South Carolina fitness trainer’s autopsy raises more questions about mysterious death

More questions were raised astir the decease of South Carolina fittingness trainer Elena Katherine Moore aft an autopsy failed to find however she died and recovered nary signs of carnal trauma.

Moore, 39, was recovered dormant past week aft disappearing June 11 pursuing a sojourn to a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington. Her disappearance drew wide attraction aft a adjacent person told Fox News Digital that Moore had confided weeks earlier that she was "scared for her life."

Now, investigators accidental a forensic autopsy recovered nary bruising, lacerations, gunshot wounds, stab wounds, blunt unit trauma, strangulation oregon different outer injuries.

"The autopsy did not place an contiguous origin of death," the Lexington County Coroner's Office said Monday.

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Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was reported missing aft she near a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington, South Carolina, connected Thursday, June 11, 2026, according to the Lexington Police Department. She was recovered dormant six days later. (Lexington Police Department)

The origin of decease remains pending portion investigators await toxicology results, microscopic insubstantial investigating and a reappraisal of Moore's aesculapian records.

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The findings travel days aft authorities identified Moore arsenic the pistillate whose assemblage was discovered adjacent Old Cherokee Road and Northlake Drive successful Lexington County connected June 17.

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Investigators located the assemblage aft receiving a extremity that led them to a caller hunt area. At the time, Lexington Police Chief Terrence Green said the pistillate recovered was wearing covering accordant with what Moore had been wearing earlier she vanished.

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A wide presumption of the country successful Lexington, S.C., wherever the assemblage of idiosyncratic trainer Elena Katherine Moore was recovered connected June 19, 2026. Moore was past seen live connected June 11. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Moore was past seen June 11 aft signing into a Planet Fitness connected Whiteford Way astir 6:40 p.m. Surveillance footage aboriginal showed her walking distant from the gym toward a wooded country down a adjacent Lowe's Home Improvement store, according to police.

Friends person said respective aspects of Moore's behaviour earlier her disappearance were unusual.

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"She was frightened for her life. She really said those words to me," adjacent person Sondra Campbell antecedently told Fox News Digital.

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The assemblage of South Carolina idiosyncratic trainer Elena Katherine Moore was recovered successful Lexington connected June 19, 2026. She was past seen live connected June 11. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Campbell said Moore wanted to sermon what was troubling her privately but ne'er got the chance.

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Another person told Fox News Digital that Moore, who was typically progressive online, had gone unusually quiescent connected societal media successful the weeks earlier she disappeared.

Authorities person not said whether foul play is suspected, and nary mode of decease has been determined.

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The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is continuing to analyse the case.

Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.