Almost 35 years after Rachel Nickell was brutally murdered , her story is being shared on screen. The infamous 1992 tragedy which took place in broad daylight—with Nickell's infant son as the only witness—is at the center of a wave of TV retellings, including two Netflix projects. As announced in March 2025, Netflix adapted the crime story into the dramatized series The Witness , and are accompanying the series’ June 4 premiere with a documentary, The Murder of Rachel Nickell . (Prime Video will also be releasing a two-part docuseries on Nickell later this year, titled The Wimbledon Killer .)  Directed by Lucy Bowen, The Murder of Rachel Nickell utilizes exclusive archival footage to contextualize interviews about the case with forensic experts . Meanwhile, The Witness , a three-part fictionalized true crime adaptation created by Rob Williams, had Nickell's son Alex Hanscombe and his father André Hanscombe serve as consultants.…