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      • The tragic loss of his son led to the end of his marriage to Jill which was subsequently followed by his cancer diagnosis. The endless tragedy in his life led John to lose the will to live, and he attempted suicide by crashing his car, as seen in Saw II. However, he survived the attempt, crawling out of the wreck in pain.
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    Early Life

    John Kramer was a successful civil engineer and architect. Along with his friend and lawyer, Art Blank, he founded the Urban Renewal Group, a foundation dedicated to property development for low-income people under the motto "Four walls build a home." The company bought up abandoned real estate and renovated them into low-cost housing. The first building purchased and fixed up by the group was the Gideon Meatpacking Plantat 11235 Blake Drive. At one point in his life, John married a woman nam...

    Gideon Kramer

    Besides his professional career, John's private life took a happier turn in 1994 as he and Jill were expecting their first child. John, who had already meticulously planned that their son should be born during the Chinese Year of the Pig, also gave him his name, Gideon, inspired by his first building. Sometime later, John obtained a workshop, which he proudly presented to Jill. On this occasion, he also showed her an old clock, which was a part of a deal he had made. The clock greatly fascina...

    Family Tragedy

    One night in the fall of 1994, John sat in his car and waited for Jill outside the clinic when he was approached by Addison Corday, a young prostitute, who offered him her company. However, John declined her offer and told her to go home as a beautiful girl like her should not do such work. Shortly afterward, he suddenly noticed how Cecil stormed out of the clinic and ran away after he had tried to rob Jill. John immediately entered the building and found Jill squatting on the floor after Cec...

    John Kramer was a diligent and hard-working man who was just as devoted to his wife and his unborn son as he was to his work, which was dedicated to helping those who were disadvantaged by society. He had strong moral convictions and a strong sense of justice. Even before his transformation to Jigsaw, John believed that only the knowledge of impend...

    Tobin Bell is the only actor from the films who voiced his character in the video game adaptions Saw: The Video Game and Saw II: Flesh & Blood.
    John's car is a 1977 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Luxury.
    The main antagonist of the video game Heavy Rain, the Origami Killer, has a similar modus operandi. He forces his victims to participate in gruesome trials, during which they have to risk their own...
    In an interview with IGN about Saw III, director Darren Lynn Bousmandescribed an early concept of the story where John questioned his actions during the last stages of his life, thereby realizing t...
  2. Jan 9, 2020 · John was shot by Jeff Denlon, which caused the latter to fail his final test, and cause the death of his own wife Lynn. John's fury was obviously understandable, as both he and his wife had been put through hell. Still, it wasn't wise to break the rules of Jigsaw's game.

  3. Jul 3, 2024 · Those fluent in Saw mythos know that John Kramer died at the end of Saw 3, at the hands of Jeff Denlon, the player of Jigsaw’s game in the third installment. Moments before, his apprentice, Amanda, was shot and killed—taking a chunk out of the killer’s legacy.

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  4. Sep 29, 2023 · John and Jill were with child until a family tragedy occurred. Image via Lionsgate. In 1994, Jill Tuck fell pregnant. John, inspired by the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, decided that his and Jill’s...

  5. Jul 3, 2024 · John Kramer, the serial killer— notorious for setting up deathly traps for his victims as a game to deliver unlawful justice— has long held the title of antagonist in multiple movies across the series. However, Kramer has been dead for almost a decade by the time the eighth film rolls around.

  6. Jul 3, 2024 · Jigsaw continues John Kramer's legacy with new traps and victims, and its two big twists change the history of the Jigsaw killer and the saga.