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shocking in public daytime murder of a major UK celebrity this is a case that should be
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solved police had all modern investig ative resources and Technologies available to
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them and the killer was in PL sight yet the identity of the killer who pulled off an execution style shooting on a
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quiet residential street remains a mystery or does it this is the still unsolved homicide
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case of Jill dando and this is true crime garage back [Music] around Jill D was born in Weston in
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Somerset England on November 9th 1961 she was raised there along with her 9-year-old brother Nigel by parents Jack
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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
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hold her back she attended World comprehensive School the kind of rigorous lower school that requires a
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uniform and wrote memorization in college at Broad Oak the equivalent of high school in the US she
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was head girl a privileged appointment reserved for the most exemplary kids she also acted in a local theater group her
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father and brother worked for a local paper the Weston Mercury and at age 17 Jill applied for and landed a job there
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as a cub reporter she also studied at the South GL Morgan Institute of higher education in Wales then it was on to
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radio and the popular news show Spotlight where she became a presenter and then the Pinnacle she went
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to work for the BBC in London she hosted the 6:00 news and breakfast news for the
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BBC then Jill hosted crime watch UK for years she had a real passion for hosting
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crime watch she was also the host of the upbeat holiday a travel show which took
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her all over the world Jill's success was largely due to her girl next door looks in Friendly manner she wasn't a
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hard driving newswoman she was a sunny and engaging face that audiences related to and many adored she
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has been called the Golden Girl of British TV sort of a Jane Paulie type Jill was so popular she was named BBC
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personality of the year in 1997 and it wasn't just onward and upward with her career but her personal life was taken
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off as well she was recently engaged to be married recently engaged to be married at the time of her death so the
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37-year-old was engaged to gynecologist Alan Farthing the two met about 15 months earlier after Jill ended a
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seven-year relationship with Bob weaton who was a who was a TV executive she was
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by all accounts super excited about her upcoming wedding and her future was looking great then in an instant it all
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came to an end on April 26th 1999 Bill's death was immediately big news it received worldwide coverage with
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morning news shows in the US and around the globe expressing their shock and disbelief at the cold-blooded murder of
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a popular news anchor to the Britain's it was a massive deal the queen and Prime Minister Tony Blair led the nation
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in tributes to Jill all the UK tabloids blared the shooting on their front pages with
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headlines like assassinated executed and killed by a Hitman Jill's fiance Dr Allan Farthing told the BBC quote I am
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totally devastated and unable to comprehend what has happened Jill was respected for her professional ability
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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
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was attended by thousands of mourners who ly the streets and paid their respects as the funeral procession
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passed everyone was stunned and bewildered at the senseless loss so let's dive into the known events of the
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day of the murder at this time Captain Jill owned a home in the fullham neighborhood of London this is a
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residential area with street after Street of stately brick row houses this was and is considered to be a clean and
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safe neighborhood with up upper middle class residence on the morning of Monday April 26 1999 Jill's neighbor this is
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Helen doble was walking down Goen avenue at 11:47 a.m. when she saw Jill's BMW convertible parked on the street now
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Jill was not typically at her flat at this time of day in fact she was typically not at this flat very much at
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all she had essentially moved in with Allen remember they're engaged at this point and Jill if she wasn't at Allen's
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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
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empty most of the time Helen noted the vehicle and immediately hoped to see Jill as they often would chat about
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random things and exchange niceties they would chat just outside of Jill's door but the occasions where they would bump
