UK UK- Lynne Weedon, 16, Out with friends @The Elm disco, found raped/bludgeoned in ''The Short Hedges.'' alleyway, London, 3 Sept, 1975 *DNA*

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Jan 2022 By Kelly-Ann Mills

Playboy Bunny killer also raped and murdered schoolgirl, 16, as she walked home

Lynne Weedon was just 16 when she was stuck of the head and raped in an alleyway on her way home. Her killer left her for dead six months after murdering another young woman

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''Two murders of two young women, one a 16-year-old schoolgirl and other a Playboy Bunny who had posed nude for Mayfair, were both carried out by the same man.

Nothing would have linked the two horrific killings until the murderer's DNA was found at both crime scenes.


The samples were matched in 2006, linking 21-year-old model Eve Stratford and schoolgirl Lynne Weedon for the first time, more than 30 years after their brutal deaths.

Unfortunately their killer's DNA was not on the police national computer and he remains at large.

Teenager Lynne had been out with friends at an early evening disco at The Elm Tree pub in Hounslow, east London on Wednesday, September 3 in 1975.

The trio left for home at around 10.30pm with Lynne separating from the others at a junction before taking her usual route to the home she shared with her parents through an alleyway known as The Short Hedges.''

 

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DNA same killer..

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*

By Holly Evans November 2022 rbbm. lengthy article. https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/shocking-murder-playboy-bunny-found-25575453 ''In a case described as one of the most horrific seen by detectives, the sadistic murder of a German model shocked everyone who knew her. Eve...

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From Jill Dando to a 'torso in the Thames' - 11 murders still unsolved

From the murder of a TV star to a banker gunned down at his front door while his children slept upstairs, some of Britain's most horrific murders have remained unsolved for decades.

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''Six months after Eve's death, 16-year-old Lynne Weedon was brutally attacked and raped in an alleyway near her home in Hounslow, west London.

She died after being found barely alive at an electricity sub station the next day.

Former Met Police detective Colin Sutton believes a third woman, Lynda Farrow - who was knifed to death in her home four years later in 1979 - was also a victim of the same killer.

Eve and Lynne's murders were linked in 2007 after matching DNA was discovered on the victims, who did not know each other. ''

 

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

Kelly-Ann Mills Jan 2022 rbbm https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/manhunt-detective-thinks-playboy-bunny-25884014 ''The detective who brought down killer Levi Bellfield and was the subject of ITV drama Manhunt is convinced the Playboy Bunny killer has a third victim. Eve Stratford's horrific...

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[Cluella DeVille]

I remember the Lynne Weedon case in 1975 so very well, which happened just a couple of miles away from where I live. Her mother was a teacher at a school many of my friends went to, even closer to my home. These couple of photos from that time shows the house where she lived with the little caravan at the side, next door to her school in the photo. The alleyway where she was initially attacked is literally directly opposite her house. She was thrown over a fence (close to where the policeman is seen standing) into a small electricity sub station attached to her school, where she was raped and left for dead. The school caretaker found her there the following morning.

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[Cluella DeVille]

Following the murder of Lynne Weedon in 1975 another local woman was murdered in 1977. She had also walked down the exact same main road as Lynne (Great West Road) but less than a mile in the opposite direction. Whereas Lynne had left a pub and cut through an alleyway towards home, this lady had got off a London Underground train at Osterley Station late in the evening, then turned into a residential side road where she was attacked. This is a much less well known case than Lynne's but there was always a suspicion the two cases could be linked. This was primarily due both being in the same location, except no DNA was found at the second scene.

The second murder in 1977 lady was Elizabeth Parravincina aka. Elizabeth Parravicini. Her murder case is mentioned in this document.

Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon - Wikipedia

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I still live very near to where both Lynne and Elizabeth were murdered and every time I drive down the Great West Road I pass the entrance to the alleyway (which is still there) where Lynne lost her life, and then to get to my home I pass the corner where Elizabeth died. They are poignant memories you can never forget

 

[dotr]

Following the murder of Lynne Weedon in 1975 another local woman was murdered in 1977. She had also walked down the exact same main road as Lynne (Great West Road) but less than a mile in the opposite direction. Whereas Lynne had left a pub and cut through an alleyway towards home, this lady had got off a London Underground train at Osterley Station late in the evening, then turned into a residential side road where she was attacked. This is a much less well known case than Lynne's but there was always a suspicion the two cases could be linked. This was primarily due both being in the same location, except no DNA was found at the second scene.

