Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - PERSONAL TRAINER ELENA MOORE MISSING FROM PLANET FITNESS

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

Elena Katherine Moore, a 39‑year‑old personal trainer from Lexington, South Carolina, has been missing since Thursday, June 11, 2026. She was last seen leaving a Lexington Planet Fitness  and walking toward a wooded area behind a nearby Lowe’s store. Police searches,  including drone and ground operations, have found no trace of her.  Moore is  5'7inches,  120 lbs, with brown eyes and hair.  She was wearing an olive‑green zip‑up hoodie and black athletic pants.    Anyone with information is urged to contact: Detective Santoro: 803‑358‑7271 or [e-mail] lexsc.gov Midlands Crimestoppers: 1‑888‑CRIME‑SC (888‑274‑6372) lexsc.gov Joining Nancy Grace today:  Dr. Bethany Marshall  - Psychoanalyst,  Host of the podcast "On the Couch with Dr. Bethany" Author: "Deal Breaker,”  featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock, www.drbethanymarshall.com , Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter: @DrBethanyLive   John Mobley   - Trial attorney, https://johnmobley.com/ Jennifer Wood - Journalist and Director of research at FITSNews.com, Twitter: @IndyJenn_ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Bombshell tonight, a glamorous personal trainer, Elena Moore, missing from Planet Fitness. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. At this hour, the search is on for a so-called glamorous workout enthusiast, fitness instructor, Elena goes missing from a planet fitness. There you see her. This is completely out of character. This is not a young woman who wants me time or to go off with her what secret boyfriend.

That's what police always seem to say whenever somebody goes missing. Jennifer Wood joining us along with an all-star panel. Jennifer, Director of Research at fits news.com, you recognize her? You know why you recognize her? Because of that POS technical legal term. Alex Murdoch. She broke one story after the next on him as we wait for his next trial. Big question regarding him. Will there be a death penalty? But that's for another night. Jennifer Wood, how do you just disappear from the parking lot at Planet Fitness? I need to hear this. And hey, while she's talking, let's see an aerial view of this place. What we know right now is that Elena Moore will check in at Planet Fitness at 640.

And shortly afterwards, she was spotted walking around back by the Lowe's into a near a wooded area. Lexington Police Department have since searched that wooded area. I would like to point out it is not an expansive wooded area. I mean, it's just kind of like one of those wooded areas that separates a neighborhood from a shopping center. So it's a really crazy case. I can't figure out where this young woman has gone. Now, you know what's interesting, Jennifer Wood? Across the green is the FBI. There in Lexington, South Carolina. They have an FBI outpost right across. I'm trying to identify it from here. Yeah, oh, thank you. Thank you. Look at that. Right under the nose of the FBI, she disappears. Now, you stated, Jennifer. Wood, joining us from fitsniews.com, 6.40 p.m.

And we've actually got her on surveillance. Is this her checking in or checking out, Jennifer? Let's see it again. There you go. Police were not clear as to whether or not she was checking into the gym or checking out in that video. But her time clock on her check-in with her key fob was 640. So it's, I mean, and that is not a remote area.

Lexington is very populous. There are neighborhoods everywhere, houses all over the place. Lake Murray, which is a huge lake, is about a mile from there. So, yeah, I mean, it is just hard to believe that somebody vanished into thin air in that area. Let's see the photo of her either checking in or checking out. This gives us a lot of information. See what she's wearing? She's wearing an army green, I believe it is, if you compare it to her pants.

It's not black. It's Army Green. Zip-up hoodie. She's got brown hair back in a bun. She's wearing black tights. It looks like she's got a Fiji Water in her hand. There are the witnesses. And we've got a time.

We've got her fobbing in electronically at 6.40 p.m. Hey, Dave Mack while you're sitting there, look up for me on the almanac. What time was sunset the night the she goes missing? There you see her again. Now, she checks in around 6.30 to 6.40 p.m. It's around 8.30 when she is observed walking away from the gym. This place has got to be saturated with video cameras, saturated. But I want to know, Dave Mack, when you dig it up, just let me know what time was sunset.

