June 24, 2026
Mystery Deepens In Death Of SC Personal Trainer
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RSS Feed The body of 39-year-old personal trainer Elena Moore was discovered nearly a week after she went missing, and now a full week later, police still don’t have any answers into how or why Moore died. Preliminary autopsy results show no physical trauma and did not reveal a cause of death. Also, several cryptic social media posts made by Moore in the months and weeks leading up to her death suggest she was suffering a painful heartbreak, although police have said Moore’s husband, who reported her missing, is not a person of interest in her death.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, June twenty fourth, and what happened to Elena Moore? The wife and fitness trainer walked into the woods simply disappeared. She was missing for nearly a week. She was found dead and autopsy was done, but we still have virtually no answers. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rhodes. How does an autopsy tell you absolutely nothing?
00:00:32
Speaker 2: This is wild.
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Speaker 3: I don't believe I've ever seen anything quite like this, maybe the only other mystery like this. It reminds me a little bit of what happened to that woman, the irishwoman in.
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Speaker 1: Montoc oh, Martha Nolan.
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Speaker 2: Martha Nolan.
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Speaker 1: Goodness.
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Speaker 2: We still don't know how she died.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, it has occurred before, but this is exceptionally rare to have an autopsy done. I'm thirty nine year old Lea Moore, as you mentioned, a fitness instructor.
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Speaker 2: So this is a healthy young woman.
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Speaker 3: We've seen all the pictures of her, and if you haven't, they're everywhere online. And so there's no obvious natural cause that you could imagine. Number one, number two when you have an autopsy done by the Lexington County Corner and they know there's extreme public interest in this case, so they take her down to Charleston, musc and conduct a preliminary autopsy. The report no external injuries to her body, and they went very specifically and said there was no bruising, no lacerations, no gunshot wounds, no stab wounds, no blunt force trauma, no strangulation or other external injuries.
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Speaker 1: This is so, what about toxicology? Is that what we are really waiting on down there?
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Speaker 3: Yes, so that is what was added that they are now examining tissue, looking at medical records, and then yes, doing that toxicology testing. So why does that take soch that is happening right now? I don't know. To be honest, it doesn't make any sense. It feels like it's twenty twenty six. With the medical miracles that were able to see and witness every day. How is it that you cannot determine what drugs were in someone's system without waiting months? Days, fine, weeks, I'm still a little confused.
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Speaker 2: But months.
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Speaker 3: I mean that has been the case in many high profile Maybe they don't want to mess things up or get it wrong, but honestly, either a chemical or a drug is present or it isn't.
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Speaker 2: I'm confused why that's so hard? This is nailed down.
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Speaker 1: This has to be the case with her. There is nothing physically wrong with her that would suggest a trauma that would cause her death. Okay, so that means this thirty nine?
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Speaker 3: Was it?
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Speaker 2: Thirty thirty nine year old?
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Speaker 1: Healthy woman? Healthy woman had a heart attack that would have shown up in the art, that.
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Speaker 2: Would have shown up.
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Speaker 3: There was no major organ issues, so they would have been able to say, hey, look she had an aneurysm or yeah, do they.
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Speaker 1: Not suggest something was around her? She took something, right? I guess she could have taken something before she left the gym when we saw her in the surveillent fitness. What did she do once she got into the woods? So she carrying something? They had to look like it, but they have to what is going on?
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Speaker 2: I was thinking, could she have been lured into the woods? But then wouldn't that show up in her phone records with text messaging.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to think about what the possible scenarios could be, and I was thinking perhaps being lured.
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Speaker 2: Who was the last person who called her? Who was the last person who texted her.
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Speaker 3: Because why else would you walk into the woods at nine eighteen at night unless you're meeting someone there or you have plans to do something there, and then you never leave the woods. But there's no physical sign of any kind of trauma whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: I guess the other option Robes is that maybe she wasn't well, and we'll get into any accident when people are wondering. But that I mean, I just this is such a mystery.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: We thought we would get some answers with his autopsy. Now it deepens and we're going to get into as well. Rodes. Why this is starting to make some headlines is because, yes, some things in her social media have popped up that are disturbing.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and definitely shows someone who was struggling, And so yes, you could look at it as a mental health episode where perhaps she could have possibly harmed herself. But then again without any physical signs of trauma. Again, the only thing you can think of is something that she ingested, some sort of pill, some sort of something where it wouldn't necessarily have left an obvious.
