31 years ago on Halloween night CBS aired a new take on Orson Welles’ classic radio drama “War of The Worlds” After you Trick or Treat watch what’s become a YouTube cult classic
By Peter Lance. October 31st, 2025 On Halloween night, 1994, CBS aired WITHOUT WARNING; a contemporary take on H.G. Wells classic “War Of The Worlds.” Produced by Mark Wolper and directed by Robert Iscove, I wrote the two-hour Teleplay from a Story by David Seltzer (aka Jeremy Thorn)…
In 1966 billionairess Doris Duke killed gay war hero and Renaissance Man Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate and got away with murder. Now, despite overwhelming evidence of her guilt, the Newport, PD still won’t acknowledge the truth
By Peter Lance October 31st, 2025 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…
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…
With President Trump’s order to release files on JFK’s death, consider my 1983 ABC NEWS report on public concerns back then that The Feds were hiding the truth
By Peter Lance March 18th 2025 ABC News reports that Trump’s promise to release thousands of declassified pages on the JFK assassination had sent the DOJ’s National Security Division into a “scramble.” Trump’s revelation Monday came weeks after the NYT reported that, “President Trump told security agencies…
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…
From the Archives: On The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reports from Iraq on “1000 Years for Revenge”
Sept. 11th, 2024 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…
Peter Lance Biography
October 31st, 2025 Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters…
Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time
October 31st 2025 “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. And, while they last,…
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, 2024 Sixty years ago, those of us who were old enough to remember, got the shocking news…
TRIPLE CROSS ambush interview. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich vs. Peter Lance on The O’Reilly Factor.
By Peter Lance July 21st, 2016 © The Huffington Post: On…
WISEGUY: Season Four. The Steven Bauer Miami arc starring Maximilian Schell
By Peter Lance. October 30th, 2025. In 1990 I became The Showrunner on the 4th Season of the acclaimed CBS series…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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.…
MISSING PERSONS: LONG LOST ABC PILOT JUST DISCOVERED
Sept. 15th 2024 “Missing Persons” was a pilot for the ABC Television Network created and Executive Produced by Peter Lance in…
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