Now, what is around the area? Sun set was at 837 p.m. Okay, so she goes in at 6.40. She's leaving, leaving around 8.30 right when it gets dark, significant. Now, Jennifer Woods, you've been there on the scene. This is what I know about the area. There's a Lowe's, you know, the Home Improvement Store, right there. it's a long

Coffman Farm Lane. We know the FBI is just beyond the green. And when we say a wooded area behind it, I don't mean a big expanse like the Carlton Reserve where Brian Laundry took his own life. I'm talking about a strip

of greenery between the strip and like apartments, the FBI and more. So it's not as if she goes and gets lost in a vast, densely wood, area. What else is around there, Jennifer Wood? You know, it's just like any suburban area. There, you know, there's a Home Depot, Lowe's pharmacies. I mean, it is, it is

the strip where all the shopping centers are. You know, that's where we go to the movies as a family. While the investigators were following the cameras throughout the town, they noticed that the CVS was not the last place that Ms. Moore was seen at. And that led us to Planet Fitness. When she exited to Planet Fitness, it's unknown whether she went behind the building or into the wooded area. We don't know if she walked behind the building, if she walked into the woods, hence why we're doing the canvas search right now. So it's anyone's guess at this point. Jennifer, what do we mean by a canvas search? By the way, that's from WLTX and WIS.

Canvas search, what did they do immediately? So it sounds like they were out there with on foot, with dogs. they had drones overhead, searching that area. They were very clear in their messaging that it was not a recovery mission of any kind. It was just a search to make sure that she was not in that area where she was last seen walking towards. Guys, tonight, the search is on for a gorgeous young fitness instructor. What do we know about her? Take a listen to Missy Sealcox from Lexington PD.

She is a personal trainer over at Wolf's Gym, and we thought the last sighting of her was at the CVS, as reported earlier. However, once she left the CVS, she went to Planet Fitness, and we have her clocked in on her little barcode at 6 p.m., and she left at 8, I believe, like 8.30 or so. Some of that video we're showing is from WLTX, so thank you to our friends there. She is a personal trainer at Wolf's Gym. Now, if you look at the police flyer about her being missing, it gives you the location of the CVS. Originally, that was thought to be the last place she had been seen. No, she went from there. Let me understand this.

Is this correct, Jennifer? She went from there to Planet Fitness. And then, seemingly, just disappears in a thin air. That's correct. police have not indicated how she got from the CBS to Planet Fitness. I don't know. It is just a mile up the road. It's not a long walk if she were to be walking.

They haven't said whether or not her car was located. There were some indications online. Somebody said she took a cab, but there's not a ton of cab services in Lexington. So I'm not sure. How far away is a CVS from the Planet Fitness? I mean, it would, it's a walk, but, you know, it's not. you know, half mile, mile. It's not, for somebody that is as in shape as she is,

wouldn't be a horrible walk. Joining us in addition to Jennifer Wood at FitNews.com, an expert tracker, master trainer, K-9 tracker program manager for military contracts, former Navy bomb disposal master technician, former deputy K-9 commander with San Bernardino Sheriff's Department. Dave Moyer is joining us. Okay, Dave Moyer is joining us.

you've seen the terrain, they've brought out the dogs. To my understanding, as we go to air, the dogs gave me nothing. How can that be? Did she leave in a car? Let's just first start with. What do you do with the dogs? Yes, ma'am. We would try to establish any kind of an exit trail based on whatever sent article we could

get for our victim here. And I just use that term to identify the young lady that's missing. We don't know what happened with the time elapsed from the time she was last seen to the time she was reported missing. There's heavy, heavy human contamination all around that area. So it's a very difficult situation for the tracking dogs to obtain a track. But it is possible. If she got into a vehicle, there's not going to be any exit trail. So the speculation would be if the dogs didn't have anything that she might have gotten into a vehicle at some point.

it's not like she flew away. So there's really no other options. If she walked away, the dogs would have something to follow. If she didn't walk away, if she got into a vehicle or onto a motorcycle or a bicycle, that would not be something that they could track. Okay, wait a minute. Dave Moyer, of course, I'm just a trial lawyer. You're the master canine handler.

