The jury did the hard work and put together the trail left behind from all the phone records, witness testimony, and put that with the venom and lies spewed from the defendant, and managed to come to a unanimous verdict. I like!
Re: the previous discussion on the last thread about PTL - From my perspective, too many moving parts before PTL for it to make sense that Heather was dating/doing dinner, posting on social media, making repeated phone calls, driving all over, turning around, sitting in her car, driving more, etc, then being kidnapped and murdered in minutes and her body almost magically vaporized.
Not enough moving parts from PTL onward, with the M's heading back toward their home after a fleeting kidnapping/murder/phone toss, body disposal, then the trail ends.
I had said way back that the state jumped on the PTL scenario wagon and had everything happening there because it's where the car landed and the ping happened. But the fact is, there's no evidence of a crime there or at the M's home. That's why they had to axe the murder charge, however temporarily.
The LB info, if I understand correctly, wasn't known to LE at the time of the arrest. It seems they are stuck with a PTL story whether it makes sense or not, because they can't theorize what happened after the car/truck went there, and they didn't know about LB's and the driving around/dumpster parking/circling stuff soon enough. JMO
OK, I am PISSED OFF.
Watch this clip from Dateline:
November 5 - December 18, 2013:
Heather had no known contact with SM
November 19, 2013
The M family left on a cross-country driving trip to Disneyland in California
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Heather moves into a new apartment w/ BW @ 541 Whiteriver Drive, Myrtle Beach, SC (@ River Oaks Golf Plantation)
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The M family returned home from their trip to California
Friday, December 13, 2013
Heather's last Facebook post
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
7:00 pm SS picks HE up for their date
Wednesday, December 18, 2013:
1:12 am SM seen on surveillance parking his truck in a handicap space at the Seaboard Street WalMart
1:19 am surveillance footage of SM buying pregnancy test and a cigar at the Walmart. Paid with cash.
~1:15 -1:30 am SS dropped HE off at her apartment were he stayed for 5 minutes, said HE didn't answer any calls during their date, she was in a good mood but tired, not crying or upset.
1:35 am HE receives a call from SM; call was placed from a payphone & lasts 4.83 minutes (payphone at Kangaroo gas station on Seaboard Street and Mr. Joe White Avenue)
1:44 am From her apartment, Heather called her roommate BW, who was in Florida, and spoke for 2.2 minutes; was crying and upset after the call from SM because she was trying to get her life back together after her affair with him and harassment by TM.
1:53 2:09 am 10 posts are made to HEs Tumblr account
2:29am: Heather tried to call SM back at the pay phone number 9 times, but no one answered. She never had another conversation with anyone.
~2:42 - 2:56 am - HE's phone was pinged at Longbeard's Restaurant, in the Carolina Forest area (according to GPS records). Four additional calls were placed to the pay phone during this time (not sure if that includes the 9 above)
~2:57 - 3:01 am - HE's phone pinged from Longbeard's Restaurant to Augusta Plantation Drive and back (according to GSP records)
~3:02 - 3:15 am - Fifteen GPS records indicated HE's phone was back in the area of Longbeard's. Two more calls were placed to the pay phone.
~3:16 - 3:19 am - HE's phone went from Longbeard's back to her residence. Two calls were placed to the SM's phone.
3:16am: Heather tried to call SM's cell phone, no answer
3:17am: Heather called SM's cell phone and spoke with someone for 4.15 minutes; (Phone pings place HEs phone at her house & SMs phone at his house)
~3:20 - 3:24 am - HE's phone remained at her residence.
~3:25 - 3:35 am - HE's phone moved from her residence on White River Drive to the Peachtree Boat Landing.
3:36am: A security camera at a private residence 1.7 miles from the M home recorded a distinctive late-model Ford F150 coming from that direction and heading toward Peachtree Landing
3:37 am - HE's phone was at Peachtree Boat Landing. Four outgoing calls were placed from that phone to SM, but there was no answer
3:39am: A security camera at a business D&S Siteworks 1.2 miles from Peachtree Landing recorded the Ford F150 heading toward the landing
3:41am: All data and GPS signals ended on Heather's phone
3:45am: The security camera at D&S Siteworks recorded the Ford F150 returning from the direction of Peachtree Landing
3:46am: The security camera at the same private residence recorded the Ford F150 returning from the direction of Peachtree Landing toward the M home
3:47 am Suspicious activity/car report is made @ Atalaya Place, Myrtle Beach SC
~4:00 am - HCPO patrolling the area of Peachtree Boat Landing discovered HEs car locked and abandoned with all its windows intact. No signs of Heather.
