20/20 - Bad Romance: No Trace (Revisited)

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

A young waitress falls in love - but vanishes after an affair is uncovered. (Originally aired 1/30/24) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Deborah Roberts. We're taking a few weeks off from new podcast programming on Wednesdays while we work on a new interesting series to share with you. So in the meantime, we're bringing back some of our installments from our classic series, Bad Romance. Here's this week's episode. Hey there, 2020 listeners. This is Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020.

We've got a new spinoff series we think you're going to want to hear. So we're making it available for you right here on our podcast. It's called Bad Romance. Have a listen. And late one night, one of them disappears, and there's no trace. Am I ever going to love, going to love, going to love again? The swamps of Oree County, South Carolina are like a black hole. Peace tree boat landing is a dark, desolate place. There is no reason for a car to be there abandoned in the middle of the night.

In these swamps, anything can happen. Anything can disappear, even a body. Only a few miles from the dark swamps are these pristine beaches and the bustling boardwalks of the South Carolina coast. Myrtle Beach is about 75 miles of beach, white sandy beaches. We get 20 million tourists a year. The actual permanent population of Myrtle Beach is more like around 30,000. So this is still a really small town. When I first came down to Myrtle Beach to report on this story,

one of the things that I noticed first was this great divide between the tourists on the coast and the locals who live west of the intercoastal inland. And it was there that in December of 2013, a young woman, just 20 years old, Heather Elvis, disappears. When people talk about Heather, they smile. Because she was so full of personality. She lit up a room when she walked in. She was precious.

She had a wonderful life. She had some beautiful life. lived it the way she wanted. We've always been a tight-knit family. Everybody does for everybody else. She loved a makeup. She wanted to be in front of the camera and behind

the camera and design everything that she wore in front of the camera. Heather Alphus worked at a sports bar here called the Tilted Kill. Tilted Kill is an Irish, Scottish version of Hooters. So the girls wear kilts, they have TVs everywhere, they have a whole bunch of different beers on tap. Heather might have come off abrasive with some people, but she was just, she was very real.

When you're young in Myrtle Beach, you don't think bad things are going to happen. Way before dawn, a week before Christmas, Ory County Sheriff's Deputy Ken Canterbury is on a routine patrol near Peach Tree Landing. When he catches sight of a parked car, cars don't usually park here. He checks the vehicle. There doesn't appear to be anything out of the normal, so he then gets back and continues patrolling. The next day, someone reported that car as a suspicious vehicle because of the length of time it had been sitting at Pete's Reboat Landing. Officer Canterbury runs the tag. He finds you belong to Terry Elvis.

I had a knock at the door. It was a county police officer, and he was asking if we were missing. A green dodge intrepid. Oh, yeah, that's Heather's car. And then he goes on to explain that it's been found at Peachtree Landing, apparently abandoned. He said, let's ride down and take a look. Mr. Elvis immediately suspected something was wrong. He knew that that was his daughter's only mode of transportation.

It had no business being at that landing. She never went to that landing. I was just sitting there, twilling my thumbs and waiting, calling Heather's phone. It was going straight to voicemail, which is way out of character with Heather. It really didn't hit me. Where's Heather?

Until he started looking through things. Clothes, art, shoes, purses, makeup, you name it, was in her car. But they don't find her phone. They don't find her wallet. They don't find a pocketbook. Just looking into the woods to see if there's anything out of place. And everything looked on.

My panic had really set in. Heather's never done anything like this before. Something's wrong. What's wrong? That's when police began piecing together to the last known movements of Heather on the night she disappeared. So, December 17th, Heather went on a date with Steve Shalde. Stephen and Heather had gone to high school together.

She was looking forward to that date very much. Stephen says they went to dinner at a place called Bandito's. After dinner, they went to Stephen's house briefly to watch a movie. His mother corroborates that. Police across the country know that in any missing person's case, the first 48 hours are absolutely critical. Right now, they're leaving no. no stone unturned.

And as part of this initial investigation, they sent an officer over to the tilted kilt to see if Heather had missed work. One of the first things that investigators hear from Heather's co-workers is that there is a different man who they should be talking to other than the man Heather went on a date with the night before. The manager said, you really need to call Sidney Moore. There had been a relationship between the two of them. Sidney Moore, back in 2013, was a night maintenance man at the Tilted Kilt, which is where he met Heather Elvis.

