Australian serial killer John Wayne Glover murdered six elderly women in Sydney in 1989-90. In his late 50s and close to being a senior citizen himself when the crimes happened, he was an unusual late life murderer. Glover was born to a working class family in Wolverhampton, England on November 26, 1932. He dropped out of school at 14 and committed many minor crimes, mostly thefts. Glover enlisted in the British army but was discharged when his rap sheet was discovered. He moved to Australia in 1957 and settled in Melbourne. Glover eventually obtained Australian citizenship and continued his crime spree in his new home; he received three theft convictions in Victoria and New South Wales not long after arriving.Glover's crimes grew more serious by 1962 when he was convicted of assaulting two women in Melbourne, two counts of indecent assault, one count of assault resulting in bodily harm, and four counts of larceny. Both attacks were "extremely brutal" with the victims' clothing being partially removed, but he was also interrupted both times before he could do anything else to them. Unlike Glover's later attacks, these women were both young and in their 20s. After the second victim reported him, he was arrested. At this time Glover was employed installing TV aerials outside residences and lived in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. He claimed he was in a frazzle after a fight with his girlfriend. Police questioned him about the previous reported attack and he initially denied, but eventually confessed.
For all that, Glover's punishment amounted to three years of probation. In 1965, he was convicted of trespassing after someone reported him for being a Peeping Tom and served three months in jail. After that, and up until the murder spree, Glover avoided further trouble with the law aside from a minor shoplifting charge in 1978.In 1968, Glover married Jacqueline Gail "Gay" Rolls when he was working at a wine and spirits shop in downtown Melbourne. Gay's father John liked him and approved of the marriage to his beloved daughter. His wife Essie initially agreed, but didn't take long to start disliking her son-in-law. Although the Gays were a well-to-do middle class family and Glover was a working class English immigrant who had come to Australia with little more than the clothes on his back; he told acquaintances that he had a miserable, broken upbringing in England and left that country in the hope of making a new life for himself.
By John Roll's request, as he had health issues, the newlyweds moved in with them and it was here that the bad blood between Glover and Essie began. The Rolls had a separate wing built onto the house so John and Gay could get some privacy from her. Their daughters Kellie and Marney arrived in the early '70s. His own mother decided to move to and retire to Australia in 1982; she died in 1988, the year prior to his murder spree.During the 1980s, Glover was a volunteer of the Senior Citizens society and considered a friendly, normal man with a wife, two daughters, and a stable income as a sales rep for Australian food products company Four'n Twenty.There is no evidence of Glover committing any murders until 1989, at which point he was well into his 50s. He had been married for 20 years and his wife had no awareness of his past rap sheet. That January 11, an 84 year old woman named Margaret Todhunter was going for a walk on Hale Road in Mosman when Glover spotted her. He stopped his car, approached Todhunter, punched her out, and looted AU$209 from her purse. He spent the money at the Mosman Returned Services League club. Police made no attempt to find the perpetrator.
On March 1, Glover left the RSL club and spotted Gwen Mitchelhill, 82, walking by. He got a hammer from his car and followed the elderly woman to the foyer of her apartment on Military Road. She opened the door and Glover slammed the hammer into her head, hitting her multiple times and breaking her ribs. He took her purse and its AU$100 in cash. Mitchelhill was found by two boys still clinging to life. Taken to a hospital, doctors noticed that her injuries did not look like an accident as she had two black eyes and several broken ribs. There was no indication of rape. Further, her purse was rifled through but left neatly next to her. There were no witnesses and some neighbors cleaned up the spilled blood from the outside of the apartment. Police wrote off the assault as a mugging gone wrong.On May 9, Glover was walking down Military Road and spotted Lady Winfreda Ashton, 84, and the widow of impressionist artist Will Ashton, walking in his direction as she headed towards her home on Raglan Street. Mrs. Ashton had had an eye appointment that day and spent some time at the RSL club before doing a few other errands and then heading home. Glover donned a pair of gloves and followed her inside her apartment's foyer and began bashing her with his hammer. He shoved Ashton to the ground and dragged her into a garbage bin alcove where he slammed her head into the ground. Surprising for her age, she resisted Glover quite hard and nearly escaped his grip but he finally managed to knock her out. He then pulled off her pantyhose and used them to strangle her. He placed Ashton's walking stick and shoes at her feet and stole her purse, which had AU$100 in cash in it. Glover then went to the RSL and remarked that he hoped the sirens outside weren't another mugging.
