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More of that in a moment,
but here's Jill with something else.

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Struggling away, hello.

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Uh…

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[Jill Dando] Television in some way had
always fascinated me from the year dot.

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I was about eight years old
and I'd have my four library tickets

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and go to the library
and get books about television.

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[female reporter] Good morning.

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You're watching
the BBC's Breakfast News at 6:30.

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It took me I suppose, um,
until I was about 25 to get inside.

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[woman 1] Jill Dando.

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[man 1] Jill was the most famous
TV presenter on British television.

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[woman 2] The golden girl
of British television,

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murdered on her doorstep
in broad daylight.

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That just does not happen.

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[woman 3] I think anyone
who has got a little bit of fame

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knows that there are two sides to it.

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You get a lot of unwanted attention.

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Strange people. Obsessive.

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You kind of look over your shoulder a bit.

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People all over are joining again

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to solve some of Britain's
most difficult and serious crimes.

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[woman 2] Crimewatch
had a fantastic reputation

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for putting information out there

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and getting people to ring in
with critical pieces of evidence.

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If you harbor any suspicions, do call.
So many clues and so much anguish.

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Do you ever get worried about the things
you see on Crimewatch?

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Oh. Yes, you do. But the crimes
that we show are so rare.

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It's not something that
you walk into the street

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and think, "The same thing's
going to happen to me."

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[woman 3] There was reason to be scared.

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[man 2] It takes a certain sort of person,

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a brutal sadistic psychopath,
to shoot a gun into a head.

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This was one of the largest
murder investigations

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the Metropolitan Police ever had to face.

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[man 1] It's been 22 years
and it's unsolved.

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Whoever did it is still out there.

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[theme music playing]

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One of Britain's most popular television
presenters has been murdered

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in what could be a professional hit.

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The tributes here on the flowers echo
the overriding reaction of shock…

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[man 1] Even the Queen has been moved
to comment, saying she is shocked…

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[man 2] Police say there are many
possible motives for the murder.

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[man 3] …responsible for
solving so many crimes

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may have created enemies in the process.

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[woman 1] The Crimewatch presenter
may have been assassinated in retaliation

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for the NATO bombing of the Belgrade.

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[man 4] Detectives confirm that Jill Dando

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had claimed of being followed
by a stalker.

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[woman 2] A man who has gone
on trial in London

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had an obsession with celebrities
and was fascinated with firearms.

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[man 5] Detectives say they're not
ruling out any line of inquiry.

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Some believe the killer
may have got away with murder.

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[somber music playing]

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[phone ringing]

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[man] Ambulance service, hello?

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[woman] Hello, ambulance?
I'm walking along Gowan Avenue.

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It looks like, um,
there's somebody collapsed.

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And, confidentially,
it looks like it's Jill Dando.

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And she's collapsed on her doorstep.
There's a lot of blood.

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[man] Can you approach
and check that she's breathing?

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-[woman] Doesn't look like she is.
-[man] Right.

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[woman] Blood's coming
from her nose, her arms are blue.

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[man] I need to find out
if she needs… if she's breathing.

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Is the lady's chest going up and down?

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[woman] Oh, my God.
No. I don't think she's alive.

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-[man] Okay.
-I'm sorry.

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[man] Don't worry. I'll get help for you.

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[woman] Please.

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[man] I was on call for
the central London murder group.

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[phone ringing]

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We had been busy, we were under-resourced.

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And I was told by my detective sergeant

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that there had been a stabbing
down in Fulham.

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[siren wailing]

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Fulham was a well-to-do, wealthy area.

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So it was unusual for that reason.

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Very unusual.

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I was driving down there

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and I got a phone call
from my chief superintendent.

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[cell phone ringing]

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And he said to me, "That case,
that's going to be Jill Dando."

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In most homicide cases,

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the detectives would not have known
their victim at all,

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but in this case,
almost everybody knew of Jill Dando.

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[ambulance siren wailing]

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There was an ambulance coming up
the Fulham Road as we were going down,

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and I realized that was her
being taken away from the scene.

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[woman] It was a lovely spring day…

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and I was reading the bulletins,
the news summaries.

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The next scheduled bulletin is at 2:40.

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I had put on a rather nice blue suit.

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Well, one actually that came
from the designers

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that Jill and I used to go to together.

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[indistinct chatter]

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And everything was fine in the newsroom,
which is a buzzy, noisy, vibrant place.

