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*


Gazette and Post
April 20, 1978

Described as 15 years old in this piece, Michelle calls the man who attacked her "ugly man" I really need to find more on this man as he is also referred to as the penguin, this would also fit in with the man seen walking behind Eve Stratford with the odd walk and standing outside her flat around the time the attacker was said to leave.

Eve Stratford and Michelle Booth were both attacked on March 18th 3 years apart.
 
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Gazette and Post
April 20, 1978

Described as 15 years old in this piece, Michelle calls the man who attacked her "ugly man" I really need to find more on this man as he is also referred to as the penguin, this would also fit in with the man seen walking behind Eve Stratford with the odd walk and standing outside her flat around the time the attacker was said to leave.

Eve Stratford and Michelle Booth were both attacked on March 18th 3 years apart.
Forgot the photofit, again this was made by the police and therefore should not be any copywrite as it was designed for law enforcement needs
 

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The Guardian
21 March, 1978


When examining the train the police found blood so believe Michelle had been attacked before being thrown off the train.
Michelle had been wearing fancy high or long cowboy boots with white stitching, black corduroy trousers tucked into the boots, t shirt and brown check (plaid) hacking jacket. Michelle's Dad thinks she may have jumped to escape the man assaulting her.
Michelle was found by a train driver, in another story it's said a train driver thought it was a mannequin. Part way between Syon Lane and Brentford Station (Syon Lane is just off Great West Rd, Lynne and Elizabeth were both killed off Great West Rd)

I am still trying to work out exactly where she was thrown out or jumped to avoid her attacker.
 

Michelle Booth photo with Roy Orbison, she was a big fan and his music was played to her while she was in s coma, he must have heard about her and taken special interest. Some articles say she was 15 when attacked.
I'll have to rearrange the article I referred to in my own words as per rules as it's behind a paywall. There's a photofit, it's kind of similar to those of the man on Eve's street. Also it says something about the killing of Lynne, Elizabeth and where this girl was attacked on a single axis.

I don't think she had jeans on, but she was wearing trousers and has fair hair.
Just watched the episode of Crimewatch about Lynda Farrow, the killer may have known her as a croupier and felt disgruntled about something or he had a shoe fettish (she buys new shoes with her mum before her death)
 

There are a few photos on Shutterstock of a police reconstruction which show what Michelle was wearing when attacked. I think the cowboy boots she's wearing were partly a reflection of her musical taste.
 

There are a few photos on Shutterstock of a police reconstruction which show what Michelle was wearing when attacked. I think the cowboy boots she's wearing were partly a reflection of her musical taste.
 
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Amelia Ruth de van Weldon
Maida Vale (home)
Nov 72
Age 22

Heidi Mnilk
London Bridge to New Cross train
Age 17
I've tentatively looked at both of these, with MB being a possible survivor of the same person, it may be worth looking at other unsolved cases with what happened to her in mind. I recall those two didn't feel right to me, but that's my feeling. Amala Ruth De Vere Whelan I don't think was blonde or fair haired, and was strangled, nobody else has been strangled among those we've looked at or those known to be killed by him. Also nobody has written anything at the crime scene in the others.



The priest killer was considered as a killer for Heidi, not that it got anywhere.

Happy to look further though.
 
 

It mentions in Wikipedia under 'Murders', 'Stratford' the "cloying scent" left by the killer and citing

Walton, Richard (1992). ""Golden Girls' Horrible Mutations" by Richard Walton". Unsolved Mysteries. Kensington Publishing Corporation. pp. 107–120. ISBN 9781558176546

tried searching online for this book with zero success.

I have bought the vintage magazine referenced under the section, 'Disproven Links to Other Cases', 'Murder of Lynda Farrow',

Smith, David James (24 May 2009). "HER KILLER THINKS HE GOT AWAY WITH IT 30 YEARS AGO; This bunny girl's brutal murder was one of the most sensational unsolved crimes of the 1970s. Now, three decades on, is the net finally closing in on her killer? David James Smith investigates". Sunday Times. p. 24.

since searching news stories online even two digitalised old newspaper sites I have to pay to view, I couldn't find anything to state there was DNA found of the murderer of LF, so I'm not ready to make a longer post trying to paraphrase the text yet. But I can say that it says that no DNA was found at the time, it was only when it was suggested to test her against the DNA found to be matching when reopening Lynne and Eve's cases that they re-examined all the saved items the police had in storage at the crime scene, that DNA was found and then tested against LW and ES, it didn't match. But LF's killer's DNA is now on file but doesn't match anyone else on record.

I am wondering what DNA they found as Lynda was said to not have been sexually assaulted. Although they say she put up a fight so maybe through that.

So it looks like Lynda is ruled out and the police could have announced that a bit clearer so I didn't have to buy an old magazine to read it.

 
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It mentions in Wikipedia under 'Murders', 'Stratford' the "cloying scent" left by the killer and citing

Walton, Richard (1992). ""Golden Girls' Horrible Mutations" by Richard Walton". Unsolved Mysteries. Kensington Publishing Corporation. pp. 107–120. ISBN 9781558176546

tried searching online for this book with zero success.

I have bought the vintage magazine referenced under the section, 'Disproven Links to Other Cases', 'Murder of Lynda Farrow',

Smith, David James (24 May 2009). "HER KILLER THINKS HE GOT AWAY WITH IT 30 YEARS AGO; This bunny girl's brutal murder was one of the most sensational unsolved crimes of the 1970s. Now, three decades on, is the net finally closing in on her killer? David James Smith investigates". Sunday Times. p. 24.

since searching news stories online even two digitalised old newspaper sites I have to pay to view, I couldn't find anything to state there was DNA found of the murderer of LF, so I'm not ready to make a longer post trying to paraphrase the text yet. But I can say that it says that no DNA was found at the time, it was only when it was suggested to test her against the DNA found to be matching when reopening Lynne and Eve's cases that they re-examined all the saved items the police had in storage at the crime scene, that DNA was found and then tested against LW and ES, it didn't match. But LF's DNA is now on file but doesn't match anyone else on record.

I am wondering what DNA they found as Lynda was said to not have been sexually assaulted. Although they say she put up a fight so maybe through that.

So it looks like Lynda is ruled out and the police could have announced that a bit clearer so I didn't have to buy an old magazine to read it.

'Cloying' as a word tends to be used for things that are kind of sickly sweet. Oils used in diffusers, bad perfume or cologne, etc. could qualify. But it could also be physiological. Some people have conditions whereby they have a peculiar, pungent odor. Diabetics can smell sickly sweet, when their sugars are off. Ketoacidosis.

Other physical conditions can make your body odor smell like onions, like old fish... but when I hear 'cloying' my brain goes to sickly sweet, and I think diabetes.

But then you have people like Richard Ramirez, who didn't wash, and as a result, had an odor described as like 'a wild animal' and 'leather'.

MOO

EDIT: If you put the ISBN of that book in ebay, a handful of secondhand copies come up, so it's out there. Try ebay, try Abebooks. Both should have copies that don't bankrupt you. I wouldn't expect there to be a digital version. It looks cheap pulp, I doubt they forked out to put it on Kindle.
 

White Bear pub Kingsley Road
 

White Bear pub Kingsley Road
For the photo, not the article.
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The White Bear pub in Kingsley Road, Hounslow

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