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Speaker 2: Answer to how she died.
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Speaker 3: But I was even thinking, my goodness, if you die by taking pills or something.
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Speaker 2: Aren't you vomiting? Aren't you foaming at the mouth.
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Speaker 3: Isn't there something that's obvious that you've just ingested, especially when you've done an autopsy. Couldn't they see something the last thing she ate or it just I don't know, it just none of it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: This doesn't make sense right now, or it just doesn't and the stuff some of the comments from her friends as well suggest I don't know what level of distress, but suggests something going on in her life.
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Speaker 3: Yes, So a couple of friends have spoken to the media, at least two of them have, and they describe a friend who was afraid and that was interesting. So they discussed about They said Elena was on a fitness and health journey and she was very intent on ridding herself of quote unquote toxic people.
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Speaker 2: That was what Mendy Miller said.
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Speaker 3: She's a friend of hers from Lexington said she's known her whole life. She said this, and look, this has raised a lot of eyebrows. For her to just be found dead in the woods makes no sense. Anyone who knows her would see this. Someone had to have done something to her.
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Speaker 2: I get that.
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Speaker 3: But another friend said Elena was acting paranoid and was expressing being scared for her life and said she couldn't give her the details because too many people were around that could possibly suggest a mental health issue.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to know.
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Speaker 3: What her state of mind was, or at least what the cause of her state of mind was. Was it something internally going on with her? Was it something externally happening with another person? So yes, TMZ has now published these cryptic Instagram posts. They say that they were from her second Instagram account, and they have screen grabs of them, and if you read through them, which I have, it's somebody who is describing a deep and painful heartbreak.
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Speaker 1: And this is a woman. I don't know how long she had been married.
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Speaker 3: She had only been married, so they married. I believe they've only been married for a year and a half. But they've been together for years, So this was a couple. He is forty seven, her husband she is thirty nine. They've been together for a very very long time, but they just recently got married.
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Speaker 1: And we should say here now police have not named him not only as not a suspect, but not even a person of interest.
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Speaker 3: Yes, in this case, that is very fair, and we should absolutely point this out, and especially when you start looking at some of these posts that TMZ is putting up, it really is disturbing. She's talking about I don't want to hate you, but how could I not? You knew exactly what you were doing to me the entire time. You watched me love you with everything I had, watched me trust you blindly watched me destroy myself trying to keep us alive, and still chose to hurt me anyway. So she's talking about something that had been done to her. I think something really interesting. She commented on a post where someone was talking about the anger and resentment left behind after a painful relationship.
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Speaker 2: This was three weeks before her death.
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Speaker 3: She wrote this, the memories are in the trash, and I stopped loving him a long time ago. I was just looking for a way out when I realized I was in a relationship with.
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Speaker 2: The devil you know, and who knows who you know?
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Speaker 3: Not for interpretation, and by the way she might she could have been in another relationship with someone else outside of her marriage.
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Speaker 2: We don't know she's referring to that.
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Speaker 1: We're not trying to suggest that she was.
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Speaker 3: Yes, my point being is she didn't ever say my husband. She didn't ever say his name, And I guess I just want to make sure we say that so that we're not interpreting what she's saying about a relationship pain that she's feeling that it automatically has to be her husband.
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Speaker 2: Obviously people would jump to.
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Speaker 3: That conclusion, but there are plenty of other possible explanations.
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Speaker 1: The point is we just don't know right now. All we know is what we don't know, and that's what the autopsy tells us. In Robes, also, we don't know what this means, right We see something that she wrote, but we don't know what she's talking about. Yeah, and you can jump down any conclusion you want, but we simply don't know where her head was, what she was up to. All we can do is take the word of her friends right now and of her own writings Robes, Yes, this is not and this was several of these.
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Speaker 2: Right yes.
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Speaker 3: The first, the first one that started to to point to this, it was all in a very similar tone, was December of twenty twenty five, and then she wrote another one. She actually shared a long quote in March about again the war is over, you are no longer my first thought in the morning, nor my last thought at night. So it was all about a breakup. And then the most recent one was in May, and that was the whole. I hate the memories that won't leave me alone, and more than anything, I hate that a part of me still mourns the person I thought you were. These are long, emotional posts that absolutely describe a devastating breakup. It doesn't sound like it came from somebody who is in a loving marriage. It sounds like somebody is in the middle of a divorce or just found out that their husband has fallen in love with someone else. I mean, that's what all of these posts sound like. And so we don't know what was going on. We haven't heard much at all from her husband.
