Free The Evil Within - A Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals The Chilling True Stories of The World's Most Notorious Killers by Trevor Marriott Page A
Authors: Trevor Marriott
‘why?’ And he kept giving the same answer: ‘I don’t know. I just see these ladies and it seems to trigger something. I just have to be violent towards them.’
He was charged with murdering the six elderly women. His wife Gay and their two daughters, both in their late teens, were stunned. There had never been the slightest indication that the man they loved as husband and father was the infamous Granny Killer. At his trial in November 1991, John Wayne Glover pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, claiming that he had been temporarily insane when he carried out the murders. The jury did not agree and it took them just two and a half hours to find that Glover was both sane and guilty.
Justice Wood sentenced Glover to six life terms of imprisonment, and said in summary: ‘The period since January 1989 has been one of intense and serious crime involving extreme violence inflicted on elderly women, accompanied by the theft or robbery of their property. On any view, the prisoner has shown himself to be an exceedingly dangerous person and that view was mirrored by the opinions of the psychiatrists who have given evidence at his trial. I have no alternative other than to impose the maximum available sentence, which means that the prisoner will be required to spend the remainder of his natural life in jail. It is inappropriate to express any date as to release on parole. Having regard to those life sentences, this is not a case where the prisoner may ever be released pursuant to order of this court.’
In September 2005, John Wayne Glover, the Granny Killer, hanged himself in his prison cell.
ARCHIBALD MCCAFFERTY, AKA MAD DOG
Before turning to murder, Archibald McCafferty (b. 1951) was already known to the police. By the age of 24, he had 30 previous criminal convictions involving theft and stealing cars, but no convictions for serious violence. This, however, changed following his marriage. He took to drinking and taking drugs and subjected his wife to a series of violent assaults. As a result of this, he received treatment at various psychiatric hospitals. More mental problems were soon to befall McCafferty. His young baby died while sleeping in bed with his mother. The death was investigated and a coroner recorded the death as accidental. Janice McCafferty, while sleeping, had rolled over onto the baby and suffocated it. Archibald McCafferty did not agree with the verdict and made accusations that his wife had murdered their son. Was the death of his son all that McCafferty needed to tip him over the edge? It was a question about which psychiatrists in the future would sharply disagree. Certainly the tragedy of his son’s death played constantly on his already troubled mind. But did it light the fuse of the dynamite that was about to explode? McCafferty took to getting tattooed, until almost his entire body was covered with more than 200.
So affected was he by the loss of his son, he believed that to avenge the death seven people must die, seven being a significant number to his troubled mind. His wife had bricks thrown through her window with notes attached, which were obviously from McCafferty. The first note read: ‘You and the rest of your family can go and get fucked because anyone who has anything to do with me is going to die of a bad death. You know who this letter is from so take warning. Bill is the next off the rank. Then you go one by one.’ It was signed ‘you-know-who’. The man referred to as Bill was Bill Riean, the boyfriend of Janice’s mother. The second note read: ‘The only thing in my mind is tokill your mother and Bill Riean. This is not a bluff because I’m that dirty on all of you for the death of my son but I can’t let it go at that. I have a matter of a few guns so I am going to use them on you all for satisfaction so beware.’
On 24 August 1973, the first day of the inquest into the death of his son, the killing started. A week
He was charged with murdering the six elderly women. His wife Gay and their two daughters, both in their late teens, were stunned. There had never been the slightest indication that the man they loved as husband and father was the infamous Granny Killer. At his trial in November 1991, John Wayne Glover pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, claiming that he had been temporarily insane when he carried out the murders. The jury did not agree and it took them just two and a half hours to find that Glover was both sane and guilty.
Justice Wood sentenced Glover to six life terms of imprisonment, and said in summary: ‘The period since January 1989 has been one of intense and serious crime involving extreme violence inflicted on elderly women, accompanied by the theft or robbery of their property. On any view, the prisoner has shown himself to be an exceedingly dangerous person and that view was mirrored by the opinions of the psychiatrists who have given evidence at his trial. I have no alternative other than to impose the maximum available sentence, which means that the prisoner will be required to spend the remainder of his natural life in jail. It is inappropriate to express any date as to release on parole. Having regard to those life sentences, this is not a case where the prisoner may ever be released pursuant to order of this court.’
In September 2005, John Wayne Glover, the Granny Killer, hanged himself in his prison cell.
ARCHIBALD MCCAFFERTY, AKA MAD DOG
Before turning to murder, Archibald McCafferty (b. 1951) was already known to the police. By the age of 24, he had 30 previous criminal convictions involving theft and stealing cars, but no convictions for serious violence. This, however, changed following his marriage. He took to drinking and taking drugs and subjected his wife to a series of violent assaults. As a result of this, he received treatment at various psychiatric hospitals. More mental problems were soon to befall McCafferty. His young baby died while sleeping in bed with his mother. The death was investigated and a coroner recorded the death as accidental. Janice McCafferty, while sleeping, had rolled over onto the baby and suffocated it. Archibald McCafferty did not agree with the verdict and made accusations that his wife had murdered their son. Was the death of his son all that McCafferty needed to tip him over the edge? It was a question about which psychiatrists in the future would sharply disagree. Certainly the tragedy of his son’s death played constantly on his already troubled mind. But did it light the fuse of the dynamite that was about to explode? McCafferty took to getting tattooed, until almost his entire body was covered with more than 200.
So affected was he by the loss of his son, he believed that to avenge the death seven people must die, seven being a significant number to his troubled mind. His wife had bricks thrown through her window with notes attached, which were obviously from McCafferty. The first note read: ‘You and the rest of your family can go and get fucked because anyone who has anything to do with me is going to die of a bad death. You know who this letter is from so take warning. Bill is the next off the rank. Then you go one by one.’ It was signed ‘you-know-who’. The man referred to as Bill was Bill Riean, the boyfriend of Janice’s mother. The second note read: ‘The only thing in my mind is tokill your mother and Bill Riean. This is not a bluff because I’m that dirty on all of you for the death of my son but I can’t let it go at that. I have a matter of a few guns so I am going to use them on you all for satisfaction so beware.’
On 24 August 1973, the first day of the inquest into the death of his son, the killing started. A week
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