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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:10,480 REPORTER: Houston Police have learned the identity 2 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,680 of a deceased female found at 1000 Red Haw Lane. 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,120 WOMAN: The naked body was discovered by the roadside. 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,360 Ms Sharkey was killed on the night of November 27th. 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,400 Her body was found the following morning. 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,760 We knew it was her... SHE CRIES 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,520 ..and everything shatters. 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,560 People across the country want answers in the sudden death 9 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,800 of a popular social media influencer. 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,520 This video's for people like me. 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,560 It was a shocking mystery from the get-go. 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,320 She was dumped on the side of the road naked 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,000 like she didn't matter. 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,040 What happened to Alexis Sharkey? 15 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,240 It got very viral very, very quick. 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,120 Guys, this case is still developing. It just happened a few days ago. 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,120 WOMAN: 'I don't know if they all killed her, 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,440 'or something happened, and they've just covered it up.' 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,280 It was actually overwhelming. 20 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,920 People wanted a simple answer, which was who murdered her? 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,920 My gut was screaming, "Tom did this." 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,200 MAN: 23 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,840 I get a text from a friend 24 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,400 asking if I had heard from Lex. 25 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,800 DEVIN: She's not answering everybody's phone calls, texts. 26 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:02,880 For Lex to not have been 27 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,000 on social media, like, 28 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,880 all of the 27th, 29 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,200 you know, was really weird. 30 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:11,160 MIKE: I remember looking at my phone, 31 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,200 and it was a Houston number. 32 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,080 It was one of her friends telling me something's wrong. 33 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,520 They can't get a hold of Lexi. 34 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,200 STACEY: Tom called us, "Have you seen Lexi?" 35 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,160 I'm like, "What do you mean, 'have I seen Lexi?' " 36 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,440 He was upset, he couldn't find her, didn't know where she was. 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,880 We went into complete panic mode. SHE CRIES 38 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,040 She never just disappears. 39 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,200 We're texting her. "Lexi, please call. Lexi, please call." 40 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,160 Nothing. "Lexi, please call." 41 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,520 I was texting her that over and over. "Lexi, please call." 42 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,320 I was just going straight to voice mail, 43 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:54,840 so... 44 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,520 it was terrifying 45 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,400 not being able to get a hold of her 46 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,600 and just imagining 47 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,160 the absolute worst-case scenario. 48 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,360 I'm just texting her, "Please, please answer." 49 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,400 Like, "If you're hiding out, please, send us a sign." 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,360 Anything, some reply, a reaction, something. 51 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,480 We're a 24-hour drive from where she was, 52 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,760 and so we don't... we didn't know what was happening. 53 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,200 We filed the police report. She's a missing person. 54 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,240 If you have any information, 55 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,160 please call the Houston Police Department. 56 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:41,320 Cos it's never her, and, erm... so I knew she was missing 57 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,600 It wasn't on her own will. 58 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:45,840 I knew it. 59 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,240 And I just started... I just started wailing. 60 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,360 REPORTER: Social media influencer Alexis Sharkey 61 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,000 has been reported missing in Houston. 62 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,400 REPORTER: The 26-year-old from Youngsville, Pennsylvania, 63 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,240 moved to the city earlier this year. 64 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,200 STACEY: There I am with her. 65 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,880 There she is, pretty fragile. 66 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,720 You are my precious, fragile bundle. 67 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,800 Mm. Look at her. 68 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,440 Three and a half weeks early. 69 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,840 Wow. She was a tiny little thing. She was so teeny. 70 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,040 Look how young you look. Oh, my gosh! 71 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,200 I know. Wow. 72 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,840 Hm. I look like a dork. 73 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,200 SHE LAUGHS 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,880 Those were the style at the time. I know, man. 75 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,440 Mm. 76 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,680 You can't ever take enough pictures of your first baby, I swear. No. 77 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,280 SHE LAUGHS Look at your face. 78 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,440 She was loving and precious from the beginning. 79 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,120 When she was born, man, I was just like, "Wow." 80 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,600 I was so unprepared for it, and, erm... 81 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,760 changing the diapers, I didn't... 82 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,360 I was just, "Oh, OK, you want me to do what?" 83 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,680 HE LAUGHS 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,360 She was premature. 85 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,880 She was, like, 4lb 9oz when I brought her home, 86 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,280 and it was a fight. 87 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:19,120 We looked up the name "Alexis", 88 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,840 and it meant "defender", "strength", and we're like, "Yeah", 89 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:27,080 which was perfect because she fought 90 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,800 to survive and to grow. 91 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,520 You all of a sudden find out what love is 92 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,480 when you have a child, like none other. 