Who Killed Jill Dando /// Part 1 /// 751 | Forensic Files

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shocking in public daytime murder of a major UK celebrity this is a case that should be
solved police had all modern investig ative resources and Technologies available to
them and the killer was in PL sight yet the identity of the killer who pulled off an execution style shooting on a
quiet residential street remains a mystery or does it this is the still unsolved homicide
case of Jill dando and this is true crime garage back [Music] around Jill D was born in Weston in
Somerset England on November 9th 1961 she was raised there along with her 9-year-old brother Nigel by parents Jack
and Jean as a toddler Jill was diagnosed with a faulty heart and had to have a surgery to repair a hole but that didn't
hold her back she attended World comprehensive School the kind of rigorous lower school that requires a
uniform and wrote memorization in college at Broad Oak the equivalent of high school in the US she
was head girl a privileged appointment reserved for the most exemplary kids she also acted in a local theater group her
father and brother worked for a local paper the Weston Mercury and at age 17 Jill applied for and landed a job there
as a cub reporter she also studied at the South GL Morgan Institute of higher education in Wales then it was on to
radio and the popular news show Spotlight where she became a presenter and then the Pinnacle she went
to work for the BBC in London she hosted the 6:00 news and breakfast news for the
BBC then Jill hosted crime watch UK for years she had a real passion for hosting
crime watch she was also the host of the upbeat holiday a travel show which took
her all over the world Jill's success was largely due to her girl next door looks in Friendly manner she wasn't a
hard driving newswoman she was a sunny and engaging face that audiences related to and many adored she
has been called the Golden Girl of British TV sort of a Jane Paulie type Jill was so popular she was named BBC
personality of the year in 1997 and it wasn't just onward and upward with her career but her personal life was taken
off as well she was recently engaged to be married recently engaged to be married at the time of her death so the
37-year-old was engaged to gynecologist Alan Farthing the two met about 15 months earlier after Jill ended a
seven-year relationship with Bob weaton who was a who was a TV executive she was
by all accounts super excited about her upcoming wedding and her future was looking great then in an instant it all
came to an end on April 26th 1999 Bill's death was immediately big news it received worldwide coverage with
morning news shows in the US and around the globe expressing their shock and disbelief at the cold-blooded murder of
a popular news anchor to the Britain's it was a massive deal the queen and Prime Minister Tony Blair led the nation
in tributes to Jill all the UK tabloids blared the shooting on their front pages with
headlines like assassinated executed and killed by a Hitman Jill's fiance Dr Allan Farthing told the BBC quote I am
totally devastated and unable to comprehend what has happened Jill was respected for her professional ability
admired by all who met her and adored by anyone who got to know her end quote Jill's funeral in her hometown of Weston
was attended by thousands of mourners who ly the streets and paid their respects as the funeral procession
passed everyone was stunned and bewildered at the senseless loss so let's dive into the known events of the
day of the murder at this time Captain Jill owned a home in the fullham neighborhood of London this is a
residential area with street after Street of stately brick row houses this was and is considered to be a clean and
safe neighborhood with up upper middle class residence on the morning of Monday April 26 1999 Jill's neighbor this is
Helen doble was walking down Goen avenue at 11:47 a.m. when she saw Jill's BMW convertible parked on the street now
Jill was not typically at her flat at this time of day in fact she was typically not at this flat very much at
all she had essentially moved in with Allen remember they're engaged at this point and Jill if she wasn't at Allen's
place she was always at work she's on two different TV shows and traveling the globe for one of them so her place sat
empty most of the time Helen noted the vehicle and immediately hoped to see Jill as they often would chat about
random things and exchange niceties they would chat just outside of Jill's door but the occasions where they would bump
into one another became increasingly rare as Jill was not usually there Helen looked at the front door of number 29
Goen avenue and spotted Jill lying on her stoop with her keys in her hand Helen said it took her a beat or two to
realize it was Jill because of the way she looked there was a massive pull of blood under her head and body his
Helen called the police and said a woman has collapsed and it looks like Jill D she doesn't look like she's breathing
there's blood oh my God no I don't think she's alive somehow Helen's call came across
as a stabbing it's unclear whether she thought that's what actually happened or somehow the signals just got mixed up
but her call to police Drew attention immediately as violence in the fullham neighborhood was
