The cyber lover of a South Carolina woman on trial for allegedly kidnapping her husband’s mistress claimed she started sexting him around the time she learned about her spouse’s extramarital affair.
Tammy Moorer reached out to an old acquaintance, Kevin Hummel, through Facebook in October 2013 and expressed sexual interest in him, he testified Thursday at her kidnapping trial in Conway.
“She was looking for someone to basically have sex with,” Hummel told jurors.
Their flirtations began the same month that she learned her husband, Sidney, was cheating on her with 20-year-old Heather Elvis, who mysteriously vanished five years ago and was never found, according to prosecutors.
Moorer faces kidnapping charges for allegedly conspiring with her husband to abduct Elvis.
Hummel — who initially met Moorer in 1988 — testified the pair exchanged X-rated text messages and phone calls but never hung out in person after they reconnected.
Hummel said their sexting stopped in December 2013 soon after Elvis went missing and abandoned her car near Peachtree Boat Landing.
Phone records presented in court Thursday showed Moorer called him several times the day that Elvis disappeared.
Moorer’s lawyers have argued this week that she had an open relationship with her husband and was unfazed by his affair. Prosecutors, however, claimed that she erupted into a “fire of jealousy” when she uncovered her husband’s cheating and was livid over the possibility that Elvis was pregnant.
Both the Moorers were initially charged in connection with Elvis’ disappearance in 2014.
Sidney Moorer was tried last year for kidnapping, but jurors were unable to deliver a unanimous decision and a mistrial was declared. No date for a retrial has been set.
The couple was also indicted for conspiracy of kidnapping in 2017. The indictments don’t name Elvis as the victim but claim the Moorers conspired on the day the 20-year-old disappeared.
The cheating husband was convicted of obstruction of justice in 2017 and sent to prison.