Daphne Garona Galizia was one of those journalists they make Hollywood movies about.

In her small home country of Malta, she wasn't just the most popular journalist.

She was more popular than the journalism industry.

Her blog running commentary was more widely read than all Maltese newspapers combined.

But what made her Hollywood material wasn't that she was popular.

It's that she was the type of investigator to make enemies and

continue doing so even when her life was on the line. Death threats for

Daphne were a daily phenomenon. In three decades she was the victim of arson

not once but a few times and being Daphne's dog was almost a death sentence by itself.

One dog of hers had been poisoned and another shot.

One day in 1996 she awoke to her dog laid out on her front porch, its throat slit.

In 2016, Daphne got her hands on one of the biggest scoops of her professional career.

It implicated some of Malta's highest government officials in criminal activity.

It was going to be messy, but after decades of burned houses and murdered pets, she wasn't

exactly going to hold back this time.

She broke the story. Over the following year more stories and

leaked documents made it onto her blog. The most important political figures in

the country were now in hot water, including the Prime

Minister, his Chief of Staff, and another high-ranking minister.

On October 3rd, Nefney was driving not far from her home when a bomb exploded in her car.

She was killed in an instant.

Her son identified the remains, a full 80 meters,

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