extremely unusual Kensington PD detective Chief Inspector Hamish Campbell was dispatched
to the scene of a stabbing on Goen avenue remember that was the call that came in while in route he received a
call that the victim was confirmed to be Jill D the TV news presenter whose face
was familiar all across the UK be different than than a lot of murder cases because normally we find the
victim inside this victim is outside so when the EMTs and the police officers arrive they see her laying there on her
stoop and this is the middle of the day too broad daylight Captain they arrive on scene they find Jill lying in a
massive pool of blood she has no pulse but they do try to resuscitate her unfortunately the result she passes away
by the time the inspector again his name Hamish Campbell arrives on the scene the
scene is somewhat disturbed because they're trying to save her life but there's people kind of Milling about
people that should be there so blood patterns are disrupted fingerprints are disrupted and so on this is outside as
you pointed out captain and that creates an issue for investigators as it limits
the amount of control that you have have of your crime scene Joe was taken to nearby Charing Cross hospital where she
was confirmed to be dead on arrival at 1:03 p.m. on that Monday now the news could not be contained investigators had
no time to try to control what got out to the public and what did not BBC presenter Jenny Bond interrupted the
broadcast of that day with obvious shock and dismay in her voice informing the public that one of their own her friend
the publicly beloved Jill dando had been attacked and stabbed to death in front of her home again we know it was a gun
that was used to kill her however the reports at the time the early reports was that it was a stabbing Jill's
brother Nigel he's working at the Bristol Evening Post that very day and of course
he sees the news right away as the reports are coming in about his sister he said said later that his first
priority became getting to their elderly father so that he could tell his father
rather than hearing it on the news right when inspector Campbell arrived at the scene on go and Avenue officers on the
scene directed his attention to something on the ground this was a 9mm shell casing lying near where Jill's
body had been she hadn't been stabbed as we said her autopsy would later confirm
it she had died from a close contact gunshot wound to the left side of her head and from what I have seen here
Captain it appears the way that the scene is described that Jill was arriving at her
flat to go inside the flat rather than leaving that day yeah and it doesn't seem to me that this is a a Rober y
attempt almost comes across in the simplest form as an assassination investigators closed the entire block a
massive white tent was set up over Jill's entire house front to preserve evidence and provide privacy and the
investigation began we do get uh an eyewitness at least one eyewitness here in fact there's there's several but I
want to hone in on one in particular and this is a neighbor of Jill D his name is
Richard Hughes and I'm going to go through two different reports and I'm doing this In fairness to the listeners
because I cannot decide Captain which I feel is the better report and they're varying to some very small degrees here
so one report straight from the newspaper says after suffering a single gunshot wound to the Head detectives
launched a murder in iny concentrating on tracking down a smartly dressed man carrying a mobile telephone who was
spotted fleeing the bloodstained scene in fham Southwest London Police were still searching a stretch of the river
tames in London near the Putney bridge this was a short distance from Jill's home residents huddled in a small group
at either end of The Quiet leafy Street which was corned off by police and this is neighbor Richard Hughes he's aged
32 he told police he described to police hearing a scream during the attack he says quote I
was upstairs in the house and I heard her car alarm go off briefly it was the kind of time Jill usually arrived home
on Mondays Mr Hughes said then between 30 and 40 seconds later I heard her scream it was a very distinctive scream
I opened the shutters and I saw a man he was very well-dressed he was wearing a barber style jacket and at first I
thought it must have been a friend of Jill's I went to the door and I saw her lying on the doorstep she was completely
unconscious and covered in blood describing the man's demeanor Mr Hughes said he walked very calmly away from the
scene at that time and I didn't really think anything of it he was walking briskly he had dark hair and he was
white and he didn't look at all flustered now from the other report and you'll hear similarities here Captain
States police heavily canvased the neighborhood for Witnesses and Witnesses also approached the investigators since
everyone knew about the crime no one seemed to have heard the gunshot but one man heard something else Richard Hughes
who lived next door to jel was at home that morning he heard a scream that clearly came from a woman but he chocked
it up to someone screaming with surprise or Delight he later said that he had heard the scream he looked out the
shutters of his bedroom window all he saw was a man moving briskly toward fham Palace Road he could see only the side
