Who was Playboy Bunny Murder victim Eve Stratford and what happened to her?

German playboy bunny ELIZABETH Eve Stratford was viciously killed at her East London home.

In the ITV series The Playboy Bunny Murder, Marcel Theroux aims to provide new light on the murder that occurred in the 1970s but was never solved.

Life as a playboy bunny

Eve Stratford was born on December 28, 1953, in Dortmund, West Germany.

Her father Albert was an English medic who was stationed in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Germany, when he met Eve s mother Liza.

Eve won multiple beauty pageants in Germany as a child, although her parents frequently relocated her around.

They eventually returned to the UK and resided in Aldershot, Hampshire.

Eve and her lover, Tony Priest, who was the lead vocalist of the psychedelic rock group Onyx (later Vineyard), moved in together in 1972.

Eve began living a luxurious life and working as a PlayboyClub Bunney in Park Lane just a year later.

She became known as Eva Von Bock and Bunny Ava and became friends with numerous celebrities, such as Sid James and Eric Morecambe.

She was featured on the cover of Mayfair magazine in March 1975 as their girl of the month.

Eva lost her job because of her involvement with a competitor publication.

But the magazine became a huge hit, and the police later came to the conclusion that it might have encouraged her killer to target her.

The killer strikes

Eve’s spouse discovered her dead in their apartment on March 18, 1975.

Some of the detectives at the site said that it was one of the most violent and terrible crime scenes they had ever seen, and evidence recovered on her body indicated that she had been sexually raped.

There wereno evidence of forced entryto the residence however.

Eve had visited her agency in Camden the day before she passed away, and then she went to a promotions consultant in Bayswater.

Eve was last spotted by a neighbour walking towards her flat.

Shortly before she passed away, another neighbor overheard her conversing with a man.

Police suspect Eve’s killer struck again that year, but he was never apprehended.

Another horrifying murder

On September 3, 1975, Lynne Weedon, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, was killed in West London.

At first, the authorities did not see a connection between the cases because Eve had been slain in Leyton, East London.

It is thought that Lynne was attacked when she took a shortcut into an alley on her way home.

She tragically died in the hospital after being found alive by the custodian of a nearby school.

The killer is thought to have been a white man who was in the vicinity when the attack occurred.

Lynne’s case was renewed in 2004.

Three years later, DNA evidence showed that the same individual had killed both Eve and Lynne.

The Playboy Bunny Murder

Marcel Theroux delves into the complex aspects of the horrifying case in ITV’s The Playboy Bunny Murder.

Marcel is a member of the well-known Theroux family, which also includes his brother Louis, a BBC documentary filmmaker, and his father Paul, a travel writer.

The first episode of the series will be available to viewers on ITV on December 9, 2024, at 10:50 p.m.

Additionally, ITVX will stream the show at any time.

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