The Death and Disappearance of Sandra Rivett and John Bingham...

Sandra Rivett, was an intensely compassionate and well-traveled young woman from the United Kingdom. Her unrelenting courage, unmistakable strength, and undying hope for a better life were all cut short by a ghastly murder in the Autumn of 1974, leaving all who knew her in the royal home of Lord Lucan and the entirety of Lower Belgrave Street, in London, England at large grasping for answers in a sea of mysteries that drowned us all in doubt… As a hope to provide more substantial reasoning built upon observable evidence and situational analysis, this is an examination of the murder of Sandra Rivett and disappearance of her killer, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, in the Belgravia district of the UK, and the 50 year history of one of London’s most intricate and infamous unsolved crimes. This is Cold Case Detective.

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The following episode covers sensitive topics, such as murder, suicide, and mental disorders. Viewer discretion is advised. Sandra rivet was an intensely compassionate, and well-traveled young woman from the United Kingdom. Her unrelenting, courage, unmistakable strength and undying hope for a better life were all cut short by a gly murder in the autumn of 1974, leaving all who knew her in the Royal home of Lord Lukin and the entirety of lower Bellgrave street in London, grasping for answers in a sea of mysteries, the drowned us all in doubt. This is an examination of the murder of Sandra rivet and the disappearance of her killer. Richard John Bingham, seventh, Earl of Lukin in the Belgravia district of the UK and the 50 year history of one of London's most intricates and infamous unsolved crimes. This is cold case. Detective The victim, Sandra rivet was born on September 16th, 1945 in basing stoke Hampshire of the United Kingdom. The family didn't hang around Hampshire for long. However, when she was just two years old in 1948, the Hensby clan moved out of Europe all the way to Australia, where they would remain for the next seven years. From an early age, Sandra displayed a unique personality with an undying curiosity about the world around her. She was a fast learner and creative in the logic she upheld. And while she wasn't much of an extrovert, she knew how to make friends and get along with her siblings at home in 1955, Sandra and the rest of the Hensby family moved back to the United Kingdom. This time settling in Croydon, south London, it was here. Sandra found an admiration she didn't have in Australia and became quite popular amongst other students at school, despite fitting in Sandra struggled academically, while her logic and street smarts made her quite the intelligent young girl. Her marks did not reflect this savviness. Unfortunately, these issues followed Sandra from primary school to secondary school and she failed to get into university for a post-college career. The reality of the situation frustrated Sandra at first, but she eventually accepted the outcome and looked ahead to better days. It didn't take long for the better days to arrive. Sandra was able to lock down an apprenticeship as a hairdresser and worked under close tutelage for the following six months after gaining that skill, Sandra turned her attention to secretary work. She quickly acquired a secretary job at a local firm in Croydon, allowing her to live at home and only make a short commute. Unfortunately, after a couple of serendipitous job opportunities, the luck ran out for Sandra. She had been seeing an unidentified man on and off for months until it finally ended for good. And wasn't responding to the breakup very well. Reaching a boiling point in her mental health. Sandra checked herself in voluntarily at a hospital in red hill. Sorry, there she was treated for symptoms related to depression, but was able to make a full recovery and reenter society back in the greater London area. Sandra met a man named John a local builder and well-respected businessman in the neighborhood after dating for a few months, the pair became engaged and Sandra was able to lock down another job this time as a nanny for a doctor who lived in Croydon in 1963, Sandra and John discovered they were pregnant with a little boy, nine months later on March 13th, 1964, Sandra gave birth to Stephan her only son despite having a baby together, John and Sandra's relationship quickly began to crumble. The engagement was ultimately called off and Sandra had to move back in with her parents at Croydon. She knew she couldn't take care of a newborn baby in the state. She was in and requested S Stephan be put up for adoption, not wanting their grandson to be left to the states. Mr. And Mrs. Hensby filed an application and were ultimately rewarded as Stephan's adopted parents to get back on her feet. Sandra, once again, changed careers and became an aide at a home for the elderly. When she found she wasn't cut out for that hospital. However, she quit and moved to Portmouth Hampshire to live with her sister in Portmouth Sandra kindled. Yet another relationship this time with a Royal Navy semen by the name of Roger rivet, they married on June 10th, 