Friday, August 28, 2009

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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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