June 18, 2026

Body Found, Believed To Be Missing Wife And Personal Trainer

Body Found, Believed To Be Missing Wife And Personal Trainer

After following up on a tip, police have found a body in a wooded area that matches the description of missing 39-year-old Elena Katherine Moore. Moore, a personal trainer, was last seen leaving the gym and walking into a wooded area. Her husband reported her missing the following day. While police haven’t ruled out foul play, ring camera footage from a week before she went missing, shows a bizarre moment where Moore appears to impersonate a DoorDash delivery worker.

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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Thursday, June eighteenth, and a week ago today, a woman walked out a Planet Fitness, walked through a parking lot, walked into a wooded area and she hasn't been seen since. But now police have found a body in that wooded area. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. A missing person, missing woman's story. That's a missing woman mystery. Now Rose A lot of this makes no sense.

00:00:34
Speaker 2: It there's so much about this story that makes no sense, and we'll get into all of it because it goes beyond just why this thirty nine year old woman. She's newly married, I think in newlywed technically she just got married last year. She's a personal trainer and she works out, yes at Planet Fitness, and she is seen and we've all if you've been online and you've looked up Elena Catherine Moore, you can see those last images that we have her signing into the gym and then walking across a parking lot. But she's in gym clothes, she's working out, she's doing her thing, and then she just vanishes.

00:01:11
Speaker 1: And it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Robes because there's a lot of video, I say, a lot of video being surveillance video and all this stuff we talk about, and everything looks fine, Yeah, it looks normal, she's chatting with other everything looks so what's going on? And then the question is why why did she walk off into a wooded area? And after she did that last Thursday, which was June eleventh, I believe in eleventh, she was then reported missing the next day and a search robes has been going on the past week, and that is what's been making a lot of headlines for the past week week.

00:01:47
Speaker 2: Really, yes, and there's been a lot of speculation, and there's been some new video that has just been uncovered, which we'll get into. But yes, it's a little confusing because there is no well, look, usually you've got a suspect, or you've got some motive, or you know something was going on in their life, or they're described as emotionally distraught. Her people, family members, friends would talk about this person as being basically in need, like you knew that your friend might have been in trouble. In fact, even when we heard about the young man who wandered off in Kyoto, his mother said he was in emotional distress. None of that was said about this young woman. And it was interesting because police made a statement pretty early on saying they didn't suspect any kind of foul play and they didn't think she was in imminent danger.

00:02:41
Speaker 1: Okay, now that was the one that got me. It's as if we don't have any reason to think we need to get to her because she might harm herself. She is in no imminent danger. Now, imminent danger usually isn't the term they use worlds. Is it when they're talking about an imminent danger.

00:02:59
Speaker 3: To yourself when you're a threat to yourself.

00:03:01
Speaker 1: They don't usually put it that way. So that one through me about what they were saying. So a woman walks off into the woods, we don't suspect any foul play, and we don't think she's in any trouble.

00:03:13
Speaker 3: Huh huh. Like and by the way, this was later at night, so this isn't a time.

00:03:17
Speaker 1: Look.

00:03:18
Speaker 3: I love I love the woods. I love the run in the woods.

00:03:20
Speaker 2: I would have thought, hey, you know what, maybe she did some weights didn't want to get on the treadmill and thought I'll run in this wooded path.

00:03:26
Speaker 3: That would have been something I would have done. But this was later at night.

00:03:29
Speaker 2: Just doesn't make a lot of sense, and it shows her like I've actually you've seen the timestamp of where she's been seen in this parking lot, wandering like hours after the gym. She's wandering through a parking lot at nine pm at night. And then, honestly, I have questions if I didn't show up that night. We're newly married.

00:03:47
Speaker 3: You're calling, You're waiting till the next day to call police.

00:03:50
Speaker 1: Man, Okay, okay, here you come. Now, here's a true crime watcher here, and yeah, you're right, that's gotta be the first question. And the first suspect is always the spouse. But right now they're telling us he is not a suspect of any kind, and there is no foul play suggested in any of this. But Robes, help me understand. I guess it's possible he went to sleep. You know what I hadn't thought about that it's late. How late was it the timestamph Natalie.

00:04:24
Speaker 2: It was like I thought, it was like close to nine pm. Okay, it was not late late late. And if look, if I had gone to the gym, or I was running errands or vice versa, and you don't come home. You're not answering your phone. It's midnight, it's one am, it's two am. I am calling every one of your friends first of all, and your family members, and then I'm calling nine one one.

00:04:44
Speaker 1: Maybe they've confirmed that though maybe he did.

00:04:46
Speaker 2: No, he didn't call police. Maybe he called friends and family. And that would make sense because you would be worried. I mean, I guess you could fall asleep, but at some point wouldn't you wake up and realize that your spouse isn't in the bed next to you.

00:04:57
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a hard sleeper.

00:04:59
Speaker 3: I mean, all that could be true.

