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Whatever Happened To Lord Lucan?

At last the truth: he's a Parish Councillor!

The 40-year mystery of what happened to Lord Lucan has finally been solved – after his mugshot appeared as a serving parish councillor in a sleepy Sussex village.

The whereabouts of the elusive Lord Lucan – a mystery which has captivated the world for decades – has supposedly come to an end when he was ‘snapped’ in a parish magazine.

His mugshot was used in the Bersted Parish Council magazine in West Sussex when they mistakenly listed him as its newest member. ...

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/m...ce-one-new-councillors-none-lord-lucan/30/08/
 
He hasn't aged a day!

Methinks he was being used as a placeholder until they got a pic of the real councillor.
 
Lady Lucan Leaves her Fortune to Shelter.

"In a statement after her death, her children and sisters said they remembered her “lovingly and with admiration”.

Whether this was before or after the reading of the will is not entirely clear from the article.

"An inquest ruled last week that the aristocrat had killed herself after a false self-diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease."

RIP :(
 
Lord Lucan left three cryptic Cluedo cards inside his abandoned car before vanishing

Investigators discovered the cards, depicting Colonel Mustard, the hall and lead piping, inside his Ford Corsair following his 1974 disappearance.

The suspected killer is thought to have taken them from his own set as police claimed three cards were missing when his home was searched.

One former investigator said: “If Lucan did leave the Cluedo cards it makes me think the whole thing was pre-planned.

“It is interesting. The more you think about it, the more it has implications.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20330377/lord-lucan-cluedo-cards-abandoned-car/

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Lord Lucan left three cryptic Cluedo cards inside his abandoned car before vanishing

Investigators discovered the cards, depicting Colonel Mustard, the hall and lead piping, inside his Ford Corsair following his 1974 disappearance.

The suspected killer is thought to have taken them from his own set as police claimed three cards were missing when his home was searched.

One former investigator said: “If Lucan did leave the Cluedo cards it makes me think the whole thing was pre-planned.

“It is interesting. The more you think about it, the more it has implications.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20330377/lord-lucan-cluedo-cards-abandoned-car/

maximus otter
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When my children were small it was astonishing the amount of crap they left in my car.

If I'd disappeared mysteriously, the police would still be trying to find the connection between a model of Thomas the Tank Engine, two packets of half eaten Wotsits, a plastic cow and a book that made 'humorous' noises when you pressed various buttons.
 
catseye said:
When my children were small it was astonishing the amount of crap they left in my car...
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That was my first thought. I've no idea how old the Lucan children were, or how much access he had to them (wasn't custody being contested - or have I imagined that?) - but I doubt the presence of random bits and pieces of toys and games would be a surprise to anyone with children, or anyone who's ever been one.

Also, Lucan was a gambling addict - and true gambling addicts will often bet on absolutely anything. I'll admit this is less of a likelihood than the above, but if someone told me that such an addict would bet on the random fall of board game cards, I wouldn't be in the least surprised.
 
Min Bannister said:
The police searched his home, opened the Cluedo box and inspected the cards? Is this really plausible?
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It was the 70's. If there was no-one obvious to beat the shit out of, then they had to get help wherever they could.

REGAN: SO - WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?

CARTER: Looks like Mr Cheddar the Cheesemonger made a right mess of Mrs Potts the Painters Wife, sir.

REGAN: THAT’S HAPPY FAMILIES YOU MORON! WE’RE NOT BLOODY VICTORIANS. WHERE’S THE BLOODY CLUEDO GONE?

CARTER: Stop shouting.

REGAN: I CAN’T
 
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Spookdaddy said:
It was the 70's. If there was no-one obvious to beat the shit out of, then they had to get help wherever they could.
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Well quite. I may be too influenced by Life on Mars but I have a vision of officers dropping fag ash everywhere, kicking the body and saying "yup she's dead" rather than carefully matching items found in his car to ones found in his home. The Sun article is very short on detail as to who these "investigators" are. It is left to us to imagine they were the people who were on the scene at the time rather than people who have searched the internet a bit.
 
Spookdaddy said:
It was the 70's. If there was no-one obvious to beat the shit out of, then they had to get help wherever they could.

REGAN: SO - WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?

CARTER: Looks like Mr Cheddar the Cheesemonger made a right mess of Mrs Potts the Painters Wife, sir.

