Joanna Yeates' final journey to be filmed for Crimewatch reconstruction
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 3:53 PM on 17th January 2011
Tragic: Joanna Yeates' body was found on Christmas Day
The 25-year-old's killer remains at large a month after she was reported missing by her boyfriend Greg Reardon.
Her snow-covered body was found by dog walkers on Christmas morning in Failand, three miles from the flat she shared with Mr Reardon, 27, in Clifton, Bristol.
Now a recreation of the landscape architect's final steps will be filmed this week, in order for it to be broadcast on the BBC's Crimewatch's programme.
Detectives hope the move will trigger a breakthrough in the murder hunt.
A police source told the Daily Mirror: 'Huge numbers of people will be watching.'
The BBC added: 'The aim is to be realistic and jog someone’s memory.'
The reconstruction will be filmed on Thursday.
It will track 'Jo' leaving the Ram pub at 8pm before stopping at a Waitrose, Tesco and Bargain Booze (now called Baryah's) before heading home to her flat in Clifton.
Jo’s mother Theresa had offered to play her daughter, but it is understood a young actress or policewoman will be used instead.
Her husband David has said: 'My wife looks a bit similar to Jo and would like to take the part.'
The reconstruction of Jo's fateful journey on December 17 will also show the roadside verge three miles from her flat where her body was found on Christmas Day, according to the paper.
Social: Joanna drank with her workmates in the Bristol Ram for about two hours on the night she disappeared
The programme will be broadcast at 9pm on Wednesday, January 26.
The news comes as detectives confirmed they have enlisted the help of the forensic laboratory which helped catch Rachel Nickell’s killer.
Scientists are understood to be examining a 'partial' DNA sample found on Jo's strangled body after it was discovered dumped.
A spokesman for the laboratory, LGC Forensics, confirmed: ‘We are working on the Jo Yeates inquiry.
‘We are carrying out tests on DNA samples. I cannot comment further.’
The firm, which is based in Teddington, West London, played a key role in the conviction of Robert Napper 12 years after he stabbed Miss Nickell to death on Wimbledon Common in 1992.
It used partial DNA evidence to help trap the factory worker, who was found guilty of the former model’s manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
LGC also helped solve the Damilola Taylor case by finding the ten-year-old victim’s blood on a trainer belonging to one of his killers.
Shop: Jo then headed to Waitrose in Clifton ... before going to the nearby Tesco supermarket, where she bought a pizza
Stop: Jo then headed to Bargain Booze before going home to her flat
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