JOHN WAYNE GLOVERSerial Killer

BA CKG RO UN D O F GLOVE R

• Originally from a working class family in Wolverhampton, England, Glover was convicted of many petty crimes dating back to 1947 for stealing clothing and handbags. He was later thrown out of the British army when these were discovered. Later, he emigrated to Australia in 1956. where he first lived in Melbourne. He had a troubled relationship with older women in his life, especially his mother Freda (who had had several husbands and many boyfriends), and after 1968 his mother-in law, when he married and moved into his parent-in-law's house in Mosman, Sydney.

• Before John Glover began his killings in the late 1980s, he was a volunteer at the Senior Citizens Society, and was considered among his friends a friendly, trustworthy man. He was married with two children, and lived a contented lifestyle in Mosman. Glover worked as a sales representative for Four 'n' Twenty Pies.

WHAT’S SO INTERESTING ABOUT THE PERSON?

• age: Died at 73• birthplace: England• died: 2005 from suicide • John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-born Australian

serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore. Over a fourteen month period in 1989/90, Glover killed six elderly women for which he was dubbed the "Granny Killer.

• John wayne Glover used a claw hammer and strangulate his victims with their pantyhose • Lithgow, central western New South Wales, State Corrective Services was where glover

stayed

VICTIMS PROFILES

• March 1, 1989, in Mosman: Gwendolin Louise Mitchelhill, 82,

• May 9, 1989 in Mosman: Lady Winifred Isabelle Ashton, 82

• November 2, 1989 in Lane Cove: Margaret Frances Pahud, 85

• November 3, 1989 in Belrose: Olive Cleveland, 81

• November 23, 1989 in Mosman: Muriel Beryl Falconer, 92

• March 19, 1990 in Mosman: Joan Violet Sinclair, 60

Glover agreed to not knowing some of these women, But Glover knew The Last Victim Joan Violet Sinclair.

FURTHER OFFENCESOn 6 June 1989, Glover molested 77 year-old Marjorie Moseley at the Wesley Gardens Retirement Home in Belrose.

The victim reported to hospital staff and police that a man had put his hand under her night gown, but that she could not remember what the man looked like.

On 24 June 1989, Glover visited the Caroline Chisholm Nursing Home in Lane Cove where he lifted the dress of an elderly patient and fondled her buttocks. In a neighbouring room, he slid his hand down the front of another

patient's nightdress and stroked her breasts. The woman cried out for help and Glover was briefly questioned by staff at the hospital before leaving.

On 8 August 1989, Glover assaulted the elderly Effie Carnie in a back street of Lindfield, on Sydney's upper North Shore.

On 6 October, he pretended to be a doctor and ran his hand up the dress of Phyllis McNeil, a patient at the Wybenia Nursing Home in the lower North Shore suburb of Neutral Bay. Glover left when the blind McNeil called for help. At

the time, Glover was apparently never suspected of, or identified as being responsible for the molestations.On 18 October 1989, Glover followed 86-year-old widow Doris Cox along Spit Road, Mosman to her retirement

village. In the secluded stairwell at the front of the house he attacked her, ramming her face into a brick wall where she fell. Amazingly she survived the assault, but she was not able to provide a clear description or recollection of

events probably due to her dementia; according to her, the attacker was a young man, possibly a teenager or skateboarder. She provided police with an identikit drawing, but again the scene was washed down by neighbours

before investigators arrived.

HOW DID HE GET CAUGHT?• Following arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to

consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

 

John Wayne Glover being led from court.

Glover's attempted suicide note saying "no more grannies"