Dead fitness trainer’s taxi ride becomes key piece of puzzle in mysterious disappearance, death: docs

A recently obtained incidental study traces a South Carolina fittingness trainer's last movements earlier she disappeared.

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was recovered dormant astir a week aft she disappeared connected June 11 aft she went to a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington, South Carolina. The Lexington County Coroner's Office said connected June 22 that investigators recovered nary signs of bruising, lacerations, gunshot wounds, stab wounds, blunt unit trauma, strangulation oregon different outer injuries during a forensic autopsy.

While the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division continues to analyse what led to Moore's death, an incidental study obtained by Fox News Digital has shed airy connected Moore's last movements earlier disappearing.

SOUTH CAROLINA FITNESS TRAINER TOLD FRIENDS SHE WANTED TO LEAVE HER NOW-HUSBAND YEARS BEFORE BODY WAS FOUND

Elena Moore was recovered dormant astir a week aft she went missing. (Facebook/Elena Moore)

Moore's husband, Brannon Slice, went to the Lexington Police Department connected June 12 to study his woman missing. He told officers she had been released from an undisclosed installation connected June 11, earlier 2 p.m., according to the incidental report. The facility's sanction was redacted successful the incidental report, but Sondra Campbell, 1 of Moore's adjacent friends, told Fox News Digital that Moore had been released from a intelligence wellness installation astatine the time.

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According to the incidental report, idiosyncratic arranged a taxi for Moore aft her release, and she asked the operator to halt astatine a section CVS successful Lexington. That halt was the past clip the cab operator saw her. When Moore did not instrumentality outside, the operator went into the store but was incapable to find her.

Slice told the serviceman helium privation to the Planet Fitness wherever she often visited, wherever an worker told him that Moore singed successful astatine 6:38 p.m. connected the 11th. After that, Moore wasn't seen again and was recovered dormant connected June 19.

SOUTH CAROLINA FITNESS TRAINER TOLD FRIENDS SHE WANTED TO LEAVE HER NOW-HUSBAND YEARS BEFORE BODY WAS FOUND

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was recovered dormant aft she was past seen leaving a Planet Fitness gym and walking toward a adjacent wooded country successful Lexington, South Carolina, authorities said. (Lexington Police Department)

No one, including her husband, has been accused of immoderate wrongdoing oregon charged with a crime. Lexington Police Department Inspector Missy Silcox told Newsweek late Tuesday that Slice "is not a idiosyncratic of involvement astatine the existent moment."

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Sondra Campbell, who was adjacent friends with Moore, antecedently told Fox News Digital that Moore tried to permission the narration successful the past.

Campbell said that thing felt "very different" the past clip she saw her connected May 31.

SOUTH CAROLINA FITNESS TRAINER TOLD FRIENDS SHE WANTED TO LEAVE HER NOW-HUSBAND YEARS BEFORE BODY WAS FOUND

The Lexington Police Department was searching for Elena Moore successful South Carolina earlier she was recovered dead. (Lexington Police Department)

"She was frightened for her life. She really said those words to me," Campbell said. "Elena is 1 of my champion friends. I've known her implicit astir apt 10 years now. We're truly adjacent similar archer each different everything. She's been that idiosyncratic for maine for a agelong time."

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General presumption of the country successful Lexington, South Carolina, June 19, 2026, wherever the assemblage of Elena Katherine Moore was recovered connected Wednesday. The idiosyncratic trainer was past seen live connected June 11. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

According to LPD Chief Terrence Green, authorities recovered the assemblage aft getting a extremity that led investigators to a caller hunt location.

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Moore was past seen walking done the Publix parking batch astatine 100 Old Cherokee Road successful Lexington connected the nighttime of June 11.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Slice for comment.