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Hi, and welcome back to The
Unseen Podcast, a podcast dedicated to missing

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people, unresolved cases, and UK
true crime. Today we're going to be

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discussing the awful murder of Jenny Ronaldson
in nineteen eighty. Her death came as

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a shock to everyone and it was
so out of the blue that no one

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could understand it. As the years
passed, there will be much speculation as

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to whether some suspects already known to
police had been involved with it. However,

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Jenny's murder remains unsolved. This episode
contains descriptions that some listeners may find

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distressing, including discussion about sexual assault
and rape, so listener discretion is advised.

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The Isle of Dogs is a large
pininchia below which is located in East

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London and is surrounded on three sides
by different districts, including Canary Wharf,

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which is the heart of the capital's
business district. The Isle of Dogs is

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located in a meander in the River
Thames, and there is debate as to

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where it gained its distinctive name.
However, mentions of it do date back

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hundreds of years. The area itself
is very diverse and there's a severe amount

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of social inequality that can be seen
there. There are many very wealthy areas

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and people due to the business district, but it's also at one time had

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the highest concentration of social housing in
England. On the twenty fourth of November

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nineteen eighty something else occurred in the
Isle of Dogs which caused a certain amount

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of shock and intrigue. That day, something was spotted floating in the river

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and the scene didn't look right.
It was found to be the body of

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a woman, and when the body
was later retrieved, it was clear that

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this woman had been the victim of
a vicious and brutal attack. She was

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found to have been gagged, bound
and it looked as though she had been

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beaten. This was a horrendous recovery
and there was an immediate murder investigation launched.

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It was clear that whatever had happened
to this woman, she had been

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killed in some horrendous circumstances. Police
began investigating the scene and trying to work

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out who this victim could be.
Without an identity, trying to figure out

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what had happened to her and who
did it would be difficult. This is

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often the case with unidentified person cases, and many of these people are found

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in bodies of water. Therefore,
it's crucial that this woman be identified.

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The police did have some clues,
however, as when they scoured missing person

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reports from the area in the time
before the discovery, they noticed a woman

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who fit a similar description to the
woman that had been found. Nineteen year

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old Jenny Ronaldson had disappeared sometime after
the twenty sixth of October nineteen eighty,

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around a month before the body had
been recovered. She had still not been

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located, and so police began to
look into whether this could be her.

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After further investigation and analysis, a
positive identification was made. The woman was

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Jenny Ronaldson. This discovery was shocking
as she'd been viciously attacked and when she

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was found she had a gag in
her mouth and was wearing just a bra.

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Police suspected that the attack had been
sexually motivated. This was later confirmed

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as it was found that Jenny had
been raped. Following a post mortem,

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the coroner reported on her death certificate
that her cause of death was due to

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asphyxia, gagging, and construction of
the neck. How had this happened though,

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and why? The brutality of the
tax seemed incongruent with the victim.

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Jenny was an unlikely victim, which
is why when she went missing at the

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end of October, her friends and
family were immediately worried. Jenny has been

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described as a reliable, quiet and
unassuming person. According to those that knew

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her, She was also hard working
and was building a career for herself in

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the Capitol. She worked as a
nurse at Guy's Hospital, a well known

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hospital located in southok in central London. It's been widely known as a teaching

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hospital and has history dating back to
seventeen twenty one. Many well esteemed people

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have worked at Guy's Hospital at one
time or another, and by all accounts,

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Jenny was happy to be working there. She has been described as being

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devoted to her job and despite her
young age, was dedicated to her profession.

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It was that Guy's Hospital that she'd
last been seen by anyone. Jenny's

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colleagues later reported that she was last
seen in the staff canteen at the hospital

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on Sunday, the twenty sixth of
October, around two pm. She was

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in there having a cup of tea
and told her colleagues that she planned on

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going for a sightseeing trip to Petticoat
Lane now that she had finished work.