The second murder in 1977 lady was Elizabeth Parravincina aka. Elizabeth Parravicini. Her murder case is mentioned in this document.

Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I still live very near to where both Lynne and Elizabeth were murdered and every time I drive down the Great West Road I pass the entrance to the alleyway (which is still there) where Lynne lost her life, and then to get to my home I pass the corner where Elizabeth died. They are poignant memories you can never forget

Thanks for chiming in!
Went ahead and started a thread for EP.

UK - UK- Elizabeth Parravincina/Parravicini, 27, amateur actress, fatally struck from behind w blunt instrument, as she walked on Osterley Rd, 9 Sept. 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Eve_Stratford_and_Lynne_Weedon Elizabeth Parravincina Parravincina, c. January–September 1977 Born 1949 or 1950 England Died September 9, 1977 (age 27) Outside Parklands flats, Osterley Road, Osterley, London, England 51.47985899872692°N...

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[jojojaja]

Following the murder of Lynne Weedon in 1975 another local woman was murdered in 1977. She had also walked down the exact same main road as Lynne (Great West Road) but less than a mile in the opposite direction. Whereas Lynne had left a pub and cut through an alleyway towards home, this lady had got off a London Underground train at Osterley Station late in the evening, then turned into a residential side road where she was attacked. This is a much less well known case than Lynne's but there was always a suspicion the two cases could be linked. This was primarily due both being in the same location, except no DNA was found at the second scene.

The second murder in 1977 lady was Elizabeth Parravincina aka. Elizabeth Parravicini. Her murder case is mentioned in this document.

Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I still live very near to where both Lynne and Elizabeth were murdered and every time I drive down the Great West Road I pass the entrance to the alleyway (which is still there) where Lynne lost her life, and then to get to my home I pass the corner where Elizabeth died. They are poignant memories you can never forget

We have been discussing these cases and others that are, or may be linked, between the definite and possibly linked victim's threads, probably mainly on Eve Stratford's thread, who was killed by the same person as Lynne. Elizabeth has been brought up a lot before getting her own thread here as she deserved, one of the issues was finding suitable links for this site. I have been looking back at newspapers from the 1970s and sharing what I can from them, it's amazing what doesn't get carried forward from then. There is a photofit of a person seen near where Elizabeth was killed and Osterley Station, with a description. It's similar to a description of someone walking behind Eve when she was returning home and seen outside her place around the time her murderer left.

I believe Lynne caught a bus home then walked, she had caught a bus to the pub so I don't think she walked all the way back, also some of the 1970s news stories state she was walked home part of the way by two of her friends.

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*

By Holly Evans November 2022 rbbm. lengthy article. https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/shocking-murder-playboy-bunny-found-25575453 ''In a case described as one of the most horrific seen by detectives, the sadistic murder of a German model shocked everyone who knew her. Eve...

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[Cluella DeVille]

We have been discussing these cases and others that are, or may be linked, between the definite and possibly linked victim's threads, probably mainly on Eve Stratford's thread, who was killed by the same person as Lynne. Elizabeth has been brought up a lot before getting her own thread here as she deserved, one of the issues was finding suitable links for this site. I have been looking back at newspapers from the 1970s and sharing what I can from them, it's amazing what doesn't get carried forward from then. There is a photofit of a person seen near where Elizabeth was killed and Osterley Station, with a description. It's similar to a description of someone walking behind Eve when she was returning home and seen outside her place around the time her murderer left.

I believe Lynne caught a bus home then walked, she had caught a bus to the pub so I don't think she walked all the way back, also some of the 1970s news stories state she was walked home part of the way by two of her friends.

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*

By Holly Evans November 2022 rbbm. lengthy article. https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/shocking-murder-playboy-bunny-found-25575453 ''In a case described as one of the most horrific seen by detectives, the sadistic murder of a German model shocked everyone who knew her. Eve...

