July 10, 1965 - Philip Smith
Over four days in November 2000, Smith killed three women in and around Birmingham, each by a different method — strangulation and fire, blunt force, and a vehicle strike followed by a beating. The compressed timeframe and escalating opportunism of the crimes placed him in the category of spree killer rather than serial offender, a distinction that reflects how quickly the violence unfolded. A single location, the Rainbow pub in Digbeth, connected two of the three victims to him.
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Philip John Smith (born 10 July 1965) is an English spree killer serving a life sentence for the murders of three women in Birmingham in November 2000. A former fairground worker employed at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth, Smith killed his victims over a four-day period. All three victims were mutilated almost beyond recognition, but Smith was quickly identified as the killer on the strength of overwhelming evidence.
Smith's first victim was Jodie Hyde, a recovering butane gas addict whom he met at the Rainbow before killing her hours later. He is thought to have strangled her before setting her body on fire near a recreation ground. Three days later, he met mother-of-three Rosemary Corcoran at the same public house and drove her to a rural location, where he bludgeoned her to death and drove over the body. Then, as he drove home, he hit care worker Carol Jordan with his car and, fearing capture, beat her to death. All three bodies were discovered soon after the murders were carried out.
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