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Petticoat Lane is located in the east
end of London, in the Spittlefield area,

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and has long been known for its
market stalls. It's the location of

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the oldest and most famous market stalls
in London, and they sell many different

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types of objects, from clothes to
fruit and vegetables. It's thought that the

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name may have come from the fact
that during the sixteen hundreds, many street

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names were named after what was sold
there, which in this case was petticoats.

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The area therefore has a historical attraction
for many people, and this still

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continues to day. While Petticoat Lane
itself doesn't now exist, the Petticoat Lane

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market does, and many people still
visit the markets there, as well as

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the Spittlefield Markets and Brick Lane nearby. It would not have been seen as

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unusual then when Jenny explained that she
wanted to visit the markets that Sunday,

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and so her colleagues didn't think much
about it. Having left work that day,

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her colleagues never saw her again.
There didn't appear to be anything to

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suggest that there was anything unusual about
that day, and this was the thing

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that seemed so strange what had happened
after Jenny had left work. A forty

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man detective squad, which was led
by Chief Superintendent William Humphreys, was put

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on the case and they immediately began
to try and track down anyone that knew

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anything about Jenny or what had happened
that day. The police appealed for anyone

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that may have noticed Jenny on the
twenty sixth of October when she disappeared.

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Particularly, they were interested in finding
anyone that had seen her after two thirty

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pm, when it was known that
she had left the hospital. The police

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were also interested in any information that
they could get about how Jenny's purse and

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glasses had ended up in the Thames
close to Whopping water front nine days after

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her disappearance. Before Jenny's body had
been recovered, these items had been found,

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the police wanted to know how exactly
they got there and the circumstances surrounding

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their discovery. Whopping is located around
three miles from the Aisle of Dogs,

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where Jenny's body had eventually been found. Where had Jenny's body been put into

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the river and how exactly had this
been done? Where had Jenny encountered her

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killer. Police decided to employ a
strategy which had been done in other cases,

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usually with the help of a female
police officer. In this case,

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they were able to ask Jenny's twin
sister, Linda, to take part in

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a reconstruction of events and retrace Jenny's
steps that day that she had left work.

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Linda was at University and Hull and
she agreed to be part of the

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reconstruction and walked with police tracing the
same journey. They came out of Guy's

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Hospital entrance and then went down Saint
Thomas's Street. Jenny's journey route wasn't exactly

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known, however, it's clear that
if Jenny was planning on heading to Petticoat

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Lane Market, then she would have
headed across London Bridge and cross the Thames

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into Whitechapel and the Spittlefields area.
This would have placed her on the same

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side of the Thames that her glasses, purse and body were eventually found.

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The walk to the market taken around
half an hour, and the location would

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suggest that she did make it to
the market that day. There is little

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that has been published about what was
known to police, or even if Jenny

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did walk the entire distance that day. There has been nothing published to suggest

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if she got on a tube or
if she traveled there in any other way.

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The lack of concrete evidence in this
case, no doubt, hindered progress

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early on. Jenny's twin sister wanted
to be involved with the reconstruction and stated

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at the time, I felt this
had to be done. I think you've

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got to try and switch yourself after
in the reconstruction, otherwise it could become

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too distressing. She added, she
would be happy to see whoever did this

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locked away so he can't do any
more damage. Hopefully seeing me today may

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have jogged someone's memory. It was
hoped that this retracing of Jenny's steps would

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indeed jog someone's memory, and that
someone may remember seeing her that day.

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Jenny's family were devastated by what had
happened to her, and they, like

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everyone else, couldn't understand why anyone
would have wanted to kill her. Jenny's

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parents, Peter and Margaret, were
living in Kenya at the time that Jenny

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was murdered, and they immediately traveled
over to London. They also appealed to

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the public for their help to try
and figure out what had happened. Peter

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said, any member of the public
who saw or recall anything should come forward.

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At the time, it might not
have meant anything, but in retrospect

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it might come back. Margaret echoed
this, saying anyone who has any ideas

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at all who think that they may
have seen something suspicious that Sunday should please

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please contact police. The issue that
police had was that there didn't appear to

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be anyone that saw anything suspicious that
day and information was not as far coming

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as they hoped it would be.
Jenny had left work in the middle of

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the day in the busiest city in
the UK, and it seemed that someone

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had murdered her and dumped her body
in the River Thames without anyone noticing anything.