But in the Lacey Peterson disappearance, canines could track her. and she was either probably in the back of a boat covered up with a tarp, which does make a difference. They could track her scent. They were cadaver dogs all the way from their home on Covina

in Modesto to the San Francisco Bay. A tracker dog could do that. Now, would the difference be that she was kind of out in the open, possibly in the boat under a tarp? But they did.

a dog did track her? That is possible. I'm not familiar with the canine team that was involved in that. However, it is unlikely. There are extenuating circumstances where the environmental conditions are absolutely perfect and the scent is preserved, but it's very difficult in the summertime with the warm temperatures and also with all the human contamination that is in the area in question for this case. you mentioned it would be difficult for the dogs just walk us through it if you could in a very

rudimentary fashion how you bring the dogs there how you transport them how you keep them their noses uncontaminated until you give them the scent and then what do you do yes ma'am commonly how we like to train the dogs is once the canine unit arrives on scene another unit would have already obtained a scent article of some kind for the subject that the dog is supposed to track. That object will be then be placed and whoever is handling it will be standing there next to the object at the place last scene. In this case, it would have been the exit doors for the Planet Fitness. You'll get the dog out of the car, give it about five, ten minutes to acclimate, go potty, do whatever the dog needs to do to relax. And that they're taking what's called a scent inventory at that point.

They're kind of acclimating themselves to the environment and all of the odors that are in that area. Because remember, dogs can smell millions and millions of times better than a human can. So if you could just imagine the assault on the senses that would be for people coming out of a gym after a long workout, the dogs have a lot of information to sort through. The dog would then be taken up to the place last scene and allowed to go out and investigate the scent article. and then the search command is given. That tells the dog that this is the odor that you're looking for. The dog doesn't have to pick it up.

It doesn't have to put it in its mouth. You don't jam it into the dog's face. The dog is already getting the odor off of that particular item. And we train for this over and over and over again. Through repetition, the dog understands that the article presented, whether it be an aluminum can, a cigarette butt, a footprint, an article of clothing, all of these things contain the human scent that we want that dog. the track. These dogs are trained to scent discriminate, and if there is an exit trail that has

been preserved due to the environmental conditions, the dog will detect that exit trail and follow it. Unfortunately, when somebody gets into a car, most people have the windows rolled up in the air conditioning on this time of year, so there's not a lot of odor escaping that vehicle. And as it drives away, there's even less, and it's not enough for the dogs to follow. Yes, that's a dead giveaway that somebody got into a vehicle when the sent suddenly in. what about the dichotomy of the canines on asphalt around Planet Fitness and then going into that thinstrip of wooded area? I'm glad that you mentioned that. That's actually something that we train for a lot in our urban training imprinting. Asphalt does not retain the human odor.

Remember, the human odor that the dog is tracking is an amalgamation of the biological matter and fluids that are, falling off your body at all times. I know it's kind of gross to think about, but you're shedding thousands and thousands of skin cells every minute, every movement you make, they're falling off your body, they're raining off of you. And the dogs are detecting this. As these biological skin rafts are actually decomposing, that the dog is able to figure out which direction the trail goes based on that tiny, tiny amount, a matter of seconds between the pressure scent and the aged scent. That's how they're able to determine the direction of travel. On asphalt, with cars driving over it and dragging all those skin rafts into biological matter around, it spreads it out and makes it almost impossible for the dogs to follow, but trained dogs can do it.

These particular pieces of human odor will go to any place that's wet or moist, usually the gutters, any of the parking lot, raised parking lot areas. cracks in the asphalt will actually retain some of these scent for longer than the open asphalt area. And when you get into the quitted areas, it's just, and it's an immense amount of scent. If there is odor there, the dog will be able to follow that much easier than in an urban environment like asphalt. So we've got her on asphalt, which is not going to help the dogs at all. And very quickly, before I move on to our next point in the search for Elena, scent dog versus cadaver dog explain. Did they bring in both?

Me personally, I would absolutely use both. Now, if this was a scenario where she was in those woods, her fresh live scent would still be there. It wouldn't just strictly be human remains sense. The two are very complementary, whether you're doing human remains detection and human tracking, because there is so much of the crossover or the mission creep, if you will, for the dogs to follow that, whether it's live odor or dead. So if she was in that very small wooded area, I would expect that a trained canine team would have been drawn into her, whether she was still alive or otherwise.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Back to how she got this. there from the CVS to the Planet Fitness is about 3.6 miles, we believe, as Jennifer Wood was telling us, did you take an Uber, did you take a cab? What about her car? Jennifer Wood, did she, was her car in the parking lot? Where was her vehicle? Police have not given any indication that her vehicle was in the parking lot, so I am not sure. I mean, they've been pretty tight-lipped about that aspect of the investigation. I'm telling you right now, the mode of transportation is going to be very, very important if she took an Uber.