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into one another became increasingly rare as Jill was not usually there Helen looked at the front door of number 29
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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
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realize it was Jill because of the way she looked there was a massive pull of blood under her head and body his
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Helen called the police and said a woman has collapsed and it looks like Jill D she doesn't look like she's breathing
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there's blood oh my God no I don't think she's alive somehow Helen's call came across
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as a stabbing it's unclear whether she thought that's what actually happened or somehow the signals just got mixed up
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but her call to police Drew attention immediately as violence in the fullham neighborhood was
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extremely unusual Kensington PD detective Chief Inspector Hamish Campbell was dispatched
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to the scene of a stabbing on Goen avenue remember that was the call that came in while in route he received a
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call that the victim was confirmed to be Jill D the TV news presenter whose face
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was familiar all across the UK be different than than a lot of murder cases because normally we find the
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victim inside this victim is outside so when the EMTs and the police officers arrive they see her laying there on her
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stoop and this is the middle of the day too broad daylight Captain they arrive on scene they find Jill lying in a
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massive pool of blood she has no pulse but they do try to resuscitate her unfortunately the result she passes away
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by the time the inspector again his name Hamish Campbell arrives on the scene the
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scene is somewhat disturbed because they're trying to save her life but there's people kind of Milling about
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people that should be there so blood patterns are disrupted fingerprints are disrupted and so on this is outside as
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you pointed out captain and that creates an issue for investigators as it limits
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the amount of control that you have have of your crime scene Joe was taken to nearby Charing Cross hospital where she
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was confirmed to be dead on arrival at 1:03 p.m. on that Monday now the news could not be contained investigators had
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no time to try to control what got out to the public and what did not BBC presenter Jenny Bond interrupted the
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broadcast of that day with obvious shock and dismay in her voice informing the public that one of their own her friend
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the publicly beloved Jill dando had been attacked and stabbed to death in front of her home again we know it was a gun
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that was used to kill her however the reports at the time the early reports was that it was a stabbing Jill's
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brother Nigel he's working at the Bristol Evening Post that very day and of course
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he sees the news right away as the reports are coming in about his sister he said said later that his first
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priority became getting to their elderly father so that he could tell his father
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rather than hearing it on the news right when inspector Campbell arrived at the scene on go and Avenue officers on the
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scene directed his attention to something on the ground this was a 9mm shell casing lying near where Jill's
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body had been she hadn't been stabbed as we said her autopsy would later confirm
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it she had died from a close contact gunshot wound to the left side of her head and from what I have seen here
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Captain it appears the way that the scene is described that Jill was arriving at her
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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
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attempt almost comes across in the simplest form as an assassination investigators closed the entire block a
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massive white tent was set up over Jill's entire house front to preserve evidence and provide privacy and the
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investigation began we do get uh an eyewitness at least one eyewitness here in fact there's there's several but I
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want to hone in on one in particular and this is a neighbor of Jill D his name is
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Richard Hughes and I'm going to go through two different reports and I'm doing this In fairness to the listeners
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because I cannot decide Captain which I feel is the better report and they're varying to some very small degrees here
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so one report straight from the newspaper says after suffering a single gunshot wound to the Head detectives
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launched a murder in iny concentrating on tracking down a smartly dressed man carrying a mobile telephone who was
