Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:
Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2020-06-01 16:45 |
Ford [EB] |
◊ 2020-06-02 04:24 |
Falcon EA 26 |
◊ 2020-06-05 03:41 |
"EA 26" ? ![]() |
◊ 2020-06-06 11:09 |
Plate issued in 1991, so it's an [EB]. Most likely a Falcon due to the wheel covers - I believe Fairmonts came with alloys standard. -- Last edit: 2020-06-06 12:19:58 |
◊ 2022-02-17 05:46 |
This episode was about the serial killer, John Wayne Glover who was responsible for the murders of six elderly women and the assault of seven others in Sydney's North Shore area of Mosman between the 11th January 1989 and the 19th March 1990. Glover's crimes earnt the nickname, the "Granny Killer". According to "Crime Investigation Australia" that also covered this case, Glover was born John Walton Glover, he had originally come from a working-class family in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, where he had string of convictions for petty theft dating back to 1947 for stealing handbags and clothes. He had briefly served in the British Army but was thrown out when the Army discovered his criminal record. In late 1956, early 1957, he immigrated to Australia, living in Melbourne where he resided in a boarding house with female boarders and had worked briefly as a tram conductor. After moving to Australia, he adopted the name, "John Wayne" Glover after his favourite movie star, John Wayne and even adopted John Wayne's nickname, "The Duke". During his first few years in Australia, he had been convicted of larceny, and later theft in NSW. In 1962, Glover was convicted of indecent assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and larceny, stemming from the assault of two women in Melbourne, and received a three-year good-behaviour bond, in 1965, he was convicted of voyeurism after being caught peeping in the homes of two women. In 1968, Glover moved to Sydney and married Gay Rolls, and moved into a rental home in Mosman, owned by Gay's parents. His marriage to Gay caused tension between Glover and Gay's mother, Essie Rolls who felt that Glover was "marrying someone above his station". His hatred towards elderly women, stemmed from his hatred of Essie and his relationship with his mother, Freda who had been married multiple times, and had several boyfriends. In 1976, Freda Glover immigrated to Australia, settling first in a nursing home on the NSW Central Coast, before moving to Mosman, on the 21st January 1989, shortly before his murder spree, Freda died of breast cancer. Since his suicide in Lithgow Jail on the 9th September 2005, Glover had named in the murders of seven other women committed. The first four murders occurred in Melbourne where he first lived between 1957 and 1968: Elsie Boyes - 63, Bashed and strangled in a toilet block in Prahan, Victoria on the 3rd June 1957. Emmie May Anderson - 78, Bashed and stabbed in the bedroom of her home in East Melbourne, Victoria on the 19th October 1961. Irene Kiddle - 63, Bashed and stabbed in a laneway near her home in St. Kilda, Victoria on the 22nd March 1963. Christina Yankos - 62, Bashed and strangled at her home in Albert Park, Victoria on the 9th April 1968. At the time of the murders, the scenes were located within close distance of the major tram routes that Glover had either used to commute between the boarding house and his work at the tram depot or had worked on as conductor. The other three occurred in NSW between 1977 and 1986. Of the three in NSW, one occurred in Sydney in 1977, the other two occurred on the NSW Central Coast in the mid 1980s: Florence Broadhurst - 78, interior designer, bashed and strangled in the bathroom of her home decorating studio in Paddington on the evening of the 15th October 1977. Broadhurst's body was found in the toilet stall upstairs above the main studio area by NSW Police Constable Anthony Russell from Paddington Police Station where he and his Sergeant were responding to the studio, answering a call about her welfare. On the day of her murder, she took out $8,000 in cash from the bank and placed the cash in her purse but when she was found, the purse was on the table, but the money wasn't there, leading to the detectives to believe that the killer took the money after killing Broadhurst. The evidence that links Glover to Broadhurst's murder that she met first met Glover at his brother's wedding in 1972 and became acquainted. Both Glover and his wife had visited Broadhurst's Paddington studios and even purchasing some curtains. At the scene of Broadhurst's murder, investigators found two empty cups of tea, indicating that Broadhurst met with someone that she knew on the day she was killed. Josephine McDonald - 72, strangled and sexual assaulted in the bathroom of her flat in Ettalong, NSW on the 29th August 1984. Wanda Amundsen - 83, bashed with a claw hammer in the bathroom of her home in Umina Beach, NSW on the 21st November 1986. After killing Wanda Amundsen, the killer robbed her home. At the time of the murders of McDonald and Amundsen, the local police were investigating a string of attacks on at least five elderly women in the Woy Woy-Ettalong-Umina area, but the local detectives investigating the murders had believed the murders and assaults were committed by two different offenders. At the time of the attacks and murders, Glover was known to frequent the Woy Woy-Ettalong-Umina area, mainly due to his work as a pie salesman and the nursing home where Freda lived, was also located in the area. He also had a half-sister who lived in the area. -- Last edit: 2025-01-12 09:16:11 |