{"id":10975,"date":"2025-03-21T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:34:19","slug":"homicide-at-rough-point-vanity-fair-breaks-story-on-how-doris-duke-the-richest-woman-in-america-got-away-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=10975","title":{"rendered":"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&#8217;t acknowledge the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"In%201966%20billionairess%20Doris%20Duke%20killed%20gay%20war%20hero%20and%20Renaissance%20Man%20Eduardo%20Tirella%20outside%20the%20gates%20of%20her%20Newport%2C%20RI%20estate%20and%20got%20away%20with%20murder.%20Now%2C%20despite%20overwhelming%20evidence%20of%20her%20guilt%2C%20the%20Newport%2C%20PD%20still%20won%27t%20acknowledge%20the%20truth\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>By Peter Lance April 16h, 2026 <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the\u00a0 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 local police after she crushed her longtime designer\/companion Eduardo Tirella, to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It happened just outside the gates of Rough Point, one of her five estates, located on Bellevue Avenue (Millionaire&#8217;s Row).<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the time of his death, Eduardo&#8217;s Hollywood career was just beginning to catch fire. Then, minutes after he told the notoriously jealous, possessive billionairess that he was leaving her after 7 years as her art curator and designer, she killed him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20077\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-28-at-8.27.58-PM-800x575.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>To appreciate what a remarkable Renaissance man he was, read <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HOM-CHAPTERS-30-31.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chapters 30+ 32 of my book.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first reporting of the story appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/VF-HOM-Print-Layout-7.16.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>across 14 pages<\/strong> <\/a>in the July-August 2020 printed edition of Vanity Fair. The day after it was published I began writing what turned into <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;asc_campaign=2b5a785186b501c352c95398a3440b1b&amp;asc_source=01G8XG0GEG1CT4D3C07B4FAY7P&amp;tag=namespacebran131-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Homicide At Rough Point,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>a 438 page book proving that the fabulously wealthy tobacco, aluminum and energy heiress, whose family founded Duke University, had gotten away with intent-to-kill murder. For an overview watch the<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a6Sl7qRnFqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Video. \u00a0 <\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14376 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>UNCOVERING A TRUE CRIME SCANDAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published in 4 editions in late February of 2021, the book prompted <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/1966-death-of-heiress-employee-under-renewed-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Newport, RI Police Dept. to reopen the case<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>after first deeming it &#8220;an unfortunate accident.&#8221; Back then Miss Duke was thought to be the only living witness, but months after the book&#8217;s publication, all of that changed.\u00a0<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">On July 2nd, 2021, Robert E. Walker, Jr., a former Marine (then 68) who had been the 13 year-old paperboy at Rough Point in 1966, read my findings and came foreward. He told police that he had been present on the late afternoon of October 7th, and not only<em> heard<\/em> the entire lead-up to Tirella&#8217;s death, but confronted Miss Duke moments later, after she emerged from the Dodge Polara &#8220;death wagon,&#8221; uninjured and acting with cold-blooded indifference to Eduardo&#8217;s homicide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13754 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-1024x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-1536x1164.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-2048x1553.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bob-Walker-RP-7.4.21-outside-main-gate-800x606.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>After Bob reached out to me at a book-signing in Newport, I took him up to Rough Point on July 4th and recorded multiple interviews with him recounting the details, which, I confirmed, he had told to a series of friends and fellow Marines as early as 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The interviews led to my second piece in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/08\/the-doris-duke-cold-case-reopens-eyewitness-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which was accompanied by<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/video\/watch\/an-eyewitnesss-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a><\/strong><\/span> compiled by VF&#8217;s editors.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Bob describes how, after he came upon the crash, Miss Duke yelled at him three times to leave the scene, but because his father feared for his life if he came forward, he kept what he&#8217;d seen a secret for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation was commenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/police-reopen-probe-into-designers-1966-death-at-the-hands-of-billionaire-tobacco-heiress-doris-duke?via=twitter_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Det, Jacque Wuest<\/strong>,<\/a> the Newport PD&#8217;s cold case detective. Initially, she not only found Bob &#8220;credible&#8221; but confirmed that he&#8217;d given the identical account years earlier. The reopening of the case made <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9865023\/1966-death-heiress-employee-renewed-scrutiny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international headlines<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>when <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apmpratt\"><strong>Mark Pratt<\/strong><\/a><\/span> reported the story for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/doris-duke-heiress-death-47610ea9308d92bf7ca1dffa7decfa6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and it was published in thousands of print, online and media outlets worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17258 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM.jpg 1176w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM-976x1024.jpg 976w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-7.58.04-PM-800x839.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>As the AP story broke from coast to coast starting with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2021\/08\/05\/doris-duke-ran-over-and-killed-an-employee-at-her-newport-mansion-in-1966-it-was-deemed-an-accident-but-the-paperboy-now-says-otherwise\/?