Eve we have more possibilities around her association with her killer,
Either he was a stranger who spotted her and followed her home (without anyone coming forward to say they saw that)
A stalker who may not have known her.
A work colleague.
It was someone she knew, either personally or via someone else, like a friend of one of the band
It was a customer / client via the Playboy club.
Someone who had an issue with her / perceived as an issue by killer, maybe rejection or fear of rejection making them hypersensitive to that.
The news story below
The Daily Telegraph
September 27, 1975
Besides the police looking for some older lady possibly in her 60s, in distinctive rectangle glasses, from Walthamstow hanging around asking questions around Eve's former home, sounds like a possible crank, dubbed a Miss Marple type in her manner and stating she had a lodger who had disappeared after the murder for 3 days, she'd found a blow up doll in his room and when he returned he had dyed his hair and had it cut. The way it reads is that they don't think it's hugely important but would like to rule it out anyway.
The police also stated they had interviewed close to 500 people and taken plus statements of a 1000 plus pages. That they had looked into a wide variety of people including sex offenders, people who supplied
, playboys (pretty sure they mean clientele at the club she worked in), models...
On a previous news story they found a book in her room full of names and contact details which it said they were working their way through)
They make a reference to the fact she knew a lot of men and they therefore had a great many alibis to go through. However detective chief superintendent John McFadzean feels the offender is among any if those they have checked.
The pathologist at the inquest said the wounds on her throat were so savage that she was almost decapitated (same said of Lynda Farrows who lived nearby and this is not a common attack or murder method). Eve had been savagely stabbed, her jaw and neck were badly damaged. He mentions her staged appearance although it doesn't say staged. Lying in her side, negligent open revealing her bra and pants on despite recently having sex, which we know the police were, still are conflicted on whether it was rape or consensual (this is not just because of a lack of signs of a break in, the fact two voices were heard which didn't sound in conflict, lack of defence wounds, but the fact they believed she had sex with other people in her home despite having a boyfriend so they weren't sure if that's how things started out). They were unable to obtain the blood group from the semen sample. It says she was gagged. Lynne Weedon had a sock or stocking in her mouth.
Eve's bf John Priest spoke from Holland where he was working, stating he had been very happy with her in their 3 year relationship. That she was getting calls at home before her death where the person would say nothing then hang up, (there was an American serial killer that used to do this to check when the person was at home as well as getting a kick out of scaring people, Zodiac killer?). JP said she was also distressed that someone was following her and loitering around her (could it be they had followed her home on another occasion and found out where she lived previously? I am sure I read somewhere previously something about someone loitering near her home).
As I have said before, I don't disbelieve she may have known the killer, I just take it with a pinch of salt. It could be that the person bluffed their way in or had a knife, well obviously they did as they slit her throat and stabbed her and took the knife with them.when.they left, but people react different ways and nobody knows how they will react until they are in that situation. Someone may try to fight back, or try shouting for help, they may scream and cry, or may go along with what they are told, some people even try to talk to their possible attacker and try to make a connection, persuade them that they're on side, that they aren't someone that they would want to harm. So maybe Eve was trying to be friendly and befriend the man so he wouldn't hurt her. We all react differently. Once she was tied up then she would have been able to do little when he started attacking her.
Maybe he was there by pre-arrangement and Eve didn't know what he was capable of.
Maybe he knew the band and could have gained the home phone number via them or through them giving it to people looking for bookings or work. JP was having to do normal work as they weren't making enough money through the band.
I keep going back in my mind to the comment that he has a pungent odour. That's not something that's said about a pleasant smell. Yet if it were an unwashed, unclean smell why would they be chasing after super rich playboy types who probably wore expensive scent. Maybe sweaty?
View the digital scanned newspaper from The Daily Telegraph dated Sep 27, 1975, page 15.
www.newspapers.com
One thing I thing we can be sure of is that this was the killer in his element, he had privacy, no disturbances, he had time, he was in control.
