Lindsay Louise Ellixson, 21, was found beaten to death, and a homicide investigation has been launched to discover how the ‘free spirit’ died. Her family says she was traveling the country to ‘figure out’ her life and was only home ‘intermittently.’
The body of Lindsay Louise Ellixson, 21, was discovered battered and beaten in a bayou in East Baton Rouge, La. Authorities are searching for her killer.
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The FBI is hunting the killer of a Florida woman beaten to death and dumped in a Louisiana bayou as she traveled the country "trying to figure out" her life.
The battered body of Lindsay Louise Ellixson, 21, was found at 3 p.m. Saturday floating in water by fishermen in East Baton Rouge.
Agents think she was killed by a blow to the head — and that she'd been ditched two to five days before her discovery.
A homicide investigation has been launched.
"She was beaten to death and left there," Chief of Investigations Shane Evans told WFTV. "Someone did this to her and put her there. It was unusually brutal and violent."
Ellixson, originally from Orlando, had been reportedly touring the nation ever since finishing Boone High School.
Her adoptive mom, Catherine Ellixson, said she'd been home "intermittently" over the years, and they'd last spoken 10 days before her body was found.
"She had beautiful blue eyes and a free spirit," Catherine Ellixson told The Advocate. "She just had a lot of struggles that she needed to overcome."
Lindsay Ellixon had 'beautiful blue eyes and a free spirit,' said her adoptive mother, Catherine Ellixson.
Agents are now looking at posts the young woman made on the MeetMe social networking site in the eight weeks before her death.
Listing herself as job and homeless, she allegedly wrote under the name "Lindsay Head" that she was engaged — and was also looking for "ladies only" as she "looking for fun for my man."
She also wrote: "I can't find a good guy to spoil me and love me for me … why does it always have to end up about sex!"
Another time she posted: "I'm making it known that I'm in need of someone sexy to take care of me and make my life less boring … I need more excitement!!!"
And her last entry read: "GIVING UP FOR NOW."
Her adoptive dad, Chris Ellixson, said the family was "coming to terms" with her death.
"She's looking down on us, smiling, wishing us a happy Thanksgiving," he told WAFB. "We know where she is. (She was) just trying to figure things out."
Anyone with information is asked to contact East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office at 225-389-5000 or CrimeStoppers anonymously at 344-STOP.
Local authorities, state police and the FBI are investigating.
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