1989: The Granny Killer Bludgeons an Elderly Woman to Death in a Sydney Laneway
John Wayne Glover, who would become known as Sydney's Granny Killer, attacked 85-year-old Margaret Pahud with a hammer in a laneway near her home in Sydney on this day in 1989, as she walked home from grocery shopping. A schoolgirl passing by found her body within minutes, at first mistaking it for a pile of dumped clothing on the ground.
Glover had taken more than $300 from Pahud's purse. Within hours he was gambling it away at a local RSL club, a chilling indifference that would mark the string of killings still to come.