Ashton was found laying face-down on the concrete floor in the trash can alcove, a pool of blood around her head. Her pantyhose were tied so tightly that they were embedded in the skin of her neck. Her legs were crossed and her arms placed by her sides. Some blood was running from her mouth. Police began believing all these elderly women were being killed by the same maniac due to the nearly identical M/O of each murder. Although the removal of Ashton's pantyhose suggested a sexual attack, the autopsy of her, conducted by a relatively inexperienced physician named Dr. Liliana Schwartz who had never examined a homicide victim before, found no sign of it. Her face had extensive bruising and she also bit her lip. A small cut was present on the left cheek and an abrasion. She wore a diamond ring on her finger which her killer had not taken. Whatever his motive was, it was neither sex nor robbery. Neither Mitchelhill or Ashton's crime scenes had much evidence; no fingerprints and all the blood found at them was from the victims.
Since Glover's mother had passed away a year ago, his obsession with elderly women took on new and more perverse dimensions. He began to enjoy his weekend visits to his aged mother in law as he had a legitimate excuse to be in a rest home. After visiting her for a bit, Glover would get up and wander around looking for the most frail patient he could find; if he found one alone in her room he would go in and fondle them. If the women became upset, that merely added to the thrill and if they told on him, it could be dismissed as simply old age and senility. On December 11, 1988, while making his weekly trip to visit Essie Roll, he walked off down the hallway and saw an obviously incapacitated and alone woman in a room. She became afraid when Glover began touching her breasts and exclaimed "What?" "Shhhh..." Glover went. He began reaching for her underwear. The woman yelled "Sister! Sister!" Glover slipped out of the room, but was seen by a nun named Yvonne Hoskins.
On June 6, Glover molested 77 year old Marjorie Moseley at a retirement home in Belrose. She reported that a man had stuck his hand under her gown but she didn't remember what he looked like. On June 24, he visited a nursing home in Lane Cove and fondled an elderly patient's buttocks. Glover then went into another room and fondled a patient's breasts. The woman yelled for help and Glover was momentarily questioned by hospital staff before departing. On August 25, Glover punched out 82 year old Euphemia Carnie in North Shore and stole her purse. Her description of the attacker matched that of Margaret Todhunter.On October 6, he entered a nursing home in Neutral Bay by posing as a doctor and fondled a blind patient named Phyllis McNeil. She yelled for help and he left. On October 18, he followed 86 year old Doris Cox to her retirement community in Mosman. In the secluded stairwell out front, he slammed her face into a brick wall, knocking out several of her teeth. Cox survived but couldn't recall what her attacker looked like and she thought he was a young man, possibly a teenager.
On November 2, Glover approached Dorothy Beencke, a 78 year old resident of Lane Cove, as she was walking down a back street. He engaged her in idle converation and offered to take her groceries home for her as the packages were heavy and she appeared to be struggling with them. Beencke declined his help as she said it was only a short distance to the house. Beencke invited him in for a cup of tea. Glover thanked her and declined the offer. He decided to let this woman go and not attack her.On the way back down the laneway to the main street, he spotted 85 year old Margaret Pahud, also coming home from a grocery trip. She was hit in the side of the head with a blunt instrument and hit again when she fell; Glover always hit victims in the side and not the back of the head as the skull bone there was softer and less likely to shatter and cause blood splatter. Glover looked at his hammer, saw that it was clean of blood or bone fragments, and partially pulled down the front of Pahud's dress so he could see her left breast. He rearranged her clothing and personal effects, took her handbag, and left. There were no witnesses to the attack but an 11 year old girl found the body within minutes, initially thinking it was some old clothes discarded in the laneway. Glover absconded with AU$300 from Pahud's purse and spent it at the RSL Club.