00:10:02
Speaker 1: We said, has he said any?
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Speaker 2: He said nothing.
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Speaker 3: When I say, not much at all, it's funny I did read so and we'll get into this, but there have only been a public comment from a friend of his who basically is asking people to leave him alone.
00:10:22
Speaker 2: To respect his privacy. All of that. In fact, when we come back, we will tell you.
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Speaker 3: The only the few things we have heard about what Brandon Slice is doing right now, how he's handling all of this, who he is, what we know about him, and yes, we still need to point out yes these posts are cryptic. Yes, this autopsy is completely inconclusive. We also have that strange ring camera footage that's unexplained as well. This is a hell of a mystery. Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about this deepening mystery in South Carolina. A thirty nine year old personal trainer and wife, Elena Moore, found dead in the woods six days after she was last seen alive. And now we're a full week beyond when her body was found, and we still don't know how she died.
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Speaker 2: We don't know why she died, and this.
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Speaker 3: Is a very confusing story because there are all sorts of folks trying to fill in the void.
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Speaker 2: And that's what happens when you don't.
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Speaker 3: Hear anything from police, when you don't really hear anything from her husband, other people start talking and that's exactly what's happened. So there are all sorts of wild theories about how she may have died, why she might have harmed herself, or why someone might have harmed her. But we know that there was that strange ring cam footage. This is about a week before she disappeared.
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Speaker 2: Correct, So a.
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Speaker 3: Stranger had a ring camera and they ordered a food and a door delivery person was putting the food down, and she shows up at the ring camera, takes the food.
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Speaker 2: Basically shees away the DoorDash driver.
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Speaker 3: And then knocks on the door and seemingly tries to walk into this stranger's apartment.
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Speaker 2: She looked confused.
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Speaker 1: This was so bizarre, baby, because the first thought was, okay, she's and that would have been bad enough if she was trying to steal the food. She picks the food up and just stands there. She doesn't walk away. It's as if she was taking the place of the door dash his driver.
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Speaker 3: And then got confused about what her role was, who she was, why she was there. It was very It was alarming, and to think that that took place a week before and then fast forward to her last steps, her last known moments, and yes, she was seen at that Planet Fitness where she worked, and then she was walking behind a Low's home improvement store.
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Speaker 2: Then she's walking through a public's parking lot by herself.
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Speaker 3: Nine to seventeen PM is the last time she was recorded on a surveillance camera on June eleventh, walking towards the woods.
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Speaker 1: Walking in the woods at nine thirty at night.
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Speaker 3: What I know, and really I believe from plant I've seen varying accounts of what the distance was, but from the Planet Fitness where she was seen to this public parking lot where she was last seen about a mile and a half, she just walked it like we don't know. It's very very strange, and so also of note, we just haven't heard anything from her husband, forty seven year old Brandon Slice.
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Speaker 2: We know he was a former police officer.
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Speaker 3: He is a private investigator, and he reported his wife missing the following morning at nine am, So she was last seen at nine pm, so twelve hours after she was last seen, And we don't know the last time he spoke to her. We don't know the last time they corresponded. The police have not revealed any of those details, and he certainly hasn't either.
00:14:09
Speaker 1: A lot of it had to have gone to sleep. He had to have gone to sleep at night.
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Speaker 3: That's the only explanation. But even like he didn't wake up until nine am. I mean, that even seems late to wait until nine am to report your wife missing.
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Speaker 2: Also seems strange. But you know what, maybe he worked a night shift.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he left the house at six and got back like maybe he had an overnight surveillance job.
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Speaker 2: We don't know. There's plenty of reasonable.
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Speaker 3: Explanations, but it left a lot of people during those six days when they couldn't find her body, a lot of folks online seemed upset that they weren't hearing from him, that he wasn't going on social media, that he wasn't getting in front of the news cameras and saying, help me find my wife. A lot of people became suspicious in the time between she was reported missing and the time they found her body.
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Speaker 1: It's fair to have questions. I'm sure the police had those same ones. But if they're the ones saying he's not a suspect, not a person of interest, I assume they know what they're talking about. But yeah, I mean, folks get going online and no, it doesn't make sense nine am, nine pm to nine am, correct. You he would have had to have been asleep robes correct, or maybe went to bed at eleven. Wait a minute, you don't hear from your wife.
