Body Found In Search For Personal Trainer Missing After Leaving Planet Fitness Gym In South Carolina

A assemblage has been recovered successful nan search for a individual trainer who went missing aft leaving a gym successful South Carolina past week.

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, has not been heard from since leaving a Planet Fitness astatine astir 9 p.m. successful Lexington connected 11 June, constabulary said. She was reported missing nan pursuing time and a hunt to find her was launched.

Following nan entreaty authorities received a extremity astir a sighting connected nan time Moore vanished, and carried retired a hunt astatine nan location connected Wednesday.

Police and occurrence officials recovered a assemblage “that fits nan clothing explanation of our missing person,” Lexington Police Department Chief Terrence Green said during a property briefing.

“We are still waiting connected nan coroner to place her,” he added.

Moore worked astatine Wolf's Fitness Center successful Lexington, Lexington Police Department Inspector Missy Silcox. She regularly visited Planet Fitness, but this disappearance was “very retired of characteristic for her," Silcox told ABC News.

She signed into nan gym astatine 6:40 p.m. Thursday, but made nary further interaction aft that, constabulary said.

Moore was captured connected surveillance footage stepping distant from nan the gym Thursday, wearing an olive-green zip-up hoodie pinch achromatic diversion pants.

She was past seen successful footage stepping successful nan parking batch of a adjacent Publix supermarket headed successful nan guidance of Old Cherokee Road, astatine 9:17 p.m. connected Thursday wearing nan aforesaid clothing arsenic reported from Planet Fitness.

Authorities said that media sum of nan lawsuit helped lead to nan extremity that ended pinch a assemblage being found.

Lexington constabulary person now asked nan South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to behaviour nan decease investigation.

They would not opportunity whether foul play is suspected, citing nan investigation.

“It’s an progressive investigation, and we are having SLED analyse that,” Green said.