etflix has launched a first-look trailer of its much-anticipated documentary in regards to the demise of BBC broadcaster Jill Dando.

The 37-year-old former Crimewatch presenter, one of many BBC’s highest-profile stars, was shot outdoors her house in Fulham, West London, on April 26, 1999.

The upcoming three-part sequence, as a consequence of be launched on September 26, will discover her life in addition to the investigation into her demise. Her life shall be chronicled with a mixture of archive footage, new analysis, and interviews.

In the gripping trailer, Netflix producers requested viewers ,“how is it still unsolved?”

In 2000, a yr after her demise, Barry George was arrested on suspicion of her homicide. He was imprisoned for eight years earlier than he was acquitted and launched after a retrial.

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The former suspect additionally seems within the new trailer, suggesting that he shall be one of many individuals who will communicate within the upcoming sequence.

No additional leads have publicly been made on her case. However, Dando’s brother is hopeful that the brand new documentary may set off some additional developments to find her killer.

Discussing the upcoming documentary on Loose Women on Wednesday, Jane Moore, who options within the sequence, spoke in regards to the case and the way Dando’s brother Nigel, hoped the publicity would assist catch his sister’s killer.

Speaking on Loose Women, journalist Jane Moore, who options within the documentary, stated Dando’s brother Nigel hoped the publicity may assist remedy the case.

Moore stated: “Here we are 24 years on and still nobody has the answer to the question of who did this. I reported on it on the time. Her brother Nigel, who is also a journalist, feels that this could help bring somebody forward that might know something.

“It’s happened with other documentaries where it just triggers a memory, or people’s circumstances change or suddenly decide they will come forward with a piece of information and that is what he is hoping that this documentary will bring.”

The documentary is directed by Marcus Plowright, recognized for Fred And Rose West: Reopened and govt produced by Emma Cooper, who labored on The Mystery Of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.

Dando’s former colleague and Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross campaigned for the Jill Dando Institute (JDI) of Crime Science at University College London in her reminiscence.

The JDI gives programs aimed toward police, neighborhood security partnership analysts, researchers and knowledge officers in addition to instructing undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and researching the right way to cease crime.

When Ross collected a CBE at Windsor Castle in February 2022, he devoted the honour to Dando and paid tribute to his “utterly committed” late co-host.

He stated: “She was, I think like me and like other people involved in the show, changed by meeting more and more of the victims. But she was utterly committed to the show.”

Ross stated the programme’s success in its prime was partly as a consequence of his “wonderful co-presenter”.

Outside of her work on Crimewatch, Dando was additionally seen through the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties on BBC reveals together with journey present Holiday and The Antiques Inspectors.

She started as a reporter at her native paper The Weston Mercury in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, earlier than transferring to the morning programme Breakfast Time, which later grew to become BBC Breakfast.