BBC Crimewatch File reconstructs the inside story of a major police investigation. Between December 1985 and May 1986 three young women - Alison Day, Maartje Tamboezer and Anne Lock - were raped and murdered.
I so enjoy these videos. No crazy loud music, no zooming in and out, no gunshots between sentences, just good old fashioned detective work. Excellent !!!
This is how true crime docs should be: the original detectives interviewed about the nuts and bolts of the operation, not the constant repetition and phoney "experts" regurgitating textbook stuff on psychopathy so common to today's material.
Totally agree, where you have 4 people saying the exact same thing over and over again. Very American type TV production. Drives me nuts it's usually the same folk , the dark haired lady with a Bobed haircut and the Scottish criminology fella .. etc etc
I remember the Maartje Tamboezer murder in Horsley very well. I was a 14 year old boy at the time living in Effingham - the next village along about 1/2 mile away. Everyone in the area was devastated by what had happened and I had cycled along that path myself as a child. Maartje is still remembered in the village today.
...as a man, it's disappointing that some men are so twisted and disturbed that they can even consider doing such dreadful things to innocent girls and women. Worse that they'd carry out their dirty deeds...
@@diegestive4167 That's a seperate issue. You can't define trans women solely on your terms i.e. define them as 'men'. You are limited to debating your position - but labelling trans women as 'men' is just one of many political positions. We have to be fair and ensure that traditional women are granted their rights but not to the extent that they encroach on trans womens' rights.
@@cahillgreg yes I can describe anything I want on my terms …. The so called trans community are demanding we play along with their fantasies demand we use pronouns they’ve made up demand we except guys dressed as girls teaching OUR kids so don’t tell me I can’t describe something the way I want .
This is just the 2nd show I've seen of this series : brilliant re-enactment involving actual detectives, good actors (the guy who played Duffy was terrific) and a first rate voice -over. Typical British quality. Many thanks redcard74 !!!
Its a superb idea to have the real detectives involved. Its a wonderful innovation and adds realism and grit to the stories. British TV has slowly died since the early 1990s..
I can't tell you how horrifying it was for happened to Alison Day when watching her reconstruction, God Almighty, I really wished she had declined to go out that fateful night 😢
Her mother told her to keep to the main road. I always avoid grassy areas or lonely streets. Dawn Ashworth was another one who was killed walking through a field for a short cut.
Lee Dummett . Absolutely... so many young lives destroyed, as well as the wider ripples; parents, grandparents, siblings, friends. Heartbreaking and tragic in equal measure, isn’t it?! 😢💐🌈
I believe I have always picked up my girlfriend at the train station if the night has fallen. Please go to pick up your loved ones and make sure to be there when a lady is coming off the train at night. I hope the animal who did this is dead or in prison for life. POS!
@Melanin Queen yes...people should just volunteer to go out at night and make sure everyone gets home safe!! the only reason this never happened to me is luck and a few good people who made sure I got home safe. God what evil there is in this world!
Thanks for all the comments. I have nine in all of which four are already on here: 1. Bronwen Nixon 2. Stephanie Slater/Julie Dart 3. Operation Osprey (already on youtube) 4. Shirley Banks (already on youtube) 5. A party to murder - Karen Price (already on youtube) 6. Operation Trigger 7. Police officer John Speed (already on youtube) 8. Supergrass 9. Railway murders. I will hopefully upload them over the next few nights. Have got the first two on my PC just need uploading to youtube. Has taken me since August but I'm finally getting towards the end now!
Excellently made stuff from the BBC - quietly and efficiently done with brilliant editing. Compare and contrast with the rubbish pumped out today especially in the American made crime docs. However, I do have to add that 'Thin blue line' was American and it is one of the most compelling crime documentaries ever made.
Maartje's mother told her to ride to the shop the long way round. Not to ride the shortcut on the railway footpath. Unfortunately she didn't heed that advice. Even though she should have been able to ride her bike whatever route she wanted to, without the fear of being attacked, raped or murdered. Disgusting scum like Duffy and Mulcahay meant she shouldn't have. RIP to the poor women. As for the 2 pieces of crap who carried out the sickening crimes, hopefully they were dealt with in prison. Many times........
Love how they’d say ‘don’t have nightmares’ at the end of the monthly show. After scaring the shit out of everyone ... great advice. Sadly I remember these murders.
Duffy and Mulcahay will never be released from prison. Duffy got a whole life tariff and later Mulcahay minimum of 30 years but its not expected neither will ever be released.