00:05:01
Speaker 1: Maybe he works overnight shift, and who knows, but that is a question. Okay there, you can't explain it. Anybody listening. Think about your spouse, your significant other, that you have a routine, that you are in a relationship with, and you're living together road under what circumstance do I expect you back home at nine to thirty and I can't get a hold of you at midnight?

00:05:27
Speaker 2: And time is of the essence. If someone is in trouble, if someone is in danger. If you had she could have been in an accident, she could have yes met an uncertain fate at the hands of someone else. All of those things would be running through your mind. You'd be calling hospitals, you'd be calling everyone. Look, I've even said that I am always thankful that my daughters have roommates, and the idea of any one of my daughter's living alone scares the heck out of me, because part of it is knowing that someone is going to be expecting them to come home, and if they don't, immediate action can be taken. So I do think it's a little odd, and there could be an obvious explanation, yes, but just.

00:06:08
Speaker 3: Initially, yes, that does seem unusual.

00:06:12
Speaker 1: But they were immediate. They were quick to say no foul play was expected, and he no, they said he is not a person of interest. They actually said that that is.

00:06:21
Speaker 2: But they also said that they didn't think that she was in any imminent danger. And turns out, yes, a body has been found. A tip was called in someone saw her walking in a specific place. It was about a mile away by the way from the Planet Fitness. So that's a little bit of a head scratcher as well, and that is when they did that targeted search found a body. As of this recording, it has not been formally identified.

00:06:47
Speaker 3: But the clothes that we saw in the video, we know.

00:06:50
Speaker 2: What she was wearing, an olive green jacket, I believe in workout pants. The clothes on this body matched the description exactly, so we know it's her. We're just awaiting the official response from police.

00:07:03
Speaker 1: What do you do with that? But yes, this is police do believe.

00:07:07
Speaker 2: Yes, in fact, they even said we can confirm the body of a female matching the clothing description of the missing person, Elena Kmore has been found. That's as close to an idea as you can possibly get.

00:07:18
Speaker 1: I didn't you put this note in here about her husband? He's a former private investigator.

00:07:23
Speaker 2: Yes he is, so her husband I did. His name is Brannon Slice. He's a licensed PI and a former police officer. So that makes it even more unusual than he wouldn't call for help. I just feel like, if you are a PI and you are a former police officer, you know how important those forty eight hours are, or at least time is all is not on your side when someone's missing. You need to take action immediately. He of all people would know that this is not a speculator. We don't, We don't need to, we don't want to do a speculation. Anything sounds accusatory, but I am. It is confusing, that's confusing. So that's why I jumped out. I said, wait a minute, I hadn't seen the earlier here you've left it. He's a police officer. Yes, you be calling you boys. I would think so. I would think he has a hookup or two. So look, we'll wait for more word from him. Yeah, I know. And when I saw that today, that really jumped out at me. And look, we have to talk about this other bizarre twist to the story.

00:08:25
Speaker 1: You still want to go back to the husband. I'm asking, is it possible they say he called the next day? It was like just after midnight. Kind of a technical thing.

00:08:32
Speaker 2: Maybe if that don't you feel like when police give statements they would be specific if they said within hours he called police, or he called us after midnight when she didn't come home.

00:08:42
Speaker 3: They specifically said the following day.

00:08:46
Speaker 2: And maybe it is just a matter of how they said it versus what the reality was, because yes, if he called it twelve to one or at one am, that would be that would be understandable.

00:08:57
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'll let it go him. I'm done problem.

00:09:01
Speaker 2: But there's this other twist, this bizarre ring cam footage.

00:09:07
Speaker 3: You told me about it.

00:09:08
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen it until a little bit later today and my jaw dropped, like what am I watching?

00:09:14
Speaker 1: Yeah? This was how far away from before her disappeared a week before? But how the distance from the gym? Was it a mile?

00:09:21
Speaker 3: A mile away?

00:09:21
Speaker 1: I believe? Okay, somebody handed this over to police and it's out there now robes no connection to her, but they have ring cam. These things are amazing. But she goes You see in the ring cam a delivery driver DoorDash person, a woman sits food at the door of this apartment. Then you see Elina Moore step up and pick up the food while the delivery person is still standing there but kind of backs up, almost getting a picture to confirm that they made the doll.

00:09:57
Speaker 2: That is what they were doing. They were getting the picture to say I dropped the food.

00:10:01
Speaker 1: Off, okay. And she is picking up the food and kind of acknowledging okay, all good and kind of acknowledges, and the driver goes.

00:10:08
Speaker 2: Off and kind of pretends like she's looking for a way to get into the sea, like she was looking for keys, Like oh yeah, thanks, I'm about to go into my apartment.

00:10:17
Speaker 1: Okay. But then once the driver leaves, she's standing in the front of the door with the food robes.

00:10:25
Speaker 3: She reads the receipt to look at the name, and then she knocks on the door and waits for seems like an uncomfortable amount of time to where you know, she's committed to that door getting opened.

00:10:39
Speaker 1: And someone opens the door robes, she hands them the food kind of says here you go, and tries to take a step inside the apartment.

