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 an attacker.
And it seemed there was every reason to be concerned.
There had been a number of high-profile cases in the US when Alexia Daval went missing – and it was no different in her home country of France, too.
Alexia’s husband Jonathann was visibly upset after reporting her missing and no one could blame him.
A frantic search began.
Alexia, 29, was a bank worker.
She was married to IT programmer Jonathann, and the couple lived together in Gray-la-Ville, in Eastern France.
While Alexia