Crimewatch - Season 17
Season 17
Episodes
January 1997
Tonight's cases include a bank robbery in Dundee, Scotland, and a rape in Prestatyn, North Wales.
February 1997
Tonight's cases include the murder of 54-year-old Sussex businessman Richard Watson and a jewellery robbery in Blackpool.
March 1997
Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public can help to fight crime, which tonight features a supermarket armed robbery, and the rape of a woman in Manchester.
April 1997
Tonight's cases include the murder of 27-year-old Julie Smailes in Consett, County Durham, an aggravated burglary and two armed bank robberies.
May 1997
Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help fight crime.
June 1997
This month, help is needed in the 15-year hunt for a serial rapist, plus an armed robbery in Preston.
July 1997
Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help fight crime.
August 1997
This month, a special edition of the programme, combining appeals for help on unsolved crimes with a report back on how cases have been solved as a result of viewers' calls.
September 1997
Nick Ross and Jill Dando look at the shocking case of schoolgirl Katerina Koneva, found dead in her West London home in May. The attacker was chased by her father but his trail goes cold at Hammersmith station. Close circuit television footage of the chase has already been shown but police hope this reconstruction may prompt more reports of sightings.
There is also a reconstruction of an armed robbery at a DIY store in Leicester. After bursting into the manager's office, a man rampaged through the store spraying staff and customers with CS gas. He made his getaway in a waiting car.
October 1997
Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help the fight against crime.
November 1997
This month help is needed to find the man responsible for a number of assaults on boys in Surrey, dating back to February 1993, plus a jewellery store raid in Kingston upon Thames.
December 1997
This month, help is needed to find a rapist in Essex, and there are items of stolen property which some viewers might recognise.
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