1967 back in Sandra's hometown of Croydon. After a while, Roger took on a job as a loader for British road services. This allowed Sandra to find part-time work too. And she continued her old caretaker duties this time at Rita orphanage in Perley six years later in 1973, Roger switched careers to a tanker at Esso. Now known as Exxon bill. This took him and Sandra back to Kenley. And Sandra got out of the orphanage business and into the cigarette business at a company back in Croydon. Roger's new job allowed him to travel, which turned out to be disastrous for the couple while he was away. Roger would grow increasingly paranoid and suspicious of Sandra eventually accusing her of being disloyal to him while he was out on his trips. Despite Sandra's excitation of her innocence. Roger never lets it go. And the couple divorced in may of 1974, Roger moved back in with his parents and Sandra was forced to look for additional nanny work once more, a Belgravia domestic agency in the Bellgrave in central London listed Sandra's contact information in their hiring books. And her assistance was eventually requested. The first request came from an elderly couple living in the Bellgrave districts, Sandra excelled in her role and soon received notice from John Bingham, seventh Earl of Lukin that her services were wanted at his private home. John, more frequently known as Lord Lukin had three children and his wife needed help attending two during the morning and evening hours, Sandra was able to fit it into her schedule and quickly became well acquainted with both Lord and lady Lukin and their kids. However, these pleasantries were shortlived in a shocking attack. Sandra was bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe, supposedly by Lord Lukin himself on the night of November 7th, 1974 in Belgravia London, England. Let us now turn to the timeline of events leading up to and beyond Sandra's murder on Wednesday, November 6th, 1974, Sandra rivet spends an evening out on the town with her. Then boyfriend John Hankins. The couple usually met on Thursday nights because that was Sandra's night off, but had to reschedule this time around besides the time change. Everything else goes according to plan that evening and Sandra returns to her residence, undisturbed normalcy continues into the following day on Thursday, November 7th, 1974, as Sandra carries out her usual nanny duties at the Luken household on lower Bellgrave streets in London, England day turns tonight and all seems well and good between Sandra and the Luke and family at 8:00 PM. That same evening. Sandra calls her boyfriend, John on the Luken household's telephone during a short break from her work responsibilities between eight 30 and 8:50 PM. Sandra puts the two youngest Lukin children to bed in the upstairs quarters of the home at around 8:55 PM. Sandra seeks out lady Lukin, formally known as Veronica, Mary Duncan, Sandra finds Veronica and asks if she'd like a cup of tea, lady, Lukin, obliges, and Sandra sets off for the kitchen. When Sandra reaches the kitchen located in the household's basement, she fails to even fill up the tea kettle as an assailant moves in behind her and strikes her on the head with a wrapped led pipe, repeating the attack until Sandra is bludgeoned into submission and eventually killed on the spot. Once Sandra's pulse stops, the assailant picks up her body and places it into a mailbag made of canvas. A few minutes pass by and lady Lukin becomes restless upstairs. Wondering what could make preparing tea take so long. She leaves her chair and trots down to the first floor. Another minute passes by and the lady of the house stands at the top of the stairwell that descends to the basement kitchen. She calls out for Sandra without hesitation, but is quickly attacked from behind herself. As lady Lukin is attacked. She attempts to fight back during the violent quarrel. She's able to bite the fingers of her assai before being shoved face first into the floor. After screaming at the attacker, an eerily familiar voice shouts shut up, lady Lukin would later tell a judge and jury that this voice sounded exactly like her husband's voice. Lord Lukin himself near the end of the violent encounter. Lady Lukin is luckily able to reach behind her and grab her attacker by the testicles. As she squeezes, the man releases his hand from her throat and shouts out in pain, giving up the fight. This is where the truth becomes clouded. According to reports, lady Lukin runs away from the attacker and finds her husband, Richard, John Bingham. However, it's described as a interaction with Lord Lukin, calmly telling his wife that he killed her. When lady Lukin asks where Sandra was in a bizarre twist, some reports claim that lady Lukin offers to aid John bings escape from their Belgravia manner on the condition. He would wait for her injuries from the attack to heal. Apparently after this engagement, Lord Lukin visits, the upstairs quarters and sends the eldest daughter to bed. He takes lady Lukin into one of the bedrooms and asks her to lay down blankets. So is not to stain in the bed sheets while she sits on the bed. Lord Lukin asks if there were any barbiturates to which lady Lukin replies