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REPORTER: Houston Police
have learned the identity
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of a deceased female
found at 1000 Red Haw Lane.
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WOMAN: The naked body was discovered
by the roadside.
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Ms Sharkey was killed
on the night of November 27th.
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Her body was found
the following morning.
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We knew it was her...
SHE CRIES
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..and everything shatters.
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People across the country
want answers in the sudden death
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of a popular
social media influencer.
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This video's for people like me.
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It was a shocking mystery
from the get-go.
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She was dumped
on the side of the road naked
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like she didn't matter.
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What happened to Alexis Sharkey?
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It got very viral very, very quick.
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Guys, this case is still developing.
It just happened a few days ago.
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WOMAN: 'I don't know
if they all killed her,
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'or something happened,
and they've just covered it up.'
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It was actually overwhelming.
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People wanted a simple answer,
which was who murdered her?
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My gut was screaming,
"Tom did this."
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MAN:
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I get a text from a friend
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asking if I had heard from Lex.
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DEVIN: She's not answering
everybody's phone calls, texts.
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For Lex to not have been
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on social media, like,
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all of the 27th,
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you know, was really weird.
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MIKE: I remember
looking at my phone,
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and it was a Houston number.
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It was one of her friends
telling me something's wrong.
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They can't get a hold of Lexi.
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STACEY: Tom called us,
"Have you seen Lexi?"
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I'm like, "What do you mean,
'have I seen Lexi?' "
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He was upset, he couldn't find her,
didn't know where she was.
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We went into complete panic mode.
SHE CRIES
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She never just disappears.
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We're texting her. "Lexi,
please call. Lexi, please call."
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Nothing. "Lexi, please call."
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I was texting her that
over and over. "Lexi, please call."
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I was just going straight
to voice mail,
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so...
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it was terrifying
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not being able to get a hold of her
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and just imagining
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the absolute worst-case scenario.
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I'm just texting her,
"Please, please answer."
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Like, "If you're hiding out,
please, send us a sign."
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Anything, some reply,
a reaction, something.
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We're a 24-hour drive
from where she was,
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and so we don't...
we didn't know what was happening.
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We filed the police report.
She's a missing person.
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If you have any information,
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please call
the Houston Police Department.
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Cos it's never her, and, erm...
so I knew she was missing
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It wasn't on her own will.
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I knew it.
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And I just started...
I just started wailing.
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REPORTER: Social media influencer
Alexis Sharkey
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has been reported missing
in Houston.
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REPORTER: The 26-year-old
from Youngsville, Pennsylvania,
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moved to the city earlier this year.
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STACEY: There I am with her.
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There she is, pretty fragile.
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You are my precious, fragile bundle.
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Mm.
Look at her.
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Three and a half weeks early.
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Wow. She was a tiny little thing.
She was so teeny.
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Look how young you look.
Oh, my gosh!
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I know. Wow.
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Hm.
I look like a dork.
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SHE LAUGHS
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Those were the style at the time.
I know, man.
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Mm.
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You can't ever take enough pictures
of your first baby, I swear. No.
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SHE LAUGHS
Look at your face.
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She was loving and precious
from the beginning.
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When she was born, man,
I was just like, "Wow."
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I was so unprepared for it,
and, erm...
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changing the diapers, I didn't...
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I was just,
"Oh, OK, you want me to do what?"
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HE LAUGHS
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She was premature.
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She was, like, 4lb 9oz
when I brought her home,
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and it was a fight.
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We looked up the name "Alexis",
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and it meant "defender", "strength",
and we're like, "Yeah",
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which was perfect
because she fought
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to survive and to grow.
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You all of a sudden find out
what love is
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when you have a child,
like none other.
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Yeah.
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Youngsville - if you like to live
in a small town,
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it was a great place to raise kids.
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Having an older sister
was fantastic.
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She was my best friend.
She was right there.
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We were running around town.
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Here are the two girls.
On the trampoline.
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Getting into all kinds
of shenanigans.
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The kayak is clean,
Alexis Robinault?
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It was this wonderful
family community in that aspect.
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I've just always loved Lexi.
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She's...
She was like my sister, honestly.
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She was goofy.
HE LAUGHS
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Especially when she was younger,
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she had little round glasses
that were a little dorky.
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'We all did things together.
We camped together.
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'We boated together.
We would go on vacations together.'
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Very good.
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Once you, I guess,
have that many memories of someone,
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you just think, like,
"Man, how is the future gonna be?"
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You know, unfortunately,
that's not gonna happen.
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REPORTER:
The mother of Alexis Sharkey
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has appealed for information
about her missing daughter.
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REPORTER 2: The Houston influencer
has not been seen since Friday.
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I went ahead and did a post
that we're searching for her.
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We all started sharing it around,
and, I mean,
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it got very viral very, very quick.
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Alexis Sharkey,
she's an Instagram influencer.
