On October 7, 1966, the wealthy heiress Doris Duke hit and killed her friend Eduardo

Terella while behind the wheel of a rented car. Whether his death was an accident or an intentional

act of murder is still up for debate nearly 60 years later.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Eduardo Torella on Dark Down East.

It was 7 o'clock in the evening on September 17th, 2021, and Newport Police Department

Cold Case Detective Jackie West had just hit record on an interview.

Detective West had been assailing to review a closed case from more than five decades earlier,

a motor vehicle versus pedestrian

collision that resulted in the death of 42-year-old Eduardo Terilla. Newport police officer,

Edward Angel, had been the first law enforcement official to arrive at the scene just outside

of an estate on Bellevue Avenue that day, October 7, 1966.

It was early evening, a little after 5 p.m. when McCall came in. He was a rookie cop with just about a

year on the job. In the 2021 interview with Detective West, the now retired Officer Angel said that his training and experience

so far had not prepared him for what he encountered.

There was a, I observed a car off the road, on sidewalk, up against a tree.

I get out of my car, approached the vehicle, the driver of the car, who I had no idea who it was,

was sitting in the car, behind the wheel, bleeding from the, I think the forehead, if I remember.

Okay.

Some facial.

And she was upset, and she was crying, my friend, my friend.

I don't know where my friend is.

And I looked in the backseat, passenger side, looked around,

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