What happened to Jill Dando and was her killer ever caught?

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

In 1999, Britain was rocked as a well-known and popular public figure was gunned down on her doorstep in what would become one of the country’s most notorious unsolved murders.

On the morning of April 26, Jill Dando was shot and killed outside her home in London, aged 37. The investigation that followed became the Metropolitan Police’s biggest murder inquiry to date and the largest criminal investigation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

One man was eventually jailed for the murder, before being acquitted and released years later. To this day, authorities have no definitive answers around the killing – though countless theories have circulated in the years since. READ MORE: Neighbours wake to smashed doors and crying teens during huge drugs bust Jill Dando was a journalist and television presenter, best known for hosting BBC News and Crimewatch.

She had worked for the BBC throughout most of her career, and won the broadcaster’s Personality of the Year award in 1997. On April 26, 1999, at around 11.30am, Dando was killed by a single bullet to the head on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, south-west London.