Rachel Nickell was walking with her 2-year-old son when she was brutally murdered in 1992

The only eyewitness to Rachel Nickell’s brutal 1992 murder was 2-year-old Alex Hanscombe, who told police she’d been killed by a “bad man.”

The Murder of Rachel Nickell, directed by Lucy Bowden, revisits one of Britain's most notorious murder cases.

Netflix's The Murder of Rachel Nickell details how a series of police failures allowed Rachel Nickell's real killer, Robert Napper, to evade justice for years – while they focussed on wrongfully prosecuting Colin Stagg.

The streaming service dropped director Lucy Bowden’s documentary The Murder of Rachel Nickell, in addition to The Witness, a three-part dramatization of the tragedy from showrunner Rob Williams. Both titles have since generated a ton of buzz online, drawing attention back to Nickell’s murder case, which was eventually closed in 2008.

At the time of her death, Rachel Nickell was in a relationship with Andre Hanscombe.

Rachel Nickell was killed on July 15, 1992 but the man responsible for the crime, Robert Napier, was not convicted until Dec. 18, 2008

An undercover officer using the name "Lizzie James" began corresponding with Stagg after claiming she saw a letter he had sent to a friend. Over the following months, this officer went from writing Stagg to calling him and then eventually meeting in person.