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[man] …page 45.
Tell me what promos you're running?

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And then the news came in
that a woman had been killed.

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And these rumors started going
around the newsroom that it was Jill.

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And it went terribly quiet.

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-[siren wailing]
-[gripping music playing]

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[indistinct police radio chatter]

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[Hamish Campbell] When I arrived,
I was briefed by the uniformed officers.

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And they told me that no one had seen
what had actually happened to Jill.

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But they had already identified
two witnesses

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who had seen a man leaving the scene.

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And they described this white man,
dark hair, thick-set,

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wearing a coat, a dark coat,
wasn't masked, wasn't wearing gloves.

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So the real focus right there
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who had been seen running away
was to be caught.

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Uniformed officers were told
to spread out and search the area.

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We were waiting for information
from the hospital

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because there was no confirmation
that Jill had died.

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That changed very quickly
when I stood on the pavement

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and just looked from the gate,

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up to the front door of Jill's house.

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And I could see
the bullet and casing on the doorstep.

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Jill Dando had been shot in the head.

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It was immediately sort of unfathomable.

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The concept of any woman
being shot in the head in London,

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yet alone a celebrity,
was rare in the extreme.

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[indistinct chatter]

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The media are already up
at the top cordon.

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I knew then that the media interest
was going to be extraordinary.

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[ambulance siren wailing]

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[male doctor] Jill Dando arrived here
by ambulance at 12:30 p.m.

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Despite all efforts by ambulance
paramedics and hospital medical staff,

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she was certified dead at 1:03 p.m.

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The newsroom was cold with… with shock.

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Real shock.

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We're people who are used to reporting

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on all sorts of deaths, disasters, wars.

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But to have one of your own…

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[laughing] I'm sorry. It's just I was…

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[Jennie] One of your very, very own,

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killed in that manner on her own doorstep
was just too awful to believe.

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[somber music playing]

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And I… I had to read it.

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[man] Jill was 37.

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[Jennie] I remember a boss saying to me,
"Are you going to be okay doing this?"

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And I said, yeah, I'll be okay.

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[man] Jill was 37.

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Pete, I'm telling you she was 37.

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All right.

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[man] I told her, she was 37.

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She was exactly two years
younger than me. She was 37.

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What shall I say?

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[man] I'm telling you,
she was definitely 37. Definitely.

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Here we go.

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Within the past few minutes,
police have confirmed

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that the BBC television presenter
Jill Dando has been stabbed to death

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outside her west London home.

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She died in the ambulance
on her way to hospital.

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There are no more details at the moment.

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The next scheduled bulletin is at 2:40.

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[intriguing music playing]

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I was working in the, uh, Bristol office

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of the Bristol Evening Post.

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And our newsroom had a bank of TV screens.

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Our BBC colleague Jill Dando has died

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after being attacked
outside her London home.

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[Nigel] Reports were coming out
that she had died.

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I clicked into sort of automatic mode.

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I thought I need to protect
my dad from this.

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I rushed down to Weston-super-Mare.

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He was obviously devastated.

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I was wondering how we were going
to cope with all this.

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About half an hour
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the TV reporter from BBC Points West
knocked on the door. I knew him.

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And I sort of slipped back
into journalistic mode.

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I gave him an interview.

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[man] When did you last see her? Was it…

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I saw her on, um… Easter Sunday.

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It would've been about two,
three weeks ago.

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Yeah, she was on good form.
Um, looking forward to her wedding.

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It was a sense of emptiness
and a sense of despair.

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And I had to explain to my dad
what had happened,

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what was going to happen.

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That we were kind of going to be
in the eye of a storm.

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[helicopter hovering]

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[tense music playing]

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[male reporter] The police search
is well underway now, Alan.

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There are a minimum of 30 detectives.

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You can see behind me
the operation in front of Jill's home.

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[Hamish] All the resources came.

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The ballistics experts, the blood experts,
the scene photographers.

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The scene itself had been
heavily contaminated.

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Because there had been
attempts to resuscitate.

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But everything was picked up,
relevant or not, scrapings, gravel.

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Fingerprint marks from the gate.

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Fibers.

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We had a bullet
and a cartridge casing on the doorstep.

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The ballistics expert told me
it was a single shot

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to the left side of her head.

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Some thought
like a professional execution.

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And that bullet and casing on the doorstep
were from a 9mm caliber weapon.

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The search teams arrived.

