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Once Upon A Crime

Getting Away With Murder: Doris Duke

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A billionaire heiress kills her friend in a “freak accident”. Was Eduardo Tirella’s death actually an accident or did Doris Duke commit murder?  Resources:  Doris Duke: Facts, Death and Mansion, Biography.com: https://www.biography.com/personality/doris-duke Homicide at Rough Point by Peter Lance for Vanity Fair, July 16, 2020  https://bit.ly/2VHjXC7 The Fatal Crash that Plunged Doris Duke into a Scandal by Samantha Todd for Forbes Magazine, Oct 18, 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthatodd/2019/10/18/the-fatal-crash-that-plunged-doris-duke-into-scandal/?sh=5a23b31e2057 The Doris Duke Cold Case Reopens: The Only Known Eyewitness Speaks for the First Time by Peter Lance for Vanity Fair, August 5, 2021 https://bit.ly/3Ct9oDQ Links:  Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast

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0:00.0

This podcast details true crime cases.

0:04.0

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

0:08.0

It is not intended for children.

0:10.0

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

0:26.2

We're in the series Getting Away with Murder, where I share cases of people who were clearly

0:30.9

at fault for the death of another, but nevertheless were not deemed criminally responsible.

0:36.5

This case regarding the tragic death of an up-and-coming designer in 1966

0:42.0

came to my attention last year and I was very keen to bring it to

0:46.2

my listeners. Luckily it fits perfectly into this month's topic. 35 years after the

0:52.3

case was closed by the police, a journalist decided to

0:55.4

reinvestigate to determine if the death that had been deemed a freak

0:59.4

accident was truly an accident at all.

1:03.0

Not only is this story fascinating,

1:05.3

but once again this month,

1:06.9

it is also the subject of breaking news.

1:09.7

Just this week, another revelation came to light that may change what everyone thought

1:14.2

about this case and may solve the mystery once and for all. And I get to share it all

1:19.1

with you in this episode. Let's dive into the second chapter in the series Getting Away with Murder.

1:26.0

To ponder the question, should billionaire Erris Doris Duke have been charged with the murder

1:31.0

of a friend and designer Eduardo Terella. Doris Duke was born rich and not just rich but rich-rich-rich.

1:47.0

Throughout her life she had access to the type of wealth that most of us couldn't even

1:51.1

begin to imagine.

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