Read the true crime story that first broke in Vanity Fair: how billionairess Doris Duke killed art curator + designer Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate and got away with murder, after the local cops closed the case with a fabricated transcript of an “interrogation” that never took place
By Peter Lance October 11th, 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…
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.…
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…
STRANGER 456: The page-turning thriller that shatters the FBI’s “profiling” method for stopping serial killers
May 1st, 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,…
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…
Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time
August Oct. 11th, 2024 “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. And, while…
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…
Peter Lance Biography
Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia…
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 July 2nd, 2024 In 2018 I was close to finishing a new investigative book set in Santa Barbara,…
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…
On the 60th 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, 2023 With the release by The National Archives of new files on the assassination of President…
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…
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,…
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…
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