Like every morning, the American teacher Eliza "Liza" Fletcher got up around four o'clock last Friday, put on her sports shoes and went for her jog near the campus of the University of Memphis (Tennessee).
When the thirty-four-year-old didn't return as usual after about an hour, her husband Richard Fletcher called the police.
When evaluating various surveillance cameras along his wife's route, the officials came across disturbing images.
Video showed a dark-colored SUV passing Fletcher and then waiting at the side of the road.
As she walked by, a stranger opened the door and "aggressively" pulled the jogger into the car.
Memphis Police Department investigators later found Fletcher's cell phone, her water bottle, and traces of blood on the street.
The video from another surveillance camera showed the SUV a little later in a parking lot – with the kidnapper and his victim inside the vehicle for more than four minutes.
Victim had famous grandfather
Fletcher's family appeared before television cameras on Saturday.
"We assume that someone knows what happened and can help," said her uncle Michael Keeney, while the parents of the abductees and their husband fought back tears next to him.
As it turns out, the teacher and mother of two comes from a prominent family.
Fletcher, who teaches at a private school in Memphis, is a granddaughter of the late billionaire Joseph Orgill III, who founded a wholesale hardware store in Tennessee in the 19th century.
Despite a $50,000 reward offered by the family for information about Fletcher's kidnapping, the 34-year-old went missing over the weekend.
Meanwhile, thousands of Americans sat in front of the television to follow the search for "Liza".
On Sunday evening, the police finally reported an arrest.
38-year-old Cleotha Abston, who lives just a few miles from Fletcher's running track, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for kidnapping in 2001.
Even as a teenager, Abston attracted attention through robbery, assault and rape.
His motive in this case is still unclear.
During the investigation into the Fletcher case, the investigators found the genetic traces of the thirty-eight-year-old on sandals that the perpetrator had left behind after her kidnapping.
"Liza" meanwhile disappeared.
Late Monday afternoon, authorities reported a body had been found near the University of Memphis.
The Memphis Police Department has confirmed that the body is Eliza Fletcher.