From the Playboy bunny brutally raped and murdered in her personal flat to the BBC TV presenter shot useless on her doorstep, a few of Britain’s most notorious killings stay unsolved years later.
Regardless of investigations spanning years and infrequently many years, police are nonetheless no nearer to catching the cold-blooded killers.
Households of the victims have been left tormented and with out justice for years after their liked one was cruelly taken from them.
MailOnline appears to be like again on among the most infamous circumstances in an effort to assist unfold the small print of the circumstances and convey the killers to justice.
Eve Stratford
Eve Stratford was a ‘bunny woman’ waitress on the Playboy Membership in Mayfair within the Nineteen Seventies, and the girlfriend of the lead singer of pop band Onyx.
The glamour mannequin, 22, was discovered murdered in her residence in east London in 1975 – her throat had been slashed between eight and 12 instances.
Her fingers had been tied up with a shawl and there was a stocking tied around her leg – she is believed to have been raped.
Detectives mentioned there was no signal of compelled entry to the flat, main them to imagine she had invited the killer in and should have recognized them.
Six months after Eve’s dying, Lynne Weedon, 16, was brutally attacked and raped in an alleyway close to her residence in Hounslow at 11pm on September 3. She died after being discovered barely alive at an electrical energy sub station the following day.
Former Met Police detective Colin Sutton believes a 3rd girl, Lynda Farrow – who was knifed to dying in her residence 4 years later in 1979 – was additionally a sufferer of the identical killer.
Eve and Lynne’s murders had been linked in 2007 after matching DNA was found on the victims, who didn’t know one another.
The Met Police have confirmed that there aren’t any latest updates into her dying.
Eve Stratford was discovered together with her throat slashed on the night of March 18, 1975 by her boyfriend Tony Priest, the lead singer with the pop band Onyx
This map reveals the three unsolved murders all came about in shut proximity – police imagine all three had been victims of the identical killer
Jill Dando
One in every of Britain’s most notorious murders is the killing of Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando, 37, shot useless outdoors her west London residence in 1999.
Ms Dando, was shot as soon as within the head on her doorstep and was mendacity in a pool of blood when neighbours discovered her slumped towards her entrance door.
A blue Vary Rover that had been parked on the road the place Jill lived Gowan Avenue was captured on CCTV driving away at velocity from the homicide scene.
An enormous police investigation was launched, which resulted in unemployed loner Barry George being jailed for her homicide in July 2001.
He was granted a retrial on enchantment, and obtained a unanimous acquittal by a jury in August 2008 after a retrial.
Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was shot useless outdoors her flat in Fulham, West London, in 1999
Ms Dando (pictured in Skiathos, Greece) was a preferred broadcaster within the Nineteen Nineties
Jill’s homicide prompted an infinite inquiry by Scotland Yard and resulted in unemployed loner Barry George (pictured) being jailed for her homicide in July 2001. He was later acquitted of the crime
The ‘Jack The Stripper’ murders
London in its Nineteen Sixties heyday was shocked by a collection of murders, which noticed six nude our bodies dumped across the Thames.
First often known as the ‘Hammersmith nude murders’, all of the victims had been girls intercourse employees and had been discovered with their tooth pulled out and their garments eliminated.
Hannah Tailford was the primary to be discovered by the river in Hammersmith in February 1964.
Just some weeks later, the our bodies of Irene Lockwood, 25, Helen Barthelemy, 22, and Mary Fleming, 30, had been additionally discovered.
The physique of 21-year-old Frances Brown was uncovered in Kensington in November, and the next February Irish immigrant Bridget O’Hara was present in Acton.
Though various suspects have been recognized, no killer has ever been conclusively tracked down.
Jack The Stripper victims: The primary physique, that of 30-year-old Hannah Tailford (left), was discovered by the River Thames at Hammersmith in February 1964. Irene Lockwood (proper), 25, was present in April on the identical stretch of riverbank the place Hannah’s corpse had been dumped
A number of weeks later, passers-by got here throughout the physique of 22-year-old Helen Barthelemy (left) in an alley. In July, simply up the river at Chiswick, the stays of Mary Fleming, 30, had been present in a storage forecourt. The corpse of a fifth sufferer, Frances Brown (proper), 21, was found in Kensington throughout November the identical yr
Alistair Wilson
Mr Wilson was shot twice within the head and as soon as within the physique, leaving his spouse and youngsters with out a husband and father
Alistair Wilson spent Sunday, November 28 2004, taking a stroll alongside the Scottish coast along with his spouse Veronica.
