TRUE CRIME: The Playboy Bunny Killer

And the Horrors of 1975

One case which had received notoriety in the UK was the murder of Eve Stratford (aged just 21), which was remarkably linked to the murder of Lynne Weedon (aged just 16) thirty years later.

In 2004 the two killings were discovered to have been committed by the same perpetrator using DNA testing. And so, two murders across different parts of a sprawling London were established to have been a committed by a serial killer — who for forty years had been hiding in plain sight.

Eve’s murder occurred on the 18th March 1975 while Lynne’s was almost six months after on the 10th September 1975 both occurring in suburban London.

There were also potential links to a third murder of Lynda Farrow who was killed in her home in the January of that year with many similarities to the other two. The three murders were all in the Greater London area of Leyton, Hounslow and Chigwell.

The double murders occurred in 1975 and it is chilling to think that the killer has been possibly been roaming free ever since. The case was re-opened in 2007 but it is one of those that we really are not any closer to despite all of the years passed.

As of 2020 the case remains open. THE BUNNY — LEYTON.