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Boston Globe,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/police-reopen-probe-into-designers-1966-death-at-the-hands-of-billionaire-tobacco-heiress-doris-duke?via=twitter_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> soon filed its own piece. There was international coverage from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/doris-duke-death-investigation-reopen-b1897623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The\u00a0 Independent<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9865023\/1966-death-heiress-employee-renewed-scrutiny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The U.K. Daily Mail<\/strong>.<\/a><\/span> Famed historian <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblueandwhite.org\/post\/the-noblest-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Henry Adams<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>who spoke at one of my signings at <a href=\"https:\/\/brentonhotel.com\/life-at-the-brenton\/homicide-at-rough-point-at-the-brenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Brenton Hotel,<\/strong><\/a> soon posted a brilliant analytical piece on the significance of Bob Walker&#8217;s findings at <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2021\/8\/05\/case-gay-man-allegedly-murdered-heiress-doris-duke-reopened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocate.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SLAMMING THE CASE CLOSED AGAIN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, in mid November, 2021, after 5 months, during which she was promoted to Sergeant and left on three weeks vacation, Det. Sgt. Wuest closed the case, concluding that there was &#8220;no new evidence that warrants further review.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13822\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21-800x645.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Her conclusion came despite extraordinary new documentary and forensic evidence (set forth below) proving that Miss Duke murdered Eduardo with intent. It was evidence that synced precisely with Bob Walker&#8217;s memory of the events, which he&#8217;d recounted to Det. Sgt. Wuest on July 2nd, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE SECOND COVER-UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The day after she again closed the case, <strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Newport-Daily-News-WITH-LINKS-11.19.21-Case-Closed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Newport Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong> ran a piece by veteran reporter <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newportri.com\/staff\/3706232001\/sean-flynn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sean Flynn<\/strong><\/a><\/span> reporting how the Newport PD was effectively embracing the 1966 verdict of the then Mafia-related Police Chief (Joseph A. Radice) that the billionairess, who died in 1993,\u00a0 had no criminal culpability for Eduardo&#8217;s death. That position was supported by the then <strong>Police Chief Gary Silva,<\/strong> and endorsed by his superior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofnewport.com\/city-staff-directory\/department-of-the-city-manager\/joseph-j-nicholson,-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Joseph J. Nicholson Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, the City Manager.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT REALLY HAPPENED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My book, contains <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/HOM_ANNOTATIONS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 pages of annotations<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>proving that the notoriously possessive and jealous billionairess, who escaped criminal charges in 1963 when she stabbed her common law husband with a kitchen knife, killed Eduardo in a jealous rage outside the gates of her English manor-style estate.<\/p>\n<p>Among the evidence is the recently discovered photo below, (taken by Ed Quigley) showing Newport PD <strong>Sgt. Fred Newton<\/strong> (the chief accident investigator at the time) working the crash site at lower right. As I learned in my investigation, Sgt. Newton had actually <em>solved<\/em> the case within hours of Tirella&#8217;s death, but had to excise the truth from his official report on the orders of Chief Radice. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14377 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM-800x596.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-10.18.32-PM.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE MURDEROUS QUID PRO QUO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight days after her exoneration, Doris Duke began giving of tens of thousands of dollars to various Newport institutions, including Newport Hospital where she had been hidden away from State investigators on the night of Tirella&#8217;s homicide by the Assistant County Medical Examiner <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">whom she had just hired as her personal physician<\/span>. In effect, the one official bound by law to determine the victim&#8217;s cause of death, had gone on Miss Duke&#8217;s payroll within hours of his killing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INITIALLY DET. WUEST FOUND BOB CREDIBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-email-to-PL-8.2.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Aug. 2nd, Det. Wuest sent me this email<\/a><\/strong><\/span> acknowledging that she&#8217;d reopened the case, that it would not be ignored and asking my help to &#8220;bring justice for Eduardo&#8217;s family.&#8221; Then, two weeks later <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Det.-Wuest-email-to-PL-8.19-Huck-wont-let-her-talk-to-PL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this Aug. 19th email,<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>she wrote that she had been instructed by Lt. Corey Huck, her supervisor, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not to contact me<\/span>. Sensing that the NPD was now obstructing her probe and a cover-up may be in the works, I began compiling that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NPD-22Duke-Case22-Timeline-with-links-11.4.21-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIMELINE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17260 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-08-at-8.03.18-PM-800x395.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>It documents, how, on Sept. 15th, Det. Wuest made an unannounced visit to Mr. Walker&#8217;s home, at which time she told him that she&#8217;d been promoted to Sergeant and would soon depart on a three week European vacation. Further, after finding him &#8220;credible&#8221; in her July 2nd interview, she now asked the former paperboy whether he had effectively <em>created<\/em> his story after reading HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT. As Mr. Walker related her visit to me, he sensed that she was now backtracking.<\/p>\n<p>On November 9th, with the case in its fifth month and no apparent end in sight, I sent The TIMELINE to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/P.L.-to-Newport-City-Mgr.-WITH-LINKS-Council-11.9.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The City Manager and members of The City Council,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> asking them to exercise some oversight over the Police Dept. with respect to Det. Sgt. Wuest&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying my letter to them was <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PL-to-JW-with-LINKS-9.22.21.documenting-evid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this email I&#8217;d sent sent her Sept, 22nd<\/a>.