93 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,320 Yeah. 94 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,560 Youngsville - if you like to live in a small town, 95 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,560 it was a great place to raise kids. 96 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,840 Having an older sister was fantastic. 97 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,200 She was my best friend. She was right there. 98 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,800 We were running around town. 99 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,560 Here are the two girls. On the trampoline. 100 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,320 Getting into all kinds of shenanigans. 101 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,040 The kayak is clean, Alexis Robinault? 102 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:14,280 It was this wonderful family community in that aspect. 103 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,840 I've just always loved Lexi. 104 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,520 She's... She was like my sister, honestly. 105 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,680 She was goofy. HE LAUGHS 106 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,960 Especially when she was younger, 107 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,840 she had little round glasses that were a little dorky. 108 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,600 'We all did things together. We camped together. 109 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,640 'We boated together. We would go on vacations together.' 110 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,000 Very good. 111 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,920 Once you, I guess, have that many memories of someone, 112 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,960 you just think, like, "Man, how is the future gonna be?" 113 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,240 You know, unfortunately, that's not gonna happen. 114 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,160 REPORTER: The mother of Alexis Sharkey 115 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,720 has appealed for information about her missing daughter. 116 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,360 REPORTER 2: The Houston influencer has not been seen since Friday. 117 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,720 I went ahead and did a post that we're searching for her. 118 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,080 We all started sharing it around, and, I mean, 119 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,360 it got very viral very, very quick. 120 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,200 Alexis Sharkey, she's an Instagram influencer. 121 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,520 She does beauty tips, health tutorials. 122 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,200 All her friends were posting things about her being missing. 123 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,240 Guys, this case is still developing. It just happened a few days ago. 124 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,720 You have the online detectives 125 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,040 on TikTok. 126 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,480 They're getting deeper into the mystery. 127 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,320 They're getting deeper into knowing Alexis, 128 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,800 what they think they know about her. 129 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,760 Her picture was being shared 130 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,640 across all these different platforms. 131 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,280 I mean, it was just... it was actually overwhelming. 132 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,000 We'll see where this case goes. 133 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,560 We are learning more about the life 134 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,240 of social media influencer Alexis Sharkey. 135 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,040 Before moving to Houston, Alexis lived in Odessa, Texas. 136 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,960 She wanted to be in medicine, um, in some way or another, 137 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,880 and she got her degree in biology. 138 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,160 So when she went to Texas, 139 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,240 I just felt like she was selling herself short. 140 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,480 That point, she was just trying to pay everything off. 141 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,120 I first realised she worked at Twin Peaks 142 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,200 when she texted me one day. 143 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,960 I thoroughly believe she bought a child-size plaid shirt 144 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,600 and cut off the sleeves 145 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,760 and tied it super tight right below the boobs, 146 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,880 and then there was essentially underwear that were just hot shorts. 147 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,400 STACEY: Oh, I wasn't excited about Twin Peaks. 148 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,720 You have so much more to offer, Alexis. 149 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,360 You have so much more to offer than that. 150 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,160 It's turning into a bar-hopping day. 151 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:48,200 Day drinking. 152 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:49,960 Day drinking - that's how today's going. 153 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:51,400 Alexis met Tom at Twin Peaks. 154 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,040 He was becoming a regular, 155 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,400 and he was hanging out at the bar and talking to her all the time. 156 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,800 For months, she didn't tell me about it. 157 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,240 Tom was 23 years older than Lexi, 158 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:05,880 only a few years younger than my dad, 159 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:07,880 and I found that really odd. 160 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,800 When she brought Tom home, it was for my 50th birthday. 161 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,680 Lexi warned me. 162 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:15,720 She's like, "Just so you know, you know, 163 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,200 "I don't wanna freak you out, but he's a little bit older." 164 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,920 We wanted to see what kind of guy he was. 165 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,040 He was one big man, 166 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,480 seemed to really adore her, really did. 167 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,360 I would 100% describe Tom's behaviour 168 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,760 in pretty much every way as controlling. 169 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,160 That didn't sit quite right with me. 170 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,840 TOM SHARKEY: 171 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,240 When he says it, he means it. 172 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,000 He had rules for her. 173 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,240 TOM SHARKEY: 174 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,800 What happened to Alexis Sharkey? 175 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,280 Tonight, that is still the question 176 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,400 so many of her friends and family are asking. 