Detectives have made a breakthrough in the 40-year hunt for the killer of a Playboy bunnygirl and a teenager.
Last week the Sunday People revealed cops were launching a fresh appeal for information to solve the horrific murders of Eve Stratford, 21, and schoolgirl Lynne Weedon, 16.
Advances in DNA testing showed the same man committed both murders in 1975. Now it has emerged the culprit was of North European origin.
Police had identified 16 suspects in Eve’s murder.
But this latest DNA find scotches the theory that she was killed by a wealthy Arab who visited the Playboy Club in Park Lane where she worked.
Eve was found raped with her throat slashed in her home in Leyton, East London, on March 18, 1975.
Six months later, schoolgirl Lynne was bludgeoned in an alley on a shortcut to her home in Hounslow, West London.
She was also raped and died in hospital having never regained consciousness.
Scientists are still hoping to get more information from the DNA.
Det Chief Insp Noel McHugh said: “We know the suspect is of North European origin. Work continues on the DNA, but it is extremely delicate because of the passage of time.
“We have a profile, but the missing piece of the jigsaw is who that profile belongs to. What we need is a name.”
Detectives have not found a match on the national DNA database.
Forensic scientists are using the same techniques that helped convict Gary Dobson and David Norris in 2012 of killing of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
Det Chief Insp McHugh said of the 40-year-old crime: “The suspect would be in his 60s or 70s now.
“I’d ask everybody to think back. Please do not assume we know what you know.”
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