A man who managed to escape justice for three decades has been revealed as a serial rapist who conducted a reign of terror lasting two years in the early 1990s.
Glenn Gary Cameron, aged 61, confessed to multiple charges linked to the sexual assault of eight women between 1991 and 1993. Utilizing DNA analysis on a beer glass played a crucial role in identifying him as the individual known as the ‘Night Stalker’ or the ‘Moore Park rapist’.
Cameron was apprehended at Sydney International Airport last February following a review of cold cases using advanced DNA and fingerprint technologies by detectives. A search based on familial DNA in the national criminal database connected Cameron’s daughter to the DNA evidence from four past cases.
Upon discovering that Cameron was traveling from Alice Springs to Thailand, law enforcement set up an operation at Sydney International Airport. Subsequently, authorities covertly obtained a beer glass and fork used by Cameron to verify if the DNA matched, leading to his swift arrest.
Cameron has now confessed to over a dozen charges, including 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault involving the use of a weapon as a threat, for assaults on eight women across Sydney from 1991 to 1993.
The victims’ ages varied, with the youngest victim, now 48, being 17 at the time, and the oldest victim, now 77, being 45. The assaults followed similar patterns; several victims were of Asian descent and many were in proximity to a train station when encountering Cameron.
Typically, he would offer victims work in cleaning. Subsequently, most women were enticed to accompany him to Moore Park, a large park in Sydney’s east. There, Cameron would brandish a knife and commit sexual assault. In some instances, he compelled victims to pose for photographs before releasing them.
Initially, during police questioning, Cameron denied the charges, stating that although he was not a kind person at the time, he had never sexually assaulted anyone.
Cameron has been in custody since his arrest and has admitted to 13 charges, including 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault.
He has also acknowledged an additional 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 – which will be considered during sentencing.
According to the Guardian, Cameron began working at a funeral home in Newtown in the early 1990s. He previously served in the military but was discharged after a year due to drug use and unauthorized absence. Following his discharge, he was homeless, residing in his car, and heavily using drugs.
“I believe in my early years, particularly in my late teens and early 20s, I was very reckless. I didn’t care if I lived or died,” Cameron stated to the police.
While committing the assaults in secret, he was in a relationship with a woman whom he later married.
In 1993, the year of his crimes against his final victim, Cameron and his wife had a child, followed by a second child in 1998.
He met his second wife around 2008 or 2009 after she relocated to Australia from Thailand, and they moved to Alice Springs around 2012-2013.
Cameron is scheduled for sentencing next month.