177 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,560 REPORTER: Houston Police say Sharkey was last seen Friday 178 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:35,800 at her apartment complex. 179 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,880 Houston's a concrete jungle, a very big city. 180 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,000 There's a lot of stories to be told. 181 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,760 Alexis Sharkey's story stands out because... 182 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,440 not just was it a mystery unfolding in real time 183 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,800 but because so many people online, not just in this city 184 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,200 but across the country, even the world, really, 185 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,120 were all focused on her and really felt close to her 186 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,560 because of all the videos that they saw on TikTok. 187 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,440 The news stations in town 188 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,520 first heard about this woman's disappearance 189 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:20,640 not from her husband, 190 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,120 but from her mother, who lives way out of state. 191 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:28,320 'She was a beautiful, fun ray of light to be around, 192 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,200 'and I... and I can't understand it.' 193 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,680 Sat up all night, and we just were on our phones, 194 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,000 and I was grateful for how it spread 195 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,040 because that meant more people had their eyes out. 196 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:43,960 We start digging deep into who Alexis Sharkey is. 197 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,880 So we realised she has a huge presence on social media. 198 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,000 She's being followed by thousands of people, 199 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,680 and people wanted a simple answer, which was what happened to her? 200 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,040 The first time I met Lexi, we were in Vegas for a work trip. 201 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:04,560 We clicked immediately. 202 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,800 We got to go to the pool parties, 203 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,160 and our company would host, you know, cocktail parties. 204 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,680 We did so many different trips all over the place. 205 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,760 I'm going to do an oil treatment today. 206 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,440 We were marketing and selling different hair care 207 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,880 and skin care beauty products. 208 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,840 Creases. Look at this line. 209 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,440 But once videos were able to come into play, 210 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,440 it just started sky rocketing from there. 211 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,320 Hi, guys. 212 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,480 It's me, and I'm standing up today because... 213 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,200 so excited about this topic. 214 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,120 This video's for people like me. 215 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,800 She was just so ahead of the game. 216 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,680 If you would like more information on getting a hold of these products, 217 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:58,120 and you're sold now, talk to you soon. 218 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,720 When you look at Lexi's videos, 219 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,520 you get the sense of her personality. 220 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,400 It's always super goofy or silly. 221 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,120 TIKTOK VOICE: You just lip sync to things, 222 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,480 and you just watch them do that? 223 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:09,520 Where's the talent? 224 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,000 This is such a great lightweight shirt. 225 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,040 Lexi did brand work for other companies, too. 226 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,280 Next are these babies, and... SHE EXHALES 227 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,640 ..they're seriously just so fricking cute. 228 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,240 And Lexi made a very, very good income 229 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:25,960 with what she was doing. 230 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,520 It was a great time for Lexi. 231 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,720 Tom made sure she had every meal cooked for her, 232 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,080 everything was clean, she didn't do laundry. 233 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,960 Like, you would think, "That's amazing." 234 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:38,960 Like, "He's being super supportive and loving." 235 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,040 TOM SHARKEY: 236 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,920 It came to the point where 237 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,920 it was almost overwhelming and overbearing. 238 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,440 When you know him, and you're around him, 239 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,960 you realise that you're doing it to almost make her, 240 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,480 erm... confidence within herself diminish. 241 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,760 I could definitely call it love bombing, 100%. 242 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,760 The major red flag in their relationship that I saw 243 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,240 is that we went out to the one restaurant, 244 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,400 and Tom completely lost his cool 245 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,920 over something that was completely ridiculous. 246 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,080 He walked home that night and slept in his truck 247 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,440 instead of coming inside. 248 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,640 And I just remember Lexi driving me back to the apartment in tears 249 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,360 and just being like, "Just don't tell Mom. 250 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,600 "Just don't tell Mom and Dad. Like, everything's fine. 251 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,200 "Like, he gets like this sometimes. It's fine". 252 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,040 When I was hugging her at the airport to leave, 253 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,600 she definitely clung on to me in that hug 254 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,680 tighter than she has ever hugged me. 255 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,760 It definitely made leaving hard. 256 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,400 One time when they came home, 257 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,000 I remember Tom telling me that he wanted to marry her, 258 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,600 and they showed me the ring, and I was just like, "Oh!" 259 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,240 I'm like, "If you're gonna suddenly jump into a marriage like this, 260 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,600 "well, was that your idea or his?" 261 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,160 He had kids, like, my age. 262 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,280 I'm like, "Well, he's had an ex-wife, he has his kids. 263 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,840 "What's going on there?" 