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*

[lee sumner]

It is the Mirror, but.. fwiw, rbbm

Playboy Bunny murderer's other victims and DNA clue that could catch killer

ITV's new documentary series The Playboy Bunny Murder, presented by Marcel Theroux, reinvestigates the connections between three cold cases from nearly 50 years ago

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Nia Dalton 14 Nov 2023

''To this day, Eve's murder remains unsolved, though DNA evidence and inquiries over the years have linked her death to two other victims - schoolgirl Lynne Weedon and mum Lynda Farrow''

''Mum-of-two Lynda Farrow is believed to have been murdered by the same unknown killer. The 29-year-old croupier was four months pregnant when she was stabbed to death in her home in East London on January 19, 1979. ''

''Former detective chief inspector Colin Sutton carried out a review of the evidence in Lynda's case in 2002 and linked her murderer with Eve's. "I have no doubt the same man committed all three," he said. "I was quickly struck by the similarities with that of Eve Stratford. A woman killed in her own home by having her throat slit? That is rare enough today, in the 1970s it was almost unheard of. For this to have happened twice, with identical wounds, within a few miles of each other was just too much of a coincidence."

i think he is wrong. farrow was being watched by her husband gangster friends, so to think a sex predator was also watching farrow does not add up. car full of gangsters and a sex maniac both watching farrow, but they dont see each other sounds nuts in my opinion.

 

[tes1984]

abdul was cleared years ago. DCI sutton is wrong in my opinion thinking stratford and farrow were killed by same perp. stratford murder was clearly a sex crime, but farrow murder looks like a domestic style murder. i believe farrow was killed by henchman working for her husband. his health was failing so he had others do his dirty work.

I'm on the fence about the Farrow murder being linked, but DCI Sutton will have had access to material not in the public domain.

 

[Der Detektiv]

farrow was being watched by her husband gangster friends, so to think a sex predator was also watching farrow does not add up. car full of gangsters and a sex maniac both watching farrow, but they dont see each other sounds nuts in my opinion.

They’re not exclusive! What’s to say the killer of Stratford was not one of the men in that car? That he nominates himself for the job because he “has prior experience”?

 

[lee sumner]

Probably wore dark clothing too so blood stains wouldn't stand out so much, especially at night.
In Eve's case, he may have removed his clothes so they wouldn't have been splattered

I think the witness description of the guy with a penguin walk, it was definitely weirdly out turned feet like Chaplin, as they physically demonstrated to the police, I am sure they said they had an oversized black coat. I think they mentioned something about walk was like they were pregnant. I think a beer belly was mentioned.

Btw I read in a few press releases recently that the police also made the connection between the description of Eve's possible killer and Michelle Booth's attacker. They thought their descriptions were too similar. Regardless whether more people then had untreated conditions that may have caused limps and odd walks etc the police then would have known that when making that link.

You know a lot of these perp descriptions are of very repellent men who may have had trouble attracting women, I read one case where someone killed women because he felt women didn't like him and it turned out he was only rejected once. It's a bit like today's incel phenomenon where men get extremely hateful of women.

its more about control in my opinion. these killers dont have problem getting women, they just enjoy the rape and control they have over the women. levi bellfield, oba chandler, bundy, mulcahy, etc.

 

[Der Detektiv]

rbbm
A band manager or record producer type comes to mind, or someone carrying a 'kill kit'', in the brief-case, or a pseudo door to door salesman, speculation.

It’s an interesting theory. But personally, I just can’t envisage our killer spending almost 90 minutes (outdoors, in the cold) at the (public) crime scene and then trying to hitch a lift all the way to the West Country? When he was supposed to be local/familiar with the Hounslow area? It just doesn’t add up.

 

[lee sumner]

I'm on the fence about the Farrow murder being linked, but DCI Sutton will have had access to material not in the public domain.

true. i did wonder does he know something i dont

 

[lee sumner]

Colin Sutton's theory is based around Abdul being close friends with both Stratford and Farrow.

Two women killed in a very unusual way, and a prime suspect for victim A is also a close friend of victim B...

DCI sutton is obsessed with abdul, ha, ha.