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Speaker 3: You don't go to sleep if you haven't heard from your wife and she was at the gym.
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Speaker 1: But again, I will just say to that, maybe I don't know their relationship.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they were barely talking. Yes, maybe they were really angry to each other.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they had a.
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Speaker 1: Huge fight, got up at six am, seven am, eight am. No big deal that he hasn't heard from her. Maybe it was we deal.
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Speaker 3: We don't know their relationship, We don't know their situation, but I do know that a friend of and this made headlines. It almost kind of felt like a pr because obviously people are making all sorts of speculations and it's certainly not favorable towards him. But one of his friends finally went on the record and it made it all the headlines saying he's grieving. That was that was the headline, He's grieving. So this guy's name is Henry Dukes. He's also a private investigator and a friend of Brandon Slice and he said that, he said this, Brandon and Elena have been together for a number of years. They built a life together. He planned on spending the rest of his life with her. Because yes, a lot of people are questioning the status of their marriage, the status of their relationship, and how that may have played a role, if any, in her death.
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Speaker 1: The spouse is always the first suspect. We get that, we understand, so I get it in robes. Can you imagine the position We've seen this play out enough times in public and big, high profile cases where a spouse is killed or missing kind of a thing. Hell, why would you want to get in front of a camera. All they're going to do is scrutinize every single eye twitch and all. He's not really crying and whatever. It's a no win.
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Speaker 2: It's true. You're damned if you do. You're damned if you don't.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people just feel like, if you were really worried about your wife, you would do You wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Care about that in the moment.
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Speaker 3: You would just want her to be found. So he didn't know that. I mean, you would think if he had nothing to do with it, he wouldn't have known she was dead. He would just want her to be found. So that was I understand that.
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Speaker 1: You make a different that comment.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you're not strategizing about how not to go to jail right now, because.
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Speaker 2: Now all right, well look we will stay on top of this. Obviously we're waiting for Yes, a lot of people are not letting.
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Speaker 3: This go seven six days, six days, Yes, but obviously we're waiting for all of those hopefully that new information that's coming from the corner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you're still over there. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't make a lot of sense unless they were estranged in a way that we don't know.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's hard.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine what you would do in that circumstance. It's very easy to say what you think you would do. But we shall wait and see and hopefully there will be some answers soon as to what exactly happened to Elena Moore. With that, everyone, we appreciate you listening to us. I'm Aymi Robach alongside TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, June twenty fourth, and what happened to Elena Moore? The wife and fitness trainer walked into the woods simply disappeared. She was missing for nearly a week. She was found dead and autopsy was done, but we still have virtually no answers. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rhodes. How does an autopsy tell you absolutely nothing?
00:00:32
Speaker 2: This is wild.
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Speaker 3: I don't believe I've ever seen anything quite like this, maybe the only other mystery like this. It reminds me a little bit of what happened to that woman, the irishwoman in.
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Speaker 1: Montoc oh, Martha Nolan.
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Speaker 2: Martha Nolan.
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Speaker 1: Goodness.
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Speaker 2: We still don't know how she died.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, it has occurred before, but this is exceptionally rare to have an autopsy done. I'm thirty nine year old Lea Moore, as you mentioned, a fitness instructor.
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Speaker 2: So this is a healthy young woman.
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Speaker 3: We've seen all the pictures of her, and if you haven't, they're everywhere online. And so there's no obvious natural cause that you could imagine. Number one, number two when you have an autopsy done by the Lexington County Corner and they know there's extreme public interest in this case, so they take her down to Charleston, musc and conduct a preliminary autopsy. The report no external injuries to her body, and they went very specifically and said there was no bruising, no lacerations, no gunshot wounds, no stab wounds, no blunt force trauma, no strangulation or other external injuries.
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Speaker 1: This is so, what about toxicology? Is that what we are really waiting on down there?
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Speaker 3: Yes, so that is what was added that they are now examining tissue, looking at medical records, and then yes, doing that toxicology testing. So why does that take soch that is happening right now? I don't know. To be honest, it doesn't make any sense. It feels like it's twenty twenty six. With the medical miracles that were able to see and witness every day. How is it that you cannot determine what drugs were in someone's system without waiting months? Days, fine, weeks, I'm still a little confused.
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Speaker 2: But months.
