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...
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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.
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.
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!
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?! 😢💐🌈
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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........
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
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.
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 😂.
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! 😂
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.
@@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 !!!!
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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 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!!
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 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.
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
