What the records say
- When
- 1974
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 51.50° N, 0.15° W
- Description
- 1974 murder in Belgravia, London, UK
- Injured
- 1
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
British peer and missing murder suspect
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer and gambler who vanished in 1974 after being suspected of killing Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny, and attempting to murder his wife. An evacuee during World War II, Lucan attended Eton College and served with the Coldstream Guards in West Germany from 1953 to 1955.
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