Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon

Eve Stratford (28 December 1953 – 18 March 1975) was an English Playboy Club bunny and model, murdered in 1975. Lynne Weedon (11 November 1958 – 10 September 1975) was a schoolgirl raped and beaten to death six months after Stratford. Their killer has never been found. After Weedon's cold case was re-opened in 2004 new DNA techniques showed that she and Stratford were killed by the same person. Stratford's case was re-opened in 2007.

Eve Stratford

Eve Stratford was born in England in 1953 to Albert and Liza Stratford. Her mother was German, and met her father, a medic in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in the 1940s. The family moved around the world during Stratford's childhood, eventually settling in Aldershot. In 1972 she moved with her boyfriend to Leyton. At the time of her death, Stratford was working as a bunny in the Playboy Club in Park Lane. She had started work at the club in 1973, recommended by a friend. Shortly before her death she appeared as the March 1975 centrefold in Mayfair magazine.