A South Carolina personal trainer whose body was found in a wooded area after an intensive search by police and first responders had appeared “confused” in a pair of strange interactions a week before she went missing, according to her neighbors.
Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was last seen alive on security camera footage around 9:17 p.m. on June 11 after she left a Planet Fitness gym location in Lexington and headed toward a wooded area behind a nearby Lowe’s Home Improvement store, according to police.
Her body was found June 17 near Lakeside Middle School, around two miles from the Planet Fitness.
Moore’s husband, Brannon Slice, reported her missing June 12, describing his wife’s disappearance as “very out of character.”
A week before she went missing, neighbors John Moore, who is not related to Elena, and his girlfriend Sarah Burleson shared footage from their Ring camera showing the 39-year-old picking up a DoorDash food delivery left at their door.
When John Moore opened the door, she appears to attempt to follow him inside briefly before stopping herself.
Burleson told WRDW that an hour later as she was walking her dog she saw Elana lingering outside a neighbor’s apartment inspecting packages. When she asked what the woman was doing, she replied “Honestly? I have no idea.”
“Her confusion worries me, if she was confused exactly a week before she went missing, was she in that same kind of confusion state that night? And if so that could be scary,” Burleson told the outlet.
Elena also had a troubling interaction with a friend a few days before she vanished, telling gal pal Sondra Campbell she was “scared for her life” on May 31, she told Fox News Digital.
Asked to elaborate on why she was so scared, Moore replied, “I can’t talk to you right now. There’s too many people around,” Campbell recalled. “She’s like, ‘But we’ve got to talk one-on-one.’”
Campbell, who said she and Elena shared everything with one another, recalled missing a call from her rattled friend on June 4 and never hearing back despite repeatedly calling and texting her.
Lexington police said Elena was wearing clothes that matched her description, but did not reveal her cause of death.
The Lexington County Coroner’s Office identified Elena’s body on June 19 and conducted an autopsy a day later, but a deputy coroner who answered the phone Monday morning said she didn’t know when the results of the examination would be made public.
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