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This must have been a source of
frustration for everyone involved. The other

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frustrating thing for police was that this
case seemed to be a stranger murder,

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which it was known, was one
of the most difficult to solve. Any

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progress on the case seemed to slow
as nineteen eighty turned into nineteen eighty one,

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and the detectives were still at a
loss for what could have happened.

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The lines of inquiry didn't seem to
be leading anywhere. In April nineteen eighty

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one, at Thames Report on the
TV discussed Jenny's case and explained that at

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that time there had been a series
of other unreported attacks on women in the

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area, with these attacks linked to
Jenny's. This wasn't known, however,

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it was a line of inquiry that
detectives were looking into at the time.

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The brutality of the crime was a
concern, and it was clear from the

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outset that police were worried about this
perpetrator possibly striking again, or that this

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person had already attacked women before.
Detective Chief Superintendent William Humphreys said at the

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time, the danger is that someone
who commits this savage type of murder may

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strike again. This was the concern. However, months passed and then this

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turned into years, and Jenny's murder
remained unsolved. Whoever had committed this murder

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seemed to have got away with it. Jenny's murder was left to the occasional

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case review and the hope that some
one would come forward with information that would

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finally answer what happened to her.
It wasn't until two thousand and one that

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newspapers once again began reporting on Jenny's
case. This time the headlines read the

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thriller killers was Nurse in River murder
number four. This was a startling headline

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and emerging from the uncertainty of Jenny's
case came some possible suspects, David mulcay

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and John Duffy. During nineteen eighty
two and eighty three, nineteen women were

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attacked and sexually assaulted in and around
North London. These women were attacked at

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night and close to railway stations.
These rapes continued in nineteen eighty four,

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and its reported that three women were
raped on the same night in nineteen eighty

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five in Hendon, Northeast London.
These attacks were taken very seriously by the

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Metropolitan Police. An Operation Heart was
launched to try track down who could be

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committing these attacks. The women were
all describing very similar circumstances. They had

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been attacked by two men. One
of these men were shot with ginger hair

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and the other man was larger.
It appeared that these attacks were linked and

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that these two men were working together
to commit many of these crimes. The

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police were extremely interested in tracking down
these two men, and they did have

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some evidence from the attacks. The
evidence was subject to blood grouping analysis.

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However, this analysis was not as
precise as later DNA technology and could only

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allocate the blood group of the suspect. The issue with this was that this

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blood group could apply to many different
people in the population, and so could

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not be used to accurately discover who
these perpetrators were. On the twenty ninth

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of December nineteen eighty five, the
murder of Alison Day brought the rape investigation

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and now a murder investigation together.
Allison's case was later featured on Crime Watch,

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and the reconstruction shows the eerie events
surrounding her initial disappearance and later the

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discovery of her body. Alison had
been traveling from her home in Romford in

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East London to hackney Wick, also
in East London. The area was relatively

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industrial, and Allison's fiance worked at
a printer's in the area. Many of

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the businesses were shut down for the
Christmas period, but Alison's fiance was working

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that day and he'd phoned her to
see whether she wanted to come and give

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him some company that night. She
agreed and set out, catching the tube

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and the train to get there.
The journey was relatively short, However,

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when Alison got to Hackney Wick,
she may have found herself a little confused

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as to how to get to the
Printers from the station. Allison hadn't visited

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her fiance at work before. The
crimewatch reconstruction stated that Allison may have used

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a phone box to ring a taxi
company. However, this is unclear.

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A woman did ring a taxi company
from that location, but never identified herself

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as Alison Day. Whatever the circumstances
were, Alison never arrived at the Printers

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to see her fiance. She simply
disappeared until seventeen days later her body was

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found in the nearby River Lee.
She had been weighed down with stones in

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her pockets and her blouse had been
ripped into three pieces and it was used

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to gag and bind her. The
third piece was then used to strangle her.