264 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,600 I'm getting married in Vegas. But, anyways, it doesn't matter. 265 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,160 They ended up eloping, just getting married on their own, 266 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,520 and, er, they said, "Well, we went and got married". 267 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,200 I was like, "Oh, OK". 268 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,600 It felt so off. 269 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,920 Like, I can't describe, like, just how weird it made me feel. 270 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,880 Like, this weird... this chill came up my spine, 271 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,080 and I'm like, "I don't love this. 272 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,200 "I love her. I don't love this for her". 273 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,760 And that's when they came to Houston, was right after that. 274 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,280 When Lexi first moved to Houston, I was really excited. 275 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,360 "Ah, you know, we're just gonna have so much fun." 276 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:22,840 It was a nice apartment. 277 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,560 Hi, Tom. ALLY GIGGLES 278 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,800 'They had a wine fridge, which I know we both personally loved.' 279 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,840 I definitely prefer rose. ALLY LAUGHS 280 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,560 We were in her pool, like, five days a week. 281 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,200 It's only two seconds. Oh! 282 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,280 'We would go to happy hours. 283 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,880 'Lexi loved it here.' ALLY CHUCKLES 284 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,080 Ye-haw! 285 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,080 But also, what I started noticing after she moved to Houston, 286 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,720 she would almost get standoffish any time Tom was around. 287 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,360 So that, fun, bubbly personality that would you see, 288 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,400 it was now shadowed by a different type of aura. 289 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,880 STEVE: It's out of character of Alexis 290 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,600 not to post on social media. 291 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,520 She posted all the time. 292 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:17,920 When we looked at her TikTok, 293 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,400 there was also videos with her and her husband on. 294 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,440 When we reached out to Tom, 295 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,280 it didn't seem like he wanted us to cover his wife's disappearance, 296 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,200 which is strange. 297 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,680 When somebody goes missing, 298 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,400 if you love them you, wanna find them. 299 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,440 TOM SHARKEY: 300 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:58,120 I texted Lexi, and she said that she needs to get out of the house. 301 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,320 That was the first time that she had reached out to anybody 302 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,800 about things not being good at home. 303 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,800 I believe that Tom was getting jealous of Lexi and her success 304 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,360 as she was getting more popular and gaining more followers. 305 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:16,960 There were tensions, 306 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:21,200 when she was the breadwinner in their relationship. 307 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,400 How can that make your ego feel? I can only imagine. 308 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,440 He would harass her for hours 309 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,760 about how she was probably cheating on him, 310 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,000 how she was staring at every guy in the bar 311 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,840 and not paying attention to him. 312 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,360 Once the emotional abuse started, 313 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:07,280 we definitely were trying to get her to question, 314 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:08,800 "Is this a healthy relationship?" 315 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,560 Something was off. 316 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,720 TOM SHARKEY: 317 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,880 WOMAN: 318 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,200 Tom called one of the girls shortly after, 319 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,760 just frantic and in a panic. 320 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,240 TOM SHARKEY: 321 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,520 I was just hoping that she ran away cos she had had enough. 322 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,880 That's what I was hoping, but then I saw the news article. 323 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,760 REPORTER: A city worker found the body 324 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,120 on the roadside in West Houston. 325 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,880 VOICE BREAKING: You wanna hope for the best, 326 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,200 and you wanna really hope that it's not what you think it is. 327 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,520 A city worker found the body of Alexis Sharkey 328 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,080 on the side of the road in West Houston over the weekend. 329 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,720 There was no physical marks on the body 330 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,000 that would indicate how this person died. 331 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,440 There was kind of a mystique, a mystery 332 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,160 behind how that woman got there. 333 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,160 I just thought, "No". 334 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,520 You know? 335 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,280 It was four miles away from where she lived. 336 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,320 We just starting calling the forensic centre 337 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,480 where the body had been taken to. 338 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,280 And we were just begging them, you know. 339 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,480 We started doing the whole, you know, 340 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,720 "What colour is her hair, does she have tattoos?" 341 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,400 I asked the person at the morgue, I asked, 342 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,080 "Is there a, er, tattoo of a continent on her hip?" 343 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,120 And they said "yes". 344 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:54,800 And then I just broke down and cried. 345 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,760 We knew it was her. 346 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,120 And everything shatters. 