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Speaker 3: I mean that has been the case in many high profile Maybe they don't want to mess things up or get it wrong, but honestly, either a chemical or a drug is present or it isn't.
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Speaker 2: I'm confused why that's so hard? This is nailed down.
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Speaker 1: This has to be the case with her. There is nothing physically wrong with her that would suggest a trauma that would cause her death. Okay, so that means this thirty nine?
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Speaker 3: Was it?
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Speaker 2: Thirty thirty nine year old?
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Speaker 1: Healthy woman? Healthy woman had a heart attack that would have shown up in the art, that.
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Speaker 2: Would have shown up.
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Speaker 3: There was no major organ issues, so they would have been able to say, hey, look she had an aneurysm or yeah, do they.
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Speaker 1: Not suggest something was around her? She took something, right? I guess she could have taken something before she left the gym when we saw her in the surveillent fitness. What did she do once she got into the woods? So she carrying something? They had to look like it, but they have to what is going on?
00:03:16
Speaker 2: I was thinking, could she have been lured into the woods? But then wouldn't that show up in her phone records with text messaging.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to think about what the possible scenarios could be, and I was thinking perhaps being lured.
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Speaker 2: Who was the last person who called her? Who was the last person who texted her.
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Speaker 3: Because why else would you walk into the woods at nine eighteen at night unless you're meeting someone there or you have plans to do something there, and then you never leave the woods. But there's no physical sign of any kind of trauma whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: I guess the other option Robes is that maybe she wasn't well, and we'll get into any accident when people are wondering. But that I mean, I just this is such a mystery.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: We thought we would get some answers with his autopsy. Now it deepens and we're going to get into as well. Rodes. Why this is starting to make some headlines is because, yes, some things in her social media have popped up that are disturbing.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and definitely shows someone who was struggling, And so yes, you could look at it as a mental health episode where perhaps she could have possibly harmed herself. But then again without any physical signs of trauma. Again, the only thing you can think of is something that she ingested, some sort of pill, some sort of something where it wouldn't necessarily have left an obvious.
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Speaker 2: Answer to how she died.
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Speaker 3: But I was even thinking, my goodness, if you die by taking pills or something.
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Speaker 2: Aren't you vomiting? Aren't you foaming at the mouth.
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Speaker 3: Isn't there something that's obvious that you've just ingested, especially when you've done an autopsy. Couldn't they see something the last thing she ate or it just I don't know, it just none of it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: This doesn't make sense right now, or it just doesn't and the stuff some of the comments from her friends as well suggest I don't know what level of distress, but suggests something going on in her life.
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Speaker 3: Yes, So a couple of friends have spoken to the media, at least two of them have, and they describe a friend who was afraid and that was interesting. So they discussed about They said Elena was on a fitness and health journey and she was very intent on ridding herself of quote unquote toxic people.
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Speaker 2: That was what Mendy Miller said.
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Speaker 3: She's a friend of hers from Lexington said she's known her whole life. She said this, and look, this has raised a lot of eyebrows. For her to just be found dead in the woods makes no sense. Anyone who knows her would see this. Someone had to have done something to her.
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Speaker 2: I get that.
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Speaker 3: But another friend said Elena was acting paranoid and was expressing being scared for her life and said she couldn't give her the details because too many people were around that could possibly suggest a mental health issue.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to know.
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Speaker 3: What her state of mind was, or at least what the cause of her state of mind was. Was it something internally going on with her? Was it something externally happening with another person? So yes, TMZ has now published these cryptic Instagram posts. They say that they were from her second Instagram account, and they have screen grabs of them, and if you read through them, which I have, it's somebody who is describing a deep and painful heartbreak.
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Speaker 1: And this is a woman. I don't know how long she had been married.
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Speaker 3: She had only been married, so they married. I believe they've only been married for a year and a half. But they've been together for years, So this was a couple. He is forty seven, her husband she is thirty nine. They've been together for a very very long time, but they just recently got married.
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Speaker 1: And we should say here now police have not named him not only as not a suspect, but not even a person of interest.
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Speaker 3: Yes, in this case, that is very fair, and we should absolutely point this out, and especially when you start looking at some of these posts that TMZ is putting up, it really is disturbing. She's talking about I don't want to hate you, but how could I not? You knew exactly what you were doing to me the entire time. You watched me love you with everything I had, watched me trust you blindly watched me destroy myself trying to keep us alive, and still chose to hurt me anyway. So she's talking about something that had been done to her. I think something really interesting. She commented on a post where someone was talking about the anger and resentment left behind after a painful relationship.
