The father of a woman accused of the disappearance of her husband's 20-year-old pregnant mistress made a hair-raising threat to the agent who investigated the case.
Officer Peter Cestare, a lieutenant at the police of Horry County in South Carolina, reveals how William Caison, the father of Tammy Moorer, had a disturbing exchange with him while he interviewed Caison The disappearance of Heather Elvis.
Heather had had an affair with Moorer's husband Sidney and had disappeared a few days earlier.
The 2013 case and that chilling exchange can now be seen in a new three-part docuseries called Vanished: The Heather Elvis Case that will be launched on 10 March and will be available on Amazon Prime, Apple+and Google Play.
Prior to the release, Cestare told DailyMail.com that when he went to Tammy's house, her father Caison who lived next door was very 'agitated'.
He asked him what he did here and when the officer told him that there was a missing girl, whose car was found, but she wasn't, he replied: “What are you here and what do you want about it?”
He told him that there was an indication that the missing girl might have seen Sidney Moorer, his daughter's husband and that he would like to speak to both.
Cestare told the disturbing reaction. “He just looks at me and says:” There is nothing I wouldn't do to protect my daughter. '' '
Heather Elvis, 20, a hostess in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina started a new job as a make -up artist before she disappeared mysteriously in December 2013
Sidney Moorer had an affair with Heather and asked to meet her before she disappeared
Tammy Moorer, Sidney's wife, had discovered the affair
“It seemed like a strange thing to say, so I turned to him and I said,” Well, I can fully understand that I have two own daughters, and I always look to protect them. '
The former NYPD police sergeant said Caison then turned and looked him with this' Deadpan Stare 'and said:' No, you don't understand. There is nothing I wouldn't do to protect my daughter. '
“It was really bizarre as he approached me and what he told me,” said Cestare.
“That whole conversation between him and I might all last about two minutes, but it just never was good for me,” he added.
“I just got this strange feeling that there was much more than I knew.”
He said he finally served The search order on Caison's house and his daughter Tammy's house. He remembered that he was very argumentative and objected that they were there.
At the time of Heather's disappearance, she worked at the tilted kilt and House of Blues in Myrtle Beach.
She had met Sidney there because he was the repairer of the restaurant. One afternoon they started Flirting and then it became much more.
The detective remembered that Caison turned around and looked at him with this' dead pan staring straight into his face. He said: 'No, you don't understand. There is nothing I wouldn't do to protect my daughter. ” Above actors, the moment again makes up for the new docuseries
William Caison, Tammy's father seems agitated when he is approached by Cestare. The actors in the docuseries can be seen above
Peter Cestare worked on the Heather Elvis case and speaks in the new documentary. He also spoke with DailyMail.com prior to the release
The 37-year-old married father of three, who was almost 20 years older than Heather, had kept their affair secret.
In September, just a few months after they had been together, Sidney's wife Tammy found out.
She was furious with Sidney and reportedly went to the extreme to ensure that he would be loyal to her.
She fascinated him to the bed, let him get a tattoo of her name above his crotch, changed the password on his phone that only she knew and stayed close to his side.
It seemed that Sidney succumbed to Tammy's demands to save this marriage.
Although the love affair was over, Tammy Heather continued to taunt and sent her controversial texts and spicy photos of her and Sidney with sex.
Despite the bullying and intimidation, friends said Heather was busy getting her life back and just started a job as a make -up artist.
Then, in the night of December 17, 2013, Heather went on a date with someone who is new.
Hours before we disappear, Heather had learned how he could control a car with a manual transmission. She was depicted smiling and sent a photo to her father and roommate. It is assumed that this was taken the last photo of her
A man who was similar to her, they went to look at the Christmas lights and then drove to the parking lot of a shopping center where her date she learned how to use a transmission on his car.
Heather sent a photo of herself smiling to her roommate Brianna 'Bri' Warrelman and her father – not knowing that it would be the last time they would ever see or speak to her.
Heather returned to her apartment around 1.15 am. She and Sidney broke up for two months. She was alone in the apartment. Her roommate was a visiting family outside the city for the holidays.
There was a call from Sidney. He called from a wage telephone. He reportedly told Heather how he missed her and that he intended to leave Tammy.
He then asked her to meet him. Heather called her roommate, who begged at Heather not to go.
Her car, a green Dodge Intrepid, was later found during a boat launch in Peach Tree Landing along the Waccamaw River and about eight miles from her apartment in Colonial Forest, South Carolina.
A report on missing people has been submitted. Divers searched the nearby river in vain and Harry Police started their research.
According to the detective, the last of Heather The activity of mobile phones was around 3 o'clock on December 18, 2013.
Images showed a truck that was believed to be Sidney who ran to and from a boat landing where Heather car was found.
Cestare said that the landing of the Peach Tree Boat is on a river front and it is not well lit – there are no lights there at night.
At night, he said, it becomes a “small lover strip type.” We had learned from Friends of Heather that she had met Sidney there in the past, “he said.
Cestare said Heather knew where the boat landing was and based on the phone calls they had that night and observations of vehicles, the police know they met at the boot landing.
Earlier that day, Sidney was seen to buy a pregnancy test on surveillance images that made people believe that Heather was pregnant.
December will be 12 years old since Heather's disappearance, and her body has not yet been found.
The boat landing where Heather car was last seen
Tammy denied having something to do with the disappearance of Heather, but continued to harass the Heather family online.
A month before Tammy and Sidney were accused of the kidnapping of Heather, Tammy's father died of natural causes.
'They were initially arrested on the basis of the charges. We had developed a lot of forensic information about their mobile phones, the movement of their vehicle and things like that. That is what enabled us to get a kidnapping of a kidnapping, “said Cestare.
He explained that the office of the public prosecutor would initially accuse murder, but that never happened.
“They felt that because we had her body or something not yet, that they didn't think they could pursue both the kidnapping and the murder, so they chose to go only the kidnapping costs at that time.”
After his interaction with Tammy's father that day when he refused to talk, Cestare told DailyMail.com that he had the feeling that he was involved or he knows exactly what was happening “but said” youUnfortunately, he was never able to perform that statement of him '.
“It always bothered me. I always felt like, okay, “could he be involved?”
The couple was sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping, but not accused of murder because no body was never found.
At the end of 2024, Tammy had her appeal destroyed. Her projected release date is 9 May 2043 and Sidney's is March 31, 2044, according to the Department of Corrections.
Tammy Moorer enters the court for a hearing in the Harry County courthouse in Conway, South Carolina on March 17, 2014
Michael Bayer, the director/producer of the docuseries, told DailyMail.com that he chose Heather's story to concentrate because of the family of the online intimidation Heather and those involved.
“It was not a normal case in which the perpetrator was just sitting there and was silent while they were persecuted or looking for the victim, Tammy was writing a smear campaign that started conspiracy theories, all these things threatened,” he said.
The Elvis family hopes that with renewed public involvement thanks to the launch of the documentary that they can find the remains of their daughter.