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Thank you for the information on a separate thread for Elizabeth. As someone living in the same locality when this occurred and since, it was and still is such an under reported case in terms of media I'm almost surprised to hear that, but as you say deservedly so. I'll have a search for that and add what I can recall but will just respond to a couple of your points here for continuity and due to the possible link in cases.
I do know there was a photofit in the case of a potential suspect for Lynne but it was sometime later. I'm not aware of a photofit relating to Elizabeth but having said that I don't doubt you, especially from memory there was talk at the time about it being someone Elizabeth knew or had been in a relationship with who may have fled the country, possibly to Italy. There are some pubs local to where the murder occurred but there is one I recall in particular (because I knew many people who were regulars) was staked out for many weeks by local LE on a daily/nightly basis where they mingled in with the crowd and/or sat in a corner hoping this potential suspect might walk in.
Also it was thought Elizabeth's killer may have been disturbed, potentially a reason why a sexual element wasn't evident. In fact my husband's family lived very near to the murder scene (which was on a corner) and he had driven home from his then girlfriend's and turned into that road where the headlights of his car would have lit up the area. He didn't see or witness anything at all so the timing could have been slightly off that he had returned home either before or after the attack occurred. But he did assist LE with a full statement of his movements and timings.
I'm not aware that Lynne caught a bus that night, never heard that before. I too believe she'd partially walked her route home with a couple of friends. Locally it was said she'd argued in the Elm Tree pub with a boyfriend that night though nothing more was known about that

 

[jojojaja]

Thank you for the information on a separate thread for Elizabeth. As someone living in the same locality when this occurred and since, it was and still is such an under reported case in terms of media I'm almost surprised to hear that, but as you say deservedly so. I'll have a search for that and add what I can recall but will just respond to a couple of your points here for continuity and due to the possible link in cases.
I do know there was a photofit in the case of a potential suspect for Lynne but it was sometime later. I'm not aware of a photofit relating to Elizabeth but having said that I don't doubt you, especially from memory there was talk at the time about it being someone Elizabeth knew or had been in a relationship with who may have fled the country, possibly to Italy. There are some pubs local to where the murder occurred but there is one I recall in particular (because I knew many people who were regulars) was staked out for many weeks by local LE on a daily/nightly basis where they mingled in with the crowd and/or sat in a corner hoping this potential suspect might walk in.
Also it was thought Elizabeth's killer may have been disturbed, potentially a reason why a sexual element wasn't evident. In fact my husband's family lived very near to the murder scene (which was on a corner) and he had driven home from his then girlfriend's and turned into that road where the headlights of his car would have lit up the area. He didn't see or witness anything at all so the timing could have been slightly off that he had returned home either before or after the attack occurred. But he did assist LE with a full statement of his movements and timings.
I'm not aware that Lynne caught a bus that night, never heard that before. I too believe she'd partially walked her route home with a couple of friends. Locally it was said she'd argued in the Elm Tree pub with a boyfriend that night though nothing more was known about that

Dotr and I have been putting links in our responses to you so you could find the relevant threads. Yes there are photofits for Eve who was killed by the same person as Lynne, also for Elizabeth, with descriptions. I haven't yet found any photofits for Lynne. I have put links so no I am not making anything up, the police had them made and supplied them to press. You aren't allowed to post on websleuths without providing links /proofs otherwise you have to add things like IMO which doesn't really apply to a police photofit image.

Lynne's parents are quoted as saying she caught a bus to meet her friends, two boys and another girl, and I will have to check but I think I remember reading that they thought she missed her bus home and therefore stayed with a friend when she didn't return home. However press often get things wrong, I have been looking at multiple press releases from the time and between then and now, sometimes when looking at multiple sources you can weed out the mis-reported things.

Yes it's stated in posts here and in contemporary news reports it is thought that the killer of Elizabeth was disturbed, which is one of the reasons it's velieves she was dragged from where she was first attacked to someone's front garden where there was shrubbery and where she was found. The police and her father stated that one of the reasons she wasn't raped was difficulty removing her extremely tight jeans, they must have had good reason for stating that. I have more than one possible spot where she was attacked, one names I think is no longer there, another that it was Church Rd, I will assume corner of Church Rd and Thornbury Rd.
There is also the attack on Michelle Booth in the train also just off the Great West Road, by a man with a very similar description to the man following Eve on her street home and out side her home in Leyton (the same murderer who Killed Eve also killed Lynne). Even police looked into the attacker of Michelle as being the person who killed Lynne, Elizabeth and Eve (those was before DNA proved Lynne and Eve were killed by the same person). Michelle's attack linked cases that we have also been looking into as linked.
Michelle had been attacked on the train before being thrown off it, they found blood where she had been sitting and at the door. The person the police arrested and took to court was acquitted, partly as due to the interrogations made when it was known he was a vulnerable adult with a diminished mental capacity. I think his arrest came about as a result of the many responses to the photofit and description, it could have been someone scapegoated due to his disabilities as often happened in the past.

