EXCLUSIVE: In the years before a missing South Carolina fitness trainer was found dead this week, she told several of her friends that she wanted to leave her now-husband and end the relationship.Elena Katherine Moore, 39, was found dead Wednesday afternoon in Lexington, South Carolina, the Lexington County Coroner's Office confirmed Friday after making a positive identification.Moore was last seen leaving a Planet Fitness gym in Lexington on June 11.
The body will be transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, who will conduct the autopsy Saturday.More information is expected on Monday.Aston Jeffcoat, a close friend of Moore's, shared a Facebook Messenger screenshot with Fox News Digital from July 13, 2017, in which Moore said she wanted to move out and leave Brannon Slice, who is now her husband.BODY FOUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA ID’D AS MISSING FITNESS TRAINER WHO TOLD FRIEND SHE WAS 'SCARED FOR HER LIFE'Elena Moore and her husband, Brannon Slice.(Facebook/Elena Moore)"Hey girl not sure about ur situation ...but just from reading ur post i might be ending my almost 5 year relationship as well and might be looking for a roommate!! Let me know!" Moore wrote.SOUTH CAROLINA PERSONAL TRAINER GOES MISSING, LAST SPOTTED WALKING TOWARD WOODED AREAIt's unclear why Moore wanted to end the relationship or move out.
No one, including her husband, has been accused of any wrongdoing or charged with a crime.Lexington Police Department Inspector Missy Silcox told Newsweek late Tuesday that Slice "is not a person of interest at the current moment."FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XLauren Beasley, a friend of Moore's, told Fox News Digital that Moore went through "cycles" of wanting to move out and end the relationship, but didn't."She expressed that she didn’t know what to do, and would say things like 'I love him' but then things would be good," Beasley said.
"And I hoped and assumed things had changed.It was definitely a cycle.""Cycles of wanting t...