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Published 13:21 17 Jun 2026 GMT
A personal trainer based in South Carolina has mysteriously disappeared, leaving authorities concerned for her whereabouts.
Elena Katherine Moore vanished after leaving the gym on Thursday last week (June 11), with surveillance footage revealing that she walked toward a wooded area behind a nearby Lowe’s Home Improvement store.
The 39-year-old was last spotted leaving Planet Fitness in Lexington, which is around 14 miles (22.5 km) from Columbia, at around 9:17PM.
The Lexington Police Department further stated that Moore signed in around 6:40PM, and was last seen in the same outfit that she had on at the gym - an olive-green zip-up hoodie and black athletic pants.
She was reported missing by her husband, Brannon Slice, the following day.
Police said this week that they do not suspect foul play and that they don't believe she is in danger, as per WIS News 10.
The personal trainer was last seen at Planet Fitness, as police said that her disappearance was "very out of character," in a statement to ABC News.
In the days since, authorities have deployed a drone and searched the area where Moore vanished, but could not find her.
Lexington police joined other bodies in conducting an extensive search of the wooded area Moore headed towards, though later noted "no trace of Ms. Moore was found during the operation."
However, law officers said that this search was not a recovery effort, instead being an attempt to eliminate a location where the missing party could be.
More photos of Moore were released by police on Tuesday, which include images from a front door camera just a week before she vanished, in the hopes that someone recognizes her.
It was revealed that Moore had a phone with her at one point, though it isn't known if she still has it.
Speaking to USA Today, the Lexington police explained: “Investigators are attempting to track it, but cell phone carriers often take time responding to search warrants.”
Moore, a personal trainer at Wolf’s Fitness Center and a pharmacy technician at CVS, has been described as 5 feet 7 inches tall (170 cm) and 120 pounds (54 kg), with brown hair and brown eyes.
A friend of Moore's named Lauren Beasley spoke to Fox News about their last conversation, which was around a month ago, and said the personal trainer seemed normal.
She recalled: “She did not say anything personal about anything she was going through. She got married last year, but she didn’t say anything about her relationship or work or anything personal.”
But Beasley noted that her friend stopped posting on social media around a month before vanishing, claiming: “She is very active on social media so her going radio silent for the last month is out of character.”
She has not posted on Facebook or Instagram since April.
Moore's husband reportedly wrote below a now-deleted Facebook post that his wife was "not well," according to the publication.