Heather and Sydney started talking. She noticed that, you know, he was good-looking, he had a good attitude, and she went for it. Now, he may have been good-looking, but he was 37, which made him 17 years older than Heather Elvis. What was the actual nature of their relationship? I mean, most people would call it a sexual relationship, but from my opinion of talking to her, they were in love. Sydney and Heather were having sex all the time, anywhere that they could. There were allegations that there was sex in the restaurant nearby, during work hours, everything else. I guess Sydney just made her happy when they were together.

I knew that she was talking to a boy named Sydney, that he was. sweet and she was smitten. I had no idea he was married. Heather received a phone call and she said, I know you're with my husband. Betrayal. Jealousy someone was gonna pay. Friday, Avatar Fire and Dash arrives in theaters. I am the fire! Get your 3D tickets now for the greatest chapter of the biggest saga in history. Whatever happens, protect his family. Critics rave. It's by far the best Avatar movie.

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Originally, this case was just assigned out as a missing person. We did not know or have any reason to believe a crime had been committed in the beginning. The car showed no sign of a struggle. There was no blood, no broken glass, nothing to believe that a crime had been committed. However, they do know that she was having an affair with a married man who also worked at the Tilted Kilt by the name of Sidney Moore. When you're in love, you're in love. When you're 20, you don't always necessarily think through all of those things. Sidney Moore was 37 years old.

He had three kids, and he was married to a 40-year-old woman named Tammy. She was nearly twice Heather's age. The affair between Sidney Moore and Heather Elvis was the worst kept secret in Ori County. It wasn't a secret to those that worked at the kill. You know, we all knew about it. It comes out that three months into the relationship, Heather's co-workers had played a prank on her. One day, two of the girls decided to call the Tiltigil and pretend to be Tammy, Sidney's wife. And said, this is Tammy Moore.

I know about you and my husband. I need you to stop right now. And when Heather got that phone call, she totally freaked out. After that prank, coworkers say Sidney stops coming around the Tilted Kill. Hilt. About a month later, the phone rings, only this time, it really is Tammy Moore. It was Tammy on the other end, essentially, like, I know you've been sleeping with my husband. Sidney got on the phone and said, you were just some girl that spread your legs, and that he just used her for a booty call.

Heather was crying because they broke up, and she was very upset about it. After Tammy found out about the affair, she was absolutely livid. She did call Heather a lot, text Heather a lot Someone's about to get their beat down Heather was legitimately terrified You can tell me who you are right now Or I will find out another way

And what did they say do you remember? Oh, she was threatening her Hey sweetie, you ready to meet the missus? Basically just letting her know that she was there and she knew And what did she say, are you ready to meet the missus? That doesn't sound that bad well she did mention something about Sydney taking his last breath

your b-b-b-h is about to take his last breath Tammy Moore was definitely the more domineering part of that couple she told Sydney where to work when to work what to do if I would classify Sydney as anything in that relationship it would be utterly submissive Tammy was relentless she was sending pictures of her and Sydney performing sexual acts videos of, you know, the two of them together, I guess kind of to taunt

Heather. Heather didn't shy away from responding. I think you're a little obsessed with me. Nah, it was a bore. Really? So that's why you're still childishly texting me from your cheating husband's phone? Your skank needs to leave me alone.

Were you concerned for Heather, and was Heather concerned after those text messages came in? Her demeanor completely changed over the next few weeks. Like, She was very paranoid. In September 2013, Heather wrote on her Twitter page, Once Upon a Time, An Angel and a Devil fell in love, and it did not end well.

She probably was referring to her in Sydney. Heather just kept saying, leave me alone. Leave me alone. I don't want anything to do with this. And finally, the calls did stop. By the beginning of December, there was no communication between Heather and the Moors. Heather was really looking forward to her future after putting everything to rest with Sydney.

Remember, the night she disappears, Heather's on a date with a friend from high school, but investigators think the affair with Sidney Moore is worth checking out. So the police immediately go to Sydney House. They talk with him in December 20th, early morning. When's the last night or night before I can't remember? What's your relationship with her? Look, I'm over her. I've had a relationship. I broke it off.

Look, I'm over her. I haven't reached out to her. I don't know where she is. I've had zero contact with her. At any point, did you go down around the Peachtree Landing there? No. So what do they have to go on? There's no real physical evidence at Peachtree Landing. So investigators turned to cell phone records from that night. And there are a bunch of calls to and from a pay phone outside of gas station.