 

[Cluella DeVille]

Dotr and I have been putting links in our responses to you so you could find the relevant threads. Yes there are photofits for Eve who was killed by the same person as Lynne, also for Elizabeth, with descriptions. I haven't yet found any photofits for Lynne. I have put links so no I am not making anything up, the police had them made and supplied them to press. You aren't allowed to post on websleuths without providing links /proofs otherwise you have to add things like IMO which doesn't really apply to a police photofit image.

Lynne's parents are quoted as saying she caught a bus to meet her friends, two boys and another girl, and I will have to check but I think I remember reading that they thought she missed her bus home and therefore stayed with a friend when she didn't return home. However press often get things wrong, I have been looking at multiple press releases from the time and between then and now, sometimes when looking at multiple sources you can weed out the mis-reported things.

Yes it's stated in posts here and in contemporary news reports it is thought that the killer of Elizabeth was disturbed, which is one of the reasons it's velieves she was dragged from where she was first attacked to someone's front garden where there was shrubbery and where she was found. The police and her father stated that one of the reasons she wasn't raped was difficulty removing her extremely tight jeans, they must have had good reason for stating that. I have more than one possible spot where she was attacked, one names I think is no longer there, another that it was Church Rd, I will assume corner of Church Rd and Thornbury Rd.
There is also the attack on Michelle Booth in the train also just off the Great West Road, by a man with a very similar description to the man following Eve on her street home and out side her home in Leyton (the same murderer who Killed Eve also killed Lynne). Even police looked into the attacker of Michelle as being the person who killed Lynne, Elizabeth and Eve (those was before DNA proved Lynne and Eve were killed by the same person). Michelle's attack linked cases that we have also been looking into as linked.
Michelle had been attacked on the train before being thrown off it, they found blood where she had been sitting and at the door. The person the police arrested and took to court was acquitted, partly as due to the interrogations made when it was known he was a vulnerable adult with a diminished mental capacity. I think his arrest came about as a result of the many responses to the photofit and description, it could have been someone scapegoated due to his disabilities as often happened in the past.

Thank you, grateful for your guidance. I have now found and glanced through the thread re Elizabeth and will post points related to her there. However I'm going to say in response to your comment that I have never ever seen that photofit of the suspect shown in her thread. I showed it to my husband and he's never seen it either. I can confirm to you almost categorically where the attack occurred, on the corner of Church Road and Osterley Road where there are a lot of bushes, trees and shrubbery at the spot she was dragged into, in the grounds of a block of flats. I don't know if you or others are familiar with the area at all? It has barely changed, all looks pretty much the same now as it did then. My husband's family lived at the opposite end of Church Road, close to the junction of Thornbury Road. All his family were interviewed at the time, as were all residents in the whole street in the course of LE door to door enquiries. The murder was featured on the local TV news at the time and my late mother-in-law appeared in the news piece opening her door to reporters (though we've never been able to find the broadcast). The area was swarming with police searching surrounding residents gardens.

I don't recall actually seeing a photofit related to Lynne which is very strange as it is mentioned in this news article that one was made by a witness stopping to speak to a hitch hiker he as he was driving home on the Great West Road that night, just yards past the alleyway where Lynne was murdered Man recalls unsolved killing

I know little of the Michelle Booth case, except to say that the spot where she was thrown from the train was between Syon Lane & Brentford stations, which yes does indeed run parallel with the Great West Road. (Just for context, the London Underground rail service used by Elizabeth Parravicini also runs parallel with the Great West Road but on the opposition side). Where Michelle was, this stretch is now South Western rail, in 1978 would have been British Rail Southern Region. I also know it very well, used to go to school on this same line and still use it. Syon Lane station is directly off the GWR on Syon Lane (which leads into Spur Road). Brentford station is directly off the GWR at the junction with Boston Manor Road. Syon Lane is roughly 2-3 miles along the Great West Road from the scenes of the attacks on Elizabeth & Lynne