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spotted fleeing the bloodstained scene in fham Southwest London Police were still searching a stretch of the river
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tames in London near the Putney bridge this was a short distance from Jill's home residents huddled in a small group
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at either end of The Quiet leafy Street which was corned off by police and this is neighbor Richard Hughes he's aged
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32 he told police he described to police hearing a scream during the attack he says quote I
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was upstairs in the house and I heard her car alarm go off briefly it was the kind of time Jill usually arrived home
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on Mondays Mr Hughes said then between 30 and 40 seconds later I heard her scream it was a very distinctive scream
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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
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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
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unconscious and covered in blood describing the man's demeanor Mr Hughes said he walked very calmly away from the
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scene at that time and I didn't really think anything of it he was walking briskly he had dark hair and he was
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white and he didn't look at all flustered now from the other report and you'll hear similarities here Captain
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States police heavily canvased the neighborhood for Witnesses and Witnesses also approached the investigators since
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everyone knew about the crime no one seemed to have heard the gunshot but one man heard something else Richard Hughes
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who lived next door to jel was at home that morning he heard a scream that clearly came from a woman but he chocked
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it up to someone screaming with surprise or Delight he later said that he had heard the scream he looked out the
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shutters of his bedroom window all he saw was a man moving briskly toward fham Palace Road he could see only the side
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of the man's face but just 14 minutes later Richard heard a woman loudly exclaiming outside his home this was
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Helen the other neighbor that we talked about that was walking down the street right so Helen having found Jill calling
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emergency services Richard told the BBC quote I went to the door and I saw her lying on the doorstep she was
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unconscious and covered in blood I was obviously shocked I took a look at her and she wasn't breathing now
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just like in the first report didn't put together until later that the man he had
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seen might have been Jill's killer he hadn't seen him interact with Jill or anything like that right he doesn't see
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the man talking with Jill all he sees is this man moving swiftly away from the scene right around the time that he
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hears the scream Richard provided a description of the man that he saw and he says that the the official
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description of this man issued by the police to the public was a Caucasian male 5'9 in to 6 foot tall short dark
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hair clean shaven smartly dressed in a dark suit or jacket and trousers and an Overcoat Richard told the BBC quote he
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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
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looked very respectable so people in the neighborhood and neighbors obviously know Jill everybody's going to know Jill
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she's on TV but she's also a friendly individual who's engaging in conversation regularly when she's around
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with her neighbors right and we get this sighting we have the two witnesses Helen
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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
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then we have Richard Hughes who has kind of two different sightings right two different situations all in a very short
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period of time he sees this man leaving after he heard some kind of scream and then he later sees Jill on
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her stoop and says she's covered in blood and she's unconscious again the the demeanor of this suspect the dress
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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
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hone in on here as important as this eyewitness account may be technically there's no proof that the man that was
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spotted was the one that shot Jill right you know he could have been a businessman walking on the Block he
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could have heard the scream himself he could have not heard the scream himself but we don't have anybody coming forward
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to law enforcement saying hey I was the smartly Dressed Man exactly exactly and that's what makes you go okay well maybe
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this guy is involved it would seem to make sense and it would be very understandable that he's not going to
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come forward and place himself there if he were to be involved I like the English here Captain I think I'm going
