Lord Lucan

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Lord Lucan

Banker turned
professional gambler

Deep in debt

Separated from
Lady Lucan
Lord and Lady Lucan
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7 November 1974

Lady Lucan

Ran into a pub at 9:45 pm

Bloodstained

“Help me, help me, help me, I have

just escaped from being murdered”
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7 November 1974

Her home

Nanny dead

Children upstairs
unharmed and asleep

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The crime scene

4 upper floors Nothing happened

Ground floor

1 Bent, bloodstained lead pipe in hallway

2 Bloodstains at top of stairs

3 Door to basement was open

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The crime scene

In the basement

1 Blood on walls and floor of breakfast room

2 Pool of blood

Man’s footprint found

3 Nanny’s body in a bloodstained sack

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Lord Lucan on that day

Visited friend 60 km outside

London at 11:30 PM

Wrote and posted letters

Left
Lord Lucan
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Lord Lucan

Car found by the

sea 3 days later

Never seen again

Lord Lucan
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Lord Lucan’s Story

Walking past Saw struggle

the house in basement

Attacker ran off & Lord Lucan Went in to help

slipped in a pool of blood Lady Lucan

Lady Lucan Feared he would

Fled
ran away be blamed
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Lady Lucan’s Story

Nanny went to Escaped

the basement to the pub

8:40 pm 9:45 pm

8:30 pm 9:15 pm

Nanny put Went to look for nanny

children to bed
Attacked by Lord Lucan
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Forensic Evidence

Blood types Bloodstains around house

Lady Lucan: A Top of stairs: A

Nanny: B Basement: B

Lead pipe: A & B

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Forensic Evidence

1 Where was Lady Lucan attacked?

Lady Lucan: “at the ground floor”

Lord Lucan: “in the basement”

2 Did Lord Lucan slip or step in the blood?

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Forensic Evidence

No confirmed sightings of Lord Lucan

Never arrested and charged

Now legally presumed dead

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Summary

1 Blood biochemistry

2 Scientific basis of blood types

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How blood type can be used
even though it is not individualised

4 Tests for blood

5 Blood spatter patterns and analysis
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