 

[jojojaja]

Thank you, grateful for your guidance. I have now found and glanced through the thread re Elizabeth and will post points related to her there. However I'm going to say in response to your comment that I have never ever seen that photofit of the suspect shown in her thread. I showed it to my husband and he's never seen it either. I can confirm to you almost categorically where the attack occurred, on the corner of Church Road and Osterley Road where there are a lot of bushes, trees and shrubbery at the spot she was dragged into, in the grounds of a block of flats. I don't know if you or others are familiar with the area at all? It has barely changed, all looks pretty much the same now as it did then. My husband's family lived at the opposite end of Church Road, close to the junction of Thornbury Road. All his family were interviewed at the time, as were all residents in the whole street in the course of LE door to door enquiries. The murder was featured on the local TV news at the time and my late mother-in-law appeared in the news piece opening her door to reporters (though we've never been able to find the broadcast). The area was swarming with police searching surrounding residents gardens.

I don't recall actually seeing a photofit related to Lynne which is very strange as it is mentioned in this news article that one was made by a witness stopping to speak to a hitch hiker he as he was driving home on the Great West Road that night, just yards past the alleyway where Lynne was murdered Man recalls unsolved killing

I know little of the Michelle Booth case, except to say that the spot where she was thrown from the train was between Syon Lane & Brentford stations, which yes does indeed run parallel with the Great West Road. (Just for context, the London Underground rail service used by Elizabeth Parravicini also runs parallel with the Great West Road but on the opposition side). Where Michelle was, this stretch is now South Western rail, in 1978 would have been British Rail Southern Region. I also know it very well, used to go to school on this same line and still use it. Syon Lane station is directly off the GWR on Syon Lane (which leads into Spur Road). Brentford station is directly off the GWR at the junction with Boston Manor Road. Syon Lane is roughly 2-3 miles along the Great West Road from the scenes of the attacks on Elizabeth & Lynne

I will return to your response as just wanted to write quickly and the Crimewatch reconstruction which tend to be very accurate stated Lynne walked home with her friends and left them on the opposite side of the road to the lane where she crossed and entered it.

While not everyone here may be familiar with the area there are Google Earth, Google Maps satellite view, Google Maps Streetview (which allow you to look at streetview going back plus 10 years in some cases) with patience anyone can move around on streetview and it's like you are driving around, as long as the person with the camera went everywhere you need to see.
Often very kind people take photos and upload them to wikipedia as files where we can see places being referred to.
I can't necessarily share photos I find on vintage news stories if they are hidden behind a paywall because of possibly copyright issues according to the site rules, if I can find an alternative I do.
In some cases photos are available on press photo hosting sites like Alamy and Getty.
Obviously people with first hand experience of an area are invaluable.

 

[jojojaja]

Thank you, grateful for your guidance. I have now found and glanced through the thread re Elizabeth and will post points related to her there. However I'm going to say in response to your comment that I have never ever seen that photofit of the suspect shown in her thread. I showed it to my husband and he's never seen it either. I can confirm to you almost categorically where the attack occurred, on the corner of Church Road and Osterley Road where there are a lot of bushes, trees and shrubbery at the spot she was dragged into, in the grounds of a block of flats. I don't know if you or others are familiar with the area at all? It has barely changed, all looks pretty much the same now as it did then. My husband's family lived at the opposite end of Church Road, close to the junction of Thornbury Road. All his family were interviewed at the time, as were all residents in the whole street in the course of LE door to door enquiries. The murder was featured on the local TV news at the time and my late mother-in-law appeared in the news piece opening her door to reporters (though we've never been able to find the broadcast). The area was swarming with police searching surrounding residents gardens.

