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Who was BBC journalist Jill Dando and what happened to her?

It's been 24 years since the country was shaken by the murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando.

The Crimewatch presenter was 37 years old when she was shot dead outside her home in Fulham on April 26, 1999. The murder, which remains unsolved to this day, triggered the largest manhunt in Britain since the Yorkshire Ripper.

Her death and the mystery surrounding it is the subject of new Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando? which debuted on the streaming platform on Tuesday (September 26). The three-part series features archive, new research and revelatory interviews to revisit the journalist's life, career and one what would become of the most notorious unsolved murders of the 20th century.

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Jill Dando was a journalist and television presenter, best known for hosting BBC News, as well as Crimewatch alongside Nick Ross. She had worked for the BBC throughout most of her career, and won the broadcaster’s Personality of the Year award in 1997.

On the morning of her death, Jill had left her fiancé, Alan Farthing's home in Chiswick alone and travelled by car to her home in Fulham. She was in the process of selling it so didn't visit it very often.

At around 11:32am, while at her doorstep, she was shot once in the head with a bullet from a 9mm Short calibre-semi automatic pistol. The gun was believed to have been pressed to her head and it is thought the cartridge had been modified to reduce its charge.

Her body was discovered by a neighbour 14 minutes later, her keys still in her hand. Dando was taken to nearby Charing Cross Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival at 1.03pm.

Her next-door neighbour reported seeing a

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