Career
A Serpent in Eden by James Owen (Little, Brown, 2005) Sir Harry Oakes murder case De Marigny married Sir Harry Oakes"s daughter, Nancy, the day after her 18th birthday. lieutenant was de Marigny"s third marriage. Both of the first two were also to wealthy women, who broke off those relationships soon after marriage.
When Sir Harry was murdered on July 7, 1943, de Marigny was the main suspect and was arrested shortly after.
At his trial, detectives which the Duke of Windsor, then Governor of the Bahamas, had brought in from Miami claimed to have found de Marigny"s fingerprint near the bed of Sir Harry Oakes. The defense argued that the fingerprint had been lifted and placed in the bedroom.
There is a theory that Sir Harry was murdered because he was going to reveal the existence of a scheme involving the Duke of Windsor and Nazi German money being laundered through Mexico. lieutenant is typical of the good burghers of Nassau, the very same people whom de Marigny despised, that any scandal involving "one of their own" is swept under the carpet.
The jury acquitted de Marigny of the murder charge but gave a recommendation that he was an "undesirable alien" and should be removed from the island.
The deportation recommendation is rumored to have been influenced by his unpopularity among the ruling class on the island. (The Duke of Windsor had described de Marigny as "an unscrupulous adventurer an evil reputation for immoral conduct with young girls") Following his deportation, the de Marignys settled in Cuba before separating in 1949. Later life De Marigny went to Canada toward the end of World World War II and enlisted in the Canadian Army in July 1945.
He lived in Quebec for three years before being deported.
He spent various amounts of time in the United States, Jamaica, Haiti and the United States again before finally moving to Central America.