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Highlighted in red,<\/strong><\/span><\/span> it underscored the compelling evidence, documented in my findings, that Miss Duke had acted with intent.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, on Nov. 18th, Det. Sgt. Wuest reached the conclusion that there was <strong>&#8220;no new evidence&#8221;<\/strong> to justify changing the &#8220;unfortunate accident&#8221; conclusion, reached corruptly in 1966 by the Mafia-related Police Chief Joseph A. Radice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA REACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next day <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-lifestyle-police-education-rhode-island-eb7aba29e99aa30ff7cc1801b4422727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> filed a story covering Det. Wuest&#8217;s response. It was published in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP-Wash-Post-11.24.21-WITH-LINKS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Washington Post<\/strong><\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2021\/11\/24\/metro\/1966-death-doris-duke-employee-an-accident-review-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Boston Globe,<\/strong><\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/business\/article256088317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Miami Herald,<\/strong><\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/denvergazette.com\/ap\/business\/1966-death-of-doris-duke-employee-an-accident-review-finds\/article_3bc1cae2-5a70-5753-b991-115538d858a7.amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Denver Gazette<\/strong><\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/1966-death-of-Doris-Duke-employee-an-accident-16647905.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The San Francisco Chronicle,<\/strong><\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/review-fatal-crash-involving-wealthy-heiress-doris-duke-finds-no-new-evidence-1653024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Newsweek,<\/strong><\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/article\/1966-death-of-Doris-Duke-employee-an-accident-16647905.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Houston Chronicle,<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>and 100&#8217;s of international online, print and broadcast media outlets as far east as <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4355110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Taiwan News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE EVIDENCE OF INTENTIONAL MURDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The initial position of Det Wuest that there was &#8220;no new evidence,&#8221; flies in the face of massive documentation <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1649282735&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT:<\/span> <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">namely, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">that on the late afternoon of October 7th, the richest woman in America, crushed Tirella to death under the wheels of the two ton station wagon moments after he&#8217;d told her he was leaving her employ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM_CHAPTERS_32_33.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CHAPTERS 32-33<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> of the book show that Miss Duke committed six intentional acts leading directly to Tirella&#8217;s death. As reported in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HOM_CHAP_SIX_SEVEN_TEN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHAPTERS 6-7,<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>she then conspired with Newport&#8217;s Police Chief, Joseph A. Radice, to produce <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Duke_transcript_10_11_66.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a three page fabricated transcript<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>of an interrogation that never took place. That Q&amp;A closed the case, giving Radice the cover he needed to rule that Tirella&#8217;s violent death was the result of &#8220;an unfortunate accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In effect, the Newport PD, in 1966, was again allowing the heiress to get away with murder. Now 55 years later, in City Manager Nicholson&#8217;s statement, the legendary Rhode Island resort city is embracing that finding again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14690\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE.jpg 1766w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-1103x1536.jpg 1103w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-1470x2048.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NY-DAILY-NEWS-COPS-CLAM-UP-10.10.66-LARGE-800x1114.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>As reported in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/HOM_CHAP_TEN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHAPTER 10<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>of my book, Radice, who had Mafia ties, retired seven months after closing the Duke case and bought a pair of condos in Florida. His false conclusion that Eduardo had been &#8220;crushed against the gates&#8221; of Rough Point made the front page of The Newport Daily News, the morning after Eduardo&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>But Sgt. Newton had told patrolman Edward Angel, the first officer on the scene, that as Eduardo was driving out of the estate with Miss Duke in the passenger seat, he got out to open the heavy wrought iron gates. Miss Duke, then slid behind the wheel, disengaged the parking brake, slammed down on the accelerator, causing gouges in the gravel driveway and roared forward. At that point, Eduardo turned and (to save his life) he jumped up on the hood of the Dodge Polara, breaking his right hip.<\/p>\n<p>The billionairess then drove the two-ton wagon through the gates, and <em>hesitated; <\/em>stopping 12 feet into Bellevue Avenue, at which time Eduardo, rolled off the hood; <em>injured but still alive.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11929 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-1024x846.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-1536x1269.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-2048x1693.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-12-at-11.04.23-AM-800x661.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Sergeant Newton, Miss Duke then drove forward, dragging him across the street where he came to rest, fatally injured, as the wagon crashed against a tree. The photo at right, taken by Ed Quigley, shows Tirella&#8217;s blood under the rear axle of the wagon after his lifeless body was extricated.<\/p>\n<p>No blood was found on the gates, but Officer Angel, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EA-9.17.21-NPD-Int.-Transcript-PL-9.30.