The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan

09/12/23 • 38 min

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[CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains depictions of violence and spousal abuse.]

On November 7, 1974, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan committed a horrible crime: attacking his wife, Veronica, Lady Lucan, and murdering their nanny, Sandra Rivett, in the family's quiet Belgravia home. But it's what happened after that turned the story into a true-crime legend: the morning after the murder, Lord Lucan disappeared.

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Noble Blood - The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan

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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankie Listener discretion advised Thursday, November seventh, nineteen seventy four. The residential London neighborhood of Belgravia was known back in the Tudor period as a hot spot for highwaymen and robberies, but by the nineteen seventies it was considered a quiet space in the heart of the city. Today, the neighborhood's Lower Belgrave Street has its own wiki pa