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I Have Killed Eight
Sun Herald
Sunday November 9, 1997
By STEVE WARNOCK
A SERIAL murderer dubbed "the lonely hearts killer" has secretly confessed to another four murders in three States, taking his grim tally of victims to eight.
Rodney Francis Cameron, serving life in Lithgow maximum security prison, last month confessed to Sydney police to murder No 4, that of elderly war widow Sarah McKenzie at her Milsons Point home in 1974.
But The Sun-Herald has learnt Cameron, 45, has also now told Melbourne police he murdered two women in separate knife attacks in Victoria in 1990.
It is understood Cameron will tell police in South Australia and NSW of a further two killings.
The murders would make Cameron one of Australia's biggest serial killers.
Cameron, The Sun-Herald understands, will tell authorities he bashed in a man's skull in South Australia in 1974 and admit to the strangulation murder of a woman in NSW the same year.
The confessions by Cameron will bring his admitted serial slayings to eight.
"I've got to get all this off my chest," Cameron has confided to a friend.
Cameron blames his heavy indulgence in hallucinogenic drugs like mescalin and LSD in Sydney in the early 1970s when he was in his late teens for his blood lust.
"I was into Satanism and taking drugs . . . I didn't know where I was," Cameron told the friend.
"I know there are no excuses but I was out of it when I started [his killing spree in 1974]."
On October 3 this year Cameron made a videotaped confession to police at North Sydney station that he murdered Mrs McKenzie, 79, at her Milsons Point home in 1974.
That confession brought Cameron's known murder tally to four.
On June 23, 1990, Cameron bashed and strangled Maria Goellner, 44, at the Sky Rider Motel at Katoomba.
He had been originally jailed in NSW for raping and strangling nurse Florence Edith Jackson, 49, in her Katoomba home on January 31, 1974.
He fled the Blue Mountains and while hitchhiking towards Victoria was picked up by motorist Francesco Ciliberto, 19, whom he bashed with a rock before strangling him and hurling him over a southern NSW cliff.
Now The Sun-Herald has learnt that Cameron recently admitted to another two murders in Victoria in 1990 and is now prepared to confess to a slaying in South Australia and another in NSW.
A LIFE OF CRIME BEGAN WHEN HE WAS EIGHT
SERIAL killer Rodney Francis Cameron has claimed that one of his earliest recollections is of his mother dropping dead while taking a cake out of the oven in their Melbourne home.
He was just seven years old and already well on his way to a life of cruelty and despair.
At age eight, Cameron was an infamous vandal, at 10 he tried to strangle a young girl and as a teenager he tried to strangle a woman.
At 19, his murderous spree began as drugs, alcohol and devil worship began to take control of him.
Psychiatrists who assessed him were left in no doubt - he was a psychopath. This is the story of his trail of terror. MURDER 1 Cameron (or Mallard as he was then known) moved to Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, with his wife in 1973.
On January 31, 1974, the trainee nurse claimed his first known victim - Florence Edith Jackson, a colleague from a local nursing home.
The 49-year-old's naked body was found in the bedroom of her Katoomba home. She had been raped while she was unconscious or dead.
Cameron, who was just 19, fled, sparking a massive nationwide manhunt. MURDER 2 Holidaying bank clerk Francesco Ciliberto gave the fleeing murderer a lift.
Mr Ciliberto was found at the bottom of a seaside cliff, just off a lonely bush road near Mallacoota, in north-east Victoria, on February 6. He had been dead for several days.
The 19-year-old's head was battered and a pair of socks and a T-shirt were stuffed in his throat. His head was covered by a jacket, similar to the one worn by Miss Jackson's murderer.
Cameron was tried for Miss Jackson's murder, convicted and served nine years' jail.
He was released on parole in 1983 but was extradited to Victoria where he was tried for Mr Ciliberto's murder, convicted and jailed again. He was released in 1990 having been deemed by authorities to have been rehabilitated. MURDER 3 Elderly war widow Sarah McKenzie's body was found in her Milsons Point home, on Sydney's lower North Shore, after falling prey to Cameron while he was on the run for the Jackson and Ciliberto murders.
Mrs McKenzie, 79, had been stabbed 30 times and had been bludgeoned to death with a mattock.
Cameron confessed to her murder just last month. MURDER 4 Cameron was released on parole in March 1990 having served a total of 16 years' jail.
Three months later he killed again, choosing as his victim Maria Goellner, a lonely 44-year-old woman he found through a Melbourne radio matchmaking competition.
The pair booked a double motel room at Katoomba and paid cash in advance for several days' accommodation.
But Cameron murdered his lover, stole her car and fled, leaving a cleaner to find her in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor with a bunch of carnations on her chest.
Tests showed Ms Goellner had died of asphyxiation, choking on her own blood after being repeatedly bashed over the head with a blunt object. There were also signs she had been strangled.
Cameron was convicted of Ms Goellner's murder and jailed for life.

