In 1959, portrait artist and travel enthusiast Malika de Fernandez met the man who would become her murderer. Within two hours, Peter Reyn-Bardt, an airline employee, asked her to marry him – and she said yes. Within four days, they were married.
A few months later, the marriage broke down, and Fernandez began to travel the world again, now using her new husband s airline travel discount. Reyn-Bardt remained at his cottage in Cheshire, England.
Two years later, Fernandez disappeared completely, and Reyn-Bardt became suspect number one. Despite thorough searches of his property – including digging up his garden in search of her remains – the police weren t able to find any evidence of Malika or any wrongdoing. The case remained unsolved for two decades when events took an odd twist: part of a body was discovered within a peat bog near the home of Reyn-Bardt s cottage.