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Jill Dando was a Journalist and television host from England, and people want to know more about Jill Dando Murder. 

Jill worked with the BBC for most of her career and won the title of Personality of the Year in 1997.

Her television employment at the time of her death included presenting Crimewatch on BBC One with Nick Ross.

Dando was shot dead outside her Fulham House on April 26, 1999, sparking the most extensive murder investigation by the Metropolitan Police and the nation’s most extensive criminal probe since the search for the Yorkshire Ripper.

Despite having passed away in 2000, the Serbian “warlord” Arkan was listed as a suspect in 2012.

Despite authorities having identified almost 2,000 potential suspects, no one else has been charged in Dando’s murder, and the case is still open.

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Jill Dando Murder Case: Where Is The BBC Journalist Killer Barry George Now?

Barry George was the prime suspect in Jill Dando Murder Case and worked as a messenger on the BBC before his arrest.

Barry George, a local man, was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to Prison, but after serving eight years in Prison, he was acquitted after an appeal and a new trial.

On December 14, 2007, George went before the Old Bailey and once more entered a not-guilty plea. His retrial started on June 9, 2008.

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Barry was the prime suspect in Jill Dando Murder Case. (Source: The Mirror)

Barry George was not recognized during an identification parade by two neighbors who witnessed the murderer leave in this direction immediately after the shooting. On August 1, 2008, George’s acquittal brought the trial to a close.

Barry George has been very secretive ever since and has yet to reveal much information about himself and his actions while writing this article.

However, we know Barry George is not in Prison as he was acquitted and is now free.

Jill Dando Murder Case: How Was She Killed?

On April 26, 1999, Dando, then 37, departed from Farthing’s Chiswick residence. She used a car to travel alone back to the Fulham home she owned.

She had lived there, but by April 1999, she was trying to sell it and didn’t go there very often.

At approximately 11:32, Dando was shot in the head as she approached her front door. Helen Doble, a neighbor, found her body around 14 minutes later.

At 11:47, Police were contacted. Dando was transported to the adjacent Charing Cross Hospital, where at 13:03 BST, she was pronounced dead.

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Jill Dando Murder Case: blood-spattered doorway where Jill Dando was gunned down. (Source: Daily Mail)

Dando was snatched from behind as she was preparing to insert her keys into the lock to open the front door of her Fulham residence.

Dando face was almost touching the tiled step of the porch when the attacker grabbed her with his right arm and threw her to the ground.

He shot her once in the left temple with his left hand, instantly killing her. The bullet exited her head on the right side, passing through her head slightly above her ear and parallel to the ground.

According to forensic analysis, a 9mm short caliber semi-automatic pistol was found to have been pushed against Dando’s head at the time of the shooting.

The cartridge appeared to have undergone some alteration, perhaps to lessen its charge.

Dando screamed because she felt someone was startling him, but Richard Hughes, her next-door neighbor, didn’t hear a gunshot.

Unaware of what had happened, Hughes peered out his front window and made the only confirmed sighting of the murderer—a six-foot (183 cm) tall white man in his 40s who was leaving Dando’s home.

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