Source: http://www.lithgowaccommodation.com.au/lithgow-accommodation-news/1997/11/9/i-have-killed-eight/ accessed 28 August 2009

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oh...thats what happened

Family murder plot: son jailed for 30 years for killing his father
August 11, 2008 - 11:58
Murdered ... Ernest Clark.

A man who plotted with his son to murder his elderly father has been jailed for at least 24 years by a Sydney court.

In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice David Kirby set a maximum term of 30 years for Michael Rex Clark.

Clark, 45, of Faulconbridge in the NSW Blue Mountains, was found guilty last May of murdering his father, Ernest 'Dick" Clark, 74.

He was shot dead in the home he shared with his girlfriend at Bexley in Sydney's south in April 2005.

Last year, Michael Clark's 24-year-old son, Ben, admitted gunning down his grandfather, and was jailed for a minimum of 14 years for the murder, with a maximum term of 20 years.

Justice Kirby today concluded that part of Michael Clark's motivation for the murder plot was to secure his inheritance.

But he also found there was an "emotional dimension" to his actions, referring to undercurrents of resentment and dissatisfaction in his relationship with his father.

The judge rejected a crown call for Clark to receive a life term.

"Without diminishing the callous and brutal nature of this crime, which was certainly committed partly for financial gain and with no regard to the sanctity of human life, I believe that a determinate sentence is appropriate," he said.

Outside the court, Clark's lawyer Simon Joyner said he would be appealing against the murder conviction.

"My client states, his instructions are, that Ben Clark acted alone and that is what we maintained throughout the trial, and unfortunately the jury did not accept that," he said.

Much of the evidence at the trial related to the contents of secretly recorded tapes of conversations between Clark and his son Ben, at times after the shooting.

Mr Joyner said Clark maintained that in the tapes he was only stating things his son had told him, and he had been doing his best to protect his son.

Ben Clark gave evidence before the jury that he acted alone and out of fear, after he had been assaulted by his grandfather.

AAP

source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/family-murder-plot-son-jailed-for-30-years-for-killing-his-father/2008/08/11/1218306726031.html accessed 28 August 2009

not sure how this one panned out....

Hung jury in Clark trial
Posted Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:30pm AEST

The Supreme Court trial of a Blue Mountains man accused of planning the murder of his father in southern Sydney has resulted in a hung jury.

During the three-week trial, prosecutors alleged that Faulconbridge man Michael Clark plotted with his son, Ben, to murder his father, Ernest Clark.

Ben Clark has admitted to shooting dead his 74-year-old grandfather at his Bexley home more than two years ago.

Michael Clark has denied having any role in the killing.

After five days of deliberations, the jury could not reach a verdict and was dismissed.

Michael Clark has been remanded in custody, pending a retrial on a date yet to be fixed.

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/10/1974618.htm?site=news accessed 28 August 2009

risky business being a devil worshipper....

Katoomba men on murder charges
23/10/2001 3:14:11 PM

A father and son from Katoomba appeared in Windsor Local Court last Wednesday charged with the murder of their wife and mother at Glossodia.