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who was also interviewed by Det. Wuest<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span> discovered blood, skin and hair on Bellevue Avenue at the very location, Sgt. Newton told him the victim had rolled off the hood. At the time, Officer Angel believed that this location had been the initial Point of Impact, but he later learned from Sgt. Newton that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mr. Tirella and gone up on the hood of the wagon before Miss Duke crashed through the gates<\/span>. Thus, effectively there were two points of impact: inside the gates and on the street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res..jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13929\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-1024x882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-1024x882.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-1536x1323.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-2048x1765.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Best-Jerry-Taylor-gate-shot-Hi-Res.-800x689.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>In the photo at left taken by Jerry Taylor, the morning after the homicide, all of the damage to the heavy wrought iron gates was to the lower rungs, whereas <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Eduardo_Autopsy_RI_Med_Examiner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Autopsy Report<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>showed that, except for his fractured hip, all of Eduardo&#8217;s fatal injuries were to his upper body and brain, the direct result of being &#8220;dragged under the vehicle.&#8221; He was never &#8220;crushed against the gates,&#8221; as Chief Radice told the press.The long missing official Death Certificate, which I also found, confirms that.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11873 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66-800x480.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Eduardo-Death-Certificate-10.10.66.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an August interview with me for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/08\/the-doris-duke-cold-case-reopens-eyewitness-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my second Vanity Fair piece<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>Officer Angel said, \u201cIf the former paperboy\u2019s account is credible it could very well mean that [Doris Duke] was covering up her actions and was pretty deliberate about it. She had a history of losing her temper over the years. So she would have been capable of that kind of act; first in killing him and then immediately thereafter in the cover-up. If [the] testimony is to be believed, this changes everything&#8230; It certainly throws a whole new light on the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>THE FIRST POLICE COVER-UP IN 1966<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 9th, 1966, two days after she murdered Eduardo, Doris Duke sat in her bedroom at Rough Point seen below in a photo by Adam Fithers. German shepherds flanked her as she was briefly questioned by Lt. Frank H. Walsh and Det. George Watts of The Newport PD, in the presence of her business manager and New York lawyer. It was the only account of the death that she gave to police. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11691 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.33.12-PM.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-04-at-9.34.56-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This never-before-seen transcrip<\/a>t, <\/strong><\/span>uncovered during my investigation, shows that Lt. Walsh asked only four questions. On the basis of that paper-thin Q+A with Duke, Chief Radice, initially closed the case, then briefly reopened it after being criticized by the RI Attorney General at the time for rushing to judgement.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, the Chief conspired with Miss Duke&#8217;s Rhode Island attorney Aram Arabian to create that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Duke_transcript_10_11_66.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fabricated three page transcript<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>of an alleged &#8220;interrogation&#8221; at Rough Point, the next day, October 11th, 1966. It was nothing more than a &#8220;script&#8221; of a Q&amp;A written by The Newport PD, that never took place. But once Doris Duke and Arabian signed off on it, the case was officially closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORLDWIDE MEDIA REACTION<br \/>\nTO THE PAPERBOY&#8217;S ACCOUNT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On September 2nd, Sam Dangremond filed a Newport story for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/society\/money-and-power\/a37269168\/newport-rhode-island-real-estate-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TOWN AND COUNTRY<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>magazine, citing the findings in HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the AP story broke from coast to coast in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2021\/08\/05\/doris-duke-ran-over-and-killed-an-employee-at-her-newport-mansion-in-1966-it-was-deemed-an-accident-but-the-paperboy-now-says-otherwise\/?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Boston Globe<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/1966-death-of-heiress-employee-under-renewed-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Seattle Times<\/span>,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/police-reopen-probe-into-designers-1966-death-at-the-hands-of-billionaire-tobacco-heiress-doris-duke?via=twitter_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> soon filed its own piece. There was international coverage from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/doris-duke-death-investigation-reopen-b1897623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The\u00a0 Independent<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9865023\/1966-death-heiress-employee-renewed-scrutiny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The U.K. Daily Mail<\/strong>.<\/a><\/span> Famed historian <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblueandwhite.org\/post\/the-noblest-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Henry Adams<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>who spoke at one of my signings at The Brenton Hotel, soon posted a brilliant analytical piece on the significance of Bob Walker&#8217;s findings at <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2021\/8\/05\/case-gay-man-allegedly-murdered-heiress-doris-duke-reopened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocate.com <\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13197 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot-800x510.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lowell-Blackman-Drone-RP-front-high-shot.jpg 1894w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/sharedalbum\/#B0yGfnH8tGu91Ei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This drone video<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>shot by Newport cinematographer Lowell Blackman, shows the proximity of Rough Point &#8212; the scene of the crime &#8212; to Bob Walker&#8217;s starting point &#8220;on the night of,&#8221; at the southeast corner of Ledge Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Flynn followed up with a page-one story August 9th in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Prov-Journal-8.9.21-Page-1-Sean-Flynn-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Providence Journ<\/a><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Prov-Journal-8.9.21-Page-1-Sean-Flynn-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">al <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NewportThisWeek-8.12.21-PAGE-ONE-BOB-WALKER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Newport This Week<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> had a front page piece on Aug. 12th, the same day that veteran UK reporter Richard Mineards who&#8217;s based in Montecito, California, led his weekly column with it in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Richard-Mineards-MJ-8.11.