John Martin Crawford (March 29, 1962 – December 16, 2020) was a Canadian serial killer.
[1] Crawford was sentenced in 1981 to ten years' imprisonment for manslaughter in the killing of Mary Jane Serloin, in Lethbridge, Alberta.
[7] 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.
[8] Crawford died on December 16, 2020, while serving his sentence at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon.