In the opening moments of the Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando?, a genuine 999 call from the morning of the presenter’s attack is played. “Hello, ambulance?” The woman on the phone is audibly shaken. “I’m walking along Gowan Avenue. It looks like there’s somebody collapsed and, confidentially, it looks like Jill Dando. She’s collapsed on her doorstep and there’s a lot of blood. It doesn’t look like she’s breathing. She’s got blood coming from her nose, her arms are blue.” The woman’s voice cracks and she begins to cry. “Oh my God, no, I don’t think she’s alive.”
Jill Dando, the “golden girl of British television” who fronted staple BBC shows from Breakfast News to Crimewatch, was shot dead on her doorstep in Fulham in April 1999. Twenty-four years later, her unsolved murder has become the subject of Netflix’s latest true crime series, in which police, the press and Dando’s agent and family are interviewed.