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It was unclear who had committed this
at the time, and crimewatch was

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used as a way to try and
appeal for more information. The proximity to

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a train station and the evidence of
a brutal sexual assault, however, made

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police believe that this murder could be
in some way related to the other sexual

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assaults that had been happening in other
areas of London. There was no evidence

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presented for this at the time.
However, the newspapers began to change the

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name of the Railway Rapist, which
they had given to the perpetrators of the

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previous assaults, to the railway Killers. On April the seventeenth, nineteen eighty

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six, another shocking murder was committed, this time close to West Harsley Station

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in Surrey. Fifteen year old march
of Tambosa's body was found in some woods

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and it was badly charred. It
was clear that she had also been raped

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and strangled, and then an attempt
had been made to burn her body.

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Marcher had been riding her bike to
buy some sweets from a shop near West

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Harsley Station when she was attacked.
Her watch had stopped at five thirty five

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pm, and this gave police an
indication of and this had occurred. The

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location of her murder close to another
station was again a possible link to the

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same perpetrators. There was also something
else that linked the murders of Alison Day

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and Marcher Tambosa. A fact that
wasn't released to the public, but there

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was kept back. Was the way
in which both women had been strangled,

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a tornaquet had been fashioned, and
in Marcher's case, a piece of wood

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had been left at the scene next
to the body. This led police to

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believe that the same killer had murdered
Marcher, Unlike Alison's murder, though there

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was forensic evidence recovered from her body. Police had a sample of DNA from

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the killer, and it was revealed
that the man responsible was blood group A

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and that he was a secret meaning
that he biologically secreted blood into other bodily

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fluids like saliva and in this case, seamen. Despite only having the blood

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group, it would help to narrow
down a list of suspects, and police

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set about trying to find out he
was responsible for this by using an early

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version of the Homes Database, the
Home Office Large Major Inquiry System, which

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was set up to cross reference information
from across the country. This eventually linked

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the forensic profile to a rape in
central London which was unsolved. Through tracking

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down as many of these suspects as
possible, they finally managed to narrow it

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down to one name, John Duffy. John Duffy was known to police for

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being violent towards his wife and he'd
been arresting in nineteen eighty six for following

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a woman in a park. When
he was arrested, items related to march

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As murder were discovered and other victims
of rape began to come forward. In

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nineteen eighty eight, he was charged
with three murders and several rapes. The

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third murder charge came from the murder
of Anne Lock in May nineteen eighty six.

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Anne had been at work as a
secretary at London Weekend Television on May

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eighteenth, nineteen eighty six, and
had traveled from King's Cross station to Brookman's

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Park station in Hertfordshire around nine forty
five pm. This was a well known

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commuter train which Anne got on regularly. When she didn't return home, her

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newly red husband called police to report
her missing. A large scale search began,

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but they couldn't seem to locate Anne. Her family began to fear the

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worst, and it wasn't until nine
weeks later that her body was found.

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Despite large scale searches done in the
area around Brookman's Park station. Railway workers

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found her body on an embankment,
with her hands tied behind her back and

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a sock in her mouth to gag
her. It was clear that she had

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been murdered and believed to be strangled, but police couldn't get any more forensic

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evidence from her body due to the
severe decomposition and weeks out in the open.

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There were similarities to the previous murders, however, and particularly her proximity

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to a train station. John Duffy
was charged with Anne's murder as well as

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Allison and Marchers. John Duffy was
eventually convicted of two murders and four rapes.

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He was convicted of Allison and Marchers, but not Anne's. This was

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due to the lack of forensic evidence
that had been recovered from Anne's body given

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the amount of time that had elapsed
between her disappearance and her body's discovery.

