Eve Stratford

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Eve Stratford born in 1953 in England found dead on March 18, 1975 was a famous and popular Playboy model who was found murdered. The case remains unsolved to this day. The case was re-opened in 2007 and even Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner shows interest in solving his former model's murder.

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Stratford was found dead on March 8, 1975 the Bunny girl who worked at the Playboy Club in Park Lane where she had been pictured with Eric Morecambe and Sid 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 central London the case would remain a cold one until the investigators in the case found links between the Playboy Bunny murder and another one of 16 year old Lynne Weedon in late 2007. Weedon had been beaten over the head with a blunt object as she took a short-cut to her home in Hounslow 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 the BBC Crimewatch programme in the UK. 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 insestigators says that the breatrough in the case was because of new DNA technology who could link the two murders together.

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