Here is how Tammy Moorer answered state’s questions during her kidnapping trial

Tammy Moorer maintained she was at home when Heather Elvis’ phone went dead at Peachtree Landing and she didn’t play a role in the December 2013 disappearance.

Moorer said on Dec. 18, 2013, she and her husband, Sidney Moorer, arrived home at 3:10 a.m. and didn’t leave for hours – except for when Sidney went to feed the dogs.

“We got out [of the truck] and didn’t leave our house again,” Tammy Moorer said on Monday.

It is the half-hour after the Moorers arrived home that the biggest questions about Elvis’ disappearance arise.

State solicitors argued throughout a conspiracy and kidnapping trial that Tammy and Sidney Moorer conspired to kidnap Elvis. The plan developed as Tammy Moorer grew jealous and angry over an affair between Elvis and Sidney Moorer.

The state used expert testimony and video surveillance to show a black Ford F-150 near Peachtree Landing on Dec. 18. Solicitors say that was the Moorer’s truck.

Tammy Moorer is currently on trial for her alleged role in the disappearance. On Monday, state solicitors finished their cross examination as Tammy Moorer took the witness stand in her defense.

Experts and video evidence is wrong, Tammy Moorer insisted, and stated that she and Sidney never went to the landing. She questioned the time stamps on the video and said experts were paid by the state to say what solicitors wanted.

Sidney took a four-minute phone call from Elvis at 3:17 a.m., Tammy Moorer said. Tammy Moorer said she then started to work on a home computer and made posts on social media. She brought up her Facebook posts in the early morning hours in her defense.

Senior Assistant Solicitor Nancy Livesay asked Tammy Moorer if she made any posts around 3:40 a.m. which is when the truck is caught on video.

“No, and there is nothing showing I went to a boat landing either,” Tammy Moorer said.

Tammy Moorer was agitated in answering the state’s question. She would also turn to the jury at certain points and speak to them directly. Judge Benjamin Culbertson told her a few times that she had to answer Livesay’s questions before providing a lengthy explanation.

Tammy Moorer asked how she could answer one question to avoid getting in trouble.

“I’ve never been a trouble making person. I never do that,” Tammy Moorer said.

The trial is nearing its end after 10 days of testimony over three weeks. Much of the state’s case has been circumstantial and prosecutors admit they don’t know what happened to Elvis after she went missing.

Prosecutors initially charged Tammy and Sidney Moorer with kidnapping and murder, but the murder charges were dropped. Sidney Moorer went to trial on the kidnapping charge in 2016, but a jury deadlocked. That case has not been retried and remains active.

Last year, a jury found Sidney Moorer guilty of obstructing the police investigation. Judge R. Markley Dennis, who was appointed to hear the case, sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

In April, a grand jury indicted Sidney and Tammy Moorer on conspiracy to kidnap charges.

Tammy Moorer has maintained her innocence.

This story was originally published October 22, 2018 at 9:44 AM.