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Speaker 2: This was three weeks before her death.
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Speaker 3: She wrote this, the memories are in the trash, and I stopped loving him a long time ago. I was just looking for a way out when I realized I was in a relationship with.
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Speaker 2: The devil you know, and who knows who you know?
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Speaker 3: Not for interpretation, and by the way she might she could have been in another relationship with someone else outside of her marriage.
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Speaker 2: We don't know she's referring to that.
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Speaker 1: We're not trying to suggest that she was.
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Speaker 3: Yes, my point being is she didn't ever say my husband. She didn't ever say his name, And I guess I just want to make sure we say that so that we're not interpreting what she's saying about a relationship pain that she's feeling that it automatically has to be her husband.
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Speaker 2: Obviously people would jump to.
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Speaker 3: That conclusion, but there are plenty of other possible explanations.
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Speaker 1: The point is we just don't know right now. All we know is what we don't know, and that's what the autopsy tells us. In Robes, also, we don't know what this means, right We see something that she wrote, but we don't know what she's talking about. Yeah, and you can jump down any conclusion you want, but we simply don't know where her head was, what she was up to. All we can do is take the word of her friends right now and of her own writings Robes, Yes, this is not and this was several of these.
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Speaker 2: Right yes.
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Speaker 3: The first, the first one that started to to point to this, it was all in a very similar tone, was December of twenty twenty five, and then she wrote another one. She actually shared a long quote in March about again the war is over, you are no longer my first thought in the morning, nor my last thought at night. So it was all about a breakup. And then the most recent one was in May, and that was the whole. I hate the memories that won't leave me alone, and more than anything, I hate that a part of me still mourns the person I thought you were. These are long, emotional posts that absolutely describe a devastating breakup. It doesn't sound like it came from somebody who is in a loving marriage. It sounds like somebody is in the middle of a divorce or just found out that their husband has fallen in love with someone else. I mean, that's what all of these posts sound like. And so we don't know what was going on. We haven't heard much at all from her husband.
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Speaker 1: We said, has he said any?
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Speaker 2: He said nothing.
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Speaker 3: When I say, not much at all, it's funny I did read so and we'll get into this, but there have only been a public comment from a friend of his who basically is asking people to leave him alone.
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Speaker 2: To respect his privacy. All of that. In fact, when we come back, we will tell you.
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Speaker 3: The only the few things we have heard about what Brandon Slice is doing right now, how he's handling all of this, who he is, what we know about him, and yes, we still need to point out yes these posts are cryptic. Yes, this autopsy is completely inconclusive. We also have that strange ring camera footage that's unexplained as well. This is a hell of a mystery. Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about this deepening mystery in South Carolina. A thirty nine year old personal trainer and wife, Elena Moore, found dead in the woods six days after she was last seen alive. And now we're a full week beyond when her body was found, and we still don't know how she died.
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Speaker 2: We don't know why she died, and this.
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Speaker 3: Is a very confusing story because there are all sorts of folks trying to fill in the void.
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Speaker 2: And that's what happens when you don't.
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Speaker 3: Hear anything from police, when you don't really hear anything from her husband, other people start talking and that's exactly what's happened. So there are all sorts of wild theories about how she may have died, why she might have harmed herself, or why someone might have harmed her. But we know that there was that strange ring cam footage. This is about a week before she disappeared.
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Speaker 2: Correct, So a.
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Speaker 3: Stranger had a ring camera and they ordered a food and a door delivery person was putting the food down, and she shows up at the ring camera, takes the food.
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Speaker 2: Basically shees away the DoorDash driver.
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Speaker 3: And then knocks on the door and seemingly tries to walk into this stranger's apartment.
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Speaker 2: She looked confused.
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Speaker 1: This was so bizarre, baby, because the first thought was, okay, she's and that would have been bad enough if she was trying to steal the food. She picks the food up and just stands there. She doesn't walk away. It's as if she was taking the place of the door dash his driver.
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Speaker 3: And then got confused about what her role was, who she was, why she was there. It was very It was alarming, and to think that that took place a week before and then fast forward to her last steps, her last known moments, and yes, she was seen at that Planet Fitness where she worked, and then she was walking behind a Low's home improvement store.
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Speaker 2: Then she's walking through a public's parking lot by herself.
