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Done & Dunne

75. Disappearing Act | Lucky Lord Lucan : Act IV

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7629 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Not only has Lord Lucan disappeared, causing an international manhunt, but Lucan’s friends are closing ranks. In this episode, we investigate the immediate aftermath of Lucan’s deeds and how one of the set, Dominick Elwes, is destroyed by the Clermont set.

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

com.uk-Uk.woundary. Welcome to Dunn and Done. I'm Alicia, your host to us on this podcast

0:15.6

Journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thanks for joining me today

0:23.2

as we continue our tale into the vanishing of John Bingham, Seventh Earl of Lucan. We're picking up

0:31.3

from the last episode, and one evening, all the tables have been turned on Lucky Lucan, who is lucky no more.

0:39.6

He's going to pull a big old disappearing act, but as they say, it is good to have friends.

0:47.1

Let's investigate. Dominic Dunwell, write, in his Vanity Fair piece, The Gentleman vanishes,

1:09.7

the closing of the ranks around the Earl of

1:11.9

Lucan began immediately. Sometime between 4 and 8 a.m., the borrowed Ford was parked on a street in New Haven.

1:20.9

According to Detective Chief Inspector David Garing, it was not there at four. It was certainly

1:27.2

there at 8. The short distance between

1:30.7

Uckfield and New Haven is at most a half-hour drive. Where was Lord Lucan between 115 when he left

1:39.3

Susan Maxwell Scott's and four, or 115 and eight. Michael Stoop's blood-stained car, abandoned in New Haven,

1:50.8

gave the clear impression that Lucan had left the country for France that morning. But there is no

1:57.9

proof that he did, or if he did, that he left on the ferry.

2:03.7

Detective Garing thinks that the car may have been parked there as a ruse.

2:09.1

As one of the many people I talked with said,

2:12.2

Of course someone knows something, they must.

2:15.9

If indeed there is a secret, John Aspinall would know it.

2:20.4

Anyone knows, he knows. But their mouths are zipped. And they're not going to get unzipped.

2:26.7

You can count on that. Another said, it is one of those darks, it is one of the dark secrets that binds that group together.

2:39.2

On the day following the murder of Sondra Rivett and the attempted murder of Lady Lucan,

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