OK, this is weird. I found this article from 1982 that seems like the same Peter and Joan Davis, however the ages are just slightly off. Also Charley and Doe Network don't mention any information listed in this article, including the missing couple being British. Interesting...
April 14, 1982
Police looking for two British citizens missing since St. Patrick's Day say they are stymied as to the couples whereabouts....
www.upi.com
<<LOS ANGELES -- Police looking for two British citizens missing since St. Patrick's Day say they are stymied as to the couples whereabouts.
Peter Davis, 55, an art and antiques dealer, and his wife, Joan, 45, a restaurant hostess, disppeared March 17 from their suburban Granada Hills home with an untouched dinner left on the stove.
Five valuable paintings and their 90-pound pet dog were also missing.
Police said the couple, possible victims of foul play, were last seen by friends late in the afternoon of March 17.
Their car, a 1977 red-and-white Thunderbird, was found five days later at International Airport, but friends and relatives, including their 22-year-old son, have insisted they had no travel plans.
Among the oddities of their disappearance were the dinner left on the stove and the five missing paintings, which had been replaced on the walls of the expensive home in the Granada Hills district by less valuable artworks. Police said one of the paintings was a Gainsborough landscape worth about $100,000.
Several pieces of cast-bronze English statuary and some luggage was also missing, but items left in the home included Mrs. Davis' purse and glasses.
The couple, who collected fine arts, antiques and classic cars, moved to Los Angeles from London five years ago.
'They're very dependable,' a police spokesman said. 'Nobody's heard from them and that's very unusual, the complete opposite from the way they've been living.
'Frankly, we are stymied.'>>