After returning to his residence in Nairn, a seaside city in north-east Scotland, he had dinner and tucked his two younger boys into mattress.
However hours later a wierd man got here to the door asking to talk to the 30-year-old banker.
Mr Wilson was shot twice within the head and as soon as within the physique, leaving his spouse and youngsters with out a husband and father.
Baffled police have have but been unable to unravel the homicide however in December 2016 they revealed extra in regards to the gun that was use to kill Alistair.
A gun, an identical to the Twenties Haenel Schmeisser that killed him, turned up at an area home clearance sale.
On the time a caller rang a radio station saying they know extra details about the crime.
Haenel Schmeisser are not often discovered within the UK, and there have solely been 13 of them recovered there since 2008.
Police imagine that troopers might have introduced the weapons again to the UK following the Second World Conflict.
A gun, an identical to the Twenties Haenel Schmeisser that killed Alistair (pictured), turned up at an area home clearance sale
Baffled police have as but been unable to unravel the homicide however in December 2016 they revealed extra in regards to the gun that was use to kill Alistair. Pictured, forensic cops at Alistair’s residence after his brutal homicide
Suzy Lamplugh
The homicide of Suzy Lamplugh greater than 35 years in the past stays one of the infamous unsolved circumstances in Britain.
Suzy Lamplugh, 25, was murdered shortly after leaving her workplace
The property agent, 25, disappeared after leaving her workplace in Fulham, west London, on July 28, 1986.
She had been making her option to meet a consumer who referred to as himself ‘Mr Kipper’ at a home in the identical space.
Ms Lamplugh was noticed by a witness arguing with a person in Shurrold Street earlier than getting in a automobile with him.
Her automobile, a Ford Fiesta, was recovered later the identical day round a mile from the place she was final seen. She was declared useless, presumed murdered, eight years later in 1994.
The one suspect within the case is John Cannan, 66, who’s at the moment seving three life sentences after being convicted of murdering Shirley Banks in Bristol in 1987, the tried kidnap of Julia Holman and the rape of an unnamed girl in Studying in 1986.
He was interviewed a number of instances in reference to Ms Lamplugh’s dying and stays a chief suspect.
Three days earlier than she disappeared, Cannan was launched from a hostel at Wormwood Scrubs jail in west London, the place he had been serving a six-year sentence for rape.
The highlight was shone on him once more in October 2018 when police pulled up a patio on the former deal with of his mom Sheila in Sutton Coldfield.
The then proprietor of the property revealed {that a} police group spent six months looking out the patio. No proof was recovered.
Kevin Dundon
Kevin Dundon, 22, vanished when travelling on a ferry from Belgium to the UK in October 1980, resulting in fears he had fallen overboard.
He was final seen washing dishes within the galley of the Townsend Thoresen at round 6.30pm.
It was thought that Mr Dundon from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, might have gone into the ocean, however a search failed to search out his physique.
Kevin Dundon, 22 (pictured), went lacking after he was seen washing dishes within the galley of the Townsend Thoresen ferry Viking Viscount on September 21, 1980
In 2020, police started investigating the case as soon as once more, interviewing dozens of people that thought Dundon had been murdered on board the ship.
His brothers have at all times believed he was a sufferer of foul play, although no homicide suspect has ever been recognized.
In a chilling element, brother Tom Dundon instructed the BBC he had obtained a name from a priest who mentioned he had spoken to a crew member from the boat simply after the ship had docked.
He mentioned: ‘The padre mentioned to me that he could not inform me what he mentioned however do not let it drop, dangerous issues had occurred on the boat.’
Kevin Dundon’s three brothers Jimmy, Tom and Danny Dundon (pictured) have at all times believed he was a sufferer of foul play. Pictured from left to proper are Danny, 60, Jimmy, 65, and Tom, 63
