191. Remembering Dominique Dunne and A Father's Love
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
A deeply personal tragedy, and a horrific crime, accelerates Dominick’s transition into a warrior for justice. In a combination of previous episodes from our podcast investigation, we meet Dominique Dunne, the beloved California child of Nick and Lenny, whose murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend in 1982 was chronicled for Vanity Fair in her grieving father’s own words.
We have certain underlying assumptions about how the criminal justice works, and how the courtroom will treat the grieving family of a murder victim. Nick sure did, until it was his family gathered in a Los Angeles courthouse, watching a grave miscarriage of justice play out as the man who murdered his daughter Dominique stood trial.
It was a wrenching crime followed by an appalling miscarriage of justice, chronicled by none other than the grieving father of the victim. Alicia takes us through the trial of the man who strangled Dominique Dunne to death, presided over by a self-serving judge with a soft spot for the defense team, with a verdict rendered by a jury which was not allowed to hear key evidence as it debated lesser charges than the prosecution wanted.
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Sources
Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Documentary, Amazon link)
Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast's journey, All Things Dominic |
| 0:18.1 | Dunn. Thank you for joining me for today's episode, one that is so meaningful, |
| 0:24.6 | foundational really, to this podcast. Today it is Dominique Dunn's story, Dominic's beloved daughter |
| 0:34.2 | on the 42nd anniversary of her death, November the 4th. |
| 0:40.0 | For newer listeners, welcome. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:43.9 | I know we've got some folks just picking up the podcast right here who might not have |
| 0:49.3 | gone back to the beginning of this journey. |
| 0:53.2 | These Dominique episodes truly are key in understanding so |
| 0:58.2 | much about our man Nick, as a father, as a writer, and as a human in development. For a long |
| 1:07.2 | time, investigators, these are episodes you have heard before across a few months |
| 1:12.9 | from the very beginning of our journey. Today, I am combining episode numbers 3, 8, and 10 |
| 1:20.9 | to complete one full arc. This is a long episode and truly heartbreaking in places. To ensure its meaning to you and to be |
| 1:32.4 | respectful of Dominique's story, each episode will be presented as it originally aired in 2022 with no |
| 1:42.9 | breaks included in each story. Instead, breaks will be |
| 1:48.0 | placed between each episode. Today it is to Dominique Dunn, beautiful, talented, funny, and |
| 1:57.8 | oh so loved by her friends and family, and so loved by her father that after her death |
| 2:05.3 | his whole life reshapes to become a warrior for justice to honor her let us begin welcome to |
| 2:16.8 | done and done i'm alicia your hostess on this journey, |
| 2:20.8 | All Things Dominic Dunn. In the last episode, we talked about Dominic Dunn's first act, |
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