A man lied to police about his son admitting to all of these horrific crimes just so he could get him out of his house!? Wow! I'm guessing he never gets a "No 1 Dad" mug on Father's Day! 😂
Just nearing the end of Simon Farquhar's book The Railway Murders, written by the son of one of the investigating officers in this case. What struck me was just how dismal pockets of London were at the time, something I always suspected but never fortunately knew firsthand - until, that is, a mate of mine attended a university in East London in the mid 1990s. Even then, Hackney was very grim and felt intimidating. The area around Dalston Junction railway station I found particularly menacing, but the general ambience of the place was frightening all over. It was disconcerting to have to walk in a group to a pub even in broad daylight, and then have to get a taxi back at closing time in spite of the short distance. Certain sides of the road my mate informed me were off limits, which I found totally bizarre ( this was usually because rough sleepers were common in large shop doorways on certain sides, but not others ). People were surly and would make no effort to move out of your way on the pavements. To make matters even worse, my mate's digs were horrible. He lived above a launderette and the landlord refused to centrally heat the flat since he claimed the steam and warmth generated downstairs was sufficient ! It wasn't. The only warmth came from a small bar heater in the living room. The water in the loo would often freeze over, meaning having to break it like an Eskimo to shit, and most meals consisted of toasted sandwiches from a Breville kept in the living room. It must have been hell, so no surprise the residents were all confirmed pot heads. Going back just a couple of years after, the contrast was marked. Neighbouring Islington having been completely gentrified, there was now an overspill of the wealthy buying up property in Hackney, so the vagrants were cleared out and the centre spruced up. The atmosphere was the polar opposite to what it had been previously. Just goes to show what money can do. Notting Hill was always a shit hole in the 80s, but look at it now. These crimes were horrific enough, but set against the background of London at that time just makes them all the more chilling.
Thanks for that grim description I also thought the grim setting was chilling the empty train station the grim place her boyfriend worked and all the dark little pockets and dark paths made it chilling use use of the word menacing is totally right . i even had chills watching to be there would have been really creepy .
I grew up and went to school in East London. There were some good people and some bad. The Gooduns would be there for you and you for them, if the shit hit the fan. So like everywhere, it had its good points...
Ryan Garritty Notting Hill is still a shit hole. 30 years on from these crimes and we cannot move for monitoring, surveillance and CCTV and yet the murder and rape rates are soaring in the capital city. Go figure.
The BBC cancelled it after 33 years saying it's run its course..too many trails going cold with viewers apparently and said they'd show more of the sister show during the day.. crimewatch roadshow.
OSTAP BENDER CND there were 2 men. The other killer/rapist is David Mulcahy who is inside now thanks to his old school friend John Duffy informing on him. Pair of bastards.
OSTAP BENDER CND no worries mate. At the time of this Crime Watch the media thought it was just one killer but apparently the old bill suspected there were 2 men. These 2 cowardly maggots raped and killed 3 young women who should be alive today. I think it was around 13 years or so after Duffy was put away, he decided to inform on his best mate and he went down as well, despite protesting his innocence. I don’t know how these fuckers sleep at night.
Thank you for uploading this. Excellent reporting of the facts done without sensationalism. I was struck by that one call one guy made saying his son had confessed to the Anne Lock murder simply because he wanted to get him out of the house. The police had to use up valuable time and resources following that up even though they knew she hadn't been thrown from a train like he'd described. I hope the man was prosecuted for wasting police time. In addition, it must be pretty tough being one of the actors who played the assailants, am sure more than a few people mistakenly thought they were seeing criminals in the days following the original broadcast.
That lovely 1980s acting reaching for the naturalistic for reconstructions verging on the flat which wasn't still quite vogue at this point despite The Bill. Nowadays, horrible cases like this would have the stuffing over-dramatized out of them, drowned by music and a blizzard of edit cuts.
and the 'crying without tears' interviews that make me question if it isn't just a load of fake news anyway! the thing is british tv has been invaded by the americans and they think we are all gullible and thick and have disney confused with reality.
It’s weird how Mulchahy and Duffy chose random stations for victims.Alison in Hackney Wick, Maartja in Surrey and Ann in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire. None of these places have any pattern as such
I ended up here after listening to the 8-part story on these crimes by The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast. The crimes started before I was born, with Duffy being jailed not long after I was born, so I wasn't that well aware of them before hearing the stories on the podcast. Some of the investigation techniques used in this case are so fascinating. It so happens I now work with a guy called John Duffy. This colleague tells me he got some real stick back in the 80s when John Francis Duffy was caught and jailed 😂.
20:00 What kind of father calls the police to tell them his son confessed to a rape and murder only to find out the father wants the son out of the house? Imagine the sense of shock and betrayal the poor son felt? If I were the son, I'd never speak to the father again. I'm pretty sure it's a crime to falsely report that someone confessed when they didn't. Horrible man.
From Murderpedia: ''All the surviving exhibits from the original case were re-examined and tested using DNA techniques which were not available in the 1980s. Samples taken from the clothes of one of the au-pairs, that Mulcahy raped on Hampstead Heath, showed there was only a one in a billion chance he was not the attacker. In an astonishing blunder, senior officers then found a piece of tape used to bind the woman attacked on Highgate Hill West had not been tested for fingerprints before it was consigned to the storeroom at Euston station. Their worst fears were realised when four experts confirmed the fingerprint they found on the tape belonged to David Mulcahy. Tragically, Mulcahy and Duffy could have been stopped after just three rapes.'' Let's hear it for the boys in blue, hip-hip...
They made a huge f-up as well when searching for Anne Lock's body. They got confused about where the border was between their and Hertfordshire police's border was and didn't check the area where Anne Lock's body was, even though it was just a few metres past where they looked.
Thank you for the programme. I really appreciate these old / vintage crime programmes being placed on YT but I was wondering if the channel could increase the audio volume - my ears are very old and the subtitles often bear no resemblance to what is being said.
Great watch. Presumably Mulcahy hadn't been convicted at this point. Is that his version of events at the end I wonder? A book about the Railways Murders was released a couple of years ago. It's called A Dangerous Place, was written by the Chief Investigators son and is one of the best books I've ever read.
I was thinking the same thing, but this appeared to be 1988. DNA was not in full use and Mulcahy only went to jail in 1999. Duffy should have shopped him sooner.
@@iansoutryer3189 It is an historical fact and I would anyway dude - they can't run a piss up in a brewery in SA - I have a friend out there and she is always despairing how the ANC Govt runs things !!!!
Another man, David Mulcahy, was eventually tried and convicted for his part in these rapes and murders. Although his conviction, based upon Duffy's evidence against him, was ten years after Duffy's own conviction, the police always suspected there were two offenders but that isn't touched upon at all in this documentary.
You may just be pointing that part of the story out for those who don't. So I will add, that it only focuses on him Because this particular documentary series was made around the time of the him being charged and convicted.
@@valuetraveler2026 I thought I was clear - mankind ( this includes women too ) can be truly evil .. whose only aim In this world is to cause pain and suffering and destruction.
jim brown... and yet, here we are 30 years later, monitored and surveyed to within an inch of our lives, CCTV everywhere, GPS monitoring etc etc and London is more dangerous than ever. At least back in 1988 the police chiefs worked on solving the crimes, not like the idiot politically correct, common purpose trained idiots running the show these days.
There was a very unfortunate comment made by Nick Ross in the original Crimewatch programme about the murder of the Dutch girl I think, "that was good of the guard". Ouch. That guard had let Duffy out of the area by stopping the train he caught as he had actually missed it 🤦♀️
I remember that Crimewatch episode when the Copthall sports centre rape was featured and they had a photofit of the dog Duffy had!! I’m surprised that they didn’t show the photofit of the dog on this programme!!
Watching crimewatch in the mid to late 80s made me want to be a Police Officer bu t it scared me so much, Crimewatch should now be done online if the bbc can’t be bothered I’m sure there are plenty of police forces who need help
Brilliant redcard remember the Duffy case we'll the first file I got to see has any one got the terrace cliffton file he killed 2 motor mechanic's in morcombe or the Margaret Wilson file
Thanks Redcard you gem! 💎 How are they able to get hold of such strikingly similar looking actors for Crimewatch? I literally went back and forth trying to find differences in the actor and Duffy’s features.
John Duffy was also The Copthall Sports Centre rapist that was reconstructed in the December 1985 episode of Crimewatch. Mulcahy also appeared on Blue Peter in March 1986!
I don't know. It must be close to impossible. I get the impression that families who forgive the killer do best, though I find it hard to imagine how they manage it.
Yes this is how you present this kind of show. Quiet, factual, no squawking, jangly music to assault your ears, and distract you from the facts.
The good old days of actual fact.
I agree with you completely. That’s all you need. People speaking and giving information. It’s a breath of fresh air!
Now they have cgi blood splatters over the screen and such on the intro and other bits, turning life into a horror film
@@whoashellfishwwww my
So no fun basically
I so enjoy these videos. No crazy loud music, no zooming in and out, no gunshots between sentences, just good old fashioned detective work. Excellent !!!
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Is your dad's name Donald?
@@Jamie-gs3yp ..... yes, I was named after him.
@@doneldamacdonnell8602 It's an unusual name for a girl but it's very pretty
I agree
This is how true crime docs should be: the original detectives interviewed about the nuts and bolts of the operation, not the constant repetition and phoney "experts" regurgitating textbook stuff on psychopathy so common to today's material.