I don't think she would have walked 3.6 miles to get there. Maybe so, because she's a fitness buff. But I need to find that out. 3.6 miles to Dr. Bethany Marshall joining us. We're now psychoanalyst. You can see her now on Bravo and on Peacock. She's a star of a brandy podcast on the couch with Dr. Bethany. She's the author of Dealbreaker.

You can find her at Dr. Bethanymartial.com. Dr. Bethany, all of these how do you say experts giving love advice on meeting guys they say things like well you're not going to meet a guy at the nail salon you need to go somewhere like lows or home depot so that's where the men are i don't like that in my line of business because there's not just men you want to date there there's men you don't want to date there that's right she is at planet fitness in the same strip as Lowe's. Way in. You know, Nancy, I want to know about her relationships with the people around her.

What was she talking about? What did she talk to her friends at the front desk about? Because they're all fellow employees. Was somebody stalking her? Was there anybody at the gym who was harassing her? At Lowe's, Home Depot, FBI, the pharmacy, all these other places. Did anybody follow her? This was a very active young. woman. And you and I know from many of the shows that we have done before in the cases that you have helped crack, it's often women who hike, walk, bike along the same trail day after day after day, who get targeted by serial killers, stalkers. So was this a typical trajectory or path for her to go to this particular pharmacy and then do a quick walk as a warm up on the way to the gym?

who were her clients? Was any client that she was training harassing her? Were they preoccupied with her? Dr. Bethany, you're right. I want to take a look at all the people around her, not just the people there at Planet Fitness, but who does she speak to at CVS? Was she alone?

How did she get from CVS to Planet Fitness? It's nearly four miles. Her car, apparently, wasn't in the parking lot. So what does that tell me? She had to have a mode of transportation. They're doing a canvas search. Listen. We are doing a canvas search of the wooded area that is right adjacent to Planet Fitness

because that's the last time that Elena was seen walking out of the Planet Fitness. And we didn't get any tips or anything like that. We just want to make sure that every square footage of this area is looked and no stone goes unturned. We pulled a lot of camera footage throughout the town, and that's how we knew that the CVS was not the last place that she was seen at. We had seen her bounce off of the Buffalo Wild Wings and then over here by the Planet Fitness and Lowe's area. That is Missy Silcox with Lexington PD. We're talking about Lexington, South Carolina. Did you hear what she said?

Let me go straight out to Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jackson State University. author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon and star of a hit podcast. Body Backs with Joe Scott Morgan. He is also a forensic investigator, a death investigator with over 10,000 death scenes under his belt. That video from WLTX. Thank you for that, LTX. Joe Scott Morgan bounce off, bounce off Buffalo Wild Wings. Now, what does that mean?

Does that mean she pinged at Buffalo Wild Wings? Because jump in, Jennifer Wood, if I'm wrong, but we believe her phone was with her. but we're not getting any pings. Were there pings when she was near Buffalo Wild Wings? And now they're not. Does somebody turn her cell phone off? Did somebody destroy it? You're my forensics expert.

What about it, Joe Scott? When I hear bounce off, I'm thinking that she's caught by an external camera. Maybe, you know, walking past that specific area at that point in time, there have been cases where you will have phones that will jump on local Wi-Fi. And also, that would mean that she would have to have proper. like close proximity to whatever Wi-Fi service there was. So my first thought is that they're seeing her on video, and this is kind of a progression that the officer is laying out here to talk about her movements at any particular time.

I'm very curious about this wandering off behind Lowe's. Just looking at the satellite imagery, I was checking out just a second ago, there appears to be if you see Planet Hollywood, there and over to the right and slightly down, there's a couple of retention ponds in those areas as well. You know, I found bodies in retention ponds over the years, and you've got a lot of other establishments. I think over to the left, there is a pretty good-sized golf course over in that area as well. So where could she have wound up? Bodies of water are going to be my primary target area.

However, I have to think about, again, as our colleague mentioned a moment ago, she kind of, you know, there might not be anything there for them to track if she's gotten into a vehicle. Nancy, there are so many locations she could have gotten into a car or had been forced into the car and then all of a sudden she's gone. And there's a lot of ways to disappear there because there's major arteries running through that area. But back to you, Dave Moyer, I agree with everything Joe Scott just said to the point of the retention ponds.