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Montecito Journal. \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With these links you can read my original 8,000 word investigative piece <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2020\/07\/did-doris-duke-get-away-with-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the July\/August 2020 edition of VanityFair.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CONTINUING COVERAGE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">March 24th, 2021 <\/span>Diane Anderson-Minshall, <\/strong>the CEO of Pride Media, reviewed HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2021\/3\/24\/murders-gay-bi-men-show-how-police-media-fail-queer-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADVOCATE.com<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBC10_RJ\/status\/1368760682523594753?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2021\/3\/24\/murders-gay-bi-men-show-how-police-media-fail-queer-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12062 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-1536x974.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-2048x1299.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-25-at-9.15.55-AM-800x507.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It was supposed to be one last goodbye for Eduardo Tirella, a onetime performer and popular milliner who hung with Frank Sinatra before becoming a talented decorator, art curator, and in middle age, a promising movie set designer. Tirella, a gay war hero and Italian-American (back when that was still considered \u201cethnic\u201d in America) was on the cusp of Hollywood success at 42. A good friend of Sharon Tate, Richard Burton, and other actors, Tirella had just spent a decade curating art projects for the many estates of Doris Duke \u2014 then the richest woman in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No one leaves Doris Duke, it was said. Not even her designer. In Peter Lance\u2019s meticulous book Homicide at Rough Point \u2014 which delves into Tirella\u2019s 1966 death, the scant police investigation, subsequent lawsuits, and rumors of a cover-up \u2014 the former ABC News correspondent argues that Tirella knew telling Duke he was leaving could put him in danger. She had, after all, stabbed an ex with a butcher knife during an argument. But Tirella clearly hadn\u2019t expected her to slide into the driver\u2019s seat, run him down, and keep going until she rammed his body between two tons of steel and the trunk of a tree. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/exclusives\/2021\/3\/24\/murders-gay-bi-men-show-how-police-media-fail-queer-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK<\/strong><\/a> for the full REVIEW. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/books\/2021\/3\/24\/when-countrys-richest-woman-got-away-murdering-gay-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK <\/strong><\/a>for Diane&#8217;s Interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/~\/e\/B001HD1116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peter Lance.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My alma mater, The Newport Daily News, published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newportri.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2021\/05\/18\/homicide-rough-point-review-author-examines-doris-duke-killing-eduardo-tirella-newport\/5141975001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>a great review<\/strong><\/a> of the book by the late, veteran reporter and columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newportri.com\/obituaries\/ppvp0473176\">Jim Gillis\u00a0<\/a>who was inducted into The Rhode Island Journalism Hall of Fame that same year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13547 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-835x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-835x1024.jpg 835w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-1253x1536.jpg 1253w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-1670x2048.jpg 1670w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21-800x981.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Duke-Chronicle-story-10.17.21.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/staff\/sana-pashankar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">By Sana Pashankar<\/span> <\/a>The\u00a0Duke University Chronicle October 18th <\/strong>In February of this year, journalist Peter Lance published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cHomicide at Rough Point,\u201d<\/a> which draws on <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM_CHAPTERS_32_33.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newly uncovered evidence from police reports to photos of the crime scene<\/a>, to argue that Duke killed Tirella \u201cwith intent.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/article\/2021\/10\/duke-university-doris-james-buchanan-homicide-at-rough-point-murder-kill-eduardo-tirella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the full story. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/article\/2021\/10\/duke-university-dukeweek-doris-duke-murder-north-carolina-central-arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CLICK HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for Sana&#8217;s discussion of HOMICIDE on the DukeWeek podcast. Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NEWPORT BOOK TOUR<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Throughout July I gave a series of talks in <a href=\"https:\/\/brentonhotel.com\/life-at-the-brenton\/homicide-at-rough-point-at-the-brenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Brenton&#8217;s<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>second floor &#8220;Living Room. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brenton-Hotel-Living-Room.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday July 14th featured\u00a0 historian <\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblueandwhite.org\/post\/the-noblest-architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adams<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brenton-Hotel-Living-Room.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and legendary Newport activist Pauline Perkins-Moy\u00e9.<\/span> <\/a>The previous Wednesday <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/btown.buzzsprout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Bartholomew<\/a><\/strong><\/span> did his third podcast with me from the &#8220;Living Room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/the-bartholomewtown-podcast-ripodcastcom\/live-from-the-brenton-hotel-with-homicide-at-rough-point-author-peter-lance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can listen to it here<strong>,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> then hear <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bill&#8217;s wildly successful podcast in our two previous outings: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/in\/podcast\/homicide-at-rough-point-journalist-peter-lance-discusses\/id1361674334?i=1000487129045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>On August 4th<\/strong><\/a> after the story hit VF and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/in\/podcast\/true-crime-in-newport-rhode-island-peter-lance-returns\/id1361674334?i=1000510381647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>on February 23rd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To find out why so many people are passionate about this book<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM_INTRO_CHAP_1_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> sample the Intro, <\/a>Preface and the first two chapters.