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The whole of Gowan Avenue was searched.

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Bins, gardens, flowerbeds, shrubs.

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Looking to see if the gun had been
discarded or anything had been discarded.

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We identified some of the key witnesses.

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The postman, a sort of
Mediterranean-looking man,

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just after ten o'clock on the opposite
side of the road to Jill's house,

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and a witness claimed
he saw a man running across the road

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and he stopped at the bus stop.

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And he was sweating.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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There was a traffic warden,

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and she was about to give a ticket
to the driver of a blue Range Rover,

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and as she was starting
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he brushed her off and he drove away.

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So, I didn't know at the time

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whether there was
one person involved or two or three.

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Everybody in that street on that day
had to be eliminated out

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as much as possible.

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[vehicles honking]

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[birds squawking]

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[gripping music playing]

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The next day's newspapers were absolutely
rammed with stories about the murder.

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It was the only story in town.

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On a sad morning,
we'll be talking about poor Jill Dando.

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The shocking loss of one of Britain's
best-known personalities

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drew many tributes.

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In London,
police are investigating a murder

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that has shocked
the television-viewing public.

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[reporter 1] Jill Dando was,
in the opinion of many in Britain,

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second only to Princess Diana

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in terms of public affection.

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Jill Dando was someone who was known
to, virtually, everybody in this country.

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[reporter 2] Even the Queen
has been moved to comment,

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saying she is shocked and saddened.

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[woman] Following the death
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I would say that Jill Dando's murder

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was the biggest story
that we will ever report on.

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[indistinct chatter]

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Female journalists of my generation
were shaken by it

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because we saw ourselves in Jill.

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Jill had been a journalist.
She loved the press.

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She was good to us, she respected us,
she knew we were doing a job

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and we wanted as much as the police

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to find out who did it
because she was one of us.

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[gripping music playing]

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I was the crime correspondent
at the Daily Mirror.

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I can remember discussing it
with… with my news editor.

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And him saying to me,
"So, what do you think about this?"

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He said, it must be
something with Crimewatch.

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Well, not necessarily, hold your horses.

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One of the pieces of information coming in
from one of our reporters on the ground

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was that they'd found a neighbor
to Jill's house in Gowan Avenue

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who'd heard a scream.

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-[reporter] Did you hear a man's voice?
-No man's voice at all.

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-Did you hear a shot or did you--
-There was no shots.

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From what I'd say was a shot,
I didn't think there was a shot, no.

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[reporter] From your assessment,
what did you hear?

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I did hear… a scream.

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I had a private conversation

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with one of the members
of the murder squad.

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He said we cannot find
any witnesses, any neighbors,

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anybody who was in the area at the time
who actually heard a gunshot.

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We don't have the gun.
We don't have anybody who saw the gun.

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But this weapon could have
had a silencer on it.

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Unlike in the movies,

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a silencer on a gun is a very rare
piece of equipment in real life.

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So, automatically, that suggestion
steered us in the direction

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that maybe this was a professional job.

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Somebody asked the question,
is this an assassination?

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Is this an execution?

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Like a political murder
or an organized crime murder?

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So all the theories about, you know,
the who, the what, the why,

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were starting to stack up.

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[male reporter] Jill Dando was left dying
on the doorstep of her home.

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Revenge, perhaps, for her role as a crime
reporter who helps jail top criminals.

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Everyone had a view on how Jill Dando
was murdered and who was responsible.

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[intriguing music playing]

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Back to the office,
I held a meeting with the team.

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I said, there's a danger of us
being swept up with the media hype.

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And reminded them that,
with any murder investigation,

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the victim was a key element
to try to solve the case.

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So we needed to look at Jill's life.

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Who is Jill

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and who were the persons
closest to her and nearer to her?

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I don't, I'm afraid.

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I'm one of these people
who what you see is what you get.

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I don't think I've got
any skeletons in the cupboard.

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[audience laughing]

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[children chattering]

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[Nigel] I was nine years old
when Jill was born in 1961.

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Quite often on a Sunday as a family,

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we'd go down for a picnic on the beach.

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Do you remember those
sand-blown lettuce sandwiches?

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[laughs]

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They were part of the staple diet

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of summers growing up
in Weston-super-Mare.

293
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[nostalgic music playing]

294
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There wasn't much money around.

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We didn't have exotic holidays like that.

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I wonder whether
she actually had a passport

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before she was offered the job
as, uh, presenting the Holiday program.

