#The railway killer tv#

A month later on, local TV presenter Anne Locke, 29, was abducted and murdered as she dismounted a train in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire. As well as rape and strangulation, Maartje's body was set on fire. The death of Alison Day changed this moniker to the Railway Killer, a tag reinforced by the rape and murder of 15-year-old Maartje Tamboezer in West Horsley on 17 April 1986. Police further stepped up their search for the attacker who had been coined by the press as the Railway Rapist. She was then strangled with a piece of string. On 29 December 1985, Alison Day, 19, was dragged off a train at Hackney Wick station by Duffy and Mulcahy and repeatedly raped. Mulcahy was released for lack of evidence. Mulcahy was also questioned due to his close friendship with Duffy but victims were still traumatised and unable to pick him out of an identity parade. Rope found in his parents house linked him to the second murder victim. The name of Duffy, a martial arts instructor, was touted as a suspect among thousands of other names as he was on the sex offenders register following conviction for the rape of his wife. Police set up an urgent workshop to try to find the perpetrators, called Operation Hart. More occurred through 1984 and then three were raped on the same night in 1985 in Hendon. In 1982 a woman (KJ) was raped by two men near Hampstead station and subsequently eighteen more were attacked over the next year. They are known as the Railway Rapists and the Railway Killers.

#The railway killer serial#

John Duffy and David Mulcahy (born 1959) are two British rapists and serial killers who together attacked numerous women at railway stations in the south of England through the 1980s. Status: Sentenced to three life sentences, with a 30-year recommendation, on February 1, 2001 Location: North London, England, United Kingdom Victims profile: Alison Day, 19 / Maartje Tamboezer, 15 / Anne Lock, 29

AKA 'The Railway Killer' - 'The Railway Rapist' Classification: Serial killer