Fitness trainer told friend she was 'scared for her life' weeks before body with matching clothing found

Weeks earlier a assemblage matching her statement was found, a missing South Carolina fittingness trainer told her champion person she was "scared for her life."

A idiosyncratic fitting the statement of Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was recovered dormant connected Wednesday day successful Lexington, South Carolina, aft she went missing connected June 11. She was past seen aft leaving a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington.

While the assemblage hasn't yet been identified, the Lexington Police Department said the assemblage "fits the covering statement of our missing person."

Sondra Campbell, who was adjacent friends with Moore, told Fox News Digital that thing felt "very different" the past clip she saw her connected May 31.

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Elena Katherine Moore, 39, vanished Thursday, June 11, 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)

"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."

When Campbell asked what was wrong, Moore said she wanted to sermon it successful private.

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"I can't speech to you close now. There's excessively galore radical around. She's like, but we've got to speech one-on-one," Campbell recalled Moore saying.

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Elena Moore disappeared successful Lexington, S.C., connected June 11, 2026. (Lexington Police Department)

Campbell said she missed a telephone from Moore connected June 4, and tried to telephone and substance her backmost with nary response. She besides said it's dissimilar Moore to beryllium walking unsocial astatine night.

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"Elena was specified a bully idiosyncratic and I deliberation we're conscionable each conscionable trying to wrapper our caput astir this, but my person would not beryllium unsocial walking astatine nighttime time. She conscionable wouldn't be, it's not her," Campbell said.

Since constabulary recovered a body, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has been tasked with determining the origin of death.

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

"At astir 2:48 p.m. we recovered an unidentified assemblage that fits the covering statement of our missing person. We are inactive waiting connected the coroner to place her," Green said.

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The assemblage recovered was wearing a "similar greenish outfit" that matched what Moore was wearing arsenic she was seen connected information video earlier she went missing, Green added.

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Elena Katherine Moore signed successful astatine the Planet Fitness connected Whiteford Way astir 6:40 p.m. Thursday, June 11, 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)

Formal recognition volition beryllium released by the coroner, helium said.

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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.

Before she went missing, her societal media was inactive for astir a month, which Lauren Beasley, a person of Moore's, said isn't normal.

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"She is precise progressive connected societal media truthful her going vigor soundless for the past period is retired of character," she said.

Fox News Digital's Bonny Chu contributed to this report.