Bail was formally refused for George Fitter, 39, and his18-year-old son Grant when they appeared in court after being arrested for the stabbing murder of 35 year-old Fiona Fitter, a nursing sister. The alleged murder took place in Grand Parade, Glossodia last Tuesday morning, October 16.

A police statement tendered to the court alleged the father and son stabbed Ms Fitter to death using knives and scissors because they believed she was a devil worshipper.

Both men were barefooted and dressed in dark blue paper jumpsuits issued by police when they appeared in court.

They shielded their faces from cameras with a pink towel.

Magistrate Alan Cullen heard each defendant’s matters separately but both were represented by Windsor solicitor Roderick Storie.

Mr Storie said his clients would plead not guilty but not apply for bail. He said his client George Fitter, a former family youth counsellor, said he knew what he had done was "a disgrace and wrong — it is wrong to take a life".

Mr Storie was also instructed by his client to ask the father and son be kept in custody together. Magistrate Cullen replied that would be a matter for the Department of Corrective Services to decide.

The two men were ordered to appear in Penrith Local Court on November 16.

A 15-year-old girl also appeared in Windsor Children’s Court in relation to the murder last week and will appear in Cobham Children’s Court next month.

Source: http://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/news/local/news/general/katoomba-men-on-murder-charges/429798.aspx accessed 28 August 2009

blue mountains as receptacle...

Murder in the mountains: husband charged
DYLAN WELCH
2/06/2008 4:31:00 PM

A husband took members of his family for a drive to the Blue Mountains with the bodies of his wife and a girl in the car, police allege.

A police statement tendered to Blacktown Local Court in Sydney's west this afternoon states that Sanjay Mehta allegedly murdered his wife Jyoti, 38, and a nine-year-old girl in Dunn Way, Blacktown.

Mehta then placed their bodies in a vehicle and took two other family members for a drive to Echo Point lookout at Katoomba, the document states.

While the other occupants of the car went for a short walk, Mehta took the two bodies from the vehicle and threw them over a cliff, police say. They landed 150 metres down on the canyon floor.

Mehta then drove home, police allege.

The Indian national, employed as an engineer, met his wife on the internet in July 2006. She moved to Australia to marry him in May the following year.

The police facts said Faye Oldfield, from the Jessie Street Domestic Violence Service, said the wife had come to her in January this year after being verbally abused by her husband, who threatened to kill her or have her deported.

The man's former wife, who moved back to India after their marriage breakdown, returned to Australia on May 26 and had moved back into the family home.

The police document also states that Mrs Mehta had told her younger sister that her relationship with Mehta "was very strained and that he had recently been physically violent towards her".

Mehta did not appear during the brief court hearing this afternoon and did not apply for bail.
He will remain in custody until his next appearance in the same court on July 21.

Police will allege he murdered his wife and the girl in the family home, then drove them to the Blue Mountains before throwing them off a cliff.

They say he has shown no remorse and has continuously denied his involvement, despite an "extremely strong'' prosecution case.

Mehta reported his wife and the girl missing on May 5.

Police say two bushwalkers saw the woman's body at the bottom of Echo Point lookout yesterday. The girl's body was found nearby about 6pm.

A neighbour said Mehta had a son and a daughter from a previous relationship, aged about 16 and 10 respectively, who also lived at the house.

He said the mother of the charged man's children was now living at the Dunn Way house.
"The mum lived in India or something but she came back to look after the kids because the other lady went missing," he said.

Another Dunn Way resident said: "It's just terrible. She was just lovely."

Blacktown crime manager Gary Hutchen said the bodies were in "a state of decomposition when found".

The bodies have yet to be formally identified.

Bad weather and light at the crime scene prevented the bodies from being removed last night.

Police expect to retrieve the bodies today.

http://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/news/national/national/general/murder-in-the-mountains-husband-charged/781368.aspx?storypage=0 accessed 28 August 2009

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