stating there are some in the bathroom. Lord Lukin enters the bathroom to find the medicine as well as to wet a small cloth to help clean lady Lu's wounds in the heat of the moment. Lady Lukin uses Lord Luke's task as a description and jumps up from her spot on the bed and dashes downstairs. Lord Lukin, unable to hear anything from the bathroom carries on ignorance to his wife's escape. Once she's outside lady Lukin seeks refuge in a public house known as the plumber's arms. It is here. She hides from her husband until the police arrive. Meanwhile, back at the Lukin household, Lord Lukin finally realizes his wife is missing and doesn't hesitate to hatch his own escape plan too. He leaves his while grave home for the final time, just before 10:00 PM, sometime between 10 and 10 30, Lord Lukin arrives at Madeline Flo's house in Chester square. The mother of a friend to Lord Luke's eldest daughter, Francis he pounds on the door, but is never met by any of the homes. Occupants inside. Madeline ignores the wraps on the door as she's the only one there after a few minutes of waiting the knock stop and the phone rings instead only to hear a bunch of gibberish coming from the other line during the phone call, Madeline is able to make out something regarding her front door and puts the receiver down. She walks to the doorway and swings the front door open to reveal a blood stain on the doorstep later forensic work would classify the blood stain to contain two different blood types, blood groups, a and B the two types, belonging to lady Lukin and Sandra rivet, respectively, Madeline rushed back inside to the phone, but the other line was now dead. She immediately slammed down the receiver, picked it back up again and dialed for the police. Then sometime between 10 30 and 11:00 PM, Lord Luke phones, his own mother and tells her to go to his house and fetch the children. He tells her that something terrible has happened in the home and that he had driven by and saw lady Lukin, fighting with an assailant in the basement and ran in only to find her screaming. The police later attempt to track down the precise location of where Lord Lukin dispatched the call to Madeline's home and his mother's house, but it is never learned on the other side of town. Lady Lukin finally makes contacts with the police. Law enforcement tells her they forced entry into the house where Lord Lukin is nowhere to be found. However they do discover Sandra rivets body still in the canvas mailbag downstairs, lady Lukin is then put into an ambulance and rushed to Saint George's hospital in ING London. Her husband on the other hand drives his Ford cor sir sedan to the home of Ian and Susan Maxwell. Scott's friends of Lord Lukin. It is located nearly 68 kilometers from his home at the Maxwell Scott residence. Lord Lukin comes across as quite disheveled and unkempt in the eyes of Susan. He also sported a dark wet stain of salts on his hip. When Susan confronts Lukin, he tells her around her husband that he saw a man attacking his wife. And when he went inside to comfort her, he slipped on a pool of blood. And that's why he looks a mess. Despite the bizarre story or the fact that Lukin was with his friends, rather than helping his family, neither Ian or Susan suspect, Lukin of foul play. They also don't turn on their radios or televisions that evening failing to see the news and hear of the entire lady Lukin ordeal. While Lord Lukin is at the Maxwell Scott home, he writes two letters addressed to his brother-in-law a man by the name of bill Shand kid. One of the letters is regarding his side of the story to the attempted homicide on lady Lukins life and his fear that he will be framed for the ordeal. The other letter addressed non-important financial matters. A third letter is later recovered. However, where Luke and wrote it is UN confirmed. This letter addresses similar fears, Lord Luke, and is having, and he asks the recipients Michael stoop to look after his children whenever he can at around 12:30 AM on Friday, November 8th, Lord Lukin calls his mother a second time to say, he'll call again in the morning. And won't speak to police that night waiting until Dawn on Friday to speak to the authorities. 45 minutes later at 1:15 AM. Lord Lukin drives away from the Maxwell Scott property. A few hours later on that next day, Roy Ranson, the chief detective superintendent in charge of the investigation arrives at the Luken household on lower Belgrave street with him is the divisional surgeon, photographers, forensic scientists, and petty officers in the first sweep of the house. Authorities discover no forced entry outside of the door. They themselves kicked in a bloody towel in lady Lukins bathroom and a lot of blood at the top of the basement stairs. Police also find a bloody pipe that morning in the Lukin family home near the pipe are broken picture frames, a broken metal banister and other various damaged walls and surfaces from around the general area. Next law enforcement attempts to track down Lord Lukin so they can bring him in for questioning. First. They tried to reach him at five eaten row. A flat Lord Lukin had lived in since 1973. When his marriage started crumbling due to a