John Duffy, also known as one of the railroad killers/ rapists, was known for his crimes and killings that he committed with a childhood friend named David Mulcahy. Both of them were born in 1959 which makes them 57-58 and they are still in prison but both are serving different sentences due to the officers that arrested them finding different things for both men and the jury giving them different sentences while they were tried; John Duffy is serving for two murders, four rapes which is roughly 30 years in total. In 2001 he was given 12 more years, in addition to his current sentence for another 17 rapes, Mulcahy is serving three life sentences for the murder of three women and for seven for the further rapes. It was originally thought that …show more content…
The first crime was on October 6th, 1982 and was the first rape of a woman at the railway stations. The last was also a rape at the railway stations giving them the finalization name of the railway killer/ rapists . On December 29th,1985 Alison day who was 19 years old was murdered at Hackney, April 17th, 1986 maartje tamboezer who was 15 was murdered at east Horsley and the last murder that took place on may 18th 1986 was Anne locke who was 29 at the time and was murdered at Brookmans park. The motives for these attacks were all tied to sex in some way shape or form and if they did murder the victim fast they would normally use a form of strangulation with a string, this wasn't the only way the did it seeing as how they had shoved socks down the girls throats possibly to prevent them from screaming for help or to further suffocate the girls. Another thing they did was that they had set the body of maartje tamboezer on …show more content…
By the time the boys had reached the age of 13 they had both been bullied and sought out comfort in each other. They shared an interest in martial arts along with other things and would go commit petty thefts with each other often. After a specific day at school where Mulcahy was suspended for bludgeoning a hedgehog to death with a plank while john watched and laughed; their relationship grew into a more intense bond. Instead of doing small petty thefts and shooting at passing strangers with airsoft guns they evolved into committing more major crimes like arson, carjacking, and burglaries. Later in life Duffy got married to a woman named Margaret nee Byrne and she later said that they only way he was aroused was through extreme BDSM and violence. He forced her to take part in bondage; she said: "He used a handkerchief to try to suffocate me.". He was able to tie her up with one hand at remarkable speed with "one hand on my throat and the other trying to force a sock into my mouth and down my throat”, it was later confirmed that both men had sexual shortcomings in their lives. Mulcahy's arousal came to depend on violence, while Duffy's low sperm count rendered him infertile and fed his resentment towards women. Sometime between 1975 and 1977, Mulcahy decided a woman who lived near a house where he was working "needed to be taught a lesson". They broke into her home intending to