Overview
- Authorities confirmed Friday that the body recovered in a wooded area on June 17 was positively identified as 39-year-old Elena Katherine Moore.
- Police said a community tip led officers to the search area where they found a body wearing clothing that matched surveillance footage of Moore.
- Surveillance video shows Moore leaving a Planet Fitness and later walking through a Publix parking lot toward Old Cherokee Road on the night of June 11, the last known images of her.
- Lexington police asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to take over the probe and Moore’s body was transported to the Medical University of South Carolina for a scheduled autopsy on Saturday.
- Friends have told reporters Moore had recently acted unusually and told a close friend she was 'scared for her life,' but investigators have not confirmed a motive and say determining cause and manner of death could take days or weeks.