growing gambling addiction. After the Eaton row flat proved to be empty. Police then checked another address at 72, a Elizabeth streets where Luke's mother said he would stay at times at the Elizabeth street address, detectives find a full suit and shirt laid out a Greek book, a wallet, car keys, cash, a driver's license, and Lukins passports, tissues and glasses outside. There was a blue Mercedes-Benz, but when the police attempted to start it, both the engine and battery were dead after the detailed search of the Lukin household wraps up. Police follow up with lady Lukin, who is still at St George's hospital and under heavy sedation. Despite the drugs lady Lukin is able to describe the general circumstances of her attack while never accusing her missing husband over the next couple of days, a post mortem inspection of Sandra rivets body goes way under the close watch of famous pathologist. Keith Simpson, Keith discovers that rivet was killed before being placed into the canvas mail back and that the lead pipe found in the house was most certainly the murder weapon authorities also make a trip out to interview Sandra's ex-husband Roger rivet. Roger provides a rock solid alibi as do other men associated with Sandra's previous relationships around the same time. Period. Lady Lukin is finally released from the hospital and is allowed to take her kids back home before eventually moving to Plymouth, due to the disrespectful nature of the press. At the time on Sunday, November 10th, law enforcement discovers the Ford CORs air driven by Luke in the night. He was last seen the car is found in Norman road, new Haven, which is only 26 kilometers from Oakfield where Luken stopped over with the Maxwell Scott couple, the CORs air is impounded and combed through later that day inside investigators find a second piece of lead pipe hidden in the trunk of the car. The pipe features surgical tape wrapped around the cylinder, but no blood. There was also a bottle of vodka sitting next to the pipe. Detectives then take a survey of the surrounding neighborhood and interview fellow residents of the community. Two different witnesses claim. The cor there had been parked there since at least between the hours of 5:00 AM and 8:00 AM on November 8th, November 10th is also the day Michael stoop in former police of the third letter written by Lord Lukin. However, he had already thrown the envelope away and police couldn't track the postage of from where Lukin mailed out the letter on Tuesday, November 12th, an official warrant for the arrest of Richard, John Bingham, seventh, Earl of Lukin for the murder of Sandra rivets and attempted murder of lady Lukin is filed in the following weeks. Detectives send out professional search and rescue squads to comb the new Haven downs area where the car was recovered. They search grounds, the Harbor and all other public areas only to find the skeletal remains of a judge who were disappeared years ago. A couple of small inquests are then held in the aftermath of the immediate investigation. The first takes place on November 13th, where Roger rivet is brought in to identify Sandra's body in an official capacity. The second takes place on June 16th, 1975, over six months since the murder and disappearance at the second inquest lady Lukin is formally questioned and she reveals the difficulties. She and her husband had leading up to the attack. She says the voice she heard from her attacker was undoubtedly the voice of Lord Lukin and that her choice to try and help him after the fact was a ruse meant to aid in her escape. The eldest Lukin child Francis was brought to the witness stand to tell her version of events from November 7th, 1974 Francis said she heard shouting then saw her mother covered in blood, enter her bedroom with Lord Lukin. Lady Lukin had apparently sent Francis to bet, but when she got ready, Francis also heard her father yelling for her mother across the house. When lady Lukin failed to respond, Francis said, Lord Lukin asked her where her mother had gone before walking downstairs and leaving for good. The next witness is the landlord of the bar called the plumber's arms where lady Lukin took shelter. After she escaped the clutches of Lord Lukin, the landlord says lady Lukin ran inside screaming. My children, my children he's murdered my nanny. She could also be heard crying for help and saying she'd just escaped from being murdered. The third major witness was pathologist Keith Simpson who confirmed Sandra's death was due to blunt force trauma to the head by both the lead pipe recovered in the Lukins house, as well as the assailant fists. The final major witness was none other than Susan Maxwell. Scott, the last person to see Lord Lukin in the flesh. Susan tells the judge and jury of Lord Luke's unkempt appearance from the night he paid them an unexpected visit. Susan also speaks of Lord Luke's mindset right before he disappeared, how he was adamant. Another man was attacking lady Lukin. And that lady Lukins initial reaction after this supposed attacker ran off was that her husband must have hired an assassin to kill her. By the end of the inquest, the judge and jury had all they needed by 11:45 AM that day day, the