Welcome to The Heiress Tour! This season, we will be taking a high society and true crime journey through the notable heiresses Dominick Dunne covered within his investigative reporting and beyond.
We begin this season with the case of Margaret Hitchcock Benson, heiress to the Lancaster Leaf tobacco fortune, murdered by her son in July of 1985, in a crime of true greed and coldness.
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Sources
Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice DVD (Amazon link)
LLTC – History (lancasterleaf.com)
The Bensons: Lancaster family ripped apart by greed and murder 30 years ago (lancasteronline.com)
Heiresses? A wonderful theme! To sin is human. To heiress, divine.
Margaret Benson’s family tree may be found online here:
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GZRJ-VFB/margaret-virginia-hitchcock-1922-1985