Between 1982 and 1986, a four-year reign of terror had women in London travelling in fear if they were forced to use the city’s suburban railway network alone, especially at night. The local news contained numerous reports of women being attacked and raped close to railway and tube stations.
However, what was actually happening was an incredibly rare phenomenon, two psychopaths working together as a team. First as rapists and then as killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy raped up to seventy-five women and then went on to kill three more.
Their attacks initiated an unprecedented police inquiry not seen since the days of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Then, when Duffy was finally arrested, such was the strength of the bond between the two men that Mulcahy was able to escape justice for another fifteen years.
This 6,000-word review gives an insight into John Duffy and David Mulcahy’s lives and crimes, both as a study in its own right and as a stepping-stone to further research into the true crime genre.
The main aspects covered are:
• Introduction
• Early Life and Marriage
• The Rapes
• Murder – Alison Day
• Murder - Maartje Tamboezer
• Murder – Anne Lock
• The Investigation
• Duffy’s Trial
• Mulcahy’s Trial
• The Aftermath
True Crimes Series:
Armed Robbery
Jeremy Bamber – Slaughter at White House Farm
Levi Bellfield – The Bus Stop Stalker
David Berkowitz – The Son of Sam
Ted Bundy – The College Girl Killer
Buono and Bianchi – The Hillside Stranglers
John Christie – The 10 Rillington Place Murders
Dale Cregan – Gangland Enforcer
Jeffrey Dahmer – The Milwaukee Cannibal
Joanna Dennehy – The ‘Man-Woman’ Murderer
John Duffy and David Mulcahy – The Railway Killers
Ruth Ellis – The Last Woman to be Hanged
Kenneth Erskine – The Stockwell Strangler
Stephen Griffiths – The Crossbow Cannibal
Anthony Hardy – The Camden Ripper
John Haigh – The Acid Bath Murders
Brady and Hindley – The Moors Murderers
Colin Ireland – The Gay Slayer
Peter Manuel – The Beast of Birkenshaw
Donald Neilson – The Black Panther
Dennis Nilsen – The Muswell Hill Murderer
Harold Shipman – Doctor Death
George Joseph Smith – Brides in the Bath
Jack the Stripper – The Hammersmith Murders
Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper
Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger – International Serial Killer
Fred and Rose West – The House of Horrors
Steve Wight – The Suffolk Strangler
Aileen Wuornos – The Hitchhiker From Hell
Australian Serial Killers
Criminals Who Become Killers
Female Serial Killers
Killers Who Kill Again In Prison
Lesbian Serial Killers
Spree Killers
Whole Life Sentences
World’s Worse Serial Killers
However, what was actually happening was an incredibly rare phenomenon, two psychopaths working together as a team. First as rapists and then as killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy raped up to seventy-five women and then went on to kill three more.
Their attacks initiated an unprecedented police inquiry not seen since the days of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Then, when Duffy was finally arrested, such was the strength of the bond between the two men that Mulcahy was able to escape justice for another fifteen years.
This 6,000-word review gives an insight into John Duffy and David Mulcahy’s lives and crimes, both as a study in its own right and as a stepping-stone to further research into the true crime genre.
The main aspects covered are:
• Introduction
• Early Life and Marriage
• The Rapes
• Murder – Alison Day
• Murder - Maartje Tamboezer
• Murder – Anne Lock
• The Investigation
• Duffy’s Trial
• Mulcahy’s Trial
• The Aftermath
True Crimes Series:
Armed Robbery
Jeremy Bamber – Slaughter at White House Farm
Levi Bellfield – The Bus Stop Stalker
David Berkowitz – The Son of Sam
Ted Bundy – The College Girl Killer
Buono and Bianchi – The Hillside Stranglers
John Christie – The 10 Rillington Place Murders
Dale Cregan – Gangland Enforcer
Jeffrey Dahmer – The Milwaukee Cannibal
Joanna Dennehy – The ‘Man-Woman’ Murderer
John Duffy and David Mulcahy – The Railway Killers
Ruth Ellis – The Last Woman to be Hanged
Kenneth Erskine – The Stockwell Strangler
Stephen Griffiths – The Crossbow Cannibal
Anthony Hardy – The Camden Ripper
John Haigh – The Acid Bath Murders
Brady and Hindley – The Moors Murderers
Colin Ireland – The Gay Slayer
Peter Manuel – The Beast of Birkenshaw
Donald Neilson – The Black Panther
Dennis Nilsen – The Muswell Hill Murderer
Harold Shipman – Doctor Death
George Joseph Smith – Brides in the Bath
Jack the Stripper – The Hammersmith Murders
Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper
Johann ‘Jack’ Unterweger – International Serial Killer
Fred and Rose West – The House of Horrors
Steve Wight – The Suffolk Strangler
Aileen Wuornos – The Hitchhiker From Hell
Australian Serial Killers
Criminals Who Become Killers
Female Serial Killers
Killers Who Kill Again In Prison
Lesbian Serial Killers
Spree Killers
Whole Life Sentences
World’s Worse Serial Killers
