RECAP FROM THIS MORNING (more on Cauble's testimony):
Cauble said Moorer’s dishonesty about using the payphone caused detectives to doubt all the information he told them when he spoke with them for more than an hour on Dec. 20, 2013. “If someone spits in my coffee, I’m not going to drink around it,” he told the court as an example of how one instance is enough to taint an entire interview.
He said Moorer mislead police during the two instances he spoke with them before Dec. 20, 2013 also by not telling them about the payphone call.
“He was telling the truth about certain things, but leaving things out as well,” Cauble said of his interview with Moorer, and said detectives took time and resources to comb out the truth.
He said Moorer also didn’t tell investigators he was in the area of Longbeard’s Bar and Grill in the Carolina Forest area that night, which Cauble said would have been relevant, because later detectives believe Elvis was at Longbeard’s before vanishing during the early morning hours.
Moorer told police he was out with his wife at his side throughout the night on Dec. 17, 2013 and into the early morning hours of Dec. 18, 2013, and that he only used the payphone at about 1:30 a.m. to tell Elvis to leave him alone and to stop leaving notes on his truck.
He told Cauble and other detectives that his marriage had suffered after his wife learned of the affair between him and Elvis, and that he had since gotten things back on track, and wanted to keep it that way. Moorer had agreed to let his wife handcuff them to their bed for six months, and said he was chained to it later that night.
He said he called Elvis in secret on the payphone, parking at a distance, so his wife wouldn’t see.
Cauble said he questioned whether Moorer and his wife Tammy were in a good place, because he said phone records revealed she was texting someone who was her boyfriend that night, according to testimony.
Moorer is also heard on the recorded interview played in court stating he didn’t want to take a lie detector test without an attorney when asked by detectives, stating confrontation made him nervous.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article170000502.html
. I think it will be completely unfair if it turns out he allowed it in the first trial and is now going to go back on that because of "his error."