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[imperceptible]

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It was almost preordained
that she was going to become a journalist.

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Well, she was interested in words
and, um, she was more outgoing than I was.

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I'd whisper in her ear occasionally
saying, "Why are you still in Weston?"

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"Why don't you look for jobs
around the place?"

303
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Thirty years ago,
a computer capable of similar calculations

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wouldn't have fitted
into a building this size.

305
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It would have been full of…

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[Nigel] She got a job as a journalist
on BBC Spotlight, based in Plymouth.

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And then became a presenter.

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They do mention the ethics committee
refusing this idea.

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They've said no more sisters
are going to be donors.

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[Nigel] She was so polished
and so professional.

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…Fisherman depend
is in deep financial trouble.

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[Nigel] But at the same time
retaining a natural warmth about her.

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[laughing]

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Sort of a twinkle in her eye.

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Her performances on Spotlight

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caught the attention
of the producers at BBC Breakfast.

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[man] …television made, is going up
the line to Breakfast Time.

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[Nigel] The world by then was her oyster.

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-I must just--
-How many times have I done this now?

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Thank you very much. Oh, God. [laughs]

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-We wish you well, my darling.
-Thank you.

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You better say goodnight
for the last time.

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Good night from here
and good morning from London on Monday.

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[producer] Page 45. Now, would you tell me
what promos you're running?

325
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Give me that. Just hold on a second.

326
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,120
No, Bob, I've got to know now.

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Run the first one. I'll confirm
in a couple of seconds.

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I'm Bob Wheaton.

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At that time, I was, uh,
running the six o'clock news.

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I can remember.

331
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There I was sitting at the desk.

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I'm ready to get the six o'clock news
of the day prepared.

333
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,200
And there on, um, BBC Breakfast Time…

334
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-Dementia has found more evidence…
-…was Jill.

335
00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,320
…possible link with aluminum levels…

336
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[Bob] Hadn't seen her before.

337
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,080
[Jill] The study, published in…

338
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She had a good face for television.

339
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,560
While Frank Bruno's been preparing
for his fight…

340
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,080
[Bob] Her voice, beautiful,
a classless English voice.

341
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,920
…tussling with a
television crew in Canada.

342
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,120
She was a total natural.

343
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,360
Winds of up to 100 miles an hour…

344
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[Bob] She shone and I knew
she was gonna go places.

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But I think how you look does matter.

346
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And she'd arrived from provinces
looking like a regional girl.

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00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,600
I'd looked at her and said to her,
"You need to sort the way your hair is,

348
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you need to wear the right clothes."
She'd put on a lot of weight.

349
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,440
And, you know, she was advised
that she needed to look right.

350
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At the time she had curly, permed hair.

351
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Um, brown.

352
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And she wanted a different look.

353
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,360
I think I suggested that we cut this short
and, uh, see where we go with it.

354
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,000
And she said, "I'm going to be
on television. Should I ask my producer?"

355
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,240
And I went, "No,
probably not a good idea."

356
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,800
[indistinct chatter]

357
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,600
[device beeping]

358
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The government's £3.25 billion package
to keep down the poll tax

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has been welcomed
by Conservative backbenchers.

360
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,840
[Martyn] It became
quite a signature look.

361
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,440
And in many ways
I think people saw Jill as a TV Diana.

362
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,520
[indistinct chatter]

363
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,160
At that time, Diana would come down

364
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,680
and we would probably do
the occasional blow-dry.

365
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,560
[male interviewer]
Who had the haircut first?

366
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Jill.

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00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,280
[Bob] Her hair was right.
She had lost a lot of weight.

368
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:38,240
Her diction was perfect. She had a charm
about the way she presented the news.

369
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,880
Well, a fine weekend in prospects.

370
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,240
And people regarded her
as a girl next door

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who was giving them, uh, the authority
of BBC News and it was a good package.

372
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,480
I suppose in celebrating
the success, we got closer.

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00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,760
And, uh, eventually we became involved.

374
00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,920
[Jennie] Jill got involved
with Bob very early on,

375
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,680
so that was always quite--
I don't want to say this on camera.

376
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,320
It was a difficult situation. She was…
She was with the boss.

377
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,880
I think the top will probably be
South Africa again.

