Australian 'Night Stalker' admits eight assaults, decades after Moore Park spree

A serial rapist known as the 'Night Stalker' has admitted sexually assaulting eight women after a decades-long crime spree that terrorized millions of Australians. Glenn Gary Cameron, 61, was arrested in February 2024 at Sydney International Airport and charged over assaults linked to eight women who were targeted after dark in Sydney's Moore Park and inner-west areas between 1991 and 1993. At the time, the assaults sparked a citywide manhunt and a sequence of police sketches, media coverage, and public fear that endured for years.

During a brief hearing at the Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, Cameron pleaded guilty to 13 charges and acknowledged additional counts would be considered during sentencing. Prosecutors said his admissions encompassed 18 sexual assaults and one attempted sexual assault, all linked to the eight women. He admitted raping eight women while wielding a variety of knives and threatening to use them, and he indecently assaulted each victim, detaining one at knifepoint for sexual gratification. Nine charges, including punching two women in the head, hitting another in the face multiple times, and robbing two women, were withdrawn by prosecutors. Cameron is an Alice Springs resident who appeared in court wearing rectangular glasses, a clean-shaven face, white hair, and a green prison tracksuit.

Investigations into the historic assaults were aided by a forensic review that used modern DNA analysis and fingerprint technologies to re-examine old evidence. The breakthrough prompted authorities to publicly discuss Cameron as the person behind the decades-long crimes, and a court order that had previously blocked reporting of his identity was quietly revoked in May.

Cameron will face the NSW District Court on 24 October for sentencing on the charges that remain before the court. The case, which began in the early 1990s, underscores the long lag between historic offenses and resolution when new forensic methods become available, and it marks a rare instance in which a defendant has publicly admitted to the long-ago offenses after decades of investigations. The notoriety surrounding the case led to the monikers 'Night Stalker' and 'Moore Park Rapist,' terms used by police and media at the time of the crimes.

Authorities have said that at least ten women reported assaults in Sydney's Moore Park and inner-west areas between 1991 and 1993. In one particularly severe episode, a complainant was groped and raped five times in the span of half an hour at Moore Park, illustrating the severity of the crime spree and the impact on victims and residents during that period. The admissions announced in court bring some measure of closure to those who endured the attacks decades ago and reflect the ongoing capabilities of forensic science to revisit cold cases.

The case has drawn attention to the role of technology in solving historic crimes and the continuing importance of police work and victim support as authorities move toward final sentencing. Cameron's arrest in 2024 and subsequent court proceedings have closed a long chapter in Sydney's crime history, though the full impact on the victims and families will continue to reverberate for years to come.