of the man's face but just 14 minutes later Richard heard a woman loudly exclaiming outside his home this was
Helen the other neighbor that we talked about that was walking down the street right so Helen having found Jill calling
emergency services Richard told the BBC quote I went to the door and I saw her lying on the doorstep she was
unconscious and covered in blood I was obviously shocked I took a look at her and she wasn't breathing now
just like in the first report didn't put together until later that the man he had
seen might have been Jill's killer he hadn't seen him interact with Jill or anything like that right he doesn't see
the man talking with Jill all he sees is this man moving swiftly away from the scene right around the time that he
hears the scream Richard provided a description of the man that he saw and he says that the the official
description of this man issued by the police to the public was a Caucasian male 5'9 in to 6 foot tall short dark
hair clean shaven smartly dressed in a dark suit or jacket and trousers and an Overcoat Richard told the BBC quote he
was well-dressed he was wearing a barber style jacket and at first I thought it must have been a friend of Jill's as he
looked very respectable so people in the neighborhood and neighbors obviously know Jill everybody's going to know Jill
she's on TV but she's also a friendly individual who's engaging in conversation regularly when she's around
with her neighbors right and we get this sighting we have the two witnesses Helen
who stumbles upon Jill she's hoping to chat with her friend but sees her lying on the stoop after she's been shot and
then we have Richard Hughes who has kind of two different sightings right two different situations all in a very short
period of time he sees this man leaving after he heard some kind of scream and then he later sees Jill on
her stoop and says she's covered in blood and she's unconscious again the the demeanor of this suspect the dress
of the suspect doesn't make a lot of sense with the r Rand act it doesn't and and the thing that we need to kind of
hone in on here as important as this eyewitness account may be technically there's no proof that the man that was
spotted was the one that shot Jill right you know he could have been a businessman walking on the Block he
could have heard the scream himself he could have not heard the scream himself but we don't have anybody coming forward
to law enforcement saying hey I was the smartly Dressed Man exactly exactly and that's what makes you go okay well maybe
this guy is involved it would seem to make sense and it would be very understandable that he's not going to
come forward and place himself there if he were to be involved I like the English here Captain I think I'm going
to start using the phrase smartly dressed man as well yeah Every Girl's Crazy for a smartly Dressed Man neighbor
Jeffrey upfi Brown says that he also saw this dark-haired white man in a nice jacket walking briskly or running from
the area he said the man slowed down to a normal Pace when and he believes this is because the man noticed him seeing
him right I'm looking at this guy he's moving pretty fast from the scene he sees me looking at him and he kind of
calms down and starts moving at a normal Pace right I like having this Jeffrey upil Brown account
and it being similar to Richard hughes's account and the reason why I didn't mean
to drag it out any longer than necessary but I went through the two different reports of hughes's account because I
had a lot of questions with it I I don't like when people are giving a statement
to police and they're like I saw her from this distance up in my window and she was unconscious and she was not
breathing you're you're making assumptions that are making it into the report right which makes me wonder and
question does this person know more or did he have a different Vantage Point than the window from his place and so we
get this other account that is backing up and kind of confirming Richard hughes's account of
this man fleeing the scene the smartly Dressed Man the other thing here too Captain we get this blue Range Rover
okay so there's this a blue Range Rover that's cited spotted by a few people this would receive quite a bit of
attention from police and from the public Apparently one was caught on CCTV speeding from the area around the time
of the incident the documentary who killed Jill D on Netflix reported that the blue Range Rover was parked on Goen
avenue that morning at 10:15 and a traffic cop approached the vehicle to give it a ticket the traffic
cop she backs off when the driver kind of waves her away but of course with the later events of Jill dando being shot
and killed nearby that's going to trigger the traffic cops memory right and go this
might be something here this blue Range Rover right and again this could be very
important because right after the time of the shooting or approximately shortly after the time of the shooting a blue
Range Rover was captured on that CCTV heading over the Putney Bridge away from Jill's House at a high speed running
several red lights and Vanishing but again smartly Dressed Man Range Rover I mean Range Rovers aren't cheap if you're
law enforcement to me it's like did this individual know her is this uh a personal attack we need to look at her
Inner Circle of course track down this individual find out if he a witness potential witness or a suspect so 4 days
