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Childhood

Bite mark on Mary Jane Serloin's body

Crimes

  • Crawford as a child was quiet and withdrawn sometimes, but other times hyperactive and disruptive
  • Mom fought self admitted addiction to bingo and his stepfather gambled as well
  • Age 3, Crawford ran away from home repeatedly
  • Had nightmares and was afraid of the dark
  • Age 12, he bullied other kids
  • Crawford talked to himself, sniffed glue and did drugs such as LSD, marijuana, mushrooms & prescription medications
  • Stole cars and fought with the police
  • Age 13, himself and 2 other boys paid an 11 year old girl $5 to have sex with them
  • At age 16, he heard voices that tormented him and had a visual hallucination of 2 naked green ladies telling him to kill people and commit property crimes

Eva Taysup with her arm cut off after being strangled to death

  • In interviews, Crawford described his childhood as happy, then in others, miserable because he struggled with school and fought with other kids
  • Had a 21 year old single mom when he was born
  • His mom married Al Crawford, who was an alcoholic and a taxi driver
  • Crawford suffered from burns to the upper chest, neck and arm from playing with a cigarette lighter; it left scarring which was teased by other kids
  • At age 4 and 7 he was sexually molested by his babysitter
  • He was told he was stupid in kindergarten and failed grade 1
  • In December 1990, he was fined $250 for trying to hire a prostitute
  • Had 4 known victims who were all women, and all Aboriginal and prostitutes
  • He raped and tortured all his victims, strangling and stabbing them
  • His murders took place in 1981 and 1992
  • One murder took place in Lethbridge, Alberta, and the other three took place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Although Crawford said he heard voices, none of his crimes were done because of these voices, there was no psychotic symptoms during the murders
  • Crawford's crimes went unheard by the media and were played down because the crimes were against Aboriginal women
  • On May 9th 1992, Janet Sylvestre told police Crawford raped her and police found him on a beach dying from sunstroke and substance abuse. He was taken into jail until his mom paid his bail
  • October 1992, he helped beat a man to death in Saskatchewan

References

Shelley Napope's body after being stabbed to death

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/crawford-john-martin.htm

http://serialkillers.briancombs.net/3862/victims-of-john-martin-crawford/

Mary Jane Serloin

Calinda Waterhen

  • Crawford's first murder in 1981
  • Met 35 year old Mary Jane at a bar in Lethridge, Alberta
  • On Christmas Day, her naked body was found with deep bite marks on her breasts
  • Crawford was 19 at the time of the murder

Sentence

  • Calinda Waterhen was 22 years old
  • September 21, 1992. One day after Eva Taysup's murder
  • She was raped, tortured and strangled

Eva Taysup

Biographical Data

  • 1981 after the murder of Mary Jane, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for manslaughter, then released March 23, 1989; he was only given 10 years because he agreed to plead guilty
  • 1996, he was given 3 life sentences and is currently in Saskatchewan Penitentiary
  • September 20, 1992
  • Raped and tortured Eva Taysup
  • Sawed off Taysup's arm after torturing and strangling her
  • He buried her body
  • Was born on March 29th, 1962 in Seinbach, Manitoba.
  • Canada serial killer known for raping and torturing his victims

Shelley Napope

John Martin Crawford

  • Shelley was 16 years old when she was murdered
  • Murder was in 1992
  • She was stabbed to death and after dragged into the bushes
  • Her remains were found in 1994

John Martin Crawford

"The Lady Killer"

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