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She does beauty tips,
health tutorials.
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All her friends were posting things
about her being missing.
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Guys, this case is still developing.
It just happened a few days ago.
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You have the online detectives
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on TikTok.
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They're getting deeper
into the mystery.
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They're getting deeper
into knowing Alexis,
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what they think they know about her.
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Her picture was being shared
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across all these different
platforms.
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I mean, it was just...
it was actually overwhelming.
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We'll see where this case goes.
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We are learning more about the life
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of social media influencer
Alexis Sharkey.
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Before moving to Houston,
Alexis lived in Odessa, Texas.
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She wanted to be in medicine, um,
in some way or another,
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and she got her degree in biology.
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So when she went to Texas,
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I just felt like
she was selling herself short.
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That point, she was just
trying to pay everything off.
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I first realised
she worked at Twin Peaks
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when she texted me one day.
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I thoroughly believe
she bought a child-size plaid shirt
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and cut off the sleeves
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and tied it super tight
right below the boobs,
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and then there was essentially
underwear that were just hot shorts.
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STACEY: Oh, I wasn't excited
about Twin Peaks.
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You have so much more
to offer, Alexis.
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You have so much more to offer
than that.
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It's turning into a bar-hopping day.
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Day drinking.
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Day drinking -
that's how today's going.
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Alexis met Tom at Twin Peaks.
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He was becoming a regular,
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and he was hanging out at the bar
and talking to her all the time.
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For months,
she didn't tell me about it.
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Tom was 23 years older than Lexi,
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only a few years younger
than my dad,
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and I found that really odd.
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When she brought Tom home,
it was for my 50th birthday.
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Lexi warned me.
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She's like, "Just so you know,
you know,
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"I don't wanna freak you out,
but he's a little bit older."
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We wanted to see
what kind of guy he was.
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He was one big man,
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seemed to really adore her,
really did.
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I would 100% describe
Tom's behaviour
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in pretty much every way
as controlling.
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That didn't sit quite right with me.
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TOM SHARKEY:
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When he says it, he means it.
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He had rules for her.
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TOM SHARKEY:
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What happened to Alexis Sharkey?
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Tonight, that is still the question
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so many of her friends and family
are asking.
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REPORTER: Houston Police say Sharkey
was last seen Friday
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at her apartment complex.
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Houston's a concrete jungle,
a very big city.
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There's a lot of stories to be told.
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Alexis Sharkey's story stands out
because...
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not just was it a mystery
unfolding in real time
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but because so many people online,
not just in this city
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but across the country,
even the world, really,
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were all focused on her
and really felt close to her
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because of all the videos
that they saw on TikTok.
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The news stations in town
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first heard about
this woman's disappearance
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not from her husband,
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but from her mother,
who lives way out of state.
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'She was a beautiful,
fun ray of light to be around,
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'and I...
and I can't understand it.'
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Sat up all night,
and we just were on our phones,
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and I was grateful for how it spread
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because that meant more people
had their eyes out.
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We start digging deep
into who Alexis Sharkey is.
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So we realised she has
a huge presence on social media.
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She's being followed
by thousands of people,
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and people wanted a simple answer,
which was what happened to her?
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The first time I met Lexi,
we were in Vegas for a work trip.
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We clicked immediately.
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We got to go to the pool parties,
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and our company would host,
you know, cocktail parties.
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We did so many different trips
all over the place.
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I'm going to do
an oil treatment today.
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We were marketing
and selling different hair care
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and skin care beauty products.
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Creases. Look at this line.
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But once videos were able
to come into play,
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it just started sky rocketing
from there.
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Hi, guys.
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It's me,
and I'm standing up today because...
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so excited about this topic.
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This video's for people like me.
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She was just so ahead of the game.
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If you would like more information
on getting a hold of these products,
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and you're sold now,
talk to you soon.
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When you look at Lexi's videos,
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you get the sense
of her personality.
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It's always super goofy or silly.
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TIKTOK VOICE:
You just lip sync to things,
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and you just watch them do that?
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Where's the talent?
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This is such a great
lightweight shirt.
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Lexi did brand work
for other companies, too.
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Next are these babies, and...
SHE EXHALES
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..they're seriously
just so fricking cute.
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And Lexi made a very,
very good income
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with what she was doing.
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It was a great time for Lexi.
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Tom made sure she had
every meal cooked for her,
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everything was clean,
she didn't do laundry.
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Like, you would think,
"That's amazing."
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Like, "He's being super supportive
and loving."
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TOM SHARKEY:
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It came to the point where
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it was almost overwhelming
and overbearing.
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When you know him,
and you're around him,
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you realise that you're doing it
to almost make her,
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erm... confidence
within herself diminish.
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I could definitely call it
love bombing, 100%.
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The major red flag
in their relationship that I saw
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is that we went out
to the one restaurant,
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and Tom completely lost his cool
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over something
that was completely ridiculous.