after the murder this is going to take us to April 30th inspector Campbell released the CCTV footage showing a
metallic blue Range Rover speeding South on fham Palace Road police tried their very best to run down all of the blue
Range Rovers registered in London in the surrounding areas but that was like almost like trying to find Yellow Cabs
in New York City it's it's a more common vehicle there than here and in fact I tell you what in the last two years I'm
seeing Range Rovers all over the place police followed this lead for months and Hamish Campbell the inspector has said
he thinks there was something to that lead but the driver was never found and you are hitting on something
here that I think is very interesting in and very important to the case here Captain you have to wonder is this a
peer of jills right maybe not somebody that she knew maybe not somebody that she interacted with that day or ever but
the description of the clothing the description of the vehicle I got to believe it's a similar
description that would be given of persons that live in the area that would be traveling through the this
neighborhood so was this one of Jill's peers or you have to wonder was this an attempt by
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cheers to you Captain to the windows to the walls there was another lead and this one is known as the sweaty man lead
more than one witness reported seeing a sweating man running to fham Palace road
to the bus stop there right so this is a very short distance from Jill's house for some reason it doesn't seem that
police thought that this was just a commuter who was stressed out about maybe running late for the bus they seem
to think that if was possible that maybe more than one person could be involved in the murder of Jill
dando here's a scenario for you okay perhaps there could have been two people who came to
fham in the Range Rover but the shooter or the accomplice didn't quite make it back to the vehicle
before the parking patrol officer scared off the vehicle and driver that would make some sense that's a scenario for
you right because it would make sense that then that person would flee the area and maybe even flee to the nearest
bus stop because we know that according to the traffic officer the Range Rover peeled out and maybe the actual shooter
the person who gets out of the Range Rover to go up and do the deed is stuck with no choice but to take
the bus what seems strange to me if you are tracking her why wouldn't you just wait for her to get inside her
house push her inside push her inside commit the crime you could leave through the back or you could leave through the
front but then again it'll take time cuz the body is not just laying on the front
porch yeah and this is from from the way that it's described and from the pictures that I've seen Captain this is
while it's a very public area a neighborhood people walking down the street people driving up and down the
street the front porch I wouldn't the stoop there I wouldn't say that it was on display for all to see okay right
it's sort of tucked away I wouldn't say that it's concealed I wouldn't say that it would be hard to spot Jill on the
stoop but I also want to point out that in my opinion I don't think it would be blatantly obvious right I think that
there's a chance that if no gunshot goes off if there's no scream that maybe somebody could walk down that street and
not notice her on the stoop we know that her friend in neighbor Helen spots Jill
there but remember she got excited at seeing the BMW Jill's BMW parked out front of her
flat and going oh Jill must be here so she's kind of looking for her when she spots her right and keep in mind the
neighbor sees her because he's upstairs he's looking at looking down which would
make it easier for him to see Jill now what we do know though Captain is that police did put a lot of stock into the
sweaty man lead so some witnesses they found said that they had seen the sweaty man standing at the
number 74 bus stop so they tried to access the bus company surveillance footage but it had already been erased
but they learned from witnesses that the sedy man had gotten on the bus talked on
a mobile phone and disembarked at Putney bridge this is where the Range Rover had
gone as well so okay so they could be connected they could be connected man sweaty man fleas on foot toward the
Putney Bridge towards the uh bus stop there and we also have the Range Rover who is speeding out of the area to the
point of running several red lights last seen going over that Putney Bridge so just to be clear we have surveillance
footage from the bus but we don't have it because it took them too long to connect the dots and so by the time they
get to where they could get the surveillance footage it's gone right by the time they were asking for before it
had been erased and likely they had erased it to record the next day's activities or 2 days later's activities
so what have just been a couple of days that they would have figured out this is
a great lead and where does it take us the breadcrumb trail takes us to the bus let's get surveillance
footage [ __ ] it's too late it's been erased well and here are some questions right so is this blue Range Rover
connected to the sweaty man okay do we do we fix figure out who the guy driving the Range Rover is and do we figure out
