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When Alison Day’s body was found in a London canal in 1985, after being raped and strangled to death with his own clothes, there was little evidence that the senior police wanted to “close” the case.
But after the 15-year-old female student Maartje Tamboeze was raped and beaten to death near the Surrey train station, and after the terrible murder of the newlyweds Anlock, who was kidnapped at a train station in Herts, they realized they had one in their hands. serial killer.
These murders are related to 21 other violent rapes, dating back four years, all near the station-leading to a large-scale search of men they call railroad killers.
Even after the 29-year-old John Francis Duffy was convicted in 1987, the stubborn police still believed that he had an accomplice and refused to let go-it took 15 years with the help of improved DNA technology. Time caught Duffy’s alumni David Malcashi.
The story of the attack-described by a detective as “the most terrifying series of rapes and murders in this country’s history”-tells the documentary series, The Railroad Killer, which begins tonight on Channel 5.
With the testimony of many police officers and friends of the victims, the trio led the audience to understand the twists and turns of the long investigation and explained how the lack of DNA technology and mobile phones made the investigation more difficult than it is today.
On December 29, 1985, when Alison Day was just 19 years old, she left her home in Romford to meet her in Hackney Wick (Hackney Wick). Wick) A fiance who works in a printing shop-but she has never been there.
As she walked through a desolate area near Hackney Wick Station-passing factories and warehouses that were closed during Christmas-she was struck up by Duffy and Mulcahy, who gagged her, repeatedly raped her, and then strangled her.
The police were initially confused about her disappearance. Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Murphy explained that she might have disappeared at any time during the journey.
“The things we take for granted now-closed-circuit television, DNA, phone tracking-they didn’t exist in the 1980s,” he explained.
Only 17 days later, her half-length clothes were salvaged from a nearby canal. There were some stones in her pocket to press her body.
The time she spent in the water meant that the most important evidence had been washed away. There was no dedicated murder team, and no computer, DNA, and phone records, which meant that her murder had nothing to do with any other crimes.
“The evidence is recorded on the card index,” DCS Murphy said. “The only way to cross-check the evidence is to check the card index in person.”
After weeks of no results, senior detective Charlie Farquhar (Charlie Farquhar) was commissioned to investigate, but received little support.
“He received instructions from an investigation to basically shut it down,” recalled his son Simon Farquhar, the author of “The Railroad Killings.” “[He was told] We have no resources and no evidence, so we will not make any progress.
“Finally the showdown, he said to his boss,’If you want, you can turn it off, but you can tell Mr. and Mrs. Dai that we will no longer look for the murderer of their daughter.”
Less than four months later, on April 17, 1986, 15-year-old Maartje Tamboezer rode a bicycle to a candy store near her home in Surrey, and was tied to her body when buying candy for a trip to her hometown of Holland. Hemp rope stopped. Traction path.
She was knocked down on a bicycle by a trap, she was watched, dragged across the field, and she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped along the way.
She was beaten to death with a stone or blunt weapon, and someone tried to burn her body parts to destroy evidence.
Anna Palmberg, Maartje’s childhood playmate, said on the show: “The news that night was everywhere. The situation was very serious.
“You don’t even want to think about what she has suffered, because I remember that in the news, it was just horror.
“How could she show up on the sports field with us one day, wearing her sweatpants, and then be brutally murdered in the next minute?”
Because it was handled by different forces, Maartje’s death was originally not related to Alison Day’s death.
However, the introduction of a new computer database following an investigation of the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (known as the Yorkshire Ripper) allowed Charlie Farquhar to spot some similarities and call the Surrey police.
“They compared the records of how the victim died, but my father kept an important piece of information to the media-a tourniquet was used,” said his son Simon.
“A penny suddenly fell with Surrey. It was the mysterious piece of wood lying next to the corpse. They thought it was used as a body burn accelerator.
In addition to being close to the station, another connection was twine used to tie the two victims-an unusual double-strand type called Somyarn-used on the railway.
But the real breakthrough was when an eyewitness said he saw two men in sheepskin coats and a girl that fit Alison’s description. On the night of her death, he took her by the arm and drove her away.
The police began to review a series of 21 violent rape cases in North London. According to reports, these cases were carried out by two men in the past three years, including three in one night.
The victims were stripped naked, their mouths were taped or a piece of clothing used as a gag, and in many cases they were given a tissue to wipe themselves to destroy evidence.
In May 1986, a week after returning from the honeymoon, ITV Secretary Anlock called her husband Lawrence and said that she would leave the London office at 8:30 pm-but she never returned home.
Although five police teams searched near her local police station in Hertfordshire 12 hours a day, it was not until nine weeks later that her body was found on a nearby embankment with her hands tied and her mouth dangling. A sock.
The delay caused by poor communication between the two forces means that recovery of any sample is impossible.
“You can still see a ligature, although it is obviously not tied to her neck because there is no soft tissue on her neck.”
Old friend Leslie Campion said that as the police gathered evidence, the funeral was postponed for several months.
“We finally got one,” she said. “The people who attended her wedding attended the funeral, and it was in the same church and the same pastor. He stood there and married them three months ago.”
Without DNA technology, the police had to rely on blood type evidence, and one of the rapists was a “secretor”-a person who secreted trace blood elements in body fluids-and was found to have blood type A.
They set up a database of 3,000 ex-criminals with blood types, called “People Z”, and set out to interview everyone—the 1594th was an unemployed carpenter in Kilburn, named John Francis Duffy (John Francis Duffy), he was previously accused of aggravated assault on his wife.
But after being questioned, Duffy appeared at another police station with a slash on his chest, claiming that he had been attacked and that he had amnesia.
However, on the day of his discharge from the hospital, he raped a 14-year-old girl and was eventually arrested because the police followed him another time and swooped in when he was following a potential victim.
Due to previous work, Duffy was found to have extensive knowledge of the railway network in the southeast, and a volume of Somyarn and violent pornography was found in his parents’ house.
His best friend David Marcashi was suspected of being the second rapist, but there was no forensic evidence, and he was not selected in the parade of the traumatized victim’s identity, so he was released.
Duffy was convicted of four crimes of rape and murder of Alison Day and Maartje Tamboezer-Ann Lock was acquitted in the murder due to lack of evidence-and sentenced to life imprisonment.
After prison psychologist Janet Carter gained his trust, Duffy first broke his silence on his childhood friend and attacker Markahi.
“This requires teamwork, and everything they do is teamwork,” she said. “Even in student days.”
She added that with Alison Day, they were found to have raped her under the railway bridge, but added: “He doesn’t remember any decisive debate about this being a killing.”
The couple are 11-year-old friends and they describe a game in which they used to chase and grab girls and then squeeze their breasts.
In one chilling detail, he described the ritual before each attack, playing Michael Jackson’s trembling album in David’s car.
“David will play this tape when they are out. It’s a self-evident symbol of their agreement to take action or offense. This is their trigger,” said Jane.