The next day, Glover spotted 81 year old Olive Cleveland sitting on a bench outside Wesley Gardens Retirement Village in Belrose and engaged her in conversation. After a few minutes, Cleveland decided something was not right about this man and began to head towards the main building. Glover grabbed her from behind and dragged her down a ramp into a secluded side lane where he slammed her head into the concrete, removed her pantyhose, and strangled her with them. He rearranged her clothes and took AU$60 from her purse. Cleveland's death was initially assumed to be a fatal accident from falling and nobody saw anything. The state government offered a AU$200,000 reward for any information leading to her killer's capture.On November 23, Glover was sitting in Buena Vista Hotel in Mosman drinking a beer when he saw 93 year old Muriel Falconer walking opposite across the hotel with some parcels. He went to his car to get his gloves and hammer and followed the elderly woman to the outside of her house on Muston Street--since Falconer had impaired hearing and eyesight, she did not notice him approaching. Glover clasped his hands over her mouth to muffle her screams and began bashing her in the head and neck with the hammer. She fell over and he began to remove her pantyhose. Falconer yelled for help so he hit her again with the hammer until she was knocked out. He strangled her with the pantyhose, stole AU$100 from her purse, checked out her house for any valuables, and left after rearranging her shoes.
Falconer's body was found the next day by a neighbor. The crime scene was undisturbed by well-intentioned Good Samartians unlike the previous victims and some forensic evidence, including a bloody shoe print, were collected. This time there was also a witness; a neighbor saw a chubby middle aged man with graying hair. The reward was increased to AU$250,000 within a month.On January 11, 1990, Glover visited Greenwich Hospital on River Road, Greenwich on his sales route, wearing his work clothes and carrying a clipboard. He entered the palliative care ward which contained four terminally ill elderly women, including 82 year old cancer patient Daisy Roberts. Glover asked if Roberts felt cold at all. He pulled up her gown and fondled her. She yelled for help and for the first time Glover was caught in the act. He sprinted from the hospital and fled, but a nurse wrote down his license plate number and called police. Since Glover often sold meat pies at the hospital, he was well-known there and it did not take long to identify him; both the patient and nurse did so.While this proved that Glover was the mysterious hospital fondler, it didn't link him to the murders, and it was three weeks before the murder task force heard about it. Detectives called him and asked to speak with him at the police station. He didn't show up, so police came to his house and were told by his wife that he'd tried to kill himself by overdosing on sleeping pills and had had his stomach pumped at Royal North Shore Hospital. They went to the hospital and found him there; he consented to be photographed, but wouldn't talk to them otherwise. He had a suicide note penned on Four'n Twenty letterhead reading "No more grannies...grannies" and "Essie [Glover's mother-in-law] started it."
At this point, investigators felt 99% certain that Glover was the killer despite an absence of any evidence. The head of the task force said that as long as he wouldn't talk to them, it was difficult to prove anything, but there was circumstantial evidence such as his resemblance to the man seen at Muriel Falconer's house and the fact that his sales route would have put him at any of the murder scenes. He also flatly denied molesting the women in the nursing homes. Detectives avoided bringing up the murders so as to not make Glover suspicious of their intentions. They put him under surveillance and he began taking unusual routes while driving to avoid being followed. At some time near the end of 1989, Glover was diagnosed with male breast cancer and separated from his wife, who took their daughters and moved to New Zealand.On March 16, he killed his last victim, Joan Sinclair, who at 60 was much younger than the previous victims. Sinclair lived in Beauty Point and was a casual friend of Glover's. Police were watching him constantly now and they saw him lead Glover into her house at 10:00 AM. By early afternoon, there was no sign of Glover or any movement inside the house. By 5:00 PM the cops got worried and requested permission to enter the house. Two uniformed officers knocked on the door and said they wanted to ask about a barking dog inside, but there was no answer. They peered inside the glass rear door and saw a hammer laying in a pool of dried blood on a mat. Four detectives searched the house and found Sinclair's battered head wrapped in a bundle of bloody towels. She was nude from the waist down, her pantyhose wrapped around her neck. Her genitals were mutilated, but she wasn't raped. Glover himself was found semi-conscious in the bathtub.
