Elena Moore’s ‘afraid for her life’ before disappearance, friend says
Elena Moore’s ‘afraid for her life’ before disappearance, friend says
Police in Lexington, South Carolina, say it could be days before they learn whether the body of a woman found Wednesday is that of Elena Moore.
As they await official identification from the Lexington County Coroner’s Office, officers are continuing to search for clues as to what happened to the 39-year-old personal trainer.
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There are theories that she may have killed herself due to mental health issues, but one of her closest friends, Sondra Rachelle Campbell, doesn’t think so.
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“I do believe there’s foul play,” Campbell said Thursday on CUOMO. “I think my friend was struggling for her life. I think she was literally afraid for her life.”
While she didn’t go into details, Campbell says there are many issues that were taking place in her marriage.
“There has been issues, they were trying to separate,” Campbell continued. “This is red flags to me.”
Moore and her husband, Brannon Slice, have been together for over 13 years and were married in 2024. Slice is the one who reported Moore missing, and police say he is not a person of interest.
As for the claims Moore was possibly having a mental breakdown, Campbell says they were very open about mental health, and Moore only mentioned suffering from anxiety.
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“She loved her life. She looked forward to days. When she had bad days, she still had clients. She still showed up for them,” Campbell stated. “So mental illness and the things that are being said about her, it just doesn’t make sense until this last week of really starting around what you saw on that camera.”
The camera Campbell is referring to is surveillance video captured about a week before Moore disappeared. It showed her acting confused and attempting to enter a couple’s home following a DoorDash order.
Sources have also told NewsNation that Moore had been in a mental health facility prior to her disappearance.
There was also reporting from TMZ indicating that Moore had been behaving in an out-of-character way in the weeks leading up to her disappearance and said she was afraid for her life.
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Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer also joined Chris Cuomo on Thursday, and said there are a lot of things that need to be considered surrounding Moore’s disappearance, and nothing can be ruled out.
“These aren’t mutually exclusive ideas that she could be having serious metal mental issues and having problems in the marriage and being concerned about the marriage and then also be having mental breaks.”
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As for claims that Slice may have been involved, Coffindaffer says there has been no evidence shared pointing to him.
“When she walks into that wooded area,” Coffindaffer says, “she doesn’t have her cellphone pinging, and there are full-on cameras there. No one follows her in there. So for these reasons and the fact they’ve said that they don’t see anything, I think that it is making a big leap to say he [Slice] walked in there and committed a homicide at this point.”
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Private investigator Henry Dukes, who has been working the case, told “Jesse Weber Live” he did not observe a tense relationship between Slice and Moore.
Dukes, who has had conversations with Slice, said he had “absolutely not” discovered any red flags regarding Moore’s disappearance.
“The husband was wanting to do everything he could to number one, find his wife and number two, do anything he could to help her,” Dukes said of Slice.

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