The Witness on Netflix: What happened to Rachel Nickell? Real story behind brutal murder
It has been nearly 35 years after British model Rachel Nickell was murdered in broad daylight on a busy London Common with her two-year-old son as the only witness. Now, her story is finally being told in full. Netflix’s The Witness revisits the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common (X/ @NetflixUK) Netflix has released both a dramatized series, The Witness and an accompanying documentary, The Murder of Rachel Nickell, both available to stream now. What happened to Rachel Nickell? On July 15, 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was walking through Wimbledon Common in South West London with her young son Alex and their dog Molly when she was attacked without warning. She was sexually assaulted and stabbed 49 times, all in broad daylight, as her toddler son could not do anything but look as she was being murdered. Little Alex tried to wake his mother, not fully understanding what had happened. “There was blood everywhere. Everything was silent,” he recalled to The Sun as cited by TIME. “I said, ‘Get up, Mummy’ and she …
