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