194: Tag Team: John Duffy and David Mulcahy, The Railway Killers

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Two friends had London on alert after a series of brutal rapes. Things got much worse when the offenders escalated to murder. All of these happened near or at railways around the area, leading to the nickname "The Railway Killers".

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

My5 (channel5.com)

The Railway Killers: The harrowing story of David Mulcahy and John Duffy explored in Channel 5 series (inews.co.uk)

Who are the Railway Killers and where are they now? (thesun.co.uk)

John Duffy | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.1	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.2	And welcome back to Corpus to Lik Tai.
0:28.2	We are still within our tag team series where we talk about killers who are not husband and wife and go across their state, county, or country wreaking havoc.
0:39.2	Yeah, this one is actually getting really heavy.
0:41.7	The last one was heavy.
0:42.9	This one's heavy.
0:44.2	The one I'm working on is heavy.
0:46.2	I don't know what it is with these tag teams, but they are mighty awful.
0:51.6	So this week we have one that takes place in England yet again.
0:58.1	So we are going to travel over there and get this story started. As Lindsay said, we are
1:02.9	traveling across the pond once again to tell a story of another set of childhood best friends
1:08.7	who seem to team up in London, England. John Duffy, who was born in
1:13.7	1958, and David Mulcahy, born in 59, met and became best of friends at a very young age.
1:22.2	Now, some speculated it was while they were attending the same school. Both were bullied as young
1:26.9	children, and some say to cope with being bullied,
1:30.7	they started tormenting and torturing animals.
1:33.8	That the pair of boys around the age about 13 years old beat a hedgehog to death by using a plank.
1:41.2	So they soon escalated after that into talking about women and these disturbing fantasies
1:48.7	that they were starting to have about them.
1:51.0	And when John was a teenager, he started martial arts.
1:54.9	This really turned into an obsession.
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