In this chilling installment of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the shocking true story of John Martin Scripps — a seemingly ordinary British traveler who used charm, knives, and stolen passports to dismember tourists across Asia in the mid-1990s. From his troubled childhood in postwar England to his gruesome crimes across Singapore and Thailand, Scripps carved a path of death masked behind the face of a smiling wanderer. Known as "The Tourist from Hell," he used his skills in butchery — learned in prison — to dispose of bodies with surgical precision and evade capture across multiple countries. With vivid storytelling, historical depth, and spine-tingling forensic detail, Damien Vale traces how a man with a suitcase full of passports and murder tools turned hotel rooms into killing chambers and oceans into mass graves. It’s not just a true crime story.
It’s a global manhunt.
It’s horror that flies economy class.
It’s Among Monsters at its most terrifying.
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