" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Heather-Elvis-search-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Heather Elvis search 2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1033" height&equals;"688" &sol;>A massive effort was launched to search for Heather Elvis after she vanished in Dec 2013&period; She has not been seen to date&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He said that he left his wife that he missed her and wanted to see her and be with her&comma;” Bree testified at Sidney’s trial&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I got angry and said don’t do it&period; You’re finally moving on with your life&period; You’re happy again&period; You’re yourself again&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Elvis allegedly agreed on the phone with Bree that she would sleep on it before deciding how to respond to him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But around 2&colon;30 a&period;m&period;&comma; Elvis left her house and drove to Longbeard’s Bar and Grill in Carolina Forest&comma; where she was until about 3 a&period;m&period;&comma; attempting to contact Sidney several times between 2&colon;29 and 3&colon;16 a&period;m&period;&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thestate&period;com&sol;news&sol;state&sol;south-carolina&sol;article85452457&period;html">according to prosecutors<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They claim she called Sidney on his phone a final time at 3&colon;19 a&period;m&period; and spoke with him for more than four minutes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She then reportedly drove to Peachtree Boat Landing&comma; prosecutors say&comma; where her car was discovered the following day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300361" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;Heather-Elvis-7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Heather Elvis 7" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"750" &sol;><strong>What really happened to her&quest; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Once upon a time&comma; an angel and a devil fell in love&period; It did not end well&comma;” Elvis &lbrack;photo&rsqb; wrote on Twitter in mid-September 2013&period; She allegedly had reservations about her relationship with Sidney Moorer&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Surveillance footage showed a vehicle that matched the description of Sidney’s traveling that evening from the Moorer home to the boat landing and back&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sidney told investigators that he had no contact that night with Elvis and was with his wife&comma; who had handcuffed him to the bed&comma; as per their agreement to win back her trust&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After surveillance cameras placed him at a pay phone that made a call to Elvis around 1&colon;35 a&period;m&period; Dec&period; 18&comma; Moorer at this point he switched his account&comma; claiming he was only telling his ex-lover to quit contacting him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Still more footage from the same night showed him purchasing a pregnancy test&comma; which he told investigators was for his wife&comma; even though Elvis texted him about gaining weight and friends testified she was concerned she was pregnant&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It wasn’t until Feb&period; 21&comma; more than two months after Elvis’ disappearance&comma; that the Moorer couple was taken into custody and charged with indecent exposure and obstruction of justice&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The charges of indecent exposure against the couple were later dismissed&comma; along with Tammy’s obstruction of justice charge&period; Meanwhile&comma; the couple intensified their smear against Elvis on social media pages and message boards&comma; which rallied behind them when they were initially charged in 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-300347" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;The-family-of-Heather-Elvis-attend-vigil-held-in-her-honor&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The family of Heather Elvis attend vigil held in her honor" width&equals;"661" height&equals;"441" &sol;>The missing woman&&num;8217&semi;s family attend vigil held in her honor at the Cypress Camping Resort in the Socastee community on Thursday&comma; Jan&period; 23&comma; 2014 &&num;8211&semi;  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our main thing we’re hoping for is that there is justice in this case and that there is punishment enough for both of the parties&comma;” Debbi Elvis said&comma; commenting on the struggles to find justice for her daughter<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>With years of complications in the proceedings&comma; including the kidnapping trial against Sidney that ended with a hung jury&comma; there has been plenty of speculation but little resolution in the case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The very worse was when they had the hung jury&comma;” Debbi told The Post about the 2016 kidnapping trial&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was like they were walking out on my daughter and I can’t do anything about it&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the intervening years&comma; the Elvis family has fought to wrestle back their daughter’s identity from the Moorers&comma; defense lawyers and online trolls&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;People were kicking someone who was down&comma;” Debbi said about the online harassment&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They were talking about someone who was gone&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;When the court hears Tammy’s case this week&comma; the Elvis family is hopeful that they’ll decide not only whether she is guilty in the disappearance&comma; but put to rest the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;horrific depiction” of their daughter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our main thing we’re hoping for is that there is justice in this case and that there is punishment enough for both of the parties&comma;” Debbi said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;13043885" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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