South Carolina fitness trainer told friends she wanted to leave her now-husband years before body was found

EXCLUSIVE: In the years earlier a missing South Carolina fittingness trainer was recovered dormant this week, she told respective of her friends that she wanted to permission her now-husband and extremity the relationship.

Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was recovered dormant Wednesday day successful Lexington, South Carolina, the Lexington County Coroner's Office confirmed Friday aft making a affirmative identification. Moore was past seen leaving a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington connected June 11. The assemblage volition beryllium transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina successful Charleston, who volition behaviour the autopsy Saturday.

More accusation is expected connected Monday.

Aston Jeffcoat, a adjacent person of Moore's, shared a Facebook Messenger screenshot with Fox News Digital from July 13, 2017, successful which Moore said she wanted to determination retired and permission Brannon Slice, who is present her husband.

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Elena Moore and her husband, Brannon Slice. (Facebook/Elena Moore)

"Hey miss not definite astir ur concern ...but conscionable from speechmaking ur station one mightiness beryllium ending my astir 5 twelvemonth narration arsenic good and mightiness beryllium looking for a roommate!! Let maine know!" Moore wrote.

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It's unclear wherefore Moore wanted to extremity the narration oregon determination out. No one, including her husband, has been accused of immoderate wrongdoing oregon charged with a crime. Lexington Police Department Inspector Missy Silcox told Newsweek precocious Tuesday that Slice "is not a idiosyncratic of involvement astatine the existent moment."

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Lauren Beasley, a person of Moore's, told Fox News Digital that Moore went done "cycles" of wanting to determination retired and extremity the relationship, but didn't.

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"She expressed that she didn’t cognize what to do, and would accidental things similar 'I emotion him' but past things would beryllium good," Beasley said. "And I hoped and assumed things had changed. It was decidedly a cycle."

"Cycles of wanting to permission and not," Beasley said.

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Elena Katherine Moore, 39, has been missing since she near a Planet Fitness gym successful Lexington, South Carolina, connected Thursday, June 11, 2026, according to the Lexington Police Department. (Lexington Police Department)

Sondra Campbell, who was adjacent friends with Moore, told Fox News Digital that Moore tried to permission the narration successful the past.

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Campbell antecedently said that thing felt "very different" the past clip she saw her connected May 31.

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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)

"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."

"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. She conscionable wouldn't be, it's not her," Campbell added.

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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.

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

"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 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)

Moore was past seen walking done the Publix parking batch astatine 100 Old Cherokee Road successful Lexington connected the nighttime of June 11.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Slice for comment.

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