STOVALL, JOEL & MICHAEL: Evil Twins TV -
It seemed everyone in Fremont Colorado county knew of Joel and Michael Stovall. But no-one could have ever known just how twisted their unusual bond would become until one dark night these identical twins staged a bloody insurrection. When it comes to evil two always packs twice the punch. Evil Twins s1e6: Double Barrel, ID 2012
‘He [Michael] pulls out a 9 mm handgun and fired a number of times.’ ibid.
A massive manhunt gets underway. ibid.
The twins killed one police officer, wounded two others and opened fire on seventeen more … Both twins plead guilty. ibid.
STRAFFEN, JOHN: Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - David Wilson -
Britain’s longest serving prisoner died in 2007. John Straffen had been incarcerated for fifty-five years and three months. He was the notorious child killer who escaped from Broadmoor. He is remembered for one of the most controversial trials in English criminal history. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: John Straffen, CI 2012
During the 1950s John Straffen was sent to Broadmoor for the brutal murder of two young girls. Only six months later the 22-year-old escaped from the high security hospital and killed another child. ibid.
An IQ of just 58. ibid.
The young Straffen’s behaviour began to deteriorate. ibid.
No understanding of right or wrong. ibid.
Straffen is the kind of person that would simply encounter a child and for no reason at all stuff that child’s life out. Professor David Wilson
STRATFORD, EVE murder: The Playboy Bunny Murder TV -
During the 1970s London’s Playboy Club revelled in its image of a fantasy world for men. But in 1975 a brutal murder brought unwanted attention. The Playboy Bunny Murder I, ITV 2023
‘21-year-old bunny girl at London’s Playboy was savagely murdered in her Leytonstone flat.’ ibid. news
The killing was the first in a series of four that some detectives think may have been linked and the work of just one man … But as time passes and memories fade, this might be the last chance to find answers. ibid.
An unknown serial killer might have been walking its streets. ibid.
Eve Stratford moved to London aged 19 in 1972. She had dreams of stardom but ahead of her lay tragedy … Unsolved to this day. ibid.
The police investigated a number of Middle-Eastern men who have frequented the Playboy Club. 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.
Meanwhile, Paul [Farrow] had lost his family and his job at the casino. ibid.
DNA evidence … 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 named Eve Stratford. The Playboy Bunny Murder II
Police find DNA link in murders of school pupil and Bunny girl. ibid. newspaper headline
The DNA link between the murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon was absolutely baffling. The two victims seemed to inhabit different worlds … Lynne Weedon was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who had gone out with friends to a pub in the suburbs on Wednesday evening in 1975 but never came home. ibid.
Many people had come to wonder if Peter Sutcliffe was the killer. ibid.
Elizabeth Parravicini: Struck over the head with a blunt object. ibid.
Policeman B had been routinely questioned in 1977 in relation to the murder of Elizabeth Parravicini … This man had been found guilty of a shocking but unrelated crime … Policeman B had perpetrated terrible crimes. ibid.
STRATTON, ALBERT & ALFRED: Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals TV -
Fingerprints: Thomas and Ann Farrow, an elderly couple, managed a shop selling inks and paints. Two men had gained entry to the shop and attacked the Farrows … The thieves Albert and Alfred Stratton found the shop’s cashbox in the bedroom … They should have been wearing gloves … They left behind a crucial piece of evidence: a thumbprint … Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
STREETE, WESLEY: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
September 18th 2019: Rap artist Aitch’s emotional tribute to a young female fan. Her name Keeley Bunker. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e3: Wesley Streete
While Keele was at the concert, CCTV recorded a young man boarding a train heading to Birmingham. ibid.
With evidence stacking up against his story, Wesley Streete was questioned in the back of a police car. ibid.
‘Physical evidence that he’d had sexual intercourse with her.’ ibid. rozzer
More women came forward alleging he’d sexually assaulted them. ibid.
STROUD, PHILLIP: see PAYNE, CHARITY
STUTZMAN, ELI: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Eli Stutzman: The strange story of a nine-year-old boy abandoned in a ditch next to a cornfield in the tiny town of Chester, Nebraska, on Christmas Eve 1985. His frozen little boy was dressed only in thin blue sleeper pyjamas. He was partially covered in snow. Despite several autopsies, no-one could figure out how he might have lost his life, or who might have taken it. True Crime Recaps: 3 Terrifying Amish Murders, Youtube 37.28, 2021
Reader’s Digest ran the story of Little Boy Blue … Suddenly, he had a name: Danny Stutzman, the Amish son of Eli and Ida Stutzman from Dalton, Ohio. ibid.
Ida was 26 years old and 8 months pregnant in July 1977 when their barn mysteriously caught on fire in the middle of the night. Her body was found hours later. ibid.
Also wanted for questioning in Texas in connection with another body found there, that of 24-year-old Glenn Pritchard, his former roommate from Austin. ibid.