jury foreman read the murder verdict for John Bingham as guilty on all charges in the 38 years, since the murder of Sandra rivets and the attack on lady Lukin, Lord Lukin has yet to be found despite numerous sightings and theories stretched thin by both his closest family members and friends. He has yet to be identified or recovered if he is dead in 1999, Lord Lukin is officially declared dead. However, a death certificate isn't guaranteed until February of 2016 in 2017 lady Lukin commits suicide, despite never knowing the exact fate of her ex-husband and attacker yet, she remains certain until her last breath that he was the one who took the life of Sandra and nearly her own. While the case of Sandra rivets and John Bingham is now a closed investigation until concrete proof of Lord Lukins demise is brought forth. The chance for ultimate justice still exists for the rivet and hands be families In a case old enough to lack DNA evidence and sparse enough to lack photographs or CCTV footage. The most fascinating and incriminating clues may be the letters. Lord Luken wrote to various associates. The night he evaded the police and departed the Belgravia district of London, England forever. One of the letters covered Lord Luke's financial interests he needed to take care of as soon as possible. That letter reads there is a sale coming up at Christie's 27th of November, which will satisfy bank overdrafts. Please agree. Reserves with Tom Craig proceeds go to Lloyd's six P ma counts, 59 strand Nat west Bloomsbury branch, who also hold an equity and law life policy. The other creditors can get lost for the time being lucky while there isn't much to glean from this piece of information, Lukin was definitely showing his true intentions in the end of the letter, he's basically saying the creditors aren't important at the time and are worth getting blown off. If he is to leave going as far to call them lucky. The second letter is much more enlightening here. It is in its entirety. Dear bill, the most Gastly circumstances arose tonight, which I briefly described to my mother when I interrupted the fight at lower Bellgrave streets and the man left Veronica accused me of having hired him. I took her upstairs and sent Francis up to bed and tried to clean her up. She laid doo for a bit. And when I was in the bathroom left the house, the circumstantial evidence against me is strong in that V will say it was all my doing. I will also lie doo for a bit, but I am only concerned for the children. If you can manage it, I want them to live with you. Counts trustees St. Martin's lane, Mr. Wall will handle school fees V has demonstrated her hatred for me in the past and would do anything to see me accused for George and Francis to go through life. Knowing their father had stood in the dock for attempted murder would be too much when they are old enough to understand, explain to them the dream of paranoia and look after them. Yours ever. John, the letter is addressed to bill Lord Luke's brother-in-law and occasional confidence. While Luke attempts to argue his innocence in truth, he does anything, but he continues to say his wife accused him of hiring a Hitman to kill her. And that he cannot stay because the circumstantial evidence will certainly put him behind bars. Lord Lukin also says the children will not be able to live with him and that other folks will take care of the school fees. None of these claims sound like they come from a man who is innocent, but rather a man who is in real time coming to terms with the fact that he will never be able to return again. If John Bingham were an innocent man, certainly he would talk to the police and tell them of the situation. Surely he would embrace his children and comfort them in a time of shock and tragedy. Surely he would aid the police in their search for this unidentified killer. Surely he would do something, anything other than run away and never look back. The third letter was written to Michael scoop who owned the Saint James pub and the Ford Corsa eventually taken and left behind by Lord Lukin. In his final moments in the public eye, the letter reads my dear. Michael. I have had a traumatic night of unbelievable coincidence. However, I won't bore you with anything or involve you except to say that when you come across my children, which I hope you will, please tell them that you knew me and that all I cared about was them. The fact that a crooked solicitor and a rotten psychiatrist destroy me between them will be of no importance to the children. I gave bill sh kid an account of what actually happened, but judging by my last effort in court, no one let alone a 67 year old judge would believe, and I no longer care except that my children should be protected. Yours ever. John, this letter is perhaps the most telling Lord Lukin is so convinced the world is out to get him now blaming the likes of an unknown solicitor psychiatrist and judge that he no longer cares. He says he only wants his children taken care of, and that no one will believe his story. Otherwise the letters speak for themselves covered in blood and written under the candlelight of a midnight ESCAP after Bingham's actions in November of 1974, letters