178: Foreign Fatalities: Lord Lucan

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Earl of Lucan was deep in debt and his marriage suffered as a result. One evening, his ex wife was attacked and nanny of the children murdered. Circumstances didn't look good for Lord Lucan, but there was one problem... he hasn't been seen since.

To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelicti

Our merch store can be found at teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcast

Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

Sources:
Lord Lucan 'murdered his wife and then killed himself' - The Sunday Herald | HighBeam Research (archive.org)
Lord Lucan could still be alive, says the detective leading a new hunt for him (telegraph.co.uk)
Lady Lucan, widow of Lord Lucan, found dead in London - BBC News
Lord Lucan: Sandra Rivett's Murder and Mystery of His Disappearance (businessinsider.com)
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan - Wikipedia
The new Lady Lucan: 'There was something very tragic about having a mother-in-law who didn’t want to see her grandchildren' (telegraph.co.uk)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everyone. it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.5	And welcome back to Corpus DeLecti the podcast.
0:29.4	We are knee deep into our foreign fatality series.
0:34.0	Yeah, this has been really interesting so far, getting to talk about some of the differences in justice systems overseas and in other areas.
0:42.1	So we are going to continue this series for a little bit longer.
0:46.4	I'm going to apologize.
0:48.0	I'm using a brand new microphone.
0:49.9	I have no idea what to expect.
0:52.5	I had time to do a very small test run and I think it's okay. But if something crazy happens, my bad. It looks good. It looks normal. But my son and I have been fighting over the microphone because he started a YouTube channel. And I was like, you know what? I'm not doing this anymore. I'm going to just get a new microphone. All right, so this week we're going to jump across the pond to our good old friends,
1:14.8	England.
1:15.8	We are on the royal side of Great Britain, and we dive into the disappearance of Lord
1:21.8	Lucan.
1:23.0	Born Richard John Bingham on December 18, 1934, he would hold the title of the 7th Earl of
1:31.0	Lucan. So throughout the story, you're either going to hear him be referred to as just
1:36.9	Lucan or John. His life was one of a lot of gambling. He drove in Ashton Martin. He raced power boats. And he was actually considered
1:47.7	to play James Bond in one of the movies' franchises. So he was the epitome of a lot of money
1:55.0	and very little to do. So he liked living that fast, luxurious lifestyle. After he was born, his mother,
2:05.4	Caitlin, Elizabeth, and Dawson had a blood clot that formed in her lungs. And because of this,
2:12.3	she actually had to stay in a nursing home. She was constantly going through medical treatment.
2:19.1	So John and his older sister were raised by the family's nursery maid Lucy Sellers. When John was three, Europe was going to war
2:26.0	and he and his sister were shipped off to Wales to stay with relatives. When John turned six,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CDM Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CDM Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.