REGAN: THAT’S HAPPY FAMILIES YOU MORON! WE’RE NOT BLOODY VICTORIANS. WHERE’S THE BLOODY CLUEDO GONE?

CARTER: Stop shouting.

REGAN: I CAN’T
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Despite everything I love the Sweeney to bits. The fictional one, obs. It's the way things SHOULD have worked :) After all, they never fitted up a wrong'un, did they?
 
Floyd1 said:
Trev will have that off you. It'll keep him out of our hair amused for days.
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It's what he'll get up to with the plastic cow that worries me.
 
The Lucan news is fascinating.

The odds are well against that combination of cards being left by his children or left by chance.

To me, they hint at a man who was admitting his guilt, and confident that he would not be caught.

Either because was going to jump off a ferry with weight in his pockets, or spend the rest of his life on a remote African ranch.
 
Victory said:
The Lucan news is fascinating.

The odds are well against that combination of cards being left by his children or left by chance.

To me, they hint at a man who was admitting his guilt, and confident that he would not be caught.

Either because was going to jump off a ferry with weight in his pockets, or spend the rest of his life on a remote African ranch.
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It's worth pointing out that the association of 'colonel' with his character is a pretty loose one - he did two years National Service as a very junior officer, but then he was never a vicar or a professor, so I suppose it is actually the closest match.

But the big issue for me is the hall card. The murder, as far as I'm aware, took place in the basement, which served as a kitchen. There's a kitchen card in Cluedo - so why not pick that? The article does not address this - it simply offers up the association of the hall card as a fait accompli - when, unless I'm missing some detail, it isn't.

If you view the three cards as one hit (lead pipe), one nearest match (Colonel Mustard), one irrelevant (hall) - it looks like a less convincing combination.

It somehow feels too Agatha Christie to me - but, then again, I can also see how someone might entirely lose their grip on reality in such a situation, and, if their obsession was gambling, I could also entertain the possibility that such an individual - under extreme psychological stress - might actually start to act as if the circumstances they were in were some sort of surreal game. But, I'm not convinced.
 
All of this latest news just adds to the never ending queue of 'what ifs?'
Will we ever really have the answers as to what happened? Unlikely, but it's fun (in a morbid kind of way) to ponder and speculate.
This is one of those enduring mysteries just like Jack the Ripper where tidbits of information come forward from time to time offering a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, however, the end of the tunnel is never reached with any sense of true conclusion.
In the meantime, I'm off for an afternoon of boating after collecting my new cruiser from the marina. I'll see you all for drinks at the casino bar at 6 p.m sharp, the G&T's are on me.
 
Lord Lucan said:
...In the meantime, I'm off for an afternoon of boating after collecting my new cruiser from the marina. I'll see you all for drinks at the casino bar at 6 p.m sharp, the G&T's are on me.
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After a lifetime of gambling addiction I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the reality would be more along the lines of a couple of hours in a home made coracle with a tin of Carlsberg Special Brew.
 
Victory said:
The Lucan news is fascinating.

The odds are well against that combination of cards being left by his children or left by chance.

To me, they hint at a man who was admitting his guilt, and confident that he would not be caught.

Either because was going to jump off a ferry with weight in his pockets, or spend the rest of his life on a remote African ranch.
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Y'see, I disagree and think these are purely junk left in a car. Mainly because - well, as @Min Bannister says above, did the police really check through any Cluedo sets left in the house to see if these cards were missing? Really? And if they were, who's to say they weren't carried there by accident by children? And also, he killed the nanny. If this was a crime planned meticulously enough for Lucan to leave 'clue cards' in the car, wouldn't he at least have made sure he'd killed the right woman? (All accounts point to Lucan meaning to kill his wife and killing the nanny - to whom his wife bore a superficial resemblence - by mistake).
 
Spookdaddy said:
It was the 70's. If there was no-one obvious to beat the shit out of, then they had to get help wherever they could.

REGAN: SO - WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?

CARTER: Looks like Mr Cheddar the Cheesemonger made a right mess of Mrs Potts the Painters Wife, sir.

REGAN: THAT’S HAPPY FAMILIES YOU MORON! WE’RE NOT BLOODY VICTORIANS. WHERE’S THE BLOODY CLUEDO GONE?

CARTER: Stop shouting.

REGAN: I CAN’T
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Get your trousers on, son. You're nicked.

Etc.

Don't believe this story for a minute. Don't think he'd have the time to get round to it - given the attempted murder after the actual murder. Then driving off into the night.
 
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