It's a number Heather has never called before. Heather dials that pay phone back nine times. The only reason she could possibly be calling that phone nine times that she's never heard of before is to get the other person that just talked to her back on the line. They find that the pay phone has surveillance video. It was very grainy. You see an individual. He's owned the pay phone over five minutes.

Even though they didn't know who it was, they had evidence. that the payphone had been used. They called Sidney Moore back. Orr County Police begin questioning Sydney about his whereabouts on December 18th, and he tells them that he and his wife, Tammy, were going around doing errands. And at one point, they stopped at a Walmart.

Oh, it was at Walmart, actually. Myrtle Beach, Walmart. Was your wife with you? Yes. Yes, she was with me the whole time. They asked him about the pay phone call. Had you used any other phones that night, your wife's phone? No. Did you make any pay phone calls? No.

I still have pay phones. Who makes a phone call today from a pay phone? Sidney Moore has a cell phone. Tammy Moore has a cell phone. And Tammy Moore used that cell phone to great length to harass and essentially stock Heather Elvis. They were calling from a pay phone to hide the call. There was a phone call made to Heather that night from a pay phone. at the gas station on 10th Avenue, but we have video from that.

Okay. Did you try calling her just a minute, a second? You sure? Maybe. How about we start again? I did. I called her from the phone. What did you say?

I asked her to please leave me alone. It sounded like a very innocent explanation, but Heather's roommate Priyna tells police a very different account of that phone call. At 1.44 in the morning, she called me. She was hysterically crying, and she said Sidney called me. She told me that he said he left his wife and that he was sorry and then he wanted to see her and be with her. And I told her, don't do it. By the end of the phone call, I was under the assumption that she wasn't going to meet Sydney.

That's when everything starts moving in a very different direction. There is no way this story is going to end well. After interviewing Heather's roommate Brianna, about that conversation that Sydney and Heather, had on the payphone, police begin by reconstructing the movements of Tammy and Sydney that night. They begin by pulling security video from that Walmart in Myrtle Beach. Sydney spent approximately nine minutes inside that Walmart, then we got back in the truck where Tammy was waiting outside. After that, they drove directly to the payphone where

you see Sydney make the call to Heather Elvis. Day 20 in the search for missing 20-year-old Heather Elvis. Dozens of cars and horse trailers line the heavily wooded area. While the police look at the Walmart and pay phone surveillance videos, everyone in town seems to be outsearching for Heather. Well, everyone but Sydney and Tammy, because they're busy trashing Heather on social media. Tammy Moore put out a Facebook post shortly after she went missing,

calling her a whore, saying these terrible things. We've all heard the term a woman scorned, right? And that's what Tammy Moore was. But when you see these posts, the way she's hounding this 20-year-old kid, it's disturbing. Using Heather's phone records and her Gmail account, investigators begin to piece together her movements. After that phone call from Sydney at 1.35 a.m.,

Heather ends up calling his cell phone. several times between 3.17 a.m. and 3.21 a.m. Finally, he picks up and the two have a conversation for about four minutes. And it's at that point that Heather gets in her car and begins driving. We trace Heather's phone all the way to Peachtree Boat Landing. And once she gets to the landing, She's again calling Sidney Moore, 337, 338, 339, 340. It was four phone calls right in a row. This is why this is important, because while Heather was making those phone calls, video surveillance cameras along the route to Peach Tree Landing also show a black pickup headed in the same direction.

Right there is the camera that caught what the FBI and the prosecutors say is that, Ford F-150 going south towards Peachtree Landing. When you look at a map, it's immediately clear that driving Highway 814 and Mill Pond Road is the quickest way connecting Peachtree Landing and Tammy and Sidney Moore's house. In fact, they're only four miles apart. There's nothing else at the end of that road but Peac Street Boat Landing and Heather Elvis. At 3.41 a.m. is when Heather's cell phone goes dead. Heather's phone dies, and then you see the truck immediately coming back across the same two cameras, heading back to the Moore's residence.