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This was no doubt disappointing for both
the police and Anne's family, who believed

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that John Duffy was responsible for her
murder. John Duffy was sent to prison,

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and this is the way that the
cases stayed. However, police were

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sure that John Duffy had not acted
alone. Many of the rape victims had

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described two men involved with the attacks, and given the circumstances surrounding the murders,

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they knew that John Duffy could not
have committed them alone. While in

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prison, Duffy began to speak to
a forensic psychologist, and he eventually began

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to admit there was someone else involved
with the attacks. He didn't explain who

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this other person was to begin with, but then eventually gave them a name,

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David Mulkayhey. Duffy and Mulkayhe were
childhood friends, having attended Havelock School

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in North London together from an early
age. They were committing crimes together,

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and Duffy explained to police that he
and Mulkayhy began what they called hunting together,

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looking for women to attack. This
eventually escalated into murdering some of the

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women that they had attacked. The
pair had a ruse where one man would

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approach the woman and the other man
would then grab her. They became very

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skilled at it, as John Duffy
would explain. He also explained in detail

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about Annlocke's murder, saying that he
and mulkay He had committed it. Duffy

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could now not be tried for her
murder due to double jeopardy laws, However,

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he could be for her rape.
Mulkay was now in the police sights

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and he could be charged with all
three murders and the rapes based on Duffy's

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testimony. They did end up connecting
Mulkaye to the crimes in other ways too.

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He was put under police surveillance for
several months before being arrested in nineteen

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ninety nine. Mulkay was a married
father of four at that time, and

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police got a conclusive conclusion when DNA
linked him to the evidence that they already

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had. Mulkaye denied all charge as
at trial and said he was innocent.

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However, he was eventually convicted of
all three murders seven rapes and was given

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a whole life sentence. John Duffy
was subsequently convicted of the seven rapes that

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he had confessed to, and he
received an additional twelve years added on to

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his life sentence. The news of
the two men's arrests and the crimes that

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they had committed over the years caused
shock waves across the country. The way

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in which the men had worked together
to hunt down women to sexually assault,

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attack and murder was sickening and terrifying, and the callous way in which they

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left their victims was unnerving. Their
arrests finally meant that Annlocke's family got some

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justice for her, even if one
of the perpetrators was convicted of the crime.

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The arrest caused many people to wonder
whether John Duffy and David Mulcahey could

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have been responsible for more unsolved murders
across the country, but particularly and around

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London, whether two men were known
to have attacked other women. Immediately after

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Mulkay's conviction, police began looking to
see if any other murders or rapes could

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be linked to the two men.
They appealed for any women who may have

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been attacked by them to come forward. This must have been a difficult thing

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for some survivors to do, given
how difficult it is to report something like

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this. When police looked into other
murders that the men could possibly have committed,

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one of the names that came up
was that of Jenny Ronaldson. Jenny's

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murder had occurred earlier than their other
murders. However, the way in which

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she had been attacked and killed was
very similar to the other Duffy and mukay

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He victims. She had been bound, gagged, beaten, and was found

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just wearing her bra She had also
been raped. She was also found in

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water, which is how they found
Alison Dave five years later. Nothing appears

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to have been discovered, however,
to definitively link Jenny Ronaldson to Duffy and

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Mulkahe, and many of the articles
that exist about the police reinvestigating it come

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from two thousand and one. If
Jenny's murder could be linked to them,

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it would bring up an alarming suggestion
that Duffy and Mulkahey were actively attacking and

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murdering women five years before it was
thought that they committed their first murder.

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It has to be said that despite
being linked to Duffy and mulkahere, there

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is no definitive proof to say it
was them, and every other theory for

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what happens also remains. It's unclear
what exactly did happen to Jenny Ronaldson,

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but what is clear is that she
was attacked and killed at some point after

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she left Guy's Hospital and traveled in
the direction of Petticoat Lane. Had she

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reached her destination and had this happened
afterwards, or had it happened along the

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way. Jenny was just a normal
young woman and drying her time in London

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and making the most of her time
sightseeing. She was a devoted nurse who

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was helping people and she did not
deserve to be brutally murdered in this way.

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Her family also do not deserve the
pain that they'd fell all these years

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not knowing what happened to her and
who did it. If you know anything

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about the murder of Jenny Ronaldson in
nineteen eighty, then please contact police on

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one or one and tell them what
you know. Any little detail could help

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