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEANWHILE&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/press-release\/pr-newswire\/homicide-rhode-island-north-america-media-journalism-58b457bf941211e3b8d48da349e7edfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>has earned <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>108 5-star reviews on Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a6Sl7qRnFqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the YouTube Video<\/a>.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a6Sl7qRnFqg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13217 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO-800x456.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HOM-VIDEO.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can order the book, now<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0available in four editions: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle\/Nook and Audible<\/span> at:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/tdw8269k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>amazon, <\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/homicide-at-rough-point-untold-story-how-doris-duke\/id1555133384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Books, <\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/homicide-at-rough-point-peter-lance\/1137286607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble, <\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Homicide_at_Rough_Point.html?id=2lybzQEACAAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google,<\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/p\/Homicide-Rough-Point\/Peter-Lance\/9780996285599?id=7943986110644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Books-A-Million<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/a\/peter-lance\/242801\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thriftbooks<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/publishers\/Tenacity-Media-Books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BookDepository, <\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyjackson.com\/search\/site\/Peter%20Lance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McNally-Jackson<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/homicide-at-rough-point\/9780996285599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/SearchResults?isbn=0996285598&amp;clickid=U1WQYO3WJxyLWg4wUx0Mo36dUkERLAyZUQd4xc0&amp;cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-64613-_-77416&amp;ref=imprad64613&amp;afn_sr=impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abebooks, <\/a><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Homicide-at-Rough-Point-Hardcover-9780996285599\/396301228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walmart &amp; <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/p\/homicide-at-rough-point-annotated-by-peter-lance-hardcover\/-\/A-83081494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Target<\/span> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD A<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HOM_BONUS_PDF_2_1_21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BONUS PDF<\/a><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To get a sense of what a Renaissance Man and war hero that Eduardo Tirella was, <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/HOM_CHAPTERS_1_2_17_30_31.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download<\/strong> <strong>Chapters 1, 2, 17, 30 &amp; 31<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>THE CONTINUING DISTORTION OF THE TRUTH<br \/>\nBY THE NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ProJo_6_16_21_Killing_Shown-In-Harsher_Light.pdf\"><strong>On June 16th, 2021,<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ProJo_6_16_21_Killing_Shown-In-Harsher_Light.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12668 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-1536x1192.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21-800x621.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-as-of-3.20.21.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ProJo_6_16_21_Killing_Shown-In-Harsher_Light.pdf\"> The Providence Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/span> published a page-one story from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rough-Point-exhibit-on-Doris-Dukes-killing-of-Eduardo-Tirella-change_-www.newportri.com_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newport Daily News coverage<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in which Sean Flynn reported that after maintaining <strong>AN EXHIBIT<\/strong> at Rough Point, the home museum of billionairess Doris Duke, which contained the false claim that her murder of gay designer Eduardo Tirella in 1966 was an &#8220;accident,&#8221; The Newport Restoration Foundation changed it, describing Tirella&#8217;s death as &#8220;an incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also removed the false assertion that Duke, the richest woman in America at the time of the homicide, &#8220;settled&#8221; a 1971 wrongful death case &#8220;with Tirella&#8217;s family&#8221; after she was found civilly liable. <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NRF-EXHIBIT-4.19-to-4.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The initial EXHIBIT<\/strong><\/a> seen by thousands of tourists for more than two years, had been the object of controversy for months, generating local, state and national media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>WJAR-TV correspondent <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/a-change-of-sorts-at-doris-duke-rough-point-museum-in-newport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RJ Heim did a followup<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/journalist-takes-new-look-at-1966-death-at-doris-dukes-rough-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Part Series in March.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The modified EXHIBIT, <\/a><\/strong>which still contained several misstatements of fact, was added to a wall-sized space at the end of the Rough Point Tour in April of 2019. It remained unchanged throughout the entire 2020 season, even though the initial findings of my investigation into Eduardo&#8217;s death published July 16th, 2020 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2020\/07\/did-doris-duke-get-away-with-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Vanity Fair,<\/a><\/strong> shattered the accident theory.