Influencer Alexis Sharkey was STRANGLED to death autopsy reveals - six weeks after her body was found naked by side of the road in Texas - 'amid her divorce from her 49-year-old husband'

Social media influencer Alexis Sharkey's autopsy has revealed she was strangled to death after her naked body was found dumped by the side of the road in Texas over Thanksgiving. 

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences revealed the 26-year-old's cause of death on Tuesday.

Houston Police have not made any arrests and say the case is still under investigation. 

Sharkey vanished on November 27 after allegedly having a fight with her 49-year-old husband Tom Sharkey.

Her naked body was found on a roadside in Houston the following day by a sanitation department worker who spotted her feet in some bushes. 

Police said at the time that her body showed no signs of visible wounds, which led to initial speculation she may have overdosed.  

Social media influencer Alexis Sharkey's autopsy has revealed she was strangled to death after her naked body was found dumped by the side of the road in Texas over Thanksgiving

Sharkey vanished on November 27 after allegedly having a fight with her 49-year-old husband Tom Sharkey. Her naked body was found on a roadside the following day by a sanitation department worker

Her body was found about three miles from the apartment she shared with her husband.  

Friends revealed after her death that she was trying to file for divorce from her husband and that he had allegedly abused her.

They say Sharkey, who had more than 21,000 followers on Instagram and regularly shared updates about her life, had confided in them on a recent trip to Mexico that she feared for her life but it was not clear why. 

Her husband has publicly denied those allegations, saying that Sharkey was unhappy and stressed at the time. 

'She wasn't happy. She was stressed. I would cuddle her to try to make her strong. She was an amazing woman,' Tom told KTRK-TV at the time. 

'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.

'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.'  

Sharkey's mother Stacey Robinault had always been convinced that her daughter was murdered.

Robinault told ABC13 at the time that her son-in-law had called to say Sharkey was missing a day after he had last seen her.  

Friends revealed after her death that she was trying to file for divorce from her husband and that he had allegedly abused her. Her husband has publicly denied those allegations. They are pictured together on Halloween last year

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences revealed the 26-year-old's cause of death on Tuesday. Houston Police have not made any arrests and say the case is still under investigation

Sharkey's mother said that her daughter 'had an argument' with her husband before leaving the house without her car.  

Tom denied that he got into a fight with his wife the night she went missing. 

He said that just before she disappeared, he urged his wife not to leave their home as she was 'under the influence' but he did not elaborate further.

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

Robinault revealed last month that she had to fight her son-in-law to get custody of Sharkey's body in order to bury her in her home state of Pennsylvania.  

'As her husband, he would have primary custody of what determined what happened with her, and he had said all along that he was willing to let her come home,' Robinault told FOX26.

She said Tom eventually stopped cooperating with the family. 

'It just was a very strange - I'd almost call it - fight to get her,' Robinault said. 

'I didn't think I was gonna get her, and I had actually given up hope, when all of the sudden the forensics lab called me.'

The medical examiner eventually made Robinault the next of kin after two weeks of inaction from Tom.  

The couple had been married about a year and had moved to Houston a year prior to her death.   

Sharkey's mother Stacey Robinault (above together), who was convinced that her daughter had been murdered, revealed when her daughter vanished that she 'had an argument' shortly before going missing