The brutal murder of a London Playboy Bunny has remained unsolved for more than 45 years.
Mystery has always surrounded the death of 21-year-old Eve Stratford, with links to celebrities, the underworld and millionaires - and horrific killings of two other young women.
The Mirror's Kelly-Ann Mills looks back at Eve's life and tragic death as part of our powerful true crime newsletter Testimony...
Eve Stratford became a waitress at London's notorious Playboy Club in Mayfair in 1973 aged just 19, having left her family in Warrington, Cheshire with ambitions of becoming a model.
She was popular among the club's regulars and was even boss Victor Aubrey Lownes III's favourite for a while.
The waitresses would wear velvet bunny outfits, bow ties and ears to rub shoulders with the rich and famous.
Eve was so proud of the photographs of her on the arms of comedians Eric Morecambe and Sid James, and in a crowd of girls around boxing champion John Conteh, that she sent the snaps home to mum Liza, dad Albert and her brother Bert.
She desperately wanted to become a model, and when she was turned down to appear in Playboy's American magazine, she jumped at the chance to feature in Mayfair - its British top-shelf rival.
Eve - under the name Eva Von Borke - posed topless on the front cover as Miss March for the Spring Bonanza issue branded as "the most classic blonde we've ever uncovered".
She appeared across nine pages including a full-frontal nude centrefold in the raunchy magazine that had more than 460,000 subscribers for the March edition in 1975.
The photoshoot had angered boss Victor, who suspended her from her role as Bunny Ava for three months.
Her manager and former Bunny Mother Erin Morris, who had originally hired her, said Eve knew and understood why she was suspended.
Ms Morris said: "She wasn’t upset, she understood what she’d done and why it had to happen.
“She told me she’d done it because she wanted to get into modelling.
"I said she could come back to work when the suspension was over, however she anticipated this would be her step up the ladder, therefore she wouldn’t need to come back.
"She wasn’t just going to wait on tables – she wanted to do something with her life.”
After she was suspended, Eve went home to her flat in Leyton, east London which she shared with boyfriend Tony Priest.
Tony was a musician who began dating Eve in 1972 and the pair started living together in a room in a rented upstairs maisonette with a mattress on the floor for a bed.
The flat had four bedrooms and each one was occupied for a while by members of Tony's band, Vineyard. The group originally started as Onyx in Cornwall and supported Queen and Thin Lizzy.
One band member and his girlfriend had moved out of the flat in early 1974, and the band had finally split around the time of Eve's 21st.
Tony and one of the others began working as fork-lift-truck drivers, while the third remaining tenant joined another band.
After she was suspended as a Bunny, Eve posed for two more photoshoots, one for South African top-shelf magazine and the other as a model for a crime-fiction book cover, where she had to look terrified as a knife was thrust against her throat.
On Tuesday, March 17, 1975 Eve had gone to see her agent, before heading home, buying herself a bunch of flowers on the way.
She arrived home at 4.10pm and around 20 minutes later a downstairs neighbour heard her talking to a man.
At about 5.15pm the same neighbour heard a thud, described as like a chair falling over, then footsteps walking down the stairs to leave the flat.
Just 10 minutes later Tony arrived home with his former bandmate and was met with the horrific scene.
Eve was dead.
Her throat had been slashed around 12 times, so savagely that her head was almost severed.
She had been raped and had been tied up with her own stockings, one tying her arms behind her back, the other securing her ankles.
The bunch of flowers she had bought lay next to her blood-spattered body.
There were no signs of a break-in leading police to believe Eve knew her killer.
Eve's case was linked 30 years later to the murder of schoolgirl Lynne Weedon who was killed as she walked home.
DNA found at both crime scenes meant the same killer attacked both women within six months of each other.
Their killer is still at large.
