Heather Elvis was born on June 30, 1993. Her mother's name was Debbie and her father was Terry. She also had a younger sister, Morgan. In 2011, Heather graduated from St. James High School at Murrells Inlet. Her parents allowed her, as the eldest daughter, to move out shortly thereafter to her own apartment in Carolina Forest (Horry County, South Carolina, USA), which she shared with her roommate, Brianna Warrelmann.
During her cosmetology studies, Elvis worked as a waitress at the Tilted Kilt pub in Myrtle Beach and the House of Blues restaurant in North Myrtle Beach, where concerts and special events were also organized. It was a typical part-time job during my studies. The girl planned to improve her skills in applying makeup and performing other cosmetic procedures. This was what she wanted to do in her professional life. Unfortunately, these plans and the entire life of the 20-year-old began to get complicated.
In June 2013, Elvis became aware of Sidney Moorer, a 37-year-old married resident of Socastee. The man repaired the kitchen equipment at the Tilted Kilt. Heather tweeted early in their first month of dating that she liked older men. Then she expressed an interest in "the guy who builds things in my job" and wrote that she wanted to have sex with him. In a tweet on July 12, Elvis admitted that she would like to see Sydney. Four hours later, she added that she had done something very wrong and that she was "deep and going even deeper." These were probably allusions to the romance he had begun.
Friends and coworkers mentioned that Heather spoke frequently about her relationship with Moorer. The man used to come to the restaurant when he was not working. He would bring the young woman coffee and bagels. Sidney considered asking Elvis to become a nanny for his children if he and his wife moved to Florida, which they took into account.
Moorer said his 20-year-old romance was mostly in September 2013. Later that month, Elvis tweeted that “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It didn't end well. " This was interpreted as a commentary on their ending relationship. It wasn't long before Moorer's wife Tammy found out about the affair, which upset her greatly.
According to Heather's roommate, the spouse ordered Sidney to call her mistress and end the affair. Tammy listened to this conversation. Sidney told the 20-year-old that she was "nothing to him, just someone who spread his legs." Warrellmann recalled that these words touched Heather deeply and made her feel terrible. Tammy later told a friend that her husband and Elvis had limited their relationship to oral sex. She also sent her rival photos of her and Sidney having sex.
To make sure Sidney stayed true to her, Tammy handcuffed him to the bed every night. In addition, she had changed the phone password to one that only she knew. She also accompanied her husband when he left the house. The strangest thing, however, was when a desperate wife forced Sidney to have her name tattooed over his crotch. The man agreed to all these restrictions to save their marriage.
Tammy continued to contact Heather with text messages as well. She threatened them with force or suggested that she would kill her husband. On November 1, Elvis wrote back that she was not someone a woman could fear. She also added, "By the way, Daddy doesn't have a phone anymore," which was clearly referring to Sidney. It was the 20-year-old's only direct response to the many messages she had received from her envious wife. Tammy also tried to get her younger rival fired from her job at Tilted Kilt. She regularly called the restaurant and said her husband would stop repairing the equipment if Heather continued to work there.
At one point, Sidney is rumored to start writing to her lover again. In his opinion, the wife did not oppose the romance itself, because she herself had someone on the side. What hurt her was her husband's lie about it. Elvis asked the man when he would get the phone back. Sidney replied that their relationship was over. The girl agreed with this statement. She also said that she wanted his wife to stop calling the restaurant where she worked. She complained that she missed hours that day because they sent her home because Tammy kept calling. On November 5, Elvis shared on Twitter a comedian Daniel Tosh joke that seemed to allude to the romance of "hey, married." you can cheat on your wife OR murder her. never do both. then they will catch you. On November 19, the couple left South Carolina with their two children and went on vacation to Disneyland. They didn't come back until December 11th.
Friends and family said Heather had forgotten her affair by the time the Moorers returned. The 20-year-old got a job at a beauty salon in downtown Myrtle Beach, which she started just before Christmas. She waited impatiently for it. She also began going to church regularly with her roommate. One more thing has changed as well. Elvis gained weight and her colleagues at Tilted Kilt noticed that the size of her work uniform had increased by three sizes, especially around the bust. The young woman feared she was pregnant. Sidney would probably be the father. The girl's manager at Tilted Kilt said she did a pregnancy test. The result was neither positive nor negative, but marked as an error.
