On November 8th 1974 Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, better known as Lord Lucan, disappeared.

Lucan, a former merchant banker and professional gambler known as "Lucky" Lucan, who at that time had separated from his wife and had moved out of the house, was wanted for murder. The nanny of his children, Sandra Rivett, had been found bludgeoned to death in his former house, and his wife had been attacked, by a man she said was Lucan, on the previous day.

Lucan's car was found abandoned in Newhaven with a bloodstained rag and a lead pipe similar to the one used to carry out the murder in it. Lucan himself had vanished.

He was later found guilty of murder by the coroner's court, the last time in Britain that happened, and was twenty years later ruled officially dead.

To this day what happened to Lucan after he fled is not known.

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