Policeman sensationally hyperlinks Playboy Bunny Murders to Yorkshire Ripper

A homicide of a Playboy Bunny stays unsolved almost 50 years later – and now a sensational new principle has emerged.

Eve Stratford, a bunny woman on the infamous Playboy Club in London’s Park Lane was discovered useless in her East London flat in 1975. A lot of suspects, together with her rocker boyfriend Tony Priest had been questioned and dominated out.

Police investigated the likelihood that Eve had been focused as a result of, shortly earlier than her loss of life, she had appeared topless on the duvet of Mayfair journal.

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Alongside quite a lot of full-frontal footage inside, the 21-year-old was quoted as saying that she favored to be dominated in mattress however that she didn’t wish to be “whipped or tied up”. Her killer had tied her up along with her personal underwear earlier than slashing her throat repeatedly with a knife.

One detective investigating the case stated that Eve’s Leyton flat was one of the vital horrific homicide scenes that they had ever seen. Eve’s loss of life was tentatively linked to quite a lot of different murders, together with that of Lynne Weedon – the place DNA proof conclusively confirmed that they had been raped by the identical attacker shortly earlier than their deaths.

Lynne Weedon had been murdered six months after Eve’s loss of life. The 16-year-old’s cranium had been fractured with a blunt object earlier than she was raped and left for useless on the grounds of an electrical energy substation. She died in hospital just a few days after she was discovered, with out ever regaining consciousness.

Chris Clark, former police intelligence officer turned creator advised investigative reporter Marcel Theroux of a sensational principle linking the murders to Peter Sutcliffe. He defined: “There were so many murders of unaccompanied women in the 1970s. I condensed them and I looked at Peter Sutcliffe – he seemed to be the common denominator.

Sutcliffe, the so-called Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted of 13 sexually-motivated murders, with a further seven attacks on women. But Chris Clark believes there are many more victims. “My research has found another 40 murders and attacks,” he stated.

He’s not alone in considering that the dreaded Ripper may have been concerned within the London murders. One bunny woman had even contacted the police to inform them about her suspicion that Sutcliffe was concerned.

While the crimes of which Sutcliffe was convicted had been centred across the Leeds and Bradford areas, Chris says it’s very doable that the killer may have dedicated crimes in different areas.

Sutcliffe’s girlfriend Sonia, later to turn into his spouse, had a sister who lived in Alperton, West London, on the time of the murders. Family get-togethers put Sutcliffe in London at across the instances of each Eva’s and Lynne Weedon’s deaths.

And, whereas the Ripper murders had been usually the sort of blow to the pinnacle that killed Lynne Weedon, in some circumstances he had additionally slashed his victims’ throats, in the identical method that Eva was mutilated.

But there’s a drawback with Chris’s principle: the DNA proof that ties Lynne’s and Eva’s murders collectively. A pattern of Sutcliffe’s DNA is on file within the National DNA database, and it could appear probably that any similarity would have been flagged up.

But he is undeterred, saying that DNA proof has been botched earlier than. He says that Sutcliffe’s involvement within the unsolved homicide of hitchhiker Barbara Mayo was wrongly dominated out due to unreliable DNA proof.

He stated: “It became quite clear to me that Barbara’s clothing had been taken out of it’s bag, cleaned and handled by a number of people before being worn by a woman for the reconstruction, this was then replaced in its bag for a further 26 years before Derbyshire Police tested it.”

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