who the sweaty man is well and what is not clear from several of these statements is the smartly dressed man
the same as the driver of the Range Rover so in reality to me here Captain what I see is three really good leads
the sweaty man the smartly Dressed Man and the Range Rover now are they all ected they could be or are they all
independent of one another and two of them are bad leads and one of them is a great lead that remains yet to be seen
right so let's go to this information this this is great information here again and you'll see
how important these three leads really are based on witness descriptions so 4 days after the murder we're we're still
on April 30th here keep in mind this is the same date that the police choose to release the Range Rover footage to the
public on that same day Captain they also released a computer generated image of the sweaty man saying and telling the
public he is a prime suspect and could have had an accomplice so that kind of paints a picture for us of what the
police believe at the time 4 days after the murder here's a generated computer generated image of our suspect he could
have had an accomplice oh and we're releasing footage of a blue Range Rover and our Witnesses are telling us that
the sweaty man was not in the blue Range Rover so that tells me that police at least thought at that time that if this
sweaty man was the Prime Suspect like they said and he had an accomplice that accomplice was likely all tied up and
connected to that blue Range Rover people rightfully assume that police would only issue this image if the guy
was an actual suspect and they're calling him Prime Suspect so this can be good and bad for your
investigation you're asking begging the public for help for information about this person this
computer generated image that you have right but at the same time it could potentially quash other
leads that might be useful in the case what we end up with Captain is eventually a man calls in and he
identifies himself as the sweaty man at the bus stop his name is James Shackleton he admitted that he looked
just like the sketch that had been released Shackleton was an odd duck he drove around in an old ambulance and
worked as an Undertaker he told police that on the day of the murder he was in the park
collecting wood to make coffins he was quote this is his words chased out of the park by a
man so he tells police after he's chased out of the park by a man he went to the
bus stop do we have a reason why he was chased out of the park there I'm sure there's probably some further detail
here that just haven't has not reached our eyeballs right police arrested James Shack
so they could question him and so they could search his house inside of his home they found a coffin in some photos
of the fham neighborhood police interrogated Shackleton and accused him of being obsessed with Jill but he
denied that he said he's not obsessed with her in fact he says that he is homosexual police decided that it was
likely indeed Shackleton in the sketch of the sweaty man and they referred to him as a quote
Nutter and the time they wasted on him set back the real investigation Hamish Campbell the inspector later said that
releasing the sketch of someone who might not have been involved in the crime he considered that to be a mistake
then there was this report by The Guardian newspaper that said detectives reveal
today this is we're going to go back in time to April 27th this is the day after
the murder detectives revealed today that the killer of crime watch presenter Jill D probably staked out her home in
West London for at least an hour before shooting her in the head at very close range with a 9mm semi automatic gun they
detailed several sightings of a prime suspect remember we're back to the smartly dressed man carrying a mobile
phone who may have dawned heavy black frame spectacle in an attempt to disguise himself a
window cleaner was the one who had seen a man watching Jill's house now we're back to the same questions that we've
been circling around before right was the man he saw the same as the Range Rover
driver where had Witnesses seen this guy standing was he walking up and down the
street or just standing in a particular spot so they're releasing information but only little bits of it which is just
going to leave the rest of us with more questions and answers so in this investigation we're trying to track down
these possible suspects but police are going to be learning about some of the evidence at the scene and they're going
to dive into the evidence of the gun that's exactly right Captain police immediately started to analyze the two
pieces of solid physical evidence that they had we got the 9mm semi-automatic brass shell casing that was found at the
scene and unfortunately we have the bullet as well under a microscope ballistics experts noted that the casing
bore six indentations or crimps intended to hold it in the cartridge case these crimps were irregular and
inconsistent so this is indicating to police or at least it's their expert opinion that these
crimps indentations were done by hand They concluded that the crimps were intended to keep the bullet in the
casing and someone had rigged up the whole thing picture John malovich in that that assassination movie making his
own gun and ammunition at home right there's somebody here that's putting this thing together and really kind of
