TOBACCO QUEEN GOT AWAY WITH MURDER!
New eyewitness reveals Doris Duke deliberately killed designer who quit
SUPER rich heiress Doris Duke is accused of murdering her home decorator — by repeatedly running him over with her tank-like car — 28 years after her own death!
Cops in wealthy Newport, R.I., have reopened the “accident” case following new bombshell eyewitness evidence from former 13-year-old paperboy Bob Walker, now 68, that the socialite intentionally crushed Eduardo Tirella to death with her 4,000-pound station wagon on Oct. 7, 1966.
Walker kept silent more than 50 years fearing the tobacco heiress, who was worth $1.3 billion when she died at 80 following a stroke in 1993, would have him killed.
At the time of the tragedy, Duke, once known as “the richest girl in the world,” claimed the designer got out of her Dodge Polara station wagon to open the gates of her Rough Point mansion on Millionaire’s Row.
She told cops she slid behind the wheel to drive through, but accidentally hit the gas pedal and the car surged forward, crushing Tirella against the iron gates.
Police ruled the death an “unfortunate accident.”
But after reading the book Homicide at Rough Point — where author Peter Lance writes possessive Duke was furious with the gay designer because he was leaving her to become an artistic director in Hollywood — Walker decided to tell his shocking story. Walker claims he was delivering The Newport Daily News on Millionaire’s Row at about 5 p.m. when he heard “two people arguing and screaming at each other.
“And the next thing I heard was the roar of a motor, the crash, the screaming of a man, ever so slight skidding sound and deacceleration of the motor, a pause in the screaming, a man beginning to scream again, the roar of the motor again, the man’s scream turning to horror of ‘Nooooooo!’ and then another crash.”
When he rushed to ask if she needed help, Duke, who had no injuries, “spun around and looked at me — screaming and pointing her finger — ‘You better get the hell out of here!’ ”
Walker never saw Tirella’s body, which was mangled under the car, but the next day read about the death in the paper — “only they got it all wrong,” he says.
“The story said he was ‘crushed against the iron gates,’ which was a lie. It also said, ‘She was admitted to Newport Hospital, suffering from facial cuts and severe shock.’
“More lies.”