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to start using the phrase smartly dressed man as well yeah Every Girl's Crazy for a smartly Dressed Man neighbor
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Jeffrey upfi Brown says that he also saw this dark-haired white man in a nice jacket walking briskly or running from
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the area he said the man slowed down to a normal Pace when and he believes this is because the man noticed him seeing
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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
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calms down and starts moving at a normal Pace right I like having this Jeffrey upil Brown account
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and it being similar to Richard hughes's account and the reason why I didn't mean
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to drag it out any longer than necessary but I went through the two different reports of hughes's account because I
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had a lot of questions with it I I don't like when people are giving a statement
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to police and they're like I saw her from this distance up in my window and she was unconscious and she was not
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breathing you're you're making assumptions that are making it into the report right which makes me wonder and
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question does this person know more or did he have a different Vantage Point than the window from his place and so we
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get this other account that is backing up and kind of confirming Richard hughes's account of
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this man fleeing the scene the smartly Dressed Man the other thing here too Captain we get this blue Range Rover
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okay so there's this a blue Range Rover that's cited spotted by a few people this would receive quite a bit of
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attention from police and from the public Apparently one was caught on CCTV speeding from the area around the time
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of the incident the documentary who killed Jill D on Netflix reported that the blue Range Rover was parked on Goen
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avenue that morning at 10:15 and a traffic cop approached the vehicle to give it a ticket the traffic
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cop she backs off when the driver kind of waves her away but of course with the later events of Jill dando being shot
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and killed nearby that's going to trigger the traffic cops memory right and go this
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might be something here this blue Range Rover right and again this could be very
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important because right after the time of the shooting or approximately shortly after the time of the shooting a blue
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Range Rover was captured on that CCTV heading over the Putney Bridge away from Jill's House at a high speed running
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several red lights and Vanishing but again smartly Dressed Man Range Rover I mean Range Rovers aren't cheap if you're
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law enforcement to me it's like did this individual know her is this uh a personal attack we need to look at her
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Inner Circle of course track down this individual find out if he a witness potential witness or a suspect so 4 days
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after the murder this is going to take us to April 30th inspector Campbell released the CCTV footage showing a
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metallic blue Range Rover speeding South on fham Palace Road police tried their very best to run down all of the blue
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Range Rovers registered in London in the surrounding areas but that was like almost like trying to find Yellow Cabs
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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
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seeing Range Rovers all over the place police followed this lead for months and Hamish Campbell the inspector has said
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he thinks there was something to that lead but the driver was never found and you are hitting on something
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here that I think is very interesting in and very important to the case here Captain you have to wonder is this a
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peer of jills right maybe not somebody that she knew maybe not somebody that she interacted with that day or ever but
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the description of the clothing the description of the vehicle I got to believe it's a similar
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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
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more than one witness reported seeing a sweating man running to fham Palace road
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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
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police thought that this was just a commuter who was stressed out about maybe running late for the bus they seem
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to think that if was possible that maybe more than one person could be involved in the murder of Jill
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dando here's a scenario for you okay perhaps there could have been two people who came to
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fham in the Range Rover but the shooter or the accomplice didn't quite make it back to the vehicle
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before the parking patrol officer scared off the vehicle and driver that would make some sense that's a scenario for
