UK UK- Eve Stratford, 21, Bunny @ Playboy Club, posed for mag. cover, later her mutilated & grotesquely staged body found @ home, London 18/03/75 *DNA*

[tes1984]

It's a good shout - and it again opens the question as to whether she knew whoever it was who entered the flat. The times of the boyfriend coming home are key. If it was the same time each day then I get they knew what time they had, but if it differed or had he come home early then they must have been prepared to deal with him too.

It would have been extremely difficult for the killer or killers to have known they wouldn't be disturbed. Perhaps they just got lucky. I say 'they' because AFAIK the police found two DNA profiles (one of which matched the DNA profile from Lynne Weedon).

 

[TheRockingRev]

It would have been extremely difficult for the killer or killers to have known they wouldn't be disturbed. Perhaps they just got lucky. I say 'they' because AFAIK the police found two DNA profiles (one of which matched the DNA profile from Lynne Weedon).

Which could add weight to there being more than one person involved - if they thought they may have to tackle the boyfriend as well.

 

[Yellowbelly]

What happened to the monster responsible for 2 horrendous murders within a few months of each other? Nothing else (as far as we know) after the Lynn Weedon murder. I find it difficult to believe he turned over a new leaf and lived a law abiding life for the past 50 years.
Was he so sickened by his murders he took his own life?
Emigrated for a new start?
There was talk of the Lynda Farrow murder being linked though its since disproved.
I haven't seen proven links to other similar murders.

I remember seeing a documentary about the murder of Colette Aram in 1983. By the time the murderer, Paul Stewart Hutchinson, was tracked down in 2009 by DNA profiling, he was a married 50 year old family man with 3 kids. He hadn't done anything similar either before or since, yet in 1983 he had kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 16 year old girl. So, somebody committing a heinous crime out of the blue and going on to live a perfectly normal life does happen.

Murder of Colette Aram - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[tes1984]

Which could add weight to there being more than one person involved - if they thought they may have to tackle the boyfriend as well.

Would the neighbour who heard footsteps on the stairs have been able to tell if it was two or three people walking up?

 

[tes1984]

I remember seeing a documentary about the murder of Colette Aram in 1983. By the time the murderer, Paul Stewart Hutchinson, was tracked down in 2009 by DNA profiling, he was a married 50 year old family man with 3 kids. He hadn't done anything similar either before or since, yet in 1983 he had kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 16 year old girl. So, somebody committing a heinous crime out of the blue and going on to live a perfectly normal life does happen.

Murder of Colette Aram - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hutchinson supposedly didn't have any previous convictions, but earlier that day he tried to abduct two other schoolgirls, so strictly speaking this was at least his second major offence.

He also sent the police a taunting letter years later, boasting about the murder and how they would never catch him, so he was still fantasising about and reliving that day years after the event. He killed himself in prison shortly after he was convicted.

I say he supposedly had no convictions, but there was a man his age, with his name, in Nottinghamshire, who had convictions for violence at a football match, a racially motivated assault, and possession of a firearm. It may have been a different Paul Hutchinson.

 

[TheRockingRev]

Would the neighbour who heard footsteps on the stairs have been able to tell if it was two or three people walking up?

Possibly - but I suppose you only really pay attention to something if you think you'll need to refer to it later. Voices definitely - but footsteps I'm not so sure of, especially if said neighbour wasn't say directly next to / under the stairs

 

[tes1984]

Eve had been receiving obscene phone calls, including three hang up calls on the day she was murdered.

She had also recently been followed by a man with a strained and stiff walk. After her murder a witness saw a man with a limp nearby, and this sighting resulted in a composite sketches being produced.

 

[janne]

What happened to the monster responsible for 2 horrendous murders within a few months of each other? Nothing else (as far as we know) after the Lynn Weedon murder. I find it difficult to believe he turned over a new leaf and lived a law abiding life for the past 50 years.
Was he so sickened by his murders he took his own life?
Emigrated for a new start?
There was talk of the Lynda Farrow murder being linked though its since disproved.
I haven't seen proven links to other similar murders.

I've seen the cases linked to a couple of others, the one most frequently cited being the murder of Elizabeth Parravincina, which occurred roughly 2 years later.

The crime scene was less than a mile from the site of the attack on Lynne Weedon, and the MO also bore some similarities (she was attacked from behind with a blunt instrument before being dragged into bushes).

 

[tes1984]

It's a good shout - and it again opens the question as to whether she knew whoever it was who entered the flat. The times of the boyfriend coming home are key. If it was the same time each day then I get they knew what time they had, but if it differed or had he come home early then they must have been prepared to deal with him too.

There seems to have been a window of opportunity for the killer of approximately 50 minutes. The neighbour heard them on the stairs at 4.30pm, and Tony returned home at 5.20pm. I'm guessing his shift finished at 5pm, but who knows if he ever worked overtime, went to the pub after work etc.

Tony's band had been very successful, but he had been forced to take a day job because the band wasn't doing as well as they had in the past. They still had a dedicated following of fans though, mainly from around Cornwall.

I'm wondering if Tony could have been the original target of the visitor that day, or at least an excuse for the killer to call round. I'm not sure it makes sense for a stalker to have found Eve after seeing her in the magazine. She used pseudonyms as a model and at the Playboy Club, so how would someone who saw her in the magazine have found out her real name?

 

[dotr]

Could these dates coincide with certain school /sports events, or does the perp get a day off from work on a Thursday, staying out late on Wednesdays? speculation, imo.
ES murder.
approx. 4:30 pm, Tuesday, March 18, 1975.
LW murder.
approx. 11:30 pm, Wednesday, September 3, 1975.

 

[sportstergirl]

Could be a shift worker. Was there a psychological profile of the killer?

 

[tes1984]

Could be a shift worker. Was there a psychological profile of the killer?

I don't think psychological profiling was used in the UK until the early 80s, when John Douglas advised the police in the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry.

He told police that the Yorkshire Ripper was probably an anonymous, loner type, which turned out to be correct when Sutcliffe was caught. However, Levi Bellfield committed similar ambush bludgeonings to Sutcliffe, yet was a well known local character and attention seeker, who was far from anonymous.