I don't recall actually seeing a photofit related to Lynne which is very strange as it is mentioned in this news article that one was made by a witness stopping to speak to a hitch hiker he as he was driving home on the Great West Road that night, just yards past the alleyway where Lynne was murdered Man recalls unsolved killing

I know little of the Michelle Booth case, except to say that the spot where she was thrown from the train was between Syon Lane & Brentford stations, which yes does indeed run parallel with the Great West Road. (Just for context, the London Underground rail service used by Elizabeth Parravicini also runs parallel with the Great West Road but on the opposition side). Where Michelle was, this stretch is now South Western rail, in 1978 would have been British Rail Southern Region. I also know it very well, used to go to school on this same line and still use it. Syon Lane station is directly off the GWR on Syon Lane (which leads into Spur Road). Brentford station is directly off the GWR at the junction with Boston Manor Road. Syon Lane is roughly 2-3 miles along the Great West Road from the scenes of the attacks on Elizabeth & Lynne

Yes you're right Osterley Rd btw, I think I got muddled looking at the map and remembering the church and Church Rd came off it, I was wondering where the spire was when looking. I'm sure I remember seeing Osterley Lodge mentioned too. I don't know about the 1970s, but it has lots of shrubbery unlike the other 3 corners there.

I am sure there were lots of rumours and her husband being Italian and her living there probably helped fuel them. Most will be based on snippets of info, hearsay and flights of fancy I'm sure. Nobody wants it to be a local. The police believed it was. Mainly because of the killer knowing about short hedges or school lane as it seems to be called now, however if he went up and down Great West Rd I'm sure he could have followed someone down it sometime or seen someone coming out of there and investigated.
I read that Lane was known for people exposing themselves, one of the reasons Lynne was told not to go down there, I do wonder if the mystery killer started off with flashing or being a peeping tom as some well known rapists like the Golden State Killer started out that way, also stealing underwear off washing lines.
I haven't seen a photofit of the hitchhiker either, I think there may have been of a young man running out of the lane. I need to check I am not muddling cases, but I think they suspected that person, which explains crimewatch reducing the age from that of the person seen near Eve. They completely ignored the man following and loitering around Eve's flat at the time of her murder in the Crimewatch reconstruction. I am sure the man must have stayed the same age and shape between March and September.

 

[Cluella DeVille]

Yes you're right Osterley Rd btw, I think I got muddled looking at the map and remembering the church and Church Rd came off it, I was wondering where the spire was when looking. I'm sure I remember seeing Osterley Lodge mentioned too. I don't know about the 1970s, but it has lots of shrubbery unlike the other 3 corners there.

I am sure there were lots of rumours and her husband being Italian and her living there probably helped fuel them. Most will be based on snippets of info, hearsay and flights of fancy I'm sure. Nobody wants it to be a local. The police believed it was. Mainly because of the killer knowing about short hedges or school lane as it seems to be called now, however if he went up and down Great West Rd I'm sure he could have followed someone down it sometime or seen someone coming out of there and investigated.
I read that Lane was known for people exposing themselves, one of the reasons Lynne was told not to go down there, I do wonder if the mystery killer started off with flashing or being a peeping tom as some well known rapists like the Golden State Killer started out that way, also stealing underwear off washing lines.
I haven't seen a photofit of the hitchhiker either, I think there may have been of a young man running out of the lane. I need to check I am not muddling cases, but I think they suspected that person, which explains crimewatch reducing the age from that of the person seen near Eve. They completely ignored the man following and loitering around Eve's flat at the time of her murder in the Crimewatch reconstruction. I am sure the man must have stayed the same age and shape between March and September.

Google Earth and maps are of course excellent, I only make some local references just to put things a bit into context and also if anyone reads the comments and would want to ask any questions knowing someone is very familiar with an area and was living there at the time of the crimes it maybe helpful, or not of course. As you know it is not easy finding media information from 40/50 years ago.

In fact Elizabeth's husband was British born and bred, of Italian parents I believe. They were only 20 & 21 when they were married and both came from Ealing, a neighbouring town. Elizabeth's parents lived very close to the crime scene in The Grove, literally around the corner and it was understood that's where she was walking to once she got off the train.

The alleyway where Lynne was attacked is still there and though much better lit than it was in the 1970s and you would struggle to believe anyone would be entirely comfortable walking down there, especially alone and after dark. A person would be almost entirely obscured from view from both sides once in the alley, though in daylight it's probably possible to see top to bottom. In the daytime it's heavily used by school children as it always has been, but it is essentially a short cut eliminating a good 10-15 minutes walk by going the long way round. It's very likely she had been followed and an opportunity was seized when she turned into the alleyway, unless of course it was somebody entering at the school end, saw her coming and laid in wait for her to walk by. IMO Eve's attacker was watching her, knew she was on her own and gained entry to her flat by posing as a workman or delivery man.

