Rodney Francis Cameron
{{Short description|Australian serial killer (1952ā2025)}}
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Rodney Francis Cameron (1952 ā 19 April 2025), also known as Rodney Mallard, commonly referred to in media as the Lonely Hearts Killer, was an Australian serial killer who murdered several women during the 1970s and the 1990s.{{Cite book |last=Lobez |first=Susanna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iBx-CwAAQBAJ&dq=Rodney+Francis+Cameron&pg=PT352 |title=Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium: Updated Edition |date=2016-02-01 |publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing |isbn=978-0-522-86969-9 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Hall |first=Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHQyEAAAQBAJ&dq=Rodney+Francis+Cameron&pg=PT357 |title=The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume Two, EāL |date=2020-08-25 |publisher=WildBlue Press |isbn=978-1-952225-20-8 |language=en}}
Crimes
In 1974, Cameron was arrested for the murder of two people , Florence Edith Jackson, 49, whom he killed following the loss of his job as a trainee nurse. Following the murder, he fled to Victoria and murdered 19-year-old hitchhiker Francesco Ciliberto.{{Cite web |last=Lewin |first=Rhiannon |date=2025-04-19 |title=Notorious serial killer dies at Sydney hospital aged 72 |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/notorious-serial-killer-dies-at-sydney-hospital-aged-72/news-story/bb7a6d2407f8496a2b146e90f49f355a |access-date= |website=}} Following his release, Cameron received a life sentence, following the murder of 44-year-old Maria Goellner. Cameron lured Goellner to an Inn at Katoomba, New South Wales by using a radio matchmaking show.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-04-20 |title=Horrific serial killer Rodney Cameron dies in hospital aged 72 |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/horrific-serial-killer-rodney-cameron-103616695.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABlb6M_Df4UU-3pliJdglTXoypR3W1-xu166auXZP3zVP4lUwc1J0aVuq_CchXDpSOOXr4woJBmBqEjWN1vXIqmxyzpvQ_hi7siapBeWaGTDvqOlcwzyCUXtIjdzK6X0banIqsq_kQjZRDUmFkHS3D6h7HIxdAKJALqRsdGf5_cb |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-GB}}
Death
Cameron died from cancer at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, on 19 April 2025, at the age of 72.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-21 |title=Notorious 'Lonely Hearts Killer' dies in Sydney hospital at 72 |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/notorious-serial-killer-rodney-cameron-dies-at-sydney-hospital-aged-72/VM3OCH6J35HO7JZZ6CNA7ICYXQ/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}
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Category:Australian serial killers
Category:Australian male criminals