I'm reproducing this here as some people may be following this discussion of possible linked murders and not be looking at the individual threads of the ladies mentioned. I have posted a few pieces on the Sally Shepherd thread yesterday, ongoing, this one was of particular interest as in all the articles saying Sally visited friends in Essex before making the journey home, I was imagining far away, when it was close enough for it to be negligible to mention it was Essex not London (I think it's classed as Redbridge now and North East London, no longer Essex). It was Woodford, which is where Lynda Farrow was murdered and Woodford underground station where Sally caught the train home is only a few stops from Leytonstone Station (same line) where Eve Stratford exited on her short walk home, murdered not long after getting home.
Lynda Farrow, despite the proximity and similarities to Eve, should really be ruled out as recovered DNA from stored evidence would have matched up to anyone on file otherwise, it's just such a huge coincidence.
Sally's attack is very similar to Lynne Weedon's.
Like with many of these cases police alternate between some of the same theories as us, with Sally they have said they think someone followed her from the bus, also that they think someone or some people in passing car followed her (they go between a very strong individual or more than one person, because of the physicality of her attack). So this unknown part puts the police in the same position as us. This is why they try to find as many witnesses as possible to fill in the timeline and know what people were seen around her. The police were very disappointed with the lack of response.
I may be repeating some things, sorry.
View the digital scanned newspaper from The Daily Telegraph dated Dec 03, 1979, page 3.
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The Daily Telegraph
London, Greater London, England. Monday, December 03, 1979
Wow, I have read so often that Sally left work at The New Vic, central London and went to visit friends in Essex, and for the first time I read hear that it was Woodford, and Woodford is where Lynda Farrow was murdered, it's a stone's throw from where Eve Stratford was murdered (who was murdered by the same person as Lynne Weedon, attacked and killed in a similar manner to Sally), Eve had caught the central line home from central London to Leytonstone Station which is only two stops from Woodford on the central line, which is the station Sally was escorted to by friends to catch a tube home. Sally exited on Tottenham Court Road to catch a bus to Peckham.
Also Sally was 5ft 6" according to this, the same height as Eve Stratford. (As well as also being blonde and attractive like the others we've linked).
In this it says police believe it may have been two men. In various press releases at the time I have searched, they usually write that police believe it is either someone very strong, or two men. In Lynne Weedon's case the police believed it was someone very strong. This is for the way the body of each young lady was moved around while unconscious and therefore a dead weight, plus in Sally's case the energetic furosity of the physical attack after rape.
I'm not sure if I am missing something here, but I don't know why there is no DNA as Sally was raped, even though all they did then was check bodily fluids for blood group, often exhibits were kept and could be retested as new techniques became available, so I don't understand where the DNA is.
I don't recall any witness reports of anyone following Sally from Woodford or onto or off the bus. The bus conductress mentioned people or a car she noticed in the area when Sally got off the bus, but not of anyone following Sally, it is an incredible coincidence.
Sally's clothes were left in the same arrangement as Lynne Weedon's, pants and jeans removed and upper clothing pulled up under the chin, exposing her breasts.
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