Totally agree, where you have 4 people saying the exact same thing over and over again.
Very American type TV production. Drives me nuts it's usually the same folk , the dark haired lady with a Bobed haircut and the Scottish criminology fella .. etc etc
Agree, 100%
Damn right
Ditto to every comment in this thread!
Perfectly put Sir.
I remember the Maartje Tamboezer murder in Horsley very well. I was a 14 year old boy at the time living in Effingham - the next village along about 1/2 mile away. Everyone in the area was devastated by what had happened and I had cycled along that path myself as a child. Maartje is still remembered in the village today.
I'm sorry on the memory. Did yu remember what a creepy dwarf he was?
@@kimmccabe1422 yes. I remember everything.
Gosh, thank you Eamonn, l'm glad Maartje is still remembered, that shows respect for her and her family and the village. God bless!
She looked really pretty in those photos.
I suppose that being Dutch she was used to cycling in safety in Holland.
...as a man, it's disappointing that some men are so twisted and disturbed that they can even consider doing such dreadful things to innocent girls and women. Worse that they'd carry out their dirty deeds...
Now the police let men dressed as women into girls changing rooms … how time changes
@@diegestive4167 sad isn’t it?
@@diegestive4167 That's a seperate issue. You can't define trans women solely on your terms i.e. define them as 'men'.
You are limited to debating your position - but labelling trans women as 'men' is just one of many political positions.
We have to be fair and ensure that traditional women are granted their rights but not to the extent that they encroach on trans womens' rights.
@@cahillgreg yes I can describe anything I want on my terms …. The so called trans community are demanding we play along with their fantasies demand we use pronouns they’ve made up demand we except guys dressed as girls teaching OUR kids so don’t tell me I can’t describe something the way I want .
@@cahillgreg why do they deserve special rights ? They seem to be getting more than anyone else … shame you can’t see the agenda at foot here.
It's incredible the brilliant work made by those detectives.
This is just the 2nd show I've seen of this series : brilliant re-enactment involving actual detectives, good actors (the guy who played Duffy was terrific) and a first rate voice -over. Typical British quality. Many thanks redcard74 !!!
Its a superb idea to have the real detectives involved. Its a wonderful innovation and adds realism and grit to the stories. British TV has slowly died since the early 1990s..
@@kailashpatel1706 It's all baking cakes and renovating your house now ............
The actor playing the killer looked chillingly like the actual killer.
It was easy to suspend belief that you were watching the real villain in this.
Who else finds the sinister music of Crimewatch File even more chilling than the regular programme? 😧
I agree with you.It has an ominous dread about it .
Thanks for sharing this. My wife played one of the witnesses in the line up scene near the end.
Neat!
Did she, how did she get that job mate ?
I can't tell you how horrifying it was for happened to Alison Day when watching her reconstruction, God Almighty, I really wished she had declined to go out that fateful night 😢
That's great to see a loved one on tv for something positive. Stay safe and be careful.
So heartbreaking those women and girls were so brave RIP Ann Alison and Maartie my heartfelt condolences go to your families and friends Xxx
Alison was adopted, so had already been rejected by her mother. Goes to a loving home, and these jerks kill her. Total shame.
It wouldn't be at all surprising if David Mulcahey sat at home watching this very programme, thinking he had got away with murder.
Well, he did for an awful long time.
mulcahy was enjoying his freedom while duffy was locked up. he kept his mouth shut for 10 years. glad they got him in the end.
@Allan I'm pretty certain a married man with a child.
police suspected that duffy had not acted alone but lacked hard evidence and duffy shut up shop until 1999 when he started singing to the police
@@charlottedeacon6031 I think David had four kids.
The scene with the piece of string across the pathway makes me feel very uneasy every time I think about it
Her mother told her to keep to the main road. I always avoid grassy areas or lonely streets. Dawn Ashworth was another one who was killed walking through a field for a short cut.
RIP, alison day, martea tamboezer and anne lock.
Lee Dummett . Absolutely... so many young lives destroyed, as well as the wider ripples; parents, grandparents, siblings, friends. Heartbreaking and tragic in equal measure, isn’t it?! 😢💐🌈
So much better than real crime programmes nowadays.
Watching this I realised how fragile life is.
Vague would be a more appropriate word i reckon.
......and how cruel and evil people can be!
I believe I have always picked up my girlfriend at the train station if the night has fallen. Please go to pick up your loved ones and make sure to be there when a lady is coming off the train at night. I hope the animal who did this is dead or in prison for life. POS!
