John Martin Crawford

John Martin Crawford (March 29, 1962 – December 16, 2020) was a Canadian serial killer. Crawford was convicted of killing four women in Saskatchewan and Alberta, between 1981 and 1992.

Early life He was born in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1961 to a single mother. His mother remarried in 1964 and the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with Crawford's sister being born shortly after the relocation. who was herself arrested, while Crawford was not. In 1996, Crawford was convicted of one count of first degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of three Indigenous women identified as Eva Taysup, Shelley Napope, and Calinda Waterhen. Crawford was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences.

Popular culture Literature Crawford is discussed in Warren Goulding's book Just Another Indian, A Serial Killer and Canada's Indifference with the message that crimes against marginalized minorities go unheeded by an uncaring society at large. The theory is posited that Crawford's case was played down by the media because his victims were Aboriginal women. The story of the last three victims, identified under pseudonyms, was the subject of season 4 episode 14 of the true crime TV show "Exhibit A" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibit_A:_Secrets_of_Forensic_Science

Death Crawford died on December 16, 2020, while serving his sentence at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon. No cause of death was released.