So assuming that whoever was doing this was roughly driving the speed limit, they only had about 60 seconds at Peach Tree Landing to do whatever they were going to do and get back on this road in time to be captured by those surveillance cameras at 3.45 a.m. At the time, Sidney Moore and Tammy Moore owned a 2014 Ford 150 truck. Rory County Police Department found there was only one and it was Sidney Moore, who also happened to be the only person that lived that close to the landing on that truck. Originally, when the officer showed up at Tammy and Sidney Moore's house on December 20th of 2013, they noticed that there were cameras up outside the house. However, once they went back, found out that the surveillance system in there was a new system and that had not recorded anything on December 18th of 2013.

They had no idea what was on the new system, but they knew that they, out of an abundance of caution, they needed to seize that system. Investigators also scoured the Moore's black pickup truck where they make an important discovery. The truck is equipped with a GPS tracking system, which has been manually deactivated. It's like a camera SIM card. You push it. down, it'll pop out. When you take it out, warnings will show up all over your vehicle. So it could not have been a mistake. It had only been taken out once, and that was the night she went missing. According to prosecutors, it's a bombshell piece of evidence. In case of a young woman who simply vanished. Two people have been taken into custody.

Both Sydney and Tammy Moore are being held here at the J. Ruben Long Detention Center. Two months later, the police arrested Sidney Moore and Tammy Moore and charged them with murder and kidnapping. Immediately, in this case, the defendants, the victims, everyone went to social media. It was like wildfire. It spread exponentially in a matter of hours. I never experienced anything like it where there were so many so-called facts that came from somewhere but did not comfort. from a police investigation. To quiet all the chatter, the judge grants a gag order. The order prohibits all parties including defendants,

prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies from speaking to the media. It was just a very traumatic time, so we were in a fog. So initially, when the moors were arrested, they were charged with murder in addition to kidnapping. That murder charge was later dropped. I assume, given the lack of

physical evidence in this case. No body, no blood, no murder weapon, that it would have been hard to prove for the state. Prosecutors decided to try Sydney and Tammy separately. So Sydney goes on trial first in 2016 for the kidnapping of Heather Elvis. Now prosecutors are not required to show motive when they try a case, but they do understand that motive often helps juries understand the background and what's really going on. And in this particular case, prosecutors were not going to disappoint that jury. And the motive they do bring to the jury is pretty startling. In the weeks before Heather Elvis goes missing, she puts on noticeable weight.

She went from an A cut bra to a B cut bra, then a B to a C. I mean, that's the kind of thing that typically happens when someone is pregnant. Yes, definitely. And remember that errand that Sidney ran at the Walmart, the night. Heather disappeared. He made two purchases, and he paid in cash. If she is pregnant with Sidney's child, that changes everything. How's everybody feeling tonight? The New York Times hails is this thing on is one of the best films of the year.

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There was no direct evidence to say it was Tammy and Sidney Moore. Everything we had was circumstantial. But prosecutors do have that video of Sydney shopping at Walmart. On that video, it shows Sidney Moore in his truck, F-150 drive into a handicapped parking spot, exit his vehicle, walk into the Walmart. The receipt showed that he had purchased a pregnancy test and a cigarette-type cigarette, and he paid cash. The conjecture is that they're going to take it to Heather and make her take a pregnancy test. According to Sydney, that pregnancy test wasn't for Heather. It was for his wife. Tammy. He insisted they were trying to have another baby.

There was no hard evidence of guilt to me. There was a bunch of bad character evidence, and there was a tremendous amount of circumstantial evidence. Prosecutors built what they believed was a very convincing case, knowing that asking a jury to convict based solely on circumstantial evidence is always a steep hill to climb. I think the surveillance footage was absolutely key because it created a time, that showed everything, all attention, was on Tammy Moore and Schindy Moore. I have questions about it. Very well, thank you.

When the state rested, I felt pretty good about it. So we did not put up a defense at that point. I think most people thought it'd be several hours for a verdict. We're like, this is a slam dunk. But it wasn't. It was news that a family and a process and the prosecutor hate to hear. The jury is still deadlocked and won't be unable to resolve it.

Therefore, I'll declare a mistrial. In this case, I'll have to be tried again. I think all of us were wondering what now? What do we do from here? The hung jury was a painful blow to the prosecutors and the Elvis family, and prosecutors were convinced that Tammy and Sidney were responsible. Investigators felt sure that the Moors knew more than they were. were telling, and they thought that maybe if they pressured them hard enough, long enough,

one of them would begin cooperating with authorities. That's why prosecutors decide now to pursue an additional charge, obstruction of justice, because Sidney had lied to police. It's over the pay phone call, where he's denying it, and then, yeah, we all know he made that phone call. The jury reached the decision in only 50 minutes. He's found guilty. of obstruction to justice and sentenced 10 years in prison.