creating something here so it's going to be one of a kind is what I'm getting at
again police opinion that this was something that was done by hand so as for the bullet there were no evident
rifling marks this led to the conclusion that the gun that shot Jill was possibly
we got to we got to I want to underline that possibly an altered starting pistol or a
low muzzle velocity weapon not what one typically sees in execution style shootings this seemed like more of a
weapon that someone happen to have on hand that they may do with now we do need to point out and we need to keep in
mind as we go through this case here captain that guns are much harder to obtain in the UK than they are here in
the US absolutely uh from the guardian quote gun experts say the casing could have
been tampered with possibly to reduce the amount of powder to deaden the sound of The Gunshot indicating someone with
knowledge of firearms if in fact that's the reason why somebody tampered with the
casing if they knew that that could potentially dampen or deaden sorry the sound of The Gunshot that's somebody
with a good amount of knowledge of firearms that's not your average bear right just to break down UK gun control
a little bit here for persons that are not familiar in the United Kingdom access by the
general public to Firearms is subject to some of the strictest control measures in the world subject to licensing
members of the public May own rifles and shotguns however most handguns have been
banned in Great Britain since the dunblaine school massacre in 1996 that was in Scotland keep in mind though here
Captain the dates that we've just discussed so we've discussed 1999 and this strict gun control doesn't
seem to come into effect after this massacre in 1996 I didn't have time to go through
all of the fine print that's probably involved here you have to wonder were some people grandfathered in did people
have firearms from before this these strict control measures went into place right it's only a short period of time
between the two events there were a couple of other indications that the shooter perhaps was not a professional
not a hired Hitman or trained assassin for one thing he left the bullet casing there for the police to find that's
something that somebody who does this would know that you probably shouldn't do given the opportunity collect the
bullet casing before you flee the scene and for another they knew from the muzzle mark on Jill's head and the
bruising on her forearm that someone had grabbed her and then forced her toward the
ground and then shot her while she was crouched down right so this was Close Range close contact it was not a sniper
from across the street it wasn't somebody that's just lying in weight hiding in a corner or
behind the bush and she walks up and and and he or she shoots her from 2 3 4 5 ft
away this was somebody that came up to her grabbed her forced her to the ground for some reason and then while she is
near the ground she's kind of crouching down that is when the gun was put close to her and then she is
shot so whether this was intended or not and just the way that it happened to play out you have to wonder but even if
it's just in the moment here Captain this was somebody who wanted to be very close to Jill when she was killed well
just because there were some mistakes made doesn't mean it wasn't a professional
exactly that's exactly right until we know we don't know now there was a terrific piece on the timeline of Jill's
last day this was found in the independent many of Jill's movements that day the day in question were
captured on CCTV the rest of the timeline was compiled from witness statements so
we're going to get a a pretty detailed timeline for Jill of that day and like we said before Jill was engaged so she
woke up at her fiance's house the morning of the murder in the reports that we've reviewed it sounds like she
was there most of the time she's practically just living in Allen's place so she wakes up at about
6:45 that morning this is while Allan her fiance is preparing to go to work so he is in the shower and
according to the information he gives to police he says Jill made me a cup of tea and got a bowl of cereal to go for
me and then she goes back to bed so he takes the shower he's going to drink the tea eat the cereal and then he's going
to run off to work she sets him up with a with breakfast while he's getting ready nice woman trying to help him
start his day off Nice Allen leaves for work so he works at the Queen Mary's Hospital in Paddington West London he's
a consultant there and he left for work according to Allen at 7:25 a.m. again this is Monday
20 this is Monday April 26th 1999 that the previous weekend she had spent the entire weekend with Allan this is after
having been away for several days while filming in Dublin dressed in a beige raincoat red button-up jacket black
trousers and Boots Jill dando leaves Allen's house in Bedford close Chiswick West
London this is shortly after 10:30 a.m. and she's traveling in her convertible blue BMW
her intent is to do some everyday chores so the first stop was the BP garage on the Great Western Road to buy petrol and
milk she then drove the short distance to the Kings mall shopping center in Hammersmith she bought some fact paper
at ryman's and then went to Dixon's in search of an ink printer cartridge she failed to purchased the correct one
