An hour-long programme will be broadcast by the UK’s Channel Four during November.
Those interviewed for the documentary included lawyer Mr Paul Adderley, whose father A F Adderley was part of the prosecution team in the trial of Count Alfred de Marigny the only man formally accused of the murder. Count de Marigny was acquitted and then deported after the trial in 1943.
Also interviewed was Mr Peter Christie, nephew of the late Sir Harold Christie, who remains the Chief suspect in spite of friends’ insistence that he was “too timid” to be involved. Sir Harold at one point became so exasperated by accusations levelled against him that he threatened legal action over the “inferential calumny” surrounding him.
Bahamian historian Dr Gail Saunders was also interviewed for background information about wartime Nassau.
And journalist John Marquis, managing editor of The Tribune, outlined his own views of the case, as described in his book, Blood and Fire, which was published last Christmas.
Mr Marquis explained in an interview with director Matthew Wortman why he thought the Duke of
Windsor, then Governor of the Bahamas, was involved in a cover-up after the killing.
The programme will be part of a series on the Royal family commissioned by Channel Four for peak autumn viewing. It is expected to be watched by millions.
Sir Harry Oakes, a Canadian multi-millionaire who settled in Nassau during the 1930s, was murdered at his seafront home, Westbourne, on the night of July 7-8, 1943.
It was such a major story at the time that it knocked the war itself off front pages around the world.
Criminologists have since described the case as the greatest murder mystery of the twentieth century.
Source: The Tribune
