The Lord Lucan Case
Sandra Rivett, a 29-year-old nanny, was brutally slain in the basement of the Lucan family residence in London in November of 1974, and Lord Lucan, identified as the attacker by his wife, vanished on the same night and has never been spotted since. One reason this case is immediately relevant is that it promotes all three interesting variables at once. More importantly, however, Lord Lucan is one case with which I am interested not because people are so intrigued with his disappearance, but because so much attention has been given to this one question in particular that Sandra Rivett has been overlooked. It is my argument Sandra Rivett's death is the thing, not whatever happened with Lord Lucan. . Interestingly, from victim perspective, justice can fail even in situations where the perpetrator evades the formal justice system of the society. Indeed, while the coroners’ inquest subsequently established Lord Lucan as the guilty party in the murder of Rivett, there was no trial and c...