347 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,640 TOBI: She didn't even get through the words 348 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,520 of, "her body's been found." 349 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,280 I heard... Sorry. 350 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,960 I heard my mom just say "her body" 351 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,800 and I was wailing. 352 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,160 HE SOBS 353 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,320 Such a... 354 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,440 ..sweet and beautiful girl. 355 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,960 It's actually happening, it's... 356 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,160 Like, she's not coming back. She's never gonna be here again. 357 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,240 Like, she's gone. 358 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,000 She was dumped on the side of the road naked and, erm... 359 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,280 Just like an animal. 360 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Just discarded like she didn't matter. 361 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,320 And a part of you dies. 362 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,080 A part of you dies. 363 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,320 Worst day of your life. 364 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,720 Losing a child is the worst thing to happen to a human being. 365 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,240 Ever. 366 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,120 NEWSREADER: The female has been identified as Alexis Sharkey. 367 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,000 Anyone with information on this case 368 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,720 is urged to contact Houston Police Department Homicide Division. 369 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,000 The only information we got on the record 370 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,160 from the Houston Police Department was the day the body was found. 371 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,760 After that, police were silent. 372 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,080 How tight-lipped they were was unusual. 373 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,440 It just deepens that mystery about what happened. 374 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,880 In a case where police 375 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,640 have no idea who the killer is, 376 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,720 they're more willing to do press conferences, 377 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,080 talk to reporters. 378 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,520 In this case, police were low-key. 379 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,680 That tells me they kind of know who the killer is. 380 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,160 TOM SHARKEY: 381 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,160 My friend and I got a phone call from Tom. 382 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,360 We decided that we're gonna record this. 383 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:57,280 It's him trying to explain to us what happened. 384 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,640 They got into an argument and she left the apartment 385 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,000 and ends up being missing. 386 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,080 TOM SHARKEY: 387 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,680 ALLY: 388 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,280 TOM SHARKEY: 389 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,360 ALLY: 390 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,200 TOM SHARKEY: 391 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,000 The last time he saw her was she was trying to get into a car... 392 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,560 INHALES ..to drive away. 393 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,120 TOM SHARKEY: 394 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,840 He's putting on an act. 395 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,080 After this call happened, I emailed photos and screenshots 396 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,000 and both recordings to the police. 397 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,360 Hey, guys, we're covering the mysterious death 398 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,840 of Instagram influencer Alexis Robinault Sharkey, 399 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,280 found dead and naked on the roadside. 400 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,720 Her friends were very quickly suspicious of her husband. 401 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,720 They'd been married less than a year 402 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,360 and things were already not going well. 403 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:54,000 It was important to let the media know 404 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,960 more about what was going on in the relationship without overstepping 405 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,240 because of how it was portrayed. 406 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,840 How Lexi put it out there that 407 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,880 from what you saw, they were in a perfect marriage. 408 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:13,240 Alexis' friends were telling us that she confided in them 409 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,360 that she was fearful of her husband Tom. 410 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,000 But on social media, the viewers were definitely talking about him. 411 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,800 Her husband has come out. 412 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,920 He's said that he's cooperating with the police 413 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,240 and that this is farthest from the truth. 414 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,560 Tom and Alexis had only been married for a year. 415 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,920 And he said that him and Alexis was good. 416 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,560 You have the online detectives on TikTok 417 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,040 speculating that Tom's to blame for his wife's murder. 418 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,840 Why and how I believe Tom killed Alexis. 419 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,600 I remember calling Tom several times. 420 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,800 He finally answered. 421 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,360 Tom told us in the interview the online detectives were trolling him. 422 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,520 He painted a picture that what we saw on social media, 423 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,560 what you saw on TikTok was not truly who she was. 424 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,040 And he was saying it in a very non-coherent way. 425 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,280 He claimed he had nothing to do with her body being found. 426 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,040 That he was innocent. And ended the conversation. 427 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,400 You're on the phone not trying to find answers, 428 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:15,880 not demanding justice, 429 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,840 not saying, "We've got a killer on the loose, 430 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,280 "we've gotta find the killer". 431 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,440 And that was bizarre. 432 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,120 The video on Halloween is part of the facade, 433 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,600 it's a part of the image that she was trying to still portray, 434 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,480 even though everything behind the scenes was just falling apart. 435 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,920 Our friends were having a party. 