![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/jill-dando-murdered-bbc-presenter-was-just-in-wrong-place-at-wrong-time/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/131087957_jilldandouniversal-base_na_00_zxx.jpg&description=Image source, Netflix Image caption, Jill Dando described the BBC's Crimewatch programme as "public service broadcasting at its best" In April 1999, the BBC presenter and journalist Jill Dando was shot dead on her doorstep with a single bullet in broad daylight. Twenty-four years on, despite one of the biggest, most high-profile murder investigations in British history, the case remains unsolved. Now, a detailed new three-part Netflix documentary will attempt to answer the question, Who Killed Jill Dando? The exhaustive docuseries, which builds on the shorter 2019 BBC feature , depicts the late Crimewatch and Holiday presenter as "the golden girl of British television" and "like a TV [Princess] Diana"; with thousands of mourners lining the streets of her hometown Weston-super-Mare for her funeral. It offers detailed first-hand accounts from her family, friends and journalists - including BBC colleague Jennie Bond, who was "cold with shock" before breaking the news of her death to viewers - as well as police chiefs and lawyers who covered the case. It also explores the many "fanciful" theories, as Dando's brother Nigel puts it, that were dissected by London's Metropolitan Police as to why his sister - "the nation's sweetheart" - was killed that day in Fulham at the age of 37. These theories range from her death being the work of a crazed celebrity stalker or a jilted lover, to it being an assassination carried out by a professional hitman from the mafia or criminal underworld, due to her very public work helping to catch culprits. Others claimed she had been executed in a revenge hit for the UK-backed Nato bombing of Serbia's state broadcaster. Nigel Dando has his own theory. CCTV images showed his sister had not been followed home by anyone that day, he notes, and she was, by then, spending very little time at her own place having moved in with her fiancé Alan Farthing. So how could anyone have known she going to arrive there at that time? Mr Dando tells BBC News: "){kind=link}
In April 1999, the BBC presenter and journalist Jill Dando was shot dead on her doorstep with a single bullet in broad daylight.
Twenty-four years on, despite one of the biggest, most high-profile murder investigations in British history, the case remains unsolved.
Now, a detailed new three-part Netflix documentary will attempt to answer the question, Who Killed Jill Dando?
The exhaustive docuseries, which builds on the shorter 2019 BBC feature, depicts the late Crimewatch and Holiday presenter as “the golden girl of British television” and “like a TV [Princess] Diana”; with thousands of mourners lining the streets of her hometown Weston-super-Mare for her funeral.
It offers detailed first-hand accounts from her family, friends and journalists – including BBC colleague Jennie Bond, who was “cold with shock” before breaking the news of her death to viewers – as well as police chiefs and lawyers who covered the case.