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Welcome to Dun & Dunn. 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 me today as we conclude this season's investigation into the

disappearance of the seventh Earl of Lucan, Lord Lucan, John Bingham, Lucky, as he's known to his friends

whose luck has run out or has it. It is a

disappearing act like no other. We were introduced to the term the Eaton Mafia in the last

episode, and well, we have seen their damage, and we'll continue to see the sheltering of perhaps

what happened to our Lord.

Dominic Dunn will get on the case almost two decades after Lord Lucan's mysterious vanishing, November 8, 1974.

Our man Nick does his reporting in 1993, going on 20 years later, and he does discover some hot gossip

about the whole scene. Dunn will write from his piece, The Gentleman vanishes in Vanity Fair.

As is often the case in upper-class crime, it is as if the real crime were to take the crime seriously.

Among many of Lucan's friends, there is a curious forgiveness for the vicious act that took place

and a tendency to blame Lucan's unpopular wife, Veronica. His friends were quick, too quick, to tell me that he was dead. I would

hardly have the question out of my mouth before an answer was thrust back at me. He's dead,

or he walked into the sea and was eaten by crabs, or he he took Valium and whiskey, lashed himself to the boat,

open the stopcocks, let the water in, and sank with it.

A few other choice quotes about what could have happened to Lord Lucan.

Of course he's dead. Suicide was the proper thing to do, the gentleman's way out. It would have been

quite beneath him to be hiding out in South America in a disguise. Or, what is a million, or two or three,

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