Eve Stafford & Lynne Weedon March ‘75 and Sept ’75 London UK
Nov 28, 2016 22:59:47 GMT
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Post by Mr Hood on Nov 28, 2016 22:59:47 GMT
The murders of Eve Stafford and Lynne Weedon in London 1975
March 18, ‘75 and Sept 3rd ’75 London
40 years after committing a double murder, is time up for the Bunny Girl Killer?
www.express.co.uk/news/world/566694/40-years-after-committing-a-double-murder-is-time-up-for-the-Bunny-Girl-Killer
They died six months apart 40 years ago and for both the end was brutal and came at the hands of the same still unidentified killer – a fact established only 29 years after their death in a cold-case review using advanced DNA techniques.
Eve Stafford
The first victim was 21-year-old Eve. The daughter of an army medic father and a German mother who met in the 1940s Eve was born in 1953 and had a peripatetic childhood because of her father’s career. In 1972 she left her home in Warrington and moved into a maisonette on Lyndhurst Drive in Leyton, East London, with her boyfriend Tony Priest who was a fork-lift driver by day and the singer in a band called Onyx by night.
Known as Bunny Ava she was popular with the patrons of the Playboy Club in Park Lane and was always eager to be photographed with the likes of Eric Morecambe, Sid James, boxer John Conteh and the club boss Victor Lownes so she could send the snaps home to her family and friends.
Her fellow bunny girl Barbara Haigh remembers Eve as “the sweetest girl but not very worldly”. Rejected by Playboy magazine she instead posed for rival publication Mayfair and appeared as the March centrefold in 1975, which got her suspended from work for breach of contract. Within days she was dead.
She was wearing a dressing gown and there was a blood soaked bouquet of flowers lying next to her. Her arms had been tied behind her back with a scarf and there was a nylon stocking around her right ankle. Her throat had been cut between eight and a dozen times and she had also been slashed from the jaw to her right ear. She had also been raped.
There was no sign of forced entry into the maisonette, which led the police to suspect Eve must have known her killer or at least let him in.
Lynne Weedon
On September 3, 1975, 16-year-old Lynne Weedon was walking along the Great Western Road – part of the A4 – towards her home in
Hounslow, West London, when she decided to take a short cut via an alleyway known as The Short Hedges. There she was hit over the head with a blunt instrument and thrown over the fence that separated the path from an electricity sub-station.
She was raped and left for dead. She was still alive – just – when a school caretaker found her the next morning but she died in hospital a week later without ever regaining consciousness. Neither the weapon nor the man who wielded it was ever traced.
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Lynne’s body was found by the caretaker of Lampton school, so she was right next to Lampton station. Lampton station carries the Piccadilly line into central London. If you wanted to you can make one change at Holborn on to Eve's address at Lyndhurst drive via the Central line. I'm 99% sure her killer took the tube in and out of there. Iirc there were half a dozen more pin hammer murders in the area over a few years around the time, I think London had a serial killer but I don’t think anybody tied the murders together. If I have time I’ll see if I can find the other women and the dates they were killed.
March 18, ‘75 and Sept 3rd ’75 London
40 years after committing a double murder, is time up for the Bunny Girl Killer?
www.express.co.uk/news/world/566694/40-years-after-committing-a-double-murder-is-time-up-for-the-Bunny-Girl-Killer
They died six months apart 40 years ago and for both the end was brutal and came at the hands of the same still unidentified killer – a fact established only 29 years after their death in a cold-case review using advanced DNA techniques.
Eve Stafford
The first victim was 21-year-old Eve. The daughter of an army medic father and a German mother who met in the 1940s Eve was born in 1953 and had a peripatetic childhood because of her father’s career. In 1972 she left her home in Warrington and moved into a maisonette on Lyndhurst Drive in Leyton, East London, with her boyfriend Tony Priest who was a fork-lift driver by day and the singer in a band called Onyx by night.
Known as Bunny Ava she was popular with the patrons of the Playboy Club in Park Lane and was always eager to be photographed with the likes of Eric Morecambe, Sid James, boxer John Conteh and the club boss Victor Lownes so she could send the snaps home to her family and friends.
Her fellow bunny girl Barbara Haigh remembers Eve as “the sweetest girl but not very worldly”. Rejected by Playboy magazine she instead posed for rival publication Mayfair and appeared as the March centrefold in 1975, which got her suspended from work for breach of contract. Within days she was dead.
She was wearing a dressing gown and there was a blood soaked bouquet of flowers lying next to her. Her arms had been tied behind her back with a scarf and there was a nylon stocking around her right ankle. Her throat had been cut between eight and a dozen times and she had also been slashed from the jaw to her right ear. She had also been raped.
There was no sign of forced entry into the maisonette, which led the police to suspect Eve must have known her killer or at least let him in.
Lynne Weedon
On September 3, 1975, 16-year-old Lynne Weedon was walking along the Great Western Road – part of the A4 – towards her home in
Hounslow, West London, when she decided to take a short cut via an alleyway known as The Short Hedges. There she was hit over the head with a blunt instrument and thrown over the fence that separated the path from an electricity sub-station.
She was raped and left for dead. She was still alive – just – when a school caretaker found her the next morning but she died in hospital a week later without ever regaining consciousness. Neither the weapon nor the man who wielded it was ever traced.
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Lynne’s body was found by the caretaker of Lampton school, so she was right next to Lampton station. Lampton station carries the Piccadilly line into central London. If you wanted to you can make one change at Holborn on to Eve's address at Lyndhurst drive via the Central line. I'm 99% sure her killer took the tube in and out of there. Iirc there were half a dozen more pin hammer murders in the area over a few years around the time, I think London had a serial killer but I don’t think anybody tied the murders together. If I have time I’ll see if I can find the other women and the dates they were killed.