EDIT: Btw the link I placed in my most recent post highlighted in blue re the man recalling unsolved killing is a media link to a local newspaper Richmond & Twickenham Times where the person stopping and speaking to the hitch hiker that night outlines his account of the event and his own concern of the person at the time

 

[dotr]

Police renew appeal over linked murders committed 40 years ago

Detectives investigating the 1975 murders of two young women, Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon, have launched a fresh appeal for help and information. The murders have been linked since 2006 when a c…

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''It has been 40 years, since our beautiful young daughter Lynne was violently taken from us.

1975 seems so long ago and it is. Forty years without her. We have missed out on so much; she missed out on life, no relationship or marriage, no career or children or even just travelling the world, all taken from her.''

Lynn Weedon murdered when only 16 years old. Her parents are now in their 80s. Image: Met Police
We are left 40 years on always wondering what it would have been like.

A true life sentence.

We are well aware that whoever murdered Lynne also murdered Eve Stratford. That young lady also had her life snubbed out. Her family have died now. Another true life sentence.

The hurt eases but the pain still sits deep somewhere inside. There are so many questions. So many thoughts. So much heartache.

I will make a mother’s plea for anyone who can tell us some information about the person who took my daughter and Eve Stratford’s lives to come forward. Please, please give us some sort of closure.

1975 was a long time ago but events as traumatic as this stick in the mind so if you know or suspect anyone involved please help us.''

 

[jojojaja]

Putting some locations and old photos in context

 

[jojojaja]

Images in my last post and this are from Google maps, Google streetview and one from Google earth.

I've outlined the Electrical Substation in red. I'm not sure which building is or was the school caretaker lived in who found Lynne the next morning. I may he able to work it out from one of the photos.

 

[jojojaja]

Images in my last post and this are from Google maps, Google streetview and one from Google earth.

I've outlined the Electrical Substation in red. I'm not sure which building is or was the school caretaker lived in who found Lynne the next morning. I may he able to work it out from one of the photos.
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Btw I mistakenly put Low Hedges instead of Short Hedges

 

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[jojojaja]

A few photos of Lynne I've come across. The one was in a local paper when her school team The Alexandra school team were winners of Hounslow Netball Rally in 1970 (Middlesex Chronicle 27 March 1970 edition)

 

[jojojaja]

This picture appeared again, issued by police, Lynne with her dog Cindy.

Middlesex Chronicle (Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth ed.) 10 Oct 1975, page 1 - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Middlesex Chronicle (Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth ed.) dated 10 Oct 1975, page 1.

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Middlesex Chronicle
Hounslow. Oct. 10, 1975

Police are investigating 2 other sexually motivated attacks.
They state that they may have no link to Lynne's attack although it shows there are still sexually motivated offenders at large in the area.

A 19 year old lady walking from Osterley tube station in the Great West Road at approx 10pm. The woman fought him off after he tried to drag her into an alley, kicking him and biting him on the left side of his neck (shows how tightly he must have had hold of her if she could bite his neck). The man was described as in his 20s, slim, medium height, longish dark hair and sideburns.

Another attack happened in a 17 year old girl in Chiswick. The girl was walking along an alleyway between Wellesley Road and Chiswick Village when she was attacked from behind by a man, who threw her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. All while keeping his hand over her mouth to stop her making any noise.

The police are keeping in mind the fact a certain element may be copying the style of assault,( especially after being highly reported in the media I would imagine).

I read another piece talking of men exposing themselves etc that the police in the Hounslow area with descriptions, with the consideration it may be the same man and another stating they probably weren't related. I do know it was mentioned somewhere about them looking at all know sex offenders to rule them out.
I am pretty sure the killer had committed sexual offences before, so many experts have commented that people generally don't just dive in the deep end. This is a predator, I don't know how satisfying sexually exposing himself would be once he progressed to such serious offences. Also I wonder how easy he would be to fight off, we all know he was very strong and and vicious.