436 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,200 Lexi was talking to somebody 437 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,480 and Tom got mad and threatened to fight him. 438 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,560 This was the first time that people who didn't know them 439 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,400 and know that things weren't going well, 440 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,560 they got a first-hand look of, "Whoa, this is how you really are, 441 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,200 "you actually have a temper, 442 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,680 "and you don't know how to control it." 443 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,120 It is safe to say 444 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,080 that when you see the kiss at the end of the video, 445 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,040 it's again part of the image, they're married, 446 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,840 but she wasn't happy. 447 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,160 This location, about four minutes from Alexis' home. 448 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,520 She had recently decided to get divorced, according to her friend, 449 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,280 and she was, you know, going through some tough times. 450 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,280 She texted me. 451 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,560 She was filing for a divorce. She was getting separated. 452 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,880 She was terrified. She was sad. 453 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,000 She wasn't herself any more. She wanted out. 454 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,680 It's when a lot of women lose their lives, actually, 455 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,040 is when they try to get away 456 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,080 from their abusive partner, 457 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,640 that is the most dangerous time. 458 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,960 REPORTER: Sharkey moved with her husband from West Texas to Houston. 459 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,280 HPD says he's cooperating with the investigation. 460 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,400 They've been together for a couple of years 461 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,600 and, um, we've talked several times during this process. 462 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,200 We went to Houston. 463 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,760 We wanted to see her apartment. 464 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,440 We saw Tom. 465 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,680 Tom came and embraced Mike. Hugged him. 466 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,320 He kind of was in the middle of talking to us then he just left. 467 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,120 I never saw him again. 468 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,120 No-one was able to get a hold of Tom. 469 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,840 Not her friends, not her family. Nobody. 470 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,440 We reached out to Sharkey's husband tonight, but did not hear back. 471 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,680 The next big piece of this investigation 472 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,360 will be her cause of death. 473 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,760 We're still waiting on the medical examiner's autopsy. 474 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,320 This particular story stuck around. 475 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,440 Alexis already had a large following on social media. 476 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,800 Following her disappearance, those numbers sky rocketed. 477 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,320 The conspiracy theories spread so quickly. 478 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,520 All social media, people were talking about it 479 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,240 and coming up with their own idea of how she may have died. 480 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,160 There were a couple about how she was a high-end call girl 481 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,520 with her friends at the hotel near her house. 482 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,600 You don't really realise how dark it is 483 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,520 until you have something where people decide to put a focus on you. 484 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,280 You could just see the ugliness of people pointing fingers 485 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,880 and people blaming my wife and I 486 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,880 and people just, "Where was her dad at?" 487 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,080 The way her friends are outspoken on social media 488 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,720 just does not sit right with me. 489 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,840 And I don't know if they all killed her 490 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,960 or they killed her on accident 491 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,520 or something happened and they've just covered it up. 492 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,000 There was a lot of speculation that she had overdosed 493 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,640 and that was... 494 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,760 That was very frustrating to me and very angry 495 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,600 cos I knew that's not who my child was. 496 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,600 Sure enough, toxicology report comes back. 497 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,840 Not drugs. 498 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,880 There was nothing in her system whatsoever. 499 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,480 The mother of a popular social media influencer 500 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,880 is telling us she wants answers about what happened to her daughter. 501 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,040 There's so many cases that go unsolved. 502 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,600 And I could not bear to have my daughter's case unsolved. 503 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,120 We met the police and talked with them. 504 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,080 And so I knew that they were progressing. 505 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,160 Just takes longer than you expect. 506 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,160 It was interesting because in a lot of cases, 507 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,320 you get that cause of death relatively quickly. 508 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,880 And this particular case, 509 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,160 we didn't get it for almost two months, 510 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,560 and that was strange. 511 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,040 There are new developments 512 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,200 in the death of a popular social media blogger, 513 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,480 Alexis Sharkey. 514 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,320 An autopsy reveals she was strangled. 515 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,400 Everyone's fascinated with the cause of death because it tells you a lot, 516 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,920 and strangulation is personal. 517 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,400 Right? It feels intense. 518 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,760 That only gets people to ask, "Well, who strangled her?" 519 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,880 In my head, Tom. 520 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,440 And my gut was screaming Tom did this. 521 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,680 That's her showing us how to make a messy bun. Right. 