Very wise advice Xx
@Melanin Queen yes...people should just volunteer to go out at night and make sure everyone gets home safe!! the only reason this never happened to me is luck and a few good people who made sure I got home safe. God what evil there is in this world!
I would always make sure I was with a love one especially at night.
Well said.
Thanks for all the comments. I have nine in all of which four are already on here: 1. Bronwen Nixon 2. Stephanie Slater/Julie Dart 3. Operation Osprey (already on youtube) 4. Shirley Banks (already on youtube) 5. A party to murder - Karen Price (already on youtube) 6. Operation Trigger 7. Police officer John Speed (already on youtube) 8. Supergrass 9. Railway murders. I will hopefully upload them over the next few nights. Have got the first two on my PC just need uploading to youtube. Has taken me since August but I'm finally getting towards the end now!
I don't want these uploads to end, though... :(
Hi please could you put crimewatch file the red connection on I can’t find it anywhere I think it was from 1990 thank you
@@aamo822 Hi A Amo, have just uploaded it.
Thanks very much😀
Great upload any one got the Terrance Clifton file killed 2 motor mechanic's in there garage in morcombe
Sean Arberry is the actor portraying John Duffy. Great performance.
That forensic lady her voice is so soothing she could have been the speaking clock
I noticed it too. Great voice-actor or newsreader material.
11:40 Anne Davies
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Very posh
I have alot of respect to the police officer who had to explain in detail what had happened to there daughters that takes a special kind of person 👍
Excellently made stuff from the BBC - quietly and efficiently done with brilliant editing. Compare and contrast with the rubbish pumped out today especially in the American made crime docs. However, I do have to add that 'Thin blue line' was American and it is one of the most compelling crime documentaries ever made.
Maartje's mother told her to ride to the shop the long way round. Not to ride the shortcut on the railway footpath. Unfortunately she didn't heed that advice. Even though she should have been able to ride her bike whatever route she wanted to, without the fear of being attacked, raped or murdered. Disgusting scum like Duffy and Mulcahay meant she shouldn't have. RIP to the poor women. As for the 2 pieces of crap who carried out the sickening crimes, hopefully they were dealt with in prison. Many times........
Love how they’d say ‘don’t have nightmares’ at the end of the monthly show. After scaring the shit out of everyone ... great advice.
Sadly I remember these murders.
Must admit as a 11 year old id go to bed once a month shittin my pants after he would say that and that drum and music started!
@@smiffy113 haha yeah me too on that!! I’d turn over to sleep replaying the carnage of the photofits & re-enactments.
@@leeaheron1 😂😂😂😂
These brutal murders will always be remembered.
Duffy and Mulcahay will never be released from prison. Duffy got a whole life tariff and later Mulcahay minimum of 30 years but its not expected neither will ever be released.
Please Please Never Take The Shortcut.
A man lied to police about his son admitting to all of these horrific crimes just so he could get him out of his house!? Wow! I'm guessing he never gets a "No 1 Dad" mug on Father's Day! 😂
Yep. People are idiots.
Should have been heavily fined or jailed for wasting police time.
Should be given a bill for wasting police time
Noones Dad.
Wow. The dad must have been desperate to do such a thing. Lol 😂
I have great respect for the forensic scientists, coroners etc involved in investigating these horrific crimes
Brilliant! Thanks for all your hard work upping these. Look forward to watching this one. Fascinating case.
Just nearing the end of Simon Farquhar's book The Railway Murders, written by the son of one of the investigating officers in this case. What struck me was just how dismal pockets of London were at the time, something I always suspected but never fortunately knew firsthand - until, that is, a mate of mine attended a university in East London in the mid 1990s. Even then, Hackney was very grim and felt intimidating. The area around Dalston Junction railway station I found particularly menacing, but the general ambience of the place was frightening all over. It was disconcerting to have to walk in a group to a pub even in broad daylight, and then have to get a taxi back at closing time in spite of the short distance. Certain sides of the road my mate informed me were off limits, which I found totally bizarre ( this was usually because rough sleepers were common in large shop doorways on certain sides, but not others ). People were surly and would make no effort to move out of your way on the pavements. To make matters even worse, my mate's digs were horrible. He lived above a launderette and the landlord refused to centrally heat the flat since he claimed the steam and warmth generated downstairs was sufficient ! It wasn't. The only warmth came from a small bar heater in the living room. The water in the loo would often freeze over, meaning having to break it like an Eskimo to shit, and most meals consisted of toasted sandwiches from a Breville kept in the living room. It must have been hell, so no surprise the residents were all confirmed pot heads.