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He walked home that night
and slept in his truck
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instead of coming inside.
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And I just remember Lexi driving me
back to the apartment in tears
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and just being like,
"Just don't tell Mom.
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"Just don't tell Mom and Dad.
Like, everything's fine.
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"Like, he gets like this sometimes.
It's fine".
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When I was hugging her
at the airport to leave,
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she definitely clung on to me
in that hug
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tighter than she has ever hugged me.
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It definitely made leaving hard.
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One time when they came home,
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I remember Tom telling me
that he wanted to marry her,
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and they showed me the ring,
and I was just like, "Oh!"
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I'm like, "If you're gonna suddenly
jump into a marriage like this,
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"well, was that your idea or his?"
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He had kids, like, my age.
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I'm like, "Well, he's had
an ex-wife, he has his kids.
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"What's going on there?"
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I'm getting married in Vegas.
But, anyways, it doesn't matter.
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They ended up eloping,
just getting married on their own,
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and, er, they said,
"Well, we went and got married".
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I was like, "Oh, OK".
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It felt so off.
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Like, I can't describe, like,
just how weird it made me feel.
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Like, this weird...
this chill came up my spine,
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and I'm like, "I don't love this.
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"I love her.
I don't love this for her".
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And that's when they came
to Houston, was right after that.
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When Lexi first moved to Houston,
I was really excited.
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"Ah, you know,
we're just gonna have so much fun."
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It was a nice apartment.
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Hi, Tom.
ALLY GIGGLES
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'They had a wine fridge, which
I know we both personally loved.'
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I definitely prefer rose.
ALLY LAUGHS
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We were in her pool, like,
five days a week.
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It's only two seconds. Oh!
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'We would go to happy hours.
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'Lexi loved it here.'
ALLY CHUCKLES
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Ye-haw!
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But also, what I started noticing
after she moved to Houston,
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she would almost get standoffish
any time Tom was around.
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So that, fun, bubbly personality
that would you see,
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it was now shadowed
by a different type of aura.
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STEVE: It's out of character
of Alexis
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not to post on social media.
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She posted all the time.
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When we looked at her TikTok,
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there was also videos
with her and her husband on.
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When we reached out to Tom,
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it didn't seem like he wanted us
to cover his wife's disappearance,
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which is strange.
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When somebody goes missing,
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if you love them you,
wanna find them.
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TOM SHARKEY:
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I texted Lexi, and she said that
she needs to get out of the house.
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That was the first time
that she had reached out to anybody
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about things not being good at home.
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I believe that Tom was getting
jealous of Lexi and her success
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as she was getting more popular
and gaining more followers.
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There were tensions,
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when she was the breadwinner
in their relationship.
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How can that make your ego feel?
I can only imagine.
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He would harass her for hours
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about how she was probably cheating
on him,
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how she was staring
at every guy in the bar
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and not paying attention to him.
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Once the emotional abuse started,
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we definitely were trying
to get her to question,
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"Is this a healthy relationship?"
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Something was off.
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TOM SHARKEY:
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WOMAN:
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Tom called one of the girls
shortly after,
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just frantic and in a panic.
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TOM SHARKEY:
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I was just hoping that she ran away
cos she had had enough.
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00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,880
That's what I was hoping,
but then I saw the news article.
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REPORTER: A city worker
found the body
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on the roadside in West Houston.
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VOICE BREAKING:
You wanna hope for the best,
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and you wanna really hope
that it's not what you think it is.
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A city worker
found the body of Alexis Sharkey
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on the side of the road
in West Houston over the weekend.
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There was no physical marks
on the body
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that would indicate
how this person died.
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There was kind of a mystique,
a mystery
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behind how that woman got there.
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I just thought, "No".
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00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,520
You know?
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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
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where the body had been taken to.
338
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,280
And we were just begging them,
you know.
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00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,480
We started doing the whole,
you know,
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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,
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00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,080
"Is there a, er, tattoo
of a continent on her hip?"
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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.
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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
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00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,520
of, "her body's been found."
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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"
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00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,800
and I was wailing.
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00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,160
HE SOBS
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00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,320
Such a...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,240
Ever.
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NEWSREADER: The female has been
identified as Alexis Sharkey.
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Anyone with information on this case
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00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,720
is urged to contact Houston
Police Department Homicide Division.
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00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,000
The only information we got
on the record
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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.
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00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,080
How tight-lipped they were
was unusual.
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00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,440
It just deepens that mystery
about what happened.
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00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,880
In a case where police
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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,
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00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,080
talk to reporters.
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00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,520
In this case, police were low-key.
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00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,680
That tells me
they kind of know who the killer is.
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00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,160
TOM SHARKEY:
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My friend and I
got a phone call from Tom.
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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:
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00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,360
ALLY:
390
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,200
TOM SHARKEY:
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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:
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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