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A jury will soon determine the fate of a South Carolina woman accused of kidnapping her husband’s lover after the affair was exposed.

Closing arguments were delivered Monday in the kidnapping trial against Tammy Moorer, who allegedly plotted to kidnap Heather Elvis, a 20-year-old hostess from Myrtle Beach.

The prosecution alleges the defendant and her husband, Sidney Moorer, who is also charged in the case, lured the young woman in December 2013 to Peachtree Boat Landing.

Elvis’ car was discovered abandoned at the boat landing, but nearly five years later, she hasn’t been found.

“The one person in this room who knows what happened to Heather said on the stand Heather was a nice girl,” State Solicitor Nancy Livesay said in closing arguments.

In the 11-day trial, prosecutors repeatedly argued the defendant was jealous of Elvis and became vindictive when she learned the hostess might be pregnant.

“When you mix jealousy, deceit and a crazed woman that is worried about losing her husband is when unnatural things happen,” Livesay told the jurors.

Tammy Moorer has maintained her innocence, insisting that she was at home on Facebook when Elvis’ phone was last tracked around 3:42 a.m. Dec. 18, 2013.

But prosecutors argued there were no cellphone records or social media posts that account for the defendant’s whereabouts during the half-hour period when Elvis was believed to have been kidnapped.

The case has centered on video surveillance from that night near the boat landing that showed a black Ford F-150, which prosecutors said was the same vehicle the Moorer family owned.

“Tammy has the motive, but Sidney has the means,” Livesay said. “It takes them both working together.”

The defense, however, argued authorities don’t know what happened to Elvis and there’s no evidence that links Tammy Moorer to the disappearance.

“Their case is a joke,” attorney Greg McCollum said. “They don’t have one piece of evidence.”

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