Going back just a couple of years after, the contrast was marked. Neighbouring Islington having been completely gentrified, there was now an overspill of the wealthy buying up property in Hackney, so the vagrants were cleared out and the centre spruced up. The atmosphere was the polar opposite to what it had been previously. Just goes to show what money can do. Notting Hill was always a shit hole in the 80s, but look at it now.
These crimes were horrific enough, but set against the background of London at that time just makes them all the more chilling.
Thanks for that grim description I also thought the grim setting was chilling the empty train station the grim place her boyfriend worked and all the dark little pockets and dark paths made it chilling use use of the word menacing is totally right . i even had chills watching to be there would have been really creepy .
I grew up and went to school in East London. There were some good people and some bad. The Gooduns would be there for you and you for them, if the shit hit the fan. So like everywhere, it had its good points...
Ryan Garritty Notting Hill is still a shit hole. 30 years on from these crimes and we cannot move for monitoring, surveillance and CCTV and yet the murder and rape rates are soaring in the capital city. Go figure.
INUits.old footage a good sand blast RID centuries of grime
The image of having to smash ice in the crapper so you can take a dump is one that will always make me chuckle
Crimewatch was a very useful programme , yet the BBC cancelled it.
The BBC cancelled it after 33 years saying it's run its course..too many trails going cold with viewers apparently and said they'd show more of the sister show during the day.. crimewatch roadshow.
Getting to close to jimmy Saville and friends in high places.. Still not sure why and how jill dando was killed..
@@hayleydryden8358 Chemtrails love.
Because everyone kept having nightmares
@@hayleydryden8358 Bill Gates and 5G?
Killers should NEVER be released
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
To many cooks spoil the broth.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.....
A stich in time, saves nine .......
It's unusual for serial killers to operate together...
These two found each other...
and my god what a devastating combination.
Two reprobates together , it happens .
what did I miss something'? it was only one Duffy.. maybe I dose.off
OSTAP BENDER CND there were 2 men. The other killer/rapist is David Mulcahy who is inside now thanks to his old school friend John Duffy informing on him. Pair of bastards.
Thanks dude
I did dose off
3 months later
I swing back to saved vid
Thank you
OSTAP BENDER CND no worries mate. At the time of this Crime Watch the media thought it was just one killer but apparently the old bill suspected there were 2 men. These 2 cowardly maggots raped and killed 3 young women who should be alive today. I think it was around 13 years or so after Duffy was put away, he decided to inform on his best mate and he went down as well, despite protesting his innocence. I don’t know how these fuckers sleep at night.
I used to love crimewatch uk as a kid .. Jill Dando was my favourite.. nick Ross was great also .. the reconstructions were amazing back then
How can you mention crimewatch and not say sue cook
That horrible cold stare, very chilling
John Duffy did have a partner called David Mulcahy he got arrested and charged many years after due to Duffy being upset that his friend was free.
They used fo go out stalking looking for prey listening to MK Thriller
@Marten Dekker what else did he expect? Any man who visited, wrote to or sent money to Duffy would come under intense police scrutiny.
no excuse
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@Marten Dekker it wasnt coz he was free i dont think, would have shopped him in much ealier if that was the case
he grassed his bf up because he was angry that he never came too visit him and he was getting on with his life and family
Thank you for uploading this. Excellent reporting of the facts done without sensationalism. I was struck by that one call one guy made saying his son had confessed to the Anne Lock murder simply because he wanted to get him out of the house. The police had to use up valuable time and resources following that up even though they knew she hadn't been thrown from a train like he'd described. I hope the man was prosecuted for wasting police time. In addition, it must be pretty tough being one of the actors who played the assailants, am sure more than a few people mistakenly thought they were seeing criminals in the days following the original broadcast.
These officers that have to deal with dead in horrific crimes are a special breed of people. I could never do it!
Thank you for the upload.
The good ole days of actual factual reporting.
Yet never solved the dando case
@@itsme1585sadly you are spot on
Remember this. His partner in crime was convicted years later.
Yup, David Mucalhy who might be the 'friend' at the end of this video
Mulcahy was caught in 1999 and given 258 years in Nov 2000
@@dazauto1400 wait, 258 years...!?
@@elliott4106 259
That lovely 1980s acting reaching for the naturalistic for reconstructions verging on the flat which wasn't still quite vogue at this point despite The Bill. Nowadays, horrible cases like this would have the stuffing over-dramatized out of them, drowned by music and a blizzard of edit cuts.
and the 'crying without tears' interviews that make me question if it isn't just a load of fake news anyway! the thing is british tv has been invaded by the americans and they think we are all gullible and thick and have disney confused with reality.
Excellent presentation. Ty.
The girls must have been terrified : (
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It’s weird how Mulchahy and Duffy chose random stations for victims.Alison in Hackney Wick, Maartja in Surrey and Ann in Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire.
