The murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon, two young women from London, England, occurred in separate, sexually motivated attacks by the same unidentified individual during 1975.

[12][14] She lived a glamorous lifestyle and regularly socialised with others, including famous figures such as Sid James and Eric Morecambe, and knew many other high-profile individuals.

[24] Police found that on the day of her death, Stratford had visited Camden to see her agent and then went to a promotions consultancy in Bayswater.

[3] At 4:30 p.m., the women living below her flat heard a male and female voice talking, apparently calmly, followed by a thud and then the sound of footsteps.

Stratford's murder was featured prominently in the press, in part due to her "glamorous" occupation and public profile.

Sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Lynne Weedon was hit over the head with a blunt object and raped on 3 September 1975, six months after Stratford's murder and on the other side of London.

[3] Weedon had previously vowed never to use the alleyway after dark as it was frequented by prowlers, but on the night she decided to take the shortcut.

[25] In this alleyway, at approximately 11:20 p.m., she was struck over the head with a heavy object similar to a piece of lead pipe, fracturing her skull.

She was discovered the next morning by the caretaker of the neighbouring school, Victor Voice, and despite her injuries was still alive; she died a week later in hospital without regaining consciousness.

[30] The facts that there were no defence wounds and that no-one had heard any screams or shouts suggested Stratford knew her killer, but it was also considered that she could have been terrified enough to simply comply with the attacker's demands.

[1] The bouquet of flowers she was seen carrying home was found discarded in the hallway of the apartment ground-floor entrance and not up in her first-floor rooms, suggesting that she was confronted by her killer almost immediately after entering the house.

[20] It was also observed that the bouquet of dried flowers and grasses were similar to those Stratford had posed with in the Mayfair magazine cover.

[1] Other bunny girls at Stratford's club were interviewed and it emerged that some had received obscene phone calls in the lead up to the murder.

[32] Detectives found that Stratford had herself received a number of intrusive phone calls in the days leading up to her death, in which the caller had either hung up without speaking or had whispered obscenities over the line.

Two photofit pictures were released by detectives of two men seen in the vicinity of the murder site that day which officers wished to speak to.

[24] Stratford had previously complained about a man who lurked near her house and followed her, but nothing was known of him other than her description of him as having a peculiarly strained and stiff walk.

[33][35] There were claims that an aggrieved Arab associate had tried to run Stratford down as she left her Park Lane club one night some months before her death, suggesting the man may have had a vendetta against her, but nothing came of this.

[15] In October 1975, police in Liverpool found newspaper reports of Stratford's brutal killing smeared with lipstick in an empty bedsit.

[16] Both cases were featured in September 2007 on the BBC Crimewatch programme, where DCI Andy Mortimer stated that "without a shadow of a doubt" both murders were sexually motivated.

[39] One month later, in April, the murders were again featured on Crimewatch, on which it was revealed that a new £40,000 reward was on offer for information leading to the capture of the killer.

It was also stated that the killer would have had good knowledge of the 'Short Hedges' ('School Walk') alleyway in which Weedon was attacked, and that he would have been a white male between the ages of 17 and 30 (between 63 and 77 in 2023).

It was asserted that psychiatrists, probation officers, cellmates or prison guards could hold the information needed to identify the killer, as he may have made an admission or disclosure to these people over the years regarding the murders.

[3] The lead detective also told The Guardian: "It's inconceivable the killer of Eve and Lynne has kept the perfect secret for 40 years.

[40][45] Having walked past St Mary's Church and the playing fields of Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School) Parravincina drew level with the driveway of the private Parkfield Housing Estate where she lived, when she was suddenly attacked from behind by a man who hit her with a blunt instrument, as in Weedon's killing.

[43][46] Although in Parravincina's case there was no sign of sexual interference, detectives believed that Elizabeth's attacker had been disturbed and had fled before interfering with her body.

[44] In 1983 it was revealed that detectives had interviewed a jailed policeman as part of an inquiry into the murders of three women, including Weedon and Parravincina.

[50] Morris, 14, had gone missing from the area on 16 June of that year, and two days later was found half-naked and face down in undergrowth on the Heath, with her clothing pushed upwards over her body.

[62] Links were suggested between Stratford's and Farrow's cases because both had their throats cut and both had worked at West End nightspots.

[62] Despite this, in 2022 former Metropolitan Police detective Colin Sutton, who led the high-profile investigations into Levi Bellfield and Delroy Grant, claimed that Farrow's murder could be linked to Stratford's and Weedon's.

[65][66] A documentary based on this book and promoting Sutton's claims was also due to be released in 2022, titled West End Girls: The Search for a Serial Killer.