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.

 

[Eastend Eagle]

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.

I thought she was found on her bed virtually decapitated by way of a knife. Do the Police believe these injuries were done after she'd been killed?

 

[Der Detektiv]

I thought she was found on her bed virtually decapitated by way of a knife. Do the Police believe these injuries were done after she'd been killed?

Eve was found face down either on/or next to her bed.

The "bed" was just a mattress on the floor and police believe she would have fallen onto it when her throat was cut from behind, hence the "thud" that was heard from downstairs.

 

[tes1984]

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 think 25 minutes is a fairly long time to spend at that crime scene, but that's JMO.