IN THE world of heavyweight boxing headlines, this is surely one of the finest: “Tunney’s daughter admits slaying: Goes to Asylum.” It was Broadmoor, by the way.
So, here’s the story.
It is 1970 and Gene Tunney’s only daughter, Joan, is living in London’s so-called Stockbroker Belt in a village called Chenies, near Amersham.
Joan and her husband, Lynn Carter Wilkinson, a property developer, had lived there for about five months. It seems it was chosen as an ideal place for Joan to spend some quiet time.
She was not well.
The year before, during a family holiday in Bergen, Norway, Joan vanished.