Read the international media coverage for HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT: the true crime story of how billionaire Doris Duke got away with the murder of gay designer, art curator and war hero Eduardo Tirella in 1966
Peter Lance March 28th, 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 wealthiest woman in America in 1966, had escaped criminal charges in a cover up by local…
On the 60th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination consider my 1983 ABC NEWS report on public concerns that The Feds were hiding the truth
By Peter Lance November 22, 2023 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…
STRANGER 456: The page-turning thriller that shatters the FBI’s “profiling” method for stopping serial killers
October 15th, 2023 STRANGER 456 is a thriller documenting the hunt for a serial killer named Axel who is murdering people across all victim classes in defiance of all FBI profiles. Working against a deadline as he uses the homicides to create some kind of master work,…
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…
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.…
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…
TOWN AND COUNTRY, in an expansive piece, cites HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT
BY SAM DANGREMOND Sept. 2nd, 2021 With a net worth of around $116 billion, Larry Ellison is the seventh-richest person in the world. He could live anywhere on the planet, but Newport, Rhode Island has captured his attention since 2010. That year, the Oracle co-founder purchased Beechwood,…
New book on my investigation into the Congresswoman, the Iraq war vet & the cover-up of a DUI hit-and-run manslaughter scandal
By Peter Lance Feb. 26th, 2024 In 2018 I was close to finishing a new investigative book set in Santa Barbara,…
Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time
March 28th, 2024 “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. And, while they…
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…
NY Mag: Trump “Goes Full Hitler” at rally calling his rivals “vermin.” Read my 2017 Huffington Post on Trump’s use of The Hitler-Goebbels’ tactic of “The Big Lie.”
NY MAG: By Margaret Hartmann Nov. 13th, 2023 Since the 2016 presidential campaign, the question of whether it’s appropriate to compare Donald…
33 Years ago Rabbi Meir Kahane’s murder was the first blood spilled by al Qaeda on U.S. soil. Read the origin story and consider how intelligence failures lead to serial terrorism and perpetual wars.
By Peter Lance, Nov, 5th, 2023. Medium.com Terrorism – manifested from many quarters – perpetuates the circle of hate. The U.S.…
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,…
On 9.11 never forget the heroic FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca
By Peter Lance 9.11.23 On the 22nd anniversary of the worst intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse, please remember this extraordinary…
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…
MOTHER JONE’S 1985 cover story on how ABC News killed multiple stories critical of Reagan associates. Two of them were mine.
By Peter Lance April 30th, 2023 Lately I’ve been going through what Bob Dylan, early on, called “My Back Pages.” Recently,…
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…
Dan Rather reports from Iraq on 1000 Years for Revenge
Sept. 11th, 2022 19 years ago, on the second anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse — on…
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…
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