Because if she were on the golf course or she were at that retention pond, the dogs would have found that. Yes, ma'am. I think there would have been a very obvious trail going through that those small, those little patches of woods going down to the water. And all of her odor would have pooled up around that water. More to the point with the temperatures that are out there, if, She is in that water. She's going to be on the surface pretty quick. Her husband is the one that reported her missing.

At this time, we don't have any proof that she would be in danger. There's no anything that indicate foul play at this time. From WIS, wait a minute, stop everything. So the husband reported her missing, Jennifer Wood. When did the husband report her missing? Yes, the husband reported her missing on Friday. What time they have not clarified. But when did she go missing?

Thursday. Okay, joining me right now, a veteran trial lawyer out of the South Carolina jurisdiction, John Mubley. He is the founder of the Mowgli law firm, John Mowgli. Why are you smiling, number one? Oh, Nancy, you know, as always, I got to call it like I see it. You may not agree with what I'm going to say, but this is a deal. Every day in this country, people go missing. men, children, elderly, but you let an attractive middle-aged housewife go missing,

and the public has a psychotic break. And I will tell you that based on what I'm seeing about this case, it's my opinion. There's no foul play that this particular lady, either A, is having a mental health crisis and decided to disappear, or B, there's a boyfriend in the picture. And I'm going to point a few things that I would like you to take a look at that I considered I looked at. You look at her Facebook page.

You look at all the photos you're posted. She's got about four, 500 pictures posted on Facebook. Sexy pictures, her in a bikini, her looking cute, her, smile at her with her friends. Out of all those pictures for a married woman, there's maybe three or four with her husband. To me, that is significant because people that are unhappy marriages typically post pictures with their spouse. on date with their spouse, on vacation with their spouse. Typically, women that are happily married, do not post sexy bikini photo every other day on Facebook

because it can be deemed as disrespectful to her other. Let me just stop you right there, Mowbly. So far, what I've heard out of your mouth is she's slung up with a boyfriend. We have no evidence of that. She's way too sexy, and she posts pictures of herself without her husband. Do you know how long they've been married?

Maybe they just got married. Maybe they were strange. Maybe she had them posted and took them down. I don't know why they're not there. But, okay, see, that's the problem, Dr. Bethany Marshall, him, him, right there, Mobbly, is a problem.

Because when a woman goes missing, it's her fault. Because she posted sexy photos, does anybody not hear that she's a personal trainer? Of course she's posting photos of her physique and how great she looks. Who's going to go to a personal trainer that's totally out of shape? Nobody. That's why she's doing this.

But yet, Mobley has extrapolated. There's no wrongdoing, and she's just having some me time, some sexy time, with her boyfriend. Bethany, that's the problem. Everything he just said, I want to erase it all. I want to erase it too, and he started off. I want to wait a full day. I'll tell you this much. If David Lynch is not at home tonight, I'm reporting him missing, and I'm going out looking for him.

I'm not going to be like Brian Hooker. All you see of him is tail hole and elbows running away from the Bahamas while his wife, for all I know, is dead in the water. No, I'm going to look for him, and I'm going to call 911 that minute, the minute I think he's missing. so he darn will better come home on time, especially if I took dinner. That said, did you hear what Mowgli just spewed out? Yes, I did, Nancy. It was very disturbing. His initial comments were about how attractive she is.

That has nothing to do with this, Nancy, whether she's attractive, what age she is. She is going to post pictures because she is a fitness trainer. This is her calling card. This is her, just like I might post folks. of me in my office, right? Because I'm a psychoanalyst, or I might post a picture of a book that I found very helpful. That will be my calling card. You post pictures of your children because your audience is very interested in you and in your life. So I don't think the fact that she posted all these pictures without her husband. That's not why I post pictures of the children.

I post them because they are the center of my life. And that's that and murder is kind of the only thing I have to post about. That actually is very good. Continue. And Let Mobbly back up. Mowgli, I see you kind of twitching during all of this. Go ahead, Bethany. One photo, though, I can't know. I don't know which one. And on one photo, she has her wedding rings on her right hand.

