WILL HE END UP BUSTED FOR HER DEATH?

Husband of Houston Instagram influencer found dead by the side of a road says he's receiving death threats

 

By Steve Campion

 

KTRK

December 2, 2020

 

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The husband of an Instagram influencer told Eyewitness News Alexis Sharkey wasn't always the happy person she portrayed on social media.

Tom Sharkey spoke to our Steve Campion about his wife in a phone conversation Tuesday. Sharkey sounded very upset and emotionally distraught. He said he's been struggling very hard.

He called Alexis his "everything" and said they shared a Thanksgiving meal together Thursday morning. He said the loss of his life partner has left him destroyed.

Sharkey said he's received death threats since his wife's disappearance and death made headlines across this country. Sharkey described his marriage as happy. He said they weren't filing for a divorce.

"She wasn't happy. She was stressed. I would cuddle her to try to make her strong. She was an amazing woman. Sir, my wife was an amazing woman. She really was. There's always other sides to everything. I was the one holding her, cuddling her, and building her back up," said Sharkey. "I don't need to set the record straight. I'll let it play out the way it is. I know what my life was with my wife."

The six-minute conversation was disjointed, moving from thought to thought. Sharkey told Campion he figured out the woman found on Red Haw was his wife.

He said he went to the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office on Sunday morning, looking for Alexis.

"It's horrible. People are talking tons of crap. I'm getting death threats and stuff. None of that bothers me. What bothers me is that world and everybody in it focuses on all of the stuff that doesn't matter ... should have been focused on finding my wife," said Sharkey. "Everybody was still looking for her, and I located her Sunday morning in the coroner's office. They couldn't ID my wife. They didn't know who she was. She was just there."

Sharkey said when he last saw his wife, he warned her not to drive.

"She understood me. I understood her. We didn't fight when she left. I just told her she couldn't drive under the influence," said Sharkey. "She left anyhow. This is where we're at."

The husband didn't elaborate on those claims or offer specifics about the circumstances.

He told Campion he's been cooperating with homicide detectives and said he turned over all of his wife's messages, emails, and phone calls. He said he feels confident the Houston Police Department can figure out what's going on, "going to find everyone that was involved."

He abruptly ended the conversation.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not a jerk," said Sharkey. "I'm just destroyed."

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‘Absolutely foul play’: Mother of Houston Instagram star Alexis Sharkey wants answers after daughter found dead

 

By Jacob Rascon

 

Click2Houston

November 30, 2020

 

HOUSTON – The last time they talked, Stacey Robinault and her Instagram star daughter, Alexis Sharkey, were planning Christmas in Pennsylvania.

“We haven’t seen her since last Christmas and that’s the longest we’ve ever gone,” Robinault said. “We were desperate to see her and excited to see her.”

Sharkey, the oldest of three sisters, grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania, graduated summa cum laude with a biology degree and planned to apply to medical school.

“Then, she took a year off, and that year knocked her onto a different path, which happens,” Robinault said.

Sharkey moved to West Texas, where she met and married Tom Sharkey and became a full-time social media influencer. They moved to Houston in January.

“She loved what she did,” Robinault said. “She had been working with an online company and was selling all health-based haircare and body-care products.”

Robinault’s nightmare began on Saturday night when her daughter’s husband and friends called to say Sharkey was missing and that they had reported her disappearance to Houston police.

“One friend said, ‘I ran over to her apartment and she’s not there, and we were supposed to meet up,’” Robinault said. “When you start to hear these stories and you just know that’s not right, something’s wrong -- she’s never that far away from her device; [she’s] standing up her friends; [her] husband doesn’t know where she is, all of that. All of that strikes fear.”

On Monday, homicide detectives told the family that the naked body found on the side of the road a few miles from the Sharkey’s apartment by a garbage truck driver on Saturday was, in fact, Alexis Sharkey.

“We are wrecked. We are completely wrecked,” Robinault said. “The family is just so devastated -- her cousins, her sisters, her 13-year-old sister. It’s just so difficult.”

News of her death would have been devastating no matter what, Robinault added, but the mysterious circumstances make matters much worse.

“The way in which she was found -- my child would never do that to herself,” Robinault said. “That doesn’t even make sense. That is absolutely foul play.”

“There is nothing to me that suggests that this was an accident,” she added. “And there’s nothing to me that suggests anything else, other than that this was done to her. And I believe that in my mother’s gut.”