<\/p>\n<p>The Exhibit remained intact when the estate was opened for the 2021 season on March 20th. Three days later, it became the subject of a complaint sent to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newportrestoration.org\/press-release\/newport-restoration-foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0Mark Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director of The NRF (below) by Donna Lohmeyer, Eduardo\u2019s niece, who wrote to him asking the Foundation to remove the Exhibit, which she said misrepresented her uncle\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DL-to-NRF-3.23.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> In her letter<\/a><\/strong> Ms. Lohmeyer wrote that she was \u201cshocked at the utter indifference the NRF has shown.\u201d On Monday, April 26th, Mr. Thompson received<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PL-to-Mark-Thompson-NRF-4.24.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MY LETTER<\/a><\/strong> along with a copy of my new book. That same day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2021\/4\/26\/newport-museum-urged-fix-big-lie-exhibition-gay-mans-death\">\u00a0<strong>ADVOCATE.com<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2021\/4\/26\/newport-museum-urged-fix-big-lie-exhibition-gay-mans-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<strong>broke the story <\/strong><\/a>of the ongoing EXHIBIT controversy nationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE MODIFIED EXHIBIT<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12667 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-1536x1166.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21-800x608.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21.jpg 1546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the NRF changed to &#8220;incident,&#8221; the previous false assertion that Eduardo&#8217;s death was the result of an &#8220;accident,&#8221; and while they removed, the false claim that Doris Duke \u201csettled\u201d the 1971 wrongful death case \u201cwith the Tirella family,\u201d <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RP-EXHIBIT-5.23.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Exhibit<\/a><\/strong> continued to contain multiple affirmative falsehoods. It remained intact for most of 2021 and has since been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Modified or not, that Exhibit, seen by thousands of visitors since April of 2019, continued to distort history and denigrate the memory of Doris Duke&#8217;s victim. Its use was unbecoming of a non-profit Foundation which had a 2018 Fair Market Value of: $75,816,493, according to its <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NRF_1918_IRS_990__25_19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS 990 tax return<\/strong><\/a> filed on July 25th, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE NRF&#8217;S RESPONSIBILITY TO HISTORY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AND THE TRUTH BEHIND EDUARDO&#8217;S DEATH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NRF_SATEMENT_WJAR_2_18_21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement issued to WJAR-TV<\/a> <\/strong>on February 18th, 2021 the NRF claimed that it &#8220;does not have the capacity or resources to conduct a separate investigation&#8221; of my findings. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-2.45.32-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NRF&#8217;s stated mission<\/a> <\/strong>is to &#8220;preserve, maintain, and interpret Aquidneck Island\u2019s 18th- and early 19th-century architectural heritage.&#8221; A key component of that heritage is Doris Duke&#8217;s home museum.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the priceless works of art at Rough Point were curated by Eduardo Tirella, whose life ended outside its gates in 1966. So, it&#8217;s fair to ask: if a $75\u00a0 million dollar Foundation doesn&#8217;t have the capacity or resources to confirm the truth behind his violent death, who does? As we now know The Newport PD has abandoned that inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MR. THOMPSON RESIGNS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my April 26th letter, I called upon Mark Thompson, the NRF&#8217;s Executive Director, to remove that entire wall-sized Exhibit so that continued visitors to Duke&#8217;s home museum wouldn&#8217;t be misled about the facts. Further, I asked that he meet with me in July, when I visited Newport, and cite any factual assertion in my book, relating to Eduardo&#8217;s death, that he can demonstrate to be incorrect. He never replied. but on September 1st <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NRF_Thompson_resignation_9_1_21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The NRF announced Mr. Thompson&#8217;s resignation.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>NATIONAL &amp; INTERNATIONAL MEDIA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>March 25th, 2021 <\/strong><\/span><strong>Reed Tucker<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/20\/how-doris-duke-got-away-with-murdering-her-best-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NY POST: <\/strong><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/doris-duke-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>FOX NEWS\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/a>The 1966 Dodge station wagon roared across the street in Newport, Rhode Island, smashing through a fence before coming to a stop against a tree, its front almost completely caved in. Locals and the police were on the scene quickly. The October 7, 1966, crash has always been dismissed as an \u201cunfortunate accident.\u201d But now, a new book claims the incident was much darker than that.\u00a0 \u201cAbsolutely she intended to kill him,\u201d says Peter Lance, whose book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598?tag=nypost-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" data-ga-event=\"{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;affiliate ecommerce click&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598?tag=nypost-20&quot;}\">Homicide at Rough Point<\/a>\u00a0is out now<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.03-PM-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK <\/strong><\/a>for the print story. <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.03-PM-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12044 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-955x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-955x1024.jpg 955w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-1432x1536.jpg 1432w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-1909x2048.jpg 1909w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-21-at-12.10.21-PM-800x858.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- End div episode embed --><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-4.02.01-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12025 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-4.02.01-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-4.02.01-PM.jpg 684w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-20-at-4.02.01-PM-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>March 20th Matthew Wright<\/strong> <strong>for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9383907\/Doris-Duke-ran-artistic-director-1966-got-local-police-chief-cover-murder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">DAILY MAIL<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em>Doris Duke, the fabulously wealthy tobacco heiress and socialite once dubbed &#8216;the richest girl in the world,&#8217; got away with murder when she ran over her artistic director in 1966 and got police to cover up the misdeed &#8211; an author claims in his new book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em>The October 7, 1966, crash in Newport, <a id=\"mol-bf0e0880-89a1-11eb-907d-6f9f6c0ea82f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/rhode-island\/index.html\">Rhode Island<\/a>, that killed Eduardo Tirella and involved the heiress, daughter of American Tobacco Company founder James Duke, is covered in Peter Lance&#8217;s new book Homicide at Rough Point.