 

[lee sumner]

2024 rbbm

I nailed Levi Bellfield, I'll prove serial killer is behind West End Murders

SOME detectives have an unsolved case which still torments them years after they have retired. For Colin Sutton, it is the murders of two young women and a girl of 16 in the 1970s by a serial kille…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Abdul Khawaja, aka Little Abdul, who was also known as Mr Fixit, mixed with Bunny GirlsCredit: Supplied

'Khawaja, 5ft 2in — known as Little Abdul — was a shady Mr Fixit operating in London’s clubs and casinos. He was a regular face at the Playboy Club and a 1981 licensing court case heard how he lined up girls for wealthy customers.

''He was close to the Playboy Club’s London chief Victor Lownes and steered oil-rich Arabs to the gaming tables.'
The young women he introduced to clients were known as “Abdul’s Angels”, and according to other Bunny Girls, Khawaja knew Eve well. They are said to have dined together on the night before her death.
Khawaja — now dead — is said to have been angered by Eve’s centrefold appearance in that month’s Mayfair adult magazine, which led to her being suspended as a Bunny Girl.
Thanks to Colin and his team, Little Abdul has now been identified by croupier Lynda’s daughters Justine and Samantha after they were shown his photo.
They say he was a regular visitor to their family home in Chislehurst, Kent, and known as Monty.''

''Two male DNA profiles were later found from the crime scene. The killer’s was found on her bindings, while the other unidentified profile was from semen, suggesting Eve had had sex that day.

A witness described seeing two men nearby at the time. One, described as short, with a too-long overcoat and walking with a limp, closely resembled Khawaja.''

they thought monty was abdul, but could be wrong after all these yrs.

 

[tes1984]

i think he is wrong. farrow was being watched by her husband gangster friends, so to think a sex predator was also watching farrow does not add up. car full of gangsters and a sex maniac both watching farrow, but they dont see each other sounds nuts in my opinion.

True, but does it add up for a group of men to be hanging around outside if they know a pregnant woman is about to be murdered?

Anyone caught for involvement in Lynda's murder would have been treated like a child killer in prison.

 

[Der Detektiv]

Having rewatched the 2007 Crimewatch feature last night on this and the Lynne Weedon murder, one thing struck me in particular.

The gate Lynne was thrown over was much taller than I expected. I’d estimate it was about 5’ 7/8” high, maybe a bit more.

So we can conclude the killer was strong enough to lift a (let’s say 50kg) 16-year-old girl over that high.

That suggests to me someone who works out regularly.

On top of that you’d have to be flexible enough to climb over, which suggests somebody who was quite young.

The man seen fleeing the alley was also running, but no peculiarities in how he ran were noticed. To me, this eliminates Eve’s stalker “with the limp or the splayed feet”, who also seems to have been quiet porky, and older.

The lead officer on the case stated the murder would have been about 25-30 at the time, which was new to me. That’s 75-80 today.

 

[Der Detektiv]

I don’t know much about forensics. Is anybody able to tell me how far back DNA testing to provide a match can go?

Let’s say a grandchild is arrested and has his DNA taken. The grandfather is an unidentified killer with DNA on record. Would there be a match? What about a distant cousin or great great grandchild?

 

[lee sumner]

True, but does it add up for a group of men to be hanging around outside if they know a pregnant woman is about to be murdered?

Anyone caught for involvement in Lynda's murder would have been treated like a child killer in prison.

yes, i also think the baby was the target as well. this was not a sex crime.

 

[lee sumner]

They’re not exclusive! What’s to say the killer of Stratford was not one of the men in that car? That he nominates himself for the job because he “has prior experience”?

no way. stratford murder was clearly a sex crime, but farrow iam not so sure. there was overkill in the farrow murder because i believe her husband paul wanted to punish her and the baby. his health was failing so he could not do the killing himself, so he hired others. i think he died in 1982.

 

[lee sumner]

True, but does it add up for a group of men to be hanging around outside if they know a pregnant woman is about to be murdered?

Anyone caught for involvement in Lynda's murder would have been treated like a child killer in prison.

correct, the killer would be a nonce in the prison system.

 

[lee sumner]

It’s an interesting theory. But personally, I just can’t envisage our killer spending almost 90 minutes (outdoors, in the cold) at the (public) crime scene and then trying to hitch a lift all the way to the West Country? When he was supposed to be local/familiar with the Hounslow area? It just doesn’t add up.

true. probably a hiker hitching a lift very common in 1970s britain. mr andrews had a bad feeling about him, but should have given him a lift to size him up.