Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,

where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining our investigation

today and do I have a story for you, friends. We are taking an international departure this season, which is all today. All the episodes

in season five dropping for you in one big dollop as we head across the pond to explore the

mysterious vanishing of Lord Lucan, the very posh playboy aristocrat, given name Richard John Bingham, with really just about

every hand in life dealt in a mostly positive way, a lot going for him, really. Lord Lucan does have

one famous hand at the gambling tables, which will provide him with his nickname Lucky. Lucky Lukin.

See, Lucky might not have been as lucky as his name suggests. Adding in his own choices in life

as we all do. It is on November 8, 1974, Lord Lucan disappears.

Out of here.

Just simply vanishes off the face of the world.

Troubling about this quick goodbye, lucky thing,

his ghosting of the world is just hours after his children's nanny has been found murdered in Lord

Lucan's about to be ex-wife's home. Lord Lucan and his Lady Veronica Lucan have been going through

quite an ugly divorce and custody battle after a terribly unhappy decade of marriage. It is terribly

suspicious timing for the absent lucky. Hours after the crime, Lucky's just gone, not to be found,

unless you are Dominic Dunn, on the beat of Lord Lucan's vanishing from November 8, 1974,

our man Nick will get on this investigative beat once his writing career is in full swing in his Vanity Fair days.

Dominic Dunn writes a piece for Vanity Fair in May 1993 called

The Gentleman Vanishes. Dunn's work will come 20 years after Lucky's Irish Goodbye on a cold,

wet and weary November 8, 1974. And our man Nick has questions. He will ask many, many questions,

only getting some answers. But there is something awfully fishy when it comes to the

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