SLED Joins Probe After Body Matching Missing Trainer, 39, Is Found in Lexington

Q: What did forensics finally reveal about the personal trainer's death after her weeks of paranoid behavior?

Forensics had not yet publicly revealed a final cause or manner of death. At the time of the reports, authorities said only that a body believed to be Elena Katherine Moore had been found in a wooded area in Lexington, South Carolina, and that the clothing matched what she was last seen wearing. The Lexington County Coroner’s Office said positive identification and the cause of death were still pending an autopsy, while the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and local police continued an active death investigation. That means there was no confirmed forensic finding publicly tying her death to foul play, suicide, an accident, or a medical or mental health episode. The reports about Moore’s weeks of paranoid or disoriented behavior — including accounts that she was “scared for her life,” appeared confused, and may recently have left a mental health facility — remained background information, not a medically or legally established explanation for her death. In short, the available reporting does not show that forensics “finally revealed” what happened. Officials had not released that determination yet.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 18

A body matching missing personal trainer Elena Moore’s clothing description was found Wednesday in a wooded Lexington area after a six-day search, and the case was reclassified as an active death investigation.
A citizen tip led police to a targeted search near Old Cherokee Road and Northlake Drive, where officers found an unidentified female body around 2:48 p.m.
Lexington police said the body wore a similar green outfit to the one Moore, 39, was seen wearing after leaving Planet Fitness on Thursday evening and walking toward nearby woods.
SLED has joined local authorities to help determine the cause of death and confirm identity, while the coroner said no positive identification or cause of death has yet been made and an autopsy is pending.