Hey everyone. it's Jen.

And this is Lindsay.

And welcome back to Corpus DeLecti.

This week we're bringing you a brand new series, Foreign Fatality.

And this one is actually the title was recommended by Brooke.

So, yeah, we had asked for some input and we had a thread in the group and there were actually several really good ones.

We got more this time than we usually do.

So lots of really good choices.

So thank you everyone and thank you Brooke.

In this week's episode, we will journey across the pond to London, where Jill Wendy Dando

was murdered while she was trying to enter her house in broad daylight.

Jill Dando was born on November 9, 1961, at Ashcombe House maternity home in Somerset, England, to Jack and Winifred

May, Jean. She had an older brother named Nigel, and as a young baby, doctors found a defect

in her heart, so she had a hole in her heart, as well as a blocked pulmonary artery. Now at the time,

the surgery that is used today to correct this was still really, really new. The outcomes were not

so certain, not always successful. And at just three and a half years old, she went under this surgery, and she was one of the first survivors to undergo this surgery.

All throughout her school years, Jill did very well, and she took courses for journalism like her brother.

Now, he had worked at the BBC Radio in Bristol as a journalist. She had been voted

head girl at Broad Oak Sixth Forum Center. She also joined theater groups where she appeared in

plays. And she would volunteer at the Sunshine Hospital Radio in 1979. Now, when she finished school, she got a job at Weston Mercury.

This was a local weekly newspaper that her brother and her father worked at, so really

journalism was in her blood.

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