On December 17, 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis went on a reported first date that ended when he dropped Elvis off at her apartment the following morning, around 1:15 a.m. The date was an attempt to move on after a reported relationship with local repairman she had met through her job, Sidney Moorer, which had ended approximately two months before. Around 1:44 a.m., Elvis phoned her roommate to tell her how her first date had gone. The conversation between the two lasted approximately ten minutes, during which she advised Elvis against returning Sidney’s calls.
According to some accounts, phone records indicate that Elvis and Sidney’s phones were used to call each other several times in the early morning hours of December 18, 2013. Moorer reportedly admitted to speaking with Elvis on two different occasions, but also denied any wrongdoing in her disappearance, despite camera footage showing a truck that is believed to have belonged to Sidney Moorer going to and from the boat landing where Elvis’ car was found, abandoned at the Peachtree Landing near Socastee. The two had been reportedly having an affair, but it ended approximately two months before the disappearance.
Documents also show that during the same early morning hours of December 2018, Sidney Moorer was seen on surveillance video buying a pregnancy test at Walmart. There are suspicions that Heather Elvis was possibly pregnant at that time. Then around 4:00 a.m. on December 18, 2013, Elvis’ car was discovered at the boat landing.
Heather Elvis was reported missing, and authorities spent days searching the Waccamaw River and other areas in Horry County. Many believe that Sidney and Tammy Moorer know more about the disappearance of Elvis. Just four months after the disappearance, the Moorer’s were charged with murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice, indecent exposure, and were later charged with Medicaid fraud. The murder and indecent exposure charges were dropped in 2016.
The couple is serving prison sentences for kidnapping and conspiracy. In 2023, the Moorer’s lost their appeals to overturn their convictions. The body of Heather Elvis has never been found.
Written By: John G. Clark Jr.