before going into a nearby store the link she then returned to her car and drove off this is at 11:04 a.m. so this
is great detailed information that's timestamped from CCTV right minutes later a passer by this is Sarah
py recognized Miss dando as she sat in her car in traffic at fham Palace Road jel dando sees this woman looking at her
she smiles back at her and Sarah distinctively remembers this because she's excited about seeing the
celebrity who smiles back at her and in fact she picks up her mobile phone and calls a friend right away to say hey I
just saw Jill D in traffic and she saw me and she smiled at me around 11:20 a.m. Jill went to the cop's fishmongers
on fham Road where the assistant remembered that she was in a happy mood but seemed to be in a bit of a rush and
remarked that her car was parked right around the corner so Jill goes there to pick up two
do soul for supper while there she received a call on her cell phone from Prince Edward Theater this is confirming
that Jill had tickets for the West End show Mama Mia she appeared excited and bubbly and took and told the booking
clerk the tickets were a present for her fiance Allen to avoid a bottleneck in traffic at the fham palace Road she took
a back route to get to her home on Goen avenue Miss dando had then planned to head back to her house drop off the fish
before going to a charity lunch at 12:30 p.m. with her friend so this is all very
tight time frames here short short windows of time with a detailed or with such a detailed time of
events you'd think this would help law enforcement yes I absolutely do think and I do think that it did help right it
should help and I do think that it did help but the problem here with this case to me is a full we're lacking a full
understanding of the motive here in my opinion right which I think would all o or could at least dictate how one
chooses to carry out this if this was in fact planned from from start to finish and went down as planned or close to
that plan so by now in our timeline Captain we have her arriving in her BMW just outside of her home she walked to
the front door of her house this is about 11:30 a.m. on that Monday and again please note Jill Parker on the
street right outside of her house now how do we know this that's where it gets a little
murky because it's unclear whether there was actually CCTV footage surveillance footage Street
footage of her on her block right in fact we've never heard police mention it it's a very safe exclusive residential
neighborhood so my guess here is that there was no need for cameras on every single Street
but we do know that they followed her movements or at least most of her movements that morning on different
cctvs that were spread out through the area but what happened here according to the guardian quote as Dand was about to
put her keys in the lock to open the front door of her home she was grabbed from behind and we
have Britain's leading pathologist who says that he can confirm this because there was a bruise She was
recently bruised on her right forearm shortly before her death if she was grabbed from
behind what the police are telling us is they believe she Pro approaches the door
she's going to put her key in the door she's parked right in front of her house so likely she's going to open up the
door maybe even return to the vehicle that's nearby grab some things and head inside there is a gate that is between
her and her vehicle at this point right the gate that leads to her house the police experts are telling us the as
salant came up from behind her and grabbed and bruised her right forearm so they're saying with his the asant with
his right arm grabs her right arm forcing her toward the ground and then with his left hand holding the gun
shoots Jill dando she's so close to the ground they believe at this point that her face was almost touching the tiled
step of the porch this was a single shot at her left temple which would have killed her instantly the bullet entered
her head just above her ear parallel to the ground and then came out the right side of her head and into the door
leaving a Mark that was a mere 22 cm above the doorstep it was very close to 11 :30 a.m. so as everyone just heard
Jill didn't stay at her own place the night before her murder one thing that's important to understand is that Jill
wasn't really living at her expensive going Avenue town home at all she had pretty much moved in with her fiance
right her house was in fact for sale at the time and she rarely stayed at her house her own house overnight and really
just stopped in at random times they say to grab clothing mail and personal items the CCTV footage
Captain here is so important because we get a detective who will go on record saying quote my conclusion is that the
victim was not being followed at any stage in any of the footage saying we tracked Jill's movements on CCTV and
talked to everyone she talked to no one saw anyone following her from shop to shop so now we have to wonder if she's
hardly ever there and when she is there it seems like she's there at random times I will point out though the reason
for reading again those two statements the two reports about Richard hughes's account of what he saw that day in one
of those accounts what was one of the details that wasn't in the second account it was I thought it could be