378
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,280
Today, or rather today…

379
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,760
[Jon] I always thought it was
a very strange relationship

380
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,480
because she was so freewheeling…

381
00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,280
Just hanging fine…

382
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:24,920
And he was quite a control freak,
but in a very quiet way.

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00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,560
There was no bad word said,
it was like I, you know…

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00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,600
"Shh. Let me explain. This is what it is."

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00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,160
It was that kind of relationship.

386
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,880
…section which has got library film
and graphics and so on.

387
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,960
Jill was at the top of her game.

388
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,880
She'd choose what she wanted to do.

389
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,280
[crowd cheering, applauding]

390
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,360
I was brought in as a young journalist,
I think I was about 23.

391
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,400
[pensive music playing]

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00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,200
I really looked up to Jill.

393
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,280
Um, she was absolutely
where I wanted to end up.

394
00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:56,720
The headlines this morning…

395
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,680
[Anastasia] But it was really hard.

396
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,040
It was difficult
not to feel a bit of an imposter.

397
00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:04,640
[Jill] Could we have?
I wouldn't mind some scripts.

398
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,000
[Anastasia] Sitting next to
these alpha males,

399
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,840
sometimes she was made to feel inferior.

400
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,960
So often when he's talking
to ladies who say

401
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,680
it's harder for us in broadcasting.

402
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,600
And I keep thinking,
absolute nonsense, I mean, you know,

403
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,560
if you're a good-looking woman,
then it is not difficult.

404
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,160
-It, well…
-It is easier.

405
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,840
No. I think people expect more of women,
that's the trouble, you know…

406
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,240
As Jill's, uh, career is advancing,

407
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,160
one of the problems that she had,

408
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:38,880
all the women had, was that it was
a very male-dominated company.

409
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,280
To be absolutely honest,
it was quite misogynistic.

410
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,120
All sorts of men
will be regarded as controlling

411
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,360
because men are especially…
Tough editors are tough sometimes.

412
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,120
But controlling in a way
which is detrimental to the relationship

413
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,520
or to the person, not at all.

414
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,920
[intriguing music playing]

415
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,080
The reality is, most people are killed
by someone they know.

416
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,800
The people in her inner circle
were Alan Farthing, her fiancé.

417
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,840
Her previous partner for, who had been
her partner for some years, seven years.

418
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,280
Mr. Wheaton.

419
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,640
And her business agent, Mr. Roseman.

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00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,160
They had to be seen and interviewed
and eliminated primarily by alibi.

421
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,920
If you could show you were somewhere else
on the 26th of April, in that time frame,

422
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,800
you can't be the murderer.

423
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,160
But it doesn't necessarily remove yourself
from somehow arranging for her murder,

424
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,880
if that was the situation.

425
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:52,960
[indistinct chatter]

426
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000
First of all I wanted to ask
how you're coping at the moment.

427
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,440
I think I'm coping in the same way as

428
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,480
anybody else would cope
under the circumstances.

429
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,920
I'm devastated.

430
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,280
Everybody around me is devastated.

431
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,000
-[indistinct clamoring]
-Hi.

432
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,880
[indistinct conversation]

433
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,120
[Alan] I cannot understand
why they would want to kill

434
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,800
-somebody as gentle…
-This was my mother's…

435
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,040
…kind, well-meaning and

436
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,760
as perfect a person as Jill.

437
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:28,680
Yes.

438
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,640
The best daytime television program.

439
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,560
[Nigel] I'll always remember it.

440
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,360
We were in the back of a limousine
following Jill's coffin.

441
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,200
There were just
thousands of people who'd come out.

442
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,960
Weston just stopped.

443
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,120
[melancholy music playing]

444
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,560
I didn't know her personally,
but I thought I'd like to be here.

445
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,240
[woman] Diana was our rose,
but Jill was our sunflower.

446
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:21,880
I can't say any more.

447
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,200
[male reporter] A hundred or so people
were invited to the church.

448
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,000
Many of her friends worked
with her at the BBC.

449
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,000
The coffin arrived
at the church at three o'clock.

450
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,280
It was accompanied by her brother, Nigel.

451
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,280
Her father, Jack.

452
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,480
And, of course, by the man
she would have married this September,

453
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,400
her fiancé, Alan Farthing.

454
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,680
[Martyn] When Jill met Alan, it was quite
a life-changing moment for her.

455
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,640
A moment that she'd thought about
and had dreams of for quite a while.

456
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,840
She'd announced her engagement.