The Elvis family says today's verdict is the beginning, not the end. I don't think it'll be like dominoes. I think the first one fell. I think the rest will fall into place. You can't hide it forever. About two years after City's conviction for obstruction of justice, now it's Tammy's turn to face trial on kidnapping charges. Today, the trial for one of the suspects, Tammy Moore, started,

Tammy Moore didn't kidnap anyone. She didn't conspire to kidnap him. For the prosecution, this will not be an easy case to prove. Tammy's not in any of the video, not at the Walmart, not at the pay phone. They'll need something else to connect Tammy to Heather. When you collect evidence, police normally focus on that very tight time that she goes missing at. But we started looking at a much larger thing. timeframe. Prosecutors cracked Sydney and Tammy's movements all over town before,

during, and after Heather's disappearance. And what they found was damage. They were chasing her, basically watching her to find out when she may be the most vulnerable. The key witnesses really were those individuals that knew that she was dating Sidney Moore and at the time she thought she was pregnant. Do you know who she was having sex with? Sidney. Who was she scared out? Tammy. I had never been face to face with Tammy up until that point. Who's in this picture? That's Heather. And how did she feel about Sydney? She loved him. And she's staring into my eyes. And she has this way of being very, very intense.

I mean, I get goosebumps still thinking about it to this day. The jury is about to hear the prosecution's theory that Tammy's rage at Heather's possible pregnancy had turned simple jealousy into a plot for revenge that would end in her kidnapping and disappearance. The college football playoff isn't over. Not yet. That epic run?

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The CFP National Championship, Monday, January 19th at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN and the ESPN app. As much as the witnesses talk about Sidney Moore's relationship with Heather, the prosecution wants to talk about Tammy's relationship with her husband. Tammy Moore was an extremely dominant, controlling person. She takes his phone. He can't work at the tilted guilty hunger. She even changed him to the bed at night.

But a jury needs facts, needs proof that Tammy was involved in Heather's kidnapping. Testimony and evidence were... Everything we had was circumstantial. But the circumstantial evidence we had, I don't think, could be contradicted. Like the cell phone tracking. Tammy and Sidney, both of their phones, began following around Heather Elvis' phone after November 2nd. And on the night of December 18th, both Sydney and Tammy's cell phone pinged on the same tower near the payphone, proving they were together that night. And is Tammy and Cindy's phone in the area of this pay phone at 1.30?

Yes, they are. Immediately after that phone call, she calls her roommate. My exact words were, do not call Sidney back. Don't do anything rash. Go to sleep and we'll talk about it tomorrow. When is the next time that you've heard from her? I haven't. When prosecutors presented video surveillance footage showing that Ford F-150 driving back and forth from Peachtree landing,

just before and just after Heather disappears, they were actually able to call a person who teaches forensic video analysis at Quantica. The work that we do include to help with questions of primarily identification. Is it true opinion today after looking at everything you've looked at that indeed it was the same truck as the known, truck, which belonged to Tammy Moore. Yes. The state rests, but the defense has a surprise for them. When the state rested, they excused the jury.

It was pretty clear Tammy wanted to say something. All right, and do you wish to testify to this case? I do you know. When she said, yes, I want to testify, there was a gasp in the room. Any prosecutor will tell you that's an amazingly big risk, but not as big as

the risk she takes by sitting down with 2020 and violating. of a gag order that had been imposed on her. And Tammy didn't want her attorney present. There are people who say that you wore the pants in the family, that you were really the powerhouse here. The man that makes the money is the one that's running the house. I paid the bills.

After he had the affair with Heather, did you actually handcuff him to the bed? Never. Were you angry enough that your husband cheated on you that you were ready to kidnap? Absolutely not. It seems that the prosecution, to some degree, thinks that you are the linchpin here, not Sydney. They change it according to what they need to say.

These were Facebook posts, triple coupons, follow, school's all done. So it looks like you are putting together a timeline. It starts with early in the night at 147. My sister texts me. 310, I pull into the driveway. I text her, I got the ad and that I'm home. So I just, I want to make sure that everything that I did, is accounted for that it's looking normal, just like any other day in my life.