And then in another photo, she has them on her left hand. I couldn't help but notice that. And maybe wonder she was in a conflictual relationship with her husband, you know, switching her rings back and forth from one hand to the other, just like Murdoch's wife had her wedding ring under the floorboard of her car. And it was a sign of her conflict and her ambivalence with him. So what I think is more important is that she has a lot of relationships in her life. She is a fitness trainer. She did not come home. What is the story there? Okay, let me get a hold of John Mobley. Mobley, did you hear any of that? Or did you just put it on?

I think we're talking because the first thing you say she goes missing is she's too sexy. Exactly. That's not what I said. And that was kind of part of the process. And I think that, you know, in some cases, you know, there are certain advocates. There are certain professions that are always an advocate. If you're inclined to be an evicted advocate, you know, or if you're someone in that mindset, then you're going to always assume someone is a victim.

What I'm saying is you look at all the circumstances of the case. And I do want to address the husband waiting a day to report her missing. To me, what that suggests is it was not uncommon for her to just disappear and him not know where she was for a while. That's why he would wait a day because she's off someplace. She's not with him. She's doing something. He didn't know what she is. And then she ultimately comes back home.

So that's what him delaying to make that all. Okay. So now you're saying she's too sexy. She's got a boyfriend and she's a tramp. Go ahead. say it. That's what you think. No, I didn't say that at all. Also indicated she might have mental health. Doesn't come home at night and he's used to it.

That's what you said. Well, that would be, well, there's only two reasons for him to delay making the report. What? Either A, he's somehow involved in her disappearance or B, that's a normal course of her behavior. Now, if you're inclined to always believe the husband's a suspect. If you're inclined to believe someone's always a victim, then yeah, you're going to go down that road and you're never going to turn it. around. So what I'm saying is if you look at all the evidence, well, there's another possibility.

What if he wasn't at home that night? For all I know, he travels. I don't know where he was. Look, if I were to suggest as a husband right now, that would do this investigation a great disservice because I don't know that. They've got reams of surveillance footage. Nobody has told me that we see the husband drive into the parking lot. They know nothing. If they knew that, there'd be three inches up his tailpipe right now. But Jennifer, we've heard nothing like that. No one has implicated the husband. So to name him as a prime suspect, well, that would hurt the investigation.

It would shut down investigations into other avenues and other inquiries. So, no, I'm not naming him. For all I know, he was out of town. He came in late. He went to sleep early and wakes up and goes, hey, where is she? I don't know what happened. But I can tell you this much. If my husband doesn't come home tonight, Dave Moyer,

I'm calling 911, especially if he doesn't pick up his cell phone. I want to see her digital records. Now, it seems to me that she had her iPhone when she went into Planet Fitness. So where's the iPhone? Did she cut it off? Was it destroyed? What happened? You heard Joe Scott talking about retention ponds?

Was it thrown into a pond? I want to find out. Remember what a significant piece. Hold on. Hold on Dave Moyer. Jennifer Wood, you know this better than anybody. Remember fighting Maggie Murdox? cell phone, exactly where, according to the Black Box and Murdox SUV, he slowed the car down

and let down the passenger window electronically and threw her phone out. The phone in that case was so critical because it showed him, basically, even though we weren't witnessed, it wasn't witnessed, throwing out her cell phone on the side of the road. We need this woman's cell phone. Where's her cell phone? The phone and the car. So I think there's, I mean, There's a lot of pieces of this investigation that we just don't know yet. Okay, Dave Moyer, what do we do now? Well, ma'am, it sounds like they've exhausted what they can do with their canine assets that they have available. They've checked the, assumingly, I'm speculating that they check the retention ponds with human remains dogs as well as the tracking dogs.

Something of note that I want to mention, the canine tracking dogs, these trained human tracking dogs, also double as evidence collection dogs because that same odor that they're trying to track if let's say, and I'm speculating, a cell phone is thrown out of a car window and is sitting on the side of the road, the canine will be drawn to that because that article has the subject sent all over it. So if there was something that was associated with her somewhere in that area, the dogs presumably would have detected that because that odor will last longer than just a trail of somebody walking away. It's all over, and again for the sake of argument, a cell phone that's lying in the bushes. I've had many cases in the past where subjects involved in a crime of violence

would toss a knife or in one very good case, a hatchet, tried to bury it in the sand, and the dogs were able to go from the trail the subject ran away on, divert from the trail, and find that article that was buried in the sand out of sight because of all that human, that subject's odor associated with that object. So if she had an object that was in the area, like we were just talking about with the cell phone, that's something they would have been drawn to. As this investigation continues and they find

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Anytime, anywhere. Just ask your smart speaker to play IHart Pride Canada. Stream us on your phone. Or listen now at iHeartRadio.ca. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Okay, Dave Moyer every once in a while you say something that makes me really happy about the person burying the hatchet and it alerted the dogs. In this case, we hear John Mobley say everything but she's been taken.