457
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,920
She should have been in a church
getting married, you know,

458
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,200
and here she was
in a church being buried.

459
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:20,720
[priest] Life was entering a new,
exciting, fulfilling age.

460
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,480
Until that fateful moment,

461
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,640
Jill, the beautiful girl next door,

462
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,080
known to every family in the country,
was shot dead.

463
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,880
And then everyone was asking
the question, "Why?"

464
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,040
[Hamish] Some of my key thinking
about it was,

465
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,680
if someone deliberately
set out to kill her,

466
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,600
why would they choose to kill her?
What was to be gained from that?

467
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,880
What benefit would anybody accrue
from killing Jill Dando?

468
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:59,720
And then Alan Farthing mentioned
that a large sum of money,

469
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,400
over £30,000, £35,000,

470
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,080
was given by Jill to Mr. Wheaton.

471
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,720
[intriguing music playing]

472
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,640
So, that had to be investigated as to why
that sum of money had been given over.

473
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,560
[Bob] After the funeral,
the police came to see me.

474
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,600
And one of the policemen goes,
"Well, we've had this report

475
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,160
that you owed her quite a lot of money,

476
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,560
um, and you still owed it to her
when she died."

477
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,160
"Uh, would you like to explain that?"

478
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,520
I said, "Yeah. Yeah.
I'm quite happy to do that."

479
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,720
[intriguing music playing]

480
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,760
And you sort of feel, gosh,
you know, the light is on me here.

481
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,600
They wanted to know about how we met,

482
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,640
um, how long we'd been together,
uh, how did we break up.

483
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,720
And yes, she had contributed towards me
buying my house by the river.

484
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,880
I said, I had a mortgage, um,
but there was a small shortfall.

485
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,800
I could've had a bigger mortgage,
but she wanted to share

486
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,520
because we were then
sharing the house together.

487
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,480
And by the way, I do not need
that much money that badly.

488
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,680
I can show you the evidence of why,
and I took him to my computer,

489
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,800
went into my bank account and showed him,
um, that I had quite a lot of money.

490
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,920
She was generous to everybody,
including me.

491
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,120
We loved each other.

492
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,720
I wouldn't have ever thought
of doing something like that.

493
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,360
To have lost somebody with whom,
uh, I had spent valuable, interesting,

494
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,320
important and enjoyable years
was a massive blow.

495
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,440
[pensive music playing]

496
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,800
[Hamish] Well, the things
that are innocuous can appear suspicious.

497
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,120
I think it was just a gift
from Jill to Mr. Wheaton.

498
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,480
You know, you talk about things in detail

499
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,440
but when following death,
things can emerge,

500
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,520
but they're almost tittle-tattle,
gossip, salacious or otherwise.

501
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,240
But it doesn't move you into the realm
of responsibility for killing someone.

502
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,560
We concluded that he was…

503
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,840
he had nothing to do
with the murder at all.

504
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,560
And we needed to sift out all that noise

505
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,880
and try to really focus
on basic principles

506
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,520
before getting carried away further
and further down different avenues.

507
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,160
Jill didn't live at 29 Gowan Avenue.

508
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,880
She lived with her fiancé,
further out in West London.

509
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:52,320
We knew she visited Gowan Avenue rarely
and stayed overnight even more rarely.

510
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,520
So to know that Jill would turn up
at 29 Gowan Avenue

511
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,040
on Monday morning by 11:30,

512
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,800
you would have to have been following her.

513
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,280
-[suspenseful music playing]
-[device beeping]

514
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,120
[detective inspector] I was
the deputy on the inquiry.

515
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,760
It was a painstaking process.

516
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,720
Two officers going through

517
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,960
the many hundreds of hours of CCTV.

518
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,200
There were thousands of people
to eliminate from the inquiry.

519
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,680
Nothing would be discounted
until each had been evaluated

520
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,920
to a degree by one of the team.

521
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,720
There was over 190 CCTV and cameras
in the surrounding streets.

522
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,280
Four hundred and thirty hours
of viewing time.

523
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,640
And from that we established
Jill's movements on the 26th of April.

524
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,680
Started from Alan Farthing's home.

525
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,600
[suspenseful music playing]

526
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,600
She stopped at a petrol station.

527
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,360
Filled the car with petrol.

528
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320
And then she left the petrol station
and she went into Hammersmith town center.

529
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,200
Went to at least two shops, maybe three,
to buy some fax paper or copying paper.

