TV programme examines unsolved murder of Bunny Girl Eve

THE unsolved murder of Warrington Bunny Girl Eve Stratford will be examined in a television documentary tonight (Monday).

Eve – her name was actually Eva – was brutally murdered in her London flat in March, 1975 sparking a major murder hunt. She was 21 at the time.
The story created headlines in all the national newspapers.

But I was the first journalist to discover that she came from Woolston.
I was working in Warrington at the time, having founded Orbit News – the parent company of Warrington-Worldwide -in 1968.

I was in CID at the police station in Arpley Street when a senior detective said to me: “You know this Bunny Girl is from Warrington don’t you?”
Within an hour or so I was interviewing Eve’s parents at their home.

They were devastated of course, but they wanted to talk about their daughter and welcomed me into their home.
Over the following months and years, I was a frequent visitor at their home. They were a charming couple.
Eve’s mother worked at a fashion store in Sankey Street.

They desperately wanted Eve’s killer to be found, but despite several leads being followed, he never was.
Sadly, they eventually died with the mystery unsolved.
Tonight’s programme reveals new facts, including the fact that DNA had linked another killing to the same killer – although he was never traced.
The programme does not claim to solve the mystery, but it does cast new light on the tragic story.

Eve is buried in the graveyard at Padgate Church.
The Playboy Bunny Murder is on ITV1 at 9pm