Peter Reyn-Bart was sentenced to life imprisonment after giving what totally unnecessary confession to killing his wife?

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On May 13, 1983, workers digging in a peat bog in Macclesfield, located in Cheshire, England, discovered a woman's skull. Local police had long suspected that Peter Reyn-Bardt, then 57, had murdered his wife, Malika, who was last seen in 1960. Convinced that they now had Malika's remains, detectives confronted Reyn-Bardt, who confessed to the murder. One month before the trial, however, experts from Oxford learned that the skull belonged to a woman who died in the third century A.D. Despite this development, Reyn-Bardt was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. (source) http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths/Unlucky-for-some.3276137.jp Jul 23 11, 12:39 PM