530
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,680
She returned to her car.

531
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,400
Then she left Hammersmith
and travelled south down to Fulham Road.

532
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,880
Then she got down to near Gowan Avenue,

533
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,640
parked right outside her house.

534
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,000
And then she walked up the gateway.

535
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,600
And killed at the doorstep.

536
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,320
[Ian] It was simply a matter
of just plodding through everything.

537
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:34,360
And we can categorically say,
100%, that she wasn't followed.

538
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,440
So, how did the killer know

539
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,320
that she was going to be
at Gowan Avenue that morning?

540
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,640
And then the thinking

541
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,480
is that Jill told somebody where she was.

542
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,680
So we did look at the phone calls
to her on that day.

543
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,080
Who knew she was going to be
where she was?

544
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,760
There was one person alone.

545
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,120
Mr. Roseman.

546
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,639
Jon Roseman was Jill's
very colorful agent.

547
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,239
Um, I had lots of dealings
with Jon over the years.

548
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:28,199
He was very, uh,
shall I say, robust to deal with.

549
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,800
He was very straight-talking.
Uh, you knew when you'd upset him.

550
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,880
There's a very famous story about him

551
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:39,280
going around somewhere with a baseball bat
to, uh… to show his feelings.

552
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,360
[gripping music playing]

553
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,800
[Jon] The police, they came to visit me
on a Saturday morning.

554
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,840
And they asked me about this timeline.

555
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,320
Because the only reason she went there
that day was to pick up some faxes

556
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,760
that had been sent to her
from my office about some work.

557
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,600
She was on her way
to a lunch, I think it was.

558
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,600
And so she just, like,
literally stopped off

559
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,440
back to her house to pick up faxes.

560
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,640
[keys jingling]

561
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:18,800
One of the things that
they were interested in was my book.

562
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,320
I had always wanted to be a writer.

563
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,560
And so I had written a book.

564
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,520
They always say,
write about what you know,

565
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,160
so I wrote about an agent.

566
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,200
An agent whose clients were murdered
under mysterious circumstances.

567
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:37,600
A client who'd been shot.

568
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,240
[Hamish] Mr. Roseman had written a book

569
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,440
which involved the death
of a presenter or personality.

570
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,920
So that seemed ironic
that he's writing a novel

571
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,120
which actually then occurred in real life.

572
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,840
[Jon] The police, there were two of them,
sitting in my office,

573
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,640
and we talked it through

574
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:04,920
and they asked me if I had a manuscript
of the book, which I did.

575
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,200
And they also said,
"What was the time difference

576
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,880
between the first murder in the book
and the second murder in the book?"

577
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,360
And I'm thinking,
like I was in the Twilight Zone.

578
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,640
I thought, he's not taking this seriously,

579
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:24,040
like somebody's had my manuscript
and is following the plan of the book?

580
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,680
[male interviewer] Did you think
whether others might be suspecting you?

581
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,240
[laughs]

582
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,120
Well, I'd have to have paid someone
to do it, that's for sure.

583
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,920
But I had this reputation,

584
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,200
and yes, I was really tough,
but it was just an act.

585
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,520
And anybody who suspected
that I would cut off

586
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,760
a financial revenue like Jill Dando's
would have to be insane.

587
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:50,840
[chuckles]

588
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,240
[director] Action.

589
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,400
Well, that's all for this--

590
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,400
Hang on, I can't see the lens.

591
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,440
[man] When you turn,
bring your body around.

592
00:36:58,520 --> 00:36:59,720
Oh, okay, right. I'm going…

593
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,760
[Jon] I mean, it sounds terrible,
but had we not sent her any faxes…

594
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,160
That's all from Mauritius.

595
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,440
Next week I'll be on
the Greek island of Skiathos.

596
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,160
I'm not going to say--

597
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:11,600
Had she not gone back to the house
that day, it wouldn't have happened.

598
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,120
Who knows how, where else
it would have happened,

599
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,080
but that was the reason
she went back to the house.

600
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,840
I do find this kind of stuff
really difficult to talk about.

601
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,200
Oh! It's just so glamorous.
It's wonderful. Let me at it.

602
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:35,920
Everything was going so well for her.

603
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,760
I came here unescorted, but I'm told
that a prince is waiting in the wings.

604
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,160
[Jon] I mean, nobody has a life
like that, right?

605
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,720
We would love to have
a life like that, right?

606
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,480
But Jill had a life like that.

