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. Thanks for joining us today as we had back

into our investigation. Coming back to the climax, the turning point, in our story of Lord John

Bingham, Lucky Lucan, the 7th Earl of Lucan. Things have been

rough. Our boy has been on a long losing streak, both on the tables and in his life. His divorce and

custody battles have been going pretty badly, but Lucky seems to have made a plan. He's going to deal himself

a new hand, and certainly he thinks this time it will be a winning one. Let's investigate.

Music We have made it into our story, the disappearing act of Lord Lucky Lucan.

This is our turning point for John, whose luck is very much about to run out. It is November 7, 1974. It is a Thursday night, which is

regularly Nanny's Night Out. Dominic Dunn writes, what is Nanny's night off? It appeared to be a casual question. Any number of affluent

fathers separated or divorced from their wives might have asked it during a visit with their

child. Thursday. The child herself later told police that her father had asked her that.

Little did she know what the aftermath of her answer would be. She was Lady Francis Bingham,

then ten years old, and her father, whom she adored, and who adored her and her brother, Viscount Bingham, then

aged eight, and her sister, Lady Camilla, then aged six, was Lord Lucan.

I'm going to let our man Nick take you through the events of this night. Only he can write it the way he does. Again from,

The Gentleman vanishes from Vanity Fair. It was November 7, 1974. The night after Salim Zilka's

dinner, a Thursday, Nanny's Night Off. Lucan was then living in an apartment on Elizabeth Street, a short distance from the house

he no longer shared with his wife and children at 46 Lower Belgrave Street in the fashionable

SW1 section of London.

He dressed in a turtleneck sweater and a brown sleeveless pullover and slacks.

He wore gloves. He carried a canvas United States mail sack. Somewhere on his person, or possibly in the

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