522 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,440 That one went viral. 523 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:23,960 Yeah, it really did. 524 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,200 Like five million views. 525 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,120 I'd heard of TikToks and I... I knew it was a thing. 526 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:32,920 But I'd never looked at 'em. 527 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,400 STACEY LAUGHS That shows my age, 528 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,040 but yeah, I didn't even know she was on them. 529 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,640 I went, "Oh, my gosh I've gotta go look, 530 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:49,320 "I can see my daughter in, like, life. And in video." 531 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:55,000 This makes me see her, it makes me smile. 532 00:34:56,720 --> 00:35:00,360 I feel like she had changed a lot. 533 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,120 It was nice to see her having fun 534 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,360 but, erm, you just see the highlights 535 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,680 and you really wonder what's really going on. 536 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,600 That was so good. 537 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,480 Excellent tacos. We'll be back. 538 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,760 Lex had always wanted to go to Marfa. 539 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,080 She thought it was so cool and like Lex, 540 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,080 it's a very creative and artsy town. 541 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,640 When we were in Marfa, she just breaks down out of nowhere. 542 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,400 She's on her phone scrolling and typing a million miles an hour. 543 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,760 Crying. 544 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,800 We find out Tom's basically questioning everything she's doing. 545 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,680 'It's a Lex!' 546 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,840 She posted a video of me jumping around on the bed 547 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,040 and I just remember her getting all these messages 548 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,600 about how, of course, you know, we're trashed and we're drunk, 549 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,080 and we're just being ridiculous and we can't even be controlled. 550 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,720 'What'd you get, Lex? 551 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:07,280 ' "The hor Alexis." ' 552 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,080 That was when she opened up 553 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,960 and she decided to tell us the truth behind the physical abuse. 554 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:20,480 And what she had been enduring over the last year, at least. 555 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,560 She said the words, "I live in fear". 556 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,400 She told us, "He gets so mad at me that he sees black. 557 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,440 "He... He is so enraged 558 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,560 "he will literally put his arm up against my neck 559 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,400 "and put me against the wall until I pass out". 560 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:44,200 And she said, "I literally pass out and wake up on the bathroom floor". 561 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,880 She said, "I've never told anybody this. 562 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,640 "Not my family, no-one knows, 563 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,600 "and I, er... More than anything, I would really appreciate 564 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,200 "if you guys would keep this to yourself". 565 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,080 You feel like you're a failure as a friend, 566 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,160 right? 567 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,760 We told her, "He's gonna snap. 568 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,120 You know, "He's gonna snap. He's going to go too far"." 569 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,600 That's where the guilt comes in 570 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,240 cos I feel, like, could have I prevented it? 571 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,760 She didn't say anything that gave us a red flag. 572 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,320 We really only saw each other during Thanksgiving and Christmas. 573 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,960 I'd had no reason to believe that she was not happy. 574 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,320 But the thing is, because you're not spending enough time together, 575 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,320 you're not seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly. 576 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,520 You're just seeing the good. 577 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,640 Alexis had a glamorous life on Instagram and TikTok 578 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,720 that many girls were probably envious of. 579 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:55,000 Little did they know she was in a controlling, abusive relationship. 580 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,400 And there wasn't a single warning sign on social media. 581 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,680 Tonight, a dramatic turn 582 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,200 in the murder of a Houston social media influencer. 583 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,920 Houston Police finally break their silence 584 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,880 almost a year after the body was found. 585 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,120 They say Tom Sharkey is their only suspect. 586 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:26,520 He left the state not long after the homicide and, er... 587 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,840 especially here recently, he... 588 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,120 Detectives made efforts to meet with him 589 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,680 in order to collect a DNA sample from him. 590 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,240 He agreed to do that and suddenly he, er, no showed, 591 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,280 dropped out of contact. 592 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,800 It's pretty wild to think that he agrees to meet with police, 593 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,080 sets up a meeting to share his DNA, but doesn't show up. 594 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,920 An arrest warrant was obtained for Thomas Sharkey 595 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,040 on September 29th, 2021. 596 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,480 Tom is a wanted man at this point. Wanted for his wife's murder. 597 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,640 US Marshals located Mr Sharkey 598 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,000 staying with a relative in Fort Myers 599 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000 at approximately 10pm last night. 600 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,640 They move in to arrest him. 601 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,560 Mr Sharkey, er, avoided them, ran upstairs, 602 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,680 when he learned that the law enforcement was there for him. 603 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,080 And he took his own life using a firearm. 