00:10:48
Speaker 3: Tries to go into the apartment. So here's the crazy thing.

00:10:51
Speaker 2: So the couple who ordered the food said they don't like to have interactions with anyone, so they always on their orders say leave the food at the door. So yes, and so they were looking, so they all of a sudden they're like, what's happening because they could see from the ring camera. So then she pulled it up, brought her husband over and said, look at what's going on right now?

00:11:15
Speaker 3: What is happening.

00:11:16
Speaker 2: It was so weird that this other woman, and they thought that she might be taking their food, which is what a lot of people were guessing.

00:11:22
Speaker 3: Was she stealing the food? Was she trying to.

00:11:24
Speaker 2: Get a tip, but they were like, we know that our orders say that no driver or no DoorDash delivery person should knock on our door.

00:11:34
Speaker 1: It doesn't make Obviously she's not going to get a tip that there are easier ways to get ten bucks.

00:11:40
Speaker 3: Okay, it makes no sense.

00:11:42
Speaker 1: And she wasn't trying to steal the food because if she wanted to, she would have just left. Why is she knocking on a stranger's door waiting for them to answer, just so she can deliver their food to them? And this happened one week before she went missing. This is that video is just bizarre. So whatever that could suggest, that video doesn't suggest someone who's doing well in that moment with whatever is going on. That was not normal. That was disturbing.

00:12:11
Speaker 3: Beyond and it's confusing.

00:12:13
Speaker 2: So as you might imagine, there are all sorts of theories going and running wild online. When we come back, we're going to tell you what her husband has been facing and what we know about something he said about his wife that got deleted. We'll tell you about that when we come back. Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a confusing and mysterious story out of South Carolina, a thirty nine year old wife and personal trainer went missing. She was last seen exactly one week ago. Today, a body has now been found in a wooded area that resembles her, wearing the same clothing that she was wearing when she was last seen. Police basically said, yes, we've got to do the actual official identification, but it looks like they have found Elena Catherine Moore and she is deceased. We don't know how she died, we don't know when she died, and we're waiting for a lot of information to fill in those blanks. But this is interesting. We talked about the husband. He waited a day for whatever reason, to report her missing, but he's being harassed apparently on Facebook for not sharing more information on social media. People have an expectation about how a grieving husband should act, what he should do, especially when his wife has been missing and they've only been married for a year. But you always say this obviously, and he knows he's going to be the biggest suspect. They're going to have to clear him completely, and he has to know that. As a form or police officer, I would say it's not suspicious that he's not sharing things on social media. He knows damn well that he has to be ruled out.

00:14:10
Speaker 1: He says, not suspicious, that he's not well.

00:14:13
Speaker 2: I think a police officer not necessarily going online. And I mean maybe the not asking for help for your missing wife, that might that is a little bizarre. But maybe he was just being careful because anything you say and do can be held against you. If you think that somehow you're going to do something that raises suspicion, or you say something that people don't like, probably best to say nothing at all.

00:14:34
Speaker 1: You know what, you helped me because I don't know the answer here. What has been his level of interaction with the media. None at all?

00:14:44
Speaker 2: None?

00:14:44
Speaker 3: And here's the only thing at.

00:14:45
Speaker 1: All, because I wasn't watching the case that closely for the past week.

00:14:50
Speaker 2: Well, well, I haven't seen anything anywhere that he's something public, and I do know that people are coming after him for not having done so. Now Fox News is reporting that the husband wrote in a comment on a since deleted post by someone else about her disappearance that his wife was quote not well. So then he deleted it, but that popped up and Fox News said they have a screen grab of it. So that is literally, from what I could find out, the only thing that he has said and he deleted it, and that would imply that she was going through some sort of mental issue.

00:15:34
Speaker 1: But I've not.

00:15:35
Speaker 2: I read something about her friend who they some of her friends have been talking.

00:15:39
Speaker 3: They say she was normal.

00:15:41
Speaker 2: She was She did not talk about any personal problems, she didn't talk about any professional problems. She was not in any way, shape or form showing warning signs of distress. And they were super confused.

00:15:54
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know it. I don't know. He should have been loud. I should know his name, his face. That's why I'm looking. I saw his name, like wit. Okay, yeah, I just if this has become a national story, you would expect. Please, somebody helped me screaming at the mountaintops. He knows how this goes as a former police officer and how important that is. So but I can't. I don't know what people go through and when your wife is missing, so I can't. He's a PI, But I'm glad. I can't fault him for what emotionally he might feel, right when it's now him in that position. So I don't want to judge anybody he certainly don't want to judge anybody for that.

00:16:33
Speaker 2: No, I get that, and I think that's only fair. We obviously have to always leave room for there to be another explanation, and Jesus, this is so strange. We are absolutely going to stay on top of the story because it's just taken a couple turns that I don't think anybody expected, especially that that ring camera footage, the lack of information coming from the husband, and now knowing that a body has been found, but we have no idea in what condition, so we will obviously stay on top of this story for you. We always appreciate you listening to us.

00:17:10
Speaker 3: Everyone. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.