It was a terrible scenario for any husband to find himself in. A wife had gone out for an early morning jog on her own and had not returned.
Solo runners were potentially an easy target for opportunist attackers, and there had been a number of high-profile cases in the US.
At first it looked as if Alexia Daval had suffered the same fate when she went missing from her home in a small town in eastern France.
So there was every reason for her husband, Jonathann, to be concerned after reporting her disappearance to the police, prompting a frantic search.
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