I'm curious about what Jennifer Wood said as well. Where's her cell phone and where's her car? Why was there at least a 24-hour delay in reporting So John Mowgli, are you actually advancing a gone girl scenario, you know, with Ben Affleck? Remember that movie? Is that what you're saying? She staged her own disappearance. Like what was her name, Sherry Pippini, the supermom that stages her own disappearance

and then shows up and blames three Hispanic women? Is that where you're going with this? She's not really missing? It's certainly a possibility that cannot be ruled out. I think it's also too important to look at, you know, where she went when she left the gym. You know, she did not walk toward the parking lot. She didn't walk toward a car. She walked toward some woods.

So I don't think she was going to the woods to go camping. She didn't have a rifle. I don't think she was going hunting. So the question I would have is, why is she walking toward a wooded area when she was walking to the back of the strip mall? Did you think of that? Again. Just because the woods are also there.

She didn't go in the woods. The dogs have proven that. So where did she go? And why did she go toward the back? So you have to consider that possibility. Again, I think that when a middle-aged suburban housewife goes missing, often people are quick to, you know, claim foul play, believe that she's a victim.

But I want to note that even in their statements of the press, a law enforcement has said they do not suspect foul play. have said they do not believe she's imminent danger. And that is extremely telling to me. Okay, for the first time, since you started talking, I agree with you. Jennifer Wood, what exactly did they say? Mobley's right. On this one point, Mowgli. Go ahead. You know, I mean, they really truly have been, I mean, other than giving us the time that she disappeared, when she was reported missing generally, they released their first notice. on Sunday, and they did the search yesterday, they've been really tight-lipped about everything in

between. I mean, it is just, it's so hard to even speculate without knowing how she got from one place to the next place. And another thing, they haven't brought in the husband or made comments like, he's not cooperating, or he won't take a polygraph. That hasn't leaked out, which leads me to believe he is cooperating. Again, I don't know if he was even in town when she goes missing. We can't point the finger at him. This could go in any direction, and Mobley has brought up a really good point. The fact that they are claiming, they don't know if I'll play is involved. But on the other hand, we see that happen all the time, Joe Scott Morgan, when law enforcement says, ah, well, she's just having some me time. And then she's dead.

Yeah, yeah, you're right. I think as a death investigator, one of the things that I'd be very curious about, and we did this regularly, I want to talk to her physicians, whoever they might be. I want to know what kind of medications is she on, is she got any kind of health factors, and I also want to know if she's on any kind of psychiatric medications as well. They should be doing a deep dive in that area, anything that she is being prescribed. Many times that's a perverbiv handwriting on the wall, if you will, because you can go and look at this individual and see what their life is all about as it's dictated by those that are prescribing meds for her. I want to know what's going on with her from Jump Street to try to understand this. I still hold to the idea that she is probably has gotten into a car with somebody. And there's a lot of places along this thoroughfare to get into cars. I was just taking a look at the Lowe's parking lot in particular. If you've never been to a Lowe's, particularly at that time of day, it's packed with individuals.

And guess what they're going to have? They're going to have CCTV coverage of that parking lot from multiple perspectives. So we have to learn as much as we can about her history, health and mental health otherwise. And also, what does the CCTV information reveal about getting into a vehicle and just kind of vanishing. If you know or think you know anything about Elena's disappearance, please contact Lexington Sheriff's 803-358-7271. Repeat, 803-358-7271.

We remember an American hero, Deputy Glenn Hilliard, Wycomicoe sheriffs, Maryland, shot in the line of duty after 16 years, leaving behind a wife now will. Widow, Tashika, and three beautiful children, Trenton, New Jersey, and DeHia. American hero, Deputy Glenn Hilliard. Thank you to our guests, but especially to you for being with us tonight. Nancy Gray, signing off, but I'll see you tomorrow night, and until then.

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