As the kidnapping trial for Sidney Moorer entered its second day at the Horry County Courthouse in Conway, store video surveillance showed Moorer bought a pregnancy test and cigar the day Heather Elvis vanished, according to testimony.
The state showed several instances captured on surveillance footage, including Moorer buying the pregnancy test, a truck taking a trip to and from the direction of Peachtree Boat Landing where Elvis’ automobile was discovered abandoned and others security footage evidence and photographs.
Amelia Bethea, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agent, testified she obtained a surveillance recording from the Seaboard Street Wal-Mart where Moorer can easily be seen parking his truck in a handicap space and entering the store concerning 1:12 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2013. He after that chosen a test and purchased it, along along with a cigar, at 1:19 a.m., according to a time-stamped receipt, Bethea testified.
Terry Elvis, Heather Elvis’ father, said he couldn’t say whether Heather Elvis, that was twenty years old once she disappeared, was pregnant at the time she went missing. She has actually not been discovered due to the fact that Dec. 18, 2013.
“We’ve heard various testimony simply enjoy you have,” Terry Elvis told media outside the courtroom once proceedings wrapped for the day. “Usually you don’t believe something until you see it, and we’re not in a placement to see that yet,” he said once asked if he knew whether Elvis was pregnant.
Three of Elvis’ former co-workers at the former Broadway at the Beach restaurant Titled Kilt said they believed Elvis could have actually been pregnant since they knew of her sexual involvement along with Moorer, that worked at the restaurant as a maintenance man. The coworkers said Elvis was placing on weight, according to Monday’s testimony.
Elvis took a pregnancy test, yet the test read “error” and was inconclusive, witnesses testified Monday.
Stephen Schiraldi, that went on a date along with Elvis on Dec. 17, 2013, testified he was most likely the last individual to see Elvis prior to she disappeared.
“Would certainly you agree along with me that you are the last specific to lay eyes on Heather Elvis?” Kirk Truslow, Moorer’s attorney asked Schiraldi throughout a cross-examination.
“To my knowledge, yes,” said Schiraldi.
Schiraldi and Elvis went to the exact same higher school, yet didn’t understand each others well throughout that time; however, they were linked on social media after higher school, and Schiraldi asked her on a date.
On Dec. 17 2013, they went to Bandito’s Restaurant and Cantina in Myrtle Beach prior to Schiraldi took her to an empty mall parking lot to teach her exactly how to drive his manual truck. after that the 2 went to his mother’s residence where he lived in Murrells Inlet to watch a movie.
Schiraldi dropped Elvis off at her apartment about 1:15 to 1:30 a.m. Dec. 18, 2013, stayed approximately 5 minutes, gained plans to see her again about 3 p.m. once he got off work, shared a goodnight kiss along with her outside, and left, he testified.
He tried contacting her the next day yet never ever heard spine and was later called by Elvis’ roommate, that told your man she was missing.
Schiraldi testified that he did not leave his residence again until 9 a.m. Dec. 18, 2013.
Casy Guskiewicz, an Horry County police officer, testified that he was patrolling in the location of Peachtree Boat Landing, and located Elvis’ automobile there locked and abandoned along with every one of its windows intact concerning 4 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2013.
Video of Sidney Moorer speaking along with Horry County police for concerning 10 moments about 2:15 a.m. Dec. 20, 2013, at the end of Moorer’s driveway was likewise revealed in court, and Moorer was not a suspect at that time police questioned your man then. The video was from a physique camera used by Kenneth Canterbury, an Horry County police officer that took the stand Tuesday.
In the video, Moorer said he didn’t visit Peachtree Boat Landing and said he had ended his involvement along with Elvis.
“I’m attempting to fix points along with my wife. … I’m not denying it. I’m saying I ended it,” Moorer could be heard saying on the video, which had bad quality.
Canterbury and one more officer were questioned by Truslow concerning an abusive ex-boyfriend of Elvis’.
Jill Domogauer, an Horry County police crime scene investigator, took the stand and told the court she examined Elvis’ automobile and apartment and discovered no signs of a struggle. Terry Elvis was the registered owner of the automobile and had steered it to his residence while wearing gloves, police said.
Prior to Domogauer’s testimony, Jonathan Martin along with Horry County police gave a run down of Elvis’ cellphone records, which he said he authenticated.
He testified on that Elvis received a call from a Seaboard Street and Mr. Joe White Avenue Kangaroo gas station payphone about 1:35 a.m. Dec. 18, 2013. The call lasted concerning 5 minutes. She after that called her roommate Brianna Warrelmann and spoke along with her for a little a lot more compared to two minutes.
Next, she called the payphone spine nine times and never ever had one more conversation along with anyone.
Truslow said in court Monday and Tuesday that Moorer did usage the payphone and called Elvis to ask her to protect against leaving notes on his car.
Elvis called Moorer’s phone about 3:17 a.m. and spoke to a person for a lot more compared to four moments then. Elvis gained others calls to Moorer’s cellphone, yet had no further conversation, and the last call ever gained from Elvis’ cellphone was at 3:41 a.m., Martin testified.
Joyce Aland, a Horry County resident, that lives near the landing, and David Quandt, that functions at a company near the landing, the two gave surveillance footage caught by their cameras to police, which shows a truck taking a trip in the early morning hours of Dec. 18, 2013.
In footage from Quandt’s video, a truck can easily be seen taking a trip in the direction of the landing concerning 3:38 a.m. Dec. 18, 2013, then taking a trip spine from the location approximately eight moments later.
On Wednesday morning Circuit Court Judge R. Markley Dennis will certainly travel along with the jury to view the cameras at the request of the state.
“It’s been a long day. Covered a great deal of ground. a great deal of points that we hadn’t heard brought out. Glad to see brought out. I feel confident that we’re gonna see justice,” Terry Elvis said after court.
Moorer is likewise charged along with obstruction of justice in connection along with the case, yet Dennis ruled June 14 to attempt that charge separately after a motion was filed by Truslow requesting that the charges be tried separately.
Moorer’s wife, Tammy, likewise is charged along with kidnapping, yet her trial date has actually not been set.
Sidney and Tammy Moorer were charged along with murder in connection to the case in 2014, yet the murder charges were dismissed in March.