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em>&#8220;Absolutely she intended to kill him,&#8221; Lance, who grew up in Newport and worked as a journalist there, said to the <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/20\/how-doris-duke-got-away-with-murdering-her-best-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. &#8220;He continued: &#8220;Newport is this strange kind of a place where everyone is connected to everyone else. One of the biggest legends in town was always that Doris Duke got away with murder. When I was a cub reporter, the town was buzzing with this rumor.&#8221;\u00a0 Doris inherited her father&#8217;s massive fortune when he died in 1925, also acquiring the Newport estate &#8211; known as Rough Point. The heiress was notorious for her tense relationships and horrible treatment of service workers. <\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9383907\/Doris-Duke-ran-artistic-director-1966-got-local-police-chief-cover-murder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK <\/strong><\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"minute-media\">\n<div id=\"mplayer-player-placeholder-bf71eda3-bf10-431d-bb3a-4faa17d9f40e\" class=\"monti-placeholder-mm-player\">\n<p>Screen <a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/journalist-takes-new-look-at-1966-death-at-doris-dukes-rough-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PART ONE,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/journalist-claims-doris-duke-intentionally-ran-over-companion-at-rough-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PART TWO,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/journalist-alleges-cover-up-in-1966-death-at-doris-dukes-rough-point-mansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PART THREE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/journalist-explains-why-doris-duke-escaped-accountability-for-death-at-rough-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PART FOUR<\/strong><\/a> of NBC 10&#8217;s series on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Homicide+At+Rough+Point&amp;qid=1615251362&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT<\/strong><\/a> produced and reported by two-time Emmy-winning correspondent R.J. Heim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mplayer-player-placeholder-bf71eda3-bf10-431d-bb3a-4faa17d9f40e\" class=\"monti-placeholder-mm-player\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/VF-HOM-Print-Layout-7.16.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11935\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-1024x956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-768x717.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-1536x1434.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM-800x747.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-9.18.18-PM.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2020\/07\/did-doris-duke-get-away-with-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VANITY FAIR<\/a><\/strong> ran HOMICIDE as the lead investigative piece <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/VF-HOM-Print-Layout-7.16.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>across 14 pages <\/strong><\/a>in its July\/August 2020 issue. It turned out to be one of the most read VF stories of the year. In fact, AppleNews+ called a special <a href=\"https:\/\/audm.herokuapp.com\/player-embed\/?pub=vf&amp;articleID=homicide-rough-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>audio recording of the story<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwijtZzWncnuAhV7GDQIHTOdB9YQFjAAegQIARAC&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.news%2FAmIscmsrSQMnWUndhua96oA&amp;usg=AOvVaw3-sbsyWHEfU1osNNXUoWyH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Best True Crime Audio of 2o2o.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That first VF piece got worldwide attention with pieces in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8534273\/Did-billionaire-tobacco-heiress-away-murder-Doris-Duke-rowed-designer-died.html?fbclid=IwAR0jjDhzX8q1-zn_B0UOOBjB-JRfuE8zBanciLr-phdns7iOndTU4j6YKfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The U.K. Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/crime\/2020\/7\/16\/report-alleges-billionaire-doris-duke-killed-her-gay-designer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Out magazine.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ADDITIONAL COVERAGE<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The initial media release on HOMICIDE was picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/press-release\/pr-newswire\/homicide-rhode-island-north-america-media-journalism-58b457bf941211e3b8d48da349e7edfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2021\/2\/24\/how-richest-woman-us-got-away-murdering-her-gay-designer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADVOCATE.com<\/a>, <\/strong>one of the world&#8217;s most read LGBTQ+ publications excerpted <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ADVOC_HOM_CHAP_ONE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHAPTER ONE<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you turn the pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/tdw8269k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT<\/strong><\/a> you&#8217;ll see that in addition to the true crime story of Doris Duke&#8217;s murder of Eduardo Tirella, the book is an uplifting memoir of growing up in one of the most unique small town&#8217;s on earth: Newport, RI. Many chapters on the rich history of The City By The Sea, intercut with the murder mystery which unravels as you move through the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright 2023 By Peter Lance All Rights Reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><\/form>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"In%201966%20billionairess%20Doris%20Duke%20killed%20gay%20war%20hero%20and%20Renaissance%20Man%20Eduardo%20Tirella%20outside%20the%20gates%20of%20her%20Newport%2C%20RI%20estate%20and%20got%20away%20with%20murder.%20Now%2C%20despite%20overwhelming%20evidence%20of%20her%20guilt%2C%20the%20Newport%2C%20PD%20still%20won%27t%20acknowledge%20the%20truth\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance April 16h, 2026 In the\u00a0 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 local police after she crushed her longtime designer\/companion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[125,814,724,1243,1278,1266,1284,1267,1211,428,1283,1225,1263,1274,1230,1232,1285,1282,1279,1231,1276,1256,1277,1228,1262,1281,126,1226,1220,1264,1229,1227,1280,1260,1261,1259,1272,1268,1269,679,914,651,1257,1258,1273,1275,1214,460,1270,1271,1265,1302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3893,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21827,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions\/21827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}