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you right because it would make sense that then that person would flee the area and maybe even flee to the nearest
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bus stop because we know that according to the traffic officer the Range Rover peeled out and maybe the actual shooter
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the person who gets out of the Range Rover to go up and do the deed is stuck with no choice but to take
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the bus what seems strange to me if you are tracking her why wouldn't you just wait for her to get inside her
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house push her inside push her inside commit the crime you could leave through the back or you could leave through the
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front but then again it'll take time cuz the body is not just laying on the front
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porch yeah and this is from from the way that it's described and from the pictures that I've seen Captain this is
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while it's a very public area a neighborhood people walking down the street people driving up and down the
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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
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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
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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
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there's a chance that if no gunshot goes off if there's no scream that maybe somebody could walk down that street and
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not notice her on the stoop we know that her friend in neighbor Helen spots Jill
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there but remember she got excited at seeing the BMW Jill's BMW parked out front of her
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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
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neighbor sees her because he's upstairs he's looking at looking down which would
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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
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sweaty man lead so some witnesses they found said that they had seen the sweaty man standing at the
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number 74 bus stop so they tried to access the bus company surveillance footage but it had already been erased
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but they learned from witnesses that the sedy man had gotten on the bus talked on
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a mobile phone and disembarked at Putney bridge this is where the Range Rover had
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gone as well so okay so they could be connected they could be connected man sweaty man fleas on foot toward the
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Putney Bridge towards the uh bus stop there and we also have the Range Rover who is speeding out of the area to the
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point of running several red lights last seen going over that Putney Bridge so just to be clear we have surveillance
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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
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get to where they could get the surveillance footage it's gone right by the time they were asking for before it
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had been erased and likely they had erased it to record the next day's activities or 2 days later's activities
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so what have just been a couple of days that they would have figured out this is
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a great lead and where does it take us the breadcrumb trail takes us to the bus let's get surveillance
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footage [ __ ] it's too late it's been erased well and here are some questions right so is this blue Range Rover
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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
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who the sweaty man is well and what is not clear from several of these statements is the smartly dressed man
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the same as the driver of the Range Rover so in reality to me here Captain what I see is three really good leads
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the sweaty man the smartly Dressed Man and the Range Rover now are they all ected they could be or are they all
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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
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right so let's go to this information this this is great information here again and you'll see
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how important these three leads really are based on witness descriptions so 4 days after the murder we're we're still
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on April 30th here keep in mind this is the same date that the police choose to release the Range Rover footage to the
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public on that same day Captain they also released a computer generated image of the sweaty man saying and telling the
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public he is a prime suspect and could have had an accomplice so that kind of paints a picture for us of what the
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police believe at the time 4 days after the murder here's a generated computer generated image of our suspect he could
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have had an accomplice oh and we're releasing footage of a blue Range Rover and our Witnesses are telling us that
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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