He later confessed to killing Joan Sinclair and said they'd been romantically involved for a while. Glover's account of the murder perfectly matched the evidence at the crime scene; after he had killed her, he went into the bathroom and attempted suicide by swallowing a cocktail of Valiums, Vat 69 whiskey, and cutting his left wrist.His trial began March 28 and he pled innocent by reason of insanity. A psychiatrist said he'd hated his mother since childhood and this resentment built up against his mother-in-law. Clearly he hated Essie Rolls and even moreso after her husband died in 1981. Glover called Essie a control freak and a bully. Staff who worked at the rest home Essie spent her final days in confirmed that his description of her character and personality was highly accurate. Things got worse for him when his mother, whom he'd run all the way to Australia to get away from when he was a young man, followed him there in the early 1980s--he despised his mother, a sexually promiscuous woman who had numerous husbands and lovers. When Frieda tried to move in with Essie, it was more than he could tolerate--the worst part was that his mother might blab about his teenage criminal record in England, which he'd never told anyone in Australia about, and give Essie more ammunition to use against him.Glover finally convinced his mother to move to Gosford, a safe distance from him, and she lived there until her death from breast cancer six years later. It was soon after that that he himself developed a rare form of male breast cancer that rendered him sexually impotent, "as if his mother was striking at him from beyond the grave." Glover's wife Gay knew nothing of his criminal history in either England or Australia and had never known him as anything but a responsible, law-abiding husband and father to their two daughters.
When Frieda died, he began taking out his anger on others. There was however no evidence that Glover was anything but sane. He had planned out his crimes carefully, knew exactly how to spend the victims' money, and after each attack washed off his hammer to remove any traces of blood from it. The victims weren't raped because Glover suffered from erectile dysfunction and was incapable of it, but removing the victims' pantyhose would make it seem as if the attacks were sexually motivated.It also came out that Glover had a poker machine addiction and stole money to feed his habit. After the jury found him guilty, the judge imposed a life sentence on him. Glover began serving his sentence at the maximum security Lithgow Prison.Glover was suspected in seven additional unsolved murders of women between the ages of 61 and 83 that had taken place from the 1960s to '80s, including the murder of Florence Broadhurst, a 78 year old painter found dead in her Paddington studio on October 16, 1977. He denied having killed anyone outside the 1989-90 victims. Glover said he didn't know or care who his victims were and didn't know how to stop once he began killing.In May 2005, fifteen years into his sentence, Glover, now in his 70s, was put on suicide watch after telling prison staff that he was done with life and was considering ending it all. He was examined by psychiatrists and watched on CCTV. He was also given medical exams as a follow-up to two cancer operations he had a year ago. On September 10, he was found dead, having hanged himself in his cell.
>>18174619>>18174664Unsurprisingly, it's yet another serial killer whose psychosis comes from hating his mom because she abused him or was a retarded slut.
i watched a documentary on this case and i never knew Australian ambulances had the American-style "Weeewwwwwewwwwww" sirens, i thought they had the British "Weeeeahhhhhhweeeaahhhh" ones.
>letting people wash the blood from the crime scenes before the cops got therefacepalm.jpg
>>18174692The crimes occurred in a posh area of Sydney where cops were not used to handling anything bigger than shoplifters and drunk drivers.
Based psycho taking out old hags
>>18174643>Investigators found several gray hairs clutched in Ashton's right hand. These could have been her own hair, or she could have grabbed some hairs from the attacker as she struggled with him. They were microscopically analyzed, but due to being gray didn't prove much of anything.[9]
the cops initially assumed the killer must be a young man because obviously crimes of violence tend to be a young person's game and they couldn't entirely rule out that it was a woman, even though it was probably a man.
Crikey, m8s, we seem to have a granny fetishist in our midst.
>>18174619It'll be a few hours until peak Aussie time on 4chinz so the amount of replies here will probably go up then.
>>18174656>The next day, Glover spotted 81 year old Olive Cleveland sitting on a bench outside Wesley Gardens Retirement Village in Belrose and engaged her in conversation. After a few minutes, Cleveland decided something was not right about this man and began to head towards the main building. Glover grabbed her from behind and dragged her down a ramp into a secluded side lane where he slammed her head into the concrete, removed her pantyhose, and strangled her with them. He rearranged her clothes and took AU$60 from her purse. Cleveland's death was initially assumed to be a fatal accident from falling and nobody saw anything.Apparently the people who initially found her actually thought her stockings were tied around her neck because she was cold and was using them like a scarf. God these guys were retarded.
