South Carolina personal trainer goes missing, last spotted walking toward wooded area

A South Carolina pistillate vanished past week aft she was past seen leaving a Planet Fitness gym and walking toward a adjacent wooded area, authorities said.

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, has not been seen since she near the gym successful Lexington, a suburb westbound of Columbia, connected Thursday evening, according to the Lexington Police Department.

Authorities said Moore signed successful astatine the Planet Fitness astir 6:40 p.m. and was aboriginal seen walking distant from the installation toward a wooded country down a adjacent Lowe's Home Improvement store. She was reported missing the pursuing day.

Moore works arsenic a idiosyncratic trainer and her abrupt lack is "very retired of character," constabulary told ABC News.

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Elena Katherine Moore signed successful astatine the Planet Fitness connected Whiteford Way astir 6:40 p.m. Thursday and was aboriginal seen walking distant from the installation toward a wooded country down a adjacent Lowe's Home Improvement store, authorities said. (Lexington Police Department)

Investigators connected Friday deployed a drone and conducted a preliminary hunt of the country wherever Moore was past seen, but recovered nary motion of her.

On Monday, Lexington constabulary joined aggregate section and authorities agencies successful a much extended hunt of wooded areas down the Lowe's store and Planet Fitness. The cognition included assistance from the Lexington County Sheriff's Department, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Department of Natural Resources and different exigency effect agencies.

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, has been missing since she near a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington, South Carolina, connected Thursday, June 11, 2026, according to the Lexington Police Department. (Lexington Police Department)

Police emphasized that the hunt was not a betterment effort but a methodical effort to destruct 1 imaginable determination wherever Moore could be.

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"No hint of Ms. Moore was recovered during the operation," Lexington Police Chief Terrence Green said successful an update.

Moore is described arsenic a achromatic pistillate lasting 5 feet 7 inches gangly and weighing astir 120 pounds, with brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. (Lexington Police Department)

Moore is described arsenic a White pistillate lasting 5 feet 7 inches gangly and weighing astir 120 pounds, with brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. She was past seen wearing an olive-green zip-up hoodie and achromatic diversion pants. Investigators said they are uncertain whether she has her cellphone.

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Authorities asked anyone with accusation astir Moore's whereabouts to interaction detectives astatine 803-358-7271 oregon Midlands Crimestoppers.