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sweaty man was the Prime Suspect like they said and he had an accomplice that accomplice was likely all tied up and
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connected to that blue Range Rover people rightfully assume that police would only issue this image if the guy
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was an actual suspect and they're calling him Prime Suspect so this can be good and bad for your
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investigation you're asking begging the public for help for information about this person this
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computer generated image that you have right but at the same time it could potentially quash other
00:37:25
leads that might be useful in the case what we end up with Captain is eventually a man calls in and he
00:37:34
identifies himself as the sweaty man at the bus stop his name is James Shackleton he admitted that he looked
00:37:45
just like the sketch that had been released Shackleton was an odd duck he drove around in an old ambulance and
00:37:53
worked as an Undertaker he told police that on the day of the murder he was in the park
00:38:00
collecting wood to make coffins he was quote this is his words chased out of the park by a
00:38:09
man so he tells police after he's chased out of the park by a man he went to the
00:38:14
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
00:38:21
here that just haven't has not reached our eyeballs right police arrested James Shack
00:38:28
so they could question him and so they could search his house inside of his home they found a coffin in some photos
00:38:36
of the fham neighborhood police interrogated Shackleton and accused him of being obsessed with Jill but he
00:38:43
denied that he said he's not obsessed with her in fact he says that he is homosexual police decided that it was
00:38:51
likely indeed Shackleton in the sketch of the sweaty man and they referred to him as a quote
00:38:59
Nutter and the time they wasted on him set back the real investigation Hamish Campbell the inspector later said that
00:39:08
releasing the sketch of someone who might not have been involved in the crime he considered that to be a mistake
00:39:15
then there was this report by The Guardian newspaper that said detectives reveal
00:39:22
today this is we're going to go back in time to April 27th this is the day after
00:39:27
the murder detectives revealed today that the killer of crime watch presenter Jill D probably staked out her home in
00:39:35
West London for at least an hour before shooting her in the head at very close range with a 9mm semi automatic gun they
00:39:45
detailed several sightings of a prime suspect remember we're back to the smartly dressed man carrying a mobile
00:39:53
phone who may have dawned heavy black frame spectacle in an attempt to disguise himself a
00:40:01
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
00:40:08
been circling around before right was the man he saw the same as the Range Rover
00:40:13
driver where had Witnesses seen this guy standing was he walking up and down the
00:40:19
street or just standing in a particular spot so they're releasing information but only little bits of it which is just
00:40:27
going to leave the rest of us with more questions and answers so in this investigation we're trying to track down
00:40:33
these possible suspects but police are going to be learning about some of the evidence at the scene and they're going
00:40:40
to dive into the evidence of the gun that's exactly right Captain police immediately started to analyze the two
00:40:47
pieces of solid physical evidence that they had we got the 9mm semi-automatic brass shell casing that was found at the
00:40:56
scene and unfortunately we have the bullet as well under a microscope ballistics experts noted that the casing
00:41:04
bore six indentations or crimps intended to hold it in the cartridge case these crimps were irregular and
00:41:15
inconsistent so this is indicating to police or at least it's their expert opinion that these
00:41:24
crimps indentations were done by hand They concluded that the crimps were intended to keep the bullet in the
00:41:33
casing and someone had rigged up the whole thing picture John malovich in that that assassination movie making his
00:41:42
own gun and ammunition at home right there's somebody here that's putting this thing together and really kind of
00:41:49
creating something here so it's going to be one of a kind is what I'm getting at
00:41:56
again police opinion that this was something that was done by hand so as for the bullet there were no evident
00:42:03
rifling marks this led to the conclusion that the gun that shot Jill was possibly
00:42:09
we got to we got to I want to underline that possibly an altered starting pistol or a
00:42:17
low muzzle velocity weapon not what one typically sees in execution style shootings this seemed like more of a
00:42:26
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
00:42:35
mind as we go through this case here captain that guns are much harder to obtain in the UK than they are here in
00:42:42
the US absolutely uh from the guardian quote gun experts say the casing could have
00:42:48
been tampered with possibly to reduce the amount of powder to deaden the sound of The Gunshot indicating someone with
00:42:57
knowledge of firearms if in fact that's the reason why somebody tampered with the
00:43:06
casing if they knew that that could potentially dampen or deaden sorry the sound of The Gunshot that's somebody
00:43:15
with a good amount of knowledge of firearms that's not your average bear right just to break down UK gun control
00:43:24
a little bit here for persons that are not familiar in the United Kingdom access by the
00:43:30
general public to Firearms is subject to some of the strictest control measures in the world subject to licensing
00:43:38
members of the public May own rifles and shotguns however most handguns have been
00:43:45
banned in Great Britain since the dunblaine school massacre in 1996 that was in Scotland keep in mind though here
00:43:55
Captain the dates that we've just discussed so we've discussed 1999 and this strict gun control doesn't
00:44:07
seem to come into effect after this massacre in 1996 I didn't have time to go through
00:44:14
all of the fine print that's probably involved here you have to wonder were some people grandfathered in did people