Jill because that's the time that she's usually here on a Monday right so that's
very different right we're told by all these other people that this is such a rare and random happen stance when she
chooses to show up at her townhouse yet we have a neighbor who is saying I thought it could be Jill because that's
the time that she's usually here on a Monday I don't take from that statement that Richard Hughes means every Monday
but I take it to mean that when he happens to see Jill on a Monday it happens to be around this time so yeah
all that answers some questions but then raises other ones I mean if she wasn't being followed with somebody lying away
and waiting for her it's weird man because a lot of this stuff yes the CCTV footage and talking to all of the
persons engaged with her saw her interacted with her that day is very helpful to our timeline and as police I
got to believe what the police are saying they tell us we've reviewed everything what we see is that nobody
was following her that day okay well that answers one question but it also provides additional questions right
right so does that mean that if somebody if somebody wanted to Target if that's the key here again I think it goes to
motive because if you can confirm 100% that Jill D was the Target and the target wasn't just some random person in
an upper class neighborhood or a well-to-do woman walking down the street well then that
means that if this person wasn't following her and killed her at a place that she rarely is or may only drop in
from time to time could this person have just been permanently watching her house or
keeping an eye on her house right waiting for her to pop up and then do the deed then and then the other the
other thing that you wonder about right we talk about that it may not have been a professional Hitman because of the
mistake of leaving the shell casing there at the scene and maybe that's just oh I got spooked and I I I fled the
scene and and I messed up people mess up but to me I feel I feel that if we have
a seasoned individual that's carrying this out that they're collecting that shell casing because that's one of the
very few pieces of evidence that they ended up having in this case but then but then you makes you wonder did they
leave it behind on purpose to to throw you off some kind of Trail the other thing too that I wonder about here
Captain is the forcing her to the ground before shooting her because I think that
one could argue that this is suggestive of two very different things one could argue and have a sound
argument for that shows that this is more of a personal crime but I think somebody else could argue that maybe a
Hitman or somebody that's trying to thinks that it would be better to force her toward the ground to conceal the
crime to give me an extra few seconds to blend back in right because as we said we know that there we went through a
brief description of the scene this investigation was huge this investigation in this case in the Jill
dando homicide case was massive according to the independent UK it was the Metro police's largest murder
investigation and quote the largest criminal investigation since the hunt for Jack the Ripper end
quote detective Chief Inspector Hamish Campbell LED this investigation which reviewed 2400 statements from Witnesses
and interviewees this would later grow to over 4,000 over the years they looked into 2,000 plus named potential suspects
Tracked Down 1,200 vehicles and reviewed thousands of hours of CCTV footage tips
and leads were called in from all over the world the price tag at the six-month Mark of this
investigation was a whopping 1,247 pounds wow as we know from Deli a massive scale investigation can
sometimes be too big too many cooks in the kitchen well and you have to wonder maybe did police lose sight of
the forest for the [Music] trees one of the thank everybody for joining us here in the garage today
until tomorrow be good be kind and don't litter [Music]

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This week we are sharing a case that rocked Britain. It was a daytime murder of a major U.K. celebrity. On April 26th, 1999 someone shot and killed TV presenter Jill Dando on the stoop of her home in London. Jill was beloved by millions. Her girl next door looks, Princess Di hair cut, and her charm took her to the heights of British broadcasting. So who would want to harm the woman that so many adored? That is the mystery that has riddled the Kensington police for over two decades now. The Netflix doc-series “Who Killed Jill Dando?” came out in 2023 and has brought worldwide attention to this still unsolved murder case.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the unsolved murder of Jill Dando, a beloved British TV presenter, and the ensuing investigation.

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The Shocking Murder of Jill Dando. Jill Dando, a beloved UK TV presenter, was murdered in broad daylight, leaving the nation in shock.
A Devastated Fiancé. Dr. Alan Farthing, Jill's fiancé, shares his heartbreak after her tragic death.
A Nation Mourns. Jill's murder prompted tributes from the Queen and Prime Minister, highlighting her impact.
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This is the still unsolved homicide case of Jill Dando.

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