Justice has finally caught up with Glenn Gary Cameron, 61, who has pleaded guilty to a string of charges relating to the rape of eight women between 1991 and 1993
A man who evaded justice for three decades has finally been unmasked as a serial rapist who carried out a two-year reign of terror in the early 1990s.
Glenn Gary Cameron, 61, had pleaded guilty to a string of charges relating to the rape of eight women between 1991 and 1993. DNA testing on a beer glass helped expose him as the monster who had been dubbed the ‘Night Stalker’ or the ‘Moore Park rapist’.
Cameron was arrested at Sydney International Airport last February after detectives reviewed unsolved cases using modern DNA and fingerprint technologies. A familial search on the national criminal DNA database linked Cameron’s daughter to the DNA from four historic cases.
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After learning Cameron was travelling from Alice Springs to Thailand, the police set up an operation at the Sydney international airport. There, police covertly recovered a beer glass and fork Cameron had used, to test if the DNA matched. He was arrested a short time later.
Cameron has now admitted to more than a dozen charges, including 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault using a weapon as a threat, for attacks on eight women across Sydney between 1991 and 1993.
The ages of his victims varied – the youngest was 17, now 48; the oldest 45, now 77. The attacks followed similar patterns; a number of the victims were of Asian ethnicity and most were near a train station when they encountered Cameron.
Often, he would offer victims cleaning work. Most women were then lured into following him to Moore Park, a large park in Sydney’s east. Cameron would pull a knife and sexually assault them. He forced some to pose for pictures before letting the women go.
During a police interview, he initially denied the charges. He said that at the time he “wasn’t a nice guy” but said he had never sexually assaulted anyone.
“There’s something not right here because I haven’t never forced anyone do sex, OK?” Cameron said in his police interview. “That’s, that’s how I feel. I know, I know, I’ve never forced anyone.”
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He has been held in custody on remand since his arrest and has pleaded guilty to 13 charges consisting of 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault and one count of indecent assault.
He has also admitted to a further 14 charges – six counts of indecent assault, five counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of attempted aggravated sexual assault and one count of detain for advantage – that will be taken into account on sentence.
According to the Guardian, in the early 1990s, Cameron started working at a funeral parlour in Newtown. He had been in the army, but was discharged after a year for using drugs and going awol. After his discharge, he was homeless, slept in his car, and used drugs heavily.
“I think in my early years, especially like in my late teens and early 20s, I was very reckless, you know. I didn’t care if I lived or died, that sort of thing,” Cameron told police.
While secretly carrying out the attacks, he was involved in a relationship with a woman who he ended up marrying.
In 1993, the year he committed his crimes against his final victim, Cameron and his wife had a child, before welcoming a second in 1998.
He met his second wife in 2008 or 2009 after she had moved to Australia from Thailand, and around 2012-2013, the pair moved to Alice Springs.
Cameron is due to be sentenced next month.