A woman’s body was found near a torched vehicle in the woods of Austell, Georgia on Thursday and now police believe they have the suspected killer in custody.
The Cobb County Police Department identified the body as 22-year-old Beauty Couch, an Austell-based Instagram influencer.
The suspect was arrested in Louisiana on Saturday. Foul play is suspected, Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell told WBSTV News.
The victim’s body was found around 12:18 p.m. Wednesday, when Austell Fire Department crews responded to a brush fire at Joe Jerkins Boulevard and Landers Street.
When they arrived, they found a vehicle “fully engulfed in flames.” After putting the fire out, the vehicle was towed to a wrecker yard.
The Austell Police Department sent officers to the address on the vehicle registration and learned the owner’s daughter Beauty Couch, 22. She had not been at the residence since the day before and was the one usually driving the vehicle, the news outlet reported.
Austell officers then went out to search the area near where the vehicle was found and discovered a body matching Couch’s description in the woodline.
“She was a sweet girl, she never bothered nobody,” Kimberly Couch, the victim’s mother said. “She never bothered nobody. She was a friend to everybody. She loved going skating. She loved going to work. She loved her clothes. She loved wearing her hair so pretty.”
Couch went by Beauty Katera online and was a roller skating influencer with almost 150,000 followers. She was known for posting videos of herself dancing and skating at the rink.
Eugene Louis-Jacques, 21, was arrested in connection to her death. He was previously identified as a suspect in the influencer’s homicide by Cobb detectives.
Cobb officers secured a warrant for his arrest on charges of murder, arson, and aggravated assault.
Louis-Jocques is in custody at the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Facility, awaiting extradition back to Cobb County.
