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*

[Der Detektiv]

How long do you think he was in the property for? IIRC he spent a surprisingly long time at the much more public Lynne Weedon murder scene.

I thought I had read that Eve returned home at approximately 4pm and the police believe she was met, or surprised, just as she was arriving at the door, as the neighbours heard no knocking.

Calm conversation was definitely heard upstairs at 4:30.

If I recall, the thud and footsteps downstairs were heard at about 5:10 or 5:15, placing him in the property for just over an hour.

 

[Eastend Eagle]

I thought I had read that Eve returned home at approximately 4pm and the police believe she was met, or surprised, just as she was arriving at the door, as the neighbours heard no knocking.

Calm conversation was definitely heard upstairs at 4:30.

If I recall, the thud and footsteps downstairs were heard at about 5:10 or 5:15, placing him in the property for just over an hour.

Why would there have been a thud?
From the description of the murder scene I don't see how a thud would have occurred.

 

[Der Detektiv]

IIRC he spent a surprisingly long time at the much more public Lynne Weedon murder scene.

Personally, I don’t think he did. Unless I’m mixed up, wasn’t the supposed attacker seen running out of the alley at about 11:45? Leaving him 25 minutes or so at the scene of the crime.

I’ve never believed the “agitated” and “foul-smelling” man with a briefcase who tried to hitch a ride at 1am had anything to do with this.

I think this was simply an innocent bystander who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[Der Detektiv]

Why would there have been a thud?
From the description of the murder scene I don't see how a thud would have occurred.

It was from the description by the neighbours downstairs. Police believe Eve was struck from behind and she fell forward onto the floor, dead. They believe this was the cause of the thud they heard.