Glover was born in 1932 in Wolverhampton, England, and emigrated to Australia in 1956. He was a pie salesman calling on nursing homes and shops around Mosman, in Sydney's affluent northern suburbs, married with two daughters, and well liked.
Between March 1989 and March 1990 he killed six women aged eighty to ninety-three: Gwendoline Mitchelhill, eighty-two; Winifred Ashton, eighty-four; Margaret Pahud, eighty-five; Olive Cleveland, eighty-one; Muriel Falconer, ninety-three; and Joan Sinclair, sixty. He followed them home, struck them from behind with a claw hammer, and strangled them with their own pantyhose, taking their handbags. He also indecently assaulted elderly women in nursing homes he visited for work during the same period, and reports of that were made and not followed up. The Sydney press called him the Granny Killer, after the ages of the women he killed.
Sydney's north shore was in a state of real fear through 1989 and 1990. He was caught in March 1990 at the house of the last victim, Joan Sinclair, having taken an overdose after killing her.
He pleaded not guilty on the ground of diminished responsibility, the jury rejected it, and in November 1991 he was sentenced to six terms of life imprisonment with a recommendation that he never be released.
He hanged himself at Lithgow prison on September 9, 2005. He had given a series of interviews and drawings to psychiatrists and to a journalist, and the material has been published; as with several cases in this archive, the interior of it comes from a convicted man's account of himself.