South Carolina personal trainer Elena Katherine Moore mysteriously told a friend that she was “scared for her life” just days before she vanished in a wooded area where a body was later found.
“She was scared for her life. She actually said those words to me,” Sondra Campbell told Fox News Digital of her terrified friend’s warning just days before she was last seen on June 11.
Campbell said something felt “very different” the last time they were together on May 31 — but her best friend of nearly a decade was too scared to say more while in public.
Asked to elaborate on why she was so scared, Moore replied, “I can’t talk to you right now. There’s too many people around,’” Campbell recalled. “She’s like, ‘But we’ve got to talk one-on-one.’”
Campbell, who said she and Moore shared everything with one another, recalled missing a call from her rattled friend on June 4 and never heard back despite repeatedly calling and texting her.
“Elenda is one of my best friends,” Campbell told the outlet, adding, “I’ve known her over probably 10 years now. We’re really close — like, tell each other everything. She’s been that person for me for a long time.”
The 39-year-old trainer was last seen leaving a Planet Fitness in Lexington — about 14 miles outside Columbia — and heading toward a wooded area behind a nearby Lowe’s Home Improvement store at 9:17 p.m. on June 11, the Lexington Police Department said.
Moore, who worked at Wolf’s Fitness Center, was wearing an olive green zip-up hoodie and black athletic pants when she left the gym, according to surveillance footage.
Police announced Wednesday a body in similar clothing was found, though it’s not clear where or when the person was located. Authorities are awaiting identification from the coroner.
Lexington Police and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Campbell stressed it was unlike Moore to be walking alone at night.
“Elena was such a good person and I think we’re just all trying to wrap our heads around this, but my friend would not be alone walking at nighttime,” she told Fox. “She just wouldn’t be, it’s not her.”
Moore’s husband, Brannon Slice, reported her missing last Friday.
Slice described his wife’s disappearance as “very out of character,” with the missing person’s case leaving friends devastated and holding out hope she will come home.
“Complete devastation,” Moore’s friend, Mendy Miller, told WACH.
“Even though it’s not ‘confirmed,’ we, the Town of Lexington, the community, knew it was her. Hope is always there. You hope the police are wrong. You hope this isn’t her who they found, but the hope is getting crushed minute by minute.”