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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
One of Britain's most enduring criminal
mysteries is the disappearance of the aristocratic fugitive
Lord Lucan.
Lucan went on the run in 1974 at the age
of 39, after his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was found
beaten to death in the basement of his London home.
Since then sightings of the vanished lord
have become as frequent and fanciful as those of Elvis Presley
after his death.
He has been reported in Australia, the Netherlands,
Ireland and South Africa, sometimes in two places simultaneously.
Lady Lucan has rejected claims that her
former husband lived out the rest of his life as a hippie
in Goa, India before dying in 1996 from liver failure.
"None of it fits", she has said,
it is unutterably boring. We have no body, we have nothing.
I am sure we are never going to know what actually happened."
Former Scotland Yard detective, Duncan MacLaughlin
claimed in his book "Dead Lucky" - Lord Lucan's
nickname was 'Lucky' - that an underworld contact had led
him to the fugitive , who since 1975 had been living as
a jungle safari guide under the pseudonym Barry Halpin.
Halpin succumbed to a life of heavy drinking.
At his cremation his body was burned in
a local ritual after being doused with the local firewater
"feni".
It seems Lady Lucan is right and that Britain
will never know the true story of Lord Lucan.
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