None of these places have any pattern as such
Not random all by railways
Very sad these poor women and families.
You're a legend! Thank you!
9:02 - that would later be used for the beginning of the 90-92 CW intro
I ended up here after listening to the 8-part story on these crimes by The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast. The crimes started before I was born, with Duffy being jailed not long after I was born, so I wasn't that well aware of them before hearing the stories on the podcast. Some of the investigation techniques used in this case are so fascinating.
It so happens I now work with a guy called John Duffy. This colleague tells me he got some real stick back in the 80s when John Francis Duffy was caught and jailed 😂.
Thanks for all the nightmares as a child crimewatch
That was a really good documentary Thanks for the upload🙂
20:00 What kind of father calls the police to tell them his son confessed to a rape and murder only to find out the father wants the son out of the house? Imagine the sense of shock and betrayal the poor son felt? If I were the son, I'd never speak to the father again. I'm pretty sure it's a crime to falsely report that someone confessed when they didn't. Horrible man.
I remember when mulcahy was identified in the 90s alot of work went into that...sad case this one
Redcard74 u r spoiling us with the crime watch files. I’ve been waiting for these
From Murderpedia:
''All the surviving exhibits from the original case were re-examined and tested using DNA techniques which were not available in the 1980s. Samples taken from the clothes of one of the au-pairs, that Mulcahy raped on Hampstead Heath, showed there was only a one in a billion chance he was not the attacker.
In an astonishing blunder, senior officers then found a piece of tape used to bind the woman attacked on Highgate Hill West had not been tested for fingerprints before it was consigned to the storeroom at Euston station. Their worst fears were realised when four experts confirmed the fingerprint they found on the tape belonged to David Mulcahy.
Tragically, Mulcahy and Duffy could have been stopped after just three rapes.''
Let's hear it for the boys in blue, hip-hip...
They made a huge f-up as well when searching for Anne Lock's body. They got confused about where the border was between their and Hertfordshire police's border was and didn't check the area where Anne Lock's body was, even though it was just a few metres past where they looked.
Bravo to the investigators.
News paper man for exposing undercover operation should be jailed
Thank you for the programme. I really appreciate these old / vintage crime programmes being placed on YT but I was wondering if the channel could increase the audio volume - my ears are very old and the subtitles often bear no resemblance to what is being said.
"He had no serious charges to his name, except a rather serious assault charge on his wife...that he was on bail for at the time.." DAFUQ!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄
Yeah, but that was his wife so it doesn’t count (according to cop logic) 🙄
@@dissonantdreams Amen! Because beating your wife is a silly little nothing apparently... 🤔
I used to work near one of the murder scenes back in early 2000s,one of my colleagues met Duffy-said he was a creepy chap.
creepy indeed
eyes of dead soul
Creepy chap,fuck me..bit of an understatement..
😱 *Don't have nightmares... do sleep well. Easier said than done after watching Crimewatch UK at MIDNIGHT!* 😮
A good concise video.!
Great watch. Presumably Mulcahy hadn't been convicted at this point. Is that his version of events at the end I wonder? A book about the Railways Murders was released a couple of years ago. It's called A Dangerous Place, was written by the Chief Investigators son and is one of the best books I've ever read.
I was thinking the same thing, but this appeared to be 1988. DNA was not in full use and Mulcahy only went to jail in 1999. Duffy should have shopped him sooner.
Redcard 74 i love thanks for jan 1993 upload keep them coming mate im crimewatch uks biggest fan
How big are you?
True professionals, these policemen. How i wish in South Africa, we could have this calibre of law enforcement. We have so many murders here.
SA was British once why haven't you got the legacy at least?
@@IanP1963 Say that to the ANC...
@@iansoutryer3189 It is an historical fact and I would anyway dude - they can't run a piss up in a brewery in SA - I have a friend out there and she is always despairing how the ANC Govt runs things !!!!
@@IanP1963 America was British once. Look at the crime there!
Stop kicking whites out of South Africa then
Thank you!!!!
Seems to be a case where "life should mean life."
30 years - release date 2018 :/
Another man, David Mulcahy, was eventually tried and convicted for his part in these rapes and murders. Although his conviction, based upon Duffy's evidence against him, was ten years after Duffy's own conviction, the police always suspected there were two offenders but that isn't touched upon at all in this documentary.
Then make your own documentary!!!
You may just be pointing that part of the story out for those who don't. So I will add, that it only focuses on him Because this particular documentary series was made around the time of the him being charged and convicted.
Mulcahy reappeared on Tv in 1987 Rollerskating for charity in a show called Open space :Southenders
I love Crimewatch File, thanks! Got anymore?
