Miss Betty Renner, a Washington Lawyer, was investigating the murder of Harry Oakes which had occurred seven years before on 7th July 1943. Renner was department of justice lawyer. Renner had become obsessed with Oakes murder. Television movie made about the case starring Armand Assante as de Marigny and Rod Steiger (with an inaccurate Maine accent) as Oakes. Oakes' former home in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, is now the Museum of Northern History, dedicated to his life and to the region's mining history. Kirkland Lake is where he made his fortune as a prospector. He was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. Upon arriving in the Bahamas, the Duke and Duchess immediately declared the governor’s residence to be uninhabitable. It needed a complete overhaul. Sir Harry Oakes rode to the rescue. He had several homes on the island, and he offered the Duke the use of his best house while the governor’s mansion was renovated. Sir Harry had bought island property for a pittance before the war, and soon found himself sitting on a gold mine of a different kind. Alfred de Marigny In truth, it appears the detectives believed Freddy was guilty and would confess if confronted with enough “evidence.” But Freddy, in his memoirs, said he simply knew the lie would have to surface because he had not been anywhere near the bedroom on the night of the murder.

The New Englander, born in Maine, had dropped out of medical school when word came that gold had been found in the Yukon. For the next 15 years, his search for gold failed around the globe: Death Valley, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and the Congo. In 1919, the Massachusetts restaurateur Harry Kelsey had bought land just north of West Palm Beach for a town that would be named for him. Kelsey City incorporated on Nov. 16, 1923, as the state’s first planned community. Kelsey envisioned a metropolis of 100,000. Just about all of the subsequent investigations have concluded, the murderer was Harold G. Christie. Nancy had left Cuba by the late 1940s, and lived in Hollywood, California, where she had a long affair with 1950s English Hollywood film and British TV star Richard Greene. They had a daughter, Patricia Oakes. She remained close friends with Greene until his death in 1985. In 1952 she married Baron Ernst Lyssardt von Hoyningen-Huene (adopted cousin of the artist George Hoyningen-Huene, the only son of Baron Barthold Theodor Hermann (Theodorovitch) von Hoyningen-Huene, a German nobleman who had estates in Estonia that were confiscated by the Soviets during World War II and was the German ambassador to Portugal during World War II, [24]). They had a son, Baron Alexander von Hoyningen-Huene. The marriage lasted until 1956. Nancy died in 2005 and was survived by her two children and two grandchildren. And the Obeah/Voodoo type extra nonsense, done to further defile Sir Harry’s dying body, were the actions of a desperate man, trying to hide a secret.Only person left is Mrs. Newell Kelly wife of property manager. Husband is away. Mrs. Kelly lives in the guest house with her mother. The guest house is away from the main house.

But before he could undergo that ignominy, de Marigny voluntarily left for Cuba, where he soon resumed his playboy existence, taking Oakes’s daughter with him; unsurprisingly, the marriage did not last and the two separated in 1945, eventually divorcing in 1949.Harold Christie had numerous loans with Oakes. Had Oakes called in those loans, Christie would have been wiped out. Police said Oakes likely had died between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., and a woman had sworn that in the early hours of June 8, she saw Christie, who should have been snoring at Oakes’ place, driving along a downtown street.

If Oakes was about to ruin H. G. Christie, by pulling his money out of the Bahamas, and calling the loans he made to the man, why would he let Harold Christie sleep in his house? Not just one night, but two nights and possibly longer if the murder hadn’t taken place. Everyone was heterosexual. Homosexuality didn’t exist in the social register of the upper or lower classes of The Bahamas.

On July 6, 1943, Harry Oakes had made plans to join his family in the U.S. But he decided to stay another day so he could show off his 1,000-acre sheep farm to the editor of a local paper and to his old pal, Sir Harold Christie, a real estate investor he’d met in Palm Beach in the 1930s. As they would be having an early start, Oakes invited Christie to spend the night at his sprawling estate. Christie dismissed Oakes’ house servants. There was only the grounds keeper’s wife, and her elderly mother in a separate staff quarters away from the house. The Duke of Windsor brought in two Miami detectives he knew who took over the investigation completely from local police. Alfred's wife organized his defense and stood by him throughout, believing him innocent. Her private investigator and their British lawyer found serious flaws in the prosecution's case. Alfred de Marigny was acquitted after fingerprint evidence was proven fabricated just as depicted in the film.