now turned to the most prominent theories surrounding the case of Sandra rivet. The case of Sandra and John Bingam is unique to cold case detective in that they aren't true cold cases. Sandra rivet was officially found to have been murdered by Lord Lukin. And while Lord Lukin was never found after vanishing, he is not the victim in question here. Most people believe Lord Lukin committed suicide. A theory held by both lady Lukin and the detectives leading the investigation. At first, the chief detective Roy Ranson said that while Lord Lukin may have killed himself, it would've happened somewhere outside the Belgravia district and the surrounding cities where detailed search and rescues were held. Other searches eventually transpired all over the world. And yet nothing came of them. One private investigator who took the case over in 2006, stated they had enough evidence to conclude that Lord Lukin actually left London and started a new life elsewhere across the globe. However, what this exact evidence showed was never made privy to the public. If Lord Lukin didn't end his own life, where could he have escaped to the last person to have seen Luke and alive has a strong theory herself. Susan Maxwell, Scotts once told John Pearson famous bibliographer who wrote about the murder that she believed Luke did indeed have help getting out of the country. Most likely from the aid of financeers, who are only known or accessible to those who are or were wants rich. However, Susan also added a twist to the story. She said that she believed the finance sea came around on their decision and saw Lukin as two greater risk to fulfill the escape mission. She believed Lukin was kidnapped, killed, and buried somewhere in Switzerland where the Swiss banks and potential financeers were located. Susan, wasn't the only one to concoct, such a conclusion. Jeremy Scott and advertising executive familiar with the Sandra rivet case proposed Lukin was killed and hidden by someone with both power and money. Jeremy's thoughts were somewhat valuable as he had strong connections with a few members of the Claremont set, the Claremont set is an above ground group of exclusive ultra rich gamblers from Britain who all could have wielded much darker personalities beneath their harmless exterior. It is unknown if the police ever followed up with this theory, but with Lord Luke's elite title and appearance of wealth, it certainly makes sense. Of course like many missing person cases, sightings of John increased tenfold as word regarding his disappearance reached the ears of people worldwide. One sighting brought police to France. Another brought them to Columbia where an American businessman that bore a resemblance to Lord Lukin was found. And another where the man described by police was actually John Stonehouse, who had disappeared like Lord Lukin, but faked his death as a way to ward off capture. There was also the instance of bounty hunter, John Miller, pretending to capture Lord Lukin in 1982. However, authorities quickly foiled the job as an elaborate hoax. Another false sighting occurred in 2003 when a former detective followed a man all the way to goer India, thinking they were Lord Lukin only to discover they had accidentally tracked a man by their name of Barry Halpin, a folk singer from Mary's side in Northern England. It happened yet again in 2007, when a few members in a small New Zealand community thought a British expatriate living on their streets, resembled and aged John Bingham. However, when reporters located the houseless male subject, they quickly learned, he was in fact, not Lord Lukin, many people around the official investigation and curious bystanders in general felt that if Lord Lukin made his escape and lived to tell the tale, he probably wound up in South Africa or somewhere else on the continent. This was always pure guesswork. However, the heat on investigators to track the Earl down in Africa heightened in the 1980s, when the Lukin children were temporarily moved to Gabon Africa, many wondered if this was intentional. So the Lord Lukin could monitor his children from a distance if not visiting them in secret himself. The only other theory that made sense in the hours after Sandra rivet was killed was that someone had broken into the Luken house to target lady Lukin, but mistaken her for Sandra and then fled once Lord Lukin arrived per his own words. However, there simply isn't enough evidence to hold up, such claims everything. The defense tried to argue at the inquest regarding Lord Luke's innocence had a counter argument while it was true that Lord Luke's fingerprints were not present at the scene of the crime Luke's defense team at the inquest had no answers for why he had a second piece of lead pipe in the trunk of his car. The lead pipe in the car had a similar appearance to the one used to murder Sandra and while forensic scientists could not state for certain, the two pieces were cut from the same pipe. They said it was most likely that both the pipes and the surgical tape wrapped around them were of the same cut of materials. Not only that, but the blood stains found inside the Ford CORs air were tested and found to be part of the B blood