00:44:22
have firearms from before this these strict control measures went into place right it's only a short period of time
00:44:31
between the two events there were a couple of other indications that the shooter perhaps was not a professional
00:44:38
not a hired Hitman or trained assassin for one thing he left the bullet casing there for the police to find that's
00:44:45
something that somebody who does this would know that you probably shouldn't do given the opportunity collect the
00:44:53
bullet casing before you flee the scene and for another they knew from the muzzle mark on Jill's head and the
00:45:00
bruising on her forearm that someone had grabbed her and then forced her toward the
00:45:07
ground and then shot her while she was crouched down right so this was Close Range close contact it was not a sniper
00:45:17
from across the street it wasn't somebody that's just lying in weight hiding in a corner or
00:45:23
behind the bush and she walks up and and and he or she shoots her from 2 3 4 5 ft
00:45:30
away this was somebody that came up to her grabbed her forced her to the ground for some reason and then while she is
00:45:38
near the ground she's kind of crouching down that is when the gun was put close to her and then she is
00:45:46
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
00:45:56
it's just in the moment here Captain this was somebody who wanted to be very close to Jill when she was killed well
00:46:04
just because there were some mistakes made doesn't mean it wasn't a professional
00:46:11
exactly that's exactly right until we know we don't know now there was a terrific piece on the timeline of Jill's
00:46:22
last day this was found in the independent many of Jill's movements that day the day in question were
00:46:29
captured on CCTV the rest of the timeline was compiled from witness statements so
00:46:36
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
00:46:44
woke up at her fiance's house the morning of the murder in the reports that we've reviewed it sounds like she
00:46:50
was there most of the time she's practically just living in Allen's place so she wakes up at about
00:46:58
6:45 that morning this is while Allan her fiance is preparing to go to work so he is in the shower and
00:47:08
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
00:47:18
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
00:47:23
to run off to work she sets him up with a with breakfast while he's getting ready nice woman trying to help him
00:47:31
start his day off Nice Allen leaves for work so he works at the Queen Mary's Hospital in Paddington West London he's
00:47:42
a consultant there and he left for work according to Allen at 7:25 a.m. again this is Monday
00:47:51
20 this is Monday April 26th 1999 that the previous weekend she had spent the entire weekend with Allan this is after
00:48:03
having been away for several days while filming in Dublin dressed in a beige raincoat red button-up jacket black
00:48:10
trousers and Boots Jill dando leaves Allen's house in Bedford close Chiswick West
00:48:18
London this is shortly after 10:30 a.m. and she's traveling in her convertible blue BMW
00:48:27
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
00:48:38
milk she then drove the short distance to the Kings mall shopping center in Hammersmith she bought some fact paper
00:48:48
at ryman's and then went to Dixon's in search of an ink printer cartridge she failed to purchased the correct one
00:48:58
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
00:49:07
is great detailed information that's timestamped from CCTV right minutes later a passer by this is Sarah
00:49:16
py recognized Miss dando as she sat in her car in traffic at fham Palace Road jel dando sees this woman looking at her
00:49:28
she smiles back at her and Sarah distinctively remembers this because she's excited about seeing the
00:49:38
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
00:49:46
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
00:49:56
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
00:50:04
remarked that her car was parked right around the corner so Jill goes there to pick up two
00:50:10
do soul for supper while there she received a call on her cell phone from Prince Edward Theater this is confirming
00:50:19
that Jill had tickets for the West End show Mama Mia she appeared excited and bubbly and took and told the booking
00:50:28
clerk the tickets were a present for her fiance Allen to avoid a bottleneck in traffic at the fham palace Road she took
00:50:37
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
00:50:47
before going to a charity lunch at 12:30 p.m. with her friend so this is all very
00:50:54
tight time frames here short short windows of time with a detailed or with such a detailed time of
00:51:03
events you'd think this would help law enforcement yes I absolutely do think and I do think that it did help right it
00:51:11
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
00:51:21
understanding of the motive here in my opinion right which I think would all o or could at least dictate how one
00:51:30
chooses to carry out this if this was in fact planned from from start to finish and went down as planned or close to
00:51:39
that plan so by now in our timeline Captain we have her arriving in her BMW just outside of her home she walked to
00:51:48
the front door of her house this is about 11:30 a.m. on that Monday and again please note Jill Parker on the
00:51:56
street right outside of her house now how do we know this that's where it gets a little
00:52:03
murky because it's unclear whether there was actually CCTV footage surveillance footage Street
00:52:11
footage of her on her block right in fact we've never heard police mention it it's a very safe exclusive residential
00:52:20
neighborhood so my guess here is that there was no need for cameras on every single Street
00:52:27
but we do know that they followed her movements or at least most of her movements that morning on different
00:52:34
cctvs that were spread out through the area but what happened here according to the guardian quote as Dand was about to
00:52:43
put her keys in the lock to open the front door of her home she was grabbed from behind and we
00:52:51
have Britain's leading pathologist who says that he can confirm this because there was a bruise She was
00:52:59