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Speaker 3: Nine to seventeen PM is the last time she was recorded on a surveillance camera on June eleventh, walking towards the woods.
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Speaker 1: Walking in the woods at nine thirty at night.
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Speaker 3: What I know, and really I believe from plant I've seen varying accounts of what the distance was, but from the Planet Fitness where she was seen to this public parking lot where she was last seen about a mile and a half, she just walked it like we don't know. It's very very strange, and so also of note, we just haven't heard anything from her husband, forty seven year old Brandon Slice.
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Speaker 2: We know he was a former police officer.
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Speaker 3: He is a private investigator, and he reported his wife missing the following morning at nine am, So she was last seen at nine pm, so twelve hours after she was last seen, And we don't know the last time he spoke to her. We don't know the last time they corresponded. The police have not revealed any of those details, and he certainly hasn't either.
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Speaker 1: A lot of it had to have gone to sleep. He had to have gone to sleep at night.
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Speaker 3: That's the only explanation. But even like he didn't wake up until nine am. I mean, that even seems late to wait until nine am to report your wife missing.
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Speaker 2: Also seems strange. But you know what, maybe he worked a night shift.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he left the house at six and got back like maybe he had an overnight surveillance job.
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Speaker 2: We don't know. There's plenty of reasonable.
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Speaker 3: Explanations, but it left a lot of people during those six days when they couldn't find her body, a lot of folks online seemed upset that they weren't hearing from him, that he wasn't going on social media, that he wasn't getting in front of the news cameras and saying, help me find my wife. A lot of people became suspicious in the time between she was reported missing and the time they found her body.
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Speaker 1: It's fair to have questions. I'm sure the police had those same ones. But if they're the ones saying he's not a suspect, not a person of interest, I assume they know what they're talking about. But yeah, I mean, folks get going online and no, it doesn't make sense nine am, nine pm to nine am, correct. You he would have had to have been asleep robes correct, or maybe went to bed at eleven. Wait a minute, you don't hear from your wife.
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Speaker 3: You don't go to sleep if you haven't heard from your wife and she was at the gym.
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Speaker 1: But again, I will just say to that, maybe I don't know their relationship.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they were barely talking. Yes, maybe they were really angry to each other.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they had a.
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Speaker 1: Huge fight, got up at six am, seven am, eight am. No big deal that he hasn't heard from her. Maybe it was we deal.
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Speaker 3: We don't know their relationship, We don't know their situation, but I do know that a friend of and this made headlines. It almost kind of felt like a pr because obviously people are making all sorts of speculations and it's certainly not favorable towards him. But one of his friends finally went on the record and it made it all the headlines saying he's grieving. That was that was the headline, He's grieving. So this guy's name is Henry Dukes. He's also a private investigator and a friend of Brandon Slice and he said that, he said this, Brandon and Elena have been together for a number of years. They built a life together. He planned on spending the rest of his life with her. Because yes, a lot of people are questioning the status of their marriage, the status of their relationship, and how that may have played a role, if any, in her death.
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Speaker 1: The spouse is always the first suspect. We get that, we understand, so I get it in robes. Can you imagine the position We've seen this play out enough times in public and big, high profile cases where a spouse is killed or missing kind of a thing. Hell, why would you want to get in front of a camera. All they're going to do is scrutinize every single eye twitch and all. He's not really crying and whatever. It's a no win.
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Speaker 2: It's true. You're damned if you do. You're damned if you don't.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people just feel like, if you were really worried about your wife, you would do You wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Care about that in the moment.
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Speaker 3: You would just want her to be found. So he didn't know that. I mean, you would think if he had nothing to do with it, he wouldn't have known she was dead. He would just want her to be found. So that was I understand that.
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Speaker 1: You make a different that comment.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you're not strategizing about how not to go to jail right now, because.
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Speaker 2: Now all right, well look we will stay on top of this. Obviously we're waiting for Yes, a lot of people are not letting.
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Speaker 3: This go seven six days, six days, Yes, but obviously we're waiting for all of those hopefully that new information that's coming from the corner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you're still over there. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't make a lot of sense unless they were estranged in a way that we don't know.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's hard.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine what you would do in that circumstance. It's very easy to say what you think you would do. But we shall wait and see and hopefully there will be some answers soon as to what exactly happened to Elena Moore. With that, everyone, we appreciate you listening to us. I'm Aymi Robach alongside TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. We will talk to you soon.