Who were the Railway Killers’ victims Alison Day, Maartje Tambozer and Anne Locke and how were they killed

THE Railway Killers were liable for a bid of abductions and intersexual attacks connected women crossed London and the South East of England during the 1980s.

Police were lone capable to apprehend 1 of the culprits arsenic a effect of utilising "psychological offender profiling" for the archetypal clip successful Britain successful a groundbreaking move.

Who were the Railway Killers' victims?

John Duffy and David Mulcahy are thought to person launched their archetypal onslaught connected July 1, 1982, erstwhile they raped a pistillate adjacent to Hampstead Station successful London's Hampstead village.

For the adjacent 12 months, women were assaulted crossed London and its suburbs.

In autumn 1983 the attacks abruptly stopped, with constabulary aboriginal uncovering retired this coincided with Duffy's separation from his wife.

The attacks started up again successful aboriginal 1984.

In July 1985, three women were brutally raped connected the aforesaid night, each successful the Hendon and Hampstead area.

Duffy and Mulcahy are thought to person brutally attacked astatine slightest 19 women, sidesplitting 3 of them.

Alison Day

Alison Day, 19, was the evil pair’s archetypal unfortunate to beryllium murdered.

Day was connected her mode to support her fiancé institution portion helium was moving overtime astatine a printers by Hackney Wick presumption successful East London.

She was grabbed by Mulcahy erstwhile she got disconnected a bid connected December 29, 1985, and Duffy produced a knife.

She was raped repeatedly aft the men took her to the River Lea.

Fearing she could place them, they decided to termination her.

Police recovered her assemblage look down successful the adjacent river. 

Her blouse had been torn into 3 pieces and utilized to gag and hindrance her.

The 3rd portion was utilized to strangle her.

Maartje Tambozer

Maartje Tamboezer, 15, was abducted from Horsley presumption successful eastbound Surrey connected April 17, 1986.

She was past seen riding her motorcycle aft schoolhouse to bargain immoderate sweets from a section shop.

The brace laic successful hold successful trees adjacent a way and, aft watching her thrust past knowing she would instrumentality the aforesaid way, they tied sportfishing enactment crossed the way to travel the motorcycle up.

After she was raped, Mulcahy turned connected her, saying she had been looking astatine him, and struck her crossed the caput with a chromatic and she fell to the ground.

After being raped and strangled, the teenager's assemblage was acceptable connected occurrence and dumped successful adjacent woods.

Anne Locke

Anne Locke, 29, worked for London Weekend Television arsenic a caput and had been asked to spell successful connected May 18, 1986.

She near enactment astatine 8.30pm but ne'er made it location to Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire.

Mulcahy and Duffy, hid her bike, intending to snare its proprietor arsenic she went to find it.

She was grabbed, forced down the railway tracks to a tract wherever she was raped and murdered.

Her severely decomposed assemblage was recovered 2 months aboriginal successful undergrowth.

One of her socks was recovered wrong her rima and the different had been tied circular her jaw.

The men had attempted to pain her body.

Duffy was enactment connected proceedings successful February 1988 and was convicted of 2 murders and 4 rapes, though helium was acquitted of raping and sidesplitting Anne Locke.

He was fixed a minimum condemnation of 30 years by the judge.

Cops suspected Mulcahy had been progressive for a fig of years but didn’t person the grounds to complaint him.

It was lone aft Duffy implicated him 15 years aft helium had been convicted that they could act.

Mulcahy, a joined begetter of four, had been tracked for respective months by constabulary anterior to his arrest.

DNA tests which were not utilized successful the archetypal proceedings but were present disposable managed to supply the grounds to convict Mulcahy.

He stood proceedings successful 2000 with Duffy appearing arsenic a witness, giving graphic grounds implicit 14 days.

Mulcahy claimed helium was innocent, but connected February 5, 2001, was fixed 3 beingness sentences for murdering 3 women.

He received 24-year jailhouse presumption connected each of the 7 counts of rape and 18 years each for 5 conspiracies to rape, to tally concurrently.