group. Remember the blood found on the crime scene was from both the a and B blood groups, but it was possible. The stain in the Corsa was a combination of the two separate blood sources from lady Lukin and Sandra rivet. The defense also had no proper rebuttal to the witness testimonies that shared Luke's semi-secret desire to murder his wife. They can call it a joke or a coincidence, but in truth, it sounds nothing more than a foreshadow to murder. There also wasn't a single piece of evidence outside of Luke's letters that led investigators to believe a second man was on the Luken property on November 7th, 1974. Firstly police had no suspects who matched the description or had any motive to kill Sandra. Secondly, there were no clues hinting at a forced entry at 46 lower Bellgrave street. Thirdly, there was no way for Lord Lukin to know Sandra or his wife was being attacked in the kitchen in the basement because the only way to look into the kitchen from the streets is through the tiny window facing outside, which Luken would have to stoop very low to the pavement to even access. Not only that, but the basement kitchen light was not functioning at the time because it had been screwed out of its fixture and placed on a chair, sitting in the room, meaning with someone, with the knowledge of the kitchen's interior would have screwed the light bulb out as to cloak their crimes in darkness. In fact, lady Lukin had never even entered the basement itself in the first place. Contradicting Lord Luke's own words. And even if she had been down there, and even if she had been attacked by an unknown stranger, they wouldn't have been able to escape out of the basement kitchen door like Lukin set. The door was in fact locked the night of the murder. In addition, there were no signs of a rushed escape or anything of that nature in the barricaded garden that sits right outside the basement door. In question, nor any eyewitness testimony by the Lukins neighbors that placed a strange shadowy figure in the vicinity of 46 lower Bellgrave. The only reasonable claim that Lord Luke's defense team could use was that if Luke wanted his wife debt and was familiar with the house, why would he go out of his way to kill the nanny first? Who he certainly would've recognized as not being his wife. It is a fair question, but there are possible answers for a murder and escape premeditated. It wouldn't be a shock to hear Lord Luke and killed Sandra on purpose as to create this very doubt in the minds of investigators thinking that if the nanny was killed too, her killer must be someone who did not know the faces of his victims. In the end. It was just another twisted idea in the mind of a twisted killer who committed a twisted crime. It is a fools errand to spends time debating who killed Sandra rivet or how she was murdered. It is clear based on both physical evidence and the testimony of lady Lukin that her husband is the prime and only suspect. And that Lord Lukin ran away post assault and homicide to flee from catcher and avoid punishment for his crime. He had a motive. He was scared to death of losing the little custody he had left of his children, bitter about his wife's legal battles and declining mental health and enraged over the continued gambling addiction that plagued him ceaselessly. There is no question here. The assassin was Lord Lukin. However, seeking justice in this case is not a useless endeavor. While many have accepted that John Bingham is likely dead either by suicide or other causes. Even if he is old, he could still be alive. A man of Lukins former wealth and power would have the connections to make sure they had the best healthcare available, no matter where he ended up in the world, he would be 88 in the present day. And despite the years, since the murder, no man is too old to face justice and answer for their crimes. While Lord Luke, the murderer may never see justice. We want the focus of this, this story to be on Sandra rivet and the loss her family endured and who she was as an individual. Sandra was a courageous survivor of violent relationships and a battle against depression and anxiety. She spent a portion of her life watching the world through a barred hospital window. She didn't deserve to leave the earth just as she was beginning to find her true self. Sandra was also unabashedly compassionate. She took employment wherever she could serve others, especially the elderly and the young. She listened to the stories of the old folks she cared for while spreading wisdom to the children. She watched over sadly, Sandra dealt with her own darkness. She had infinitely bad luck when it came to striking romance and could never totally escape the lesser side of love. Maybe she had finally found that at 46 lower Bellgrave streets with three children, she grew so fond of if not for their father's seething rage and untempered jealousy. It is on duty to remember Sandra as she was and not think of only a body in a canvas mail back, but a woman full of promise, strength who was writing a story for herself with a happy ending, despite surviving a life of tragedy, Sandra rivet deserved to live. And that is how she will be remembered. This is cold case detective.