On the evening of December 17, Heather went on a date with Steven Schiraldi. It was their first meeting. From 22:00 the man and the girl were driving their car. The couple admired the Christmas decorations in the area. They later drove to the parking lot at Inlet Square Mall, where Steven taught her how to drive her vehicle with a manual gearbox. Elvis sent pictures of herself from that evening to her father and roommate.
Schiraldi dropped Heather off at her apartment in the Carolina Forest at around 1:15 am. The man is the last known person to see a woman. Twenty minutes later someone called Elvis' cell phone from a phone booth. The connection took five minutes. Shortly thereafter, the twenty-year-old called Brianna, who had traveled to another state to visit her family for the holidays. Heather said Sidney called her and said he was planning to leave his wife. He asked the former lover to meet. The roommate, who noticed that her friend was hysterical, advised her not to do so. The conversation lasted two minutes.
On the evening of December 19, a green Dodge Intrepid was found that belonged to the missing woman. The vehicle was parked next to Peachtree Landing, the site where boats were launched on the banks of the Waccamaw River in Socastee, approximately 13 kilometers from Heather's apartment. The car was locked. When we managed to get inside, it turned out that the owner's phone, her keys, and purse were missing. The woman did not answer the phone, and she was not in her apartment or work.
Horry County Police have started an investigation into the disappearance. Schiraldi, the last person to see Elvis, was quickly cleared of all charges. The day after the car was found, the nearby area was searched. However, no trace of the missing person was discovered. Subsequent river bed searches by a team of Coastal Carolina University rescue divers also proved fruitless. About two weeks after the disappearance of the 20-year-old, bones were discovered near where the car was found. It turned out, however, that they belonged to a man.
Investigators managed to get the missing person's phone numbers. They showed considerable activity within two hours after the woman told her roommate that Sidney had called her. However, it has not been publicly disclosed whether it was Elvis using the phone at the time, or whether it was someone else. At 2:30 AM, a call was made from Heather's cell phone to the pay phone Sidney had been using just before her lover went missing. But no one picked up the handset. Soon after, the person who was carrying the missing person's phone showed up at Longbeards Bar & Grill, where she spent 15 minutes.
The cell phone holder then drove to Augusta Plantation Drive before returning to Longbeards Bar & Grill for another 15 minutes. Meanwhile, Heather's phone was on a call to Sidney's number, but the man did not answer. The cell seemed to be moving, which meant that its then-owner had left the restaurant. Then, within five minutes, he returned to Elvis' apartment and stayed there for another five minutes. During this time, he rang Sidney's phone again, which was in his house, which resulted in a four-minute conversation.
It was established that at 03:37, eight minutes after the end of the call, Heather's cell was at Peachtree Landing (where the car had been found). A minute later three unsuccessful attempts were made to reach Sidney. It lasted two minutes. At 3:41 am they tried again. One and a half minutes later, the data from Elvis' phone ran out. It was only possible to establish the estimated location, i.e. the vicinity of the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge nature reserve.
Records of telephone conversations between Moorers were also examined. There has been no communication between their two phones since November 2. Sidney later testified that he then handed over his phone to Tammy. It was a condition for the continuation of their marriage. The next activity did not take place until December 18th at 04:37. The wife then sent an SMS asking for "stickers for pots and orange juice." "Yes ma'am," Moorer wrote back shortly after.
The police managed to find the surveillance recordings that showed a link between Sidney and Heather. According to a video from Walmart in Myrtle Beach, a man walked into the store at 1:12 a.m. He bought cigars and a pregnancy test, and left after seven minutes. The footage from the Kangaroo gas station on Joe White Avenue showed Sidney calling from a phone booth across the street on Elvis' cell phone. It was at 1:35 am.
Investigators also checked recordings from private security cameras located 5 km between the Moorer's home and Peachtree Landing. Two cameras - one halfway along the route and the other closer to the riverbank - captured a dark Ford F-150 heading towards the boat's launch site at 3:36 AM and 3:39 AM. At 3:45 and 3:46 the vehicle was driving in the opposite direction. His license plate was not visible. After reviewing and improving the film quality by the South Carolina Highway Patrol and the FBI, it was determined that the vehicle belonged to Sidney. The car was then searched.
