British broadcasting legend, Jill Dando – nicknamed the Princess Diana of TV – was killed by a single bullet on her doorstep in 1999 in broad daylight – and a new Netflix documentary re-examines the suspects.
Despite one of the biggest homicide investigations in British history, the murder still remains unsolved. Although a jury found prime suspect Barry George guilty of the murder in 2001, his conviction was later quashed.
Netflix‘s three-part series Who Killed Jill Dando? “takes viewers through the twists and the turns of a true crime mystery”. Her family, friends, journalists, investigators and lawyers consider the question: Who Killed Jill Dando?
Here’s a comprehensive rundown of all the suspects in the baffling criminal investigation into the death of Jill Dando.
Who Killed Jill Dando? on Netflix – all the suspects
A mystery shooter killed TV presenter Jill Dando on the doorstep of her Fulham house on 26 April 1999. She was killed with one single gunshot to the head, and could not be saved.
At 1.03pm, doctors declared Jill Dando dead at Charing Cross Hospital. She was just 37.
The police launched a huge investigation, talking to eyewitnesses, those who knew her, and painstakingly looking through hundreds of hours of CCTV footage of Jill’s movements before her death.
And, at first, there were several key suspects who had to be investigated. These included her stalker, a man seen leaving the scene, and a possible hitman executing a professional job.
Hamish Campbell, Senior Investigating Officer at the time, tells the documentary makers: “It takes a brutal, sadistic psychopath to shoot a gun at someone’s head. Whoever did it is still out there.”
Jill Dando suspects: A man seen running away
Several key witnesses were interviewed within hours of Jill Dando’s death. Although no one actually saw what had happened to Jill, police identified two witnesses who had seen a man leaving the scene. They described this man as white, with dark hair, thick set, and wearing a dark coat.
The man wasn’t masked, or wearing gloves. However, he was seen running away. Another witness claimed he saw a man running across the road who stopped at the bus stop and was sweating.
The sweating man at the bus stop on Fulham Palace Road became a prime suspect – although it seems unlikely that a murderer would use a bus as a getaway… Police released an e-fit of the suspect. Sadly, they were unable to retrieve CCTV footage from the buses at the crucial time of Jill’s murder.
Later a man phoned the enquiry and stated he looked like the e-fit. Undertaker James Shackleton was later ruled as a suspect, and exposed as a liar who had previously involved himself in other murder investigations.
The person in the blue Range Rover
In the Netflix documentary, Who Killed Jill Dando?, the investigating officer at the time mentioned a traffic warden who became a key witness.
She was about to give a ticket to the driver of a blue Range Rover on Gowan Avenue, the road where Jill was found dead. The traffic warden started to write the ticket out but the driver brushed her off and drove away.
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