Naked Newport centerpiece features HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, the true crime story launched in Vanity Fair on how billionairess Doris Duke killed designer Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate and got away with murder
By Peter Lance Dec, 21st, 2024 In the fall of 2018, I returned to my hometown of Newport, RI, to investigate an historic true crime legend: whether or not Doris Duke, the richest woman in America in 1966, had escaped criminal charges in a cover up by…
On the 61st Anniversary of JFK’s death, consider my 1983 ABC NEWS report on public concerns that The Feds were hiding the truth
By Peter Lance November 22, 2024 With the release by The National Archives of new files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I share this piece that I produced and reported on the 20th anniversary when I was a correspondent for ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE. You can…
MIAMI VICE, CRIME STORY & WISEGUY
If you’re hungry to watch some of the great police series from the late 80’s + 90’s, find a full list of my writing & producing credits on IMDB.com Then go to the following links to screen some of the episodes I wrote. My first script ever was “Top…
Salon.com publishes The Intro to my HarperCollins FBI/Mafia exposé DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
It’s not just Whitey Bulger: Meet another Mafia killer aided for decades by the FBI The Colombo family killer stopped counting after 50 murders. A deal with the feds helped him get away with it all By Peter Lance originally published June 30th 2013. LISTEN TO THE…
From the Archives: On The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reports from Iraq on “1000 Years for Revenge”
Sept. 11th, 2023 Twenty years ago, on the anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse – the eve of publication of my first investigative book for HarperCollins, 1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and The FBI, Dan Rather reported from Iraq on two consecutive…
WISEGUY: Season Four. The Steven Bauer Miami arc starring Maximilian Schell
By Peter Lance. October 9th, 2023. In 1990 I became The Showrunner on the 4th Season of the acclaimed CBS series WISEGUY, created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo. In taking over The Writer’s Room, my creative challenge was to develop an exciting role for Steven…
Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time
Dec. 21st, 2024 “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. And, while they…
Peter Lance Biography
Dec. 15th, 2024 Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters…
Mother Jones on Stephen Schwarzman’s “Extreme mansion makeover” a few doors down from Rough Point on Bellevue Ave: the new “Billionaire’s Row”
By Peter Lance Oct. 17th, 2024 In an extraordinary new investigative piece for MOTHER JONES posted online, Hanna Levintova reports…
Never forget hero FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca who gave his life 23 years ago on 9/11
By Peter Lance 9.11.24 On the 23rd anniversary of the worst intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse, please remember this extraordinary…
From the Archives. NY Magazine on a former U.S. Attorney’s campaign to bury “Triple Cross.”
PROSECUTOR AS BOOK PUBLICIST By Boris Katchka. Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Illinois’s Northern District, doesn’t pull his punches. Charming, tough,…
HuffPost: DOJ report on MISSBURN case leaves out key detail: I.D. of the Mafia killer who broke the case for Hoover’s FBI
By Peter Lance June 27th, 2016. HuffingtonPost The NYT reported June 20th that a U.S. Justice Dept. inquiry into the notorious 1964 murders of…
Remembering what Camelot was like in Newport, RI when Jack & Jackie Kennedy were in town
By Peter Lance Nov. 22nd, 2023 Sixty years ago, those of us who were old enough to remember, got the shocking…
Murder, Inc. the true crime classic. Republished with a new Foreword by Peter Lance
FOREWARD to the new edition By Peter Lance I was first introduced to Murder Inc., by Nick Pileggi, the extraordinary journalist,…
UK Sci-Fi site does a major piece on WITHOUT WARNING; a new take on WAR OF THE WORLDS written nearly 30 years ago for CBS that’s become a cult hit on YouTube
By Peter Lance. June 27th, 2023 On Halloween night, 1994, CBS aired WITHOUT WARNING; a contemporary take on H.G. Wells classic “War…
30 years ago al Qaeda’s World Trade Center bombing was the precursor to the 9/11 Attacks.
BY PETER LANCE February 26th, 2023, the 30th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured a…
HuffPost: Al Qaeda & the mob. Why The FBI Blew it on 9/11
By Peter Lance THE HUFFINGTON POST After whacking “Big Paul” Castellano and…
Former NYT reporter Nicholas Gage, the dean of O.C. journalists, calls DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, “the most penetrating look into the inner workings of the Mafia since ‘The Valachi Papers.'”
ORDER SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS or copies from amazon.com INTRODUCTION By Peter Lance Gregory Scarpa Sr, was a study in complication.…
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