Instagram model Miss Mercedes Morr was found dead by her father, strangled at the bottom of the stairs of her Houston apartment, while her stalker killer stabbed himself in the neck after spending two days writing messages on the walls of her home with lipstick.
Morr, 33, was found dead on Sunday by her father Mark Gagnier. Her killer was Kevin Alexander Accorto, 34, a Florida man who her family says had been stalking her online.
Police have still not been able to make a connection between the pair but Morr, whose real name was Jenae Gagnier, had an enormous following across multiple Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and OnlyFans accounts.
On Wednesday, her father revealed in an interview with ABC News that Accorto had been in the house for two days, writing on the walls, before they went to the house.
The family thinks she had been dead since Saturday August 28, when they last heard from her.
‘Saturday goes by she is laying dead and we have this man in the apartment,’ her mother, Jeaneta Grover said.
Mercedes Morr – whose real name was Jenae Gagnier – was found dead by her father, strangled at the bottom of the stairs of her apartment in Houston, Texas. Upstairs, her killer Kevin Accorto, 34, gargled blood after stabbing himself in the neck when he heard the door being kicked in
This is one of the many messages scrawled across the model’s home in lipstick by her killer
These are the messages written in pen and lipstick on the walls of the home of Instagram model Jenae Gagnier, whose profile name was Miss Mercedes Morr, by her killer. Her family thinks he killed her on Saturday August 28 then killed himself the next day
On Sunday August 29, Mark went to the home after growing worried that he hadn’t heard from his daughter. He kicked in the door to get inside, and that is when says Accorto plunged a knife into his neck.
He and his girlfriend found Jenae at the bottom of the stairs. At first they thought she’d fallen down them in an accident but they then heard Accorto ‘gurgling’ with blood.
Mark ran upstairs, found him lying on the ground, bleeding. He died seconds later, he said.
The home had been destroyed, with blood everywhere and messages on the wall written in lipstick.
They included the phrases ‘I should have stayed in Florida’, ‘I wish I never loved her’ and ‘I was used.’
Accorto lives in Florida and police still do not know how or when he got to Texas or tracked the model down.
Jenae’s father Mark said it looked as though he had been in the home for ‘two or three days’, writing all over the walls.
Medical examiners have not yet revealed how long Jenae had been dead for by the time she was found.
Morr’s father Mark Gagnier and her mother, Jeaneta Grover, told ABC News they don’t know how the stalker found her but that they think he followed her into her garage on Saturday, the day before she was discovered dead
Morr’s body was found inside her apartment in Richmond, Texas, on Sunday at 4.30pm. Her killer was also found dead inside and had stabbed himself
‘He was in my daughter’s house, my daughter’s dead on the floor. I didn’t know what he did.
‘He was twitching, he was gurgling. I could look in the room, there’s writing all over the walls. He was there for like two days, writing on the walls.
‘There’s blood all over the apartment. Supposedly, when I kicked in the door, he ended his life.
‘For me to see that, I kind of just was in shock. I just stood there,’ he said.
Mark Gagnier said that he is yet to find out how Accorto found his daughter, who he said was private and quiet at home, vigilante with security, despite her public online profile.
‘I just know that he’s not somebody that my daughter doesn’t associate with.
Police say they haven’t yet made a connection between the pair They are pouring through Jenae’s ‘hundreds’ of social media accounts which include pages on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Only Fans
‘We keep her private, not even her real friends really knew her name. I’ve moved my daughter three times because of my insecurities.
‘She didn’t have friends by her house.’
Her father added that he was constantly worried about how many followers his daughter had, and whether any wanted to harm her.
‘It scared the hell out of me. Jenae you have all these followers, some follow you because they love you, some are crazy and some are obsessed.
‘That’s why I guarded my daughter. Her friends thought her name was Mercedes… they didn’t know where she lived,’ he said, adding: ‘I don’t know how he found her.’
Her mother added: She didn’t know this guy. He was a random person. He killed her and he killed himself.’
On Tuesday, a spokesman for Richmond Police Department, where she lived, told DailyMail.com they were combing through her hundreds of social media accounts, trying to find a link with her killer.
Among the model’s followers were Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. Her sister has organized a candlelit vigil for her to take place in Houston on Friday.
Police have not yet been able to share any information about Accorto. It’s unclear if he was known to Floridian authorities but he does not have an arrest record, according to publicly available documents.