When billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in 1966, local police ruled it 'an unfortunate accident.' Now, half a century later, evidence suggests that the vindictive tobacco heiress got away with murder:
various theories about where Tirella and Duke were headed that fateful Friday. Chief Radice maintained that they were on their way to dinner. And yet Linda McFarlane Knierim, the caretaker's daughter, insists,"My mom told me that they were going to meet somebody. A brief meeting. Because the cooks were preparing a meal for when they came back."
Johnny Nutt, Duke's former gardener, says that other staffers had a different take on the crash."Miss Duke and Mr. Tirella," he told me,"had a big argument that night as they left the house. He wanted to go back to Hollywood to resume his career. They got in the car. Mr. Tirella was driving. He got out to open the gate, but he left it in drive with the emergency brake on. He was going to come back and get in the car, drive it through, and lock it behind him.
That conclusion was later confirmed by a state official who appeared on the scene that night. At 10:30 p.m., Lewis Perrotti, an investigator for the Rhode Island Registry of Motor Vehicles, arrived at the mansion, having driven from Providence."I was by myself," says Perrotti, now 86."It was dark. Using a flashlight, I saw tire marks in the driveway gravel inside the gate.
With the help of Donna Lohmeyer, I managed to ferret out Tirella's official autopsy report, which had been misfiled in the basement of the Rhode Island medical examiner's office for five decades—under the name"Tirella, Edmund" . It shows that his injuries were entirely inconsistent with the official theory of the crash. Although Duke had at first told the authorities that Tirella"was crushed against the iron gates," the report filed by the pathologist, Dr. James J.
The picture reveals something else significant: the man in the fedora at the lower right-hand of the frame. His name was Fred Newton, a detective sergeant. I went back and found a profile of him that I'd written in 1967 on how he'd trained all of the Newport PD's recruits. He was known as a straight shooter, who always conducted himself by the book. Over the years, I had lost touch with Fred, who'd died in 1999.
The deep, parallel, tire-wide gouge marks that Robert Aughey had photographed from 30 feet back support Newton's sequence of events. The '66 Dodge Polara was 18 feet long. The rear tires were three feet from the back bumper, so the math would have been right: the front bumper 15 feet from the gate—the tire gouges in the gravel 15 feet back from there. The distance from the gates to the tree was just under 80 feet.
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