{"id":14105,"date":"2021-12-05T01:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2022-07-03T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T03:26:06","slug":"bob-walker-the-only-known-living-witness-to-doris-dukes-murder-of-eduardo-tirella-in-1966-reacts-to-the-newport-pds-summary-closing-of-the-case-after-his-confession-prompted-its-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=14105","title":{"rendered":"After his confession in July prompted the reopening of the case, Bob Walker, the only known living witness to Miss Duke&#8217;s murder of her longtime designer, reacts to the Newport PD&#8217;s latest closing of the case."},"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=\"After%20his%20confession%20in%20July%20prompted%20the%20reopening%20of%20the%20case%2C%20Bob%20Walker%2C%20the%20only%20known%20living%20witness%20to%20Miss%20Duke%27s%20murder%20of%20her%20longtime%20designer%2C%20reacts%20to%20the%20Newport%20PD%27s%20latest%20closing%20of%20the%20case.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14107\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21-1024x375.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21-1024x375.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21-768x281.png 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21-800x293.png 800w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BW-Daily-News-LTE-12.5.21.png 1322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newportri.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/guest\/2021\/12\/05\/doris-duke-murder-investigation-rough-point-eduardo-tirella-should-reopened-guest-view\/8843209002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Newport Daily News<\/span><\/a> Dec. 5th, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>By Robert E. Walker <\/strong>As the only known living witness to Doris Duke\u2019s murder of Eduardo Tirella in 1966, I contacted the Newport Police Department on July 1 and spent two hours the next day with Detective Jacque Wuest, the NPD\u2019s \u201ccold case detective\u201d who then reopened what she called \u201cthe Duke case\u201d after nearly 55 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">I was therefore severely disappointed when I heard\u00a0she not only closed the case\u00a0but <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Det.-Jacque-Wuest-to-PL-11.18.21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reached the stunning conclusion<\/a> that \u201cthere is no new evidence that would change the previous conclusion in this matter\u201d or &#8220;warrant further review.\u201d That is simply untrue and there is a massive amount of evidence that Detective\u00a0Wuest was aware of that proves it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If you read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HOMICIDE-AT-ROUGH-POINT-Richest-ebook\/dp\/B08V4MLSNN\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30RK6OI2Q71VG&amp;keywords=homicide+at+rough+point&amp;qid=1638766530&amp;sprefix=Homicide%2Caps%2C191&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Homicide at Rough Point&#8221;<\/a> by Peter Lance, the case for murder is clearly presented. In the book he reports, based on an interview with a Newport officer who was there on \u201cthe night of,\u201d that the Chief of Police, Joseph Radice, walked Doris Duke &#8220;arm in arm&#8221; back into her estate. He ignored every proper protocol of homicide investigation, including dismissing the reports and actions of attending officers, took over the investigation and 96 hours later closed the case, declaring it an &#8220;unfortunate accident.\u201d After reading Peter\u2019s book this spring, I was compelled to come forward and testify to what was embedded in my mind from 55 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I was 13 years, 7 months old, The Newport Daily News paperboy for Rough Point. On the late afternoon of Oct.\u00a07, 1966, I heard all of the events leading up to the murder and witnessed Doris Duke getting out of the car, standing stone cold staring down at the bottom of the car listening for signs of life and violently dismissing me three times as I offered her personal assistance, only to be told each time to &#8220;Get the hell out of here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div id=\"ad-slot-7103-ri-newport-C6577-native-article_link-news-opinion-columnists-2\" class=\"gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"lazyLoadX\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ7L3IOwzvQCFYfBwAodv6gKkw\">\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">I did not know until the next day when I went to deliver the paper, that the man that I heard her arguing with (Eduardo Tirella) was crushed under the car. After I finished my route I went home and said to my father, &#8220;Dad, I think she killed that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PL-Transcript.-Det.-Wuest-Int.-Bob-Walker-NPD-7.2.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During my interview with Detective\u00a0Wuest on July 2,<\/a> I gave her the contact info of multiple persons who could corroborate my story back to the early &#8217;70s and beyond. One of them was Danny Sullivan, a Newport Fire Department\u00a0veteran, who had given me that paper route. When I left the station, Detective\u00a0Wuest told me, &#8220;This is now an open investigation,\u00a0not something that is going to be filled and forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">I said, &#8220;I hope so. Perhaps there will be justice for Eduardo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A month later, Detective\u00a0Wuest emailed Peter Lance and declared my testimony \u201ccredible.\u201d I contacted him July 3\u00a0and spoke with him for three-and-a-half hours. The next day we met outside Rough Point and when he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/08\/the-doris-duke-cold-case-reopens-eyewitness-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his second story for Vanity Fair Aug.\u00a05<\/a>, it included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/video\/watch\/an-eyewitnesss-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video of his interview with me<\/a>. When you consider my ear and eye witness testimony the evidence is overwhelming. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14108\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-1024x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-1536x900.png 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-2048x1200.png 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-05-at-8.47.49-PM-800x469.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Homicide at Rough Point&#8221; has now been on the stands since late February. It contains everything you need to know and conclude that there was a coverup in the investigation by Chief Radice. Shortly thereafter Doris Duke&#8217;s purse strings suddenly opened and money flowed like water out of a broken dam throughout the city of Newport. Chief Radice retired comfortably to Florida. No one I have spoken to in the last 55 years thinks she was innocent or that it was an accident, not a single human being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For reasons unknown to me, the Newport PD has now, once again, shut down the case and accepted the \u201cunfortunate accident\u201d story even though the evidence is overwhelming that it was false. In effect the Newport PD in 1966 let Doris Duke get away with murder. They shouldn\u2019t do it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Eduardo Tirella was a gifted man who was brutally taken by the richest woman in America for the sin of leaving her. If you go to Peter Lance\u2019s website you can see the kind of massive media coverage the reopening of the case has had across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The City Manager should direct the NPD to reopen the case, forever burying Chief Radice\u2019s corrupt \u201caccident\u201d story and setting the record straight for Newport and its history. Eduardo was a wonderful man who didn\u2019t deserve to die as he did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong><em>Robert E. Walker is a resident of Newport and witness to events related to the death of Eduardo Tirella.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\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=\"After%20his%20confession%20in%20July%20prompted%20the%20reopening%20of%20the%20case%2C%20Bob%20Walker%2C%20the%20only%20known%20living%20witness%20to%20Miss%20Duke%27s%20murder%20of%20her%20longtime%20designer%2C%20reacts%20to%20the%20Newport%20PD%27s%20latest%20closing%20of%20the%20case.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The Newport Daily News Dec. 5th, 2021 By Robert E. Walker As the only known living witness to Doris Duke\u2019s murder of Eduardo Tirella in 1966, I contacted the Newport Police Department on July 1 and spent two hours the next day with Detective Jacque Wuest, the NPD\u2019s \u201ccold case detective\u201d who then reopened what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105"}],"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=14105"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}