Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy winning former correspondent for ABC News where he reported 100’s of stories worldwide for 20/20, NIGHTLINE and WORLD NEWS TONIGHT. Mid-career he worked as a writer, producer and/or show runner on legendary episodic TV series like MIAMI VICE, CRIME STORYT & WISEGUY. After the 9/11 attacks he wrote 4 investigative books for HarperCollins on counter-terrorism and organized crime. His latest book, HOMICIDE AST ROUGH POINT, is a true crime exposé of a 54 year-old murder in his hometown of Newport, RI committed by Doris Duke, then the richest woman in the U.S. On the late afternoon of 10.7.66 she killed her gay designer/curator Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her estate. The results of Lance 2 years investigation were first published in the July/August 2020 issue of Vanity Fair. An even deeper dive into that page-burning true crime story is now contained in the 438 page fully illustrated book to be published in 4 editions, Hardcover, Trade Paper, Kindle and Audible on 2.23.21. An audio recording of the VF piece was called “The Best In True Crime of 2020” by Apple News+ and the book has been No. 1 on amazon’s list of COMING IN TRUE CRIME.
Then, in 1987, he took a break from non-fiction. Lance came to L.A. and began working as a writer and story editor for Michael Mann on two of his acclaimed series: Crime Story and Miami Vice. In 1989 he became the co-executive producer and "show runner" on the fourth season of Wiseguy and in 1993 he co-created Missing Persons. Following the 9/11 attacks Lance began investigating the origins of the FBI's original probe of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
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