UK UK- Lynda Farrow, 29, pregnant, Battered/throat slashed @ home, Woodford Green, London, Jan 1979

[sportstergirl]

What sort of hired assasin takes the chance of there being a kitchen knife being handy?
Could this have been a burglary gone bad? A petty crook sneaks into the home, Lynda sees him starts screaming & he grabs a knife. She fights back & he panics & she's killed in a fit of rage

 

[jojojaja]

What sort of hired assasin takes the chance of there being a kitchen knife being handy?
Could this have been a burglary gone bad? A petty crook sneaks into the home, Lynda sees him starts screaming & he grabs a knife. She fights back & he panics & she's killed in a fit of rage

Maybe one that knows her.

 

[jojojaja]

Maybe one that knows her.

If you haven't watched it, West End Murders gives more insight into her husband's family and acquaintances. Being watched and followed on the last day of her life, by people who weren't supposed to know where she lived, threatening phone calls. It wasn't necessarily someone who was paid to kill her. Or her husband organising it.
A family involved with organised crime and a woman seemingly to them, taking revenue away from the family and allowing one of their own to look a patsy.

I have wondered with Eve Stratford, it's said the murderer brought the knife and took it with them. How would they know if it was a knife that was there or not? 1970s, it would usually be the woman who cooks, would the guys have necessarily have known if a knife was missing?

 

[lee sumner]

If you haven't watched it, West End Murders gives more insight into her husband's family and acquaintances. Being watched and followed on the last day of her life, by people who weren't supposed to know where she lived, threatening phone calls. It wasn't necessarily someone who was paid to kill her. Or her husband organising it.
A family involved with organised crime and a woman seemingly to them, taking revenue away from the family and allowing one of their own to look a patsy.

I have wondered with Eve Stratford, it's said the murderer brought the knife and took it with them. How would they know if it was a knife that was there or not? 1970s, it would usually be the woman who cooks, would the guys have necessarily have known if a knife was missing?

i thought the same about murder weapon. would TP know what knives were in the flat. i do think the killer brought the blade with him. premeditation.

 

[forensicswannabe]

I do believe Lynda was likely killed by her husband or someone her husband got to kill her and that Eve and Lynne was killed by a different killer who was a sexual sadist.

 

[lee sumner]

I do believe Lynda was likely killed by her husband or someone her husband got to kill her and that Eve and Lynne was killed by a different killer who was a sexual sadist.

yes, i agree. iam puzzled at how ret, DCI colin sutton thinks both ES and LF were killed by the same man because both had there throats cut. yes, its rare a killer kills in such a manner, but other details dont line up. LF murder was clearly a domestic type murder involving her husband, while ES killing was a sex crime.

 

[tes1984]

yes, i agree. iam puzzled at how ret, DCI colin sutton thinks both ES and LF were killed by the same man because both had there throats cut. yes, its rare a killer kills in such a manner, but other details dont line up. LF murder was clearly a domestic type murder involving her husband, while ES killing was a sex crime.

I tend to agree, but we don't know for sure. The motives might not be quite what we think.

The crimes are similar enough that it could be the same offender, but like I say we just don't know. The murders of Eve and Lynne Weedon would have been almost impossible to link without the DNA match.

We also seem to have two DNA profiles for Eve, which increases the possibility of two killers who acted together and then went their seperate ways.