'One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in British history': The earl who vanished after murdering his children's nanny ^52.4%

BBC - By Fiona Macdonald - 6/15/2026, 11:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 30.3% - Negativity Bias 25.1% - Anecdotal 21.5%

The Lord Lucan affair is a bizarre and horrific one, but on the face of it, there seems to be little doubt about the sequence of events. During the night of 7 November 1974, it appears, the British aristocrat Lord Lucan hid in the dark in the basement kitchen of his house in Belgravia, London. Planning to murder his estranged wife,... more