DEAD Instagram model Alexis Sharkey's friends claim she was murdered and she was scared for his life before her naked body was found.

The newlywed, 26, went missing in Texas on Friday after reportedly having an argument with an as-yet-unidentified person before turning up dead.

Her body was found early on Saturday morning a few miles from her apartment by a garbage truck driver who spotted a pair of feet sticking out from under some bushes.

Friends had last heard from her at around 6pm on Friday, and after that phone calls began going straight to her voicemail.

The influencer – who had 21,000 followers on Instagram – had no visible injuries and her cause of death hasn’t yet been determined.

The Houston Police Department has said investigations into the death are ongoing.

Sharkey's friends told the outlet that, despite not knowing exactly how Alexis died, that they have "ideas."

"We don't know what happened. We obviously have had ideas. We believe she was murdered, absolutely," Lauren Breaux told ABC13.

"I'm going to be honest, she confided in me about how worried she was for her safety when we went to Marfa, Texas, almost a month ago," she added.

"We were sitting down at dinner and she lost it. We walked back to our hotel room and she confided in me that night in things. I looked at her [and thought], 'She's petrified. This girl is scared for her life.'"

Sharkey's mother, Stacey Robinault, recently told Click2Houston that "nothing" about the circumstances of her daughter's death suggested it was accidental or anything "other than that this was done to her."

"The way in which she was found – my child would never do that to herself," she said.

"That doesn’t even make sense. That is absolutely foul play."

Sharkey, the oldest of three sisters and a biology graduate, had moved to West Texas and become a full-time social media influencer.

She then moved to Houston with her husband, Tom, in January.

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