Friends and family of Alexis Robinault continued to mourn the social media influencer's death on Tuesday after her body was found beside a roadway in Houston's Energy Corridor.
A city employee found the nude body of 26-year-old Robinault — who relatives also identified as Alexis Sharkey — around 8 a.m. Saturday along the 1000 block of Red Haw Lane, near the Interstate 10 frontage road, Houston police said. She did not have any visible wounds.
Late Tuesday, a cause of death had not yet been released by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. Police continued to investigate.
"The medical examiner is going to play a key role, and that (autopsy) will tell us a lot," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told the Chronicle on Tuesday evening. "We always start in these matters casting a wide net as if it’s a homicide, because you want to start with a wide net and not play catch up later on."
He added: "We're going to leave no stone unturned to get to the facts and the truth, but we can't let social media drive the narrative and we can't let speculation drive the narrative."
Acevedo declined to release further details, saying it could jeopardize the investigation.
Robinault's public Instagram profile indicates that she sells beauty products through social media. She had more than 43,000 Instagram followers, many of whom left grieving messages on her profile.
One woman, Greta Murray, who identified herself as a business partner, described Robinault in a Facebook post as a "creative mind" and "a girl with goals, plans and ideas."
Robinault's mother, Stacey Clark Robinault, wrote Saturday in a Facebook post that no one had seen her daughter for 24 hours. After the discovery of her daughter's body, she told KTRK-TV that she believed her daughter had been murdered.
"We're very broken-hearted. It's just painful for someone so bright and having so much to offer ... just to be gone, to be snuffed out," she told the news station.
Her husband, Tom Sharkey, also mourned her death on Facebook. "My world! My everything! I’m so lost right now! My one and only!" he said.
In an interview with KTRK, he said he started receiving death threats after his wife's disappearance. He added that she "wasn't happy" before she went missing.
"She was stressed. I would cuddle her to try to make her strong," he said during the interview. "She was an amazing woman.... There's always other sides to everything."
One unidentified friend also spoke to the news station, saying that Robinault talked about "her fears" during a trip to Marfa one month ago.
"She confided in me that night ... she's petrified," a friend said. "This girl is scared for her life."
julian.gill@chron.com
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