604 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,800 US Marshals were about to arrest the husband of Alexis Sharkey 605 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,320 at a home in Fort Myers, Florida, Tuesday, 606 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,080 when authorities say he took his own life. 607 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,640 He ran back into his daughter's apartment. 608 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,920 Ran into the closet and shot himself. 609 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,200 I felt robbed. 610 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,160 I felt very much cheated. 611 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,160 Tom taking his own life was cheating justice. 612 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,480 Part of me was glad that he did that 613 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,360 but I still have questions that I can't... 614 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,720 I'll never be able to answer. 615 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,520 I was so, so angry. 616 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,320 Like, "You are a coward." 617 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,120 REPORTER: Today, Houston police detectives explained 618 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,680 why they were hot on Thomas Sharkey's tail. 619 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,880 The investigation determined that Thomas Sharkey, her husband, 620 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,680 is the only person who had the means, motive, 621 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,720 and opportunity to have committed the murder. 622 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:26,680 We accept there was a history of domestic violence 623 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,520 and that the relationship was ending and there was a pending divorce. 624 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,320 REPORTER: Houston Police have revealed 625 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,200 the social media influencer's marriage 626 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,120 was far from picture perfect. 627 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,840 We know that Ms Sharkey was home throughout the day. 628 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,640 And, er, at their apartment. 629 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,640 And that Thomas came home, er, that evening... 630 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,920 ..around 6.40pm. 631 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,560 And things, er, began from there. 632 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,640 I think, for Tom, he might have come home 633 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,280 when she maybe least expected it. 634 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,760 TOM SHARKEY: 635 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,480 We think that Tom was going through her messages. 636 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,000 A lot of us had the fear that that's what popped him off 637 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,400 and that's what made him so angry. 638 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,800 He would choke her and she'd wake up on the bathroom floor 639 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,480 but this time, she just didn't wake up. 640 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,120 I think her body was placed where it was 641 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,560 because... 642 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,440 ..no traffic driving up and down that road, or very minimal. 643 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,360 No street lights, it's dark. 644 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,920 The way he left her was his way and form 645 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,440 of showing that he had control over her 646 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,680 until the bitter, bitter end, until the very end. 647 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,160 We have clear evidence that Mr Sharkey acted alone. 648 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,440 We went to the Houston City Police Department 649 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,320 and they showed us all the evidence, we went over all of it. 650 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,800 But then I asked the question, I said, "Is this case closed?" 651 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,080 And they said, "Yes". 652 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,720 Unbeknownst to any of us, Lexi had been recording her experiences. 653 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,080 The police shared those with us. 654 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,360 It hea... It broke my heart. 655 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:40,960 It broke my heart that she was living in the situation she was. 656 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,480 And she did not come to us about it. 657 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,440 As a mom, I see what she was going through 658 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:03,240 and the, the fear that she had and the pain that she was enduring. 659 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000 VOICE BREAKS: We're sorry. Sorry I wasn't there. 660 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,440 Sorry I wasn't able to protect you. 661 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,720 I would tell her that she's still loved, 662 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:40,360 that anything that she was feeling before, like she couldn't say, 663 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:41,920 no-one would've judged her 664 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,800 and she would've had all the support... 665 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,600 VOICE BREAKS 666 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,760 Right now, I just wanna tell her I'm sorry. 667 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,480 I should've done more. 668 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,080 I should've done more. 669 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,120 Any time I see the water, any water, 670 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,120 it reminds me of her, cos she loved the water. 671 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,640 There's so many photos that we have of her when... 672 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,040 When she smiled, she had a big smile. 673 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,680 She just glowed. When she smiled, she meant it. 674 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:35,760 It was in her eyes. 675 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,320 She really knew how to live 676 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,120 and she embraced it with every ounce of her being. 677 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,840 She was really special. Hm. 678 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,720 I feel her, I talk to her. She's with us. 679 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,040 Love you, Lex, I miss you so much. STACEY CHUCKLES SOFTLY 680 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,520 I hope in people seeing her story, 681 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,240 that women who are encountering abuse 682 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,040 don't hesitate so much to get help. 683 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,160 She would be like, "Please live. 684 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,840 "Help other people. 685 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,240 "Don't let this happen to other people. 686 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,440 "Do good by me." 687 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,280 And that's what we wanna do. 688 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,120 All right, well, thanks for tuning in. Bye, guys! 689 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:41,280 Subtitles by accessibility@itv.com 55096

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