It seems like everybody is lying here, except you. And that's why I am terrified of tomorrow, because I feel like this town is going to crucify me because of all the lies and all of the that's happened. What happened to Heather Elvis? Today, Tammy Moore took the stand in her own defense. Emmy thinks, in my opinion, that no matter where she's at, she's the smartest person in the room. She sat there and smiled the entire time. She batted her eyelashes, and it just seemed like she was an actress putting on a play. You know what time, 0,800 is?

8 o'clock a.m. Yeah, don't worry. Was the jury really going to buy this? But when she's asked directly, no smiling, nothing coy. Did you kidnap Heather Ellison? No, I did not. Do you know who kidnapped her? I do not.

When Tammy first took the stand, she came across very credible. I think she was the next day she called. It was a nice conversation. She was a nice girl. She wasn't mean to me. I wasn't mean to her. It took very little to push her buttons. And you said on 11-11, I have said, I had.

the bitch is in hiding. Isn't that what you said? It's on there. Okay. Then what makes you think the bitch is in hiding? I was just being a jerk at the time, I guess, Nancy. That's all I can say. Have we ever met outside of this courtroom?

I don't think so. Okay. She didn't know when we got on a first name basis. That had to be the first defendant that had called me by my first name. I felt like that was a almost power play on her part. part, me and you are equal, and I'm going to be controlling the temperament of these questions and answers. I'm asking the 12 of you to give this young woman and this family the ending that they deserve.

It was such a contentious trial. I didn't know what the jury was going to do. Heather's family is about to find out. The thousands of you watched online for the past two weeks as the state laid out its case against Tammy Moore. Today, the jury returned a verdict. Ladies and gentlemen, you understand the jury has reached a verdict. Is that correct? Yes, sir. I just closed my eyes and kept them closed. I was almost afraid to open him.

With the jury found of the defendant, Tammy Tayson Moore, guilty of you seriously kidnapped. Even though Tammy Moore's trial is over, the Elvis family have to still go through the trial of Sidney Moore. In September 2019, after a hung jury and a conviction for obstruction of justice, Sidney Moore thought that he might have a chance. You can't abduct somebody. You can't do all the things they're saying they're doing and not leave some trace of physical evidence. We're going to show you.

But it's not the same old case. Prosecutors have something new, something pretty shocking. And it's on tape. This DVD is a copy of the video surveillance system that was in the Mora's house. Remember, there was no tape from the day Heather Discival. disappeared. But this is from a few days later. And what that security camera video shows is Sydney and Tammy spending hours cleaning their F-150 pickup truck, and not just cleaning the

truck, but focusing on the rear passenger side. About 30 minutes into cleaning the truck, Sidney starts a burn pile over in the side yard and starts burning some of the regs that they're cleaning with and continues throughout the whole time they're there. To me, that just screams guilty. The defense claim that burning the trash is common in the Moore's neighborhood. I need an additional witness, Mr. Hill. Your Honor, the state has nothing further. After six years, multiple trials, three convictions and a lot of heartache,

the Elvis family braced themselves for the verdict. As for the prosecutors, Nancy Livesay and Chris Helms, all they could do was wait and hope. I understand the jury would reach the verdict. Yes. The verdict came back after two hours of deliberation. We, the jury, by unanimous consent, find the defendant, Sidney St. Clair Moore, on the charge of kidnapping, guilty. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, the jury.

Like Tammy, Sidney was off. Sydney was also sentenced to 30 years on each charge to run concurrent. And the jury, they thought it was pretty clear. They tried to raise reasonable doubt, and that was their job to raise reasonable doubt. But they didn't do their job, because I wasn't doubting. Were you? No. I know the right people are behind bars. I have no doubt about that. The perfect solution would be to find Heather Elvis alive, but I don't believe that will ever happen.

Sydney and Tammy Moore say they are innocent of all charges. In June of 2023, they asked the South Carolina Court of Appeals to overturn their convictions for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. That petition was denied. And for six years now, they've met at Peach Tree Landing in Sockstein. This event brings other families who have lost loved ones or are missing loved ones during a time of a year when family really means the most. If I could talk to Cindy,

I would want to tell him that this has been just a really long nightmare for everybody. But he could make it better if he would tell the truth. I hold up. I'd hope that I'll turn around one day at the front door and should walk in. Do I really think that'll happen? Deep down, no, I don't. But I'll never give up. You can watch fresh episodes of Bad Romance from 2020 on Monday,

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