# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-martin-scripps
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:29.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-martin-scripps"
name: "John Martin Scripps"
slug: "john-martin-scripps"
description: "John Martin Scripps, also known as the Garden City Butcher, and \"Tourist From Hell\" was an English serial killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three potential victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders. He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them."
tagline: "English serial killer (1959–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/John_Martin_Scripps.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1959-12-09"
deathDate: "1996-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             1.293250141803744
  historical:           8.676685333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Martin Scripps"
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    title: "جون مارتن سكريبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Martin Scripps"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Scripps"
    title: "John Martin Scripps"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1432728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump