A search got underway for a suspect yesterday after the body of a missing Florida woman was found in the trunk of a car in Tennessee.

Anna Primavere, 36, had been missing since last Friday, according to police in her hometown of Titusville, Florida. Her body was discovered yesterday in Lebanon, Tennessee.

The cause of Primavere’s death was not immediately known. But Titusville police said they believe a suspect named Courtney Dawn Gibson, 28, “likely killed Primavere in a violent manner between 7 p.m. and midnight February 21,

Investigators say they believe Primavere’s body was then transported to Tennessee.

Police in Tennessee had obtained a warrant to search the car, owned by Courtney Dawn Gibson, who is now being sought by police after last being seen Sunday.

Gibson was hired to babysit a child of the landlord at the house where Primavere was renting a room.

Doorbell video recorded Saturday showed Gibson driving away from the Florida home with a mattress on the roof of her vehicle, and Primavere’s family later reported that Primavere was missing from her room.

The mattress later fell off the vehicle and Gibson burned it by the side of the road.

Gibson was reached by police Sunday but refused to cooperate with investigators, then later disappeared.

The suspect is believed to have left Tennessee.

The car was located at her parents’ home.