Did murderous earl become hippie?
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A book published this week claims to resolve the decades-old British mystery of what happened to notorious murderer Lord Lucan. One night in 1974, Lord Lucan bludgeoned his children’s nanny to death, mistaking her for his estranged wife, and then beat his wife senseless. His bloodstained car was found on the coast, and he was long believed to have drowned himself in the English Channel. But former Scotland Yard detective Duncan MacLaughlin argues in Dead Lucky that the earl fled to a commune in India, where he drank himself to death in 1996. Locals there described an aging British hippie who, like Lord Lucan, was an expert backgammon player, knew all about expensive cars, spoke German, and hailed from Ireland.
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