>>18174658The initial breakthrough was when they recovered the shoe print and concluded that it looked like a boomer shoe type and not something a teen or 20-something guy would wear.
>Glover is a possible suspect in the murders of:>Emmie Anderson, 78, killed in East Melbourne October 19, 1961>Irene Kiddle, 61, killed in St. Kilda March 22, 1963>Elsie Boyes, 63, killed in Prahan June 3, 1967>Christina Yankos, 63, killed in Albert Park April 9, 1968>Florence Broadhurst, 78, killed in Paddington October 16, 1977>Josephine McDonald, 72, killed in Ettalong August 29, 1984>Wanda Amundsen, 83, killed in Umina November 21, 1986>He denied any responsibility for these seven unsolved murders and as far as anyone knows, lived a law-abiding life during the quarter century between his 1960s convictions and the murder spree. Investigators remain skeptical that a clinical sociopath could have gone that long without acting on his urges.[8]
>>18174837From Glover's statements, the murders were mostly committed out of anger at his mother-in-law and he decided to lash out at anyone who resembled her. It seems unlikely that he was killing old ladies as far back as the 60s before he'd ever met Essie.
Australia always looks like a comfy place in pics, a lot like California but goddamn the accents would drive you insane in a short time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwl_sAiAtMObligatory thread theme song.
>>18174632young Glover was quite handsome but his wife was a relative dog. also check out that hairy forearm.
>>18174666>It also came out that Glover had a poker machine addiction and stole money to feed his habit. After the jury found him guilty, the judge imposed a life sentence on him. Glover began serving his sentence at the maximum security Lithgow Prison.unfortunately Australia got rid of the death penalty in the 60s around the same time England did
>>18174619>He moved to Australia in 1957 and settled in MelbourneThere weren't yet any trans-continental airliners in the 50s, going to Australia back then meant a very very long journey on a ship all the way south down the Atlantic, around Africa, and through the Indian Ocean. By the time his mother moved there it was possible to fly from England.
>>18174666he used muriatic acid to clean the blood from the hammer
>>18174619>be this boomer>muh late life murderer>ignores the fact he was a violent, roiding rage-monster his entire life>literally convicted for brutally assaulting women in his 30s>*unusual* my ass, he was a career criminal who just finally escalatedThis is some serious cope to make him sound like a frail old man when he was a lifelong piece of shit.
>>18175336>be this boomer*Silent Generation, he could have been the parent of a boomer.>literally convicted for brutally assaulting women in his 30sHe was 29. What does make the case unusual is that it took him until he was 56 to actually kill anyone. Yes there's an outside chance he killed all those other old women in the 60s-80s but unlikely since he did it out of anger at his mother-in-law and he hadn't met her yet when some of those took place.
>>18175848Not literal boomers, meme boomers.
>In his confession to police, Glover assured them that the attacks were not sexually motivated and that he removed the victims' stockings to strangle them with to ensure they were dead.[3]
>>18174664>Vat 69 whiskeynasty bogan drink is nasty
>>18174627>probation for beating the shit out of two women>actually serves jail time for looking in someone's windowUh...
>>18174643His mother didn't look all that much older than him, she probably had him in her teens. lol.
>>18176259i haven't heard her exact age stated, but if she was 65 when she retired in '82 and moved to Australia, then she was born in 1917. in that case she was 15 when she had him, which given the English working class is entirely believable. lol.
>>18174645tl;dr he hated his mother-in-law and wanted to molest old women to regain the sense of power and control he felt he lost
Australia has had quite a few serial killers and it can't solely be explained by the economic factors that drove the US crime wave in the 70s-80s since Australia's 70s was very different from America's.
>>18174627>>18174619Crikey, m8.
Wait a minute ANOTHER serial killer called John wayne!?
>>18175848>he did it out of anger at his mother-in-lawOh that's what they all say
>>18176412Leaded petrol. This Glover guy was on the early side but would have been exposed to it growing up.
>>18176412probably most Western countries did but the ones from non-Anglo cunts are not as well known due to the language barrier. Germany has had quite a few fucked up serial killers though, I know that.
>>18176412>>18177026Australia followed the general postwar trend to softer sentencing practices and rejection of capital punishment. In this case Glover getting...uh...probation for brutally beating two women?
