27: The Garden City Butcher, John Martin Scripps | Singapore

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

John Martin Scripps was a petty thief, turned drug smuggler, turned cold-blooded murder. He would befriend fellow passengers on long-haul flights, share a taxi and check into the same hotel at the destination. He then bludgeoned his travel acquaintances to death before expertly dismembering their bodies and disposing of the body parts.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the evidence locker.
0:08.1	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials.
0:12.2	It deals with true crimes and real people. Each episode is produced
0:15.9	with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones. Simon Davis from England was the kind of guy who loved striking up conversations with anyone.
0:28.0	He had traveled the world and had entertaining stories of times he spent in Mexico, the states, and Asia.
0:35.5	He made friends quickly as he would always chat to people who sat next to him on a long-haul
0:39.2	flight or who waited in line at the airport.
0:42.5	It was not unusual for him to share a taxi with someone he had just met.
0:46.6	He seemed trustworthy, and tourists didn't seem to mind making the acquaintance of a seasoned traveler
0:51.7	like Simon.
0:53.2	He would gain their trust, promising to let them in on some local tips and secrets.
0:59.0	But Simon Davis was not who he claimed to be.
1:02.0	He was a man with a troubled past and a dark future.
1:05.0	In 1995, in a matter of days, he had been to Singapore and Thailand, leaving three victims behind him, all bludgeoned to death in their hotel rooms,
1:16.7	dismembered and thrown out like yesterday's trash.
1:21.0	Who was this man, dubbed by British tabloids as the tourist from hell? Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:40.0	uh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, John Martin Scripps was born in December 1959 to Leonard and Jean Scripps and he had an elder sister called Janet.
2:08.0	John was not a very strong student and growing up he spent a lot of time keeping his father company as he drove trucks.
2:15.1	They traveled all over England, living a detached and isolated life.
2:21.1	John and his father, Leonard Leonard were very close.
2:24.0	When John was only nine years old, his mother, who was working as a bartender, left his father for another man.
2:31.0	Unable to cope with the breakdown of his marriage, Leonard ended his own life by gassing himself in the oven at their home.
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