- Peter Lance is a 5 time Emmy-winning investigative reporter, screenwriter and novelist. With an M.S. from Columbia J School and a J.D. from Fordham Law School, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter & network correspondent; starting at The Newport, R.I. Daily News, his hometown paper where he won the A.P.'s coveted Sevellon Brown Award. In New York Lance won 3 national news Emmys and two New York area Emmys for his work producing and reporting for WNET and ABC News. While in law school, Lance worked as a Trial Prep Asst. in the Manhattan D.A.'s office. In 1987, he took a break from journalism and began working as a writer & story editor on Crime Story and Miami Vice for NBC, ultimately becoming show runner on Wiseguy for CBS. He later co-created Missing Persons for ABC and served as a writer & producer on JAG (NBC) and The Sentinel (UPN). Lance's novel, First Degree Burn, was a national best seller. He adapted Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA for HBO and wrote Terror.net for Showtime. In 2001 Lance returned to reporting, probing the FBI's investigation of al Qaeda in the 12 years leading up to 9/11. Since 2002 he's written 3 non fiction best sellers for HarperCollins: 1000 Years for Revenge (2003) Cover Up (2004) and Triple Cross (2006). His 4th: "Deal With The Devil," an epic Mafia exposé, was published in 2013.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Peter Lance
- In January, 2015 Lance wrote the foreword to the new memoir by John Gotti Jr., "Shadow of My Father." In 2017 he adapted "Triple Cross" and "Deal With The Devil" into a 10 hour dramatic series. In July of 2020 Vanity Fair published "Homicide At Rough Point," the result of a two year probe by Lance into a murder in his hometown of Newport, RI committed by Doris Duke, then the richest woman in America. On February 23rd, 2021, Lance's 438 page book of the same title was published by Tenacity Media Books in four editions: Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Kindle and Audible editions. In July, 2021 an unknown witness to the Duke murder came forward, prompting the Newport, RI police to reopen the investigation and leading to a second piece by Lance on August 5th, 2021 on VF Lance has now adapted the book and VF pieces into an eight hour scripted dramatic series. Details can be found at peter lance- IMDb Mini Biography By: Peter Lance
- In 2018 Lance returned to his hometown Newport, RI, to investigate what was then an alleged unsolved true crime homicide case involving legendary billionaire Doris Duke, then the wealthiest woman in America. For more than 50 years, the local legend had been that Miss Duke, heir to American Tobacco Company, had bought her way out of criminal charges after killing Eduardo Tirella, her longtime, art curator and designer by crushing him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon outside the gates of Rough Point, her estate on Bellevue Avenue, known locally as "Millionaires Row." Lance had been fascinated by the case since first working as a cub reporter for The Newport Daily News, 10 months after Mr. Tirella's death. Miss Duke, who died in 1993 at the age of 80, was thought to be the only living witness to what the local police soon deemed "an unfortunate accident." Lance spent the next two years, tracking down surviving police officers who worked the case, uncovering the original police and autopsy reports, which had been missing for years, and and accessing court files from a wrongful death case in 1971 in which Miss Duke was found civilly liable. He concluded that not only had the billionairess killed Mr. Tirella with intent, but that to escape murder charges she gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the City of Newport at a time when it was facing bankruptcy. In July, 2020 Vanity Fair published Lance's findings in a 14 page piece that was "the most read" investigative article that year. In late February, 2021 Tenacity Media Books published a 438 book in four editions, titled "Homicide At Rough Point: The Untold Story of How Doris Duke, The Richest Woman in America, Got Away With Murder." In July, 2021 Robert Walker Jr., who had been a 13 year-old-paperboy at Rough Point and actually witnessed the lead up to the crash and its aftermath, read Lance's book and came forward, causing the Newport PD to reopen the case. In early August, 2021 Lance filed a second piece for VF and the book received international media coverage after the new revelations were reported by The Associated Press. Lance has now adapted his book and two VF pieces into an eight hour scripted dramatic series with a one hour Pilot and Bible.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Peter Lance
- Worked as a producer and correspondent for ABC News and PBS and did Emmy awarded work, producing and reporting hundreds of stories worldwide on US network news programs.
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