In interviews with LE, the Ms claimed that they had sexual relations in their vehicle in different areas of Myrtle Beach during the early hours of the morning Heather disappeared
The Ms made a [video=twitter;445629538278862849]https://twitter.com/marshall_staton/status/445629538278862849[/video] of $5,000
Thursday, December 19, 2013:
LE visited the M home and were allowed to check the house and camper, but found nothing
Friday, December 20, 2013:
2:15 AM Video of SM speaking with HCP for about 10 minutes, at the end of Moorers driveway. In the video, SM said he didnt go to Peachtree Boat Landing and said he had ended his involvement with Elvis. "I'm trying to fix things with my wife. I'm not denying it. I'm saying I ended it."
SM told LE he hadn't seen Heather since October; after LE confronted him with Heather's phone record, he said he last spoke to her by phone on the 18th and told her to quit calling him
January 8 - 12: Half Marathon Weekend at Walt Disney World
January 11, 2014:
SM participated in a half marathon at Walt Disney World
January 17:
TM posted on Facebook that her husband had had an affair with Heather, and complained that Heather's family members were harassing them
January 19:
Searchers near the Moorer home were threatened with assault and battery by members of TM's family
January 25:
TM sent text messages saying Belize sounded good, and that she was packing her camper and running to Canada
January 28:
SM texted his sister-in-law for advice on what to do "with her acting the way she is"; SIL responded that "she needs to get sober."
February 2:
SM texted to TM that he "made a horrible choice" in his affair with Heather, but thought he could change their future together for the better
February 11
When a WMBF reporter knocked on his door, SM refused to comment on the case
Friday, February 21:
7:30am: LE executed search warrants at the Moorer home; SM and TM were arrested, each on charges of Obstruction of Justice and two counts of Indecent Exposure
That timeline brings up more questions for me.... and i do think the state may have other theories but for now is just sticking to what they said until something else comes out.
Has it been stated anywhere that both TM and SM were followed or watched from the 20th on? I remember they said they knew where they were ... but I'm starting to question if they didn't move her somewhere until later not thinking her car would be found that quickly. And was that 5k for someone else to finish something? Or was it part of the money found in the house? I doubt EVERYONE was followed or watched from the 19th on.
Re: the previous discussion on the last thread about PTL - From my perspective, too many moving parts before PTL for it to make sense that Heather was dating/doing dinner, posting on social media, making repeated phone calls, driving all over, turning around, sitting in her car, driving more, etc, then being kidnapped and murdered in minutes and her body almost magically vaporized.
Not enough moving parts from PTL onward, with the M's heading back toward their home after a fleeting kidnapping/murder/phone toss, body disposal, then the trail ends.
I had said way back that the state jumped on the PTL scenario wagon and had everything happening there because it's where the car landed and the ping happened. But the fact is, there's no evidence of a crime there or at the M's home. That's why they had to axe the murder charge, however temporarily.
The LB info, if I understand correctly, wasn't known to LE at the time of the arrest. It seems they are stuck with a PTL story whether it makes sense or not, because they can't theorize what happened after the car/truck went there, and they didn't know about LB's and the driving around/dumpster parking/circling stuff soon enough. JMO
Rarely do we read about a case where the body is moved days, or weeks after the death. It MAY happen, but not very often. I don't think Heather's body was moved later. It was disposed of that night/early morning, IMO.
I agree the disposal was that night. If one does not believe she was not taken at PTL, does that mean the testimony about a picture being shown on the phone was bogus? On the other hand, if one believes that picture on the phone was credible, doesn't that fit the narrative pretty well?
Why would those thoughts be mutually exclusive? We don't know where the picture was taken iirc.
Anyone have any theories as to why the pregnancy test being found in Bris bathroom trash wasn’t brought up at Sidney’s trial??
I have a very vague recollection of TM saying (on the stand) that the State claimed previously that the pregnancy test box was found somewhere else? I don't think I imagined that.