recently bruised on her right forearm shortly before her death if she was grabbed from
00:53:05
behind what the police are telling us is they believe she Pro approaches the door
00:53:12
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
00:53:19
door maybe even return to the vehicle that's nearby grab some things and head inside there is a gate that is between
00:53:27
her and her vehicle at this point right the gate that leads to her house the police experts are telling us the as
00:53:34
salant came up from behind her and grabbed and bruised her right forearm so they're saying with his the asant with
00:53:43
his right arm grabs her right arm forcing her toward the ground and then with his left hand holding the gun
00:53:51
shoots Jill dando she's so close to the ground they believe at this point that her face was almost touching the tiled
00:54:01
step of the porch this was a single shot at her left temple which would have killed her instantly the bullet entered
00:54:10
her head just above her ear parallel to the ground and then came out the right side of her head and into the door
00:54:18
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
00:54:29
Jill didn't stay at her own place the night before her murder one thing that's important to understand is that Jill
00:54:35
wasn't really living at her expensive going Avenue town home at all she had pretty much moved in with her fiance
00:54:43
right her house was in fact for sale at the time and she rarely stayed at her house her own house overnight and really
00:54:52
just stopped in at random times they say to grab clothing mail and personal items the CCTV footage
00:55:00
Captain here is so important because we get a detective who will go on record saying quote my conclusion is that the
00:55:08
victim was not being followed at any stage in any of the footage saying we tracked Jill's movements on CCTV and
00:55:15
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
00:55:23
hardly ever there and when she is there it seems like she's there at random times I will point out though the reason
00:55:30
for reading again those two statements the two reports about Richard hughes's account of what he saw that day in one
00:55:37
of those accounts what was one of the details that wasn't in the second account it was I thought it could be
00:55:43
Jill because that's the time that she's usually here on a Monday right so that's
00:55:48
very different right we're told by all these other people that this is such a rare and random happen stance when she
00:55:55
chooses to show up at her townhouse yet we have a neighbor who is saying I thought it could be Jill because that's
00:56:03
the time that she's usually here on a Monday I don't take from that statement that Richard Hughes means every Monday
00:56:11
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
00:56:17
all that answers some questions but then raises other ones I mean if she wasn't being followed with somebody lying away
00:56:27
and waiting for her it's weird man because a lot of this stuff yes the CCTV footage and talking to all of the
00:56:36
persons engaged with her saw her interacted with her that day is very helpful to our timeline and as police I
00:56:45
got to believe what the police are saying they tell us we've reviewed everything what we see is that nobody
00:56:52
was following her that day okay well that answers one question but it also provides additional questions right
00:56:59
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
00:57:07
motive because if you can confirm 100% that Jill D was the Target and the target wasn't just some random person in
00:57:18
an upper class neighborhood or a well-to-do woman walking down the street well then that
00:57:26
means that if this person wasn't following her and killed her at a place that she rarely is or may only drop in
00:57:35
from time to time could this person have just been permanently watching her house or
00:57:40
keeping an eye on her house right waiting for her to pop up and then do the deed then and then the other the
00:57:50
other thing that you wonder about right we talk about that it may not have been a professional Hitman because of the
00:57:57
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
00:58:03
scene and and I messed up people mess up but to me I feel I feel that if we have
00:58:10
a seasoned individual that's carrying this out that they're collecting that shell casing because that's one of the
00:58:16
very few pieces of evidence that they ended up having in this case but then but then you makes you wonder did they
00:58:23
leave it behind on purpose to to throw you off some kind of Trail the other thing too that I wonder about here
00:58:31
Captain is the forcing her to the ground before shooting her because I think that
00:58:36
one could argue that this is suggestive of two very different things one could argue and have a sound
00:58:45
argument for that shows that this is more of a personal crime but I think somebody else could argue that maybe a
00:58:55
Hitman or somebody that's trying to thinks that it would be better to force her toward the ground to conceal the
00:59:01
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
00:59:09
brief description of the scene this investigation was huge this investigation in this case in the Jill
00:59:19
dando homicide case was massive according to the independent UK it was the Metro police's largest murder
00:59:28
investigation and quote the largest criminal investigation since the hunt for Jack the Ripper end
00:59:36
quote detective Chief Inspector Hamish Campbell LED this investigation which reviewed 2400 statements from Witnesses
00:59:46
and interviewees this would later grow to over 4,000 over the years they looked into 2,000 plus named potential suspects
00:59:58
Tracked Down 1,200 vehicles and reviewed thousands of hours of CCTV footage tips
01:00:08
and leads were called in from all over the world the price tag at the six-month Mark of this
01:00:15
investigation was a whopping 1,247 pounds wow as we know from Deli a massive scale investigation can
01:00:28
sometimes be too big too many cooks in the kitchen well and you have to wonder maybe did police lose sight of
01:00:38
the forest for the [Music] trees one of the thank everybody for joining us here in the garage today
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until tomorrow be good be kind and don't litter [Music]