Excellent! Absolutely riveting! Just the facts ma’m !
Evil walks this earth .. it’s name.. mankind . Rest in peace poor girls so so sorry x
what are you trying to say?
@@valuetraveler2026 I thought I was clear - mankind ( this includes women too ) can be truly evil .. whose only aim In this world is to cause pain and suffering and destruction.
London was quite grimy in the e1980s early 90s. No intercom you could just walk through blocks. It was dangerous.
jim brown... and yet, here we are 30 years later, monitored and surveyed to within an inch of our lives, CCTV everywhere, GPS monitoring etc etc and London is more dangerous than ever. At least back in 1988 the police chiefs worked on solving the crimes, not like the idiot politically correct, common purpose trained idiots running the show these days.
@@kward8996 I agree totally. But I grew up in the 80s and 90s and London did have a more real feel to it. But you are totally right
Quite right, fully agree, we now live in a synthetic era with no realism anymore.
K Ward here here they were the best of years for me
@@kward8996 I totally agree.
Great documentary.
Redcard! What a hero you are. Look forward to more Crimewatch Files ! (Even though they give me the creeps ha)
Really fantastic investigation
How many of these were there? - I’ve seen a few and always enjoy them. Thanks RC
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These are brilliant. Post more....?
Why don't the BBC do a Crimewatch series on the going ons at the BBC?
I really wish they did a follow-up on this after they arrested David Mulcahy as the 2nd perpetrator in these murders, back in 1999.
Surely theres an easier way to get your son out the house ?
She was only a young girl :(
There was a very unfortunate comment made by Nick Ross in the original Crimewatch programme about the murder of the Dutch girl I think, "that was good of the guard". Ouch. That guard had let Duffy out of the area by stopping the train he caught as he had actually missed it 🤦♀️
I remember that episode as well. Not the best thing to say!!
Why would a newspaper reveal a surveillance operation to catch a serious criminal? Is that a crime? It should be.
Ooh Redcard74 you are spoiling us! Cest magnifique! 😜
agic.
"They all linked their computers"... Wow! Back in the 80's that must have been one hell of a serial data cable! XD
I remember that Crimewatch episode when the Copthall sports centre rape was featured and they had a photofit of the dog Duffy had!! I’m surprised that they didn’t show the photofit of the dog on this programme!!
Watching crimewatch in the mid to late 80s made me want to be a Police Officer bu t it scared me so much, Crimewatch should now be done online if the bbc can’t be bothered I’m sure there are plenty of police forces who need help
So, he got 30 years? Does that mean he's out now??
exceptional. I hope the guy playing Duffy got plenty work; he stands out
Sean Arberry was the actor. He went on to have roles in London's Burning and The Bill
@@congydave thank you! awesome--I luv UK programming but don't watch enough (well--any drama) to know your guys' actors
Brilliant redcard remember the Duffy case we'll the first file I got to see has any one got the terrace cliffton file he killed 2 motor mechanic's in morcombe or the Margaret Wilson file
Have you reached the end of your Crimewatch UK uploads now Redcard?
It's Christmas come early today with all these lovely Crimewatch and now Crimewatch File treats.
Thanks Redcard you gem! 💎
How are they able to get hold of such strikingly similar looking actors for Crimewatch? I literally went back and forth trying to find differences in the actor and Duffy’s features.
Yes, it's an uncanny resemblance. I bet the actor himself found it quite an unsettling job!
Stewart Spaull Yeah but he did a pretty convincing job as a psychopath killer with those dead stares he gave the copper during questioning.
The actors on the monthly programme reconstructions are usually spot on. Really like the original people.
Fantastic police work. They seemed to really care about the victims . Poor girls were so badly treated .
John Duffy was also The Copthall Sports Centre rapist that was reconstructed in the December 1985 episode of Crimewatch. Mulcahy also appeared on Blue Peter in March 1986!
Duffy raped on his own but Mulcahey didn't.
the blue peter clip is on youtube
@@noircluck Can't find it, just an article about skating. What is it saved under?
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Blue Peter 1986 review a quick clip of Mulcahy helping Simon Groom after he fell over is in it.
@@noircluck Someone on here said the clip is on You Tube, so I tried to find it.
excellent police work.
If the life of a loved one comes to an end in crimes like this how can you deal with that and get on with your life?
I might be politically left wing but when it comes to crimes like this their should be a captial punishment clause for cases like this.
I don't know. It must be close to impossible. I get the impression that families who forgive the killer do best, though I find it hard to imagine how they manage it.
WOW. Now this is an impressive piece!!! And bc i live in the States,i knew nothing about it!!! So it’s come & gone...🥺