REVEALED: Instagram star Alexis Sharkey cause of death

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Social media star Alexis Sharkey's nude body is found by workers just after Thanksgiving. She spends time with friends and makes plans for the next day but didn't show up for their planned movie day. Now the autopsy reveals Sharkey was strangled. Joining Nancy Grace today:Troy Slaten - Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles California Dr. Jeff Gardere - Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, Prof of Behavioral Medicine at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine www.drjeffgardere.com, Author: 'The Causes of Autism” @drjeffgardereJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Ray Caputo - Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to
0:28.3	your favorite podcast.
0:37.9	Breaking news. In the last hours, we learned the calls of death
0:43.2	in the death of Insta Influencer Alexis Sharkey.
0:47.7	Take a listen to our friends at K-H-O-U.
1:00.3	Her mom was adamant from the beginning, telling Kate show you in December.
1:04.1	She believes her 26 year old daughter was murdered.
1:07.0	I do know it was not a accident.
1:09.5	And now we know the truth. The Harris County Medical Examiner officially ruling her
1:14.0	cause of death, a strangulation, and the manner homicide.
1:18.1	Friend Lauren Norling Martin, who met Sharkey through Monet, the beauty product company they
1:22.7	work for says, I think this news we all kind of knew, but this just made it that much more real.
1:28.3	I'm angry and sad all over again, but ready for justice to be served for our friend.
1:34.4	This is what we know. The cause of death has been established as homicide with me and all
1:40.6	star panel to make sense of it. First of all, out of LA, veteran trial lawyer, Troy Slayton.
1:47.6	You can find him at Troy Slayton on Twitter. Dr. Jeff Gardier, we're now clinical psychologist,
1:53.2	professor of behavioral medicine at Turo. Dr. Jeff Gardier.com is the author of the causes of autism
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