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Case Description
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On a summer day in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the life of a 44-year-old Caucasian male taxi driver named Ian Smith was tragically cut short. The date was June 17, 1982, and what began as a routine day on the job spiraled into a fatal encounter that would later be linked to an escaped serial killer.

Smith became the fourth known victim of Thomas Wayne Crump, a man who had recently broken out of the Penitentiary of New Mexico where he was serving a life sentence for other murders. Following h ...Read More
Victim Details

Ian Smith

Male

White / Caucasian

Albuquerque

NM

1982-06-17

44

Ian

Smith

11/07/2025