The first two arrests related to the case did not involve Moorer or any other suspects involved in the disappearance of Heather Elvis. On January 28, 2014, William Christopher Barrett and Garrett Ryan Starnes were arrested and charged with obstruction of the administration of justice. Police determined that both men had posted false or misleading information on social media about the case. Investigators thus wasted time acquainting themselves with information that was not true. Both were released on bail. The charge against Starnes was dropped in April. The man did not attend the preliminary hearing as he was not notified of the date. The person responsible for it mistakenly believed that the matter was at the next stage. Starnes was then indicted in July.
Twice in February, Sidney told police that people shot him or threatened him with guns as he traveled with his family on local roads. The reason was the publicity about the possible role of a man in the disappearance of Elvis. In the Moorer-reported incident, the Georgetown deputy sheriff saw no sign that the man's vehicle had been fired upon. Sidney claimed to have heard bullets hit the car. The man later claimed that, in addition to these incidents, he had been tracked and received threats. The family's pets were killed and mutilated. Sidney later posted signs in front of his house announcing the threats and the impact they had on his children.
On February 21, police blocked a section of South Carolina Highway 814 past Moorer's residence to execute a property search warrant. The property was thoroughly searched by law enforcement within 11 hours. The Moorers were arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice, and two indecent antics. The latter allegation stemmed from photos of a sexual nature found on their phones. They were taken by the spouses in public.
The accusations of obstructing the investigation against Sidney were later cleared up. They resulted from his earlier denial to use a payphone. Moorer reportedly changed his testimony only after he was confronted with the footage from the gas station camera. The monitoring clearly showed how the man is making the call. At the press conference during which the arrests were announced, the police did not explain what evidence would justify the charges of murder and kidnapping.
The Moorers bailed $ 20,000 for obstructing the investigation and exposing themselves in public but later dropped the kidnapping bail in favor of a financial commitment for the murder. For the latter charge, they were previously held without bail. One month after the arrests, the court imposed a ban on all participants in the proceedings from disclosing information about the case.
Investigators also announced that they intend to initiate unrelated criminal proceedings against the Moores, which will concern financial discrepancies to the detriment of the state of South Carolina. In June, these allegations were formally brought and linked to the Medicaid scam. Investigators found that in a 2007 application for revenues in excess of $10,000, the spouses did not disclose the proceeds from running their business.
Following the arrests, the Moorers gained strong support on social media. Tammy and Sidney introduced Heather as a stalker on various sites, most notably on their Facebook profiles. They also suggested that the police had set them up and were protecting the real killers. The missing person's family tried to fight but felt overwhelmed. One local newspaper reiterated some of the slanders of Tammy and Sidney. For this reason, the Elvis family forbade these journalists from attending the press conference they organized to discuss harassment on the Internet.
In early 2015, the Moorers were released from prison, where they had been held for the previous 11 months. The judge agreed that Tammy's mother's house should be secured with $100,000 on a murder charge. At the bail hearing, prosecutors admitted that they still had no direct evidence linking the couple to the 20-year-old's disappearance. The Elvis family objected to the suspects' release, saying they had received threats from them and their supporters. The court, therefore, asked Sidney and Tammy for permission to monitor their whereabouts using GPS. The spouses were to keep a distance of at least 8 km from the Heather family home and avoid interactions with their members on Facebook or other social networks.
Due to continued threats against Sidney and Tammy and difficulties finding work in Horry County, a court allowed the Moorer to relocate to Florida in September. Sidney found a job there, while the case was still pending. Spouses were required to continue to fulfill bail conditions and not to extradite from Florida should they breach them.
In March 2016, prosecutors dropped murder charges against both Sidney and Tammy. They can be restored later if the state so chooses. The accusations of indecent behavior and obstruction of the investigation by Tammy have also been dropped. The allegations of Medicaid fraud were upheld. Heather's family was disappointed but understood that prosecutors had to make such decisions. The missing woman's parents hoped that further investigation and trials regarding the remaining charges would eventually lead to a finding of what happened to their daughter.
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