BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 1 (1995) Part 7 Sir Harry Oakes The Bahamas Murder Mystery

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Part 7 Sir Harry Oakes The Bahamas Murder Mystery

The British financier and socialite mysteriously murdered in the Bahamas. American-born Sir Harry Oakes had made his fortune in the gold mines of Canada before moving to the tax haven of the Bahamas. In July 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, Sir Harry was found murdered in his home. He had died from blows to the head made with some sort of spiked club. Then his body was covered in petrol, the down from a pillow tipped over it and the bed was set on fire. But, even though the body was badly scorched, the fire didn't take. All the evidence was there. The local CID made an urgent call reporting the murder to the governor of the Bahamas – who just happened to be the former king of England, Edward VIII, now His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor. His son-in-law, a good-looking Mauritian playboy Count Alfred de Marigny, was suspected of murdering him, but the Duke of Windsor's decision to overrule the authority of the local Bahamian CID and bring in two American police captains from Miami to assist with the investigation ultimately proved to be an error of judgment on the Duke's part. During the night of the murder, De Marigny had been giving a dinner party but there was an 30-minute hole in his alibi and his fingerprints had been found on a screen in the murder room. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and duly questioned. He vigorously proclaimed his innocence. At De Marigny's trial the fingerprint evidence was exposed as a manifest plant, the case was immediately thrown out and De Marigny was acquitted. With De Marigny declared not guilty the murderer, clearly, was still at large.Was de Marigny the real culprit, as many suspected?

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