A GHOST hunter was found dead in an abandoned churchyard in an alleged “human sacrifice” murder.
Auriane Nathalie Laisne’s blood-drained body was discovered in Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend.
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A hiker stumbled upon the 22-year-old’s body on April 6, though it is thought the victim had been killed between 26 and 27 March.
Her clothes were drenched in blood, and police told CNN that some of the blood at the site had been scraped off the floor and removed.
Cops fear she had travelled from her hometown of Saint-Priest in France to Italy to take part in a TikTok ghost-hunting competition.
One witness said Laisne had been seen in the area with a young man in the days before she was killed.
They said the pair were dressed like “vampires” and described Laisne as looking “emaciated”.
The witness told Il Giornale: “They were dressed like two goths, all in dark. Like those boys who venerate death. I thought: two vampires.”
Laisne suffered multiple stab wounds to her neck and stomach, as well as gunshots to her neck and body that may have been inflicted after her death, an autopsy revealed.
Cops launched a manhunt for the man who had been seen with her, and tracked down a suspect in France on Wednesday.
Italian man Teima Sohaib, 21, was arrested on suspicion of murder and is due to face trial in the French city of Grenoble.
He had been wanted in France since the end of March for “violation of the judicial control” over reported violence against the victim.
The two had been in a long-distance relationship, but Sohaib was banned from approaching Laisne, reported La Republica.
A police spokesperson told CNN that the victim had informed family members of her plans before leaving her hometown of Saint-Priest, near Lyon.
Detectives are also probing the theory of a “consented murder” or a sacrifice.
Laisne was found without documents or a mobile phone – with only a pack of pink marshmallows and some groceries from a local store by her side.
She had been wearing beige leggings, a sweatshirt and a long dark coat.
The victim’s family is said to have travelled to Italy to identify her body.
The chief prosecutor of Aosta, Luca Ceccanti, told reporters during press conference: “It was not a case of rapture, jealousy or passion.
“It is a classic femicide which was determined by a motive of possession and the annulment of the victim’s will.”
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