In July of 2014 the court orders Morgan to begin the process of restoring her competency at Winnebago Mental Health Institute. By November of 2014 Morgan Geyser was found competent to stand trial. Despite being diagnosed schizophrenic, she was transferred back to jail from Winnebego Mental Health Institute without a treatment plan. ibid. captions
In 2015 Morgan Geyser’s team began work on its mental illness defense. ibid.
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid.
I’m going to order that the commitment be 40 years. ibid. Judge
WELCH, LLOYD: True Crime Recaps
March 1975: The Lyon sisters, 12-year-old Sheila and 10-year-old Kate … never came home. For weeks the police searched high and low but turned up nothing. True Crime Recaps: Lyon Sisters’ Disappearance Solved 40 Years Later! Youtube 13.00, 2022
An 18-year-old drifter by the name of Lloyd Lee Welch walked up to a security guard at the mall and told him he saw the girls ... A problematic witness … to collect the reward and gain attention … Fast-forward 38 years and he was finishing a 33-year prison sentence for molesting a 10-year-old girl. ibid.
He pleaded guilty and got 48 years behind bars. ibid.
WELEHAN, ADAM: Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 3rd October 2012 Natalie Jarvis left her family home in Kent for a late-night rendevouz with Adam Weleham. That cold autumn night nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Just thirty minutes later Natalie Jarvis was dead.
In October 2012, 22-year-old Adam Welehan walked into Bexleyheath police station in South London with blood on his face and hands with a well-reheased story ready to tell. ibid.
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January 1st 1985, Pensacola, Florida, 3:00 a.m.: The day Tonya McKinley’s body is found. Cold Case Files s2e15: The Clock Strikes Murder, CI 2024
2019: The case was suitable for genetic geneology. ibid.
2020: Investigators begin round-the-clock surveillance on Daniel Wells. ibid.
A 100% match to the killer’s DNA. ibid.
WEST END MURDERS: The Playboy Bunny Murder TV - West End Murders TV -
During the 1970s London’s Playboy Club revelled in its image as a fantasy world for men. But in 1975 a brutal murder brought it unwanted attention. The killing was the first in a series of four that some detectives believe may have been linked and the work of one man. To this day the perpetrator’s identity remains a mystery. Was there a serial killer on the streets of London who has never been caught? His crimes left tragedy in their wake. But as time passes and memories fade, this might be the last chance to find answers. The Playboy Bunny Murder I, ITV 2023
Born overseas to a British father and German mother, Eve Stratford moved to London aged 19 in 1972. She had dreams of stardom, but ahead of her lay tragedy. Her brutal murder in 1975 was headline news, and remains unsolved to this day. ibid.
In 1973 Eve Stratford joined the Playboy Club and was christened Bunny Eva. ibid.
The police investigated a number of Middle-Eastern men who frequented the Playboy Club. At the time the casino was the most successful in Europe. ibid.
In 1979, 29-year-old Lynda Farrow was found murdered in circumstances eerily similar to Eve’s. She’d been a croupier at a casino which like the Playboy Club was in London’s West End. She’d had her throat cut in her own home just four miles from where Eve was killed. ibid.
At the time of her murder, Lynda, the mother of two young children, was pregnant. ibid.
‘It is feasible that there is a connection. And I can understand why the police initially think that.’ ibid. Professor Wilson
‘But these are very different victims. And very different crime scenes. That I think are motivated in Eve’s case by sexual sadism – we have that through the binding of the arms and the legs, we have that from the sexual activity that we know has taken place – and in Linda’s case, for me I get a sense of an argument.’ ibid. Wilson
Her mother Gladys claims, in my interview with her, that Lynda’s estranged husband Paul is somehow involved. ibid.
Lynda takes the kids but doesn’t tell Paul her new address. Lynda had become a successful croupier, and was carrying her new partner’s chid. Meanwhile, Paul had lost his family and his job at the casino. Lynda is the major breadwinner; Paul is diabetic, he’s losing his eyesight, he’s unable to earn his own living. ibid.
Someone in the circle of Paul Farrow’s acquaintances is responsible for the murder of Eve Stratford, according to Gladys [mother]. ibid.
‘Abdul Khawaja: He was there every day. He was some kind of Mr Fix-it for rich Arabs … He wasn’t a nice character.’ ibid. ex-Bunny
Scandal Of Playboy Mr Fixit. ibid. Sunday People front page 9th August 1981
Abdul Khawaja denied all these allegations that were made against him ... These reports also connect Abdul and Eve. ibid.
A person of enormous interest to the investigation … Suspicion hung over him for decades, even after his death. ibid.
‘They exonerated him [Khawaja] through DNA.’ ibid. comment
Did racism fuel assumptions about Abdul’s guilty and lead the investigation astray? ibid.
Abdul, Eve and Lynda inhabited the same nocturnal world. One where millions were at stake at gambling tables. And there were dark motives and dirty tricks. The idea that both women were murdered by one man who inhabited the glamorous world of the West End was so tantilising that detectives were unable to let go of it for decades. Then in the early noughties technology delivered a double breakthrough that would turn the case on its head. The very same DNA evidence that exonerated Abdul Khawaja and proved he wasn’t the man who wielded the knife linked Eve Stratford’s murder to another horrific crime – the murder of a schoolgirl in West London. ibid.
London’s Playboy Club was the embodiment of Hugh Heffner’s fantasy, a celebration of sex and glamour. But in 1975 it was rocked by the brutal murder of a Playboy bunny called Eve Stratford. In 1979 Lynda Farrow, a croupier in a West End casino died in apparently similar circumstances. Some police were convinced the murderer was the same man. I’ve come to question the links between those two killings. The Playboy Bunny Murder II
The original investigation brought Paul Farrow out as a suspect in 1979. He was never charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Lynda. ibid.
Incredibly, key evidence from the Lynda Farrow crime scene had been lost. There was no way of using DNA to determine if her murder was linked to Eve’s. But DNA had turned up from another source that took the Eve Stratford case in an astonishing new direction. ibid.
‘The case of Lynn Weedon who was murdered all those years ago. This was the 3rd September 1975: She was a 16-year-old girl at the time. She’d been out with friends, and towards the end of the school summer holidays, and was on her way home. And she’d walked down the alleyway and was struck on the head with something, hard blunt instrument as we would say. She was then thrown over the fencing around an electricity sub station, where she was sexually assaulted, raped, and left there. ibid. Martin Lee, original cold case review
No Tears Left: Sex-attack girl dies in coma as police hunt for a maniac. ibid. Daily Express, Thursday, 11th September 1975
The DNA link between the murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon was absolutely baffling. The two victims seemed to inhabit different worlds. Eve was an aspiring model who rubbed shoulders with celebrities; Lynne Weedon was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who had gone out with friends to a pub in the suburbs one Wednesday evening in 1975 but never came home. ibid.
And I was about to learn of another potential victim … ‘This is the sad murder scene of Elizabeth Parravicini and she was struck over the head with a blunt object’ … ibid. ex-rozzer
‘This murder was almost a carbon copy of another brutal murder which took place in the same area just 2 years ago. On September 4th 1975 a 16-year-old student, Lynne Weedon, was attacked and raped 50 yards from her home. And the 2 murders took place within a mile of each other,’ ibid. TV news