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Do you think we will ever find out what happened to Lord Lucan

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MikeRafone · 10/06/2025 17:43

just that really - its a cold case but will we ever find out?

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sanityisamyth · 11/06/2025 18:58

Wreckinball · 10/06/2025 18:45

Has he followed it closely since/ what does he think?

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Not much really. He was stationed in his house a few times in case he came back. He said the original scene was a real blood bath.

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MikeRafone · 11/06/2025 06:49

NamelessNancy · 10/06/2025 18:49

I think if he's still alive and went on to have more children genetic genealogy will solve it via ancestry type tests at some point. Otherwise nope.

This was something I wondered

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MikeRafone · 11/06/2025 06:48

Hatty65 · 10/06/2025 19:11

He drowned himself. I agree with all those saying Newhaven, car, ferry etc. Body was 'buried at sea'.

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Bodies do have a habit of turning up on the shore

recently that happen in north Devon, a dead body/parts on the beach

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MikeRafone · 11/06/2025 06:45

Hatty65 · 10/06/2025 17:50

Nope. The most likely thing is that he commited suicide after mistakenly killing the nanny. He was bankrupt and about to be found guilty of murder.

I suspect he panicked and could see no way out. It's unlikely that he could vanish so completely otherwise. Sightings of him have never been reliable. People just like a bit of conspiracy theory.

But no body has been recovered?

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Trustyourinnervision · 10/06/2025 20:17

Always been a bit obsessed by this case since reading my mum’s True Crime magazines in the 80s. He definitely wasn’t expecting the nanny to be there that night, I’m in no doubt that it was definitely him that committed the murder. The social set he kept were a bit ‘honour amongst thieves’ and very close.
Lady Lucan always believed he jumped off the boat and got butchered by the propeller but the testimony from Aspinall’s former employee did seem credible.

Probably watched everything I can find on YouTube yet still scratching my head 🤔

InMyOpenOnion · 10/06/2025 19:14

He was eaten by ocean life a very long time ago.

Hatty65 · 10/06/2025 19:11

Annascaul · 10/06/2025 18:01

It’s probably harder to hide a dead body than a live one, though?
Where could he have hidden himself that his body has never shown up?

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He drowned himself. I agree with all those saying Newhaven, car, ferry etc. Body was 'buried at sea'.

NamelessNancy · 10/06/2025 18:49

I think if he's still alive and went on to have more children genetic genealogy will solve it via ancestry type tests at some point. Otherwise nope.

XelaM · 10/06/2025 18:49

TheLarkAscendingRose · 10/06/2025 18:37

I'd also like to know where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès ended up. As per Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10907876/

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This is such a horrific case! I watched the documentary about it. And also so bizarre and completely out of the blue. Wasn't one of the children away at uni and he called them home only to kill them? Why?!

ExpressCheckout · 10/06/2025 18:48

I saw him once, topping up the pick-n-mix at Woolies in Grimsby.

Wreckinball · 10/06/2025 18:45

sanityisamyth · 10/06/2025 18:44

My dad was the first policeman on the scene.

Has he followed it closely since/ what does he think?

sanityisamyth · 10/06/2025 18:44

My dad was the first policeman on the scene.

Pedallleur · 10/06/2025 18:42

Will probably be a family secret. But he could have weighted himself and drowned. Eton and the Guards so old school tie may have helped him. Just read he paid 17.5k for the house in Belgravia, equivalent to 401k today. House in Belgravia for 400k? I'll take 2.

stringbean · 10/06/2025 18:40

Have a look at the BBC documentary about it from last year. The son of the nanny - he was given up by her at birth for adoption - has spent most of his adult life since his adoptive mother died trying to uncover the truth. I doubt we’ll ever know but makes for interesting viewing. A secretary/assistant working for John Aspinall (I think it was him) in the late 60s/70s organised trips for Lucan’s children to Africa so he could view them from afar. I’m certain he got away with help from wealthy friends, just not sure how far he got.

bellocchild · 10/06/2025 18:40

He'd be 90 now!

HarryVanderspeigle · 10/06/2025 18:38

No, I don't think we will ever find out. Remains are unlikely to turn up in the channel after all this time and if he died after a long life elsewhere, he achieved anonymity.

TheLarkAscendingRose · 10/06/2025 18:37

I'd also like to know where Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès ended up. As per Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10907876/

"Unsolved Mysteries" House of Terror (TV Episode 2020) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

45m

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10907876/

DeSoleil · 10/06/2025 18:35

The car he was using was found near the harbour in Newhaven, 16 miles away; it had been parked between 5am and 8am.

It’s most likely that Lucky hit in a ferry and then jumped overboard at some point into the channel.

Or did he?

He was well known to be arrogant and superior and it would be just like him to think he could outwit the police who were of a lower class/social standing to him.

He had friends that would have helped him get out of the country and who would have sworn solemnly never to reveal the truth.

Orangemintcream · 10/06/2025 18:35

I am of the opinion he managed to get out of the country and lived happily elsewhere out of the reach of the law.

PennyAnnLane · 10/06/2025 18:35

He’s at the bottom of the English Channel.

HappiestSleeping · 10/06/2025 18:30

I thought he ran the chippy with Elvis. And Shergar in the back garden 😉

Honon · 10/06/2025 18:29

Annascaul · 10/06/2025 18:01

It’s probably harder to hide a dead body than a live one, though?
Where could he have hidden himself that his body has never shown up?

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His car was found in Newhaven. He almost certainly threw himself into the sea.

RubberyChicken · 10/06/2025 18:20

I think he works in my local Tesco, but I can't be sure

Portabella · 10/06/2025 18:14

Oh I hope so!

CustardySergeant · 10/06/2025 18:08

I think John Aspinall probably helped him to 'disappear', but I don't think we'll ever find out the details of what happened.