Free The Evil Within - A Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals The Chilling True Stories of The World's Most Notorious Killers by Trevor Marriott

found a perfect footprint in blood on the carpet, their first solid clue since the investigation had started, but they still needed a suspect for comparison purposes.
    The major break came when Glover again became careless. On 11 January 1990, he called at the Greenwich Hospital for an appointment with the administrator. Afterwards, Glover dressed in his blue-and-white salesman’s jacket and, carrying a clipboard, walked into one of the wards, where four very old and very sick women lay in their beds. He approached Daisy Roberts, who was suffering from advanced cancer, asking if she was losing any body heat, then pulled up her nightgown and began to indecently assault her. Mrs Roberts became alarmed and rang the buzzer beside her bed. A sister at the hospital answered the call and found Glover in the ward; she called out and Glover ran from the ward. She chased him and took down the registration of his car as he sped off. She notified the police. Staff at the hospital was able to identify and name Glover from previous visits on his pie round. But it would be a further three weeks before the incident reached the investigating officers involved in the murders. Now armed with the information, detectives confirmed Glover’s name with his employers. They rang him at home and asked him tocome to the police station at 5pm the following day. When he hadn’t turned up by 6pm, police called his home where his wife told them that he had attempted suicide and was in hospital. Police went to the hospital but Glover was too sick to be interviewed. Staff at the hospital handed police a suicide note that included the words ‘no more grannies’. The police still had not made the connection between the nursing home assaults and the murders. Eventually though, the connection was made and Glover suddenly became the prime suspect in all the murders. Due to the lack of direct evidence, they decided not to arrest him but instead kept him under 24-hour surveillance. During this time, his conduct was exemplary.
    On 19 March 1990, at 10am, police saw him call at the home of a lady-friend, Joan Sinclair; they saw him spruce himself up in the rearview mirror. He went to the door and was let in. The watching police had no reason to believe that it was anything other than a social visit. At 1pm, there was no sign of Glover nor any sign of life from the house. The police became concerned. At 5pm, all was still quiet, and at 6pm, deciding that all was not well, the police decided to enter the house. As they entered, they noticed pools of blood. With guns drawn, they silently moved from room to room. They saw a hammer lying in a pool of drying blood on the mat. As they peered further around the doorway, they saw a pair of women’s knickers and a man’s shirt covered in blood. Then a woman’s body came into view. Joan Sinclair’s blood-splattered head was wrapped in a bundle of blood-soaked towels. She was naked from the waist down and her tights were tied around her neck. Her genitals had been mutilated. But where was her attacker? They continued searching and found Glover unconscious and naked, lying in the bath. One wrist was slashed and there was a strong smell of alcohol. They found he was still alive. He was taken to hospital and, after recovering, told the police of the final chapter in the Granny Murders.
    Glover had known Joan Sinclair for some time and they were extremely fond of each other in a platonic way. However, afterhe entered the house he got his hammer out of his briefcase and struck Mrs Sinclair about the head with it. He then removed her tights and strangled her with them. He rolled her body over onto the mat, wrapped four towels around her massive head wound to stem the flow of blood and then dragged her body across the room, leaving a trail of blood. When he had done that he ran a bath, swallowed a handful of Valium with a bottle of Vat 69, slashed his left wrist and lay in the bath to die. During his interview, he was asked