A federal lawsuit is being filed on behalf of two individuals charged – and convicted – in connection with the December 2013 disappearance of Heather Elvis.
Elvis was last seen on December 17, 2013. Her car – a green 2001 Dodge Intrepid – was found two days later at a boat landing near Socastee, S.C.
That was the only break in the case.
Five-and-a-half years later, there has been no trace of her …
Police arrested husband and wife Sidney Moorer and Tammy Moorer in the aftermath of Elvis’ disappearance, originally charging both of them with murder. According to the law enforcement narrative, Tammy Moorer was jealous because her husband was having an affair with the 20-year-old Elvis.
Tammy Moorer told a reporter in 2014 that her husband had sex in her car with Elvis “a total of three times.”
“(Sidney Moorer) ended it when he realized something wasn’t right about her,” Tammy Moorer told the reporter.
Prosecutors in the office of S.C. fifteenth circuit solicitor Jimmy Richardson uncovered menacing text messages related to Elvis sent by Tammy Moorer. They believe the Moorers lured her to Peachtree Landing – a remote and wooded area located alongside the Waccamaw River near Socastee – at around 3:30 a.m. EST on December 18.
The Moorers told police they were at home at the time of the kidnapping, but their cellphones were tracked to the area near the landing. Surveillance video also spotted a Ford F-150 truck matching a vehicle owned by the Moorers traveling along the route between their home and the boat landing.
As for Elvis’ phone, it last pinged cell towers at 3:41 a.m. EST – minutes after being tracked to the boat landing.
Elvis’ phone has never been found, either.
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Tammy Moorer was convicted of conspiracy and kidnapping last October in connection with this case and sentenced to thirty years in prison. In August of 2017, Sidney Moorer was convicted of obstructing justice and sentenced to ten years in prison. He is scheduled to stand trial on conspiracy and kidnapping charges later this year.
According to attorney Eric Poston, the mic-dropping new attorney for the couple, police bungled the investigation. He says his firm has “had to do what the police didn’t do – actually investigate.”
“This lawsuit is, for better or worse, the Moorers’ first and probably only opportunity to get their story (i.e. the truth) out to the public without any limitations,” Poston said in a statement provided to WBTW TV 13 (CBS – Florence/ Myrtle Beach, S.C.). “We have figured out what happened to Heather, and are working hard to close the few remaining gaps in the story. That is the main reason it is taking months to get this lawsuit together. The purpose of it is not simply to hold the wrongdoers accountable and it is certainly not about money; it is to clear the Moorer name and identify the real criminals by way of shining the national spotlight on the incredibly (and we argue intentionally) pathetic police investigation.”
Wow …
According to Poston, the lawsuit will target “the involved law enforcement agencies as well specific law enforcement officials” as well as “others who were involved in the coordinated harassment of the Moorers that was planned out on the various Facebook pages.”
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What does Poston believe happened to Elvis (above)?
His statement did not say, but it did note “the last person to see (Elvis) … was interviewed for a grand total of fifteen minutes and none of his alibis were checked (nor) was his phone thoroughly analyzed.”
“We’ve still figured it out, though,” Poston said.
Poston is making some big promises as it relates to this forthcoming suit. Can he deliver?
“This will be quite an entertaining litigation process from an attorney’s perspective,” he said in his statement. “You’ll see many people crumble under the weight of their own lies after being asked questions they should have been asked six years ago. You’ll see the truth blossoming and so will the rest of the country. It’s going to be incredibly humiliating for the police. But I could give less of a damn if it gets two innocent people out of prison and replaces them with the real criminals. If it finally produces justice for Heather. And it will.”
-FITSNews
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