- Eve Stratford
Eve Stratford born in 1953 in
England found dead onMarch 18 1975 was a famous and popularPlayboy model who was found murdered. The case remains unsolved to this day. The case was re-opened in 2007 and even Playboy mogulHugh Hefner shows interest in solving his former model's murder.Case
Stratford was found dead on 18 March 1975 the
Bunny girl who worked at thePlayboy Club inPark Lane where she had been pictured withEric Morecambe andSid James , had her throat cut between eight and 12 times by an unknown attacker. She had also been tied up and gagged and was found by her boyfriend lying on the floor in her apartment in centralLondon the case would remain a cold one until the investigators in the case found links between thePlayboy Bunny murder and another one of 16 year oldLynne Weedon in late 2007. Weedon had been beaten over the head with a blunt object as she took a short-cut to her home inHounslow six months after the model’s death the same year. Despite horrific injuries Weedon was alive when found the next morning but died a week later in hospital without regaining consciousness. Both cases where featured on theBBC Crimewatch programme in theUK . The cold case was in 2007 opened on new to try to find the killer and investigators says that they are sure the both women where murdered by the same person. The investigators says that the breakthrough in the case was because of new DNA technology who could link the two murders together.Sources
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/04/walthamforest_eve_video_feature.shtml Case of murdered model reopens] - Retrieved from BBC
* [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23413810-details/Police+find+DNA+link+in+murders+of+school+pupil+and+Bunny+girl/article.do] - Retrived from thisislondon
* [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1285631,00.html A dark secret for 30 years] - Retrieved from Sky News
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483774&in_page_id=1770 Silent witness] - Retrieved from Daily Mail
* [http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1712630.0.dna_evidence_links_murders_after_32_years.php DNA evidence links murders after 32 years] - Retrieved from This is local London
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