John Wayne Glover
John Wayne Glover | |
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| Born | 26 November 1932 Wolverhampton, England |
| Died | 9 September 2005 (aged 72) Lithgow Correctional Centre, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia |
| Body discovered | 9 September 2005 |
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| Occupation | Sales representative |
| Employer(s) | Patties Foods, (distributing pastry brand Four'n Twenty) |
| Criminal status | Deceased |
| Conviction | Murder (6 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | 6 life sentences without the possibility of parole |
| Details | |
| Victims | 6–13 |
Span of crimes | 1989–1990 |
| Country | Australia |
| State | New South Wales |
| Locations | |
| Target | Elderly women |
Date apprehended | 19 March 1990 |
| Imprisoned at | Lithgow Correctional Centre |
John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English-Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women (aged from 60 to 93), over a period of 14 months from 1989 to 1990. The victims included Winifreda, Lady Ashton, widow of the English-Australian impressionist painter Sir Will Ashton, in suburbs located in Sydney's North Shore. Given the advanced age of his victims, after Glover was arrested in 1990, the press nicknamed him The Granny Killer.
Following his arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He died after hanging himself in prison on 9 September 2005.