607
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,160
It's not! It's not. It's not.

608
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:55,120
[both laugh]

609
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,320
Listen, I'm…
Jill, I'm so sorry about this.

610
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,760
I… I find her death still difficult
to come to terms with.

611
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,320
-Do you mind if I whirl her away?
-Oh, you may whirl. I can't believe it.

612
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:10,720
[clicks tongue]

613
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,720
There you go.

614
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,280
None of that inner group of people
was responsible for Jill Dando's murder.

615
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:30,040
And we still didn't have an understanding
of the reason why Jill had been killed.

616
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,040
We had to properly focus down.

617
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,320
[suspenseful music playing]

618
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,000
Who was the man
who had been seen running away?

619
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,160
Who was driving the blue Range Rover?

620
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,360
And who was the sweating man?

621
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,280
[Jeff] I knew by then
from talking to my contacts,

622
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,480
that the murder of Jill Dando caused,
you know, huge consternation

623
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,520
within the hierarchy
at Scotland Yard as well

624
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,640
because Jill Dando was perceived
as part of the policing family.

625
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,840
But they were bedeviled by the fact
that they didn't have a suspect.

626
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,280
They didn't have a murder weapon.

627
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,000
[Hamish] Morning.

628
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,080
Are you any closer to knowing either
a suspect or a motive for this killing?

629
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,080
We don't know the person
who killed Jill Dando at this time

630
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,360
and we're trying to establish
a motive as to why she was killed.

631
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,240
And our main inquiry focuses
on determining the motive.

632
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,160
Once we establish the motive, we will be
able to move forward more rapidly

633
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:38,840
as to who the suspect or suspects are.

634
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:39,960
[indistinct chatter]

635
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:44,440
The red-top news business
won't tolerate a vacuum, right?

636
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,960
They want information.
They've got pages to fill.

637
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,880
I could see the clouds
gathering on the horizon

638
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,240
and I knew, unless they
solved this crime really quickly,

639
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,080
it was only a short matter of time

640
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,800
before we started to become deluged
with all sorts of theories.

641
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,520
[gripping music playing]

642
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,480
[reporter] In the absence of
any obvious motive for the attack,

643
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,840
speculation, and it is only that,
focuses on a possible stalker.

644
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,920
Jill Dando had had problems
with obsessive fans in the past,

645
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,120
as one close colleague recalls.

646
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,800
I don't think she was in any sense,
in fear of, certainly not in mortal fear

647
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,160
of anything happening to her.
She was irritated from time to time.

648
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,120
Uh, there had been somebody stalking her.

649
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,320
Um, I mean, to be honest,
that's really, it goes with the turf.

650
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,800
Anyone who is in the public eye,
and Jill was in the public eye

651
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,080
more than almost anybody,
um, does have certain threats.

652
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,760
We used to get all the mail
coming to our office.

653
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,160
Some mail might be a little bit eh-eh,

654
00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:00,760
so you had to be careful
and just take some of these letters away.

655
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,680
But they weren't threatening,
they were just, well, you know.

656
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,600
There's a lot of perverts out there.

657
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:13,000
But then we received a letter
from somebody claiming to be a Serb.

658
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,240
It was in relation to the appeal

659
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,040
that Jill had given
earlier that month for Kosovo.

660
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,920
This weekend we've all become aware

661
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,640
of the humanitarian crisis
facing the Balkans,

662
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,480
as thousands of people from Kosovo…

663
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,200
[Jon] The letter seemed to be
somewhat threatening.

664
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,320
Whatever you can afford can make
a big difference to these people's lives

665
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,360
and their chances of survival.

666
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,920
[Jeff] The Balkan War had been going on
in the former Yugoslavia,

667
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,480
you know, which had split
into various states,

668
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,160
you know, Serbia and Kosovo and so forth.

669
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,600
It was a very horrible war.

670
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,720
So, when it started to emerge
that her agent had a threatening letter…

671
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:58,640
Then the BBC started
to get threats by telephone.

672
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,960
The hair on the back of my neck stood up.

673
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,720
[male reporter 1] The murder of one of
the country's best-known TV personalities

674
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,320
has taken a frightening turn.

675
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,760
[male reporter 2] The TV center where
Jill Dando worked received a phone call.

676
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,160
It was from a man claiming to be Serbian,

677
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:15,680
saying he was behind the star's death.

678
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,280
[theme music playing]